Daddy CEO's Beloved Wife-Chapter 591: Rite of Chamber

"Get her!"

"Don't let her escape, or we all die!"

The shouts echoed behind her.

Ran Xueyi dashed straight onto the open path.

One man behind her raised his gun and aimed it perfectly at her back. His finger was just slightly far from pulling the trigger.

Just as he tried to shoot, a hand quickly grabbed him.

"Stupido! What are you thinking, aiming a gun at her?" the woman glared at the man.

Feeling slightly wronged, the man replied, "But she's running away. It's better to do this now than let her escape."

The woman was speechless. She understood that they weren't privy to some things. Besides, in the past, if a captured lamb escaped, an immediate execution was done. She didn't explain anything and stopped them from firing.

"If you so much as put a scratch on her, all of us will die on the spot," the woman warned them. "Do you understand?"

…

Ran Xueyi knew why they didn't shoot her. She expected it already the moment Lu Chengyu brought her out of that place and met that man earlier.

Lu Chengyu was vengeful and hated her. The moment he had her in his hands, he could have done any harm to her. But he hadn't.

Neither did that man earlier.

But at what point will her untouchable status end?

But she didn't want to wait until that time. And thus, she made a move the instant she confirmed that no one could touch her.

It was half-gamble and half-planned.

Thankfully, it all worked out for her.

Still, the chase did not stop. They were still right behind her.

Unwilling to return to that room, Ran Xueyi ran without a care. Her legs were running out of fumes, and her lungs were overworking to get more air so she wouldn't be out of breath.

As she gained distance from the pursuers, she backed herself against a corner, looking for a place to hide. As she did, a hard force cracked against the back of her skull.

Pain and dizziness settled over her.

No, please. Don't pass out."

The world continued to spin before darkness devoured it.

…

At the same time, Song Yu Han, who thought he still wouldn't find anything, finally paused his gaze on one monitor.

In a hallway, several figures were running down and looked frantic.

Song Yu Han moved to the next screen, captured by another camera.

And there, he found what he was looking for.

However, his eyes sharpened at the scene before him.

In the middle of the hallway, a man walked down with an unconscious woman being carried on his shoulder.

Due to how she was carried, Song Yu Han could not see her face. But he knew that it was Ran Xueyi.

His Ran Xueyi.

Delight filled him inside, but intense worry quickly replaced it as he saw her being carried and thrown inside a room before being locked, and several people guarded the door outside.

His grip on the controller tightened until a crack sound came from the controller. It broke under the force of his grip.

Veins appeared on his neck and forehead, almost bursting from restraining the wrath boiling inside him.

It took a lot of effort and time to finally control himself not to rush ahead and endanger her even more. However, that did not mean he had calmed down or hadn't shown panic.

There was nothing else he wanted more than to reach her side. To make sure she was alright.

All these years, he had been perfectly fine in controlling his emotions. Not even a bullet or knife wound could make him flinch. But it all changed when Ran Xueyi entered his life.

Everything about her enchanted and worried him.

Whatever calmness he had built on had crumbled down like a sandcastle.

He straightened himself and turned to the control panel beside the monitors. His fingers moved swiftly, disabling every camera. He only left one on. A camera captured an eerie and mysterious scene of several hooded people.

The radio crackled again.

"Angel is to be delivered to the Rite Chamber. I repeat. Deliver Angel to the Rite Chamber."

Song Yu Han did not like the sound of that. Whatever the meaning of that, it didn't bode any good intentions.

Considering everything else, Song Yu Han suspected that the 'Angel' was Ran Xueyi.

But where was the Rite Chamber? The auction was going on in the banquet hall. That meant it was to be held elsewhere. Besides, the words themselves felt ominous. Something ceremonial.

Song Yu Han stopped thinking and stepped away from the surveillance room. He disappeared into a narrow service passage one would easily overlook. He counted turns and calculated the distance between the surveillance and the room where Ran Xueyi was.

Every second he wasn't by her side was a second he couldn't forgive himself for.

As he approached the place, he found it deserted. There were no guards outside.

Feeling uneasy about this, Song Yu Han still proceeded with caution. Holding up the gun, the one he had taken from one of the guards inside the surveillance room, Song Yu Han proceeded in his way.

He stood before the door.

No sound escaped from inside.

Pressing his palm against the door, he pushed it open.

"Xueyi—" he called her name softly.

The room was empty.

Song Yu Han's heart dropped. No one was inside the room as he walked in. There was no sign of her either. She had been moved.

Was he too late?

Again.

...

Cao Yujin was guided through a narrow corridor far from the banquet hall.

The music and voices thinned out, replaced by the sound of their footsteps. They walked for a while before the butler leading her stopped before a double door.

He looked at her with a smile, and before they went in, he had someone retrieve something and gave it to her.

"Put this on," he instructed.

Cao Yujin stared at him before the thing he handed to her. She hesitated, but obeyed in the end.