My gorgeous wife
Chapter 721 - 693 Kidnapping

Chapter 721: Chapter 693 Kidnapping

Li Chen still agreed with Lin Xiaoxiao’s suggestion.

Indeed, just as Lin Xiaoxiao said, there wasn’t much left for him to do here anyway.

Thinking about the recent events, Li Chen also felt like giving himself a break.

"Count me out." After Lin Yi and Wang Qianqian returned, Li Chen brought up the idea of going on the trip together, but Lin Yi shook her head.

"I still have things to handle at the company, so it’s impossible for me to leave," Lin Yi said, shaking her head.

"You can put off the company stuff for now," Lin Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but interject.

"I wish I could. But things have been rather busy lately." Lin Yi looked at them and said with a smile, "Don’t worry, you guys go ahead, but come back early."

"If you are alone..." Li Chen frowned as he spoke.

"It’s fine. Wasn’t I living by myself before you came?" Lin Yi nodded in response.

"Alright then." Hearing Lin Yi’s refusal, they didn’t insist further.

The next morning, Li Chen and the others directly boarded a plane and left Linchuan. Lin Xiaoxiao, obviously well-prepared for the trip, had everything, including the itinerary, arranged before departure.

"Sunbathing, here I come!" As soon she stepped off the plane, Lin Xiaoxiao excitedly shouted out loud.

...

However, soon after Li Chen and the others had left, a figure appeared on the streets of Linchuan.

"Is this the place?" Jiang Bingyu looked around and raised her eyebrows.

Linchuan had many beautiful women, and beautiful women always attract attention. Jiang Bingyu was clearly a standout among beauties, with her exquisite features and an air of unusual classical charm, drawing the gaze of many men.

As for these gazes, she was completely indifferent, or rather, she had long since become accustomed to them.

"No matter who you are, hitting my dog comes with a price," she chuckled lightly and stepped closer towards the streets of Linchuan.

...

"Brother-in-law! So, was I right about this trip?" Lying on the beach, Lin Xiaoxiao’s perfect figure was fully exposed to the sunlight, a delightful sight to behold.

"Brother-in-law?" Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Li Chen inquisitively.

However, when she looked over, Li Chen’s gaze was elsewhere.

When Lin Xiaoxiao noticed that Li Chen’s eyes were indiscriminately scanning the bikini-clad women walking on the beach, she couldn’t help but show a look of irritation on her face, and slapped Li Chen on the back with a smack.

"Slap!"

"What are you doing?" Li Chen suddenly came back to his senses and turned to look at Lin Xiaoxiao.

Seeing Li Chen’s reaction, Lin Xiaoxiao turned her head away, visibly annoyed.

You brought me here just to look at other women? Please, you have two beautiful women right beside you, yet your eyes wander?

"Blind!" Lin Xiaoxiao muttered under her breath.

Wang Qianqian, on the other hand, started to smile.

She could see the special attention Lin Xiaoxiao had for Li Chen because she had gone through the same phase herself. However, her approach was different.

Instead of Lin Xiaoxiao’s petulance, she preferred to silently observe and give her all.

He was her man, and she was willing to sacrifice everything for him.

"I heard there’s a special market nearby, I’m going to check it out!" Huffing with annoyance, Lin Xiaoxiao quickly dressed.

"Be careful," Li Chen said.

"I know." With that, Lin Xiaoxiao walked towards the marketplace.

Markets like these are typically illicit, mostly formed by people gathering together on their own initiative.

Most of the tourists are wealthy enough to afford the expense of traveling and many merchants capitalize on that, using traders from all over to form such a market.

There, visitors can buy all sorts of quirky little things while merchants and locals profit from them.

"Is Xiaoxiao okay going alone?" After Lin Xiaoxiao left, Wang Qianqian finally sat up and asked Li Chen.

"She should be fine, right?" Li Chen hesitated in response.

After all, he was right here, and if anything happened, he could react in time.

"Never mind, I’ll go check on her," Li Chen said.

"You’ll be okay on your own?" Li Chen asked Wang Qianqian.

Upon hearing Li Chen’s question, Wang Qianqian smiled and held up her fist.

"All right then." Li Chen shrugged; Wang Qianqian was, after all, a Yellow Rank Master. Though she lacked battle experience, she wasn’t someone ordinary people could deal with, and even a top-ranked master wouldn’t likely get close to her.

In a corner of the marketplace, a group sat together with grim expressions.

