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“Briar…”
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A middle-aged man burst through the villa’s front door. “Briar!”
At a frantic run, he crossed the length of the entrance hall until he reached the bottom of the staircase, where a young man was lying motionless and unconscious on the floor.
Careful not to jostle him, the middle-aged man—whom Bai Ruyi now recognized as the one who came with Briar when he first arrived here—placed two fingers over Briar’s wrist, then moved the side of his face closer to his nose to check that he was still breathing.
Upon making sure that the young man was still alive, the lawyer straightened up and made a call.
“Is the ambulance close by?” he asked whoever it was that soon answered.
At the same time as he listened for the reply, his ears picked up the faint and distant s
