IHWL – Chapter 62.1

Chapter 62: Missing ( First)

  Xiao Xia’s cries awakened Su Jishi.

    She felt dizzy, a typical symptom of regaining consciousness after getting drugged. Fortunately, she had ‘experienced’ it before, so she wasn’t too panicked this time.

    She was even in the mood of poking fun at herself, thinking that since she entered the entertainment industry, she had actually become a birdbrained heroine who was kidnapped at every turn.

    She opened her eyes and checked the state of her body first —— Well, her arms and legs were intact; her five senses were all there. She had been worried that Mu Minde would take advantage of her unconsciousness to chop her up and sink her in the sea. However, it seemed that the old fellow wasn’t that bold.

    She was leaning with her upper body in Xiao Xia’s arms. Her little assistant’s eyes had turned red from crying, and she couldn’t stop trembling all over. Seeing her wake up, Xiao Xia was so excited that she even burped loudly.

    “Okay, okay, stop crying.” Su Jishi reluctantly braced her sore and limp arms and legs and stood up with her help.

    She looked around and unexpectedly found that they were actually deep in a deep mountain.

    There was silence all around. Dark clouds covered the moon, and only an extremely indistinct ray of moonlight fell down, barely illuminating the environment around the wooded mountain.

    “What happened? Where are we?” She frowned, but did not show any panic.

    Xiao Xia hurriedly poured out everything she knew in stammers.

    It turned out that the two bodyguards carried Su Jishi into another van hidden in the basement after she fainted. Xiao Xia, who was eager to protect her master, wanted to fight but couldn’t, wanted to run but couldn’t, was also threatened and pushed into the van together.

    However, they didn’t stun Xiao Xia. They only covered her mouth, blindfolded her, and tied her hands behind her back. They also took away all their electronic devices and their watches. Even their necklaces weren’t spared. Perhaps they were afraid that they were carrying positioning devices.

    Then, that Elder Mu, who was laden with arrogance from head to toe, threw a command: “——Throw her far away. Don’t let me see her again.”

    At his command, the driver and bodyguards immediately boarded the van and quickly drove away.

    Xiao Xia held back her tears in the darkness. She desperately told herself to calm down and try to memorize the driving route. But she had no professional training. She couldn’t figure out how long they had been driving on the road, and the east and west turns made her dizzy.

    All she knew was that the van got out of the TV station and soon drove on the highway (I heard the sound of the ETC toll booth!”) After speeding for a long time, they drove off the highway and into bumpy roads instead.

    Next, the road became a dirt road, and then dirt road into no road. It wasn’t until Xiao Xia’s butt seemed fragmented into eight pieces did the van finally stop.

    The bodyguard tossed Xiao Xia and Su Jishi out of the car, untied their arms and legs, and then left without saying a word.

    It was dark everywhere around, as the wilderness was uninhabited. The temperature in the mountains was far below zero, and Xiao Xia’s hands and feet gradually went numb from the cold, but her brain was boiling. She didn’t know where her strength came from, but she actually pounced up and wrapped herself around the bodyguard, shouting, “You’re leaving us here. Do you want us to die here?!!”

    The bodyguard repeated Mu Minde’s words word for word: “Since Miss Su was able to escape in one piece during the volcanic erupted, this change of environment will be as easy as a field trip for her, isn’t it?”

    Mu Minde felt that he was really ‘considerate toward women’.

    See, he did not strip her naked and took sexy photos of her, nor threw acid to disfigure her. Instead, he just dumped her into the middle of nowhere to freeze and to give her an unforgettable lesson. Wasn’t this ‘civilized’ enough?

    Of course, if she didn’t learn this time, then he wouldn’t let her off easily next time.

    ……

    After the bodyguards left, only two people were left in the wilderness, Xiao Xia and Su Jishi. They did not have any equipment on them, except two thin down jackets to ensure they would not freeze to death.

    Under Xiao Xia’s persistent calls, Su Jishi finally opened her eyes.

    Xiao Xia had been scared all night. She bit her lip and buried herself in Su Jishi’s chest, as if she had finally found her backbone. She sobbed so hard she could hardly catch her breath.

    Su Jishi rubbed the top of her head and whispered soothingly, “It’s okay. We disappeared for so long, so the program team will definitely find out. They will surely notify Fang Xie, and then call the police. Once they monitor the surveillance, the police will find us tomorrow. If not, I was still talking to Mu Xiulun before everything happened. He will definitely notice that something is wrong.”

    Although she said so, she was aware deep inside that this matter was definitely not so easy to solve. EXP group was among the top ten biggest taxpayers in China. Since Mu Minde chose to take action at the TV station, he must have something to rely on. He needn’t worry about getting caught.

    As for counting on Mu Xiulun —— Mu Minde was his father. Even if their father-son relationship was bad, would Mu Xiulun turn against his father for her?

    …Su Jishi subconsciously avoided the issue and skipped dwelling deeper into it.

    Hearing Su Jishi mention Mu Xiulun, Xiao Xia became angrier. She had a very good impression of Mu Xiulun, and even sincerely hoped that he could enter the marriage hall with Su Jin. However, this heartstopping and dangerous operation of Elder Mu today had plunged Mu Xiulun’s score in Xiao Xia’s heart to the bottom.

    They said never marry a phoenix man((Phoenix man – a guy who grew up in the countryside and gained a foothold in the city through hard work/ a man who earned his wealth and social status through his own diligence and efforts. To know more of it’s usage here.)), but who would have thought that a magnificent man like Mu Xiulun would also have a family member who would drag his feet?

    The more Xiao Xia thought, the angrier she became. She wiped her eyes, and began to perform vividly ‘how a CP fan returns to the right home after getting purified’. She noted Mu Xiulun’s ten sins; even a certain day in a certain month in a certain year when he took Su Jin for a drive without closing the windows was taken as evidence of his negligence.

    Finally, Xiao Xia concluded, “Ptooey! When have you ever pestered President Mu? It’s obviously President Mu’s eyes that are glued on you and can’t tear them off every time!”

    Su Jishi: “…”

    Su Jishi wasn’t in the mood to discuss this topic at all: “If you speak louder, you’ll attract wolves.”