The Woman I Was Flirting With Turned Out To Be A Chaebol Heiress - Chapter 45

“Boss, the situation is not good. The criminal has taken Miss Li as a hostage.”

Mu Yuan’s voice came through the earpiece. The woman in the car looked serious.

“You wait where you are. I’ll go up first. You follow at a distance. That way the movement will be minimal, making it less likely for the criminal to notice us, and we can ensure the safety of the hostage to the greatest extent possible.”

Mu Yuan opened her mouth to say something, but in the end, she only managed to utter:

“I understand.”

The situation on the mountaintop remained tense.

The knife was thrown at Jiang Ji’s feet, and Li Nianyi desperately shook her head.

“Jiang Ji, no!”

“You idiot, what are you waiting for, run!!”

She had only shouted twice before she was gagged again by Dai with clear tape. Only meaningless whimpers could come out of her throat.

“So noisy! Teacher, it’s better if you don’t speak at this time, it will affect her judgment.”

The sharp blade in Dai’s hand was pressed against Li Nianyi’s neck, already drawing a bright red scratch.

“Let me think… The first cut will be on your leg, but sister, don’t kill yourself, alright? Teacher would be heartbroken.”

Saying this, Dai pinched Li Nianyi’s jaw, forcing her to look at Jiang Ji.

Jiang Ji’s eyes were fixed on the knife in Dai’s hand. She gently exhaled and squatted down to pick up the object at her feet.

Li Nianyi’s reaction instantly became more intense, but the restraints on her body prevented her from even breaking free from Dai’s control. Hot liquid mixed with intense emotion poured uncontrollably from her eye sockets.

That warmth dropped without warning onto Dai’s thumb web, and she lightly “tsk-ed” before wiping the tear away on Li Nianyi’s cheek.

Looking at those reddened eyes, Jiang Ji merely smiled at her. She wanted to say that this small injury wouldn’t kill her, she wanted to say that she would take Niannian away safely, she wanted to say…

I’m sorry, it’s all my fault that you have to experience such danger.

Her nasal cavity couldn’t stop aching. Jiang Ji hadn’t thought she would ever have such a moment of terror in her life.

Heaven help us, keep her Niannian safe.

Let both of them be safe.

Harboring this prayer, which was almost extremely devout, Jiang Ji’s hand trembled as she plunged the short knife fiercely into her thigh. The excruciating pain instantly rushed to her brain, almost overwhelming all her reason. Even though she bit her lip hard, the cry of pain still involuntarily escaped her mouth.

Jiang Ji knelt in the white snow. The overwhelming, surging pain from her thigh instantly overshadowed the bloodied lips she had bitten and the crescent shaped wounds she had dug into her palm.

Color finally returned to her pale lips, but Jiang Ji subconsciously forced a smile at Li Nianyi.

See, I’m fine.

So this is what it feels like to have one’s eyes bloodshot with fury? It really breaks the heart.

Li Nianyi looked at the dark red color staining her clothes and felt all the blood in her body freeze.

How does cognitive-behavioral therapy describe this kind of negative emotion?

At some point, her thoughts seemed to be split into two selves, one of which returned to the classroom years ago.

“Li Nianyi, you tell us.”

Then came the harsh scraping sound of the stool on the floor, and the youthful, callow young person tentatively spoke: “I feel like, that feeling is like a plant breaking through the soil from the heart, then fiercely plunging into the blood vessels, drawing all the nutrients from the body. The spreading throbbing pain travels from the collarbone all the way to the throat.”

It really breaks the heart.

She somehow found the strength in her numb, frozen body to break free from Dai’s restraint, but she only stumbled forward one step before the person behind her stepped on her.

Her face was buried in the snow, and even her tears were about to freeze into ice shards.

Li Nianyi exerted all her effort to lift her head, but could only see Jiang Ji’s trembling, blood-stained fingers.

A jarring and ill-timed laugh rang out from above her head.

“Hahahahahahahahahahaha, so interesting. Hey, hey, you guys are being too dramatic. Are you acting out a morning drama? This kind of plot on TV wouldn’t be watched by anyone. Utterly boring.”

She commented, and then, Dai lifted Li Nianyi by the collar, hoisting her up.

“Teacher, I’m really curious what kind of magic you possess. Even someone like Jiang Ji is willing to hurt herself for you…”

“Eh, eh? What kind of look is that? Don’t glare at me. It wasn’t me who stabbed the knife.

Hey, Teacher, let’s chat for a bit While sister can’t disturb us now.”

Dai was maniacally laughing, forcing a person whose mouth was sealed to speak, and then she exaggeratedly patted Li Nianyi’s shoulder “Oh, my memory, I forgot to tear off the tape for Teacher again.”

The tearing sound as skin separated from the clear tape was muffled by the wind, but only Li Nianyi herself could clearly feel the pain. Yet, at this moment, it had become irrelevant compared to the dull ache in her heart.

“Dai, you really admire your mother, don’t you?”

Li Nianyi’s sudden sentence caused Dai’s smile to freeze on her face.

“Perhaps the word ‘admire’ is not accurate enough.”

“Shut up!”

“It’s actually ‘love’, isn’t it?”

“I told you to shut up!”

“Why are you afraid of me saying it?!” Li Nianyi suddenly raised her voice.

