Chapter 91 - Setting a Trap

Following his direction Jinghua nodded and copied his words exactly into the phone. Her voice slightly shook from the fear she felt but tried her best to speak confidently into the phone. 'Why was I so stupid to get caught up in this.' She had her initial doubts when she got the order to record him but the money was too tempting. Plus all she had to do was wear a camera and take it off after, nothing actually serious. He was somewhat of a celebrity and people try to sneak pictures of him all the time - practically harmless. Now, she's on the floor with a blade against her throat as she is being threatened into following their orders. 'I swear on my life I'll never do something like this again.' Holding back more tears the warm pain in her throat reminded her not to test them anymore.

"You dare to order me?! Do you think I can't end you."

Feeling Xi Long's glare she quickly spoke back into the phone. "You can but I can go to Mr. Han faster. Give me more money and I won't say anything."

"You don't even know who I am."

"I may not but do you think Mr.Han can't figure it out?"

There was a pause before the woman responded. "Fine, I'll have the money sent to you tonight in an hour."

"No, you bring it yourself or the deal is off. No matter how you delay I can just hand over the details to Mr.Han before he leaves. You have to come, I'm not dumb enough to trust a random goon."

"Outside parking lot, one hour." The woman cut the phone and the dial tone rang for a couple seconds before the call was cut. Taking a shaky breath Jinghua looked up at both the woman and Mr.Han. "C-can I...go now. I promise not to tell anyone about this but please let me go." She looked towards the masked woman with more hope, no matter how she looked at it the woman held the most power in the group. They had been following her orders from the beginning and was the first to hold a blade against her. Just based on the eyes she could tell that killing her was nothing to her.

"You leave when we tell you too, you still have to appear in front of her in an hour." Ying Yue carefully watched Jinghua as she spoke on the phone and her behaviour while doing it. The more time passed the more she could tell that Jinghua was innocent. She wasn't dumb and caught on quickly to their intentions but fell into a trap for quick money. If there were any other doubts, Ying Yue would have suggested finishing her off but she was sure that Jinghua would keep her mouth shut. So letting her ago was no problem but not until they had used her fully. Nodding at Zhuang Wei she signalled him to let her go and take the blade away from her. Picking up a clean napkin she held it towards the small cut on her neck to help with the bleeding.

"You can sit in the corner silently till we tell you what to do, try to run and we'll kill you. Follow our orders and everything can be finished peacefully. Understand....we don't need to hurt this pretty little face anymore...right?" The fear in Jinghua's eyes satisfied her and was all the confirmation she needed. Letting her sit in the back corner of the room they all resumed their seats around the table, keeping the weapons in front of them within reach. Looking at both of them they held a serious aura but she felt amused by the situation. Just based off the last couple of times she went out with Xi Long, it was 100% confirmed that situations like this would be a reoccuring issue. Unless he booked off the entire restaurant she had no intention to eat out with this man again. Part of her liked the thrill of fighting and facing the unexpected but it could easily become more trouble than she needed. Staring at Xi Long, she drank in his features again.

'Tall, handsome, rich.' It was obvious why women worked so hard to catch his attention but was it really worth this much work? Not to mean that he wasn't worth it but did they really think these petty tricks could make a man, any man, fall for them. It was pathetic in her eyes to stoop so low to win someone's favour for romantic aspirations alone. Also, to assume he would fall for it meant that they really didn't understand how cruel he could he. No matter how kind he was to her she would not forget that he was a rutheless business man who held ties with the mafia.

"Why are you staring at me?"

"Why? Prefer someone else's eyes on you?" She teased back with an evil glint in her eyes. His taken aback expression was all she needed to make her bust out laughing. There was no response he could give to her statement that would let the argument end well. Enjoying the break in energy she kept laughing and was quickly joined by Zhuang Wei as he took in his friend's face. As the laughter died down she cleared her throat before getting back to the issue.

"Do you have any more suspects after hearing the voice more?"

"No." Both of them answered at the same time with a hint of confusion. If they had not recognized the voice it meant the woman was not a known enemy or someone who did not hold much importance in their eyes. She sounded as if she was a spoiled woman in her early to mid 20s and was very arrogant. There was a huge chance it was a socialite trying to create an opportunity with Xi Long or a stalker. Though they could not eliminate the possibility entirely that there were more sinister intensions behind it. A simple camera recording was fine but it could somehow be used in a problem against him. Not much was impossible with the help of technology and graphics nowadays. Maybe why they need the recording is because there was too literal material on the internet to use. He was very strict on how much he was in the media so there was very little pictures and videos of him. She could verify that when she had done a background search on him.

"So what do you want to do then?"