Chapter 881 — A Successful Deception

Zhen Yingjun did not question whether the sanitary pad on the ground was genuine. In the dim light of the cave, it was impossible to tell whether it was really blood or something else. What struck him as strange was simply that the two of them should have gotten their periods at the same time.

"You two came on together?" Zhen Yingjun frowned, looking from Shen Yushu to Gu Mengyao.

"That's right. Actually, we're both Wei Zhao's wives - one big, one small - and we often play threesomes together. To make sure we could do it twenty-five days a month, we deliberately used medication to synchronize our cycles..." Shen Yushu explained with a perfectly straight face, looking rather shy.

"Huh?" Zhen Yingjun was taken aback. "You're not...?"

"Of course we're not..." Shen Yushu glanced at him with a trace of contempt. "We're eighteen already. How could we still be?"

"This..." Shen Yushu had genuinely muddled him. He could not tell whether she was lying or telling the truth. But Gu Mengyao had said earlier that if he laid a hand on them, Wei Zhao would kill him... Could it be that the two of them really were Wei Zhao's wives, one big and one small?

Wasn't Wei Zhao just a bodyguard? Then again, a skilled man like Wei Zhao, versed in medicine, would be an honored guest anywhere. Take the King of Medicine at Zhao Qibing's side - even Young Master Bing treated him with respect. How could Wei Zhao be content playing errand boy to two young girls?

If Wei Zhao had nothing to do with them, even Zhen Yingjun himself found it hard to believe. And now it seemed Shen Yushu was not lying after all!

"You're not lying? Take off your pants. I'll check!" Zhen Yingjun could believe that Gu Mengyao was on her period, but Shen Yushu looked sly and sharp, and he was not inclined to take her word for it.

"Oh, all right! I'll take it out and show you. Turn around first!" Shen Yushu said to Zhen Yingjun.

"No tricks. Hurry up and take off your pants so I can see!" Naturally, Zhen Yingjun would not turn around. He was afraid Shen Yushu might try something.

"Fine, fine. I'll take it out and show you, then!" Shen Yushu turned around herself, quickly pulled something out from inside her pants, and turned back to hand it to Zhen Yingjun. "Here..."

Zhen Yingjun saw that what Shen Yushu held out to him was a bloody thing, and he jumped in fright, instinctively shrinking back. Looking closely, it was indeed a bloodstained sanitary pad. He hastily waved his hand. "Take it away, take it away! Get that thing out of here!"

He had a weak stomach for blood; the sight of it made him dizzy. But now he truly believed Shen Yushu. The two of them really were on their periods!

Shen Yushu tossed the bloodstained pad aside and shook out her hand, which made Zhen Yingjun shrink back again in fright.

"Actually, if it weren't for this, we wouldn't mind letting you have a bit of fun, as long as you didn't tell Wei Zhao!" Shen Yushu said with some regret. "But you picked a bad day. Why don't you wait a few days? We're in your hands anyway - a few days won't make a difference, will it?"

"Damn it! What rotten fucking luck! She's got her period!" Seeing that his fun was spoiled, Zhen Yingjun ignored what Shen Yushu had said and, cursing under his breath, bound her hands and feet together with rope again, then turned and tied up Gu Mengyao as well.

He had an instinctive repulsion toward blood, so once the ropes were tied, he did not want to stay there any longer. He rose and walked out of the cave. But just as he reached the entrance, Zhen Yingjun suddenly began to laugh!

"Hahahaha! Seems even Heaven wants me to get rich!" It suddenly occurred to Zhen Yingjun that if he did not touch Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, then wouldn't Gu Pengzhan pay him the additional fifty million as promised?

Now that he thought about it calmly, fifty million to play with two girls - and not even virgins - he would have been losing out badly! Money was better. With fifty million, what kind of woman couldn't he find?

Having given up the idea of violating Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, Zhen Yingjun became much more rational. The more he thought about it, the more impulsive he realized he had been before, and the more he felt it would not have been worth it! Thank goodness these two girls had gotten their periods. Otherwise, for one brief moment of pleasure, fifty million would have been gone!

At that thought, Zhen Yingjun picked up the phone and dialed Gu Pengzhan's number again.

When Gu Pengzhan received the kidnapper's call, he wanted to discuss a plan with Wei Zhao. But before he could speak, Qiu Lingshan's call came through first. Gu Pengzhan waited until Wei Zhao had finished talking with Qiu Lingshan before saying, "Xiao Yi, the kidnapper is demanding two hundred million..."

"Then give it to him. I just fear he'll have the life to take it, but not the life to spend it," Wei Zhao said lightly.

"That's what I thought too. As long as it buys Yaoyao and Xiaoshu's safe return, I'd give him any amount!" Gu Pengzhan sighed. "But from what the kidnapper said, he has other ideas about Yaoyao and Xiaoshu..."

This was also the question that worried and agitated Wei Zhao most. He hoped the two girls could stall for as long as possible and wait for him to come rescue them... Xiao Shu was a clever, slippery little thing; she ought to be able to think of some way to handle it...

The two of them were still talking when Gu Pengzhan's phone rang again.

Gu Pengzhan glanced gravely at the caller ID on the screen - still that number made up of a string of "0"s - and answered solemnly: "Hello?"

"Mr. Gu, after careful consideration, I have decided to accept your proposal. Two hundred and fifty million, and I will not harm your daughter or her best friend. What do you think of this offer?" Zhen Yingjun truly counted himself lucky that he had not let his lust get the better of him and taken Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu - if he had, the money would have been lost!

"Good, good, I agree, two hundred and fifty million it is!" Hearing Zhen Yingjun's words, Gu Pengzhan was both astonished and overjoyed. He had already braced himself for the worst, never expecting the kidnappers to agree to his proposal after all. It seemed the kidnappers still set great store by money!

Gu Pengzhan had no idea that Shen Yushu had staged that bizarre menstruation incident, and that this was what had made Zhen Yingjun decide to give up.

"Straight to the point! But I don't want it handed over afterward - I want you to bring me the two hundred and fifty million all at once. Any problem with that?" Zhen Yingjun knew Gu Pengzhan had always enjoyed a fine reputation, but that was only among his business partners. The role he himself was playing now was that of a kidnapper - could he really count on Gu Pengzhan to talk reputation with a kidnapper?

"This..." Gu Pengzhan hesitated. The liquid funds currently at his disposal amounted to only a little over two hundred million, but if he borrowed from his business partners, he should be able to scrape together the full sum!