Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire

Thorin Loong is confronting a group of gangsters in front of Zi Mei's house while Zi Mei is still asleep. They told him that Zi Mei's father had cheated them of money so they were here to seek revenge and to get the money back from Zi Mei. Thorin Loong had already promised to pay them $2 million each to leave Zi Mei alone. 

"How much did he cheated? And how is that even possible? Do you men make it a habit to hand out money to desperate habitual gamblers for no reason?" Thorin Loong asked them. 

Yeow glared at him. 

"Don't try to be funny pretty boy, don't think we can't rough ya up and put a nice long scar on that pretty face of yours," he snarled. 

Thorin Loong crossed his arms on his chest casually. He is not in the least intimidated by these mortals. Their switchblades will not do a thing to him. Even if they were to brandish swords, it will not harm him at all. Mortal weapons have no effect on a dragon shapeshifter of his level. 

"So? How much did he managed to con out of your people?" he asked them conversationally. 

"About half a million," Yeow said. 

Thorin Loong sniggered. 

"I can't believe you men actually hand over half a million to a desperate habitual gambler…what are you, dumb?" he said.

Yeow growled and wanted to punch him but his men pulled him back. 

"Boss, let's wait for his money to come first!" they said. 

"He put this house and his daughter as collateral, that was why we took his deal, he told us he could bring us back three fold the sum in a cryptocurrency investment deal," Yeow said.

Thorin was not amused. Why did Zi Mei's father do this again? Why did he use his own daughter as collateral again? 

"We checked and made sure that this house belonged to him and it was registered to a Tan Zi Mei, his daughter, fully paid too, so we know his collateral stands," Yeow said. He dug into his pockets and took out a document and unfolded it for Thorin. 

Tan Zan Chun signed it offering Tan Zi Mei and her assets as collateral. Anger flashed in his eyes when he read that. He has seen how depraved mortals can be in all the centuries he spent in the human realm but he could never get over how some mortal parents could do things like this to their own children. 

Not for the first time, he wondered if Zi Mei is actually Tan Zan Chun's real biological daughter? The way he had again and again try to sell off his daughter to settle his gambling debts were just to despicable to fathom. 

"You will hand me that agreement the moment I give you the cash and I never want to see any of you here ever again," Thorin told them. 

He fixed them with his steely cold glare that could cause even the strongest and most arrogant of men to cower in fear. Yeow and his men actually stumbled back and trembled in fear. 

"Of course, we only want money, nothing else," Yeow said, his voice trembling. 

"If I see any of you at anywhere 50 feet near Tan Zi Mei or this house or wherever she goes, be very sure that you will regret doing so for the rest of your life," Thorin Loong warned. 

At that moment, his car arrived and three of his staff came down carrying six large bags. They came up to them and started handing out the bag, one each to the men and then they went back to the car and it sped off. 

The men hurriedly unzipped the bags and when they saw the stacks of cash inside, they were flabbergasted. They stared at it transfixed and then stared at Thorin Loong in awe and wonderment. Yeow started counting the stacks of money inside, checking to make sure each stack are all real $1000 bills and not fake or paper. It took him all of 10 minutes before he is fully satisfied. 

"Alright, it looks like you kept to your side of the deal and we will keep to our side of the deal as agreed," he said finally. He handed Tan Zan Chun's agreement to Thorin Loong. "Here, do what you will with it, we have no more dealings with the Tans," he said.

Yeow and the men, clutching the bags close to their chest, immediately left, running off and disappearing down the street. Thorin is sure that this will not be the last time he see them. They will be back for more. The greed of humans are such that they will never be satisfied and they will keep coming back if they knew there is more for them. 

That will be a problem somewhere in the future for him to settle. For now, they will stop bothering Zi Mei. He will station a few dragon guards around her house just to make sure but he will not tell her that. She might not like it at all. He will tell the dragon guards to stay invisible so that she doesn't know. 

Thorin Loong tore up Tan Zan Chun's agreement with the thugs and make it disappear. He is certain they have a few copies. They will probably use another copy sometime in the future. He unlocked Zi Mei's door and went back inside. It looks like it is nearing eight o'clock, so it is time to wake her up so that she is not late for class. 

He went upstairs and paused at her bedroom door. Zi Mei is still fast asleep and looking so peaceful and pretty, he almost didn't have the hear to wake her up. But he knew that if he didn't do so, she might get angry and maybe even sad that she wasted the whole night working on her project only to be late and unable to hand it in. He went over to her bed and touched her shoulder gently. 

"Lil Zi, time to wake up, or else you might be late," he said as he shook her gently. 

Zi Mei mumbled and swatted his hand away. Then she turned to her side. Thorin again held her shoulder and shook her gently. 

"Time to wake up, you need to go to class soon," he said. 

"No, go away," Zi Mei mumbled and pushed his hand away. 

"Zi Mei! You are late to class, it is 10 o'clock!" he shouted and shook her again. 

At the mention of 10 o'clock, she sat up in panic and screamed. 

"What???!!!" she jumped up and started scrambling around looking for clothes to change. She ran to her bathroom and slammed the door. She ran out a few minutes later, her hair mussed, her shirt untucked and she ran downstairs. 

"Fuck…why didn't you wake me! Oh fuck fuck fuck!" she mumbled as she gathered her project papers into a file and stuffed her books into her backpack. 

"Hey hey, I was lying…it's only eight," Thorin stopped her from rushing off. She stopped and stared at him for a full minute. Then she turned slowly and looked at the clock. It was only eight o'clock. 

"You!" she threw her backpack at him and Thorin easily caught it. "You made me panic!!!" she exclaimed. She sat down on the chair and exhaled. 

"Here, have breakfast before I take you to college so you won't be late," Thorin told her. He pushed a plate of toast, ham and eggs to her. She was in such a rush earlier, she didn't even notice the plate of food on the table. She wondered if he went out to get her breakfast or he ordered his staff to get her breakfast or he magicked the breakfast. 

"Did you magicked this out of thin air?" she asked him out loud. Thorin nodded slightly. 

"Not exactly out of thin air…and this is not exactly magic either…I used my power to…." He tried to explain but Zi Mei held up her hand. 

"It's okay, whatever, I am still so exhausted and the almost panic attack you gave me did not help at all," she told him. She got up and went to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water. Then she came back out, pick up the plate of food and sat down on her sofa to eat it. She finished it within minutes and this time, checked her backpack that Thorin Loong had placed on her study desk. 

After making sure she has everything that she needed for college, she turned to Thorin.

"Thank you for breakfast, I really need to go to class now," she told him.

"The car is waiting outside, lets go," Thorin said. He took her hand, linked his fingers with hers, and walked with her outside. True enough, his car is waiting outside. 

Zi Mei arrived at her college at 8..45am, plenty of time for her to walk to her class and choose the seat far in the back, away from her customary seat to avoid the new guy, Damon.