From Runaway Bride to Global Queen

Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Pretending to Be Pitiful

Just as Gong Ting was hesitating, the mobile phone that was still on the sofa suddenly rang.

Gong Ting’s subordinates glanced at it, and the caller ID displayed Lu Yanchuan’s name!

“Miss, the call is from someone named Lu Yanchuan.”

They didn’t know who Lu Yanchuan was, but Gong Ting had just said that the person they had captured was Lu Yanchuan’s wife, and their miss had kidnapped her to threaten Lu Yanchuan.

Now that the person hadn’t been taken away yet, how come Lu Yanchuan was calling?

Gong Ting was panicked; she wasn’t ready to confront Lu Yanchuan head-on, she wasn’t even ready to use Qiao Yi to threaten him! How could Lu Yanchuan show up at this moment!

The phone on the sofa kept ringing, but no one answered, and after a while, it hung up by itself.

But before Gong Ting could breathe a sigh of relief, the phone rang once again!

“Hang up, hang up!”

“Miss Gong, if you hang up the call, maybe Lu Yanchuan will come back to the hotel to see me in person, you know.”

Qiao Yi spoke cheerfully but her face was cold, a sight that made people really want to give her a beating.

Gong Ting also really wanted to beat her, but the raised hand couldn’t fall, and even under Qiao Yi’s indifferent gaze, she couldn’t help but step back several steps.

“Miss Gong, I’m very curious. The inheritance from Old Madam Gong, no matter how rich, shouldn’t matter so much to the most favored miss of the Gong family, right? To risk retaliation from both the Qiao and Lu families by kidnapping me? Can Miss Gong tell me why?”

Just as Gong Ting was hesitating to pick up the call, Qiao Yi suddenly asked a question that made Gong Ting stunned.

“It’s none of your business!”

Gong Ting glared at her impatiently, and when she was about to answer the call again, it had already been hung up once more.

This time after the phone hung up, it didn’t ring again, and Gong Ting let out a sigh of relief, but Qiao Yi quietly curled the corners of her lips.

“Actually, if Miss Gong wanted to threaten Lu Yanchuan, she totally shouldn’t have kidnapped me. My marriage to Yanchuan is only a business arrangement. If the inheritance left by Old Madam Gong is valuable enough, do you think Lu Yanchuan would give up the benefits he’s about to gain for a wife with whom he has no feelings, linked only by a business marriage?”

Although pinned down, Qiao Yi was chatting as if with an old friend, without any sign of nervousness.

Gong Ting looked at Qiao Yi, then at the mobile phone on the sofa, and suddenly felt uneasy.

“Let’s go! Take her with us, leave now!”

Without responding to Qiao Yi, Gong Ting pushed the black-clad person standing beside her and turned to leave.

Qiao Yi watched Gong Ting’s panicked retreating figure, her smile growing bigger and bigger until she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“What are you laughing about!”

Unable to stand it any longer, Gong Ting turned her head and looked at Qiao Yi angrily.

Qiao Yi laughed and frowned, looking helpless, “I’m just thinking, this time the Gong family is going to be brought down by you.”

“You!”

“Miss! It’s a call from the master!”

Before she even left the hotel, Gong Ting received a call from her biological father, Gong Zhe.

Who knows what was said on the phone, but after Gong Ting hung up, she looked very upset, especially when she saw Qiao Yi’s smiling face.

“Slap!”

Gong Ting finally couldn’t hold back, turned around, and gave Qiao Yi a slap, the force almost causing fresh blood to ooze from the corner of Qiao Yi’s lips.

“You wretch! I will not let you go!”

Qiao Yi raised an eyebrow, licked the blood at the corner of her mouth, and was about to say something when her gaze fell behind Gong Ting and, with a turn of her eyes, began to cry pitifully.

Gong Ting noticed Qiao Yi’s gaze and turned around, her face instantly turning deathly pale.

Lu Yanchuan stood at the end of the hallway with an expression cold as frost. Although he was alone, his presence was such that he seemed to completely overshadow the dozen or so people in the hallway, intimidating them to the point where they dared not look him in the eye.

The atmosphere instantly froze; Gong Ting even felt as if her blood was about to stop flowing under Lu Yanchuan’s stare, and she was too cold and frightened to meet his gaze.

“Yanchuan… save me…”

Qiao Yi’s feeble cry for help shattered the frozen atmosphere of the hallway, and when Lu Yanchuan’s eyes met hers past Gong Ting, his gaze grew even colder.

Qiao Yi was held by the arms by two towering men, her body covered in fresh bloodstains, half her face swollen and red, with a trace of blood still at her lips, the very image of someone who had been abused.

“No, it’s not like that, I…”

“Hand her over to me.”

Lu Yanchuan stepped forward, while the people on Gong Ting’s side moved back step by step, dragging along Qiao Yi, who appeared utterly miserable.

“I’ll say it again, hand her over to me.”

Qiao Yi could hear the hidden fury in Lu Yanchuan’s voice and suddenly regretted, wondering if she had taken things too far.

A real falling out with the Gong Family would not be good for either the Lu Family or the Qiao Family!

Qiao Yi had guessed that Gong Ting wouldn’t really do anything to her, which is why she brought out a knife and let herself be taken. After seeing Lu Yanchuan, she pretended to be pitiful.

She just hadn’t expected Lu Yanchuan to be so furious, it made Qiao Yi’s heart tremble with fear.

When a man gets angry, it’s truly frightening.

Gong Ting had no more room to retreat, and suddenly she took off a ring from her finger and pressed it against Qiao Yi’s face, glaring viciously at Lu Yanchuan.

“Give me the shares the teacher holds in the Gong Family! Otherwise, I’ll ruin her face!”

Qiao Yi raised an eyebrow, not expecting Gong Ting to make such a move.

No wonder Gong Ting was willing to antagonize both the Qiao and Lu Families, even using her to threaten Lu Yanchuan; it turned out it was all about the shares in the Gong Family.

Lu Yanchuan furrowed his brows but said nothing, causing Qiao Yi’s heart to sink.

What does he mean by this?

Normal fear makes people shrink back, but excessive fear can ignite courage.

Just like now, Gong Ting, pressed to the extreme by Lu Yanchuan’s presence, had already offended both Qiao and Lu Families, so she decided to go all in and directly used Qiao Yi to threaten him in front of Lu Yanchuan.

The longer Lu Yanchuan remained silent, the heavier the hearts of the two women opposite him became.

Gong Ting was regretting and confused; could it be that Lu Yanchuan really had no feelings for Qiao Yi, as Qiao Yi had said, so he didn’t care if she was hurt?

And Qiao Yi felt cold; although the two were only nominally husband and wife, they got along quite well both in public and in private. Now, for the sake of some shares that didn’t belong to Lu Yanchuan in the first place, was he really going to leave her to her fate?

“The teacher does not hold any shares in the Gong Family.”

Both Qiao Yi and Gong Ting were taken aback, unsure if what Lu Yanchuan said was true or a lie made up to make Gong Ting release Qiao Yi.

“You’re talking nonsense! The teacher obviously holds ten percent of the shares in the Gong Family, how could you say she doesn’t!”

“This is the teacher’s inheritance appraisal, and it clearly doesn’t list any shares.”

Saying this, Lu Yanchuan took a document out of his briefcase and tossed it to Gong Ting.