295: Chapter 295: I Never Hit People 295: Chapter 295: I Never Hit People Two days later.
“Master, Young Madam, there’s still no news on the little young master and the second miss.”
Jiang Feng had practically worn out this phrase.
He never imagined that one day, they would become so passive.
Finding someone was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Currently, they were also cooperating with the police in secret operations, mainly out of fear that the other party would discover them and do something drastic.
And in the past two days, the other party had not sent any more videos.
The cruise ship that they had found earlier had also been checked by the police, who confirmed that the people they were looking for were not on board.
It was indeed a diversion by the adversary.
In the past two days, the updates from the police indicated that none of the investigated cruise ships had yielded any clues.
Therefore, Jiang Feng was beginning to suspect that the perpetrators might have moved to land.
But if they set foot on land, they should definitely be spotted by the extensive surveillance network.
However, if they were still at sea, then after two days of searching, logically speaking, there should be some results by now.
But there wasn’t a single useful lead!
At this moment, Jiang Qi walked over.
“Master, the other party has sent another video.”
Jiang Qi’s voice trembled slightly, as the contents of the video were not good.
Jiang Yan took the tablet, opened the video, and when the couple saw the footage, they were both stunned.
In the video, Jiang You stood on the deck, her shoulders grasped by someone, while suspended in mid-air, dangling outside the cruise ship, was the little one, with the vast ocean below.
Jiang You’s voice also emerged from the video.
“Stop it!”
“What on earth do you want to do?”
“How can you do this to a child?
Put him down right now!”
The video was very short, less than a minute long, and after Jiang You’s words ended, there was nothing more.
Obviously, it was deliberate.
Their goal was to throw Jiang Yan and the others into panic and helplessness!
This was a form of psychological torment.
Watching one’s closest loved ones suffer while being powerless to help was the most heart-wrenching experience.
“…”
Jiang You looked at Su Baobao, suspended in mid-air, and her heart clenched tightly.
She tried to break free from the person holding her, but the other’s strength was too great for her to escape.
At this moment, she only hated that she wasn’t like her sister-in-law or Fei Xu, who had excellent martial skills.
Xu Xinyi appeared to enjoy the spectacle and wasn’t bothered by the size of the affair; to her, it was schadenfreude.
Seeing Jiang You panic-stricken made her happy!
This was precisely the out-of-control look she wanted to see on Jiang You!
Her eyes carried mockery as she watched Jiang You’s lonely and helpless figure on the deck, laughing in a twisted and sinister way.
She sneered in her heart.
“Bitch!
Always acting so arrogant, there will come a day when I will crush your pride into the ground!”
But her pleasure was short-lived as the child was let down.
Xu Xinyi’s expression stiffened, and she immediately yelled, “Who allowed you to put this brat down?
Keep him hanging there, don’t you dare let him go!”
Jiang You’s eyes reddened, and she shot a glare back at her, “Xu Xinyi, shut your mouth!”
At the same time, the black-clad person holding her also released her.
Jiang You immediately ran towards Su Baobao.
The moment she held him in her arms, Jiang You felt a slight consolation in her heart.
Her legs had truly gone weak from fright, her heart lifted to her throat, the corners of her eyes reddening.
She was genuinely terrified these people would crazily toss Su Baobao into the sea—he was still just a child, how would he endure such torment?
Plus, if anything happened to Su Baobao before her eyes, she would never be at peace for the rest of her life.
“Little auntie, I’m okay, don’t be scared.”
Su Baobao raised his little hand, gently patting her back to comfort her, feeling Jiang You’s fear.
He himself had been frightened a moment ago.
But Mommy said, as a boy, you must be brave.
Don’t panic when things happen, so you can think things through better.
“Whimper, from now on, little auntie will never let you out of sight again.”
Ten minutes earlier, she had just gone to the restroom.
Upon coming out, Su Baobao had already been taken away.
To Xu Xinyi’s orders, the men in black simply let it go in one ear and out the other!
“What are you doing, why are you letting him down?” She ran out to confront the man in black.
The man in black gave her an icy stare, “Miss Xu, if you have any questions, you can ask the boss.
This is the boss’s order!”
Xu Xinyi hadn’t had her fill of watching Jiang You’s panic, how could she possibly let it go!
