"You are the wind I cannot touch, the dream I cannot wake from.
The paradise I cannot find, the pain I cannot heal.
The cigarette I cannot light, the hand I cannot release.
The unforgettable someone..."
The ringtone echoed in the air, but Du Ruoxin felt frozen, like a stone sculpture.
Grace nudged her, "Sister Xin, answer the phone."
Du Ruoxin hastily snapped back to reality, "Oh—"
She swiped to the green button and brought the phone to her ear.
Du Ruoxin was so nervous she dared not speak, her very breath held captive.
"Rong Jingyang, is that you?"
"I am in FL country."
Upon connecting, Rong Jingyang said coldly.
Hearing the familiar voice that haunted her, Du Ruoxin almost went weak, nearly dropping the phone in her hand.
"Rong Jingyang..."
"J—K Hotel, come find me."
With that, he hung up.
Du Ruoxin listened to the beeping dial tone, her wildly beating heart suddenly doused with ice water.
Why was he so cold?
Du Ruoxin patted her head. These past two days, she hadn't just been angry with Cristiano; she had also been thinking about everything that had happened.
Because she couldn't reach Rong Jingyang, she had called Feng Linwan and learned he was in FL country.
Du Ruoxin had doubts about the video the "waiter" had shown her.
It felt as if an invisible hand was pushing her in a certain direction.
But she couldn't quite figure out what it was.
Trevor heard Rong Jingyang's voice and stopped her, "Miss, you cannot go."
"The reason Mr. was arrested was due to Rong Jingyang's machinations."
"He and Mr. are competing for the FL country power investment."
"A few days ago, Mr. won."
"Rong Jingyang then sent people to capture you, threatening Mr. He knows you are Mr.'s weakness."
"It was also Rong Jingyang who uploaded the video online, intending to destroy Mr."
Du Ruoxin's mind exploded with a "boom."
"What did you say?" She looked at Trevor in disbelief.
Was she a pawn?
A pawn for Rong Jingyang to use against her elder brother?
Du Ruoxin found it hard to believe that she worried about him so much, cared for him so deeply, yet he was merely using her?
Using her disappearance and injury to make her elder brother lose control, using that video to make her elder brother lose spectacularly, get arrested by the police, and even potentially face imprisonment.
No!
Du Ruoxin felt like a complete fool, played for a fool by Rong Jingyang.
She, who would lose all reason upon seeing him injured, wishing to appear before him immediately.
She, who...
"Rong Jingyang, even if you don't love me, please don't treat me like an idiot."
"And please—"
"Don't destroy the last vestiges of love I have for you."
"Whether Miss believes it or not, Rong Jingyang has indeed used you despicably to deal with Mr.," Trevor stated.
Du Ruoxin's eyelids twitched.
She believed him.
The facts were laid bare, leaving no room for her naive innocence to make excuses for Rong Jingyang.
From leaving the US, from the moment she boarded the plane.
No, or rather, from the moment Rong Jingshu found her, everything had been within Rong Jingyang's calculations.
Otherwise, why would the person who picked her up be Jingshu?
Rong Jingshu first stirred her feelings for Rong Jingyang, then the waiter in Country E showed her the video.
Worried, her head heated up, and she followed the waiter without a second thought.
Finally arriving in FL country.
Was it not true that Lei also wanted her technology? It was merely to wait for Cristiano to walk into the trap...
No, Lei and the group of thugs had truly died; she had seen it with her own eyes, it couldn't be false.
In that case, Rong Jingyang was also one of the masterminds behind this entire incident?
"I want to see him!" Du Ruoxin made up her mind.
Since she was such a crucial pawn, why should she be used in vain?
"Miss, no," Trevor stopped her. "Mr. told me not to let you see him..."
Du Ruoxin interrupted him sternly, "Only if I can hold Rong Jingyang off will you have a chance to save my elder brother."
Cristiano, as the patriarch of the Rothschild family, absolutely could not have an accident; her parents wouldn't allow it. If her elder brother were truly facing imprisonment in FL country, they would definitely come, and the situation would escalate uncontrollably.
She...
She would stabilize the situation first.
But her elder brother's killing was a fact, what should she do?
Pay money to ensure peace, to silence the victim's family? Or bribe high officials?
Du Ruoxin was troubled.
Trevor thought about it; what the lady said wasn't entirely unreasonable.
Mr.'s biggest enemy was Rong Jingyang. If Rong Jingyang made any further moves, things would become increasingly complicated and difficult.
"I'll go with Miss," Trevor said.
Grace stood by Du Ruoxin's side, linking her arm, "I'll go with you too."
Du Ruoxin knew Grace was worried about her and didn't refuse, "Okay."
Turning, she addressed Cristiano's special assistant, "Go find a film and television company, find some actors... blah blah blah..."
After giving instructions, Du Ruoxin, Grace, and others left the room and headed for the J—K Hotel.
Perhaps because Rong Jingyang had instructed them, from the moment Du Ruoxin drove into the hotel and got out of the car, someone guided her the entire way.
"Madam, please wait."
"Mr. Rong is busy with something and will be here shortly."
The waiter led them into the presidential suite and said, bowing.
Du Ruoxin: "..."
Didn't he ask her to come? Now that she was here, he was putting on airs?
What trick was Rong Jingyang playing now?!
Du Ruoxin waved her hand, "I know."
However, she waited until late at night, and he still hadn't appeared.
Du Ruoxin gradually lost her patience, and the anger in her heart grew and accumulated.
"Rong Jingyang, are you happy playing with me like this?!"
Du Ruoxin was agitated and couldn't control her temper any longer, calling him, "Rong Jingyang, where the hell are you?!"
"Get out here!"
"..."
"If you don't come out now, I'm leaving!"
"..."
"It's almost twelve now, when are you going to make me wait?!"
"..."
"Say something! Don't be a mute!" Du Ruoxin, not receiving a response from the man for a long time, felt a sharp pain in her heart. "Rong Jingyang, you're always like this, this is called silent treatment, do you know that!"
She was fed up with his indifference.
Fed. Up.
Rong Jingyang's dark pupils deepened slightly, his tone icy, "Wait."
Then he hung up.
"I..." Du Ruoxin wanted to say she wouldn't wait anymore, that she was leaving, but she heard the beeping dial tone.
She...
Wait for your sister!
The woman was so angry her nose was crooked.
She wanted to punch Rong Jingyang's face like a pig, wanted to ravage Rong Jingyang's face madly, to let him know that she also had a temper!
Du Ruoxin kicked something off the coffee table.
"Let's go!"
"We're going back! We're not waiting anymore!"
But as she reached the door, Mu Li stopped her, "Madam, Master said you cannot leave."
Trevor didn't hesitate and started fighting.
But how could he, alone, be a match for over a dozen bodyguards trained as special forces?
After the incident a year ago, all of the Rong family's bodyguards had undergone the most brutal special forces training.
"Alright, stop fighting."
Seeing Trevor beaten to the ground, Du Ruoxin quickly said, "I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving."
She couldn't leave.
She couldn't see him.
Du Ruoxin was so angry that she felt like she was about to turn into an atomic bomb, capable of blasting a mushroom cloud from this presidential suite.
Angrily lying on the sofa, she covered herself with a blanket, "Grace, I'm going to sleep for a bit. If Rong Jingyang arrives, wake me up."
Grace looked at the woman wrapped tightly in disbelief: ...Sister Xin, are you sure you can sleep?