Chapter 021: Campus Mary Sue 19

Ke Yuandao and Guo Yiyi had gone for more than half a day without eating. The two of them were locked in a shabby room while outside, the group of kidnappers feasted on fragrant instant noodles. The enticing aroma drifted in from outside.

“Grrr!!” Ke Yuandao turned to glance at Guo Yiyi; her cheeks were flushed, and she opened her mouth, about to speak.

“Grrr!!!” Another loud rumble echoed. Guo Yiyi paused, looked at Ke Yuandao, and couldn’t help but burst out laughing. “I’m so hungry,” she said.

He nodded with aloof indifference, as if the rumbling stomach hadn’t been his own.

“Hey, Ke Yuandao,” Guo Yiyi called.

He responded.

“Are you always this cold to people?” she asked.

Ke Yuandao said nothing. Guo Yiyi looked up at him, noticing the dust smeared across his handsome face and bound arms. “But you’re always so gentle and soft in front of Li, aren’t you?”

Hearing her words, Ke Yuandao’s brows knitted together—Li again. He didn’t know any Li.

But soon, he would contradict himself.

When two of the most powerful families from the Four Great Clans of Huaguo intervened, their abilities were not just empty boasts. Once the police successfully pinpointed the location, the rescue team mobilized swiftly.

Police cars silently rolled to the foot of the mountain, accompanied by Ke family parents, Yue Yixian, and An Xiansi.

As the male protagonist who always made waves, An Xiansi would never miss a chance to impress the heroine. After the police refused to let him join the rescue mission, he only laughed and insisted he could protect himself. With a grand gesture, the An family’s bodyguards appeared from nowhere.

The police, seeing An Xiansi’s intention to lead the bodyguards up the mountain, were exasperated.

“Master An, the mountain is dangerous. Please wait below,” the officer advised.

“No,” An Xiansi replied resolutely, his expression grave as he stared at the police. “The person I love is missing, possibly in danger. How could I sit idly by?”

The plot, true to its Mary Sue nature, saw the police moved by the young master’s devotion and allowed him to join the rescue.

Yue Yixian stood in the night, silently watching their departing backs. She thought quietly to herself—how naive she had been in those days. How could the police ever bring a minor along on a rescue mission? How did she even write such a scene?

A cold wind tugged at her clothes. She looked up at the helicopter flying overhead; the trees on the mountain rattled noisily in the wind whipped up by the rotors.

And with all that commotion, the kidnappers on the mountain didn’t hear a thing? Were they deaf?

——

Guo Yiyi curled helplessly in the corner of the room, while outside, the kidnappers laughed arrogantly, gleefully discussing which country they would retire to after pocketing their hundred million ransom.

The smell of instant noodles lingered in the air, and her stomach growled loudly.

She was so hungry. She sniffled, and her stomach growled even louder.

Am I going to die? Guo Yiyi stared blankly into space, lost in thought.

If—if she had the chance to see that bastard again, she would definitely tell him everything.

“Felton Dickens Lan Poseidon Zeus Folio An Xiansi, you bastard!!” she cried angrily, tears shimmering at the corners of her eyes.

“Bang!!” In the depths of night, gunshots rang out.

She heard the kidnappers shouting and gunfire outside. Suddenly, the door was kicked open from outside with force.

Guo Yiyi opened her eyes and saw a figure standing in the doorway, backlit, his expression unclear, but that spiky hair was unmistakable.

Seeing the familiar spiky hair, Guo Yiyi stared wide-eyed in disbelief, her voice trembling. “It’s you!”

“It’s me, little bookworm. I’ve come to rescue you.” The handsome young man pulled her tightly into his arms, as if he wished to fuse her into his very flesh and never let go.

“I was so scared,” Guo Yiyi sobbed.

“Don’t be afraid. I’m here to save you,” the boy said, his eyes filled with pain and regret. It was his fault; he shouldn’t have threatened her. If he hadn’t, she wouldn’t have been kidnapped.

——

Outside, the kidnappers were celebrating their imminent windfall of a hundred million yuan, planning a wild midnight feast. After their instant noodles, they had even gone downtown to buy barbecue, crayfish, beer, peanuts, and other treats—a torment for the kidnapped victims who hadn’t eaten a thing all day.

“Ah, I’m starving to death!” Guo Yiyi couldn’t stand it anymore and shouted, “Hey, big brothers, can’t you spare us something to eat? If we starv