After Running Away From Her Wedding, The Tsundere Young Lady Went Crazy - Chapter 16

“She is my wife.”

“Oh…” Ji Songshu lowered her head in disappointment.

Shang Keyu did not wait for her, stepping forward on her own path while Ji Songshu trotted to keep up.

As they continued forward, they soon discovered a large crowd gathered in one spot; there seemed to be some kind of performance happening.

Squeezing into the crowd, Ji Songshu finally saw the situation: several people wearing masks stood beside silver-edged boxes, and the person at the very front was conjuring white pigeons from a hat.

It was a street magic performance.

“Shall we watch?” Ji Songshu whispered into Shang Keyu’s ear.

Shang Keyu nodded.

“For our next performance, we need a lucky spectator!” the magician announced loudly.

Countless hands shot up from the crowd.

Behind Ji Songshu, there was a child standing on tiptoe with a hand held high. The child momentarily lost balance and tumbled forward, crashing into Ji Songshu. She was lunged forward by the force, passing through layers of people until she stood right in front of the magician.

She looked back anxiously; she and Shang Keyu were already separated by two or three layers of people, and there was no way to squeeze back.

“This lady wearing the sapphire ring, please come up on stage!”

“Me?” Ji Songshu pointed at herself.

The magician cracked a smile. “That’s right, it’s you. Beautiful lady, please step onto the stage.”

Ji Songshu looked toward Shang Keyu from a distance. The latter gave her a “go ahead” look, and Ji Songshu suddenly felt like a Pokémon being tossed out of a Poké Ball.

And so, she slowly and reluctantly took the stage.

The magician welcomed her with a smile. “Next, the magic trick we are going to perform is—”

“The Living Person Vanishing Act!”

Shang Keyu crossed her arms and lazily lifted her eyelids. She wanted to see what kind of tricks Ye Qingyu was up to.

“Miss, please stand inside the box.”

Ji Songshu stood inside blankly, looking like an exquisite doll packed in a crate.

The magician closed the door of the box, locked it, and pulled the curtain shut. While dancing and gesticulating wildly, he chanted a long, tedious incantation.

When the curtain was drawn back again, the box was shockingly empty.

A burst of cheers and applause erupted from the audience. Shang Keyu watched calmly.

The curtain was closed once more. The magician’s hands fluttered in the air like butterflies, followed by an even more tedious incantation.

Shang Keyu was certain this magician was repeatedly chanting a meaningless spell.

The skill level was too poor; it was almost sleep-inducing… wait, no!

A bad premonition struck her.

“Excuse me, let me through, let me through.” She forcefully pushed through the crowd, physically carving a path to rush onto the stage. Before anyone could react, she yanked the curtain open.

It was empty behind the curtain.

Ji Songshu had disappeared along with the box!

She snatched the mask off the magician’s face, and instantly, the color drained from her own face.

It was a face she had never seen before—this person was not Ye Qingyu!

She grabbed the person by the collar, her face full of fury, flames burning in her eyes. The words hissed through her teeth: “Who are you? Where did you take her?”

The audience gasped, and they quickly scattered like birds and beasts.

“Shang Keyu!”

A person shouted from the distance while running toward her. Looking closely, it was a disheveled, sweat-drenched Ye Qingyu.

“What on earth is going on? Where did you come from?” Shang Keyu asked urgently.

Ye Qingyu scratched her head and said somewhat sheepishly, “I didn’t have a business license, so I was just taken away by the city management.”

She looked at Shang Keyu and then at the person Shang Keyu was holding by the collar, asking blankly, “Who is this? Why are they cosplaying as me, and why are you grabbing their collar?”

Shang Keyu didn’t have time to explain the situation to her and simply said, “Call the police immediately. Pei Jiyue was taken away by several people dressed as magicians. This is a deliberate kidnapping!”

“What?” Ye Qingyu’s eyes widened. She hadn’t expected someone to be even more ruthless than her.

No matter how much she disliked Pei Jiyue, she wouldn’t go as far as wanting to kidnap her. She hurriedly pulled out her phone to dial 110, explaining incoherently into the receiver.

“Where did you take her? Who instructed you? What is the purpose?” Shang Keyu pressed the person in front of her relentlessly.

Faced with Shang Keyu’s interrogation, the mysterious person being held refused to say a single word. Instead, they bit their tongue and fainted.

She threw the person aside indignantly, feeling her blood rushing to her head.

Such a provocation! To dare move against the person by her side right under her nose!

She clenched her fists so hard her nails dug deep into her palms.

At that moment, Ye Qingyu shouted, “I remember now!”

“When I was coming over just now, I saw several people carrying a large box toward the exit.”

“Which direction?”

Ye Qingyu pointed south.

“I’ll go after them first. You stay here and wait for the police.”

Shang Keyu immediately sprinted away.

There was only one parking lot on the south side of the lakeside park. If the other party wanted to transport a person, they would inevitably have to use a vehicle.

The other party was carrying a box the weight of a person while she had no burden. Calculating the time, she should still make it!

She rushed to the parking lot just in time to see a group of people loading the box into the trunk of a van and driving away.

Shang Keyu jumped into her car and slammed the accelerator to the floor.

The speedometer needle instantly swung to the far right. The twelve-cylinder engine of the sports car accelerated in a flash, reaching maximum power. The tires roared like a tiger gripping the earth as the car lunged forward.

She didn’t care anymore. The car in front had just passed the gate, and before the barrier could lower, she squeezed through. She locked onto the car ahead, pursuing it relentlessly. The glass vibrated due to the high speed, and her heart remained in a state of constant turmoil.

