kingnovel Chapter 581 - 569: Sending You a Woman!
Chapter 581 - 569: Sending You a Woman!
At the same time, in a cheap rental house in an urban village...
BEEP BEEP BEEP—!
BEEP BEEP BEEP—!
You have a new email!
The alert suddenly blared from an open laptop. The man sitting in the swivel chair immediately stopped spinning, quickly reaching for the mouse and clicking on the email.
A photo of a young woman with an innocent and beautiful face popped up. Below the photo was a single line of text: "Jinling University. Lie in wait. Burn after reading."
Hmph. Isn’t this just a fucking kidnapping? Why does Young Master Bao have to be so cautious and cryptic about it? And "lie in wait"? Seriously?
The man frowned at the email. He couldn’t figure out what these rich young masters were thinking. However, he knew that for Young Master Bao to be this cautious, the target must be no ordinary person. Then again, for people like them, ordinary or not, it was all the same.
He picked up a cigarette from the desk, lit it, and took a deep drag, pulling the thick smoke into his lungs. Then, he quickly printed the photo from the email, promptly deleted the message, and wiped all traces of it.
As the photo whirred out of the printer, the man stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray. He swiftly grabbed the picture, stood up, and walked into the living room.
"We’ve got a job!" he shouted with a laugh.
RUSTLE—!
At his shout, three men scrambled up from the living room sofa in unison. "Brother Fei, what’s the job?"
"It’s a simple one," the man called Brother Fei said, handing out copies of the photo. "We’re just grabbing someone. A student from Jinling University. This job is a bit sensitive, so we can’t use our usual methods. Xiao Hei, go prepare some food right away—something simple will do. We don’t know when the target will leave the school, so we can only lie in wait outside. Chang Mao, go get a car with a fake license plate—an ordinary seven-seater will be fine. Remember, nothing too conspicuous! We don’t want to arouse suspicion. Er Zi, same as always. Get the hoods, restraints, and duct tape ready."
"Yes, Brother Fei!" the three men replied energetically.
They quickly opened the door of the rental house and left.
And so, the prelude to Jiang Yino’s kidnapping began. The opening fanfare for Chen Tiansheng’s insane plan had sounded.
「Nightfall.」
An inconspicuous seven-seater Jianghuai van pulled out of the urban village, its headlights cutting through the dim, sparse streetlights. On the dashboard, the phone’s navigation was set for Jinling University.
As the Jianghuai made its way toward the university at a steady fifty or sixty kilometers per hour, Chen Tiansheng, dressed all in white, appeared unnoticed inside the Crape Myrtle community, a residential area renowned for having the tightest security in all of Jinling.
This was where Chang Yuanyi lived.
Wearing a relaxed smile, Chen Tiansheng strolled leisurely toward the entrance of Building C, looking for all the world like he was just out for a walk as patrolling security guards glanced his way. He took a blue card from his pocket and swiped it at the entrance scanner.
BEEP! The door unlocked.
He didn’t rush in. Instead, he popped a few pieces of gum into his mouth and started chewing before leisurely pushing the door open and stepping inside. He took out the blue card again and swiped it at the elevator’s card reader. Chewing his gum with a sly smile, Chen Tiansheng waited for the elevator to arrive.
DING—!
The elevator doors slid open. Tilting his head up slightly toward the security camera, Chen Tiansheng gave a nonchalant wink and then strolled inside.
On the twenty-eighth floor, inside a luxury apartment of over two hundred square meters, Chang Yuanyi sat on the sofa in a bathrobe with his legs crossed. He held a stemmed wine glass, leisurely savoring a sip of red wine. On the eighty-inch TV in front of him, the nationwide hit *Wolf Warrior 2* was playing.
"Darling, I’m all clean!"
Just then, a tall, beautiful woman wearing a thin silk nightgown emerged from the bathroom. She wrapped her arms around Chang Yuanyi from behind and happily rested her chin on his shoulder.
"Want some?" Chang Yuanyi smiled slightly, offering her the wine glass.
But before the woman could answer...
CLICK!
An extremely crisp, sharp sound echoed from the front door.
WHOOSH—!
Suddenly, a shudder ran through Chang Yuanyi’s entire body. In that instant, his pupils dilated uncontrollably.
"Darling, what’s wrong? What was that noise?" the woman, who had clearly heard it too, asked in alarm.
Before the terrified Chang Yuanyi could reply, the front door closed with a SLAM!
"Tsk, tsk. Young Master Chang, you certainly live a blessed life," a mocking voice said.
Following the sound of the door closing, Chen Tiansheng appeared in Chang Yuanyi’s line of sight, a playful smirk on his face.
"Who are you? How the fuck did you get in?" Chang Yuanyi shouted, a horrifying sensation washing over him as his heart pounded violently in his chest. Having navigated both the legal and criminal worlds of Jinling for so many years, he knew that an intruder arriving like this was a catastrophe, not a blessing. A major catastrophe.
"Young Master Chang, does it really matter who I am?" Chen Tiansheng said, leisurely tormenting him with his mocking tone. "As for how I got in, I just walked in. Did you think I could fly or transform?"
He slowly walked over to the coffee table in front of Chang Yuanyi, picked up the decanter, and, without a care in the world, tilted his head back and chugged the red wine.
"Burp!"
Setting down the now-empty decanter, Chen Tiansheng let out a habitual burp. "’82 Lafite. A genuine bottle. You weren’t ripped off. Rare, very rare!"