Chapter 383: Kidnapping
Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong
Boss Cutie
Listen to such sanctimonious words. Think about them carefully, and they were just downright shameless.
Jiang Muye was thoroughly exasperated. "Get out."
He wanted to snatch the brush from Leng Ruoli's hand, but she refused. "Don't mess with it~ otherwise I'll get it on you!"
"Can you stop making a scene." Jiang Muye stared at Leng Ruoli coolly. "My business doesn't need you sticking your nose in."
"Your business is my business," Leng Ruoli replied stubbornly. "I won't give up on you."
"Hopeless," Jiang Muye spat.
"Yes. Falling for you was hopeless to begin with." After saying that, Leng Ruoli went back to scrubbing the urinal with all her might.
Watching her work, Jiang Muye's mood was a tangled mess.
A girl with a cleaning compulsion who had never done a single chore in her life.
Much less filthy, exhausting work like this. Yet she had thrown caution to the wind and come to help him.
If she hadn't betrayed him, seeing her like this would have torn at his heart. He would have loved her more than he could say.
But Leng Ruoli and Yu Xi had carried on an affair behind his back.
He could not possibly accept a girl who had cheated, no matter how good she was.
Jiang Muye was a man with a spiritual cleanliness compulsion. There were so many girls in the world, so why should he be a simp and go running back to be tormented by her again?
Besides, if she could cheat once, she could cheat again.
Jiang Muye flew into a rage. "Fine, keep at it. Let's see how long you can hold out!"
She was definitely putting on an act.
This kind of cheap, clichéd drama—he had stopped playing along with it back in elementary school.
It wouldn't be long before Leng Ruoli started complaining about hardship and exhaustion, and wouldn't even want to keep working.
An environment this filthy and chaotic—even a man couldn't stand it, much less a woman.
Jiang Muye leaned against the wall beside her, watching Leng Ruoli coldly.
He even watched his watch and counted. In less than three minutes, she would find an excuse to leave.
The minute hand made several revolutions. Yet Jiang Muye saw that figure, firm and unyielding as bedrock, gripping a rag and seriously wiping down the dirty, yellowed walls, without a trace of complaint on her lips.
She didn't work in an orderly way; it was clear she was a novice, and this kind of work was something she was very bad at. She was somewhat flustered and clumsy.
But she showed no intention of giving up. She kept working, and slowly grew more skilled.
No cutting corners, very down-to-earth. Soon the tiles were clean as new under her wiping.
"Ah, I'm about to burst!" A sound of footsteps came from outside.
A group of three to five boys came walking in through the restroom door.
Some even had their trouser zippers down already at the doorway.
This obviously frightened Leng Ruoli terribly.
She didn't know whether she should look away or pretend she hadn't seen.
Just as her ears turned red, an irritable voice rang out in the air: "Damn it, get lost, go somewhere cool, can't you see we're cleaning in here!"
"Brother Jiang, we're about to burst~ just let us pee for a bit!" the boys pleaded from outside.
Jiang Muye refused, impartial as iron. "Looking for a kick? Go find a tree and take care of it there!"
With that, Jiang Muye began shooing the whole bunch away.
After hearing the few boys leave with sighs and groans, Leng Ruoli let out a breath. "Phew."
A moment later, Leng Ruoli noticed a dark figure walking over beside her.
She was surprised to find it was Jiang Muye.
He wore a cold expression on his handsome face, holding a rag and wiping the wall, and even glared at Leng Ruoli. "What are you looking at? It's all because you work too slowly, dawdling—when are you ever going to finish."
"Then I'll work harder!" Leng Ruoli laughed out loud.
At that laugh, Jiang Muye felt as if little dragonflies were flitting through the world.
"Fuck, I told you to get lost in a nice round way, stop dragging me down!" Jiang Muye cursed, his ears burning.
The ruder he cursed, the more happily she laughed. "I won't drag you down, I'll work properly."
"Are you asking to be abused!" How had Jiang Muye never noticed that Leng Ruoli was such a masochist before?
"No, but you cursing me is better than ignoring me." Leng Ruoli lowered her little face innocently, ears drooping, like a little rabbit that had done something wrong.
Hearing her words, Jiang Muye felt some indescribable stirring in his heart.
He hated Leng Ruoli.
But it was also obvious to him—the more he hated, the more he loved.
He loved her very, very much.
"I've had enough of you. I'm switching to another restroom to clean. Stay here if you love it so much!" Jiang Muye stormed off after a burst of furious output.
Watching him leave so freely, Leng Ruoli's eyes were full of desolation.
"Cold Campus Belle, if there's nothing wrong, stop pestering Muzi. Muzi's been messed up enough by you." Little White Dove spoke in a sarcastic tone. "You already have Yu Xi, what are you pulling this for, trying to have a foot in two boats?"
"I'm not having a foot in two boats," Leng Ruoli replied stubbornly.
"Sure, after all no thief will admit to being a thief. Then you two just leave each other be, ok?" Old He picked up where Little White Dove left off.
Seeing how Jiang Muye had been hurt by love, his heart ached.
If Leng Ruoli wasn't a good person for him, then she really shouldn't come interfere with Jiang Muye.
Leng Ruoli's eyes grew slightly moist. "Leaving him won't make me well—on the contrary, him leaving me, he might not necessarily be well either. I'll win him back, and I'll make him understand that I've never wavered. The one I love is him."
Even if the person she owed a debt of gratitude to was Yu Xi.
The one she loved was Jiang Muye.
Even with the same face, her feelings were not the same.
She would not degrade herself by treating Jiang Muye as Yu Xi's substitute, and by the same token, Yu Xi would not become Jiang Muye's substitute.
The roommates were once again astonished by Leng Ruoli's reaction.
They were completely muddled now, with no idea what had actually happened.
And when they asked further, Leng Ruoli clearly wanted to conceal the inside story, which left them even more in the dark.
What on earth had happened?
Since several people were working, it took less than a morning to finish the restroom work.
After Jiang Muye went back, he immediately ducked into the bathroom and took a shower.
Only after using who knows how much body wash did he feel that the foul, fishy smell on his body was gone.
After changing into clean clothes, Jiang Muye unconsciously took out a hair dryer to dry his hair.
"Ding ding ding—"
The phone rang.
Jiang Muye swiped up on the screen and answered the call. "Hello."
"President Jiang, we've already got the person you wanted."
Ripples rose in Jiang Muye's eyes, and the corner of his mouth curved upward with deep meaning. "Wait for me."
…
In the azure sky, there were cloud trails left by airplanes.
Seagulls flew past, startled by the noisy roar of a yacht's engine, and flew away flapping their wings.
A distinct silver line spread out across the surging sea.
"Phew—" Yu Xi woke with a start from a nightmare.
His forehead was covered in cold sweat, but when he opened his eyes, he found everything pitch black before him.
Someone had tied a black gauze band over his eyes!
Even his hands and feet were bound with hemp rope, unable to move.
Yu Xi suddenly remembered—on his way home, he had been ambushed from behind, struck on the head with something, and then he had blacked out.
All around was the sound of ocean waves.
Who on earth had tied him up, and where was he?!
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