Chapter 9 The Kidnapping Reversal
When I woke up again I was bound to a chair and couldn't move an inch.
The blindfold was yanked off roughly. Before me was an old abandoned warehouse. The creaky door groaned. The kidnapper was none other than Shen Huaizhi.
His eyes were sunken in. His lips were dry and deathly pale. His face looked haggard and his body exhausted.
He looked like the joint attack from the Gu and Song families on the Shen family had left him with nothing.
"Shen Huaizhi this is kidnapping. You'll end up in prison!" I struggled trying to appeal to whatever conscience he had left.
"What if I go to prison?" He laughed sinisterly. He waved a dagger across my face. "At least I'll have two lives with me. I won't be lonely on the way to hell."
"Right A Yue?"
I stared at the dagger mere centimeters away and swallowed hard. "What do you want?"
"What do I want? Doesn't A Yue know perfectly well?" Shen Huaizhi's eyes darted. His face was contorted.
"No matter what you want as long as the Song family can provide it we will." My voice was firm. "After all I'm the only daughter of the Song family. You can believe that."
He laughed loudly staring at me fixedly. "Then I want the Gu family. Can you give it to me?"
My face froze. "I have no connection to the Gu family. How could I give it to me?"
He clapped his hands. The smile on his face deepened but his gaze was cold. "You're Gu Yehan's woman. How could you have no connection to the Gu family?"
"Besides you have Gu Yehan's child in your belly."
"So what? He can't give up the entire Gu family just for me."
I believed Gu Yehan loved me but the Gu family wasn't his alone to decide. This wasn't something one person could settle.
"But he just agreed."
Shen Huaizhi spoke in a mocking tone.
My body stiffened. Emotions swirled in my heart.
I looked at Shen Huaizhi and eyed the dagger's position.
It looked like Shen Huaizhi was lost in his dream of claiming the Gu family.
I didn't hesitate any longer. I kicked at him with my legs and the chair.
He was startled and failed to react in time.
The dagger spun through the air. I seized the moment and pressed the rope between my wrists against the blade.
The rope snapped. I quickly grabbed the dagger and cut the rest of the ropes on my body.
He tried to grab it but I wasn't one to be trifled with.
I had trained in taekwondo for several years. Shen Huaizhi was no match for me.
The next instant the dagger pressed firmly against his neck.
I listened to the noises outside the warehouse. The police were probably arriving soon.
The dagger sliced cleanly through Shen Huaizhi's hand tendons.
He would only be able to live as a cripple in the days that followed.
The warehouse door burst open. Everyone stared in shock especially Gu Yehan.
Shen Huaizhi lay on the ground like a pile of mud. I held the dagger casually.
Seeing Gu Yehan I ran obediently to his side still gripping the dagger.
The police watched me with alarm and admiration in their eyes.
Shen Huaizhi was arrested.