Fang Yuzhe was surely suspicious, but since they had just argued about trust, he held back from exposing her.
“Take a taxi back at night, or should I pick you up at the intersection?”
“No need, I’ll take a taxi!”
Xia Yuluo hung up the phone, so nervous that she was sweating. It was just a small lie. She calmed herself and remembered the most important question she hadn’t gotten an answer to – “Uncle, will you force me to leave him?
Fang Yuzhe looked up to the sky and sighed, “Maybe I should talk to him again!”
“No way! Don’t you understand? My dad is a bottomless pit, no matter how much you fill it, it’ll never be enough! If you give him another penny, I’ll break up with you!” Xia Yuluo was truly furious.
“Then let me teach your dad a lesson! Show him that a son-in-law is not to be bullied!”
“No, I can’t let you hit my dad!”
“Then what do you suggest we do!”
“I want to live on campus, just for a while, until he stops watching me, then I’ll come back.”
Fang Yuzhe heard this and didn’t want to continue the conversation, standing up from the sofa and walking away.
Xia Yuluo grabbed him, “Don’t be like this, I had no other choice but to come up with this plan!”
“How long before you can come home from campus?”
“Half a month, I promise to call you every day!”
“No! Can I cuddle a phone to sleep?”
Xia Yuluo was unhappy, “So if you don’t let me live on campus, you just want me to sleep with you!”
Fang Yuzhe looked up to the sky and sighed again, “Miss, I’ve only touched you once, and you’re saying such things! Don’t you understand I just want to keep you by my side?”
How long has it been since you last came home?
“Why aren’t you thinking about keeping your father company?” Fang Tiancheng clearly was not happy.
“Do I need to accompany you? Don’t you have a bunch of girlfriends? I won’t be a third wheel for you!”
He ultimately didn’t go and spent a sweet night with Xia Yuluo.
“Yuluo, is that Liangcool your good friend?” After being crazy tired, they leaned against each other and talked.
“Mm.” Xia Yuluo was a bit worried about her friend. Once, she discovered many instances of Fang Yuzhe’s name written on her friend’s calculation paper.
“Are you saying she’s Jinliang’s girlfriend?”
“No, Jinliang likes her, but she doesn’t like Jinliang.”
“I see!”
Xia Yuluo was suspicious, “Why are you curious about her?”
Waiting to settle accounts.
Liangcool always called Fang Yuzhe, sometimes finding random excuses, sometimes directly saying “I miss you.” Fang Yuzhe wasn’t an idiot – he understood her meaning.
Initially, he thought this was Xia Yuluo having her friend test him, but now he was certain it wasn’t.
“Are you curious about her? Do you like her?”
Fang Yuzhe rarely saw Xia Yuluo jealous and found it quite comfortable, “Liangcool might not be as pretty as you, but she has an outgoing personality. If she were a girlfriend, she’d definitely be more passionate than you!”
Xia Yuluo’s little face darkened, looking like it was about to rain.
“Well, she actually likes you!”
“She likes me?” Fang Yuzhe continued to play dumb.
“Her father won’t even ask you for money. Dating her would be much less troublesome.”
“How did we get to this?” “You’re not even professional at being jealous, why bring up your father!”
“I hate that so many people like you!”
“This makes you look good. If your boyfriend had no one else who liked him, it would mean your taste is questionable!”
“I don’t care about that. I just don’t like others competing with me for you!”
“Don’t worry, no one can steal me away. I’ve already chosen you!”
…
Fang Tiancheng was chatting with Sandy, the public relations manager of “Eden”, about his son.
“Hasn’t Xiao Zhe been to the nightclub in a while?”
“Yes, he hasn’t come for over half a year. It saved you a lot of alcohol money.”
“They can’t miss him. Even I, as his father, can’t get his attention!”
“What’s wrong? Does it look like the little guy has a new love?”
“He’s got a girlfriend. He’s treating her like a treasure, throwing tens of thousands of my money without a care!”
“How dare I? He’d go crazy on me.”
“Young people get bored quickly. Separate them for a few days and it’ll be over!
I’m thinking of having his grandfather send him to the US to cool off, so he doesn’t stick around and annoy me!”
“What does that girl do?”
“She’s his classmate, a top student. She won’t fit into our line of work.”
“No wonder. He’s found something new.”
“Her father isn’t great. I heard he owes a ton of debt outside. He owes me over 700,000 here, and I haven’t even settled the score yet! Once Xiao Zhe goes to the US, I’ll sort things out with him!”
How can he have no money! Do you know how much money Fang Tiancheng has!”
“No matter how much money he has, why should he give it to me!”
“I won’t waste words with you. Just watch your brother die!”
Xia Yuluo lay in her dormitory crying, not knowing what to do, wondering why her world was such a mess.
“Xia Yuluo, what’s wrong?” Jin Liang had seen her hang up the phone and cry back to her room, so he knocked on the door.
“My brother has been kidnapped, and my dad doesn’t have money for ransom!”
“Then call the police quickly. I’ll call my dad!”
Xia Yuluo had forgotten that Jin Liang’s father was a police officer, but she was still afraid. “What if they kill him after reporting to the police?”
“Anyway, your dad has no money, so trust the police!”
Jin Liang unilaterally decided to call the police, but his father didn’t answer the phone.
When he was about to dial 110, Xia Yuluo stopped him, “I think it’s better to discuss it with my dad first.”
Xia Dahao soon called her, saying the kidnappers had some news and asked her to come home immediately.
Jin Liang was afraid she would be in danger alone and insisted on sending her. He rode his bicycle with Yuluo, almost reaching her home when a black Audi illegally turned and suddenly hit the front wheel of his bicycle.
Jin Liang’s hand trembled and he was thrown out. Xia Yuluo fell to the ground, badly injured. The Audi screeched to a stop, and two men grabbed Yuluo and shoved her into the car. Jin Liang’s leg was broken, and he couldn’t stand up, watching helplessly as they took Yuluo away.
The Audi had no license plate, clearly a premeditated kidnapping.
Fang Yuzhе immediately received the news of Yuluo’s kidnapping. Xia Dahao was crying on the phone – “These bastards will do anything. They said if I don’t pay, they’ll kill Xiaohao and rape Yuluo. Where can I get a million? They’ve given me just one night!”
Hearing the word “rape,” Fang Yuzhе was going crazy. “Let me talk to them!”
“They’ve cut the phone line. They’re just waiting to get the money tomorrow!”
“How can I get so much money in one night!”
“Xiaozhe, uncle can’t even sell the house in time. If Yuluo is raped, she probably won’t survive. What should I do?”
What to do? He could only turn to Fang Tiancheng!
“Dad, give me a million.”
I’ll never ask you for pocket money again!”
Fang Tiancheng coldly looked at his son, seeing his nervous, trembling lips and feeling angry.
“Do you think your father’s money falls from the sky? Today seventy million, tomorrow a hundred million. Even if I’m rich and do charity, I can’t let you spend like this.”
“I’m not spending! I’m trying to save someone!”
“Are you a police officer? Call the police, what are you asking me for!”
“No! The police are so stupid. What if they leak information and the kidnappers kill him? What if they touch Yuluo!”
Fang Tiancheng laughed. “The police are stupid? I think the stupidest one is you. I didn’t want you to interact with society before, wanting you to be pure for a few years. Clearly, your pure brain isn’t enough!”
