Transmigrated as My Best Friend's Ex

153. Xu Is Priceless

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Li Qinghao woke up with a headache. He looked around and found himself in an abandoned warehouse, but he was not worried. He lay still on the ground and tried to recall what had happened before his coma. He remembered getting off Bus No. 256 according to that person’s instructions. Then he walked along the street. Suddenly everything went black, and he lost consciousness.

Someone knocked him out from behind. Li Qinghao already guessed who did that.

After a while, a man came up and gave Li Qinghao a kick on the shin. “Hey, pal, are you awake?”

Li Qinghao slowly opened his eyes and saw a masked man. He resisted an impulse to laugh. This guy must have watched too many TV shows. Otherwise, why did he wear a mask? “You… Who are you? Please let me go. I have important things to do.” Li Qinghao trembled and looked at the man in horror.

The man was satisfied with Li Qinghao’s mock fear. With a smile of amusement, he said, “Important things? You want to get your pictures back, right?” He held up his hand to show Li Qinghao a wad of pictures and then threw them on the ground. Li Qinghao picked them up and found that these were all pictures of him and Nancheng Lie. Judging from the background, these pictures were taken when he went to Yuelao Temple with Nancheng Lie. It turned out that this man was the one who followed them that day.

Li Qinghao looked up and down the man in front of him. He was told not to judge people by their appearance. On the surface, this man was handsome and didn’t look like the type who would break the law. What was more, Li Qinghao knew this man. Mu Yinting’s investigation found that Max was in a love triangle with two men. This man was one of them. He was the second son of the Qiao family.

“You… It’s you!” Li Qinghao bottled up his doubts. He was patient enough to play the game with this stupid man. If Nancheng Lie were here, he would shoot this guy directly. After all, he had little patience with anyone except his Xu.

“Yeah, it’s me.” The man squatted down and raised Li Qinghao’s chin with his finger. “You have a very pretty face. No wonder Nancheng Lie has taken a fancy to you.”

“You… I don’t understand what you are talking about.” Li Qinghao turned his head away.

“Oh yeah?” The man snorted coldly. “Look at the marks on your body. Your man loves you very much, doesn’t he?” It turned out that the man had undressed Li Qinghao and body-searched him when he was in the coma.

There was a flicker of coldness in Li Qinghao’s eyes. The man saw it, although Li Qinghao soon hid his real emotions under a mask of composure. However, he thought it was just a hallucination, and didn’t take it to heart. “I’ve changed my mind. I don’t want your money. Since Nancheng Lie loves you so much, I think I can get more money from him.” With that, the man took out a cellphone, divested Li Qinghao of his top and took some pictures. “I’m going to send him these pictures.”

‘He’ll kill you,’ Li Qinghao thought.

After handing over the task of investigating Han Ping to Zhang Wei, Spy had nothing to do. So Li Qinghao entrusted him with a new task. Spy was asked to follow Li Qinghao closely so as to protect him from any danger after he left Nancheng Mansion. Li Qinghao had a death experience. He was not afraid of death, but he wanted to live because Nancheng Lie couldn’t stand being separated from him once again. So he must try to live on.

He was not a fool. He didn’t think he could protect himself, considering his current physical condition. So, he asked Spy to protect him. He believed Spy was perfectly capable of protecting him from any danger. Nancheng Lie was kept in ignorance of all this.

Spy was there when Li Qinghao was taken away by the man. But without Li Qinghao’s commands, he wouldn’t take action. Later, he was surprised to find that a group of mysterious strangers were also tailing Li Qinghao. They hid themselves well in the crowd. If they hadn’t panicked when Li Qinghao had been snatched, Spy wouldn’t have scented them. It could be seen that they were experts.

Spy didn’t make a rash act, for he didn’t know why they followed Li Qinghao.

Nancheng Lie was at home. He got the news shortly after Li Qinghao was snatched. Those men who trailed Li Qinghao were from Assassination Agency of LD organization. Nancheng Lie had them protect Li Qinghao.