“Dai, what are you feeling guilty about?

You love Kiriko. How ridiculous. You, this fake daughter, shamefully fell in love with her fake mother. Is that why you treat Jiang Ji as a hypothetical enemy?” Her tone was full of sarcasm.

At this moment, even Jiang Ji looked at Li Nianyi in shock.

“Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!” Dai’s pupils contracted sharply. She wildly choked Li Nianyi’s neck.

Li Nianyi desperately pulled at the hand that was strangling her, fighting against that crazy, savage brute force.

“Dai, why have you been avoiding my… question… Is it because… you also have to admit… that Kiriko only used you?”

The voice struggled out of her throat, intermittent and barely forming a coherent sound.

“Damn, damn, damn! What on earth are you talking about!!”

Dai’s hand continued to tighten. The oxygen in her windpipe was being stripped away inch by inch. The pain of suffocation was like a poison barb piercing her neck, stinging her to the point of almost losing all ability to think.

Suddenly, a dizzying sensation, and Li Nianyi fell dizzily into the snow. Her body’s instinct made her gasp large mouthfuls of the cold oxygen like a wild beast.

It was Jiang Ji, dragging her broken leg, who had tackled Dai and started wrestling with her. The pain was still too obvious to ignore, but it also made her clearer headed. Punches rained down on Dai’s body, leaving a large area of red marks.

This minor violence was not worth Dai’s concern. Ignoring the scratches on her face, her fingers fiercely dug into Jiang Ji’s leg wound. Laughter and screams mixed and echoed in the mountain.

Li Nianyi wanted to stand up, but her body couldn’t muster any strength no matter what. She twisted her body, struggling to reach the knife Dai had accidentally dropped, inch by inch, and then a little more… Li Nianyi stiffly cut the ropes like an old, rusty machine.

Scrambling and crawling, she pushed Jiang Ji away. The blood-stained knife was pulled out. Without the blockage, the blood flowed out like a valve had been opened.

With trembling hands, Li Nianyi covered Jiang Ji’s wound: “Jiang Ji! Don’t sleep, don’t close your eyes. The police are coming soon. We can leave immediately.”

“Nian…”

Jiang Ji’s lips were getting paler and paler. All the vitality seemed to be draining away with the bright red blood.

A voice calling her seemed to come from afar. Li Nianyi widened her eyes to see, but tears blurred her vision into a phantom.

“Boss Officer, is that you? Save Jiang Ji! Save her!”

Li Nianyi was no longer sure what she was saying, haphazardly conveying all the information. She couldn’t hold on much longer. As her consciousness slackened, her whole body felt faint.

“Hold on, rescue is arriving immediately!”

The woman quickly handcuffed Dai, who was lying motionless nearby.

“Don’t arrest me.” Dai winked at the officer.

“It’s useless. You definitely can’t take me back to the police headquarters.”

Dai nonchalantly flicked her hair with her cuffed hands. She said, “Help me pick up my hat and gloves. I need to be properly dressed.”

Unfortunately, her request was not granted. Mu Yuan and the others who arrived shortly after supported the hostage and the injured, while the boss herself tightly held onto Dai.

Suddenly, Dai stopped, and no matter how much she was pulled, she wouldn’t move.

Something was wrong.

The tension in the woman’s mind, which had just relaxed, suddenly tightened again. The moment she turned around, a gunshot rang out.

“Bang”

Dai still wore a smiling expression, but her body fell straight down.

I told you that you couldn’t take me away… How could Mother allow her daughter to go to jail?

She would only kill me directly.

The bullet entered the back of her head, but Dai felt it wasn’t as painful as she had imagined.

She looked at the sky, which had brightened, thinking with an air of melancholy.

Right, how do you say that Chinese phrase?

I, love you?

I love you.

Li Nianyi woke up a few days later. She had struggled repeatedly in nightmares. She stared listlessly at the empty hospital room, everything was so surreal, as if it had all happened in a dream.

She turned on her phone and saw that many new messages had appeared in the world. The kidnapping case on Mt. Tengu had actually lost its freshness during the few days she was unconscious. It made sense; the power of the Saionji Group was sufficient to market its way to most of the public shifting their attention.

Everyone was too busy. Various kinds of news were just a seasoning for boring life. Everyone had their own things to do. Who had the idle curiosity to continuously follow the outcome of a certain event?

In the end, only the remaining members of the Kurosaki-kai went to jail.

“Niannian!”

A voice broke Li Nianyi’s train of thought.

“Jiang…”

Before she could finish her sentence, she was embraced in a bear hug.

“I’m so glad you’re okay… I’m glad, I’m glad…”

Jiang Ji’s voice was heavily nasal, and her throat was hoarse. No one knew how many times she had cried, even though she was the one who was most severely injured.

“It’s alright, it’s alright, Jiang Ji, everything is fine now. We are both well.”

“Mhm, well.”

But she still cried. She dared not let go of Li Nianyi. She was afraid that this survival after disaster was just her delusion.

“I’m really fine. You should be worried about your own wound. Hurry and let go so I can look.”

“No.”

“But I’m hungry, Sister Jiang.”

Jiang Ji finally smiled.

“Then I’ll call someone to deliver food. I’ll eat with you.”

“Okay!”

Will everything be fine?

It will be.