An uncontrollable rage surged from the bottom of her heart. She clearly remembered that when the magician called for Ji Songshu to take the stage, he said—

“The lady wearing the sapphire ring.”

At that time, the girl hadn’t raised her hand, had she?

In an instant, her thoughts became clear.

Inside the swaying van, Ji Songshu curled her body up, burying her head in her knees. She was tied securely with three coils of thick hemp rope.

Her head was groggy; she had been struck on the back of the neck, and it was still throbbing with pain.

In front of her, the masked culprit in black sat there and said, “The person who hired me told me to bring you a few words.”

“Don’t touch things that don’t belong to you.”

“This is all your own doing.”

Ji Songshu thought hard. As for someone whose things she had taken, she could only think of one—Pei Jiyue.

But, was she really that bold? Did she hate her enough to want her dead?

Suddenly, there was a jolt, and Ji Songshu’s head hit the front seat. She vaguely heard a “clack,” like the sound of a phone falling.

They seemed to be passing through a tree-lined avenue; the light inside the car flickered between brightness and shadow.

Ji Songshu struggled to open her eyes, her gaze searching. Suddenly, something flashed in her peripheral vision. She discovered her phone had fallen by the culprit’s feet, its screen dark.

After closing her eyes to think for a moment, she mustered the courage to speak: “Who sent you? Is it Little Ai? Little Ai hates me the most.”

“I will not reveal any information about the employer,” the culprit said.

It didn’t matter. Ji Songshu saw that the phone’s voice assistant had been activated.

Fortunately, she usually kept her phone on silent, so it was noiseless now.

“Can we talk?” she continued.

“Do you know who the person standing next to me was just now?”

“That is the daughter of the wealthiest family in Fengyuan City. She is my wife. However much money you want, she can give it to you. Let’s talk. You see, I can’t escape now, and I can’t call the police. Can you help me?”

The call-dialing interface appeared on the phone screen.

The culprit, however, had no patience to answer her words and directly stuffed a large rag into her mouth to gag her.

Ji Songshu could only make muffled “woo-woo” sounds.

At this time, the culprit took a call. The content was very brief and played on speakerphone; Ji Songshu heard it too. They were going to “kill the hostage.”

Her eyes widened, and a roar exploded in her brain.

“Consider it your bad luck. Let your wife burn the money for you in the afterlife.” Leaving these words behind, the culprit jumped out of the car window.

There was no one in the driver’s seat, but the car was still moving forward.

Ji Songshu looked at the windshield in horror. Ahead was the boundless surface of the lake; the car was charging straight toward the water!

Shang Keyu followed the van all the way. Seeing the car sliding toward the lake with its speed increasing, she made a decision in a split second.

She slammed the accelerator, drifted to overtake the van, pulled ahead by a distance, and then veered back. She faced the van head-on with her own car and accelerated violently!

The two cars collided with a massive impact!

The van stopped. Half of its front was crushed into the hood of the sports car. The tire marks on the ground were deep and terrifying.

Shang Keyu lifted her head from the airbag, brushed her messy hair back, and revealed a somewhat frenzied smile.

Her cars were all flown in from Italy and had undergone bulletproof and crash-resistant modifications; they could withstand such an impact.

But what about the van? What about Ji Songshu inside the van?

Her heart constricted, making it almost impossible to breathe. She had finally found her.

She jumped out of the car, ran to the side of the van, and opened the door, terrified of seeing a bloody mess.

The front of the car was completely flattened.

Inside the carriage, Ji Songshu was curled up amidst a pile of glass shards. She lifted her face, revealing a pair of tearful, terror-stricken eyes.

Shang Keyu leaned down and gently pulled the girl into her arms. While helping her untie the ropes, she soothed her in a tone used for a baby: “It’s okay, it’s over now.”

Just as the ropes were untied, Ji Songshu suddenly pushed her away. In the next second, a metal baseball bat swung through the space where they had just been.

Shang Keyu was enraged. She lashed out with a kick at the attacker, who fell to the ground as the bat landed with a clang.

“Freeze! Don’t move!”

Police cars with interlacing red and blue lights arrived. The officers rushed in, handcuffed the group, and the scene was brought under control.

Ji Songshu huddled in Shang Keyu’s arms. Her face was as pale as paper, and she was still trembling.

“Are you hurt anywhere?” Shang Keyu asked anxiously.

Ji Songshu shook her head. “I’m okay. Actually, I managed to dodge that hit.”

“It was my oversight. Let me take you to the hospital for a check-up.”

Ji Songshu held her back, her tone almost pleading: “I don’t want to go to the hospital.”

She forced a smile and said, “Don’t look at me like this. I’ve actually been in fights before.”

“Did you win?” Shang Keyu asked.

Ji Songshu announced with a face full of pride: “I lost the first time, so I won the second time.”

The young miss couldn’t help but smile. Looking at the weak and pale girl before her, the accusations Ye Qingyu had made against this person suddenly flashed in her mind.

Bullying classmates?

It was merely an eye for an eye.

“Then I’ll send you home first. Go back and get some good rest. If anything happens, just find me.”

Ji Songshu instinctively wanted to refuse. Pei Jiyue would definitely be home at this hour, and it wouldn’t be good if Shang Keyu ran into her. After thinking it over, she said:

“I’m a little scared. Can I go to your house?”

Shang Keyu could not refuse.

“Of course you can,” she said, gently stroking the girl’s face and wiping away a tear from her cheek. “You can stay as long as you like.”