Chapter 97
Chapter 97
The next day, whether it was mall posters or the big screens in the plazas, all of them were displaying the boy’s face.
The problem was, fine, display it if you wanted to display it, but that brat Bo Suihan couldn’t even be bothered to wash him up and make him presentable. The blood at the corner of the boy’s mouth hadn’t been wiped away, his limbs were still fixed to the bench, and they had just hastily taken a set of photos like that. Even the little leather whip studded with nails had made it into the shot.
As a result, passersby stared at the posters on the big screens, each of them sinking into deep thought, wondering which rich businessman’s special hobby this was-a little kept canary raised in secret and photographed by the paparazzi.
The ads ran for several months in a row.
Nothing happened.
Even after they later added the boy’s location to the posters and big screens, Baijinghui remained as peaceful as ever for several days straight.
Bo Suihan and Wu Xiaojiu crouched in the private room, practically growing mushrooms. The boy had it easy these past few days, but the two of them had pitifully laid out all their strategies and formations, only for the enemy to make no move at all in the end.
Seeing the two of them looking haggard, forehead to forehead and nose to nose, like a pair of Davids contemplating life on a toilet, the boy couldn’t bear it. While peeling an apple, he poured a bottle of dichlorvos into a wineglass.
“My heart aches for you. Drink this glass of wine, and all your suffering will vanish like smoke.”
The dichlorvos bubbled in the tall glass. Wu Xiaojiu stared at the bitter brown liquid and felt his irritation flare.
After the boy finished gnawing on the apple, he peeled pomegranate seeds one by one and arranged them on a tray. Wu Xiaojiu poured the entire glass of dichlorvos over them.
Now that the pomegranate seeds were inedible, the boy couldn’t even lose his temper. He wandered back and forth around the room like a free-range chicken, pointing at the decorations every now and then.
“Why don’t we just kill the hostage?” Bo Suihan was truly annoyed beyond endurance. He ground the words out through clenched teeth. Wu Xiaojiu hurriedly reached out to stop him while also thinking over where their plan had gone wrong.
He thought for a long while.
And came up with nothing.
Wu Xiaojiu turned his head and looked at the boy gnawing on an apple on the bed. He couldn’t help asking, “Does your dad not love you or something?”
The boy crunched loudly on the apple. Hearing this, he half sat up, apple juice mixing with blood as it ran from the corner of his mouth and soaked into the bedsheet.
“I’m the only son in the family. That old geezer is already in his sixties and can’t have any more kids. His huge estate is all going to be mine someday. If he doesn’t love me, who else would he love?”
The more the boy spoke, the prouder he became. After taking three more bites of the apple, he finally realized in a flash that the big boss in the room had a grudge against his father.
He quickly lowered the volume of his apple-gnawing, but the atmosphere in the room still turned oppressive.
“Then why hasn’t his dad come to ransom him?”
Wu Xiaojiu propped up his chin while helping smooth Bo Suihan’s ruffled fur.
For the past half month, the two of them had stayed in this suite with the boy and hadn’t gone out in ages.
Whether it was idle chats in their free time or the usual pointless banter, it had caused their relationship to heat up rapidly, to the point that they were almost just short of making it official.
Wu Xiaojiu had also learned that Bo Suihan’s blind date had been picked out for him by his Fifth Master Lin Yang before she came down the mountain. The two had once crossed paths by chance. When Bo Suihan was young and practicing medicine, he had coincidentally cured the girl’s father’s leg ailment.
The girl had a good impression of him, and this engagement had been arranged when they were children. That was why Lin Yang felt the two of them were a match made in heaven. After coming down the mountain, she repeatedly urged Bo Suihan to meet the girl. Who could have known that once Bo Suihan grew up, he would become much more rebellious?
Not only did he refuse to listen, it even stirred up his contrary streak. He was the classic kind of stubborn-pull him and he wouldn’t move, hit him and he’d back up instead. Although he had, by coincidence, met the girl a few days ago, things were no longer the same. When the two met, they only felt like being friends and never thought in that direction at all.
Wu Xiaojiu’s suspicions were dispelled by what he said.
After spending the past few days together, the System had also discovered that Long Aotian’s Affection Points had reached an astonishing 99.
With just one tiny final push, Wu Xiaojiu would be able to complete the conquest.
Everything was moving in a good direction.
The only person in the whole house who was losing sleep was Bo Suihan.
This boy was a complete idiot. Bo Suihan couldn’t bring himself to feel any desire for revenge against an idiot. His entire purpose in life was to take revenge on the boy’s father.
But no matter which overseas trading company he contacted, none of them could shake the boy’s father’s foundations abroad, and there was absolutely no way to drag the man onto his own turf.
Now, even the only path left seemed utterly impossible.
Bo Suihan was beyond frustrated.
“Speaking of which, I have been kidnapped here for a while now. If you spread the news now, my dad might not believe it. What channels are you using?”
Wu Xiaojiu had been in charge of putting the ads on the public big screens. Hearing the question, he started counting them off on his fingers one by one.
“Streets, alleys, subway stations, bus stops. Anywhere with a big screen or a poster space, I put them up.”
“How wide of an area?”
“Just around this city. Didn’t you say your dad still has old subordinates here?”
The boy sprang upright like a carp flipping out of the water.
He spat the bit of apple peel that hadn’t been cleaned off into the trash can beside him.
Then he cleared his mouth and tightened the corners of his lips.
“Why didn’t you put them in Europe? Is it because you didn’t want to? No matter how you look at it, my dad’s main base is over there.”
Wu Xiaojiu suddenly came to a realization. He flattened one hand, made a fist with the other, and smacked it into his palm, letting out a cry of surprise. “Oh, right.”
Hearing this, Bo Suihan silently sighed. He curled up into a ball in the corner, feeling as if mushrooms were about to sprout from the top of his head.
After staying with two idiots for so long, he felt like he was getting a little stupid too.
And so, the city’s inappropriate-for-children posters were finally taken down, and the big screens switched back to showing other people.
Mothers shopping with their kids finally no longer had to struggle to carry bags in one hand while covering their children’s eyes with the other.
But Europe was the one that suffered.
Their customs might be open-minded, but they were not so open-minded that they would put someone’s special kink on a giant public screen and turn it into posters-especially when the person being played with was the child of a local big shot.
Those in the know broke out in a cold sweat. They wiped the beads of water running down their temples, added a thick layer of censorship mosaic over the photo they had taken of the big screen, and only then passed it up layer by layer until it reached the boy’s father.
At the very same time,
Bo Suihan’s hidden contacts in Europe received intelligence.
Even under a sky covered in dark clouds, with violent winds and torrential rain, in weather so terrible that massive turbulence could occur at any moment, a luxury aircraft still insisted on flying toward this city.
Even with a dog’s brain, one could figure out that the boy’s father was coming to find him.
Bo Suihan wasted no time. He had made ample preparations over the past few days. The one hundred thousand Soldier Kings transferred from Dragon King Ridge were stationed near the hotel, and Brother Assassin had also dispatched the top-ranked Ten Great Assassins here. A net had been cast so wide and tight that nothing could slip through.
Once everything was arranged,
Bo Suihan raised his glass of red wine and lifted his eyes to the sky.
“The weather has turned cold. Han Group should go bankrupt.”