When Tang Ning regained consciousness, she felt a nauseating smell of smoke mixed with the pungent smell of cheap leather, which rushed into her nostrils. As she became more alert, the sounds around her gradually became clearer. However, the people's chattering did not sound like Chinese; it sounded more like the language of the United States, which borders China.
The old van was bumping violently. Because her eyes were covered by something, Tang Ning couldn't tell which way the van was going. Fortunately, she wasn't alone. After asking 54088 in her mind, Tang Ning quickly learned that the group seemed to be heading towards Yun City.
The conversation inside the car was noisy, but she couldn't hear Xia Yang's voice among the group. She must not be in the car. She just didn't know what role that woman played in this trap.
Just as Tang Ning was still having the leisure to analyze whether the person scheming against her was Xia Yang's love interest, Pei Yuan once again focused his gaze on the clock directly in front of him.
It was already 12:30, and Tang Ning still hadn't returned. Feeling a strange unease, Pei Yuan picked up his phone and dialed Tang Ning's number.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently switched off..."
Almost as soon as Pei Yuan heard the notification sound, his heart sank.
Without a second thought, he immediately dialed the phone number of the people he had sent to monitor Tang Ning.
Pei Yuan regretted it...
He shouldn't have hypocritically removed the people he had placed next to Tang Ning to monitor her because of that unfounded fear. He clearly wanted to know what Tang Ning was doing every moment when she wasn't with him, but he chose to back down because of his cowardice, which led to him completely losing contact with Tang Ning now.
This feeling of helplessness caused Pei Yuan to feel an uncontrollable surge of anger. Like a trapped beast, he paced back and forth in the huge villa, but no matter how he walked, he could not suppress the restlessness in his heart.
About ten minutes later, the people he had arranged to monitor Tang Ning finally gave him a reply.
They said they found Ms. Tang Ning's car near the entrance of Wanwen Shopping Mall, with a slightly melted chocolate cake on the passenger seat. However, they did not see Ms. Tang Ning nearby. Their people are now trying to access the nearby surveillance footage and should soon find out what happened to Ms. Tang Ning.
Upon hearing this, the veins on the back of Pei Yuan's right hand, which was gripping the phone, bulged, but he had no other choice but to wait.
For the first time in his life, Pei Yuan felt so powerless after Tang Ning lost contact with him for forty minutes.
Even when he was a child, living with his mentally unstable mother and his father who was subjected to all kinds of bullying, he had never experienced anything like this. It felt as if his heart had been ripped out of his chest and fried in hot oil, and he could only watch helplessly.
Sitting on the sofa, Pei Yuan clenched his fists tighter and tighter...
At the same time, Tang Ning felt the constantly bumping van finally come to a slow stop. As the people who had been chatting inside opened the doors and got out, she immediately felt her arm being grabbed by a strong hand and forcibly pulled off the van.
Then another person came up and grabbed her other arm. The two of them dragged Tang Ning, who was pretending to be unconscious, for about several dozen meters before casually throwing her onto a soft cloth that smelled of fish and a little rust. They continued to chatter away, occasionally letting out a loud laugh.
Having never dealt with such "criminals" before, Tang Ning's slight change in breathing was noticed by one of the veterans in the group. After a soft hiss, he walked straight towards Tang Ning and ripped off the blindfold covering her eyes.
Accustomed to the darkness, Tang Ning's eyes reflexively closed briefly upon seeing the light. When she opened them again, she saw about four or five people around her with dark skin and menacing eyes, clearly a group of typical desperados who had seen blood before.
When they saw Tang Ning looking over, several of them immediately put on a mocking smile, and while looking at her, they turned their heads and began to communicate with their companions in their own language.
Tang Ning had never learned the language of M country, and neither had the original owner of this body, so naturally she couldn't understand it.
But English is an international language, and under the unabashed scrutiny of this group of people, Tang Ning pursed her lips and began to speak English.
