Han Yizhou brought his family to a 24/7 five stars restaurant. He had already booked the whole place so they were the only ones inside, except for the workers.

While they were in the middle of enjoying the food, Han Yizhou felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He took it out and checked the message he received.

Lu Mengjie noticed the dark look in his eyes when she saw him read the message. "What's wrong?"

Han Yizhou instantly kept his phone in his pocket before he stood up and grabbed her arm. "We need to leave. Now!" He growled angrily.

She flinched because of his tight grip. "W-what happened? Yizhou, you're hurting me."

He loosened his hold but he didn't let go of his grip. "Mengjie, we need to leave. Someone is after us."

"Right now?!" She stood up and picked their son from the baby chair. She carried him in her arms and hugged him protectively.

Just as they were about to leave the restaurant, a group of eight men entered the restaurant. One killed the security guard while another locked the door and closed the curtains to make sure that their target would not be able to escape them and that outsiders wouldn't see what was happening inside. One of the men gathered all the staff in one corner of the room.

"Hi there, Yong Liwei.. or should I say, Han Yizhou?"

"Hunter," Han Yizhou muttered with spite. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to.." He paused and darted his eyes at Lu Mengjie and Little Peanut. Han Yizhou had to step in just so he could block his sight. Hunter snickered at the other man's reaction. "I'm here to kill them."

Hunter was known to be one of the S rank mercenaries in the underworld. Ever since Lu Xian Yu quitted that life, Hunter took over the number 1 spot. He was one of the rebels against the Han family that was why he didn't care if the Lu family received the special gold card from the Azure Republic's Wolf King.

"She is Lu Xian Yu's daughter," Han Yizhou informed.

"All the better! Now I can finally have my revenge against that scumbag!" He laughed. "So, Han Yizhou, will you do me the favor of stepping away? My mission right now is not to kill you but I will have no choice but to do it if you step in."

"I will not allow you to lay a hand on them! Over my dead body!"

"Very well, you wished for it." Hunter eyed his companions and gave them his signal.

The group was not armed with guns but instead, they were armed with knives.

Lu Mengjie gritted her teeth. She couldn't do anything but to protect their son.

"Mengjie, go, escape from the back door of the kitchen," Han Yizhou instructed, his back facing her.

"B-but how about you?" She looked at him with worry.

"I'll be fine. You need to escape and never look back. Spider is waiting in the car."

Little Peanut's loud cries erupted in the room. He was not liking the sudden heaviness of the air in the room.

"Hold on until I call for help." With that, Lu Mengjie turned and rushed to the kitchen with the baby in her arms.

"Get her!"

The group of men was about to run after but Han Yizhou attacked them. His eyes were filled with a deceptive icy light, and his gaze swept Hunter and the others at the same time. Just like time, he was skilled in martial arts. He was vigilant and swift. He used his surroundings to stop the men from going after his wife and son.

Hunter was standing near the door without making a move. He was looking at him with tremendous excitement as he watched his companions get knocked down by one man. So formidable.

"Oh come on. How can one man be stronger than you all? My knives cost more than your life."

Han Yizhou's brow twitched as he finally came to stop.

Drip.. drip.. drip..

He turned to look at the knife that caught him off-guard earlier. It was sticking in his shoulder. He was weakened by the pain that came from the stab.

"You will have to pay me with two lives, each of you," Hunter continued. "Tomorrow is the deadline, okay?"

"Two is too much, boss." A young, bulky man, River, complained.

"Then do you prefer to have a date with my knives?" Hunter's sharp gaze landed on him.

"Haha.. no, of course not. Don't worry! After this! I'll give you two beautiful women!"

Han Yizhou on the other hand, didn't pull out the knife since he knew that if he did, blood would gush out. He wouldn't die from the stab but with the blood lost instead!

"What should we do, boss? She escaped." Another man said as he massaged his shoulders.

"Escape?" He tilted his body to look behind Han Yizhou. "Oh, she's back!"

Han Yizhou instantly turned his head and his eyes widened when he saw his wife and son caught by one of Hunter's two other men.

"I've already made my men guard the entrance and exits." Hunter began walking towards them. "As much as I love a good chase, tonight, I can't allow that."

Seeing the knife on her husband's shoulder Lu Mengjie's eyes became teary. "Yizhou!"

Han Yizhou could still fight but at that moment, seeing that his family was captured, he could not attack anyone recklessly. "Hunter.. don't hurt them." He didn't have a choice but to beg for his family's lives.

"I can't. I always follow my master's orders," he smirked playfully at him.

"I'll give you what you want! Whatever it is!" Since Hunter was a mercenary, Han Yizhou was hoping that he could lure him with something else.historical

"Negotiating now, are we?" He laughed happily. "I heard that you were better than this. That you can take down ten men all by yourself but I guess that was only a rumor.. or was it because I have them?" He sat on one of the tables and crossed his arms.

Little Peanut's cries continued that made one of the men annoyed.

"Boss, can we kill the baby first?" Cruiser turned to Hunter. He was another cold-hearted psychopath.

Hunter ignored him and instead, he enjoyed seeing the misery he caused the trio before him. He was tapping the knife he was holding on his arm. "How about we play it like this? Han Yizhou, why don't you choose who gets to live? Your wife and son.. or you?"