"Boss, our joint got raided again yesterday, and that popular girl of ours got taken in," one thug reported to the burly man at the center.

"Shut up!"

The man grabbed a nearby glass and smashed it hard on the ground, shattering it to pieces.

"Do you think I want to be sitting here with you jabbering if the joint hadn’t been raided?" The man turned his head and addressed the person beside him.

Upon hearing the man’s words, everyone around fell silent.

They knew the boss was angry.

And when the boss was angry, it was best to keep one’s mouth shut.

"I’ve dominated for so many years, so many have cursed me, and so many wanted to rub me out, but here I am still sitting here, alive and kicking, while those guys are either dead or locked up!" the man sneered.

"This time, if we pull this job off well, we could rise from the ashes again!" the man whispered.

"Yes, Boss!"

The boss spoke and then lifted his gaze toward a certain place: "See that? That’s our target this time. Get ready everyone, and leave with the person as soon as we succeed!"

"Understood, Boss!"

A group of people said and quickly scattered.

Walking through the marketplace, Lin Xiaoxiao looked around curiously.

"I want this one!" Arriving at a stall, Lin Xiaoxiao bought a doll-like charm.

"Hmm... I should get one for Sister Qianqian too." Lin Xiaoxiao pondered for a moment, then bought another of the same charm, and was about to go back to find Li Chen and the others.

However, just at that moment, a shadow suddenly appeared behind her. Before Lin Xiaoxiao could react, the person had covered her mouth with a cloth.

"Mmm! Mmm!"

The cloth clearly had something on it. Lin Xiaoxiao struggled briefly then completely lost her strength, limply taken away from the marketplace.

"Is it done?"

"It’s done, Boss!"

In the corner, the boss watched his subordinate, a smile spreading across his face: "Good if it’s done."

"What about this girl..."

"Don’t touch her. I’ve already found out that her sister is the CEO of a well-known company in Linchuan. If we use her to pressure her sister, I think the CEO will be quite generous, right?" the boss said, his expression cold.

"I saw two other people with her, should we..."

"We’re on our turf here, find an opportunity..." A vicious look appeared on the boss’s face as he made a slicing gesture across his neck.

He was already mixed up with the underworld, with blood on his hands, and now that his operations had been hit by the enemy and all his places had been raided, he needed a large sum of money to make a comeback. Therefore, his gaze was fixed on Lin Xiaoxiao.

It was not just Lin Xiaoxiao he was after; as the local snakehead, he had investigated quite a few people recently, but Lin Xiaoxiao was simply the fattest sheep he had chosen.

"We’ve got the person. Let’s pull out, and we’ll discuss the rest later." The boss spoke, pointing to a van parked nearby.

"Alright!"

However, just at that moment, a figure appeared not far behind them.

"What’s the rush?"

"Hmm?" The boss’s face changed, and he turned his head around.

Behind them stood a young man, looking at them with a cold smirk on his face.

"Kill him!"

No matter who this young man was, since he had blown their cover, they couldn’t let him go. If the word got out, they would face more than just an operation shutdown.

A defeated Black Boss is not so different from a fugitive after all.

"Kill me?" Li Chen narrowed his eyes slightly: "At first, I thought you guys were just a bunch of traffickers, but it seems it’s not that simple, huh?"

Upon hearing Li Chen’s words, the boss also looked at him: "Who are you?"

"Who I am is not important. What’s important is that you’ve kidnapped my person," Li Chen spoke calmly.

"Your person?" The boss’s expression changed, and he turned to look at Lin Xiaoxiao, who was held by a subordinate.

"You a bodyguard?"

"No." Li Chen shook his head: "I’m her brother-in-law."

"Well, that’s perfect." The boss’s smile suddenly became even more brilliant: "Perhaps I can take another hostage."

"Go!"

At the boss’s command, the surrounding men immediately pounced on Li Chen.

In his view, Li Chen was merely one man, whereas he had so many subordinates—desperate cutthroats no less. If so many couldn’t beat one man, they might as well go home and drink milk.

"I really don’t understand why there are so many idiots like you in the world, thinking you can come here and do what? Save someone?" the boss laughed heartily at Li Chen.

Originally, he thought he had only a fat sheep, but now one had turned into two.

As the group lunged at Li Chen, he too, lifted the corners of his mouth with a smile.

"Honestly, I can’t understand why there are so many self-righteous fools like you in this world either."

The next moment, Li Chen casually raised his fist toward the thugs rushing towards him.