Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

Even after calling his name, the body on the wheelchair did not move. Or it looked like it could not move. The lifeless jet black deep eyes though, they looked at Mei Qingyang when his name was called out.

"Why… why is he like this?" Mei Qingyang was beyond shocked. He was supposed to be the mighty leader of Yu empire but he looked like a sick uncle in need of medical attention.

"Hahaha, I like the look on your face. Imagine when I show this guy to Yu Rong and Yu Tian, how would they react. Ahh! I am getting excited just thinking about it," Jiang Nuo danced a bit saying this. He was truly experiencing ecstasy at this moment.

Mei Qingyang did not move from her seat. She could tell from Yu Ming's eyes that he was in pain. She needed to do something and snatch him from her dad. But how?!

"Don't get any ideas. I have very tight security around. None of your tricks will work. And if you get caught, he is not in a position to flee to begin with. So, just give up, okay?" an evil smile spread across Jiang Nuo's face.

"But how did he end up like this? And why are you showing him to me, are you not afraid I will tell the world and police would…" Mei Qingyang needed as much information as possible right now if she were to help this man.

"Oh that? Well, let me tell you a story then. We have plenty of time anyway," Jiang Nuo stifled his laughter and sat down. He was relishing his victory and Mei Qingyang's miserable expression.

*Now you will know little girl what happens when you choose the wrong side.*

"This started exactly one year after Bo's death. I was desperate to find any evidence for the culprit. And I was going to train you by the side," Jiang Nuo started reminiscing about the events all those years ago.

"You had just started recovering, and were quite good at grasping the concepts, so I started with what you could do with that weak body of yours, coding, reading, politics, history, I put you through all that till your body was fit enough for physical training. It took another one year for that…"

"Enough of telling me about myself. I already know you never thought of me as your child but just a sacrifice," Mei Qingyang slammed her fist on the table in front of her. Why was he blabbering so much? Could he just not get to the point?

"No, I am trying to tell you your contribution toward my discovery of Yu Ming," Jiang Nuo wanted to take his time but this girl was much too impatient.

"My… my contribution?" Mei Qingyang could not believe her ears. She never came across the term 'Yu Island' even during her training, how could she be responsible for this?

"You accessed a few maps recently from my computer, did you not?" Jiang Nuo smirked proudly.

"You even know about that?"

"See? This is what you get for training a soldier. I trained you so I know how you think. I put them there on purpose because I knew you would get there. There is no way to track your hacking movement, I give you that. But I don't need to do anything like that precisely because I know your next steps."

"You…," she felt so humiliated and indignant at this moment. She had tried to be one step ahead of this guy always but it turned out she underestimated him. To have changed so much after his son's death, how much resentment did he have in himself?

"Yes… Makes you speechless no? I was also speechless when I discovered that you had got that guy as your personal agent. I had tried to recruit him so many times, that Shadow. But he always refused. But he decided to do all the grunt work for you? I still can't catch him but now I know what cards you have."

"You know about Shadow too?" Mei Qingyang trembled. They were straying astray from the story but at least now she knew that her secrets were no secrets anymore. This guy knew about everything. She clenched her hands. Where did she go wrong?

"Hahahaha, this is good, this is very good. Yes, so when we first started your training in geography and simulation softwares, I made you do certain exercises which might have been trivial for you, but your brain looked at them differently. I don't think you would even remember them. But those exercises were part of the project to locate Yu Island. And as expected, you delivered! We discovered it by the end of your training."

Mei Qingyang could not contain her rage anymore. She knew her brain worked a bit differently, perhaps because of the injuries but he took so much advantage of that, without her knowledge. True, she did not remember any of those puny exercises now, but to think that all led to this.

"Yes, yes. I am a genius in using people, no? And so, within one year, you had found the island for me. But I did not approach Yu Ming directly. Even if revenge was boiling in my heart, I did not want to do anything that would dilute my efforts towards my final plan. Once I located the place, I slowly started working with the people who supplied materials to this place."

Mei Qingyang was listening to this devil's scheme and thinking how much patience this guy had. He must have truly lost his soul when her foster brother had died. She could not help but look pitifully at this guy. The change in her gaze rattled Jiang Nuo a bit but he continued.

"I disrupted that supply chain and introduced a special compound developed by the army into his special sugar since he was suffering from diabetes."

"How was he procuring his supplies if the island is so hidden and no one is allowed here?" Mei Qingyang was a curious being and she needed to understand the full picture.

"Good question! He had made Hacker Z to make an automatic drone system for him. The suppliers had to send out a particular amount of stuff on every 5th of the month. That was set in their contract and Yu Ming bought those supplies at ten times higher rate, so the suppliers were always happy to fulfill the order."

"Talk about money wastage," Mei Qingyang scoffed and earned a glare from the lifeless body sitting over there. If he was responding to the conversation, then he was conscious for sure!

"I know, these rich people. Before money, nothing else matters to them. Anyway, he would get those supplies through special drones. People did try to follow them multiple times to learnt he identity of the owner but Z was too smart. He had already put the system in there to make the followers lost. Anyway, I had already discovered the location, so I did not need to look much into that," Jiang Nuo was becoming happier and happier as he was revealing the secrets.

"Anyway, the compound was a slow acting poison and in next three four years, it reduced him to this state. His only doctor, and he had hired the best one even, could not identify it no matter where he got his samples tested. I was following all this and it was so much fun to see everyone fumble around," the mad man laughed once again.

"And so? What's the next step now that you have snubbed your greatest enemy?" Mei Qingyang smiled bitterly too. This was not the end and Yu Ming was not his main enemy. What was he going to do next?

"My next target is Yu Rong and she is coming down soon too. And you would once again help me out in that."

"Don't put me in the same basket as you. I will certainly take her down but my reasons are different. And she indeed is a criminal, this guy, I am not very sure," Mei Qingyang pointed to YU Ming with a blank face and saw some sympathy in the uncle's eyes.

"Pfft, dream on!" Jiang Nuo got up from his seat once again and strode towards the sitting girl. He really wanted to shred this ungrateful b*tch to pieces right now but he controlled his urge. She was going to be his ally for Yu Rong.

"You can say whatever you want girl, but in the end, I will win out of this. You just wait and watch," he waved his hand and came back to his seat. There was no use of flaring his temper in front of a little powerless girl.

"If this is what you wanted me here for, I guess we are done. Let me leave now," she stood up hurriedly. She needed to go back and do something about this. This man was too sly, it was impossible for her to tell about this place and everything to police or Yu Rong or anyone. He could always spin the story to him helping Yu Ming when he discovered how sick he was.

"Hmm… yeah. My goal of bringing you here is achieved. I just wanted to see you in despair, you need to have power girl. Unfortunately, you learnt the lesson too late. Let's just call this last one from me? From now on, we will meet as enemies in the battlefield," Jiang Nuo pressed a button and a few guard came in from outside.

"Oh yeah, I shall do you this last favor too. Spend a few minutes with your future father-in-law, won't ya? Oh wait, there is no future for Yu family hahaha," he moved out of the room with his people, laughing, leaving the two people alone in the room.