I’m Keeping the Overbearing CEO After He Went Bankrupt [Rebirth] 75

Chapter 75: Qingbao’s Lucky Bag

Several bodyguards, led by the captain who was always by Chu Qing’s side, named Levin, moved him to a different location, far away from the intruders.

He stayed in another homestay room, and the bodyguards guarded the door and every window.

He thought, I thought there were only one or two people following me. I didn’t expect so many to pop up now that there’s trouble…?

Levin pointed to the sofa. “Mr. Chu, please sit down and rest.”

Huo Li had instructed them not only to protect him well, but also to take good care of him, who was pregnant.

He nodded obediently and, after sitting down, asked, composing himself, “What… what’s going on? Are they robbers who came to rob the crew?”

He could faintly hear the sound of gunshots, shouts, and clattering noises from the front.

He was a little scared, but more worried.

Those staff members outside, and Yu Weixi, who is still outside, I hope nothing happens to them…

“No,” Levin said. “They’re here for you, Mr. Chu.”

“…”
“???”

Right… Huo Li had also said so.

He understood, nodded, and frowned. “Then let’s… go.”

“Where to?”

He explained, “Since their target is me, if I continue to hide here, they will hurt others. Shall we leave here and go to another safe place to hide?”

Levin paused and frowned. “I’m sorry, Mr. Chu, but we can’t risk taking you out, exposed to bullets.”

“But…”

Just as he was about to say something, his phone rang.

It was Yu Weixi.

He quickly answered it.

“Xixi, where are you…?”
“Xixi?”

After a long moment, there was a sound from the other end of the phone.

“Hello, Chu Qing.”

He was stunned.

No, it’s not his voice. It’s…

“Huo Liao?”

“It’s me. Three minutes. Get out here immediately. For every minute you’re late, I’ll cut off a finger of this phone’s owner.”

“You…”

Beep—beep—

His eyes widened.

W-What’s going on…

The next moment, the phone rang again. It was a video call request from him. He accepted it, and the screen was pitch black, but he could still see him, tied up and lying on the ground.

He seemed to have been knocked unconscious, his hands and feet bound, and he was not moving at all.

“Xixi…!” his hand holding the phone was trembling a little.

…It’s a conspiracy!

No wonder his assistant was suddenly unreachable!

“Captain Levin, I, I have to go out.”

Levin was also watching the video on the side and now understood what was going on. Hearing this, he just frowned slightly.

“It’s my fault… it’s my fault… in this special period, I should have thought of it earlier. I should have been more careful,” he said, his eyes slightly red. “Xixi was dragged into this by me. He’s also pregnant. I have to go out.”

He said anxiously, “It’s only three minutes!”

“It’s not your fault,” Levin said, his brows tightly furrowed. “You’re not used to these things. It’s normal that you didn’t think of it.”

The one who was negligent… should be me.

He had been well-protected by him and had never experienced these things. Now that it was so chaotic outside, it was already very good that he could stand here and think of a way with them.

“Mr. Levin, let me out!” he said, and glanced at his watch. “One minute has passed!”

“Mr. Chu, Huo Liao’s target is you…”

He took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and looked at him seriously. “It’s precisely because his target is me that I can’t be here. Mr. Levin, if Xixi is in his hands, not to mention a finger, his life might not even be guaranteed. But I’m different.”

He paused, and then continued, “He won’t kill me. That’s not his purpose. I know him. I’ve fought with him. Mr. Levin, let me out.”

“I’m not afraid of him. Now… I’m not afraid of him at all.”

…

US.

Prison.

Huo Li stood at the procedures counter and waited for a moment, and then someone came out.

“Mr. Huo, please follow me.”
“Mmm.”

He tidied his collar and followed the staff member.

He came to the visiting area and saw that the person he wanted to see was already sitting on the other side of the glass partition, looking at him with his arms crossed.

The man was the same age as him, his eagle eyes full of sharpness. Even though he was in prison and had a thin beard, he did not look down and out at all.

“You look like you’re on vacation,” he said, and pulled a chair to sit down.

“Is that so? It’s only five years. It’s not long,” the man said, looking at him with a blank expression. “I’ll just treat it as a vacation. When I get out… I still won’t let you go.”

He paused and raised an eyebrow. “We were once brothers.”

“Z… or, Old Zheng?”

These days, he had been running between the US and Italy, and had even gone to Thailand with Mr. Pan to collect evidence.

Although Huo Liao had run away, Z had been caught.

Z had thought that he should be going all out to find and kill him, and had even made a move to try to get him out, but he had lost himself instead.

Looking at Z in his prison uniform, he felt a little… strange for a moment.

“We were once brothers. That’s because we needed each other at that time. We had just arrived here and had nothing,” he said with a smile. “Later, we had everything. We went from being comrades to competitors. Competitors should act like competitors.”

“I lost. It doesn’t matter. I’m willing to accept my loss,” he said, still smiling happily. He leaned in close to the glass and said with a curved lip, “As long as I’m alive for a day, you can’t be at ease for a day!”

“Crazy,” he sneered.

Or rather, ever since they had come to the US, Z had become more and more crazy.

He lay on the table and laughed to himself.

“I didn’t lose. Am I not, not still alive!”

He remembered what Mr. Pan had said before.

At that time, he and Z had not yet fallen out, and Old Pan had told him that Panda would be his in the future.

He had asked why it was him and not Z.

