After waiting for nearly an hour, her father finally replied: "Susu, I asked your Uncle Ji, and he didn't let anyone pick you up. Find a place to hide. Your Uncle Ji will be back soon. Be sure to protect yourself."
Just as I expected, but Butler Ji also seemed to be a member of the Ji family. His features even resembled those of Old Master Ji. Why would he betray the Ji family? Just as I was racking my brains, I suddenly heard footsteps outside the door. I immediately looked around. Hiding in the cabinet was too obvious. I looked at the refrigerator under the tea bar. I opened the refrigerator. The inner liner wasn't very big. It didn't look like it could hide a person at all, but if a girl with a little flexibility shrunk in, it would be more than enough.
I heard footsteps at the door. I quickly found the refrigerator's power source, unplugged it, and scurried inside. Before the power went out, the refrigerator was still powered on, and the temperature was around five or six degrees Celsius. As soon as I crawled in, my whole body felt icy cold. I tried to regulate my breathing to minimize the amount of air I inhaled.
I heard the door open, but only the sound of footsteps walking into the room. After a few steps, I heard Butler Ji's voice: "Miss Su, I know you're in there. Please come out."
I held my breath. When Butler Ji saw that there was no movement for a moment, he continued to walk around the room. After circling around, I heard the sound of the door closing. I didn't quite believe that he would leave so quickly. Maybe he closed the door to prevent others outside from seeing him or to make me think that he had left so as to lure me out.
After a while, Butler Ji seemed to have not gotten the result he wanted and started walking around the room again. I could vaguely hear the sound of a cabinet door opening and the creaking of parts from the cabinet door. The oxygen inside the refrigerator was leaking out, and the cramped space made me feel a little suffocated. Even with just a small vent, it was not enough to maintain the oxygen I needed.
I gradually stopped hearing Butler Ji's footsteps, or rather, they were some distance away. He should be in the bedroom or bathroom right now. I took advantage of this moment to open the refrigerator door and take a few deep breaths. The refrigerator was located inside the bar counter, and through the gap, it was completely blocked by the bar counter. I could only see the TV wall in the living room. I didn't close the refrigerator door immediately. I heard the sound of leather shoes stepping on the wooden floor in the bedroom.
There weren't many closets in the bedroom. A few minutes later, Butler Ji went to the bathroom next door. After checking and finding nothing, I heard him come out of the bathroom. I immediately closed the refrigerator door. As Butler Ji's footsteps got closer and closer, I clenched my fists nervously. I could only gamble that he wouldn't open the refrigerator to check, but hiding in a place where I had no way to fight back was still very risky. If I was discovered, I would have no choice but to surrender.
I heard the sound of the cabinet closest to me being opened. Butler Ji seemed very unhappy and slammed the cabinet door shut. I was the closest to it, and it really startled me. If the refrigerator hadn't been so small that I wouldn't have been able to move at all, I might have been really startled by his scare.
I waited for ages but Butler Ji didn't open the refrigerator door. Instead, he paced back and forth in front of me. I had to hug my legs and squeeze into the refrigerator. By then, my legs were starting to go numb. I buried my head tightly in my legs and chest. I felt my scalp tingling and waves of suffocation washing over me.
I couldn't hold on any longer. Just as I was about to go out and have a showdown with Butler Ji, his phone rang. Butler Ji answered, "What is it? Have you found Miss Su?"
After a moment of silence, Butler Ji said, "Okay, I'll be right down."
Hearing this, I suddenly felt much more at ease. The next second, I heard Butler Ji's hurried footsteps. The door to the room was opened, but I didn't hear it close for a while. I hesitated. I was worried that this was Butler Ji's scheme. Maybe he was standing at the door waiting for me to show up.
Just then, my phone screen suddenly lit up, instantly illuminating the small space. But the phone was in my hand, and my arms were wrapped tightly around my legs, so I couldn't move it to look at it. The screen stayed lit for a while, and I guessed it was a phone call.
Without thinking twice, I immediately used my elbow to push open the refrigerator door, reached for my phone, and saw a missed call and two messages on the screen. These were just sent. I opened the message, which was from Grandpa Bai: "Susu, your Uncle Ji is home. Go find Uncle Ji right away."
Upon seeing this message, I felt like I had grasped a lifeline. Without saying a word, I climbed out of the refrigerator. The low temperature inside the refrigerator and the fact that my limbs had been immobilized for so long meant that I couldn't stand up after climbing out. As I struggled to move my limbs, there was suddenly someone in front of me—it was Butler Ji!
Butler Ji looked at me coldly: "Miss Su, you really know how to hide things."
I was startled and immediately reached out to grab the edge of the bar to stand up, but my legs were stiff and sore. Butler Ji pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and walked up to me in a flash, covering my mouth. I instinctively started to struggle, and Butler Ji whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry, Miss Su, please be quiet. I did this only to save my brother."
I was still struggling desperately. Just when I thought I was about to faint, I grabbed the bar with one hand and kicked the wine cabinet with one foot. Several glasses fell to the ground with a series of crisp sounds. Butler Ji was shocked. He tightened his grip on my mouth and reached under my armpit with his other hand, grabbing my chest and dragging me out quickly.
Butler Ji was very fast. Before I could react, he took me to an elevator entrance I had never seen before. It looked like an employee elevator. Butler Ji dragged me into the elevator and pressed the button for the underground parking floor. The elevator arrived quickly. After another dragging, I heard the sound of the car door opening. Butler Ji threw me into the passenger seat.
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