White Rich Beauty (14)

Yue Ran turned on her mobile phone.

The dim glow of the phone screen lights up the small room, illuminating the surrounding layout and a stiff figure huddled up under a table.

It was an unexpectedly familiar figure.

"Jin Yao? Why are you here?!" Yue Ran's voice was loud, especially in such a small enclosed space, but it didn't alarm Jin Yao. That was when Yue Ran found that something was wrong, so she walked forward slowly. "Jin Yao? What's wrong with you? I'm Yue Ran."

Yue Ran raised a hand to pat Jin Yao's shoulder but got no response. Instead, she felt vibrations in her hand.

Jin Yao was shaking.

At this time, Ruan Ruan's voice popped up. "Master, Jin Yao has claustrophobia!"

"Oh, I see." She smiled faintly, then her lips spat out ruthless words. "This is a good opportunity to take advantage of his weakness."

These words were said out loud as Yue Ran looked into Jin Yao's eyes. Anyway, Jin Yao wouldn't be able to remember these words.

"Yes, this is indeed a good opportunity!" Ruan Ruan chirped in with the same joy.

Yue Ran grabbed Jin Yao's shoulders and shook him. "Jin Yao!"

His face was flushed red, beads of sweat ran down his face and neck, his body trembled, and his breaths were shallow.

But when he raised his head and met Yue Ran's eyes, his whole demeanor completely changed. It was almost as if he were another whole person if not for Yue Ran, who witnessed everything.

Jin Yao's eyes looked particularly ignorant. It was a strange and unfamiliar sight.

"Sister Qin?" he asked.

"Ahh, Master!" Ruan Ruan was alarmed. "He changed his personality!"

"Yes." Yue Ran nodded at his words. "He did, and…" Her words trailed off. The smile on her face was sweet, but her words were cold when she spoke to Ruan Ruan in her mind. "Sister Qin?" She tilted her head with a finger pressed to her chin. "He's talking about Rui Qin, the female protagonist, isn't he?"

"Yes, Master, Ruan Ruan thinks so!"

Yue Ran reached out to touch Jin Yao's cold cheeks and chuckled. It sounded sweet and melodious.

"Hmm, Jin Yao actually recognized me as the female protagonist?" Her fingers made a beeline down to Jin Yao's neck and pressed hard. "I have always hated being a substitute."

The expression on Yue Ran's face was still very calm, but her actions differed so much as if they were the repelling force of two different magnets with the same end.

"Master, calm down!" Ruan Ruan shouted in Yue Ran's mind. "You can't kill the male protagonist!" Then he added, "At least not directly, or the Lord God would be able to punish you immediately after."

"I am very calm, Ruan Ruan," Yue Ran replied nonchalantly. "You should relax; I am not that reckless."

She slowly released her hold on Jin Yao's neck, and he coughed and quickly took several deep breaths. After breathing right again, he sniffed, and his eyes turned beet red, looking at Yue Ran aggrievedly.

However, the expression on Yue Ran's face was even more distressing. The corners of her eyes and the tip of her nose are red, and her eyes glimmered with unshed tears.

"I'm Yue Ran, the Yue Ran who likes you… the Yue Ran who is chasing you!" Her hands were shaking, and her voice was cracking. "How could you recognize me as someone else?!" As she said that, the unshed tears started rolling down her cheeks. "Jin Yao, do you have someone you like?" She whimpered. "Why are you so cruel to me?"

After being yelled at for a while, Jin Yao's mind was still muddled, and he repeatedly muttered out, "Sister Qin, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, Sister Qin, Sister Qin..."

"Jin Yao, what's wrong with you?!" Yue Ran blinked away the tears that blurred her vision, and her voice turned anxious. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid; I'll take you out now!"

Yue Ran reluctantly pulled Jin Yao out from under the table and intentionally or unintentionally made him knock on the corners of the very same table and many other obstacles in his way as her revenge. If Jin Yao remembers this, he won't be suspicious of Yue Ran because her acting was too convincing for him to tell the difference between the truth and lies.

It wasn't that difficult to "help" Jin Yao out since he himself could still stand and walk, albeit weakly. She just had to drag him from wall to wall, from collision to collision.

And why help out Jin Yao but not Mu Chen? It's simply because Jin Yao is still semi-conscious while Mu Chen is fully unconscious. Helping out Mu Chen when he was knocked out cold was a thankless job.

Ruan Ruan, who felt saddened by his master's troubled appearance, suggested, "How about Master just give a call to the police? Jin Yao being trapped here is obviously a man-made arrangement. Someone must be trying to harm him. If that's the case, then Master doesn't have to carry him at all. Master could just wait for rescue!"

Yue Ran chuckled. "Don't you already know me, Ruan Ruan? When am I ever eager to save people?"

Ruan Ruan rushed to answer. "Oh, oh, is it to increase Jin Yao's favorability score?"

Yue Ran smiled, and the two dimples on her cheeks were faintly visible. "Ruan Ruan is so smart." In the darkness, her phoenix eyes were shockingly bright. "Moreover, I am just too anxious when I see something wrong with Jin Yao, the person I like, and am not clearheaded for a while due to my panic," she said. "Therefore, all I could think of at first was to help him myself and not call the police."

"Wow, Master is awesome!"

Yue Ran only smiled. But when she turned to face Jin Yao, her big, midnight-black eyes watered, becoming hypnotic and heartbreaking.

"Jin Yao, Jin Yao, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm taking you out now, it's not scary, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."

Yue Ran didn't forget to continuously murmur to Jin Yao while "walking" their way out, earnestly painting a vivid image of a girl who likes Jin Yao from the bottom of her heart.