Outside the factory, by the police tape.
After a brief exchange with the police chief, Lu Cheng, despite everyone's dissuasion and warnings, proposed to go in alone!
He wanted to negotiate with those vicious kidnappers to ensure Song Zhiyi's absolute safety!
The police chief naturally dared not let him take such an immense risk!
Are you kidding?
This was the Young Master of the Lu family! He was the true Crown Prince of Modu!
If even the slightest accident happened to him on a scene he was leading!
He estimated he'd be exiled to Siberia to dig potatoes by tomorrow!
But Lu Cheng's attitude was exceptionally firm!
He even spoke with a tone of great self-sacrificing spirit, proclaiming loudly to everyone:
"Everyone! I know you mean well for me!"
"But the one trapped inside now is my friend, Song Zhiyi, the person I've sworn to protect my entire life!"
"For Zhiyi, I must do this. Otherwise, if anything happens to her, I will regret it!"
His words were incredibly moving, enough to stir heaven and earth.
Anyone unaware would think he was truly a romantic who would disregard everything for love!
Just as he finished these grand words and was about to walk resolutely into the factory, despite everyone's pleas.
He keenly sensed that the mastermind he had been searching for seemed to have surfaced.
He noticed a faint glint of light, flashing across the top floor of the abandoned residential building in the distance!
A sniper?
A dramatic and tragic script instantly formed in his mind!
...Lu Cheng, ignoring everyone's dissuasion behind him, slowly walked alone into the dilapidated abandoned factory.
Soon, he was also taken hostage by the kidnappers inside the factory and brought before their leader.
Lu Cheng finally saw Song Zhiyi; she was bound to a chair with rope, her mouth taped shut.
Even her beautiful eyes, which usually sparkled with cunning light, were now filled with terror and helplessness.
His face immediately showed a complex expression of heartache and anger!
He shouted at the kidnapper leader, "I'm here!"
"Let her go! What are your conditions? Money? Or something else? I, Lu Cheng, can agree to all of them!"
The kidnapper leader, seeing him dare to venture alone into the tiger's den and act so brazenly, couldn't help but mock him internally, thinking, 'Rich second-generations are such fools. Now that he's here, he has no say. He's just adding another hostage to my hands.'
So the female kidnapper leader sneered:
"I didn't expect this time to be a 'buy one, get one free' deal, with someone else coming in to deliver themselves?"
"Tie him up too!"
But in her delight, she didn't see Lu Cheng make a subtle gesture towards the crowd of kidnappers, signaling "Prepare to act!"
And Ye Shuying, who had been mixed in among them, instantly understood!
Just as several kidnappers were about to step forward to tie up Lu Cheng.
A chilling killing intent erupted from her beautiful eyes!
She moved like a phantom in the dark night, pouncing with lightning speed on those 'companion' kidnappers who hadn't yet reacted.
Her attacks were swift! Precise! Ruthless! Every move was lethal!
In a flash!
Before those poor female assassins could even react, she had already knocked them all to the ground, completely incapacitating them!
...On the top floor.
Ji Bochang, through his sniper scope, saw Lu Cheng's hypocritical face clearly!
Seeing Lu Cheng actually enter his carefully laid trap alone for a woman!
It plunged him into a state of extreme, frenzied excitement.
"Idiot! An incorrigible idiot!"
"For a woman, you're throwing your life away? What a waste, controlled by his lower half!"
"Do you think if you go in, you can be a hero, rescue the beauty, and win her over?"
"Dream on!"
And just then, he saw an unbelievable scene in the factory that made his eyes nearly burst!
His 'ace female assassin team,' which he had hired with great expense from the overseas black market!
Was actually fighting amongst themselves?
That woman who had been hidden in the crowd, looking the most inconspicuous!
Had, without any warning, ruthlessly attacked her 'companions'!
And her strength was incredibly absurd!
She had taken care of all the assassins in just a few breaths.
What the hell was going on?
Ji Bochang's brain completely crashed at that moment!
He felt his worldview had been violently refreshed once again!
Was she also Lu Cheng's person?
Did Lu Cheng calculate this early on? No, how could he calculate this far? And even plant an undercover agent?
What kind of person was he, really!!!
"No! Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
At this moment, all his schemes were as if they never existed. The framing, the 'killing three birds with one stone' plan, all were gone.
Now his own father was standing below, all the assassins were incapacitated, and Lu Cheng was about to rescue Song Zhiyi.
And the key to his plan, the most important Qin Yu, had not appeared.
Ji Bochang fell into a state of hysteria.
He was unwilling, and absolutely could not believe.
That his ultimate plan was... was actually a joke, manipulated by someone from the very beginning.
"Go to hell! All of you, go to hell!!!"
His eyes gleamed with a mad and bloodthirsty light.
Reason, at this moment, was completely swallowed by anger and humiliation.
He no longer hesitated; his finger pulled the cold trigger!
"Bang!!!"
A muffled yet extremely penetrating gunshot!
Suddenly erupted on the roof of the residential building!
A sniper bullet, filled with destructive energy and all of Ji Bochang's angry emotions, cut through the air, whistling out!
It flew precisely towards Lu Cheng, who was in the process of rescuing Song Zhiyi.
However!
Just as that fatal bullet was about to hit Lu Cheng's body.
Lu Cheng, who was untying Song Zhiyi, subtly tilted his body aside at an extremely small angle.
"Pfft—!"
A muffled bullet sound rang out!
The sniper bullet, which should have hit precisely, ultimately... merely grazed his broad, thick left shoulder and hit the wall!
But such a high-speed sniper bullet, even a graze, immediately caused blood to splatter.
"Mm..."
Lu Cheng let out a slightly painful grunt!
His body stumbled violently from the immense impact.
But he still stubbornly used his tall physique to firmly shield the blank-minded Song Zhiyi!
He built an indestructible wall of flesh and blood for her, then quickly untied her and carried her to safety indoors.
Song Zhiyi, at this moment, her eyes, her heart, her entire world, could no longer hold anything else!
Only the man who had blocked all dangers for her remained!
"He was shot?"
"He actually got shot to save me?"
That dazzling, crimson blood, that shocking scene filled with tragic and poignant beauty!
The impact it had on her maiden heart, which was already pounding wildly because of Lu Cheng's appearance, was simply earth-shattering.
After entering the safe zone, her mind seemed to finally react, and she tightly embraced the man who had taken the fatal shot for her.
"No—!!! Lu Cheng—!!!"
"It's all because of me! I harmed you!"
"No, you absolutely must not be hurt!"
"If you die, I won't live either, boo hoo hoo."
Endless self-blame and an uncontrollable surge of love erupted at this moment.
She held Lu Cheng, crying heartbrokenly.
But only heard the man in her arms speak faintly:
"Too tight, I can't breathe."