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Sweet Nothings - Chapter 69

Published at 12th of June 2023 12:16:58 PM


Chapter 69

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Covering Yan Qing was a folded towel, enough to cover half of her face, and the pungent smell penetrated into her nasal cavity in an instant, and she struggled reflexively, the more she moved, the more she was covered until her legs went limp.

Yan Qing still wanted to resist, but she couldn’t lift her arm anymore. The world in front of her looked distorted. She fell uncontrollably, and then was roughly lifted by someone, and was made to stagger away from the living floor.

Her whole body was exhausted, her vision was dim, but Yan Qing’s consciousness was still there.

She stared at the road in a daze, from the large square bricks with complicated patterns indoors to the neatly paved stone slabs outdoors, it soon turned into a gravel road under construction, the grey was soaked in the gradually darkening sky, and there was a kind of fear of suffocation feeling.

Yan Qing couldn’t move, she was terrified, and her eyes were agitated with physical tears.

But at a certain moment when she was trembling and felt uneasy, she suddenly felt a familiar and deep gaze, she didn’t know where it was coming from but it fell on her steadily, as if wrapping her whole body and turning into a protective barrier.

Her memory was blank, so she should have never experienced it before, but when she really came into contact with it, she felt that all her panic had been resolved.

“Don’t be afraid, no matter what happens, I will protect you.”

“He is here”…, the words that lingered in her ears repeatedly all day, suddenly resounded, pulling Yan Qing’s nerves.

It will be all right, no one can hurt her…

He will come!

After a while, the external sounds around her disappeared, returning to dead silence, only the footsteps of the person holding her up the stairs, was pounding on her eardrums, Yan Qing’s breathing was short, and she was thrown limply onto a cold and hard chair, then immediately her hands were tied at the back of the chair, and even her ankles were tied together. A large rough cloth was stuffed into her mouth, pressing against her tongue.

A low voice gradually came into her ears.

“Fuck, she’s a female celebrity and Huo Yunshen’s wife. She’s really different from other women. She feels so damn good in the hand, but the road was too short. It’s not fun to carry her for a short while.”

“You, is it time to talk about this?”

“What’s the matter, you haven’t figured it out yet? She won’t be a wife soon, and Mr. Huo—oh no, Mr. Huo, the position is going to be changed—”

“…”

“Shut up!”

The deep, middle-aged male voice interrupted the whisper, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Yan Qing raised her eyelids desperately, trying to see where she was, but she couldn’t use her strength. Someone was approaching her, and before she could recognize it, a bucket of cold water was poured on her head, making her tremble all over.

The cold water came down one after another, and under the stimulation, Yan Qing’s vision gradually cleared up, and the effect of the stunning medicine quickly disappeared.

The first time she woke up, she immediately looked around. There was dark grey steel and concrete everywhere. It was obvious that she was in a house which was under construction, or even a house that hadn’t even started construction yet. There was an alarm clock-sized piece on the ground closest to her. The electronic dial was facing her, as if it was placed specially for her to see, it did not show the normal time, but a half-hour countdown.

Under her gaze, little by little it turned into twenty-nine minutes, twenty-eight minutes…

Yan Qing suddenly realized something, and raised her head, besides a few bodyguard-like men carrying buckets, there were two well-dressed men, each with a big sandalwood chair, sitting not far from her in a leisurely posture, staring at her with disdain.

Her heart was throbbing continuously, and it was throbbing violently in her throat.

With something stuffed in her mouth, no matter how hard she tried, she could only make a dull “woo-woo” sound.

“Don’t bother.”

In the empty room, a hoarse voice sounded without warning.

Yan Qing felt that something was wrong, and looked at the several people, but no one had opened their mouths to speak.

It wasn’t them, it was—”Yun Qing, I haven’t seen you for three years, have you missed me?”

Yan Qing was completely unfamiliar with this voice, but a creepy fear seemed to melt into her body, which made her resist instinctively. She struggled reflexively, her hands and feet were scorching and stinging from the rope.

“I almost forgot. You have no memory. Today, you are no different from a fool. Huo Yunshen is not tired of turning into a ridiculous bereaved dog for someone who doesn’t remember him at all.”

Yan Qing’s black and white almond eyes were bloodshot, when she realized that the speaker was not there, at least not in this room.

His voice came through the voice equipment, which must have been placed in a corner where she couldn’t see it, or on someone, and he didn’t show up at all.

She was just an ordinary student who came to record a variety show by chance, why did she encounter the current situation!

Wait a minute… That voice just said, Huo Yunshen?

Was Huo Yunshen… the one who woke her up in the morning and squatted beside her bed?

She couldn’t remember before, she just knew her identity, knew that he liked to fight and was easily hurt, and also knew… She liked him, very much.

During most of the time they spent together, she asked him many times what his name was, but he just said, “The nickname you gave me is Wu Yun.”

Wu Yun…

Was this the Huo Yunshen in their mouth! Could it be that he was fighting until they became enemies, and the other party tied her up as a bargaining chip to threaten him!

