The Legend of Cinderella's Counterattack

The man's words were like a stone, stirring up a thousand waves in my heart. Becoming the queen of the fashion world? This had once been my dream, but now, facing this sudden "opportunity," I felt an immense fear and unease.

"I don't understand what you mean." I tried to remain calm and try to read something from his poker face.

He just smiled and handed me a photo. "Do you know him?"

The photo showed a stranger, but his deep eyes gave me a sense of déjà vu, as if I had seen him somewhere before. "Who is he?" I asked, my voice trembling unconsciously.

“He is Lawrence Lu’s best friend and your biggest enemy.” The man paused and said word by word, “He knows all your secrets, including how you came to this world.”

My heart sank, a chill running from my feet to my head. How could this happen? How could my identity be exposed?

"Don't be afraid." The man seemed to see through my thoughts. "As long as you agree to my conditions, I can help you keep the secret and make you the queen of the fashion world."

"What conditions?" I asked, feeling uneasy.

"I want you to help me get the Lu Group."

His words shocked me. I didn't expect his ambition to be so big.

"Impossible!" I flatly refused, "I won't betray Yuxuan."

The man sneered, "Then don't blame me for being rude."

I stood up suddenly and wanted to leave this place, but he grabbed me.

"Let me go!" I struggled, but to no avail.

"Do you think you can escape?" the man sneered. "I've sent people to monitor your every move. You'd better obey, otherwise..."

His threat gave me chills, and I knew I was in a desperate situation.

Just then, my cell phone suddenly rang. It was Lawrence Lu calling.

"Lolo, where are you? I found some clues, come here right away..."

His voice stopped abruptly, and I heard a noisy sound from the other end of the phone, as well as Lawrence Lu’s painful groan.

"Yuxuan! What's wrong with you?" I exclaimed in surprise. My heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and I could hardly breathe.

"Don't worry, he's only slightly injured," the man said coldly. "If you don't want his life to be in danger, just follow me."

I closed my eyes in despair, tears streaming down my cheeks.

……

I don't know how long it took, but I was taken to a secret room. The man threw an ancient wooden box in front of me and said coldly, "Open it."

I hesitated for a moment and opened the box. Inside was a diary with a few ancient words written on the cover: "Gate of Time and Space".

I opened the diary and found that it recorded a forbidden experiment about time travel, and the initiator of this experiment was actually the man in the photo!

"Why are you telling me this?" I looked up at him puzzled.

"Because you are the key." The man walked up to me, his eyes filled with greed and ambition. "You are the only one who has successfully traveled through time and space. Only you can help me complete this experiment."

Only then did I understand that his real goal was not the Lu Group, but to use me to open the door of time and space and gain power beyond ordinary people!

"You're crazy!" I exclaimed. "This experiment is too dangerous. It will destroy the world!"

"So what?" the man laughed wildly. "As long as I can get everything I want, I don't care what the world becomes!"

I closed my eyes in despair, I knew a catastrophe was about to happen...

Despair washed over me like a tide, but I couldn't give up. Yuxuan was still waiting for me! I took a deep breath and told myself to stay calm and pull myself together. I began to carefully read the diary, hoping to find a solution, or at least the location of their headquarters!

The contents of the diary were obscure and difficult to understand, mostly discussing theories of space and time. I could only patiently flip through the pages, hoping to find a clue. Finally, on a hand-drawn map, I saw a familiar place name - "Yunding Villa".

Genting Highlands? Isn't that where Grandpa Yuxuan used to live? Could it be that... I suddenly looked up at the man: "You want to go to Genting Highlands? You want to activate the space-time portal?"

The man didn't deny it, but just smiled coldly: "You are very smart, but unfortunately you know too much."

A glimmer of hope ignited in my heart. If I could find Yuxuan before they started the experiment, perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope. I pretended to be obedient, expressing my willingness to cooperate with his plan, and took the opportunity to ask when they would leave for Genting Highlands.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I learned they would be leaving in three days. At least there was still time. I had to tell Yuxuan the news as soon as possible!

That night, I used the phone the man had given me to secretly contact Lawrence Lu. The moment the call connected, I almost cried with joy. Fortunately, he was still alive. I cut to the chase and told him about the man's plan and the events at Genting Highlands.

"Lolo, wait for me, I'll pick you up right away!" Yuxuan's voice was full of worry and anxiety.

"No, don't come!" I hurriedly stopped him. "There are a lot of them. It's too dangerous for you to go alone! Let's meet up directly at Genting Highlands!"

"But……"

"No buts, this is an order!" I suppressed my uneasiness and said firmly, "You have to believe me, I will definitely find a way to delay them!"

After I hung up the phone, my palms were covered in sweat. I didn't know if my plan would work, but now there was no turning back. I could only choose to trust Yuxuan and myself.

For the next two days, I cooperated with the man's plan on the surface, but secretly I was looking for a chance to escape. However, the man was very cunning. He sent people to closely monitor my every move, leaving me with nowhere to escape.

