Chapter 397: Leng Ruoli Side Story (3)
Jiang Muye: Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong
Boss Cutie
Leng Ruoli's eyes went wide.
She felt as if the blood in her entire body had stopped flowing.
She saw blood blooming at the same spot on the young man's shoulder, vivid as a rose, spraying outward.
"No—" Leng Ruoli cried out in agony.
She saw his tall, slim body, straight as a post, already tilting backward.
Leng Ruoli let out a mournful wail as she watched him collapse into the pool of blood, twitching. That handsome face, pale as paper, was written all over with pain and vulnerability.
It made Leng Ruoli's heart ache unbearably.
"You scum, you bastards, you pieces of shit, you're all going to die horribly!" Leng Ruoli was burning with rage as she furiously cursed the kidnappers. She was so angry that she kept pounding on the iron door.
But Scarface only watched Leng Ruoli coldly, not the slightest bit softened by her fury.
He gave a crazed grin. "Money is all we've wanted from the very beginning. Don't worry, as long as you make a call and get Chairman Leng to send us another thirty million, I'll let you leave."
"I don't believe you. You were just about to silence me!" Leng Ruoli gritted her teeth and spoke with venomous hatred.
"That was just now. We've changed our minds now, really. Young Miss Leng, as long as you come out, I'll act like nothing ever happened. Otherwise, this kid gets thrown into the sea to feed the fish!" Scarface smiled sinisterly.
Leng Ruoli bit her lower lip.
"Don't…" A weak voice sounded.
The young man in the pool of blood shook his head at her.
Leng Ruoli's stubborn tears instantly fell.
Her heart ached terribly.
Scarface's expression changed. In a fury, he stomped his foot viciously onto Jiang Muye's head.
Kick after furious kick—watching it made Leng Ruoli's heart twist with pain.
"Stop hitting him, stop—" Leng Ruoli screamed in agony.
She was in utter torment now.
"So you're planning to save him?" Scarface glared viciously at Leng Ruoli.
Leng Ruoli, sobbing and sniffling, her hand trembling, gripped that key and was about to aim it at the door switch.
She had no other choice.
If she didn't come out, the other side really would kill him.
These people were desperate criminals. They had no intention of letting her go, and she couldn't let a stranger die alongside her.
Just as she was about to aim it at the door lock, she heard a pained yelp of "Awoo!" Leng Ruoli's eyes went wide as she realized the young man, his face covered in blood, had bitten down on the back of Scarface's hand. In the moment Scarface cried out in pain, one of his subordinates behind him raised a club and brought it down hard on the back of his head—
Clang! The young man collapsed to the ground, completely unconscious.
Leng Ruoli's legs gave out. She wailed in grief, "No—"
Her tears mixed with the blood on her face, spreading in blotches.
Just as Leng Ruoli was beside herself with grief, police sirens sounded in the distance.
"Damn, the cops are here!" one of the subordinates notified Scarface. Scarface's expression flickered. He cursed and then ordered the young man in the pool of blood thrown into the sea.
The weakened Leng Ruoli pounded frantically on the iron door: "Save him!"
She couldn't see the direction of the shore, but the sound of a body being thrown made Leng Ruoli's heart twist with pain.
Leng Ruoli's heart clenched sharply, and combined with her severe injuries, the moment the police appeared, she cried out as if possessed, "Save them… there's someone in the sea…"
And then she passed out.
When she woke again, she found she was already in a hospital room.
Her parents were anxiously keeping watch at her bedside.
"Dad, Mom…" Leng Ruoli called out, her throat dry.
She looked at the IV drip in her hand and froze for a moment before realizing she had been rescued.
But the next second she grew agitated: "Was he saved?"
"What person? Sweetie, don't get worked up." Father Leng immediately tried to soothe Leng Ruoli's emotions.
But Leng Ruoli broke down, crying and shouting, "The guy who saved me! He was thrown into the sea, is he still alive?"
Under Leng Ruoli's persistent questioning, Father Leng and Mother Leng exchanged a glance and told her, "We've taken care of his situation, don't worry. He's alive. He's already been rescued from the ICU."
"I want to go see him." Leng Ruoli instinctively moved to throw off the covers and get out of bed.
After all, the other party had saved her, and had risked everything for her, nearly dying.
She had to at least say thank you to him in person. But her parents stopped her.
"We're in Country M, he's in H City," Father Leng's words gave Leng Ruoli a shock.
She had never imagined that when she woke up she would already be in a hospital in a foreign country.
It turned out that after the kidnapping incident, Father Leng and Mother Leng, afraid of another similar incident, had forcibly taken Leng Ruoli abroad, also to give her a new environment and avoid bringing back those terrible memories.
Although Auntie Han had been killed by Leng Ruoli, Leng Ruoli had been a minor at the time. Auntie Han had been malicious, after all, and the court ruled it self-defense, releasing her without charges.
But the impact was still bad for a girl's reputation, so Father Leng and Mother Leng, to avoid complications, paid hush money and shut the media down.
What Leng Ruoli didn't know was that her biological parents had also paid a compensation sum to the young man's family—Father Jiang and Mother Jiang—to keep things quiet.
The young man had indeed woken up, but he had lost his memories. At the time, he had been working for his neighbor's uncle, responsible for taking inventory in the warehouse. Who would have thought he'd run into such a dangerous situation? Fortunately, he had escaped death.
So Father Jiang and Mother Jiang, afraid of leaving the child with trauma, never mentioned a word of it.
The young man's aunt, who had always longed for a life of fame and fortune, took this chance to latch onto the Leng Corporation's connections. The Leng Corporation sent her abroad, where she successfully obtained a green card, and afterward she even latched onto the chairman of Chen Group, successfully breaking into high society.
As for Leng Ruoli, although she lived in Country M, the tragic events of that year had left her with trauma. She received long-term psychological treatment, but she still couldn't face thunder and lightning.
She wanted to ask for the young man's contact information, but her parents refused to talk about it, until she sent people to investigate and got the young man's information.
Only then did she learn that his name was Jiang Muye, a freshman at West City University. And so she resolutely ignored everyone's objections and returned to the country.
Father Leng could only have bodyguards secretly protect Leng Ruoli, to avoid another similar tragedy.
After Leng Ruoli transferred to West City University, she quietly observed Jiang Muye.
He had a smile bright as the sun, and when he played ball he was full of energy, like a little sun.
Watching him made her heart flutter.
She didn't even dare to meet his gaze.
When she stood there straight, watching him walk over holding a basketball, she mustered her courage to greet him, only to see him brush past her as if looking at a stranger.
She watched in bewilderment as he ran forward, chasing after a pretty, delicate girl: "Xiran, wait for me, let's go to the cafeteria to eat in a bit."
Leng Ruoli was stunned.
Did he not remember her?
A hint of surprise appeared in her heart, but at the same time she felt relieved.
At least she was back in the same world as him, able to breathe the same air, to sense the breath of his existence—that alone was a luxury and a joy.
At first, Leng Ruoli had only returned to the country to make it up to Jiang Muye.
But she had never imagined that this attempt at compensation would end up costing her own heart. Over time, she actually fell for him.
And so Leng Ruoli began a life of secret longing that lasted more than half a year, one that had no end from the very start.