Reborn as a heiress, she transforms into a ruthless vengeful woman.

As the gate slowly rose, seven or eight men stood outside, each holding a stick.

The two took a few steps back, with Qiao Lin standing protectively in front of Ye Xinghe, and whispered, "Miss, I'll hold these people off for a bit. You should seize the opportunity to run out quickly. Once you're outside the gate, turn right, and you'll be on the main road."

Ye Xinghe quickly refused, "No, there are too many of them, we can't force them. They haven't done anything to me along the way, let's see what the other side is like first."

Ye Xinghe walked up to Qiao Lin, crossed her arms, her expression indifferent, her gaze deep and cold, adopting a condescending posture.

The man leading the group was a red-haired man with tattooed arms, followed by six henchmen with bizarre and varied appearances.

The tattooed man twirled the wooden stick in his hand, looking at Ye Xinghe with a nonchalant air. "Miss Ye, the reason I invited you here today is to tell you to quickly drop the case and release Jiang Yan."

"Please? You call this a plea?" Ye Xinghe sneered at the tattooed man and said sarcastically, "Then she definitely can't be released. Just for what happened today, I'll have to add more torture to her."

"I advise you not to refuse a toast only to suffer the consequences!" The tattooed man waved the stick in his hand a few times, threatening, "Whether you drop the case directly or get a few whacks before dropping it, the choice is yours. The result is the same."

"Is this a threat? Wait a minute." Ye Xinghe held out a hand to stop him, then turned to Qiao Lin beside her and said, "Quickly turn on the phone to record the video; we need to keep some evidence."

Then, in a defiant tone, he said to the man with the tattooed arm, "Say it again later!"

"I'm warning you! I'm not kidding!" the tattooed man shouted angrily, raising his stick to smash it against Ye Xinghe's shoulder.

Qiao Lin took a step forward, leaped and tackled the tattooed man to the ground, threw away the stick in his hand, and punched him in the face with increasingly vicious punches.

"Qiao Lin, stop hitting them." Ye Xinghe hadn't moved an inch from beginning to end, calmly watching the group of thugs opposite her, her eyes flashing with a chilling light that made people afraid to approach.

"Have you thought this through? Have you considered the consequences of hitting me? If you dare to lay a finger on me, do you think the Ye Group will let you off the hook!" Ye Xinghe's voice grew louder and louder, a cold, beautiful smile playing on her rouge-red lips. "If you dare to kidnap me, you should be prepared to silence me! If you don't have the guts, what kind of thugs are you!"

The thugs opposite were stunned by Ye Xinghe's words; it was the first time they had ever heard of a hostage voluntarily requesting to be silenced.

The tattooed man sat up, clutching his head and wincing in pain. "We didn't want to do this either, but it's a quick way to make money. Tying you out of us will earn us 10."

"How much? 10?" Ye Xinghe pointed to her nose. "Me! The heiress of the Ye Group! Only worth 10?"

“You guys look like you’re not young anymore. How can you be a gangster with no bottom line? How can you take jobs from just anyone?” Ye Xinghe paced back and forth in front of them, hands on her hips. “Here’s what we’ll do: I’ll give you 20. After Jiang Yan gets out, you don’t need to kidnap her. We can’t do anything illegal, so just make sure she doesn’t have an easy time.”

The tattooed man's eyes lit up, and he quickly ordered his underlings to bring over two chairs. "Miss Ye, are you serious? But we don't know Jiang Yan."

Ye Xinghe's pupils dilated slightly. "You don't know Jiang Yan? Then where did this order come from?"

The tattooed man was badly beaten and could only shuffle forward a few steps while sitting. "The person on the phone was a man, he sounded like he was in his fifties. He told us to tie you up and threaten you. He also said he could hit you, but we couldn't kill you."

Ye Xinghe nodded slightly, a cold killing intent appearing in her deep eyes; she already had her answer.

“Kidnapping brings in money quickly, but living on the edge is no easy life.” Ye Xinghe said calmly and slowly, “If I told you now that I called the police on my way here, how would you feel? Would you panic?”

At this moment, Hua Qingmeng rushed to the abandoned warehouse in a panic. She quietly slipped to the door and peeked inside, only to be stunned by the scene before her. Ye Xinghe was sitting in the middle, surrounded by a group of thugs. Far from fighting, they seemed to be having a good time.

What is this doing?

"Why are you here?" Ye Xinghe craned her neck, looking at the three people who had just entered with a look of surprise.

The thugs were so frightened that they ran away with their heads in their hands, genuinely believing that the police had arrived.

Furukawa darted into the warehouse, pulled down the iron gate, and locked everyone inside.

Lin Hao grabbed a thug and slapped him across the face. "What are you doing? Trying to pull off a gangster operation here?"

Ye Xinghe quickly stopped them, "Stop fighting, I'm serious! I really called the police on my way here. But I'm not sure if the police received it because my phone is dead."

Upon hearing this, the tattooed man looked at Ye Xinghe with urgent and sincere eyes. "Miss Ye, I have to take a few of my brothers with me. This is the first time we've done this. You're right, we can't live like this. I'm really sorry about what happened today. If you need me, come find me at the New Century Internet Cafe on Chunjiang Road. My name is Lu Ran."

After saying that, the group got into the van and disappeared into the night.

Lin Hao watched the group's retreating figures and sighed, "Are gangsters this civilized now? Their fighting skills aren't even that great! The leader got a black eye and a swollen face. Joe, was that you?"

"Huh? You two know each other?" Ye Xinghe asked with a surprised look.

Lin Hao realized he had given himself away and lightly patted his mouth with his hand.

“We met Qiao Lin back in Siam,” Hua Qingmeng quickly interjected, “Who are those people? Why did they kidnap you?”

Ye Xinghe remembered that in her previous life, Lu Ran was a renowned genius hacker who became the security director of a listed company at the age of 22. Later, the company leaders forced him to take on tasks that violated the law, and after he refused, they made things difficult for him in every way. He and his team resigned en masse. Afterwards, they interviewed at several companies, but were maliciously slandered by their former employers, and none of them dared to hire them. Driven to desperation, the group became kidnappers. Although they did not kill for money, they had crossed the legal line and were eventually imprisoned.

These people could be placed in an e-commerce company.

Ye Xinghe snapped out of her thoughts and smiled at the group, "How did you know I was here?"

Hua Qingmeng stared at Ye Xinghe for two seconds, then slowly said, "The talisman I gave you contains a tracker."

Ye Xinghe remembered that ever since she decided to deal with Jiang Yan, she had put the amulet in a small pouch and worn it around her neck.

"Oh, right, I actually need to talk to you about something."

"That thing has reappeared."