Old Pan had said that it was because he would not get lost in their circle, but Z would.

He shook his head and was about to leave.

“You, you think you can be spared?” he said, clinging to the partition with a smile. “Huo Liao has already left the US! It’s too late!”

“You’ll regret it!”

He paused in his steps.

But Z was unwilling to say any more and stood up and left.

After he left the prison, he thought for a moment and said to his assistant, “Let’s go back to the country immediately. How’s the investigation on Huo Liao’s side?”

“CEO Huo,” the assistant paused. “Just a minute ago, when you just came out, I received a notice from the country, saying that…”

“Hmm?”

The assistant steeled himself. “It’s said that Mr. Chu… was taken away by Huo Liao.”

“…”

Unlike what the assistant had thought, he did not lose control or get angry, but his face was expressionless.

“…I know,” he said, his tone without any fluctuation. “Arrange for a flight back to the country immediately, the fastest flight.”

“Yes…” the assistant lowered his head, not daring to look at him, and quickly went to book the flight, and also told him the detailed details of his capture.

Simply put, it was that Huo Liao had broken into the studio with men and a gun, and had taken Yu Weixi, who was outside, to threaten him to come out and exchange hostages.

He had no choice, and no matter how many bodyguards were around him, with a gun pointed at him, no one dared to act rashly. They could only watch as he was taken away.

His men had tried to track him, but the remaining men after Z’s downfall had been given to him, and he had used them to shake off the pursuers.

“But you can rest assured. After they lost him, they tracked down every possible route he could have taken from the last place he disappeared. Ah… I’ve found it, CEO Huo. The fastest flight is in three hours. It’s just enough for us to go back to the hotel to pack, and then rush to the airport immediately.”

“Mmm,” he was very calm, his eyes as dark as water, and he had discreetly hidden all the terrifying murderous aura. But the low-pressure aura around him was so oppressive that the assistant could barely breathe.

Now, this abnormal… “the wind foretells the coming storm” look was even more terrifying.

“Mr. Huo, um…” the assistant asked, “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“Good… Mr. Huo, the car has arrived and is waiting for us outside.”

“Mmm.”

He took out his wallet to check his passport as usual, but he paused.

The “peace” keychain on his wallet was gone. It must have fallen somewhere.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and the aura around him became even more terrifying.

He looked down at his watch.

There were still three hours. Even if they rushed to the airport now, the plane could not take off immediately.

He said, “I’ll go back for a bit. You go back to the car and pack first.”

He had gone to the restroom before visiting the prison. He wanted to go there to look for it.

The assistant paused. Seeing his overly calm, terrifyingly calm appearance, he was still not at ease. So he first went to tell the bodyguard who was driving to go back and pack first, while he himself stayed behind to accompany him.

After so many years, they had developed a bond. Now, he was really concerned.

“CEO Huo, I’ll help you look. What is it?” the assistant asked. After he came to the restroom, he saw him bending down to look under the sink.

“It’s a keychain, a hand-sewn red lucky bag with the character for ‘peace’ on it.”

It wasn’t under the sink. He walked to the hand dryer and looked carefully, not missing a single corner.

“CEO Huo, if it’s just a keychain, how about we just let it go?”

He did not answer.

Seeing his possessed look, the assistant did not dare to persuade him anymore and obediently accompanied him in his search.

The assistant noticed that there were two bloody marks on his palm, made by his fingernails.

…as expected, he’s not as calm as he appears on the surface.

Mr. Chu seems to be very important to him. This keychain… must have been a gift from him.

The assistant quickly turned his head and continued to look.

Boom—

Just then, there was an explosion from outside. The sound was very small, and it seemed to have come from far away.

The assistant frowned slightly.

The next moment, his phone rang.

“Sir, the car that CEO Huo was originally in exploded, and Zhuo Lan is also… gone.”

He had always traveled in one car with his personal bodyguard and driver, Zhuo Lan, and his assistant, with the other bodyguards following in two cars behind.

Now, he was here, and Zhuo Lan had gone back to the hotel to get his luggage, but he hadn’t expected the car to explode just as it was leaving the prison building, and it had also affected several cars around it.

After the car exploded, hearing the noise, the other bodyguards who were with him here immediately sent someone to check, and that was when they had called the assistant to inform him.

The assistant’s hands and feet were cold.

This…

At the same time, he had also found the keychain, on the floor in a corner.

On it were the two bright words—peace.

The assistant’s hand holding the phone was trembling a little.

“CEO Huo…”

“Hmm?” he carefully picked up the keychain, wiped it lovingly, and clipped it back onto his wallet.

The assistant took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, and said calmly, “The car we were originally in exploded.”

He was stunned.

“Zhuo Lan… Zhuo Lan is gone.”

Even now, the assistant still felt a lingering fear.

If CEO Huo had liked Mr. Chu a little less, if he had cared about him a little less… then the two of them would also be with Zhuo Lan now, gone.

…when did a rat sneak in among them!

He took a deep breath and interrupted his daze. “Continue.”

“Ah Lun went up and took a quick look. He speculated that someone had placed a bomb under the car. Then the police came, and they didn’t stay long.”

“Don’t worry, CEO Huo. I’ll have someone investigate, and I’ll inform the people under you of your safety so they don’t panic…”

“No.”

He narrowed his eyes slightly. “Spread the word that I’m dead.”

The car was blown up like that. Nothing can be found.

“Ah…?”
“Okay.”