Chu Ningwu’s lashes were wet. She had cried herself into a mess, her soft lips trembling, covered in bite marks she had made herself.
That filthy hand was just about to land on her shoulder.
Suddenly.
The glass door shattered.
Chu Ningwu stared blankly as three burly men in bodyguard uniforms walked in. One of them subdued both lecherous men at once, grabbing their arms like they were chickens and restraining them with one hand each.
“Bro, hey bro, grandpa, what did we do wrong, we didn’t offend anyone…”
“You did.”
“Huh? This humble one failed to recognize greatness, who exactly did we offend…”
“You offended someone who belongs to our boss.”
The black clad bodyguard spoke little. He had no intention of revealing his boss’s identity. Without another word, he knocked both men unconscious.
The silver emblem on his shoulder flashed. The distinctive letter H gleamed coldly.
Chu Ningwu quickly recognized it. They were Huo Zhi Chuan’s men.
…She had actually been saved by the male lead’s people.
Her breathing stalled. The color that had just returned to her face drained away again.
Her heart was in chaos, completely unable to take it.
She had just escaped danger, only to fall into the male lead’s hands again.
Soon, the sound of police sirens rang out at the entrance.
The clerk who had run away had called the police. They arrived quickly, though still not as fast as the highly paid bodyguards of the Huo Family.
Chu Ningwu remembered from the novel that they were all former special forces soldiers, their combat ability matching their high salaries.
The bodyguard holding the men cooperated with the police and stuffed the two offenders into the police car outside.
…The remaining two then blocked Chu Ningwu at the counter, one in front and one behind.
Their tall and sturdy figures stood like mountains, casting shadows that completely covered her.
Chu Ningwu’s heart pounded wildly, almost jumping out of her throat.
The male lead’s bodyguards were even more terrifying than those two men.
At least those men would face the law once reported.
But the male lead’s people existed above everything.
Tears continued to fall from her eyes. The words echoed in her ears.
“You offended someone who belongs to our boss.”
What someone. A criminal.
She had not obediently stayed in the suite to accept punishment and had even taken the chance to run.
That was an even greater offense.
Chu Ningwu’s lips trembled as she spoke helplessly. “Big brothers… what are you going to do?”
“President Huo said to take you to West Bay Island.”
The man on the left looked slightly kinder. Seeing that she was about to faint from fear, he softened his tone as he relayed the order.
Unexpectedly, she turned completely pale upon hearing it, like a deflated balloon.
The last bit of hope in Chu Ningwu’s heart collapsed.
West Bay Island was Huo Zhi Chuan’s usual residence, a luxurious villa only about twenty minutes from Huo Group.
In the novel, it was the love nest of the main couple and the hell of the cannon fodder ex girlfriend.
Haha. She was done for.
Chu Ningwu gave up struggling. With these two guardians watching her, any resistance would be pointless.
Her big eyes rolled slightly as she tried to negotiate. “Then… can I go home first to get some things?”
“The president won’t be off work until the evening anyway, so going a bit later should be fine… I need to hold A Beibei when I sleep at night, otherwise I can’t fall asleep…”
The two bodyguards exchanged a glance and agreed.
It was not because they were overly confident.
Rather, countless people could not even get close to President Huo, so how could a woman who had the chance to enter West Bay Island possibly want to run?
So the two bodyguards followed behind Chu Ningwu like large guard dogs as she slowly made her way back to her rented neighborhood.
Building seventy four in District Three of Yun City. An old residential complex without elevators. Chu Ningwu lived on the fourth floor in a small room shared by four tenants.
All the roommates were female, so the two men stayed outside.
The moment Chu Ningwu entered, she smelled a strong sewage odor.
She placed the bag of buns on the table and hurried to the bathroom to open all the windows and turn on the ventilation fan.
Finally, she had a chance to look at the original owner’s face.
And she was stunned.
This…
Why did it look so much like her own face?
It even resembled how she looked right after graduating high school, before the damage from staying up late in college, her face still full of youthful softness.
A delicate nose, soft cherry lips, and a palm sized face.
More refined than a typical innocent look, with a hint of redness at the corners of her eyes that gave her a slightly alluring charm.
Her height looked to be just over one sixty.
Chu Ningwu adapted quickly to this appearance since it was almost identical to her own.
She had genuinely planned to grab a few things before. At least tidy up a bit. It would feel too undignified to die outside without even taking out the trash.
But the moment she opened the bedroom door and saw the cozy bed and the room full of soft pink plush toys…
She suddenly did not want to surrender anymore.
The original owner was still in her youth. If she ended up dying early because of her, she would feel too guilty.
Forget it. If the original owner could run, why couldn’t she?
Chu Ningwu touched her chin, then dug out a brown princess style wig from the corner of the wardrobe. The bangs covered most of her eyes. She also found a medical mask to cover the lower half of her face.
She quickly changed out of her clothes, put on a down jacket under a fur coat to make herself look bulky, then switched into black shoes with a ten centimeter height increase.
Carrying a bag of trash, she opened the door.
She walked out casually, pretending to be startled when she saw the two men, then lowered her head and hurried downstairs to throw away the trash.
The moment she left their line of sight, she quickly hid in a corner.
Five or six minutes later, one of the bodyguards spoke.
“Brother, don’t you think it’s too quiet inside?”
His instincts as a former special forces soldier told him something was wrong.
The other one suddenly realized. “Damn, that chubby woman just now couldn’t have been her, right?”
“She looked pretty honest. We got careless.”
The two bodyguards rushed downstairs and began searching the area.
But no matter how thoroughly they searched, there was one place they could not check.
The women’s restroom.
Chu Ningwu hid inside a stall, her heart pounding.
She was so tired and sleepy. Wearing so many layers made her feel hot.
She just wanted to go back to her dorm, take a shower, and sleep.
She wondered if the male lead would send more people to catch her.
She had thought that as long as she did not get involved with him, she would be safe.
She had been too naive.
She should have done what the original owner did.
Steal his watch, sell it for a million, and go abroad.