Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

After breakfast, Mei Qingyang hurriedly sneaked out and tried checking out the places she found suspicious from the site drawings she had been comparing in the morning. She was able to access the locks for a few, unfortunately all of them were storage spaces with some very questionable contents.

One storage room had boxes and boxes of some kind of medicine. Another one contained some weapons. In retrospect, Mei Qingyang did not really know what Yu empire actually did business in. She had seen their school, their hotels, but what else? They could not just be in real estate business for them to be this big. There were other things going on behind the scene.

Again, where was Yu Rong's office? Should it be at some very inconspicuous place which no one would think of as her office? Her own room? Ah dang! Why did she not think of this before? Perhaps, her office was on the top floor since that whole floor was sealed and only someone with access could go there.

She took out her old phone and headed to the last floor she could access without the access card, which would be the second topmost floor. The rooms were empty there, the students had been accommodated pretty easily within lowest five floors. They had that many rooms at each floor!

She checked for the stairs to top floor, but the stairs also halted at the one she was currently at. Then definitely, that top secret floor was the one. She had wasted her whole morning for nothing then. But lunch time, she had already scouted everything. All she needed now was an access card from somewhere.

So then, she had to finally steal it from somewhere? She felt like she was in a James Bond movie or something. Even if she tailed Yu Tian at night, she would not necessarily get into the place unnoticed. And she could see there were biometrics available, so she had a hunch that Yu Tian would perhaps only require his fingerprints for accessing the floor.

This was all still a speculation on her part. But now that she had a lead, she could work with it.

She went back to her room and looked into the camera records for Yu Rong's movement for the past days since the beginning of the trip. Indeed, her videos always stopped at that elevator and she would never get out at any of those floors.

She nailed it! Now all she needed to do was get an access card for the floor. Her first thought was to ask Su Lang. But again, she knew he would have too many questions for her, even if he did possess the means.

Then her next best bet was the girl of the group, Fan Ruyi. She had an idea about Yu Tian's condition too, wasn't that what Yu Rong used to threaten her?

She went ahead and knocked on Fan Ruyi's door. Thankfully, she was in her room.

"What do I owe this p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e?" Fan Ruyi was not expecting any guests, and especially Mei Qingyang, so she was stunned looking at her guest.

"I need your urgent help," Mei Qingyang replied.

Fan Ruyi scoffed. She was not giving her any importance these past few days and she felt more guilty over what she had done because of that. Now she wanted her help, she shamelessly showed up on her door?

Mei Qingyang looked around before murmuring to Fan Ruyi, "I know I am being shameless. But if you do not help me, then whatever you did for senior Yu would go to waste. You know what I am talking about right?" She looked straight into the eyes of her senior, and she was right about her hunch. Fan Ruyi indeed knew about it.

Fan Ruyi abruptly covered her mouth and looked around, she also did not want anyone to know anything about it.

"How did you know?" she asked as she dismissed her maids and only had her assistant with her in the room.

"It does not matter how I know. Important thing is I need to know where Yu Rong's office is," Mei Qingyang took a seat on her elegant sofa nonchalantly. She knew Fan Ruyi had to listen to her.

"Did Yu Tian tell you himself? Did he start trusting you so much that he would hide such a big thing from us and tell you, a girl who has been in his life less than six months?" Fan Ruyi was saddened, but she did not know if it was him or herself. They had been friends since childhood, and he never told her or the closest person to him, Su Lang anything. But he would share such gruesome details with her? Did she hold this much importance for him?

"Listen senior Fan, you are deviating from the topic and I do not have time," Mei Qingyang rubbed her forehead in frustration. How did it even matter who told her what? They could sort it all out later, right? "Yu Rong is going to strike today again, and I do not want him to suffer anymore. I will crash her party myself and I need access to her office. There is a reason why I came to you."

Mei Qingyang's eyes were full of heartache and agony, but also braveness and determination. Fan Ruyi felt ashamed of herself, why could she not be courageous like her? Why did she not do anything for her friend? Also, tonight? That was in a few hours!

"I… I will help you as much as I can!" Fan Ruyi exclaimed suddenly.

"Haoran, let's get to work," she directed her assistant, whose real name was Fan Haoran.

"Tell us what all you have done so far and what assistance you need from us," she asked Mei Qingyang and got up to get to work herself. Mei Qingyang nodded and started telling Fan Ruyi her plan.

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"See this frog, jumping from place to place, what is her motive?" Yu Rong got a call in the morning from the security system that they had spotted a little bird on the empty floors, sneaking around.

"Master, I think she is trying to look for your abode here. I did announce your summon to Yu Tian in front of her as you had told me. She might be looking for your office now," Wang Hao smiled. Poor girl.

Yu Rong guffawed at his response. She knew this was going to happen. To take such risk for the guy, she had really fallen hard for him eh? But that guy was off limits since the beginning. She chose the wrong person.

"This girl, she does get on my nerves. Because of her, poor my nephew is the one who is going to suffer," she was watching a video of the girl checking the rooms at the second topmost floor. She took out the knife from the fruit plate in front of her and licked it, anticipating the night activities.

Mei Qingyang was smart enough to hide her trail when she was checking out those storage rooms though. So, Yu Rong only thought she was just looking at the empty rooms. This was a deliberate attempt on Mei Qingyang's part to let her know in advance that she was onto her. Instead, it increased the l.u.s.t in Yu Rong's mind.

The best way to punish that girl was to torture not her, but her beloved. And that was what was going to happen tonight.

"Go make the preparations, I am very excited. Not only has it been a while, I can already see my victory from here. Ah, sweet revenge!" Yu Rong laughed once again creepily.

Wang Hao shook his head and prayed for Yu Tian in his heart. Perhaps, if the girl saw his condition with her own eyes once, she would be disgusted by him and leave him? Then, he could take her as his from there. This plan of his master's was good for him too.

So, he conducted all the preparations himself, very enthusiastically.

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"I won't be in the room tonight Bufan. I need you to keep an eye on Mei Qingyang," Yu Tian was sitting on his sofa listlessly. He had not been able to focus on anything for the whole day. The way she left him was so painful that he felt numb inside. Why? Why did she need to be so smart that she figured out his secret so easily?

But he was not a normal case either, was he? To be asking her to be kind to his broken self, was it not asking for too much? Every person had different preferences and likes, and from his personal experience, no one liked to be associated with an a.d.u.l.t male who was victim of abuse. So then, what was so special about her? She was a normal human being too. Why was he expecting her to be any different? He had no idea.

What he knew was that he still wanted to protect her. He wanted to make sure that, just in case, she takes some extreme step. Although, even that was hoping for too much.

"Master, are you sure about this?" This was a question Yu Bufan would ask him every time Yu Rong summoned him. It had become a ritual.

"I do not have a choice," Yu Tian sighed.

"Master, you always have a choice, the only thing is, are you ready to face the consequences of it? This is something you only have taught me. Anyway, I always look forward to the time when you would reply to me differently. But I see that your answer hasn't changed. I will follow whatever you say." Yu Bufan did not usually show his emotions but this time, but he kind of choked today. His master had been so disheartened since the morning. He did share to him whatever transpired between him and his little girlfriend. He had really wanted to punch that girl, how dare she break his heart like this? He had no idea why his master and he, himself had pinned all their hopes on this one little girl.

But somewhere in the corner of his heart, he really wanted the things to change. Probably, he was still hoping for a miracle for his master, the miracle named Mei Qingyang.