Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 369

A sudden thought flashed through my mind.

I needed more evidence to confirm their identities or at least buy some time for a potential chance. But I also wondered if they were testing my limits.

I was a woman living alone with no one to rely on. I knew I couldn't act recklessly in situations like this; I had to stay calm and use my wits. Taccessed the situation. Judging from the looks of it, there were just the three of them. As my mind spun for solutions, I mew I had to try to distract him if I had to

act

I raised my voice slightly and pretended to search for my phone while monitoring their movements from the comer of my eye.

othe

*So sorry. I think I left my phone in the living room. Give me a moment, and I'll be right back." As I said so, I slowly turned and pretended to head back into

house.

my toe to subtly hook onto a flower pot by the door. Though it was a simple decoration, it could be a makeshift weapon at a crucial moment. Just as i

skip a beat, but 1 maintained my composure. Ined to force a smile to lighten the tension in the atmosphere. "pl course, cooperate. I just ask for

to the flower pot while scanning the room for potential escape routes or defensive tools. Then, there was the sound of hurried footsteps

TV door.

it was palpitating so wildly that I could almost hear it. The footsteps grew closer and headed straight

prayed that it was a neighbor or a passerby who might bring

crash came from the hallway followed by a commotion

spun around and bolted back inside. I needed to use this brief moment of chaos to escape. "Get her!" the leader roared. The three men split up and rushed toward me in

dark living room and grabbed a fruit knife at the tea table to grip it tightly. It wasn't enough to fend off the me some time to

grown men, but it

as he ran after me. His tone was no longer

on trying to escape at all costs, but I didn't realize they

confined space of my home, I soon realized that my physical stamina