Chapter 469 — Xiaofen Is in Trouble
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"?" Wei Zhao looked at Feng Xiaoxiao, baffled. A hero saving a damsel in distress might be an overused cliché, but it was also the kind of scene that readily won hearts. Still, Wei Zhao did not think what had happened yesterday could have moved Feng Xiaoxiao all that much.
If it came to saving damsels, he had rescued Tang Zhi several times, yet never once had she offered to give herself to him in gratitude; the feelings between them had grown only through long and steady companionship. And as for the eldest young miss, she hardly bore mentioning — he had saved her plenty of times too, and she had never shown the slightest sign of anything.
So Wei Zhao found it deeply unreliable that a single act of heroism could make Feng Xiaoxiao confess to him of her own accord.
"Wei Zhao, you are the most captivating man I have ever met!" Feng Xiaoxiao said, her face flushed, her gaze misty as she looked at him.
But at that very moment, before Wei Zhao could say anything, a phone rang — his phone.
"Sorry, let me take this call first." Wei Zhao gestured for Feng Xiaoxiao to wait a moment, then answered.
Feng Xiaoxiao was about to explode with fury. When had she ever spoken so meekly to any boy? She was Feng Xiaoxiao, for heaven's sake! She had once sworn that in her brief life she would bow to no one, that she would live as her own person and not waste this life.
And now, just when she had finally mustered the courage to confess to him, Wei Zhao had actually answered a phone call. Her patience had limits — and this was beyond them. Feng Xiaoxiao was furious; she lifted her foot and went for the back of Wei Zhao's foot.
Wei Zhao thought to himself, why do these girls all like to stomp on other people's feet? He instinctively pulled his foot back, and Feng Xiaoxiao stamped on empty air — with such force that, with a crack, she snapped the heel off her high-heeled shoe...
"Ah—!" Feng Xiaoxiao was frantic. She glared at Wei Zhao. "Give me your foot to step on! Otherwise you don't get to take that call!"
With that, she made a grab for the phone in Wei Zhao's hand.
Wei Zhao frowned, thinking her a little unreasonable, but seeing her so beside herself, so ready to fight him to the death, he let her have her way. He extended his foot and answered the call. "Hello?"
"I'll stomp! I'll stomp! Stomp, stomp, stomp!" Feng Xiaoxiao stamped furiously on the top of Wei Zhao's foot. The pain was nothing to him, but she was the one who came away badly bruised.
"Boss, Xiaofen's been taken!" As soon as Wei Zhao answered, Kang Xiaofeng's panicked voice came down the line.
"Xiaofen's been taken? What happened?" Wei Zhao was startled. Paying Feng Xiaoxiao no further mind, he frowned and listened closely to the phone.
"Boss, it's like this. I got up this morning and went to Xiaofen's place — we'd arranged to go for a walk and have breakfast together..." Kang Xiaofeng grew a little sheepish as he said this. "I go over early every morning..."
"Mm, get to the point — who took Xiaofen?" Wei Zhao quite understood Kang Xiaofeng's behavior; couples in love were always eager, and so Wei Zhao was hardly going to criticize Kang Xiaofeng for his daily early-morning diligence — had he himself not rushed over to Tang Zhi's place first thing in the morning?
"Early this morning, Xiaofen was waiting for me on the bench by the breakfast stalls as usual. Normally I'm the one who gets there first, but there was a traffic jam this morning and I was a little late," Kang Xiaofeng said. "The moment I got out of the car, I saw two men drag Xiaofen into a white minivan with no license plates. I was terrified. I grabbed a taxi and followed. Right now we've followed them to the gate of some big compound — the taxi driver only dared stop nearby, he wouldn't go in..."
Listening to Kang Xiaofeng's breathless account, Wei Zhao pondered for a moment. He could not figure out why anyone would take Xiaofen. Could they be men sent by Kang Jingming?