I laughed again, didn’t contradict him immediately.
“What exactly happened between you and Leon? Why should you do this?” Jiannan wasn’t stupid, and he also knew that I wouldn’t ask him to do such a thing for no reason.
“Can I choose not to say it?” I smiled and asked.
“Fine. I’ll do whatever you want me to do anyway. I’ll listen to you.”
“Thanks.” I proposed a toast to him.
“You’re welcome, just treat me dinner. Who received a gift, sells his liberty, and I’ll be more energetic in my work if I have your dinner.”
“No problem, a dinner is definitely a must for you.”
“When will that message be sent to Leon? What should I type? How about this, you just send it yourself and I’ll give you my phone.”
Jiannan said and actually handed over his phone so that I could send a message to Leon myself.
I wrote a message, “Leon, I’ve got Nala, if you want her to be safe, contact me quickly. Otherwise, I’ll let her die.
After I typed it and showed it to Jiannan, he laughed, “That’s not my style at all, if it were me, I wouldn’t say that.”
I said then if it was you, what would you say?
“I’ll say, Leon Hua, I’ve got your wife here with me, and then there’ll be a string of bad language behind it. This message has to be my style.”
I knew he speak awful bad language, so I said it would be better not to be your style, but to use my own.
“No problem, whatever pleases you. Whatever makes you happy.”
I didn’t write a time and place because I didn’t know when Leon would see the text message since his phone was always off. If he didn’t turn his phone on within my limited time, of course he wouldn’t see the message, so I thought having him contact Jiannan after seeing the message would be a more reasonable plan.
“Send?” Jiannan looked at me.
I nodded, “Send it.”
After he sent it, I stood up, “Let’s go.”
“Where to? It’s still early for dinner, so let’s find a place to have fun, shall we?” He’s really interesting, and all he wanted to do was having fun.
“Nah. I’ve got some business to take care of. I’ll treat you dinner later.”
“That’s no good.” Jiannan was anxious, “You’re the one who I kidnapped now, how can you move around in private? Can Leon still trust?”
“It’s faked, you didn’t really kidnap me.”
“It can’t be taken as a fake, Leon definitely wouldn’t have come if he knew it’s a fake.”
“But he doesn’t know it’s faked.” I think he’s swindling me.
“He must know, how could he not know? Do you think Leon isn’t stronger than he looks?”
“It’s between the two of us, how would he know?”
Jiannan shook his head, “Then you’ve really underestimated Leon. Don’t you know that he is known as Fourth Brother in Hai City? He’s a man who has relationships in both criminal world and justice world, hence he got the nickname. Once he gets a message from me, he’ll definitely ask someone to check my whereabouts first. Once he finds out that I’m hanging out as usual, he’ll know it’s faked. Or if he doesn’t check me and casually checks you, he’ll know it’s fake too, so will he still pay attention to the content of this message?”
When Jiannan said that, I did feel that he made some sense. I didn’t know about the others, but Xuanlong Jiang has plenty of people who could work for him anyway. As such, it seemed that in order to lure Leon out, this show has to be a bit more authentic.
“Then what do you think should be done?”
“It’s simple, you come with me and I’ll pretend to tie you up for real so he’ll believe it.”
“How to tie me up for real?” I asked.
“Just tie, I’ll kidnap you in a more isolated place, of course I won’t make you feel bad, I’ll arrange a hotel for you to stay in. But you’ll have to stay in the same room with me. Otherwise our play won’t look real.”
I objected right away, “That’s not okay, I’m not used to being in the same room with a strange man, even if it’s a suite.”
“Then you still can’t trust me. How can you get me to help you if you can’t trust me? You’re making it difficult for me.”
I knew what kind of person Jiannan was, so there were some things that I couldn’t quite listen to him. He’s the dreadful Little Devil that everyone was afraid of.
“Anyway, that’s the last thing I don’t agree with, I won’t share a room with any strange man.” I still insisted.
“Fine then, I’ll stay in the room next to yours, not share a room with you. Then wouldn’t it be better if we leave now and set up the place first, then I’ll have the food sent over, and we’ll drink while we wait for Leon?”
It’s the only choice to do.
….
The place Jiannan chose was a hotel in the suburbs, yet the environment was really good. Before we arrived, Jiannan already had the hotel emptied. As for what kind of tactics he used to empty the huge hotel, I didn’t ask in detail. All I knew was that there weren’t many people who dared to mess with him in Hai City, no matter which territory.
The room was not bad either, it was clean and tidy. Because of his promise, Jiannan didn’t enter my room, but only instructed me not to open the curtains because I couldn’t let anyone see what was going on in the room.
As he was talking, his phone suddenly rang, and he smiled at me, “Your husband is calling.”
As soon as I heard that it was Leon calling, my heartbeat accelerated. I didn’t expect him to call so soon!
Jiannan picked up the phone and put it on speaker.
“Jiannan, let her go.” It was Leon’s voice exactly.
“You ask me to let her go and I would do as you like? Is it that easy?” Jiannan said lazily.
“Then what do you want?” Leon asked.
“I’ll send you the location, you come over and we’ll meet in person. I’ll give you an hour’s time, if you don’t come, I’ll rape your wife first and then kill her.”
Although I knew Jiannan said that to scare Leon, I was still uncomfortable hearing them and stared at him in disgust. He grinned.
“Jiannan, if you dare to touch a single finger of Nala, I’ll definitely beat you to a pulp and feed you to the dogs.” Leon’s words were also ruthless.
“I won’t argue with you, I’ll only give you an hour’s time, if you can’t arrive here in time, you won’t have to come, I’ll pick up her body, after all, I like her too.” Jiannan said.
“What conditions are you going to propose, say it now.” Leon said in a deep voice.
“That won’t work, we’ll talk in person when you’re here, I don’t like negotiating with people over the phone.”
“It wouldn’t be Nala asking you to pretend to kidnap him to force me appear, would it? I’ll tell you the truth, I’m in America now and I can’t come. What conditions do you have, I can let Xuanlong handle it.”
Leon was amazing, he actually guessed right!
Jiannan didn’t expect Leon to say this so he looked at me. He asked for my opinion with his eyes. I shook my head vigorously, signaling him not to admit it.
“You don’t believe me, do you? Then don’t come.” Jiannan hung up the phone with a snap.