NOVPUB"Phone." Yue Ran held out a hand to the man.
"Phone... phone?" The man stared at her blankly before his eyes lit up with understanding. "Right, phone."
He searched through his pockets before handing it over to Yue Ran with both hands, followed by a respectful bow.
Yue Ran ignored the man's actions, only focusing on her appearance on the phone screen.
The girl on the screen looked poor and pitiful. Her eyes were wide from crying, her dress was ragged and in tatters, her hair was untidy, her white porcelain skin was tainted with dust, and her slim figure was also covered in blood.
Even with all this, she still looked incredibly beautiful, as if an innocent angel had fallen from the heavens and been stained with mortal dust.
It was heartbreaking to see such a tragic sight, yet such a feast for the eyes.
She nodded to herself, satisfied with what she had seen.
"Come and take pictures." Yue Ran handed the phone back to the man.
After directing the man to take pictures of her, albeit with much effort since the man kept on trembling so pathetically all throughout, Yue Ran herself quickly sent those photos to Rui Qin.
Seeing the extraordinary beauty in the picture, Rui Qin pulled on her hair and screamed dissatisfiedly.
"How could Yue Ran still look so… so… pretty after all this?"
She gritted her teeth at the word "pretty," which she had forcefully uttered out of her mouth.
After another round of shouting, Rui Qin felt better, but she was still dissatisfied, so she made another request to those kidnappers.
She sent: "Destroy her face for me, and I'll add another million to the total payment!"
Yue Ran's eyes sharpened at the text message she received.
Among all things, she values her appearance the most. And if someone dares to harm her beautiful face...
Just say that no one could get a good ending after attempting so.
Yue Ran threw the phone back to the man and ignored Rui Qin's last message. She didn't plan to pay attention to the female protagonist any longer.
Those chat records and pictures on Rui Qin's phone would be discovered by Jin Yao in the end.
There was no longer a need for her to make a move; she just had to wait for her rescue.
The rescue of a villainous female supporting character is always late, if they have one at all. Damage will always be done long before such rescues. 𝚗𝚘v𝚙𝚞b.𝚌𝚘m
How unfair.
Female protagonists will always have the world consciousness' preference. No irreversible damage would be done to them. Even if there were, all of it could be fixed with help from outside.
Hope would always be present for them, unlike the rest.
Yue Ran dragged the man to the van outside the abandoned warehouse and circled herself to sit beside the driver's seat.
The man got the hint and quickly sat himself in the driver's seat, ready to follow through on Yue Ran's every command.
"Drive and sell me."
The man's already trembling figure began to quake even more.
"U-u-understood."
Although he had no idea just what Yue Ran was thinking, he also did not dare to ask. Therefore, all he could do was follow the orders given to a T.
Nothing could go wrong with this.
But he didn't know that the shadows were following behind him, ready to pounce when Yue Ran didn't need him any longer.
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"Why don't you speak?" Jin Yao shouted. "Where did you take her?"
Jin Yao had used his superb hacking skills to find out about Yue Ran's urgent news.
Some might call it stalking, but he couldn't care less as long as he could see her and be aware of her every move, both from a distance and up close.
Hence, he had found out that Rui Qin was the perpetrator of Yue Ran's kidnapping, but his current and utmost priority was to find Yue Ran and ensure her safety.
With much time wasted, he was only painstakingly able to find one of the six kidnappers. But the man's spirit was already very abnormal when Jin Yao found him, and the man kept on muttering, "It's not me, it's not me, please don't look for me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's not me..."
"Who… who are you talking about?"
"Yue Ran, where did you take Yue Ran to?"
Yue Ran?
Hearing this name, the man felt the urge to cry out, then kneel down to apologize to her and beg for mercy.
He did kneel down, but he couldn't utter Yue Ran's name out loud at all!
It was as if something was restricting him from doing so!
The man widened his eyes in astonishment. His not-so-intelligent brain suddenly, by some miracle, figured things out!
His current phenomenon was most likely caused by Yue Ran, who didn't want him to tell just what kinds of powers she had used on them, so he can't actually speak anything out now. Moreover, he truly had no idea just where Yue Ran could be at the present moment.
During that night, he had luckily escaped from the swarming ghosts, leaving behind his partners in crime. But his condition didn't change as those wronged souls stuck to him like glue and kept haunting his days from morning to night, 24/7.
It was already a good thing that he hasn't yet gone completely crazy.
The current situation doesn't allow the man to talk about Yue Ran at all, and Jin Yao wouldn't let such a kidnapper go, for this man had already harmed Yue Ran!
But the man suddenly remembered that he and the other five men were originally going to sell Yue Ran to the Fei Jia village in the mountains—so Yue Ran must be there now, right?
He wasn't exactly sure, but that was his best bet and the only thing he could confess at the moment.
"I-I'll confess! I know where Ms. Yue is!" The man shouted.
"Well, why don't you speak?" Jin Yao said impatiently, his brows furrowed in frustration.
"Ms. Yue is in B City, Fei Jia Village!" The man said, "Please let me go; I really don't know anything else!"
