Arnold had no time to ask more questions, so he got into the car and sat in the driver's seat. After he started the car, he looked at Gu Haochen sitting in the co-pilot seat through the rearview mirror. Sure enough, his face was pale and his breath was slightly shortness of breath.Gu Shengrui never drives by himself, because he has had an accident before, and he is basically not afraid of anything, but he is afraid of driving, because a few years ago, he had an accident, a big event, something he never wants to mention. It took him a year and a half to overcome his phobia, but he never drove his own car again.No matter where he goes, he never drives. Even the extremely coquettish cars he decorated in the news are never driven by himself. Most of them are done by Arnold.However, he came by himself today because he was too anxious."Are you all right?" Arnold couldn't help but ask.Gu Shengrui didn't answer, but tried to restrain himself, sipped his lips and endured it, trying to sup
After Gu Shengrui made a look at Arnold, Arnold understood, went to Mu Haoxuan's hospital bed, pulled the chair aside and sat down. After closing the door in cool summer, he asked, "What happened at that time?"Mu Haoxuan looked at cold summer has pushed the door out, dare to say what he saw at that time. Cool summer is very dangerous, the other party is to kidnap her, prepared, cool summer around hidden unimaginable danger.Cool summer and Gu Shengrui stood outside the hospital door, tossing until now, it was more than one o'clock in the middle of the night, and the night sky was dark and breezy, with a slight chill."Gu Shengrui, can you void the contract? In fact, you just want to play. It's the same who you want to play with, but I can't afford it. I'm afraid. I'm implicated in people around me now. Gu Sheng Rui, I was wrong, I should not listen to advice, at that time in the grassland kidnapping my people said, and then contact you will not be so simple processing. Please, let me
Roselia’s POVDo you know that feeling of dread when something you’ve planned for years on end, scrutinising, memorising every little thing, paying excruciating attention to detail, withholding patience you don't have just so you could be as sure of it as was humanely possible and then it was all finally coming together but you just couldn't help but wonder that what if someone noticed something unusual and I was caught before the ball dropped. What if Edwin Clifford wasn't where he was supposed to be at the designated time, what if i messed up my part, erego destroying the whole bloody plan?The dread coiled up in my stomach like a snake, it growing more rabid and venomous with my increasing nervousness and anxiety. “Rose!!!”Romina, the Clifford mansion’s head chef yelled my name, snapping me out of my inner turmoil and almost making me slice a finger off along with the diced onions.“Stop being useless over there and bring me the tortilla chips from the freezer, from the one downst
At 6 in the evening, all the kitchen staff had been made to assemble in the ground floor storage room yet again to go over some last minute things. “Wow! The mistress is really going over the top with the preparations, the food, decorations and basically everything. She was even generous enough to gift us these pretty uniforms and aprons,” Leena loudly whispers to me as Romina stands at the head of the group of waiters and chefs, yelling out some instructions. Mrs. Clifford and generous? I don't think so. At least she loved her son though, loved him enough to show others kindness albeit it was for him. I kept my thoughts to myself, not ready to burst sweet Leena’s bubble just yet. She’d started here as a waiter only about a month ago and was already everyone’s favourite. She did exactly as she was told, wasn't mouthy or snarky and was happy to please everyone any way she could. I give her a small smile and just nod along. Leena was a few years older than me but seemingly as gullib
Everyone’s heads turned as the heavy footsteps neared us and one by one the Clifford family’s members took their place. I couldn’t help but stiffen when Waylen Clifford, brother of Edwin Clifford took his place at the head of the table, making me inch away from his chair. Luckily for me, he didn’t spare me a glance.Then Mr. Clifford’s youngest son, Gael Clifford took his seat on the fourth chair of the left side of the table, he was only 11 but had already wielded a gun. Dressed in a tux, the blonde boy looked like the spitting image of his father. Then his sisters, Olive and Lucy sat beside him and closest to the head seat……. my breath hitched so hard, I almost gasped for air. Closest to Waylen sat his brother, Edwin Clifford. Waylen was superior to Edwin in age, wealth and authority but not in cruelty. Other Cliffords along with the other guests took their seats but I couldn’t tear my eyes away from Edwin. He was right there, less than a few feet away from me. It took all the self
Derek’s POVShe was thinner than the last time I saw her, she had already been so frail, how the fuck could she possibly have lost more weight?She was taller obviously but still nothing more than a child in front of me. Strands of her wavy, dark blood red hair were tied up in a messy bun which ached to be pulled open and cascade in waves down her shoulders. Her delicate, lean arms were clad in a fitting red shirt and I caught a slight show of prominent collarbones sculpted so perfectly they were fit to be hangars for Gucci clothes and a waist so narrow it could fit in my one hand. I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable but I couldn’t help but behold each and every part of her for as long as I could. Then my mother decided that it was a good time for me to catch up with the gossip of the wives of the mafia and their “very” exciting life and then continued to engage me in some very boring conversation. I nodded at the right moments and mmhed and aahed along.I couldn’t help but frow