"Although I don't know what your intentions are in kidnapping me, it's nothing more than wanting money, right? The price is negotiable, any amount is negotiable."
Tang Ning calmly negotiated with these people.
She didn't know if they understood her or not; they just stood there looking at her, without any intention of talking to her.
Seeing this, Tang Ning frowned slightly.
But then she suddenly heard a deep, magnetic voice behind her.
"Don't waste your time, Miss Tang Ning. These people can't understand any language other than Mandarin, so you were just talking to a brick wall."
Upon hearing this, Tang Ning turned around abruptly and saw a man in a long black coat walking slowly towards her from behind. His long golden hair was casually tied back with a black ribbon. His azure eyes were as mysterious as the sea, with deep-set eyes and a high nose. When he smiled, like Pei Yuan, a dimple would appear at the corner of his mouth. Moreover, this man, who was clearly of mixed race, also had a small, pointed canine tooth, which made his smile even more mischievous.
And the woman clinging tightly to his arm beside him—who else could it be but Xia Yang, whom he had seen being kidnapped earlier?
Almost as soon as Tang Ning saw the tender look in Xia Yang's eyes as she looked at the man beside her, she knew who her love interest was.
For a moment, she felt a great deal of curiosity about this stranger who bore a resemblance to Pei Yuan.
After all, Xia Yang was a sophisticated egoist at heart. She really couldn't understand how this person had managed to change her into such an emotional young girl in such a short time, to the point that she was even willing to do illegal and criminal things for him.
"Who are you? What is your relationship with Shen Yin?"
With a slight narrowing of her eyes, Tang Ning immediately asked this question.
"Shen Yin? Hahahaha, what an utterly foolish name!"
Tang Ning's question seemed to hit the man's funny bone immediately, and he burst into laughter, clutching his stomach.
Tang Ning's brows furrowed even more as he laughed. The man then slowly straightened up, not even glancing at Xia Yang beside him. He immediately withdrew his arm, took a few steps to Tang Ning, and, with his black glove extended, lifted Tang Ning's chin in an unyielding manner.
Before Tang Ning could refuse such a flirtatious gesture, she immediately felt something cold and sharp pressed against her neck. This froze her refusal halfway, as the man, a smirk playing on his lips, scrutinized her from all angles for a long while before clicking his tongue and saying, "I thought the woman who made my cold-blooded brother so infatuated was some kind of stunning beauty. To me, she's just an ordinary-looking woman..."
The man made this extremely blunt assessment.
Xia Yang, who was standing behind him and was a little confused by his actions and words, felt a strange feeling flash through her mind. Just as she was about to say something, she saw the man who was half-squatting in front of Tang Ning reach out to the side, say something in Mandarin, and a cell phone was handed to him by the person next to him.
"Hmm, would you like to hear my brother's voice, that is... *chuckle*... Shen Yin?"
After saying this with a grin, the man dialed a phone number on his own without even waiting for Tang Ning's reply.
At this moment, Xia Yang was no longer the smug and provocative person she had been when she first came out. She wasn't herself, and she knew perfectly well that she had been used.
This man never intended to avenge her; his goal from the beginning was Tang Ning. She was merely a stepping stone for him, or even just an excuse to get close to Tang Ning.
This realization caused Xia Yang to clench her fists tightly. Her nails, which she had just done not long ago, broke in her palm, but she didn't even feel it.
The mixed-race man had already dialed the number.
The moment the call connected, he immediately leaned close to Tang Ning's neck and sniffed it lightly, even sticking out his tongue as if to lick it.
Before Tang Ning could react to this action, Xia Yang, standing behind the two, felt as if the string of reason in her mind had finally snapped.
What are you doing!
She stepped forward in her high heels and pulled the mixed-race man up.
"You said it was because of me..."
Before Xia Yang could even ask any further questions, the man slapped her hard across the face, knocking her to the ground. The force was so great that it even knocked out one of her teeth.
