Taming The Hidden Bigshot By Kissing Him
Chapter 288: Liu Huimin Learns About Qiao Xi’s Background

Chapter 288: Chapter 288: Liu Huimin Learns About Qiao Xi’s Background

Qiao Xi looked up at the towering buildings, and on the guardrails of the fifth or sixth floor, there was a delicate and familiar figure.

The person about to jump was Xu Xingluo!

The plaza was in complete chaos, with more and more onlookers gathering. Even the security guards, who had been dispatched, couldn’t stop the restless crowd, and the medical tent’s canopy had even been knocked askew.

Liu Huimin had obviously seen Xu Xingluo as well, covering her mouth in shock!

Many people at the scene had called the police.

Others were trying to persuade Xu Xingluo not to be rash.

"Miss! You’re beautiful and young, what could be so terrible?"

"Come down quickly, is there anything you can’t get over?"

"I think she looks just like the international ballet goddess Xu Xingluo, no wonder she wants to jump!"

The stories about Xu Xingluo were astonishing.

Her father, Xu Guangyao, had switched children and murdered to seal lips, news of which spread throughout Haicheng!

Xu Xingluo was the daughter of a mistress, yet had lived a life of luxury since childhood.

There was no justice!

Some troublemakers even shouted, "Go on then, jump! I bet you don’t dare!"

Xu Xingluo stood outside the tall building, the wind howling.

She was afraid of actually falling, and hearing these enticing cheers made her even angrier!

She only hoped Huo Beiting could act quickly!

The firefighters arrived swiftly, inflating the air cushion and spreading it out, while others went upstairs to counsel Xu Xingluo.

Pretending to be panicked, Xu Xingluo said, "Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll jump!"

"Okay, don’t be impulsive!"

Perhaps to draw everyone’s attention, Xu Xingluo slowly moved along the exterior of the floor-to-ceiling windows. The mere twenty centimeters of foothold she had was enough to make onlookers’ hearts pound with fear.

More and more people gathered in the plaza.

Liu Huimin looked up, her heart filled with urgency.

She tried to push through the crowd to go upstairs, but Liu Zongyun grabbed her by the wrist, "Where are you going?"

"Second Brother, I... I’m going to try to talk her down."

Liu Zongyun said sarcastically, "Talk her down for what? Do you think Xu Xingluo, with her vanity and cowardice, has the courage to die? If she wanted to die, she would have jumped already, would she have waited for the firefighters to get ready? There are so many ways to die; why would she pick one that seeks attention?"

Knowing that there would be a crowd in the plaza today, she still came to put on a show.

Was she doing this to be seen by some fool in the Liu Family?

Liu Huimin was stopped by Liu Zongyun, her heart burning with impatience.

She wanted Xu Xingluo to repent, but she had no wish for her to die.

Feeling distressed, Liu Huimin’s phone vibrated.

She looked down and saw it was a call from Xu Yunye. Just as she was about to answer, the shifting crowd pushed her hard, and her phone flew out of her hand.

Suddenly, a group of people surged into the plaza, deliberately squeezing toward their location.

Qiao Xi also stumbled from being jostled, feeling a sharp pain on her back as something was injected into her body. Without thinking, she dialed her watch face a couple of times.

"Old Chen!"

She shouted, sensing her consciousness slipping away.

"Young Madam!" Old Chen, squeezed into the inner circle of the crowd, desperately ran outward.

Qiao Xi slumped down weakly, someone catching her shoulders and taking her away.

"Young Madam!"

Seeing this, Old Chen yelled, "Put her down! Someone help, there’s a kidnapping!"

The "passersby" causing the disruption were tough to deal with, intentionally blocking his path. Old Chen, realizing something was amiss, struck hard and fast, his punches landing solidly to take them all down.

Liu Zongyun, noticing the chaos at Old Chen’s location, shouted with a stern face, "Liu Huimin! Chase after them! Doctor Qiao has been taken!"

Without time to ponder the connections between the day’s events, he knew only that Qiao Xi was the one who had saved him.

He had to save her!

Liu Huimin had just picked up her phone and paused.

Liu Zongyun roared, "Liu Huimin, what are you dazed for! Hurry up!"

