Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"A secret code came from your dad," the old librarian had to contact Mei Qingyang himself to give her this urgent information he had gotten from his underling.

"Dad? What does he want now?" Mei Qingyang frowned. Had he not disowned her already? Did he create more trouble now? What could it be? That revengeful couple needed to be dealt with soon too. At least he had not touched Yu Tian for now.

She had made a haste when she got the message from Yu Bufan earlier in the day who was the one contacted by the Xu Yang. Xu Yang had a reputation of keeping away from all the affairs of the rich. That's why he was not under anyone's radar as of now, despite having Wei Qiqi as his girlfriend.

Xu Yang was a good choice for the messenger. He also made a smart move of not contacting her directly but rather looking for Yu Tian or Yu Bufan. They were teammates for martial arts, so again, not a suspicious behavior.

"I am not sure either, but here it is," the old man informed her.

"Let me see," she took the slip from the grandpa's hands.

"I have got the necessary books for you to decode it," he handed her the books as well. It was definitely useful to teach the grandpa her secret code. If she had remembered him earlier and how he was always on her side, she could have saved so much time like this.

"Did you try cracking it?" she asked as she was flipping the pages of the dictionaries in her hands.

"I did not get time to sit down and look at it. But it looked like fairly simple. And you did not tell me which dictionary was what number, so I got them all," the old man was busy too and lacking complete information to crack the code.

"Alright, this is a big help too, thank you grandpa," she smiled.

After half an hour, she was able to finally write down what the code meant.

"I need you home tomorrow by hook or by crook. I need to show you something. Come alone."

"All alone? Does he not understand that I would never get permission for that?" she surmised. She could sneak out if she took help from Wang Hao but she did not want to take unnecessary favors from him. She would need to repay him for all of them.

"Tomorrow is a weekday. If I am absent from class, that would arouse curiosity from people and she has spies all around. I can only do this at night," she sighed. She would need to contact Wang Hao and make arrangements as soon as possible. She still could not think of any reasons why her foster dad would call her like this. If he really wanted to show her something, then he could have just told her, why was he being so mysterious?

"Qing Qing ah, be careful, okay? I smell a trap in here," the old man was very worried about this girl. She was at the point where everyone was her enemy. She had only her friends remaining as her allies but in reality, they were powerless beings too, especially in front of their mighty parents. If any one of them were to take any action, she would really be doomed.

"Yeah, I cannot fathom his intentions at this point either. Do you have any idea?" she thought since the old man had known their whole group in their youth, and then he had been in touch with him now, he might be able to throw in some ideas too.

"I am drawing blanks here. What could he really want from you? And calling you alone as well. Is he going to kidnap you and put you at house arrest?"

"I don't think he would need to call me out like this on his own for that. He could actually have directly contacted Yu Rong and made a deal with her for that," she was just a pawn for him. He would not take these kind of steps for her. If she was being real hindrance for him in his plans, he would just get her killed by some means. He had enough spies in this school for that. Which was also a reason why she had to be discreet in all her plans.

"Then, I have no clue," the old man massaged his temples. Should he contact Yu Tian about this? That guy needed to know for this girl would be contacting Wang Hao, so she would probably not tell him what was going on.

"I will need to tell this to Tian too. He will get worried if he does not see me in the house at night," she muttered to herself but the old man heard and heaved a sigh of relief. These two were really working great on their relationship eh?

"Okay, thank you grandpa. If I come out of this unscathed, I will tell you what he wanted," she laughed bitterly saying this. She had no idea what to expect anymore.

"Take care," the grandpa bid her farewell and prayed for her in his heart.

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"No! You cannot be going alone. He is a dangerous man," as soon as Yu Tian heard that she was to go there alone, he instantly rejected the idea. They were having a close door discussion in his study for they did not want any of the servants to hear it. Yu Bufan was keeping a guard outside, so that no pesky pest could come around and hear them.

"But he won't show me whatever he wants to if I don't show up alone!" she protested. Her dad did not take any meaningless steps. And if he went as far as to tell her that he wanted to show her something, then it must be important. She had that much faith in that man at least. She had spent last five to six years with him.

"If he has a problem with me, just take Bufan with you. You will need someone to drive you anyway. He can wait in the car. I would just flare his temper, so Bufan should be fine right?" Yu Tian insisted on this.

"But Tian, if I leave in a car, we will need permission and I won't ever get it, especially if I were to leave the premises alone. I need to go without being discovered," she proposed.

"Without being discovered is impossible. Are you a ninja going to jump over the walls now?" Yu Tian made fun of her. Mei Qingyang glared at him.

"I have my own sources, okay?" she stuck her tongue out in anger.

"Pfft," Yu Tian could not help but laugh. It was good to see her childish side sometime. "I cannot allow you to go alone though. Take Bufan or don't go," he gave her an ultimatum.

"Fine, I will see what I can do," Mei Qingyang was not happy with this coercion but her heart still warmed seeing how much he cared.

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"That can be arranged. Yu Rong is having another conference tonight with her advisors. The monitoring would be lax," Wang Hao got the message from the girl through Wei Qiqi this time under the guise of her scholarship discussion.

"Would two people be okay?"

"Yeah, but the car will need to be arranged by themselves. I won't be able to help out once they are out of campus," Wang Hao said.

Wei Qiqi noted it all and reported back to Mei Qingyang and Yu Tian. After going back and forth for two days, they finally decided to leave at 8 pm. Since it was still February, most of the people would go back home by 7 pm and hide behind the warmth of their heated houses.

Two inconspicuous shadows left the campus, disguised in all black. Su Lang had arranged for a car one mile away from the campus. Yu Bufan took his miss and returned to her home. From there, Mei Qingyang was blindfolded by her dad's agents and taken to another place, leaving Yu Bufan all alone outside the house. No one came to entertain him as a guest. He reported this directly to his master but he was unaware of the face that the girl had been taken to another place.

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"Are you guys kidnapping me?" she had seen two of her 'brothers' who had asked her to take a seat in the dining hall. Her senses were alert but she never thought that they would just spread chloroform gas in small amounts in the whole room. By the time she realized something was wrong, she had already lost consciousness.

When she woke up, she found herself in the car with darkness in front of her eyes. Her hands were tied and from the motion and sound, she knew she was being taken away somewhere.

"Where is dad?" she kicked around the seat but no answer came. She had not seen Li Hanyu anywhere, so she was not sure what was going on.

"Miss, could you please not create this much fuss? We are not kidnapping you. We are taking you to the place where Minister Jiang is," she recognized the voice. He was one of the brothers she had trained with during her training.

She did not find any traces of panic or fear or lie from the guy, so she decided to trust him for the time being. In the meantime, she started thinking of ways to cut the rope tying her hands.