Roselia’s POV I had made it past the exit and found the truck I was supposed to escape in. I waved to the guy sitting in the driver’s seat. I half expected him to wave back and then the weirdest thing happened. He poked his head out the window and yelled for the patrolmen on guard. I was so confused for one second but then it clicked. It clicked quite quickly given the circumstances… but not quickly enough.It was a fucking setup.Horrified, I tried to make a run for it, my heart beating so loud, I couldn’t even hear my own pounding steps nor did I hear the shots that were fired until one hit me in the leg and I stumbled to the ground. I tried to get up as blood spurted from the wound in my shin. The bullet had passed through the flesh but still, there was so much blood. I could’ve still made it but the guards were too fast. I was on my feet and almost past the Clifford property’s boundary by the time they got a hold of me.I didn’t struggle as they dragged me back into the mansion
Roselia’s POVMy 5 feet tall body felt like it weighed a 1000 pounds. It felt like I was floating in the air and in place of my brain was a clump of cotton candy. I placed a hand on my forehead, rubbing lightly, trying to dull the ache as I sat up and let out a groan when my back felt like it was being sliced open by a 100 knives. “Put your back against the pillows. It will lessen the pain”, a nurse, who I only now noticed was also in the room kindly suggested. I listened, the fogginess in my brain clearing gradually.I let out a gasp when I realized that I was still in the mansion….. and alive.“No, you don’t have to….”, I resisted but the nurse straightened and fluffed the pillows behind my back anyway.I laid back and almost fell asleep again against the silky covers,” That’s actually a lot better, thanks.” The nurse frowned at me, placed a bunch of tablets on the nightstand, instructed me on how to take them and then left without another word.I rubbed a hand against my eyes and
After Gu Shengrui made a look at Arnold, Arnold understood, went to Mu Haoxuan's hospital bed, pulled the chair aside and sat down. After closing the door in cool summer, he asked, "What happened at that time?"Mu Haoxuan looked at cold summer has pushed the door out, dare to say what he saw at that time. Cool summer is very dangerous, the other party is to kidnap her, prepared, cool summer around hidden unimaginable danger.Cool summer and Gu Shengrui stood outside the hospital door, tossing until now, it was more than one o'clock in the middle of the night, and the night sky was dark and breezy, with a slight chill."Gu Shengrui, can you void the contract? In fact, you just want to play. It's the same who you want to play with, but I can't afford it. I'm afraid. I'm implicated in people around me now. Gu Sheng Rui, I was wrong, I should not listen to advice, at that time in the grassland kidnapping my people said, and then contact you will not be so simple processing. Please, let me
Arnold had no time to ask more questions, so he got into the car and sat in the driver's seat. After he started the car, he looked at Gu Haochen sitting in the co-pilot seat through the rearview mirror. Sure enough, his face was pale and his breath was slightly shortness of breath.Gu Shengrui never drives by himself, because he has had an accident before, and he is basically not afraid of anything, but he is afraid of driving, because a few years ago, he had an accident, a big event, something he never wants to mention. It took him a year and a half to overcome his phobia, but he never drove his own car again.No matter where he goes, he never drives. Even the extremely coquettish cars he decorated in the news are never driven by himself. Most of them are done by Arnold.However, he came by himself today because he was too anxious."Are you all right?" Arnold couldn't help but ask.Gu Shengrui didn't answer, but tried to restrain himself, sipped his lips and endured it, trying to sup
How can you not call a taxi? He and Su Lixin have been playing together since childhood. He knows his living environment too well. Who said taxis can't enter? He had a bad feeling and ordered anxiously: "Find a place where there are many people!"Cool summer is really thunder constitution, how is it so easy to offend some unknown people?"Won't be so terrible? It should be fine, and it is about to walk to the door." Liang Xia looked at the gate not far away, hooked his lips and said, "I seem to see my taxi, it doesn't matter."The cool summer voice just fell, and suddenly it was pulled by the hand sticking out from behind the tree. She just wanted to call for help, but her mouth was covered, and she struggled feebly, but the other party covered her mouth with a wet towel from behind. The other party was tall and strong, and she couldn't break free at all."Woo", cool summer struggled hard, but it didn't have any effect at all, and it was still shackled. The mobile phone fell to the gr
