"Miss, Miss."

Fu Man'er felt a sharp pain in her head, as if someone had cracked her skull open, and something was shaking her.

Her head hurt terribly, and the more she shook it, the worse it hurt.

"Miss, please wake up, Miss, sob sob."

Despite the excruciating pain, Fu Man'er finally regained some of her consciousness.

"Shuangxi, stop shaking me, or I really won't wake up," Fu Man'er said weakly, barely opening her eyes a crack.

"Miss, you're finally awake! Waaah, I was so worried about you!" Shuangxi threw herself at Fu Man'er, her face covered in snot and tears.

Fu Man'er let out a long sigh of relief. "Shuangxi, have you been eating too much lately? You look quite heavy."

That lunge almost made Fu Man'er choke on her breath.

"Miss!" Shuangxi sat up shyly. She had only eaten a little, unlike what the young lady had said about eating too much.

Without Shuangxi's restraint, Fu Man'er was able to barely stand up, and Shuangxi quickly went to help her.

"Where is this?" Fu Man'er looked around. It was a dilapidated house filled with broken tables and chairs.

Shuangxi snuggled closer to Fuman'er, "This servant doesn't know either. I was here when I woke up."

“Miss, that new coachman is a bad man; he's the one who brought us here.” A new coachman?

Fu Man'er's thoughts drifted back to an earlier time, when she and Shuangxi got into the carriage and the driver started to drive.

The two chatted idly inside the carriage, and Fu Man'er yawned several times as they talked, feeling a little sleepy.

Wanting to buy some dried fruit by the roadside to relieve her fatigue, she remembered that there was an old woman on the main road who sold the most delicious dried fruit.

Judging by the horse's pace, it should be almost there.

But when Fu Man'er pulled back the carriage curtain, she was instantly dumbfounded. This was not the way home at all.

"Stop the car! Stop the car!" Fu Man'er hurriedly called out, realizing something was wrong.

But the coachman not only didn't stop, he whipped the horse's rump hard with his whip, and the horse started to gallop wildly.

Just then, Fu Man'er was about to lift the curtain and go out to subdue the coachman when the horse galloped away, throwing her to the back of the carriage and slamming her head against the carriage wall. Just as her eyelids were about to close uncontrollably, she saw Shuangxi beside her.

She had already closed her eyes and collapsed. What happened? She didn't hear Shuangxi being hit on the head. How could she have fallen down before her?

Fu Man'er thought she had fainted because of a severe blow to the head, but that was not the case. From the moment they entered the carriage, they had been continuously inhaling sleeping pills, a fact she soon discovered.

"Oh no, I have no strength!" Fu Man'er stood up and found her whole body limp and powerless. She then remembered the strange thing that happened in the carriage.

They've been drugged; it seems the person who took them away was very well prepared.

She couldn't muster any strength, rendering her martial arts skills useless. It's unclear how much her natural strength was affected.

"Miss, the door is locked from the outside, and the windows are nailed shut," Shuangxi said dejectedly after looking around the room.

Fu Man'er wasn't surprised. Since they had been brought here by kidnapping, they naturally wouldn't give the girls a chance to escape.

But who exactly kidnapped them, and what was their intention?

Her head was already aching, and thinking about these things made it hurt even more. Looking at this dilapidated house, Fu Man'er suddenly remembered when she was very young.

Back then, human traffickers kidnapped her and several other children from the same village. They managed to escape safely when they were young, and now that they're grown up, they'll surely be able to too.

However, Fu Man'er underestimated the evil in human nature. When a woman is kidnapped, she often faces unpredictable dangers.

The master and servant had just sat down to rest when the door was opened and several burly men rushed in. They looked fierce and menacing, and one of them was the coachman.

"Oh, so this is the Xu family's daughter. She's quite beautiful." The leader blatantly sized up Fu Man'er.

Shuangxi quickly shielded her young lady behind her, saying, "Who are you? How dare you kidnap my young lady when you know who she is?"

"If the manor finds out, they will definitely make things difficult for you." Shuangxi spoke with a blank face. Fu Man'er, who was pressed against her back, could clearly feel Shuangxi's body trembling slightly. She was also afraid.

"Hahaha." The leader suddenly burst into laughter. "The Xu family won't know."

"This Miss Xu is truly remarkable. If it were any other girl, she would probably be crying and screaming in fear. How come Miss Xu doesn't seem scared at all?"

As soon as the leader finished speaking, the people around him burst into unrestrained laughter. The laughter mingled together, as if it were going to tear their eardrums apart.

"I'm afraid it would be a waste of energy, and I don't have that energy." Fu Man'er spoke very softly, so softly that everyone felt as if she hadn't even woken up yet.

"Aren't you curious why we kidnapped you?" The leader looked at her and guessed that the effects of the drug hadn't worn off yet.

"I was just about to ask, but I don't recall seeing many of them before, let alone offending you." Fu Man'er had carefully thought back on those faces, but she really couldn't remember anything.

"We have no grudge against you, Miss. We'd love to befriend a woman as beautiful as you."

"So someone hired you to kidnap me. You won't tell me who it is, or what you want me to do with me?"

Fu Man'er recalled the recent events and realized that the only person she had offended was Qian Dayong. Could it be him?

"No need to do anything, Miss, just stay here peacefully. It's getting late, we won't disturb your rest any longer." Just one more thing, my men are guarding outside this door. If Miss wants to have a peaceful night, she'll have to keep quiet.

"Otherwise, my brothers aren't easy to talk to, hehe."

Those pairs of lewd, demonic eyes fell upon them, and Shuangxi was too frightened to speak, but she still tried her best to stand in front of Fuman'er.

Fu Man'er hugged her tightly, "I know."

These two women are practically powerless. Against those burly men, they're like little chicks, easily crushed with a pinch.

Hearing her yield, the burly men chuckled and came out, turning around to utter lewd remarks without restraint.

Although Shuangxi was scared, she couldn't listen anymore. When Fuman'er saw that she was about to open her mouth, she quickly reached out and covered it.

Fu Man'er only let go of the door after it was locked and the people's voices quieted down.

Shuangxi's body, which she had been holding up, suddenly went limp, and she looked at Fuman'er through teary eyes.

"Miss, what they were saying just now—" What those people said was simply unbearable to hear.

She couldn't bear to listen to it, let alone with the young lady right next to her.

Fu Man'er let Shuangxi lean on her shoulder and gently wiped away her tears.

"Let them talk. We won't gain anything by resisting now."

"If we anger them and they attack us, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you."

Fu Man'er knew that Shuangxi was doing this for her, but under such circumstances, it wasn't worth suffering physical pain for a mere verbal argument.

"Miss, don't worry, the master, mistress and young master will find us soon. When that happens, I'll tear their mouths apart."

This was probably the greatest revenge Shuangxi could think of. After all, just thinking about those menacing faces and their chilling eyes terrified her.

It took her a lot of courage to tear those people's mouths apart.

"Okay, we'll do as you say once we get out of here." Fu Man'er smiled, her eyes bright as crescent moons.

Shuangxi's previously depressed mood improved a lot. Her mistress was really kind, considerate of the servants in the house, and had no airs at all.

Even though she was still a child pampered by her family, she brought them endless warmth like an adult.

"Miss, is your head hurting even more?" Shuangxi recalled that Fu Man'er seemed much weaker when she spoke just now.

Fu Man'er winked mischievously at Shuangxi, "I was just pretending."

"Huh? You're faking it?" Under Shuangxi's shocked gaze, Fuman'er picked up a small piece of wood from the side and, with a forceful movement, broke the wood in two.