Chapter 126 Rescue
Zhu Fan pushed open the bar door.
A soft tinkling of a copper bell drew the attention of the bartender behind the counter.
The young woman slipped inside, a fitted black cashmere coat draped over her shapely figure. The bar was warm, and she unbuckled the coat's belt.
The coat was open, revealing a small patch of porcelain-white skin below the neck and an exquisite necklace. Underneath the coat was not an ordinary inner layer, but a matte red velvet slip dress, the hem of which stopped exactly two inches above the knee, and with each step, the folds of the skirt rippled with a sexy sheen.
The girl's legs were encased in sheer, matte black stockings, her ankles slender, and she wore slender black leather high heels with red soles.
Zhu Fan placed her bag on the bar and casually held her phone in her hand.
She looked down and texted Zhong Fei: "I've arrived at the bar you specified."
The bartender handed her a wine list and pushed a glass of iced water towards her.
As Zhu Fan sat down on the high stool, he casually placed his coat on the stool next to him.
She didn't touch the iced water the bartender offered, but instead focused her attention on her phone.
[First condition: Stay in a bar for a full hour and kiss a man.]
[Second condition: Spend the night with him at a hotel.]
[Before entering the hotel, someone will film the entire process.]
[Your boyfriend called you a lot and sent you a lot of messages today. I didn't answer the video calls, but I replied to all your messages. Did you see them? We had a very sweet chat, didn't we?]
Zhong Fei thought, "Guan Jun's mobile phone monitoring software is really useful."
She wanted to wish Zhu Fan and Fang Qizhou a breakup.
But it's not as simple as making a phone call or sending a message to break up.
She didn't want Fang Qizhou to come back from abroad right now.
She promised Zhu Fan that as long as he did as she asked, she would change the water in her good sister's fish tank to warm water.
That way, you won't have to worry about being cold.
After Fang Qizhou returns to China, he will find out that his girlfriend cheated on him.
She wanted to break up Zhu Fan and Fang Qizhou's relationship before leaving the country.
Only in this way can she leave the country in a pleasant manner.
If she can't have the man, Zhu Fan can't have him either.
Zhu Fan opened the picture sent by Zhong Fei.
The photo shows herself.
The warm, dim light of the bar outlined Zhu Fan's profile with a hazy golden edge. The white mother-of-pearl butterfly earrings on her earlobes flashed with a cool light as she turned her head, then disappeared into the shadows.
[Looking for who took the photo of you?]
You mustn't know this.
I've found someone for you: the man sitting at your three o'clock position.
Zhu Fan put down his phone and his fingertips landed on the wine list.
The bartender smiled and took the drink menu.
"Beautiful lady, are you alone?"
The man who approached her handed her the bottle of wine he was holding.
Zhu Fan didn't accept the wine, saying, "I'm waiting for someone."
The girl exuded a cool and unapproachable aura.
The man, unwilling to miss the opportunity, pulled up his WeChat QR code.
Zhu Fan rested her chin on her hand and looked up at her vibrating phone.
We welcome all comers.
Xiang Hao also noticed the girl sitting on the bar stool at the bar.
Upon seeing Zhu Fan's face clearly, he paused in his conversation with his friend.
After Zhu Fan scanned the WeChat QR code of the first man, she was approached by a constant stream of men trying to strike up a conversation with her.
Xiang Hao sent a message on his phone to Wen He, who had just left a few minutes earlier.
He put down his phone and frowned as he looked at the young girl who kept being approached.
Did she break up with her boyfriend? Is she drowning her sorrows at a bar?
Wenhe returned to the bar and saw a young girl sitting on a high stool, dressed sexily, smiling as she accepted the drink offered to her.
The boy standing in front of the girl was tall and thin, with the typical air of a student. His face was flushed, and he seemed nervous as he spoke.
Zhu Fan picked up her coat from the chair next to her and pointed to her seat at the boy.
As the boy sat down, Wenhe saw the girl deliberately knock over the ice water on the bar, splashing it all over herself.