Yan Qing was drenched all over, biting the foreign object in her mouth, with a serious look on her face.

The man laughed, with frenzied and distorted joy: “Did you see the countdown in front of you? There are still twenty-six minutes left, and when the time reaches zero, this floor will be detonated by explosives. Guess what, Huo Yunshen was tricked by me since childhood. After getting the news, it will take a few minutes for the idiots who are going around in circles to come here?”

The sun had faded, and the sky had already turned dark night.

This area was a construction zone. After the shutdown, the lights outside the building were turned off, and it was as dark as ink. Only a few rooms in the building were constantly lit with emergency lights.

Huo Yunshen held the phone and stood in the dark night. On the screen of the phone was the text message page.

Starting five minutes ago, the text message from the unknown number guided him step by step, like teasing a cornered dying animal, and led him to this building, reminding him in a cheerful tone, be obedient, don’t do stupid things, and don’t bring any sharp weapon with you, once the rules are broken, the kidnapped Qingqing will pay the price.

He tried his best to suppress the boiling blood, pretending to be a cowardly and faltering weakling.

Qingqing was upstairs.

Huo Linchuan was also there.

The only opportunity to cure Qingqing was also there.

Huo Yunshen stood motionless, and then the last text message popped up: “Put your phone on the doorstep and go up to the third floor alone. Don’t try to make small moves unless you want her to die.”

Third floor.

Huo Yunshen scanned upwards, and there were two lit rooms on the third floor.

He moved his fingers, and sent Min Jing an edited message in advance: “Let it go.”

Since the contract incident with Bo Lun, the turmoil in the group had intensified under his urging, and it had already become a dangerous building that was about to collapse at any time. Well, those jumping clowns thought they were in power and were about to kick him off the stage completely. At the moment when they were making waves wantonly, they would immediately receive a gift that they couldn’t swallow.

When he walked into this building, everything would be unknown. Even if there was a slight risk that he could not get out, he had to clean up any troubles that would be harmful to Qingqing in the future.

Silence for this long was enough.

Min Jing’s reply came in seconds: “It has been released, and the supervisory agency will act overnight. Brother Shen, what else can we do.”

Huo Yunshen’s eyes were dark and opaque, and he looked at the third floor again.

He was sure that Huo Linchuan would attack him in front of Qingqing, but before tonight, the way he speculated, no matter whether he was shot or killed, was all aimed at him personally. After his death was achieved, someone would come to rescue Qingqing, Qingqing would not be in any danger.

However, the height of this floor meant that he could be trapped on it and not be able to escape. Did it prove that there was another possibility in Huo Linchuan’s plan.

He also wanted Qingqing’s life.

Even if the chance was small, it could not be ignored.

Huo Yunshen grabbed the phone, lowered his eyes and typed a few words to send, then deleted the record, then dropped the phone as he was told, and walked up the steps leading to the building.

He walked to the second floor and heard the sound of the door on the first floor closing and locking.

Huo Yunshen didn’t stop, and continued to go up, step by step to the fourth floor. At the corner of the stairs, there was a small and strenuous sound piercing into his ears.

Without needing to be told the direction, he followed the sound that touched his heart, and ran straight to the room at the end of the corridor.

The entire building had not yet been handed over. To facilitate the construction, some non-load-bearing walls had not yet been laid, making the room look very empty. Yan Qing was tied to the ground in the middle, with wet hair sticking to her cheeks, unable to restrain herself. She trembled seeing Huo Yunshen’s figure appear, her eyes widened and she shook her head vigorously at him.

Huo Yunshen’s defence line burst into countless cracks at this moment, and the red-hot fire licked his internal organs, ready to be burned to ashes.

He didn’t need to be patient, he strode towards her.

Several shadows scattered around Yan Qing quickly gathered in his field of vision, and the clouds and wind lightly blocked the way.

“Mr. Huo, it is said that you lost your temper a few days ago in the group, and everyone knew about it. Unfortunately, I didn’t see it with my own eyes.” Two middle-aged men, among them Huang Feng in a suit, smiled making his wrinkles twist into two centipedes, “Why, out of control again today?”

Huo Yunshen stopped, narrowed his long and narrow eyes, and finally turned his gaze to them.

The other Jiang Ying, who was wearing glasses, stayed in the safety circle surrounded by bodyguards with his hands folded around his chest, and sneered coldly: “You have been a lunatic since you were a child. If the old man had killed you earlier, how would you have caused all the troubles later? He won’t have been killed by you allowing a guy who is crazy about women to take the power.”

Both of them were major shareholders who held the right to speak in the board of directors, and they had a deep relationship with the Huo family. Since Huo Yunshen became the master, they had bowed down and bent their knees. The people behind Huo Linchuan were connected to them.

Huang Feng and Jiang Ying thought that Huo Yunshen would never be prepared, and they would definitely see his surprised and resentful expression.

For more than two years, they endured humiliation under his coercion, just waiting for this moment to give him a fatal blow.

Huo Yunshen only said two words: “Get out of here.”

