Saintly Hall Peak, Number 9 Chinese Villa Estate.
As the automatic gate slowly opened, Wan Yunting drove his car into the courtyard and parked it to the side.
Niu Qiuling got out of the car, surveyed the Chinese villa, and while opening the rear door to retrieve the two shopping bags of clothes, she asked, "Did you buy this villa?"
"Mm."
Wan Yunting responded sullenly and walked directly into the villa. In the living room, he saw Xu Lingwei and her junior brother, Li Zihang, lounging comfortably on the sofa, snacking and engrossed in an idol drama on television.
"Junior Brother Wan, you're back."
Li Zihang greeted Wan Yunting with a wave as he entered.
Xu Lingwei, sitting beside him, also turned her head, glanced briefly at him, and then returned her gaze to the idol drama.
"Why are they here with you?"
Niu Qiuling, carrying the shopping bags, saw Xu Lingwei and Li Zihang and turned to Wan Yunting with a puzzled look. "And they call you Junior Brother Wan?"
"Mm, my master is their fellow disciple, so I became their... Wait, no, why are you two at home?" Wan Yunting's eyes widened as he looked at the siblings. "Aren't you supposed to be with Yan Xi?"
"Junior Brother Wan, how can you say that?"
Li Zihang immediately sat up and said, "This afternoon, your girlfriend inexplicably scolded Senior Sister and me, and told us to get lost. What kind of people do you think Senior Sister and I are, to endure such treatment? So, Senior Sister and I just came back."
Wan Yunting had previously asked Xu Lingwei and Li Zihang to protect Fang Yan Xi. For some time, the siblings had been accompanying Fang Yan Xi, even working at her company.
However, in the afternoon, after Wan Yunting revealed his identity, Fang Yan Xi was furious. She came downstairs, saw the siblings, and coldly told them to leave.
Xu Lingwei and Li Zihang, unable to tolerate such unwarranted anger, turned around and returned.
A frown creased Wan Yunting's brow, and a bad premonition suddenly struck him!
Just then, his phone rang. It was Meng Hu. Wan Yunting's heart sank. He quickly answered, and Meng Hu's anxious voice came through, "Boss Wan, something's happened. The people I sent to protect Sister-in-law have been dealt with, and they've even taken Sister-in-law!"
"What!"
Upon hearing this, Wan Yunting's eyes widened in alarm. He anxiously asked, "Do you know who did it?"
"The brothers under me said the ones who took Sister-in-law were two foreigners, a man and a woman. They're very powerful!"
Meng Hu was currently in his car, heading towards the small bar where Fang Yan Xi and Lin Ya Nan were drinking. "Sister-in-law was taken from a bar. I'm bringing my men there now. I'll send you the address..."
As Wan Yunting looked at the address Meng Hu sent via WeChat, his face filled with anxiety. He turned and walked towards the exit. Niu Qiuling, who had just recovered from her surprise, dropped what she was holding and hurried after him, "Hey, what happened...?"
Li Zihang, sitting on the sofa, looked stunned. He turned to his senior sister, who was watching the idol drama with a very serious expression. "Senior Sister, will something happen to Junior Brother Wan?"
Xu Lingwei, without taking her eyes off the screen and still chewing on a spicy strip, calmly replied, "No, he's very capable."
"Oh, right. Then I'm relieved."
Li Zihang picked up another bag of chips and leaned back on the sofa, continuing to watch TV with his senior sister.
"I'm talking to you, what exactly happened?"
Niu Qiuling, who had chased after him, watched Wan Yunting pull open the car door and get in. She quickly sat in the passenger seat, seeing his anxious expression, unsure of what had happened.
"Yan Xi has been captured. Damn it, I should have realized sooner."
Wan Yunting, turning the car around as he exited the gate, slammed his hand angrily and reproachfully on the steering wheel.
He had initially anticipated that if those groups intended to target him, they might also harm his family and loved ones. That's why he had previously asked Pang Yuan and others to send people to protect his second brother's family.
But what Wan Yunting never expected was that the groups' target was actually Fang Yan Xi!
Niu Qiuling's eyes widened. "Why would they capture Fang Yan Xi? To threaten you?"
"Otherwise?"
Wan Yunting shot Niu Qiuling a glare. He was agitated now, worried that those people might harm Fang Yan Xi, his heart filled with immense anxiety.
Knowing his current urgency, Niu Qiuling immediately contacted Zhou Dong. "Captain Zhou, Captain Zhou, those people aren't targeting Wan Yunting. They've already captured Fang Yan Xi!"
"Fang Yan Xi, is she Yun Ting's girlfriend?"
Zhou Dong, who was setting up a perimeter around Wan Yunting's house, received the call and was immediately surprised. "Where was she captured?"
"Hello, where was your girlfriend captured?" Niu Qiuling asked, turning her head.
Wan Yunting, driving the car, replied anxiously, "The ye.swhisky bar on Changsheng Road..."
"Alright, we're heading there now. Tell Yun Ting not to worry."
After learning the address, Zhou Dong immediately led Wu Lei and others towards the bar named after the bird on Changsheng Road.
