The afternoon was bright and sunny, with a gentle breeze, and the weather was perfect.
Du Ruoxin turned, choosing the highest point, feeling a sense of "when I stand on the highest peak, I can see all the mountains below," as if all things in the world were at her feet.
She couldn't help but pick up her brush.
She painted with great concentration, depicting magnificent mountains and rivers, and beautiful scenery, but—
Just as she finished the general outline, an unwelcome guest flew around her, buzzing and whizzing.
Rong Jingyang, wearing a flight suit, descended from the sky, flew from left to right, then from right to left, and circled around her.
Du Ruoxin: "..."
So noisy!
How could she concentrate on her painting?!
Du Ruoxin's mood instantly soured, and she felt a bit agitated.
Cristiano sat quietly beside the woman. She painted, and he read. It was a rare moment of peaceful coexistence.
But this tranquility didn't last long. After only a few minutes, Rong Jingyang started causing trouble.
"Woo—"
He zipped past once, then zipped past again.
Cristiano and Du Ruoxin wore expressions of indescribable awkwardness. Staring at the figure flying around like a fly, not a mosquito, their moods plummeted.
[What the hell!]
[Are you looking for death!]
Cristiano stood up, his jaw clenched, "Where's my gun!"
He wanted to kill Rong Jingyang!
No one could stop him!
Cristiano reached for his waist. He usually kept his gun on him, but because he was on vacation in the mountains, he had left it in his room.
After searching everywhere, he remembered the gun was in the bedroom.
Cristiano turned and left.
Du Ruoxin shivered at her brother's words, "Brother, Brother..."
She hurriedly grabbed him, "What are you going to do!"
Cristiano was as agitated as an enraged lion, "I'll kill—" No, he corrected himself in time, "I suddenly feel like hunting."
Du Ruoxin: ...Hunting, or hunting Rong Jingyang?
Afraid to let go, she held onto him tightly, "Forget it, forget it. I don't feel like painting anymore. Didn't you say there was a natural hot spring here?"
"Take me to soak in the hot spring for a while."
Cristiano's ferocious face finally softened upon hearing the woman's words. "Alright."
Du Ruoxin regretted it as soon as she spoke.
He wanted to issue a martial world manhunt order!
But Cristiano told him to calm down and not act rashly. If he alerted the enemy and jeopardized Grace's situation, or if the kidnappers saw the order and put Grace in mortal danger, he would regret it immensely.
Qin Yunxi dared not escalate the situation.
The only things he could do were: first, wait for his subordinates to continue their investigation and see if they could find any clues; second, wait for news from Cristiano.
But he waited and waited. One night passed, then one day, then another night. As another day was about to pass.
He was exhausted from waiting.
He really wanted to take a large sum of money to Cristiano and have him give him all the information at once!
Stop playing with him!
He didn't want to bear the pain of losing her.
Whenever Qin Yunxi closed his eyes, he saw that stubborn girl Grace being whipped and abused by the kidnappers, her bloody image filling his mind.