Time Travel: The Heroine Has Arrived!-Chapter 40 - : Noble Lady of Wealthy Family VS Reborn Foster Daughter (Part 8)
Chapter 40: Chapter 40: Noble Lady of Wealthy Family VS Reborn Foster Daughter (Part 8)
Gu Shengyin stood in front of the washbasin, splashing cold water on her face.
It was useless.
Feeling the wave of heat growing hotter inside her, she took out her phone, wanting to call her older brother to come and take her home quickly.
The turmoil inside her made her hands unsteady; she pressed several times before she managed to unlock her phone’s screen, found her older brother’s contact, and was just about to dial when someone snatched the phone from her hand.
Gu Shengyin looked up to see the face of a strange man.
An inexplicable panic seized her, and she forcefully demanded, “What do you want? Give me back my phone now!”
The man greedily looked at Gu Shengyin’s face. He had received a call from his employer who told him the person was in the restroom on the twenty-ninth floor of the hotel; his only task was to take the person away, then later…
Even if he hadn’t succeeded, just having this woman appear disheveled before everyone else would have meant his mission was accomplished.
That would allow him to receive a substantial amount of money.
Gu Shengyin, seeing the man’s expression becoming increasingly wrong, sensed alarm bells ringing inside her, but unfortunately, the soundproofing here was excellent; even if she shouted, the people outside wouldn’t hear her.
She spoke sternly, “No matter who has instructed you, that person definitely hasn’t told you who I am. I am the young lady of the Cheng Group; you should know what kind of existence the Cheng Group is. If something happens to me here today, no matter where you flee, my father and brothers will not let you off!”
The man paused, realizing his employer indeed hadn’t mentioned the identity of this girl. The Cheng Group… If what she said was true…
Seeing his hesitation, Gu Shengyin was encouraged and continued, “If you leave now, I can assure you, I will pretend today’s incident never happened. Whatever amount your employer is paying you, I will double it.”
Her breathing was unstable at this moment, and under the influence of the drugs, she no longer had the strength, forced to lean against the washbasin to prevent herself from collapsing.
The man was clearly hesitating.
In her mind, Gu Shengyin called out to the system, “If this man does not compromise, do you have the ability to help me get out of this smoothly?”
The system immediately responded, “Host, please rest assured, as your Guide, I am obliged to ensure your personal safety around non-mission targets.”
Gu Shengyin no longer had the energy to discuss the scope of this “non-mission targets” with the system.
“No! I nearly fell for it! As if I don’t know what you wealthy people are like? Fair words face to face, yet a stab in the back once you turn around.” The man had clearly made up his mind.
As soon as he finished speaking, his hand was already reaching toward Gu Shengyin.
“System!” Seeing the man’s hand coming closer, Gu Shengyin urgently shouted.
However, the system’s actions weren’t as fast as another’s.
A black figure dashed toward them and fiercely punched the man in the face who was restraining Gu Shengyin.
A familiar scent of lotus flowers filled the air around Gu Shengyin.
All of a sudden, she felt so aggrieved, turned, and threw herself into the man’s arms, tears rolling down her face as she did.
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Yuan Xu didn’t have time to care about the man crying out in agony on the ground.
He was a bit irritable and was walking around outside, preparing to have a cigarette in the restroom when a strange feeling overwhelmed him.
He always felt as if something bad was happening.
From childhood, his sixth sense had been very accurate, and this special intuition had helped him avoid several disasters.
Following his intuition, Yuan Xu walked toward the women’s restroom.
At first, Yuan Xu hesitated whether to enter or not, but as soon as his hand touched the doorknob, he knew something was wrong—it was locked from the inside!
This sort of restroom usually had individual stalls, meaning the outer door, unless under hotel maintenance, shouldn’t be locked.
With a growing sense of foreboding and no time to think further, Yuan Xu kicked open the door.
Then, he saw a scene that made his eyes fill with rage.
Gu Shengyin, who had been dazzling in the hall just before, was now blocked by a sleazy-looking man!
Yuan Xu felt, at that moment, all his blood rushing to his head; he had never been so out of control.
After knocking the man to the ground where he couldn’t get up, he took off his own suit jacket and draped it over Cheng Xizhi.
Who knew, as soon as Cheng Xizhi saw him, she burst into tears and threw herself into his arms.
The girl crying in his arms felt so wronged, Yuan Xu felt like his heart was being crushed by her sobs.
Seeing the man on the ground, Yuan Xu knew that Gu Shengyin’s current state was not fit for others to see, so he bent down, picked her up, and left the place. As he passed the man on the ground, he paused to take the cellphone from his hand and stepped hard on the man’s right hand.
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“Crack!” The sound of bone fracturing echoed as he ignored the pig-like wails of the man behind him, Yuan Xu walked out carrying Gu Shengyin.
By the time the crowd in the hall heard the commotion and rushed over, all they saw was a broken door and a man lying on the ground, rolling around and crying incessantly in pain.
Cheng Yiru was annoyed: she hadn’t expected that under such circumstances, Cheng Xizhi would still manage to escape.
Yuan Xu directly carried Cheng Xizhi away through a special passage. The hotel belonged to Yuen Group, and only a select few knew of this passage.
He brought Gu Shengyin to his private room in the hotel, placed her on the bed, and went into the bathroom to run a bath.
Thinking about the young lady’s age, Yuan Xu wrapped her in a blanket, picked her up, and placed her in the already prepared bathtub.