On the third day, we set off for Genting Highlands. Along the way, I prayed silently, praying that Yuxuan would be safe and that we could prevent this disaster from happening.

However, fate always seemed to like playing tricks on us. When we were less than an hour's drive from Genting Highlands, our convoy was attacked.

Amidst the hail of bullets, I clutched the seat tightly, my heart in my throat. Who was it? Was it Yuxuan who came to save me?

However, when I saw the attacker, my heart sank...

The attacker was none other than Lawrence Lu’s old friend, the man who had been loyal to him but betrayed him in the end. How could he be mixed up with these people? My mind was in a mess and I couldn’t think at all.

“Lolo, don’t be afraid, I’m coming!” In the chaos, I saw Lawrence Lu. He descended like a god and fought bravely with the enemy.

"Yuxuan, be careful!" I screamed, but there was nothing I could do.

The fierce gun battle lasted for a long time and ended with a tragic victory for Lu Yuxuan's side. However, the key figure, Lu Yuxuan's most trusted comrade, was seriously injured in the battle to protect him.

We hid in an abandoned factory, and under the dim light, the man’s breathing became weaker and weaker. Lawrence Lu held his hand tightly, his eyes full of pain and self-blame.

"Yuxuan, don't be like this, it's not your fault..." I choked, but didn't know how to comfort him.

“I hurt him, I hurt everyone…” Lawrence Lu’s voice was hoarse and desperate.

To make matters worse, we've lost track of our mysterious ally. He's vanished, seemingly vanishing from the face of the earth, with no further news. We wait anxiously in the factory, hoping he'll bring us good news, but all we've been met with is endless silence.

Hope, like a thin thread, is crumbling in the abyss of despair.

"What should we do? Is there really no way to stop them?" I leaned weakly against the cold wall, feeling that all the strength in my body had been drained.

Lawrence Lu didn’t say anything, he just hugged me tightly, his body trembling slightly, and I could feel the pain and despair in his heart.

We snuggled up to each other in the darkness, like two children lost in a storm, lonely, helpless and desperate.

Just when we were about to give up, something suddenly struck me. The diary! The diary! I sat up abruptly and pulled out the journal I'd always been carrying.

"What's wrong? Lolo?" Lawrence Lu looked at me puzzledly.

"There may be clues in the diary... in the diary!" I said incoherently, flipping through the diary in a panic.

Finally, in an inconspicuous corner of a page, I found a detail I had overlooked. It was a hand-drawn structural diagram with an address scribbled next to it: "Spark Laboratory."

"Spark Laboratory? What place is that?" Lu Yuxuan came over and looked at the address on the drawing with a frown.

"I don't know either, but this might be our last hope!" I pointed to the address on the blueprint and said firmly, "The diary says that Spark Labs is where they conduct secret research. Perhaps the key to stopping the experiment lies there!"

Lawrence Lu looked at me, and a glimmer of hope rekindled in his eyes.

"Spark Laboratory, I seem to have some impression of it." Lu Yuxuan looked at the address, his brows slowly relaxed. "My father once invested in a scientific research project, and it seems to be called this name. Let's go and take a look!"

The flame of hope ignited in our hearts once again. We gathered our composures, bandaged our wounds, and left the abandoned factory under the cover of night.

Following the address in the diary, we groped our way to the edge of the city and finally found the so-called "Spark Lab." It was hidden behind an abandoned chemical plant, surrounded by weeds and looked eerie and gloomy, far from the high-tech lab I had imagined.

"Are you sure it's here, Lolo?" Lawrence Lu asked doubtfully, looking at the scene in front of him.

"That should be... correct." I opened the diary and confirmed the address again. "That's what it says in the diary, so I can only believe it."

At this point, we have no way out. Lawrence Lu held my hand tightly and said with a firm look in his eyes: "No matter what, we have to give it a try. Let's go!"

We took a deep breath and cautiously approached the laboratory in the dim moonlight. However, before we could get close, several dazzling lights suddenly lit up, surrounding us.

"Who is it?!" Several men in black walked out from the darkness, holding guns in their hands, and pointing the black muzzles at us.

"Oh no, it's a trap!" My heart sank suddenly and an ominous premonition came to my mind.

"It seems that we are still a step too late." Lawrence Lu protected me behind him and said in a cold tone, "Who are you? Why did you set a trap?"

"Want to know who we are? Go to hell and ask the King of Hell!" The leading man in black sneered, not disguising the murderous intent in his eyes. "Shoot!"

Deafening gunshots rang out in the silent night sky. Lu Yuxuan and I instinctively dodged, and the bullets whizzed past our ears.

"Run, Lolo!" Lu Yuxuan shouted to me anxiously while firing back.

I knew this was not the time to hesitate. I gritted my teeth and ran forward with all my might. However, the enemy's firepower was too strong, and we couldn't break through.

Are we really going to die here?

Despair washed over me like a tide. At this moment, I suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a hidden passage on the wall of the laboratory.

"Yuxuan, look there!" I pointed to the passage, a glimmer of hope in my eyes.