He wished he could rush to her rescue himself despite his wheelchair!

"I..."

Liu Huimin turned to look at Xu Xingluo standing on the high building, then at Qiao Xi, who was now being restrained close by. She hesitated for a moment.

But during that brief hesitation of a mere ten seconds, Qiao Xi had already been put into a car.

Old Chen finally broke free from the entanglement and, without enough time to go to the parking lot to drive his car, directly borrowed a passerby’s vehicle to give chase.

Liu Zongyun, frustrated beyond measure, said, "Go drive, catch up with them!"

"Second Brother, what about you?"

"Don’t worry about me! I won’t be in trouble!"

"Oh."

Only then did Liu Huimin come to her senses.

She ran to the garage with difficulty in her high heels, drove the car out, and looked around at the flowing traffic, clueless about which direction Qiao Xi had been taken. She could only follow the main road.

She didn’t know who was targeting Qiao Xi.

Even less could she imagine that the ten seconds she hesitated between chasing after Xu Xingluo and Qiao Xi would become her biggest regret in life.

Her phone buzzed with vibration again.

It was another call from Xu Yunye.

Liu Huimin, clutching her chest, felt her heart rate skyrocket. "Hello, Yunye?"

Riding on a heavy motorcycle, Xu Yunye’s chest filled with a wave of panic. "Mom, is Qiao Xi at the square?"

"She... she’s been taken away."

"By who? Huo Xingzhou?"

Liu Huimin explained, "There were many people at the square, and suddenly some people appeared and pushed us apart. Qiao Xi was taken by strangers, and the Huo Family’s bodyguards are already in pursuit. I wanted to chase after her too, but..."

"You should go after her! Hurry!"

Liu Huimin was infected by his urgent emotion. "I’m driving right now, I’m trying to find her whereabouts."

Xu Yunye’s voice trembled. "Call Uncle and tell him to deploy all of the Liu Family’s resources, sparing no expense to use all connections to find Qiao Xi. We must find her."

Liu Huimin asked in disbelief, "Is it necessary? That’s something the Huo Family should do. She truly is the benefactor of the Liu Family. But..."

Xu Yunye bit his teeth furiously, his eyes almost splitting, a hoarse voice coming through the phone.

"She’s a sister! A biological sister!"

"Mom, she’s your biological daughter!"

"Hurry and make the call!"

Liu Huimin’s phone fell, a voice inside her saying it was impossible.

The buzzing chaotic noise filled her ears, and a salty liquid unexpectedly slid down from the corner of her eyes.

How could it be?

She could never have imagined how discomposed she was at that moment.

...

The act at the square reached its climax.

Xu Xingluo clung to the railing edge with both hands, the view from up high making her dizzy.

The firefighters were cautiously approaching her.

While Xu Xingluo pretended to be distraught on one hand, she also wanted to find an easy way down to quickly end this farce.

She saw Huo Beiting succeed!

Her legs went weak and she accidentally slipped!

"Ah!"

The feeling of weightlessness hit her, and Xu Xingluo screamed.

But in the crucial moment, a firefighter caught her hand, and she hung mid-air, experiencing the fear of death for the first time.

A crowd pulled her up.

Xu Xingluo collapsed on the ground, crying out loud from shock.

The firefighters, believing it to be a real suicide attempt, offered a brief lecture instead of detaining her.

Xu Xingluo, with teary red eyes, nodded obediently, appearing very persuadable.

Xiang Huai also ran quickly to her side, embracing her and saying, "Xingluo, you scared me to death!"

Even though Xu Xingluo had cleared things up with him, he too had been terrified when she slipped and fell.

Xu Xingluo leaned on his chest and asked in a soft voice, "Is the plane ticket ready?"

"Uh-huh."

Xu Xingluo spoke softly, "Let’s go to the airport now, leave the country and have our honeymoon."

After Xiang Huai helped Xu Xingluo up and thanked the firefighters profusely, they prepared to leave.

But Liu Zongyun appeared at the elevator entrance in a wheelchair, looking at them coldly and saying, "Wait! Firefighters, I report that they did this jumping act to disrupt public order!"