“I don’t care, I want you to tie him back up for me!
I will deal with him myself!”
No sooner had her voice dropped than a resounding slap struck her face.
“Xu Xinyi, I never hit people, but you really f*cking aren’t human!”
Jiang You’s eyes still tinged with red, she glared icily at her: “I’ve put up with you for a long time, Xu Xinyi!”
“I told you not to mess with me, even if you have a powerful backer, so what?
He doesn’t care about you either, you’re just like a monkey acting as a buffoon, I really pity you!”
After finishing her words, without waiting for a response, Jiang You grabbed her hair, raised her right hand, and slapped her with another big smack.
Xu Xinyi’s left and right cheeks each received a slap!
Though Jiang You wasn’t as physically strong as a man, she was more than enough to handle a pretentious woman like Xu Xinyi.
The men in black standing by, momentarily stunned by the sudden turn of events, reverted to their expressionless state.
They even chose to coldly look on, turning a blind eye.
For a moment, Xu Xinyi was dumbfounded by the slap.
She hadn’t expected Jiang You to actually hit her.
Her face was burning with pain!
“Bitch, you dare to slap me?”
Jiang You closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.
She let her go, took a step back, then lifted her foot and kicked at her stomach.
Xu Xinyi’s body teetered and fell directly onto the deck!
“Ah…”
Xu Xinyi could only cry out in pain.
So many bodyguards stood on the deck, and not one of them helped her.
Jiang You looked down upon her with cold eyes: “Xu Xinyi, not only do I dare to slap you, I dare to kick you!
How about it, do you want to hit back?”
“Moreover, do you know that you really deserve a beating!
The fact that I stoop to hit you is already your honor!”
Xu Xinyi lay on the ground, clutching her cheek, glaring viciously at Jiang You, unable to say a word!
Jiang You walked over, half-kneeling in front of her, her gaze sharp and detached.
Then she lifted a finger towards Xu Xinyi’s mouth, saying, “And this mouth of yours, if you can’t speak properly, then don’t talk!
If you don’t want it anymore, I won’t mind tearing it to shreds!”
Hearing this, Xu Xinyi’s pupils shrank, and she instinctively shrunk back her neck.
Seeing her cowardly reaction, Jiang You said, “Xu Xinyi, you’re really nothing more than a paper tiger tough on the outside but hollow on the inside!”
“I’ll tell you, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will slap you every time I see you!”
Having said that, she made a motion as if to get up.
But in Xu Xinyi’s eyes, it seemed like she was about to receive another slap, so she instinctively folded her arms over her head and curled up.
“…”
Jiang You rolled her eyes at her and stood up, then turned around and left with Su Baobao.
But just a few steps away, a man came towards her on the deck, clapping his hands and shouting: “Brilliant!”
“People say it takes three women to put on a play, but I see you two can put on a show just fine.”
The man’s face was half-hidden by a mask.
He wore a light grey shirt, black pants, and his tall stature was impressive.
For a moment, she had the strange sense of recognizing him, yet couldn’t remember where she had seen him before.
However, his voice was a bit rough…
Jiang You looked at him, frowning slightly.
It seemed that this masked man must be the man behind Xu Xinyi.
So secretive and even wearing a mask like that, is he sick!
Jiang You: “Why are you wearing a mask in broad daylight?
Are you too hideous to show your face?”
Jiang You didn’t care who he was; she retorted without hesitation.
The man didn’t get angry but instead chuckled.
Jiang You was speechless: “…”
The man curled the corner of his lips and spoke: “What, do you really want to know who I am?”
Jiang You snorted dismissively: “I’m not interested in you, don’t flatter yourself!”
“But after all, I need to know who caught me, right?
Otherwise, when I die one day, my ghost won’t even be able to find you for revenge!”
“…”
The man’s gaze was fixed intensely on her, and he said: “Your personality doesn’t seem like hers.”
“What did you say?” Jiang You was completely confused.
Jiang You stared at the lower half of his face but found it unfamiliar, yet this build…
“Have I seen you somewhere before?” she asked directly.
The man’s body stiffened slightly for a moment before he curled his lip corner again.
Then he took off his mask.
A strange face appeared in front of Jiang You’s eyes.
She didn’t seem to recognize this face.