Upon seeing this, Tang Ning's pupils constricted slightly.
At the same time, Xia Yang covered her face in disbelief and turned around abruptly to look at the man behind her with whom she had been so sweet for so long.
In her rage, before she could even stand up and fight the man, he nonchalantly pulled out a gun and pressed it against Xia Yang's forehead.
"What did I say? Hmm? That you are the most beautiful woman in the world, that I fell in love with you at first sight, and then fell even more deeply in love upon seeing you again, asking for nothing in return, only asking that you let me stay by your side? Or that I like you so much that I even wanted to avenge your past grievances, and then kidnap this Miss Tang Ning for you, just to help you get revenge? Hmm?"
The mixed-race man's eyes were filled with deep sarcasm.
"I see you're not young anymore, how can you still be so naive? Why don't you look in the mirror? A disgusting woman like you, what about you is there that would make me crazy about you? You don't actually think we're dating, do you? Someone like you, I'd be disgusted even just playing around with you. Do you even know how many times I've hidden away to throw up while I'm around you? And you're still dreaming about me? Huh?"
The man spoke slowly and deliberately.
Xia Yang's face had turned completely pale, and her eyes slowly drooped under the man's contemptuous gaze, her nails digging deeply into the soil beside her.
You will...you will regret it...
You'll definitely regret it!
Xia Yang kept repeating this in her mind.
Just then, a familiar voice finally rang out coldly from the phone the man was holding.
"Pei Sen!"
“It’s me, dear brother…”
Pei Sen smiled and held the phone to his ear.
"Hey, I have to say, your girlfriend smells really good. I only smelled her once, and I couldn't help myself. You know, I've always had terrible self-control. I don't know if she'll still be able to keep her clothes on when you get here..."
As Pei Sen said this, he came to Tang Ning's side again and reached out to unzip her coat.
The slow, deliberate sound caused Pei Yuan, who was already sitting in Tang Ning's car parked at the mall entrance, to immediately grip the steering wheel tightly.
"Three hours, brother. I'm only giving you three hours. If I don't see you near the border of Yun City in three hours, I'm not waiting anymore. You may not know, but my men have been waiting for a long time. I wonder if your Miss Tang can handle it?"
Pei Sen had already completely unzipped Tang Ning's top.
Seeing the dangerous glint in his eyes, Tang Ning remained silent. In all her time since transmigrating, this was the first time she had ever met a man with such a disgusting and despicable nature. No wonder Pei Yuan and the others could at least be considered her targets. After this man appeared, 54088 didn't even give her a warning.
That's true; if she were to try and seduce this kind of man, she'd probably be more inclined to fail.
Because Pei Sen had put the phone on speakerphone, Tang Ning immediately heard Pei Yuan's clear voice on the other end, "Three hours, is that right? I'll be there on time, but if you dare to lay a finger on her within these three hours, Pei Sen, even though you've hidden your mother, I can find her if I want to. Oh, and that illegitimate child you left in Fan City, I heard he's already two years old and can already call me Daddy. As for the company, I'll do everything I can to make sure you don't get a single penny."
"You know me, I always keep my word."
As soon as Pei Yuan finished speaking calmly, he hung up Pei Sen's phone first.
Pei Yuan stared in disbelief at the phone call that had been disconnected. Enraged, he raised his hand to slap Tang Ning across the face, but stopped abruptly just before it touched her cheek.
He stood up and fiercely smashed his phone against the wall.
After saying a few more words to the group of American people, he gave Tang Ning a deep look, left a sentence, and walked forward.
"You should pray that my brother really returns within three hours, otherwise... I don't think you'd want to know what kind of treatment I'll give you, my distinguished guest!"
On the other end of the line in Qing City, after hanging up the phone, Pei Yuan immediately floored the accelerator of Tang Ning's car.
No sooner had he left than several streams of bright red blood began to slowly trickle out of the alleyway on one side…
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