Shi Xia glanced at Jun Boyan in disbelief, ”What do you mean by not alerting Han Jingyi? How would we find Luoluo without Zixuan’s and Jian Yu’s help?” 

”Brother will order his men to look for Luoluo discreetly. As for brother-in-law…” Since the day he accepted Mia as his adopted sister, the term ‘brother-in-law’ effortlessly slipped from his mouth for Han Jian Yu, ”…he is busy with the monthly conference of ministers. His phone should be turned off. Brother will drop a text to him.” 

”Boyan..” Shi Xia covered her face in her palms as she cried, ”My Luoluo…”

”She will be fine,” Jun Boyan looked around. 

”What do you know? You are still young, that’s why you are talking so recklessly. How would you even find her current location?” she looked at him in disbelief. 

”I have my ways,” Jun Boyan dashed inside Shi Luo’s bedroom. 

Shi Xia bewilderedly glanced at his retreating back. 

He soon came back to the living room with a laptop in his hand. 

He walked towards the couch and placed the laptop on the coffee table before taking a seat. His fingers moved on a keyboard in a blur.

”You… You…” Shi Xia was left staring at his fingers speechlessly. 

…

Shi Luo looked at the woman beside her in disbelief, ”It’s you…” 

The woman who was stirred awake by the noise around her glanced at her in frustration, ”Why the heck are you disturbing my beauty sleep?” 

”Beauty sleep? Do you have a kink for places like this?” This was their first meeting but Shi Luo could not hold in her frustration as she spoke informally. 

Yang Shiyi glanced at her, ”You…” she rubbed her eyes, ”You look familiar.” 

Shi Luo did not say anything as she quietly continued looking at Jun Boyan’s distant cousin. 

”Oh, aren’t you dating Boyan? Yu Chen told me about it,” Yang Shiyi came to a realization, ”But what are you doing at my home?” 

Shi Luo’s lips thinned. How could one be so naive? ”I am here to ask for some tea.”

”Wh…” Yang Shiyi seemed to have another realization as she looked around, ”What the heck! This is not my house. Where am I?” 

Shi Luo glanced at her, ”Do you, by any chance, know a woman called Han Jingyi?” 

”Huh?” Yang Shiyi was stunned for a moment before she shook her head, ”I don’t remember anyone by that name. What place is this? My car tire punctured, then I booked a cab… I should have reached home by now. But why am I here?” 

Shi Luo could see tears welling up in her eyes. She sighed inwardly while wondering how to crack the news that she was, in fact, kidnapped. 

As much as she could see, Yang Shiyi seemed like a simple-minded and innocent girl. She was already on the verge of tears by now. How would she take it if she were informed that she was kidnapped? 

”Noisy!” 

Shi Luo raised her head when she heard the voice. 

Han Jingyi was walking towards the cell with a gun in her hand. 

Yang Shiyi tilted her head towards the source of the voice. Dressed in a black trench coat, the woman had her open. Dark smokey eyes combined with her ruby red lips, made her look like a vampire. A scary one at that.

”Why?” Shi Luo glanced at her. 

Han Jingyi smiled subtly, ”Long time no see, Luoluo.” 

These were the exact words that Han Jingyi whispered to her in the underground parking before she stabbed some kind of injection in her neck. At that moment, Shi Luo deeply regretted not taking the martial arts lesson with Yu Mei. 

”You know I have hated you all this time,” Han Jingyi casually said as she twirled the pistol in her hand. 

”Han Jingyi, let’s get this straight. We see the world as we are. You are a hateful person so you unreasonably hate the world,” Shi Luo indifferently said. 

As much as she did not want to waste her breath on this woman but she was curious about all this. 

Logically, she did not do anything to Han Jingyi then why did she kidnap her? And other than that, how did she manage to do all this when Jun Zixuan’s men were keeping an eye on her? It remained a mystery in her mind no matter how she thought about it. 

And secondly, Han Jingyi was a crazy woman. Shi Luo knew that she had to stall for time so someone could come to their rescue before anything happened to them.

