Shen Yunxing's voice trembled, and she was utterly panicked.
Jiang Chiyan thought that Shen Yunxing was, after all, that guy Jiang Shun's unattainable love, so he patiently asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Yunxing kept her voice very low, as though afraid someone would hear her talking to Jiang Chiyan on the phone. "Last night, at a dinner gathering, I ran into... Jiang Shun. I was drugged unconscious when I went to the restroom. When I woke up, I was in his bedroom. The doors and windows are all locked, and he isn't here. Can you get me out?"
She knew it was very inappropriate to approach Jiang Chiyan so abruptly.
But among the people she knew, no one except Jiang Chiyan would dare barge into Jiang Shun's home.
Shen Yunxing wanted to say more.
Suddenly, she heard footsteps drawing closer.
Shen Yunxing hurriedly hung up, stuffed her phone under the pillow, and closed her eyes, pretending she hadn't woken up.
The bedroom door was unlocked.
Jiang Shun walked in, wearing navy-blue loungewear.
Jiang Shun glanced indifferently at Shen Yunxing. "Stop pretending. Your eyelashes are trembling."
Shen Yunxing shuddered all over. The drug hadn't worn off, and she had no strength in her limbs. She couldn't even sit up. "This is kidnapping. It's a crime, you know that?"
Jiang Shun scoffed, his eyes filling with a cold, sinister look. "So what?"
He stepped forward, gripped Shen Yunxing's chin, and bit down hard on her lips. The heavy taste of blood spread between their lips and teeth.
Jiang Shun said sinisterly, "I told you. If you dare run away, I'll kill you."
"Shen Yunxing, or... Yun Xing. Heh." Jiang Shun chuckled softly.
Shen Yunxing mustered every bit of strength she had and shoved him away. "Don't touch me! As long as I'm alive, I won't be a canary with broken wings locked in a cage!!"
Jiang Shun restrained both her wrists. "Calling Jiang Chiyan for help? Do you think... he'd turn on his third brother for you?"
"Yun Xing, you're still so naive." Jiang Shun's gaze was thick with malice. "No one knows my younger brother's temperament better than I do."
Jiang Shun hadn't guessed wrong.
Jiang Chiyan really didn't want to get involved in other people's romantic entanglements.
Jiang Chiyan wasn't a saint.
However.
When Jiang Chiyan, who was at his villa, opened his computer and prepared to start working...
[Ding-dong!] [Host has triggered a mission!] [Mission: rescue Shen Yunxing.] [Success reward: Instant Healing Ability.] [Failure penalty: blindness in both eyes.]
Jiang Chiyan swore inwardly and didn't move.
[Host, are you sure you wish to accept the penalty?]
Fuck!
Jiang Chiyan abruptly stood up.
He grabbed the coat from the rack and his car keys, then rushed out.
He'd go. Wasn't that enough?
He didn't want to go blind.
After arriving at Jiang Shun's villa, Jiang Chiyan swaggered inside.
Jiang Shun froze briefly at the sight of him, his eyes darkening. "What do you want?"
Jiang Chiyan smiled. "I'm here to bring my third brother and sister-in-law a gift."
Jiang Shun gave him a sidelong look. "Oh?"
Jiang Chiyan beckoned to Jiang Shun with a finger, as though calling a dog. "Come here!"
Jiang Shun narrowed his eyes and walked over.
Jiang Chiyan seized Jiang Shun's wrist, turned, pulled him onto his back, then flung him forward.
Caught completely off guard, Jiang Shun was thrown straight to the floor with an over-the-shoulder throw.
Jiang Shun: "..."
Jiang Chiyan rubbed his head as though petting a cat. "Be good now."
Just then, a pungent, unusual fragrance rushed into Jiang Shun's nostrils.
Jiang Shun gritted his teeth. "Jiang Chiyan, you little bastard! You dare throw me... achoo!"
"Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!!"
Jiang Shun sneezed several times in succession. Lying on the floor, he covered his nose and glared at Jiang Chiyan. "What the fuck... achoo... did... achoo... you do?"
Jiang Chiyan wiped the pollen off his fingertips. He remembered that Jiang Shun was allergic to pollen. "Sorry, Third Brother. Sister-in-law... I have to take her away today. Please be understanding."
Either he went blind.
Or Jiang Shun sneezed a few times.
Jiang Chiyan decisively chose the latter.
He went upstairs at a leisurely pace and brought Shen Yunxing down.
As he left, he kindly fetched Jiang Shun some allergy medicine.
However, what Jiang Chiyan hadn't expected was this.
When he and Shen Yunxing came out of the villa, one of Shen Yunxing's stalker fans photographed them.
Then several new topics appeared on Weibo.
#Shen Yunxing and an unfamiliar man enter and leave a luxury villa#
#The love triangle between Gunpowder Smoke and Shen Yunxing#
#Jiang Chiyan flew into a rage for a beauty#
#Jiang Chiyan Xiao Cheng#
After dropping Shen Yunxing off, Jiang Chiyan happened to look at Weibo and got a fright.
He immediately called Xiao Cheng.
Before the call connected-
The system's voice rang out in Jiang Chiyan's mind.
[Ding!] [Mission completed: rescue Shen Yunxing.] [Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Instant Healing Ability.]
Jiang Chiyan was a little skeptical. "Can it really heal wounds instantly?"
[Minor injuries can heal instantly, but the pain will be one hundred times worse than usual.]
Jiang Chiyan was half convinced.
He picked up a shard of glass from the ground, rolled up his sleeve, and lightly slashed his arm.
Blood quickly stained his arm red.
Jiang Chiyan asked the system inwardly, How do I heal it?
[Host only needs to recite the incantation three times.] [Not silently. You must say it aloud.]
Jiang Chiyan: "What's the incantation?"
[Incantation: I really want Xiao Cheng to imprison me.]
Jiang Chiyan ground his teeth. "Can you change it?"
[Incantation 2.0: I want to give Xiao Cheng a blowjob,]
Jiang Chiyan cursed the system several times inwardly. "Let's stick with the original."
He closed his eyes and endured the intense shame inside him-
"I really want Xiao Cheng to imprison me. I really want Xiao Cheng to imprison me. I really want Xiao Cheng to imprison me."
As his words fell.
The nearly three-inch wound on his arm healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Beads of sweat appeared on Jiang Chiyan's forehead.
One hundred times the pain.
It really fucking hurt.
One minute later.
Jiang Chiyan touched the faint scar on his arm, stunned.
Only after a long while did he believe this wasn't a dream.
In a daze, Jiang Chiyan picked up his phone, intending to call Xiao Cheng again.
One look at the screen left him dumbfounded.
The call he'd made to Xiao Cheng had connected at some point.
Call duration: one minute and fifty-eight seconds.
Just now... he seemed to have shouted three times... I really want Xiao Cheng to imprison me.
Jiang Chiyan: "..."
Xiao Cheng, on the other end, also fell silent for a moment before commenting quite seriously, "In broad daylight, too. I never expected you to be so... uninhibited."
Jiang Chiyan: "That's not what I meant..."
Xiao Cheng: "I'll remember that."
Jiang Chiyan swore inwardly. "I..."
Xiao Cheng interrupted him. "Do you prefer gold chains or silver ones? Thin chains or thick ones?"
"And..." Xiao Cheng added, "Chiyan, let me feel your neck next time and measure it with my hands."
Jiang Chiyan: "Huh?"
Xiao Cheng's voice was a little hoarse. "A collar. You'll like wearing one, won't you?"