He didn’t mean to spy on Li Qinghao. He had been very careful about Li Qinghao’s safety since the day Li was lucky to survive the virus called ‘TRKS’. So, he didn’t get nervous when he received a text message from the kidnapper. But… He narrowed his eyes and stared at Li Qinghao’s bare chest in the picture for a while. Anger slowly crept into his eyes.

‘I’m gonna kill him inch by inch,’ Nancheng Lie thought.

He stood up and was about to set out to meet the kidnapper when he got a call from Max. He was a little surprised. He agreed to meet Max first, because he was confident that Li Qinghao would not be in any danger.

Both of them didn’t bother to choose a decent place to meet. Max suggested having a talk in Nancheng Lie’s car. That was exactly what Nancheng Lie had in mind, so he agreed readily.

As soon as Max got into the car, he said, “I’m sorry.” Nancheng Lie was very surprised. He sized Max up and found that Max was much thinner than the last time they met. Max’s face looked weary. It seemed that he was troubled by his relationship with Lei Wen.

Nancheng Lie didn’t know what exactly happened between Max and Lei Wen. Everything he knew about Max and Lei Wen was what Li Qinghao had told him at the hospital. Actually he had no interest in anyone but Han Mingxu. “Why did you apologize to me?” Nancheng Lie lit a cigarette and looked at Max with a meaningful smile.

“Can I ask you a favour?” Max stammered.

“Speak up.” Considering that they were old classmates, Nancheng Lie was willing to help as long as Max’s request was appropriate.

“I… A friend of mine is not quite right in the head. He has always dreamed of being rich. He knows you are gay. He…”

Nancheng Lie raised his lips and eyebrows as if he had just heard a hilarious joke. “Every one of the upper class knows I’m homosexual.”

“I didn’t mean that. He has got some photos of you dating a teenager. He….” Max left the sentence unfinished.

Hearing this, Nancheng Lie understood what Max meant. In fact, Max’s friend was already trying to threaten him. “Do you mean this photo?” Nancheng Lie took out his mobile phone and showed Max the picture he had just received.

Max took the mobile phone from Nancheng Lie and had a close look at the photo. The next second his face changed.

“Lie, he…” Max looked up and met with Nancheng Lie’s murderous eyes. He was too scared to go on speaking.

“He wants fifty million yuan from me.” Nancheng Lie got his mobile phone back and asked, “Do you think my cousin is only worth fifty million?”

‘My Xu is priceless. How could that damned man only ask for fifty million? To hell with him! How dared he undress Xu and take such a disgusting picture?’ Nancheng Lie thought with anger.

“I’m sorry.” Max bit his lower lip hard.

“Let it go at that. You don’t have to be held responsible for his fault. I’m not interested in what’s going on between you and him. If there is nothing else to discuss…” Nancheng Lie glanced at his watch and continued, “I have to go now. It’s getting late.”

“Please allow me to go with you!” Max said impulsively.

“Oh?” Nancheng Lie raised his eyebrows and looked at Max for a long time before he nodded and said, “Okay.” After all, the kidnapper was Max’s friend. Nancheng Lie decided to take Max with him just in case.

Nancheng Lie drew 50 million yuan from his bank account in cash and then drove to the appointed place. As soon as he arrived at the destination, his phone rang. He thought it was the kidnapper, but in fact, it was a member of LD organization. He answered the phone. “What’s wrong?”

“Something has cropped up. Mr. Li has disappeared.” After Second Young Master Qiao had left, they had intended to get Li Qinghao out of that abandoned warehouse. But when they got inside, they found that Li Qinghao was missing. The warehouse had only one gate. They had been waiting outside the door, but never seen Li Qinghao come out. How could he just vanish into thin air!

“What?!” Nancheng Lie’s face dropped to the floor almost immediately. He hung up the phone, turned to look at Max and said, “Call your friend now.”

Although Max didn’t understand what Nancheng Lie wanted, he obediently took out his cellphone and dialed Qiao’s number. He waited for quite a while, but no one answered the phone. Nancheng Lie got a bad feeling. ‘Xu… No! He’ll be all right. I won’t allow anyone to hurt him,’ Nancheng Lie thought to himself.