"Let's go," Long Jie said to Zhenyi, pointing towards the dance floor.
"We are not here to dance, Jie," Zhenyi murmured when Long Jie dragged her to the dance floor.
The music began. Everyone was partnered with their wives/girlfriends.
Zhenyi and Long Jie perfectly synced with their dance steps. He sneakily handed her a folded paper and She looked at him in doubt.
One step.
Two steps.
Bringing his mouth near her ear, he whispered, "We will change dance partners in a few seconds. You will be switching to Du Zheng after one minute and forty seconds as per my calculation. After one minute, you will switch to the man in the blue suit. Disappear after reaching that side. Mya will take your place. Follow the directions on the paper and you will find for whom we are here. Take a deep breath and I know you can do it."
"If I don't come within the next ten minutes, leave the premises, Jie," Zhenyi said while parting. "Do not take any risks for me. Your life is more valuable to me."
Just as Long Jie had calculated, Zhenyi switched to Du Zheng who was mesmerized by Zhenyi's seductive beauty. He didn't realize when Zhenyi switched to someone else and Mya took her place.
The dance would take place for another ten minutes and she had a total of ten minutes to search for that person.
According to Long Jie's investigation, that person was here today. Following the directions, she reached the same wing where she had slashed that attacker's throat.
Walking forward, she came across the person who she had been looking for more than a week now.
To say she was shocked would be an understatement. She was more than shocked.
"Why are you here?" The girl's eyes widened when she saw Zhenyi standing before her. From where she was standing on the second, she could see the hustle bustle happening on the first floor, but still, she didn't notice when Zhenyi left the dance floor.
She was the same person who had seen Zhenyi slashing the throat of her assailant. It's a different story why she didn't tell anyone.
"To take you from here, little girl," Zhenyi said as she grabbed her hand and started walking. She was not here to waste the time and that's why she directly took the action.
"Stop. Stop." The girl was no one else but Du Zheng's butterfly. "I'm not going with you. I will stay with him."
Zhenyi stopped and veered around to take a look at her. She had features identical to Zhenyi. "You look like me. Is that the reason why he is keeping you hostage?"
Still, too blunt for her own good.
"No," The girl softly said. "You look like me, Xin Zhenyi. It's the reason why he is currently obsessed with you." She removed her arm from Zhenyi's hold and added," Thank you for coming to take me out of here. But I can never escape Du Zheng's clutches. I'm bound to him. I will stay by his side as long as I'm alive. Do not waste your time on me."
Zhenyi couldn't believe her ears. This girl was crazy! Wasn't she? She was trying to get her out of her and the stupid girl wanted to stay by her captor's side at any cost? Did she not know that he was a sadist?
"What's your name?" Zhenyi asked her softly and taking out her phone, she clicked her picture. "And why do you want to stay by his side?"
"I don't have a name. He calls me his butterfly," the girl said to Zhenyi with a sad smile. "I have signed the contract. I have vowed to be by his side as long as we are alive. There is no freedom for me."
"We have six minutes, little girl, before Du Zheng his men notices something wrong, "Zhenyi informed her. " Zheng Han(Officer Han) had wreaked havoc outside in my territory. He said you are the key to Du Zheng's connection to Xins. Tell me how Du Zheng wants to use you to destroy me?"
Now, this information brought great fear to the little girl. She didn't contact Officer Han to take her out of here. She was left with no resort that's why she contacted him. She knew how impulsive he was.
"Please stop Zhang Han," The girl was genuinely scared. "I was sold by human traffickers to Du Zheng when I was fifteen. Zheng Han was the young officer who was trying to arrest those traffickers. I told him that he couldn't save me but he didn't listen to me. As I had expected, I was sold to someone else before the police could save me. Other girls were saved but I wasn't because I wasn't meant to be." She paused for a moment and then added in a very low voice, "Before I was sent to Du Zheng, I had found some clues about my family and all those clues pointed towards you. I knew that Zhang Han couldn't protect me, yet I accepted his emergency number. I begged him to find you back then. But he failed too. When I found out that Du Zheng was after you, I got scared and asked him why he wanted to do this? He said something about my relationship with your family. He said only by killing you, he could eliminate Xin family without giving up on me. He is crazy for me. He will kill everyone who will take me away from him."
"What relations does he believe that you have with me?"Zhenyi whispered.
"He believes that I'm the baby who was said to be dead with your mother back then."
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