The richest man's parents were kidnapped, and his adorable son captivated the entire family.

Suburban warehouse.

Xie Yumin huddled in the corner of the warehouse, listening to the footsteps outside the door gradually disappearing, her fingernails almost digging into the shards of glass in her palm.

The air was thick with the smell of rust and blood. She endured the stinging pain in her palms and stared intently at the rusty iron door.

"Ruolan...you bastard!"

The image of Mengmeng's pale face kept appearing in Xie Yumin's mind.

"No, we have to escape..."

She gritted her teeth and stood up, searching the warehouse for any possible tools by the flickering light overhead.

"I remember... wasn't there a pile of junk in the corner?"

As Xie Yumin staggered to her feet, she looked around for a while before finally spotting the dusty corner.

"I must get out... I absolutely must!"

Xie Yumin shakily picked up a few rusty steel bars piled up in the corner of the wall, grabbed one and banged it hard on the iron gate.

thump—

Boom!

The dull sound echoed in the empty warehouse.

"Is there anyone... who can let me out?!"

Xie Yumin kept shouting.

Just then, the sound of a car screeching to a halt came from outside the door.

Xie Yumin was startled, and the steel bar in her hand clattered to the ground.

She held her breath and pressed her ear against the door to listen carefully.

"Did you hear that phone call just now? Gu Yinshen has sent out all the bodyguards in the city. If this drags on any longer, we're all doomed!"

A male voice suddenly rang out.

"What are you afraid of?"

Another man with a rural accent sneered, "Didn't that woman say she wanted more money? Once we get the final payment tonight, we'll dump this girl in the suburbs, and nobody's going to know—"

Before he could finish speaking, a loud engine roar came from afar.

Xie Yumin's pupils contracted sharply, and she could vaguely hear the sound of police sirens mixed in with the noise.

She lunged at the iron gate, screaming at the top of her lungs, "Help! There's someone here!"

……

The atmosphere inside the study of the Gu residence was as cold as ice.

"So, are you sure you don't have anything to tell me?"

Ruolan slumped to the ground, her gaze fixed on Gu Yinshen's somewhat cold eyes, her ears ringing.

A muffled clap of thunder suddenly rolled past the window, and a torrential downpour made her pale face appear even more grotesque.

“I don’t care what happened to Xie Yumin, but she’s involved with Mengmeng now.”

Gu Yinshen's voice was as cold as ice, and the tips of his leather shoes lightly rubbed against the floor.

"Now Mengmeng is gone, and Xie Yumin is gone too... You're telling me you don't know anything, and you're planning to pin all the blame on Xie Yumin?"

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Yinshen's voice suddenly turned icy cold, "Do you think I'm an idiot!?"

"They sent people to kidnap Xie Yumin, and then concealed the truth from Mengmeng, causing her to run away on her own..."

"Ruolan, you really have some clever tricks up your sleeve."

"No! That's not how it is!"

Startled by Gu Yinshen's sudden outburst, Ruolan screamed and rushed over to hug his leg, "I...I didn't do anything to Xie Yumin, I just asked them to send Xie Yumin away, I didn't ask them to hurt her!"

"As for Mengmeng's disappearance, it has nothing to do with me; it's all her own fault—"

"enough!"

Gu Yinshen kicked her away, took out his phone and dialed his assistant's number, "Immediately check all of Ruolan's accounts, especially any unusual transfers in the past week."

"Also, contact the Chengnan Police Station to go find the person!"

Gu Yinshen's sudden low growl startled the bodyguards in the living room.

"I don't care what happens to Xie Yumin, as long as she's still breathing."

"But only when she's there can Mengmeng come back quietly."

……

"Ruolan... what exactly does she want?"

On the other side, Xie Yumin pounded on the warehouse door for a long time, but the door remained unmoved.

The previous alarm sounds have long since disappeared...

It's as if God is deliberately playing a trick on me!

"No... I can't just let this go."

Xie Yumin gripped the steel bar tightly in her hand, gritted her teeth, and looked back at the warehouse again.

"Mengmeng is still waiting for me, I can't just give up like this!"

Just thinking about Mengmeng's cute face made Xie Yumin feel weak all over a second ago, but then she forced herself to stand up.

Then, she began searching the vast, empty warehouse by the dim light...

"The rust here seems to be more than in other places."

As Xie Yumin meticulously examined every inch of the warehouse's metal sheeting, she finally found a flaw in a corner of the warehouse.

"Let's see if we can get out of here..."

Thinking of this, Xie Yumin grabbed the steel bar and pried it up with all her might through the gap between the iron sheets.

crunch--

As soon as Xie Yumin exerted her strength, a teeth-grinding grinding sound immediately rang out.

"There's a show!"

The sudden commotion startled Xie Yumin, but what delighted her even more was that a gap had been pried open in the sheet metal in front of her!

Although it wasn't a big deal, it undoubtedly gave her a lot of motivation.

"If I pry a little longer... I can..."

The thought of being able to get away immediately energized Xie Yumin.

But the next second, the ear-piercing sound of the steel bar scraping against the rusty iron sheet came to an abrupt end.

Xie Yumin gripped the barbed steel bar and backed away, rust falling onto her shoulder. Behind her, she heard the sound of the kidnapper's leather shoes crunching over gravel.

"Want to run?"

The leader grabbed Xie Yumin's hair and cursed, "I heard you trying to break into the wall a long time ago..."

"Boss, calm down."

"The money hasn't arrived yet, what if she dies..."

His companion rubbed his teeth and looked towards the door. Cold rain seeped in through the cracks in the rusty iron door. "The employer won't let us off the hook."

"employer?"

The man suddenly grabbed Xie Yumin's chin, his fingertips grinding against her bitten lip. "That woman only said she'd send the person out to sea, but she didn't say we couldn't 'inspect the goods' along the way—"

Xie Yumin's knee hit a stack of iron buckets, and rust powder went into her throat.

"Let the guys have some fun first,"

The man unbuckled his belt, the clanging of metal sending a chill down Xie Yumin's spine. "Anyway, they'll just be sold on the ship—"

The next second, something unexpected happened.

boom!

With a sudden jolt, the iron gate was deformed by the high-pressure water jet.

"police!"

Xie Yumin seized the opportunity and kicked the man in the groin.

"That bitch..."

The man groaned and staggered half a step, but his companion pulled him behind him: "Why aren't you running yet!"

As the bright light pierced through the crack in the door, Xie Yumin grabbed the iron bucket and smashed it against the kerosene lamp on the wall.

Amid the sound of shattering glass, flames leaped onto the pile of burlap, and thick smoke rose up, carrying sparks.

"Damn it! Fire!"

Her companion ran towards the door, but was knocked down by the SWAT officers who rushed in. The leader of the group brandished his knife and lunged at Xie Yumin, but in the firelight, he saw her blood-stained smile.

She was clutching half a burning piece of burlap in her hand, and was bringing it closer to the gasoline drum.

Come here.

Her voice was hoarse, and the flames made her pupils appear red. "At worst, we'll die together."

"Xie Yumin!"

Gu Yinshen's roar pierced the smoke. He shoved aside the SWAT officers and rushed into the fire.