𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬

twenty-two ✪

CAI XUKUN'S POV

I continued pinning Zeren on the wall. His body feeling pressure as I dig deeper into his shoulders.

I was furious. Someone knocked me out the other night and when I woke up I was in a basement, tied to a chair. And now I found out what Yanchen is up to.

Yanchen's family want to expand the business so he asked his parents to let him marry Zhu Xinyi, the daugther of one of the most high class businesswoman in the world.

But his mother found out that I was supposed to marry Xinyi so before our parents could announce it, Mr. and Mrs. Zhou made an announcement that we were cousins. We were about 8 years old back then. Crazy, right?

Our parents couldn't do anything about it because his family threatened each of our parents into revealing some dirty little secrets about their past that could ruin their reputation in the business world.

Until now, we are being blackmailed by that family. I personally call them Blackmailer Zhous.

"Xinyi trusted you, you asshole. We all did." i exclaimed.

"I swear, Xukun. I didn't mean for this to happen!" Zeren defends himself. "It's Yanchen. He's blackmailing me. Please,"

"We all got blackmailed by him - but that wasn't enough to sell Xinyi out!"

"You don't understand! Yanchen's power - is strong. You cannot fight it," Zeren said trying to remove himself from my grip.

I slowly let go of him, "Who said you're fighting it alone?"

"I found it!" A voice exclaimed from behind us. Ziyi threw the phone to me, Quanzhe was following him.

I scrolled down and found 78 missed calls and 42 texts from Xinyi. I replied to her last message and held out a hand to Zeren, "I'm willing to let this pass, if you help us save Xinyi."

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"This girl?" I asked the waiter, showing him a picture of Xinyi. We were at the restaurant where she and Yanchen had dinner - and apparently this waiter is no use.

"You haven't seen her?" Quanzhe sked again. The waiter just kept looking at us.

"Look, we need to find out where she is. Are you gonna answer or am I going to beat the crap out of you before you tell us where the hell is my gir - "

"Okay," Ziyi suddenly pulled me away and faced the dumb waiter. "Thank you for your help. Even though you just looked at us like we're a bunch of weirdos."

The waiter shrugged and closed the door behind us. I swear if Ziyi and Zeren weren't stopping me, I would've hit that man straight in the face.

Quanzhe looked at us, "What now?"

"Right now, you -" Ziyi held my shirt. "Need to calm down. And you -" He points at Zeren, "Need to tell us exactly what Yanchen is planning."

Zeren raised his hands, "I told you, I have no idea! He didn't tell me what to do next. All he said was keep Xukun away from Xinyi for today."

I clenched my fists, "He's useless! We need to find Xinyi, now!"

"Where is she?" Zhengting's voice was heard a few meters away. I squinted my eyes and saw him running towards Zeren. He raised his hand and punched him, making Zeren roll on the ground. "You son of a bitch! I trusted you!"

"Zhengting, calm down," Ziyi said, trying to hold him.

"I was about to forgive you of what you did to Xinyi that night but you leave me no choice,"