On the third day after Liang Xia was discharged from hospital, she returned to work normally. She had been working for five days, and everything was normal, except... Gu Shengrui really didn't contact her again. Cool summer is not good to contact him actively, but cool summer knows that Gu Shengrui came on the day he was trapped in the elevator. She clearly remembers that he said, let cool summer live well. But why don't you contact her anymore?Finally, after many days in cool summer, I finally found a reason and took the initiative to call Gu Shengrui: asking for salary.Chapter 34 Encounter Danger AgainHowever, cool summer unexpectedly did not think, the other party unexpectedly hung up her phone. With what? Is this man crazy?Arnold, who was watching the excitement from the side, was stunned and asked, "Cool summer?"Gu Shengrui nodded slightly and rubbed his temples. Recently, company affairs made him too tired. I woke up early in the morning and said that the cervical vertebra
Just as the scheme of entering from above was about to be ruled out, Gu Shengrui said, "No, other people enter from below, find something to support the elevator, and continue to go in above to save people. In the fastest way, there must be someone inside, I promise, and you must save her and live."When they heard the sound, they turned their heads. Everyone knew that he was Gu Shengrui, and they all felt his look of not being angry and arrogant.Gu Shengrui lay prone at the elevator entrance on the second floor and shouted at it: "Cool summer! You give me life. Cool summer, otherwise Mu Haoxuan, Rebecca and even all your family members will die. You know me, live for me!"Liang Xia, who was in a coma, seemed to hear someone calling her. She was woken up. She opened her eyes slightly and listened carefully, so she really heard Gu Shengrui's voice and heard him say, "Live for me."Liang Xia spoke slowly and tried hard to shout, but she didn't have the strength, so she had to move her
After the phone was dialed, Gu Shengrui anxiously grabbed the phone and asked the other end: "What about cool summer?""It seems to be trapped in the elevator for several hours." Su Lixin walked anxiously outside the elevator door, and his ears were filled with complaints from the staff from time to time: "What's going on? Is it stuck? Going down from above? Will it work? Hey, what should I do?"Firefighters and elevator maintenance personnel all said that the inside of the elevator was broken and stuck between the first floor and the second floor, which was very difficult to repair. But if there is someone inside, you can't wait and repair it slowly. In this way, everyone is under great pressure. One minute and one second later increases the danger of people inside.Peripheral staff knocked on the elevator and roared inside: "Is there anyone inside? Can anyone hear you? Please answer." However, there was no response at all. In the end, the answer given by the staff was: Either there
Once upon a time, watching others worship God and Buddha, believe in Christ and worship Jesus, they always pretend that I am an excellent socialist successor and tell others that we can't be superstitious, you know? But now, here, she suddenly understood that you don't believe, just because you are not desperate enough, and you haven't reached the moment when there is no hope. At that moment between life and death, all those who have hope will believe. Cool summer now can't wait to kneel down and pray with great concentration. She must let her live. She wants to pray to God and pray to the gods. She wants to grow up in cool summer. She hasn't done anything bad for so many years except stealing pocket money from her family in the first grade of primary school and running to buy snacks.Furthermore, it was accidentally riding Gu Shengrui's neck, which made him ashamed, but she also paid off what should be paid back, and Gu Shengrui had already retaliated what should be retaliated. Why?
Liang Xia hugged his knees tightly, buried his head between his knees, and kept chanting: "Gu Shengrui, your uncle's, Gu Shengrui, your uncle's."At this time, the cursed person is having a video conference, and his previous analysis of education industry projects has done a good job. The monopoly after-school tutoring institution founded by Gu Shengrui was officially launched. After discussing with a group of people, he decided to set up all institutions near colleges and universities at one time, and began to recruit qualified tutors extensively. There was only one month between the training period and the recruitment period.Gu Shengrui stressed at the end of the meeting: "All business opportunities are the same as news, and timeliness is the most important point. On the opening day of our office building, I asked to open directly, but if it was late, my ideas would be stolen. All our previous efforts will be in vain, so everyone worked hard. Once there is any problem in the implem
See, people who have only seen it once despise Gu Shengrui, so he is hated, and it is really not extreme in cool summer. Cool summer is very appreciative of Mu Haoxuan's action. Under the influence of a good mood, she specially drilled into the kitchen and cooked a big table of food well.Cool summer specially prepared wine to drink to look down on Gu Shengrui together.Mu Haoxuan is a very good man. Liangxia thinks his future wife must be the happiest woman in the world, because he always washes dishes and cleans at home, and even occasionally helps Liangxia wash clothes. Cool summer sometimes contemplates that Mu Haoxuan will marry his wife in the future. How will she collect some training fees with the other party? In fact, Mu Haoxuan is so excellent and knows how to take care of girls. Is it her credit?After going to work the next day, Liang Xia watched all the news as usual, and then routinely logged into the registered trumpets on his major websites, and praised all the recent