As Zhu Fan was leaving the bar with a boy, he saw the girl hand the boy a room key.
Wenhe walked up to Zhu Fan and the boy.
He took the bag that the boy was carrying for Zhu Fan, saying, "I'm her brother, here to take her home."
Zhu Fan's plans were disrupted by the sudden appearance of Wen He.
This boy was the only Peking University student she found in that hour.
The boy was willing to help her and accompany her in her acting roles.
Wenhe opened his hand to the boy.
Without hesitation, the boy handed the room key to Wenhe.
He looked at Zhu Fan nervously: "Your boyfriend still cares about you. If you have any conflicts, talk them out. You don't have to do it this way."
The boy spoke softly, looking up at the man in front of him.
The man was wearing a baseball cap and a mask, so his face was obscured, but he exuded an air of sophistication and was dressed in expensive clothes.
He imagined a scenario in his mind where a couple was having a fight, and he wanted to make the other person jealous.
Zhu Fan, with his coat draped over his arm, looked at Wen He without saying a word.
Wenhe held the room key in his hand and caught a fleeting look of annoyance in the girl's eyes. "Any behavior that harms oneself is unacceptable."
Zhu Fan shook his head. "I didn't hurt myself."
She looked down at her phone.
My patience is running out; one minute left until it's been an hour.
Zhu Fan approached Wen He and spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear, "I haven't been messing around outside."
Wenhe looked down at the room key in his hand, clearly doubting her words.
Zhu Fan raised his wrist, a gesture meant to let him smell his wrist, but also to allow him to see the words on his wrist.
The music was so loud it made her ears tingle. Wenhe ran his fingers through the stray hairs by her ear and looked down at her.
Xiang Hao spilled the wine in his hand all over himself.
To onlookers, the two appeared to be kissing.
Wenhe's fingertips touched the corner of her lips, his warm breaths lingering between her noses.
Three seconds later, Wenhe stepped back.
Only Zhu Fan and Wen He knew that the two of them had not touched it.
Zhu Fan and he left the bar.
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Zhong Fei admired the photos and videos on her phone: Zhu Fan kissing a strange man in a bar, and then staying in a hotel with the same man until dawn. She packed the photos and videos together and named them "Gift".
She wanted to spread these videos and photos at Peking University the day before Fang Qizhou returned to China.
She sent Zhu Fan a third condition: leave Beijing before Fang Qizhou returns to China and don't let him find you.
After thinking about it, she felt that a short absence was not enough.
But she no longer had time to continue plotting to threaten Zhu Fan.
I wish my family members, nowadays, no matter who they are, will have bodyguards following them when they go out every day.
After Zhu Fan sent the stamped leave of absence certificate and boarding photo, Zhong Fei waited six hours before sending the third crucial piece of information to find Zhu Wan.
The messages are released on a scheduled basis.
She and Guan Jun have already left Beijing and illegally crossed the border.
Three hours later, Grandma Zhu and Meng Yin found Zhu Wan, who was hiding in the villa area of an unfinished housing development.
Inside the glass water tank, Zhu Wan floated in the water, her hands wrinkled from being soaked in water, and she was unconscious.
Holding her daughter, who felt icy cold, Meng Yin's heart was breaking.
As the ambulance stretcher carried her granddaughter away, the old lady Zhu's back, which had been straight all her life, hunched over.
The entire police force in Beijing was mobilized, and the Zhu family also used all their connections, both within and outside the police force. The accomplices involved in the kidnapping were apprehended one by one, but the two masterminds vanished overnight, leaving no trace.
Zhu Linjun stood in front of the huge electronic screen in the command center, the cold light of the screen reflecting off his taut jawline.
The surveillance footage is frozen on an empty dock, where the tide is washing over discarded tires again and again.
He slowly raised his hand and tapped his index finger heavily on the empty sea.
"Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground," he said, his voice as deep as ice, "we must dig out these two kidnappers for me."
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