(un)Cuff me, Mister!

Exchanged of freedom?

Lawyer Gu sported a victory smirked when he saw Jasmine's strong front shattered by what he whispered to her.

Taking that chance, he pulled Jasmine to sit on the chair and he stood behind her.

From his briefcase, Mr. Gu took out a contract.

With a menacing smile on his face, "don't lose yourself yet, Ms Paxton. I'm a lawyer, and I can help you get out of this situation. You are too beautiful to die in this place," he said.

Jasmine didn't respond to him. Her eyes were soulless. She still couldn't fully process what the lawyer had just told her.

Mr Gu put the contract that he had taken out from his bag on the table, "sign this and you'll be free as a bird. I'll help you get out of this cage," his hands were placed on Jasmine's shoulder, and he slowly stroked Jasmine from her shoulder to her arms and hands.

Feeling the disgusting touch of the lawyer, Jasmine snapped out of her devastating state.

However, she did nothing to get away from the lawyer's touch and just sat straight there on the chair like a lifeless doll. Her emerald orbs trained on the contract on the table. Without Lawyer Gu's notice, Jasmine read what was written on it.

From what Jasmine could summarize from the first page, it was basically a slave contract. In exchange for Jasmine to get her freedom, she had to work for Lawyer Gu and be bound to him for life. It also means she couldn't go back to her life in Alscot and have to stay in Cratia for the rest of her life.

That was what she could grasp from the first page only.

Whatever was written beyond that page, Jasmine was not interested to know. Just imagine working for Lawyer Gu already made her want to vomit the food she had before. And what about her life in Alscot? Her job? Her parents?

Exchanged her freedom by working with that pig?

That's not freedom at all. It was like, 'out from the crocodile mouth, enter into a tiger's mouth.'

No. Thank you.

She preferred to die in this prison than having a life of a slave.

Mr Gu thought that Jasmine had lost her mind, as she just stood there unmoving and unresponsive to his touch. He slowly took out an ink pad and dipped Jasmine's thumb in it.

Seeing that Mr Gu was about to stamp her thumb on the paper, Jasmine bit hard on the lawyer's arm.

"Ahhhhh!" the lawyer cried in pain.

With the strength that she doesn't know come from where, Jasmine head butts her head into Mr. Gu's, making the lawyer's nose bleed. She stood up and kicked the chair back as hard as she could, resulting in the man being hit on his crotch.

Lawyer Gu groaned in pain, while holding his men's pride.

'I hope that will end your family line!' Jasmine cursed the lawyer's descendents.

The fat pig-like man's eyes were burning red from what Jasmine had done to him. Holding in the pain from his crotch and nose, he tried to pounce on Jasmine. However, Jasmine ran from him and shouted for help, hoping the warden outside would hear her.

Jasmine's shouts were fruitless, as the lawyer had already bribed the warden that was guarding the door.

Mr Gu laughed at Jasmine for her futile attempts, "no one's going to help you. Everyone is busy with the celebration. It was better for you to just stamp your fingerprint on this contract," he mockingly said.

Not wanting to fall into the lawyer's plan, Jasmine took her chances and dashed towards the door. She pulled the door open, startling the warden that was leisurely guarding the door.

The warden thought everything was going well for the lawyer in the visitation room, so he didn't put his guard up, and was just leisurely guarding the door. Jasmine's sudden appearance caught him off guard, and he wasn't fast to respond.

Taking that opening chance, Jasmine ran towards the other side of the corridor.

"Catch her!" the lawyer shouted.

Jasmine ran as fast as she could, however, it wasn't the first day on the job for the warden. Working in prison, running after inmates and catching them was part of their paycheck.

Only a few steps, and Jasmine was already caught and dragged back to the private visitation room.

She was pinned on the table by the warden.

Both the lawyer and the warden were undressing Jasmine with their eyes. They licked their lips and grinned evilly.

"Hold her still. I still need to get her thumbprint," Lawyer Gu order the warden.

Jasmine wriggled her body to get out of the warden's hold, however, she almost exhausted the strength that she had gained before.

With her last strength that she could muster, Jasmine kicked the lawyer who was standing at the side of the table, making the lawyer stumbled back and crash into the furniture in the room.

"You B*tch! I'll make you pay for what you've done today!" the lawyer roared angrily.

He stood up with difficulty and dashed towards Jasmine.

The warden, who restricted Jasmine's movement, tightened his hold on Jasmine, to prevent her from attacking the lawyer again.

Lawyer Gu grabbed Jasmine's thumb. He fought the force that Jasmine had put on her hand and brought her ink coated thumb closer to the contract.

Jasmin's thumb was almost touching the paper when the door burst opened from the outside.

Her eyes found hope. She saw a man in a warden's uniform coming to rescue her.

'My knight in shining armour!'

"Help!" she shouted.

What Jasmine saw next was a pig fly in the air and a lightning fast fist landed on the warden who was restraining her.

Jasmine pounced on the hero that had rescued her and held on to him tightly, "Please, help me," tears were falling like a waterfall from her eyes.

Footsteps were heard coming into the room, drowning the groans of the two men that were hurt.

"Take them away!" a stern voice carrying a dangerous tone gave out the order.

Lawyer Gu and the warden were roughly dragged out of the room.

Seeing that the two men had been taken away, relieved washed over Jasmine. Unconsciously, she buried her face in the man's uniform. Her tears soaked the crisply new shirt of the man.

A big palm landed on her back, stroking Jasmine to calm her down, "you're safe now."

Instead of making her crying cease, Jasmine's sobbed became louder.

The man let Jasmine cry her heart out on his shoulder. They stood there embracing each other.

After sometime, when her tears were almost dried, Jasmine looked up to see the face of her saviour.

Her emerald eyes met with the familiar blue-grey eyes again. The eyes that kept invading her dreams.

"Thank you," Jasmine uttered.