”I have a valid reason for hating you,” Han Jingyi glanced at the pistol in her hand, ”Do you remember the time when we bumped into each other in the shopping mall back in Beijing? You defended my dear sister and took her with you after she slapped me. I was the one who had torn Yu Mei’s dress that day and she slapped me. It was supposed to be between us. I wanted her to look bad in front of my mother. But your interference made me look ugly. For the first time in my life, my mother looked at me suspiciously and she even sounded somewhat angry. How could I not hate you?” 

”Are you crazy?” Shi Luo was in disbelief, ”You are holding a grudge against me because of that matter? Don’t you realize that you were wrong in it? No matter what schemes you make, your parents would eventually come to Mei. As they say, blood runs thicker than water and whatever the circumstances are, she is their biological daughter in the end. They would not have ignored her because of your petty schemes.” 

”Shh…” Han Jingyi looked annoyed, ”Keep the preaching aside. Yu Mei, that woman whom I hate with everything I have is your best friend. That alone makes me hate you.” 

Shi Luo turned her face to the side. This woman should have gone to a mental asylum. 

”Will anyone tell me what’s going on here? Miss. Vamp, this is our first meeting. Why did you kidnap me?” Yang Shiyi glanced at both the women back and forth before speaking to Han Jingyi as she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes. 

”Oh, that’s because you are Jun Boyan’s precious cousin. And recently, I discovered that she is his girlfriend,” she said the latter part while pointing her chin at Shi Luo. 

Yang Shiyi was both confused and scared. She sobbed slowly, ”See, I…If you want money, I can give you as much as you want. Please let me go.” 

Han Jingyi ignored her cries as she shifted her focus to Shi Luo, ”Let’s have some fun, shall we?” She extended her hand and a man walked towards the cell while holding a laptop in his hand. 

Shi Luo quietly observed the scene. She could not understand what Han Jingyi intended to do. 

For one, maybe she wanted to kill her because she could not vent her anger on Yu Mei. Or maybe, she intended to torture her and show it to Yu Mei because she was aware of their friendship. Han Jingyi should know that if anything happened to her then Yu Mei would blame herself for her whole life. 

Or perhaps she wanted to do both. First, torture her and then kill her. 

Shi Luo gulped. She believed that her calculations should be on point as usual. Because at this point, Han Jingyi looked like a psycho, not a normal person. 

But what she could not understand was why did Han Jingyi kidnap Yang Shiyi? 

”Hello sister.” 

Han Jingyi’s voice rang inside the empty cell getting everyone’s attention. 

Sister? Shi Luo glanced at the laptop. Could it be…? 

”Han Jingyi!”

Shi Luo closed her eyes when she heard the familiar voice. As expected, this madwoman had face-timed Yu Mei. 

”Oops,” Han Jingyi glanced at Yu Mei with a soft smile on her face, ”How are you coping with your pregnancy? I have heard it’s difficult, especially in the early days. But if you want, you can come here and swap places with your best friend.” 

”Luoluo has never harmed you. She has done nothing. Don’t involve her in this,” Yu Mei glanced at her with tears in her eyes. 

”Sigh… If I don’t harm her, how will I see you crying?” Han Jingyi paused for a moment before she spoke, ”Moreover, this woman here has humiliated me before, how can I spare her? I can’t avenge myself for everything but I should never let go of any opportunities offered at my doorstep.” 

‘Bang’ 

”Ahhh…” Shi Luo gasped as a bullet grazed past her shoulder, blood oozing out of the wound. 

Yang Shiyi was so scared that she buried herself in the corner of the cell, bawling her eyes out.

”Luoluo!” 

”Send her boyfriend…I mean Jun Boyan. Ask him to save her,” Han Jingyi said with a vicious glint in her eyes, and in the next moment, the call was disconnected, ”Now now…” she glanced at Shi Luo, ”It’s your turn.” 

Shi Luo tightly grabbed the place where the bullet grazed but because of the handcuffs, she could not touch the spot properly as blood kept flowing out. 

”Don’t you want to know why your boyfriend gives so much importance to this girl when she is just a distant cousin?” Han Jingyi pointed her chin at Yang Shiyi. 

Shi Luo froze.