The Empty Bridal Chamber - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Abduction

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The men were shocked when they saw Ye Lingxiao, but they relaxed when they saw that he was alone.

They split into two groups. Two of them held Lin Wanmeng back while the remaining three surrounded Ye Lingxiao in a semicircle. They rubbed their fists and were eager to try.

There was a large patch of blood on Lin Wanmeng’s body. Her face was pale and her eyes were tightly shut. It was unknown if she was alive.

Ye Lingxiao’s expression darkened as he looked at these men with an increasingly cold gaze.

A few men wanted to flank Ye Lingxiao from the side, but Ye Lingxiao just lifted his leg and kicked one of them in the chin.

The two people beside him were about to surround him when Ye Lingxiao found an opening and elbowed the man in the back.

The remaining men realized that Ye Lingxiao was not to be trifled with. They hurriedly put down Lin Wanmeng and rushed over.

Lin Wanmeng, who was forcefully thrown down, let out a muffled groan because of the injury on her leg, attracting Ye Lingxiao’s attention. Ye Lingxiao was caught off guard and was punched in the abdomen.

A piercing pain spread from the center of his body. Ye Lingxiao gritted his teeth and punched the man’s neck.

In a short while, the five of them were lying on the grass. Some of them were still wailing about the dislocation of their arms, and some of them had already fainted.

Ye Lingxiao took a few steps forward. The fabric rubbed against the wound, but he didn’t even frown as he rushed over to check on Lin Wanmeng’s injuries.

There was no wound under the blood.

However, during the examination, he discovered that Lin Wanmeng’s right leg had been fractured due to the violent dragging.

Ye Lingxiao gently put Lin Wanmeng down and walked to the robber who could barely maintain normal communication. He kicked him in the shoulder.

The other party immediately screamed in pain.

“Who asked you to come? What did you do to that woman?” Ye Lingxiao squatted down slowly. Under his messy black hair was a pair of blood-red eyes.

His tone was cold as he pulled out the short knife from the kidnapper’s waist. The tip of the knife slid down his neck to his collarbone.

Fear flashed across the kidnapper’s eyes, but he gritted his teeth tightly.

“Ah!”

With a scream, his flesh was pierced by the knife. In the next moment, the hilt of the knife smashed into the man’s bones.

Even so, the other party was still unwilling to say.

This group of kidnappers was very professional. Ye Lingxiao knew that they were tough, so he walked to the other side.

“It’s not us. We didn’t touch her. The blood on her body belongs to our little brother. He accidentally cut himself just now.”

He was talking about the unconscious man lying on the ground. Ye Lingxiao pulled open his sleeves and realized that it was true.

Ye Lingxiao looked at the road beside him. It was a slope. With only his strength, it was obviously impossible to send Lin Wanmeng up unscathed.

He turned around. Lin Wanmeng, who was leaning against the tree, tilted her head. A bloody mark appeared on her fair face, and the red blood formed a beautiful arc on her skin.

Lin Wanmeng’s black hair draped over her originally lively eyes. Ye Lingxiao was inexplicably unhappy to see her like this. He suppressed the inexplicable bitterness in his heart and wanted to take out his phone, but he realized that it had been damaged in the fight.

Ye Lingxiao looked at the sky. It had been raining a lot recently, and the sky was already filled with dark clouds.

It was five o’clock in the afternoon. He had a meeting at eight.

As long as they lasted for three hours, someone should notice that they were gone.

He looked around and finally found a small hole at the bottom of the slope. It was semicircular, but the hole was too small. It could only accommodate one person at most.

It had already started to drizzle. The kidnappers lay on the mud and did not dare to make a sound, afraid that this King of Hell would punch them again.

Unfortunately, their inferiority didn’t change Ye Lingxiao.

After realizing that the hole could not completely block the rain, Ye Lingxiao knocked out the robbers one by one with a cold expression. He tore off their clothes and brought them to Lin Wanmeng to help her block the coldness of the rain.

Ye Lingxiao let Lin Wanmeng in. He sat beside her, half of his body drenched by the rain.

His short black hair stuck tightly to his neck, and the damp smell mixed with the fragrance of the soil made him feel vexed.

Lin Wanmeng seemed to have been disturbed by the sound of water. She opened her eyes in a daze, but she subconsciously felt that she was in danger. She wanted to move, but she accidentally leaned against Ye Lingxiao.

Sensing the presence of the person beside her, Lin Wanmeng panicked. Just as she was about to get up, she heard a familiar voice. “Don’t be afraid. It’s me.”

There had never been a moment when Lin Wanmeng felt that Ye Lingxiao’s voice made her feel so calm. She pressed her cheek against Ye Lingxiao’s chest, ignoring the fact that his shirt was already wet.

Listening to the steady heartbeat, Lin Wanmeng gradually calmed her breathing.

However, Ye Lingxiao, who could feel Lin Wanmeng’s body temperature gradually rising, was filled with worry. He was not worried that Lin Wanmeng’s immunity had decreased and she had a fever. He was only worried that Lin Wanmeng’s wound would be inflamed.

Time passed minute by minute. Ye Lingxiao had never felt that time was so torturous.

Lin Wanmeng hugged Ye Lingxiao tightly. She had already woken up, but because of the high fever, her consciousness became blurry again. She didn’t want to sleep.

She stubbornly tugged at Ye Lingxiao’s clothes and had the urge to cry.

This embrace was too warm, making Lin Wanmeng have the urge to question him.

Assistant Zheng followed Ye Lingxiao’s usual habits and confirmed the meeting with him an hour in advance.

However, it showed that the user had turned off his phone. Assistant Zheng frowned. This was something that never happened.

Just in case, Assistant Zheng called Old Madam Ye, and Old Madam Ye’s answer made Assistant Zheng fall into nervousness.

“Lingxiao left a long time ago. He’s not here.”

After receiving the exact news, Assistant Zheng immediately sent people to search the journey from the old residence to the company.

Soon, someone discovered traces of a car accident. The car was parked by the roadside, but the person was nowhere to be found.

Ye Lingxiao could hear voices from above. Regardless of friend or foe, Lin Wanmeng couldn’t continue being in this situation.

He gently put Lin Wanmeng aside and went out of the cave to shout.

When Assistant Zheng saw that his boss was drenched and stained with blood, he was so frightened that his soul almost left his body. He hurriedly called for help.

When the unconscious robbers woke up, they were still as stubborn as when they were interrogated by Ye Lingxiao. They only said that they were tempted by Lin Wanmeng’s money.

Recalling Lin Bo’s warning back then, Lin Wanmeng pursed her lips and her heart gradually turned cold.

She tugged at Ye Lingxiao’s wet sleeve. Her throat was dry and uncomfortable, but she tried her best to make a weak voice. “Maybe… it has something to do with the Lin family.”

Ye Lingxiao was leaning against the car. A nurse was bandaging his wound.

Lin Wanmeng looked up. There was an inconspicuous scar on the side of the man’s waist. In the chaos, no one noticed it.

“Your waist… Cough, cough, cough. It’s injured.”

She struggled to keep her eyes open so that she would not fall asleep.

However, a large hand pressed her head gently and said in an unprecedentedly gentle tone, “Don’t worry, go to sleep.”

Like a curse, Lin Wanmeng blinked and actually fell asleep.