His voice was the same as before, echoing in the huge room.

Huang Feng frowned, his face changed slightly, and he sneered, “Huo Yunshen, who are you pretending to be calm for? For this woman, you haven’t made any progress from the past to today. You want to save her? I’ll tell you how.”

He told Jiang Ying glancing at each other, he moved out of the way to Yan Qing in the middle, so that the two could see each other.

Huo Yunshen didn’t blink, his pupils dancing with a sharp dark light.

Yan Qing shook her head wildly at him, and tried her best to point out to him the countdown timer on the ground with his back facing him, trying to get his attention and let him go quickly.

The centipede at the end of Huang Feng’s eyes squirmed, and he deliberately slowed down his speech, enjoying the process of abuse: “Mr. Huo, I’ve done the math for you. You still need ten steps to walk in front of her. Why don’t you just break off a finger, I’ll let you go further, how about it?”

“When all ten fingers are broken, you can touch her, which is a good deal.”

Huo Yunshen suddenly smiled: “Okay.”

Yan Qing froze, struggling violently.

Huo Yunshen stared deeply into her eyes, untied his coat with one hand and threw it into the distance, leaving a plain white shirt inside. He rolled up his sleeves, stroked his left index finger, and suddenly pushed back.

He didn’t hesitate at all, it didn’t take more than three seconds before and after, the abnormal sound of bones was extremely ear-piercing, even though it was the scene that Huang Feng and Jiang Ying were looking forward to, they were still so scared that they held their breath, and couldn’t help but approach him to see clearly.

Huo Yunshen also took a step forward.

The hatchback moved, and the distance was drawn closer in the blink of an eye. When Huang Feng and Huo Yunshen were only two steps away, Huo Yunshen stretched out his just injured left hand expressionlessly, and grabbed Huang Feng’s collar with his steel-like five fingers. With a pull, he was dragged to the front and slammed into the rough concrete floor.

Huang Feng was over fifty, and no matter how well maintained he was, he couldn’t compare with Huo Yunshen. Besides, in his heart, Huo Yunshen today was just a mentally broken piece of trash who was at the mercy of others.

Unprepared, he screamed and fell heavily.

Jiang Ying let out an exclamation, and hid behind the bodyguard in disbelief. A group of six bodyguards, all of them strong, rushed forward.

Huo Yunshen loosened his neckline, the corners of his mouth curled up, and the unruliness and violence that grew deep in his bones spread across his brows.

Shen Leng, who had been in the top position for a long time, had given him a disguise, and having Qingqing also made him seem peaceful and gentle.

It had been normal for too long, it seemed that someone had forgotten that the madness that was in his blood and would burn to death for her forever.

Huo Yunshen pulled the heavy wooden chair that Huang Feng had been sitting on, and threw it down with his hands. The chair was torn apart amidst the loud noise. He randomly picked up a piece of wood with a sharp fracture, and swept across the chests of the two bodyguards.

Yan Qing froze, staring at him blankly, with water in her eyes.

Huo Yunshen said in a low voice: “I’m sorry, I’m going to do something bad in front of you. Close your eyes and don’t look.”

After the words fell, he stepped forward, and with just a piece of wood, the seven people, including Jiang Ying, were completely beaten out of control. Until there was no way to fight back.

The mobile phone rang suddenly in the room, and Jiang Ying, who was hiding behind, seemed to wake up, saw that the call was his own, and hurriedly answered it, just as he was about to call for help, the other party’s voice was raised and pierced through the receiver: “Mr. Jiang has an accident! The supervisory agency got the evidence, and forced you to accept the investigation on the grounds that you maliciously leaked commercial secrets and sold the price negotiated between the Huo Group and Bo Lun to the opponent—”

Jiang Ying’s face turned pale.

The tone of the voice continued: “Also, Mr. Huo missed Bo Lun on purpose at all. The Huo family has secretly reached a cooperation with Sawyer. Sawyer is the largest company in the United States in that field, and even Bo Lun can’t compare! Huo Corporation’s market in the United States is not only open, but also more successful than one could imagine—”

The phone fell to the ground, and with a “bang”, the screen shattered and there was no sound.

Jiang Ying stared at Huo Yunshen in disbelief.

He wore straight trousers, a white shirt with a thin gleam, and a dignified face, which was something you could only wish for in those high-class occasions, but at this moment, his dark eyelashes were stained with other people’s blood, and there was a cold arc on his lips, the pupils of his eyes was ruthless scarlet, just like before, he was still that crazy and bloody boy who was abandoned outside and hated and rejected by everyone.

Yan Qing couldn’t tell why she was crying, but her tears rolled down uncontrollably, Huo Yunshen’s figure was a blur, making her heart beat.

Huo Yunshen kicked the last person down, staring indifferently at the mess on the ground.

He didn’t go to Yan Qing’s side right away, he just stood there, threw the stick away, and said lightly, “Come out.”

Almost at the same time, there was the sound of the wheelchair turning and rolling over gravel behind him.





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