After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 104 Returning to an Old Place, Feeling Uneasy

The next morning, Jiang Shu walked out of the princess suite looking exhausted, and Ning Yunzhan and Li Yubai, who were waiting at the door, were both taken aback!
"What's wrong?" Li Yubai was taken aback. "You've never looked this tired even though you've been staying up late for tutoring every day before..."

"The air quality on Floating Cloud Island isn't very good." Jiang Shu pressed her chest. "I had palpitations all night."

Ning Yunzhan was puzzled: "My Floating Cloud Island has an 80% green coverage rate, and most of them are ecological trees with a top-notch ability to purify the environment. Every guest who comes here praises the air quality..."

“My constitution is a little different from others.” Jiang Shu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the corridor and looked out. “Ordinary people’s affinity for wood spirit energy is five to ten percent, but mine is… well, one hundred percent! So it’s inevitable that I’m more sensitive to the environment.”

She looked out the window and saw undulating vegetation, with magnificent buildings interspersed among the lush artificial forest. Sunlight poured down, and the entire island radiated a dreamlike, dazzling brilliance.

"Your layout..." Jiang Shu asked in confusion, "If you consider those buildings as a whole, why does it look like a cage?"

"Really?" Ning Yunzhan paused for a moment. "Since our patron feels it's like a prison, then I'll tear it down and rebuild it when I have time, according to our patron's preferences, hmm?"

Jiang Shu exclaimed, "I was just saying, don't tear it down! That would be such a waste of money!"

“Okay, then let’s not lift it.” Ning Yunzhan walked behind her and pointed to the distance. “Then I’ll design two more fan-shaped buildings over there. That way, when viewed as a whole, the cage will turn into… a money bag?”

Jiang Shu's eyes lit up slightly.

Ning Yunzhan then asked, "So, if you don't like cages, would you be willing to live in a money bag?"

Jiang Shu nodded: "I wish I could live surrounded by money forever..."

Beside him, Li Yubai looked at Ning Yunzhan, who was standing very close to Jiang Shu, and found it somewhat irritating.

He coughed lightly, interrupting the two: "My patron, it's time for us to set off."

Jiang Shu said "Oh," ending her conversation with Ning Yunzhan, and grabbed Li Yubai's hand: "Let's go, back to Jiangcheng!"

Li Yubai looked at their clasped hands, his expression gentle: "Mm."

Ning Yunzhan picked up the car keys beside him: "I'll personally take you to the tarmac, and then I'll be going abroad for a few days. I'll bring you gifts then."

Quanwen Town. Behind Xinghua Village, in the mountains.

In the rolling, undeveloped mountains, there is a cave that has been abandoned for many years.

The cave is very large. After walking in for more than ten meters, there is a wooden door that has been split in two.

Uncle Zhou dragged the huge wooden box with one hand and threw it into the cave.

Then, the lid of the wooden box was opened.

Inside the box, Yan Yu was curled up, his face pale, the dazzling young man looking quite pitiful...

"Who are you people?" Yan Yu was limp, his eyes icy. "Do you want money or your life?"

"I don't care about money, and I don't care about my life." Uncle Zhou kicked the box. "Come out yourself and go behind that wooden door."

Yan Yu climbed out of the box and looked around.

On the dark cave walls, there were faint flames, which looked like eerie will-o'-the-wisps.

His gaze was tinged with a sense of bewilderment and confusion as he silently surveyed his surroundings. The more he looked, the colder he felt...

When her gaze fell upon the split wooden door, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave! Those usually elegant and graceful hands clenched into fists.

Uncle Zhou seemed a little impatient: "Go in! Do I have to drag you in?"

"You..." Yan Yu's voice was hoarse, "Do you know the price of kidnapping the heir of the Yanxing Group?"

Uncle Zhou sized him up: "I don't care what heir you are. Here, you can only be a bandit's wife!" Yan Yu closed his eyes, and by the dim candlelight, walked step by step towards the door. Then, he stopped at the threshold, his gaze fixed intently on the rugged cracks...

The corners of his eyes suddenly turned completely red!
"Come in, what are you doing standing at the door?" The sickly and annoying voice of the FY Crown Prince rang out.

Yan Yu was suddenly stunned! The overwhelming sadness was abruptly replaced by shock!

He took a few steps inside. The huge cave was decorated like a simple hut. In a corner of the cave, Rong Jingchen and Feng Li each had half a deck of cards and were playing with little interest...

"What are you doing here?" Yan Yu's voice was dry, but she couldn't hide her astonishment.

"Just like you, I was captured." Feng Li had clearly been through a lot during his long journey, and he looked like he was about to die, but he seemed to be in a good mood. "Come on, let's play cards! Three people playing Dou Dizhu is much more fun than two people playing Run Fast!"

Yan Yu slowly walked over: "You guys still have the mind to play cards?"

At the doorway, Uncle Zhou's footsteps had already faded into the distance.

At the cave exit, the sound of the cave entrance being sealed could be heard.

Yan Yu sat down on the spot: "Who exactly are the people who arrested us?"

As Rong Jingchen shuffled the cards, he said, "I don't know. It should be a very powerful organization, wrapped up..."

He paused for a moment: "The same cape that Jiang Shu wore during her live stream. On the cargo ship, I heard the woman who arrested me say that I was 'the perfect gift for her daughter'."

Feng Li coughed violently several times! He spoke with a tone of righteous indignation: "You even dared to arrest her. Next time you see her, make her suffer!"

If you offend your future mother-in-law, your good days are over...

Rong Jingchen glanced at him: "What kind of bad ideas are you having now?"

"I'm a victim myself, what bad intentions could I possibly have?" Feng Li retorted dismissively. "I've been so weak from the broken bones these past few days that I'm practically giving up. I'm counting on you to go on a rampage and take me with you..."

He slaughtered everyone in the village, offending them all. That's good...

On the other side, Yan Yu was no longer in the mood to listen to Feng Li and Rong Jingchen's chatter.

He is reviewing the game.

He mysteriously disappeared from that magic show. Did his agent and bodyguards notice his disappearance?

Did the branches of the Yanxing Group play any important roles in this kidnapping?
More importantly... why this particular place?

this place!

Yan Yu carefully surveyed her surroundings, while simultaneously searching through long-forgotten memories in her mind...

The cave is shaped like a gourd. A withered tree trunk extends from the right wall, riddled with honeycomb-like holes. A rock resembling a monkey extends from the left wall…

A wisp of cold mist dripped down the smooth cave walls, clinging to patches of moss. In the corner sat a large, long-abandoned basket—a basket that, many years ago, had been filled with poisonous snakes and rats…

And that door that was split open... Back then, the girl was carrying a huge cleaver that was taller than her, and she cleaved it in two with one stroke!

Long-forgotten memories surged forth! Yan Yu couldn't help but tremble slightly...

Feng Li noticed something was wrong with him: "What are you doing?"

Yan Yu closed her eyes slightly, her voice hoarse: "This... is the place where I was kidnapped and imprisoned thirteen years ago..."

(End of this chapter)