Susu found him too indecisive and said to him, "Daisy is going through a difficult time now. If you don't go comfort her now, when will you?"
Huangfu Shaohua finally nodded and said, "Alright, I'll go to the hospital with you."
Susu thought of something and called the restaurant server over to pack several meal sets and drinks. She said, "Take them to the hospital to eat with her, so she won't be alone and sad."
They waited a while longer. After the server had packed everything, Huangfu Shaohua carried two of the sets for Susu.
As they walked out of the tea restaurant, Huangfu Shaohua said he was going to get the car. Susu pointed to the hospital not far ahead and said, "It's just a few steps away, no need to drive."
Huangfu Shaohua followed her towards the hospital.
As they neared the main entrance of the hospital's inpatient department, Huangfu Shaohua suddenly felt someone grab his neck from behind.
He quickly dropped the two meal sets in his hands and struggled forcefully, trying to fight back.
The person behind him quickly covered his mouth with a piece of paper.
Susu, walking along, sensed something was wrong. She turned around and saw two burly men behind Huangfu Shaohua. One of them had his neck in a chokehold and his mouth covered. She immediately shouted, "What do you want? Let him go!"
Huangfu Shaohua smelled a pungent odor from the paper, but he hadn't lost consciousness yet and was struggling desperately.
Susu saw a van next to the two burly men, with people inside. She immediately suspected they were kidnappers intending to extort money. While shouting at them, she took out her phone to call the police, but found there were surprisingly few pedestrians around.
Someone from the van shouted, "You two idiots, why aren't you grabbing this woman too!"
Susu saw the situation was bad and wanted to run to a place with people before calling the police, but it was too late.
Another burly man grabbed her directly and covered her mouth with the same kind of paper.
She saw Huangfu Shaohua had lost consciousness and was being dragged into the van. The person holding her also intended to push her into the nearby van.
Before losing consciousness, Susu kicked the van several times, hoping to attract the attention of passersby.
But no one noticed them being dragged into the car, and she too lost consciousness.
When she regained consciousness and woke up, she found herself tied to a concrete pillar. She didn't know where she was. Except for some small holes on the surrounding walls letting in some sunlight, she couldn't see anything else.
She turned her head to look behind her. There was someone else tied to the pillar, but with their back to her.
Susu could only see the shoulders of the person tied up like herself. She assumed it must be Huangfu Shaohua.
"Huangfu Shaohua, what exactly is going on? Why are they arresting you?" Susu shouted to him.
After a long while, Huangfu Shaohua didn't respond.
Susu had no choice but to hook her foot backward, thinking Huangfu Shaohua must still be unconscious from the sedative.
They were tied back-to-back to the same concrete pillar.
She recalled the scene of them being forced into the van. These people were after Huangfu Shaohua. It was probably because she happened to be nearby and wanted to call the police that these people grabbed her as well.
Susu hooked her foot backward for a long time, finally managing to touch his leg with effort. She tapped twice and said, "Wake up, wake up!"
Huangfu Shaohua felt someone calling him and slowly woke up, but his head still hurt badly.
Susu guessed they had given Huangfu Shaohua more of the sedative because he was a man and they feared he had the strength to escape.
She heard Huangfu Shaohua cough and spoke to him again, "Are you awake?"
"Mrs. Qin, is that you?" Huangfu Shaohua recognized her voice and said, "Why were you captured too? They were supposed to capture me."
"Who are the people who captured us? Do you know who these people are?" Susu asked. "What exactly is going on?"
Huangfu Shaohua leaned his head against the concrete pillar and said helplessly, "People from the Sheng family, Sheng Haoguang and Sheng Zhuzhu. They want to get revenge on me."
"The Sheng family?" Susu had heard Daisy mention before that Huangfu Shaohua had a childhood sweetheart, whose name seemed to be Sheng Zhuzhu.
"Yes, they went bankrupt because of a scheme by my mother," Huangfu Shaohua said apologetically. "This has nothing to do with you. I didn't expect them to capture you too."
Susu understood and said, "They captured you for revenge against your mother, or to use you to threaten the Huangfu Group?"
"They didn't kill me directly, so they must still have some use for me," Huangfu Shaohua said with a wry smile.
"You can still laugh," Susu felt their current situation was dire.
Huangfu Shaohua began to try and break free from the ropes binding him, saying, "I'm laughing at myself for being caught by them. But we can't just sit here and wait to die. We have to find a way to escape."
"What way?" Susu looked around again and calmed herself, saying, "Even if we can break free from the ropes, can we get out of here? Even if we get out, will there be their people guarding the entrance? We haven't figured anything out yet, so it's best not to act rashly."
Huangfu Shaohua stopped struggling, feeling that Susu had a point. He asked, "Mrs. Qin, aren't you afraid?"
"I am afraid, but being afraid is useless in this situation," Susu thought of her past experiences and felt she had become experienced in dealing with such matters.
Just as Huangfu Shaohua was about to say something else, the door here suddenly opened from the outside, and a strong beam of light shone in.
Susu was facing the door where the light was shining, and the glare made it difficult for her eyes to see the people entering.
She only heard a man say, "Why did you bring back a woman? This is really adding to the complications."
Another man with a rougher voice replied, "This woman was walking with Huangfu Shaohua. If we didn't grab her, she might have caused trouble."
Susu closed her eyes to adjust, and when she opened them again, she could see the two men who were speaking. One of them was one of the burly men who had dragged her and Huangfu Shaohua into the van, and the other was a middle-aged man she didn't recognize.
The middle-aged man snorted and said, "Since that's the case, this woman can't be kept. Get rid of her first."
As soon as he said this, the burly man immediately picked up a wooden stick and walked towards Susu, intending to swing it at her head.
Susu instinctively turned her head to dodge, only to hear Huangfu Shaohua shout, "Don't kill her! She's the wife of the wealthy magnate Qin Tianyi. You can exchange her for a large sum of money!"
Upon hearing the name Qin Tianyi, the burly man swinging the wooden stick stopped mid-air and turned to ask the middle-aged man, "Mr. Sheng, I know Qin Tianyi. He's the head of a large corporation."
"You don't need to tell me. I'm more familiar with the wealthy people of Lancheng than you are," the middle-aged man walked up to Susu, examined her closely, and took out his phone to search online.
The woman's appearance matched the photos online. It seemed Huangfu Shaohua wasn't lying.
"Then let her live a little longer," the middle-aged man said and walked towards Huangfu Shaohua.
The burly man put down the wooden stick, holding it in his hand as he followed the middle-aged man.
Susu breathed a sigh of relief. She had been stunned moments ago. Who were these people? They showed no hesitation when killing, it was too terrifying!
She thought she was going to be beaten to death by the burly man, but fortunately, Huangfu Shaohua revealed her identity. These people, wanting to exchange her for ransom, probably wouldn't kill her for now.