At the bar entrance, a crowd had already gathered. Lin Ya Nan lay on the ground, along with two young men. Blood flowed on the ground; their throats had been slit with a single precise cut, indicating the killer's ruthlessness.
The police had also received an alarm, and officers were already arriving at the scene. Meng Hu and a group of men rushed over. A subordinate who had been secretly protecting Fang Yan Xi reported that Lin Ya Nan, who was with Fang Yan Xi, had also been stabbed in the abdomen and was lying unconscious on the ground.
Meng Hu had already called an ambulance and was immediately taking Lin Ya Nan to the hospital for treatment.
A silver sedan roared to a stop by the roadside. Wan Yunting's eyes were sharp, his face grim. He quickly approached, pushed through the onlookers, and entered. He saw the two young men's bodies on the ground. Police were setting up a cordon, preventing anyone from contaminating the scene.
Meng Hu and his men stood to the side. Meng Hu was on his phone. Upon seeing Wan Yunting enter, he immediately went up to him and said, "Boss Wan, the brothers have assembled. What do you want us to do?"
Wan Yunting waved him off and turned to Niu Qiuling, who had followed him. "Go and have the bar hand over the security camera footage from the entrance!"
Niu Qiuling nodded and looked at the two police officers from the local precinct. "You two come with me."
"Who are you?" the two officers asked.
"What nonsense are you talking? We're your colleagues."
Niu Qiuling directly flashed her ID in front of them and then called out to the onlookers, "Everyone, make way, make way! Police business, no loitering, disperse..."
"Tiger, deploy all the brothers. Search everywhere, even if you have to dig three feet deep, find them!" Wan Yunting's eyes were sharp as he pointed at Meng Hu, gritting his teeth.
"Yes."
Meng Hu nodded and immediately took out his phone, calling Di She and Zhang Beihai to take action.
"Hey, you, hurry inside..."
Niu Qiuling called out from the bar entrance. Wan Yunting hurried over, brought the bar manager to a monitoring room in the back, and retrieved the footage of Fang Yan Xi and Lin Ya Nan being abducted from outside the bar.
He watched as a foreign man and woman followed Fang Yan Xi and Lin Ya Nan out of the bar. Then, a valet drove Fang Yan Xi's Mercedes. The footage showed Lin Ya Nan helping Fang Yan Xi into the back seat, and then she also tried to get in.
However, the red-haired foreigner grabbed Lin Ya Nan by the hair and violently threw her out. He immediately pulled out a military knife and stabbed her viciously in the abdomen, then pushed her to the ground.
"Damn it, where is Ya Nan now?"
Seeing Lin Ya Nan injured, Wan Yunting's eyes widened with rage. He gritted his teeth and asked Meng Hu.
"I've already called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital for emergency treatment."
Meng Hu couldn't help but shiver, clearly sensing a sharp and terrifying aura emanating from Wan Yunting.
In the surveillance footage, the four brothers who had been secretly protecting Fang Yan Xi immediately intervened but were quickly dispatched by the foreign man, their throats slit in a few moves. Then, he drove the car, with the red-haired foreign woman sitting in the back, and took Fang Yan Xi away.
Thinking of something, Wan Yunting immediately took out his phone and opened a shared location tracking software. Indeed, he saw Fang Yan Xi's current position, moving rapidly towards the outskirts of Huadu City.
Just then, a call came in. The caller ID showed it was Fang Yan Xi.
Wan Yunting's eyes widened, and his heart surged with excitement. He quickly answered and called out, "Yan Xi..."
"Hello."
A stranger's female voice replied from the other end of the phone. She chuckled in English, "If you want to save your girlfriend, come alone. I know this phone has a tracking system!"
Upon hearing that it was someone from the group, Wan Yunting's eyes turned sharp. He suppressed his anger and replied coldly in English, "Don't harm her, or I'll make you regret it!"
"Heh heh."
The red-haired foreign woman, sitting in the back of the car, chuckled lightly. She turned to look at Fang Yan Xi, who had sobered up from the alcohol and her eyes revealed a trace of panic. However, Fang Yan Xi forced herself to suppress her fear, her eyes nervously fixed on the foreign woman, unsure of who they were.
"I heard you're coming alone. If I find out you've brought any police, you can go collect your girlfriend's corpse!" the foreign woman said with a cold laugh before hanging up.
The foreign man driving glanced at the tense expression of Fang Yan Xi in the rearview mirror and said with a wicked smile, "Such a beautiful Oriental beauty!"
"Beautiful?"
The foreign woman named Retana turned to look at Fang Yan Xi and kicked the back of the driver's seat hard. "Am I as beautiful as her?"
"Haha..."
The foreign man driving laughed. Fang Yan Xi, sitting in the back, couldn't help but ask, "Who are you people, and why did you capture me?"
Retana turned her head, her blue eyes looking at Fang Yan Xi with amusement, and said, "You'd better shut up. I hate the sound of your voice."
"Retana, don't scare her. We still want to play with her when we get back," the driving foreigner, Albert, said with a wicked grin.
"Play with your ass!"
Retana's face turned angry, and she kicked the back of the driver's seat again, causing Fang Yan Xi to tremble. She had a faint suspicion that these two might be after the man!