His features were sculpted, and his contours were as if modeled perfectly without a single flaw.
He was quite good-looking, but she couldn’t appreciate it.
“Miss Jiang, can you see clearly now?
Do I still look familiar to you?”
A strange face, a strange voice.
“…”
Xu Xinyi watched from behind as the man actually smiled at Jiang You, a stab of viciousness crossing her eyes!
She had known this man for over three months and had never seen him smile at her.
Most of the time, she faced his cold indifference.
She had been with him for so long and couldn’t even get a smile in return, yet he showed such a smile after only a few encounters with Jiang You?
How ironic!
No man is good!
The kick Jiang You had just delivered was pretty strong.
She held her stomach, enduring the pain, and got up.
“Christian!”
Xu Xinyi walked over and called the man.
“You said after catching this woman, she would be at my disposal.
She just hit me, and you have to avenge me.”
“My face still hurts now, and so does my stomach.
Christian, you can’t be biased—I’m your woman.”
After speaking, she wrapped her arm around his, pressing her chest softly against his arm, her tone carrying a whine.
The man didn’t throw her off.
Listening to Xu Xinyi’s words, Jiang You felt goosebumps all over.
She pulled Su Baobao behind her, hiding him from the disgusting scene, so it wouldn’t contaminate his pure heart.
The man looked down slightly at Xu Xinyi leaning on him, his eyes revealing a hint of coldness.
His deep and rough voice emerged: “How would you like me to avenge you?”
Xu Xinyi thought he was going to help her and spoke sweetly: “I want her to be hung from there!”
She stretched out her finger, pointing to the ropes hanging from the ship’s rail, her lips curling into a vicious smile.
“Oh?
Are you sure?” The man asked indifferently.
“Sure!” Xu Xinyi sneered, gritting her teeth.
She didn’t have any other requirements; just wanted to see Jiang You in a miserable, panicked, even frightened state.
Then, the man didn’t respond to her but looked towards Jiang You.
Jiang You was also looking at him.
“Miss Jiang, would you like to give it a try?” the man asked.
Jiang You looked at him as if he were insane—did this man have water in his brain, or was he seriously ill?
Such a boring and neurotic question he dared to ask!
Did he really think this was child’s play?
Or did he think it was like swinging?
“Do I look like I want to play?” Jiang You said, exasperated.
Then, glancing over to Xu Xinyi standing beside him, she said: “Why don’t you let Miss Xu give it a try?
She seems quite suited for it!”
“It would be perfect since brainless individuals like her would fit right in.
After all, her brain goes well with this seawater; they are all family!”
The hidden meaning was that her brain was waterlogged!
Whether she could pick up on that wasn’t Jiang You’s concern!
“…”
Xu Xinyi’s expression changed: “Jiang You, what do you mean?”
Jiang You glanced at her indifferently and didn’t bother to respond, “Whatever you think it means.”
“You…”
“What about me?
I don’t want to speak to you, shut up!”
Jiang You interrupted her directly.
Xu Xinyi’s face turned red, her breath caught in her chest.
At that moment, the man also let go of her hand.
“Christian, you…”
The man smoothed his sleeve, wrinkled by her grasp, and looked at her indifferently with a casual and cold tone: “Since Miss Jiang says so, why don’t you give it a try!”
Xu Xinyi’s face turned ashen in an instant.
She looked at the man in front of her, stunning and bewitching, bewildered and shocked.
“What…
What did you just say?” Xu Xinyi couldn’t believe he would say that.
Not only was Xu Xinyi caught off guard, but Jiang You was also surprised.
Was this Xu Xinyi bringing the rock to crush her own foot?
Jiang You always felt that this Christian was odd, but her mind wasn’t as agile as her brother’s and sister-in-law’s; she couldn’t pin down the peculiar feeling.
Although he looked unfamiliar, she felt an inexplicable familiarity towards him.
The man didn’t regard Xu Xinyi’s astonishment; he gestured to a black-clothed man by raising his chin slightly.
The black-clothed man got the message and stepped forward.
Xu Xinyi retreated in panic, her face full of fear.
“I don’t want to, don’t come over here!”
“…”
“Great, go ahead and test how solid that rope is.”
The man’s ruthless, cold, and rough voice drilled into her ears, invading her heart like a demon.