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CFRFGC Chapter 67

"Kidnap"

⌈I have a friend coming with me today whom you might be eager to meet.⌋

Ji Min and Butler Chen exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other’s eyes.

If Lu Ran had been there, he would have guessed what the two of them were silently communicating.

It was definitely—

There really is such a “special group”?!

As soon as Ji Min thought about how the man almost touched his blanket earlier, he couldn’t help but shiver.

He quickly lifted the thin blanket.

If this had happened before, hearing phrases like “a disability is an incomparable beauty”, Ji Min would have probably thought the person was discussing art.

But after Lu Ran’s torment, hearing those key words now immediately brought up the bold headlines from the news:

【To seek excitement, voluntarily contracted an infectious disease…】

And Lu Ran’s constant “you gay men”.

It made Ji Min want to distance himself from Shen Xingran by at least eight meters.

Health issues weren’t enough to make him avoid someone like a plague.

But problems with the mind or personal life? That was a different story.

Shen Xingran’s outstretched hand remained frozen.

He stared at the scene, somewhat dumbfounded, unable to understand what was going on.

Ji Min had to be sick, right?

He had clearly said something complimentary, so why was the man reacting this way?

Shen Xingran took a deep breath and pressed on.

He adopted an innocent expression and said, “Did my brother say something to you?”

What he didn’t expect was that those words would cement his position in Ji Min’s mind as part of the “special group.”

Ji Min’s gaze on him became even more unsettling.

Shen Xingran continued, “Actually, brother Lu Ran has always disliked me…”

If any other man had said this, they would have started feeling sympathy right away.

But the man in the wheelchair across from him remained silent for a moment before asking him sincerely, “Isn’t it normal for him to dislike you?”

Shen Xingran was choked by this question.

He felt like his charm had nowhere to go.

But he didn’t think it was his own problem.

It must be that Lu Ran had said something bad about him.

Also, Ji Min’s taste was definitely questionable.

How high could the taste of someone who associated with Lu Ran really be?

And then…

Shen Xingran recalled what had happened at Shen Hongyuan’s birthday banquet last time.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the main reason Ji Min didn’t like him was because his type wasn’t the one Ji Min preferred.

But Shen Xingran was someone who usually made two plans at once.

Now seeing Ji Min’s attitude of avoidance, he wasn’t disappointed at all.

Instead, he confidently smiled and said, “Mr. Ji, don’t be in a hurry. A friend of mine came with me today and I’m sure you’ll want to meet him.”

“Don’t,” Ji Min coldly said, “I have no interest in you or your friend.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Xingran didn’t back down in the slightest.

He still remained confident, saying, “But this person is different. I know you’re in a bad mood today, but I’m sure you’ll be happy to meet him.”

His tone was so certain that Ji Min actually grew a bit curious.

He was wondering who could make him happy.

But after thinking it over carefully, Ji Min’s brows furrowed in displeasure.

Was this person Shen Xingran was talking about… Lu Ran?

But wasn’t Lu Ran supposed to be in class? Or had the Shen family done something to forcibly bring the child back?

After all that Shen Xingran had said, was his real intention to threaten him with some sort of kidnapping?

Ji Min immediately lowered his head to send a test message to Lu Ran on WeChat and then shot a look at Butler Chen.

Butler Chen immediately nodded.

Seeing his serious expression, Shen Xingran knew his preparations hadn’t been in vain.

He took out his phone and sent a message.

Before long, a figure strolled over.

It was none other than Zhang Lin, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time, holding his phone, looking confused as he walked toward them.

When he saw Shen Xingran, he said, “Why are you running? The auction has already started.”

As he turned his head, he noticed Ji Min, and his expression gradually turned green.

Ji Min glanced at the man, his expression indifferent.

He stared at Shen Xingran and asked in a low voice, “Where is the person you mentioned?”

Shen Xingran was momentarily stunned by the question.

He pointed at Zhang Lin beside him and said, “This is him!”

Ji Min looked at Zhang Lin, his brows slowly knitting together. “Who is he?”

Then he added, “Stop with the nonsense. What do you want to do? Say it clearly.”

“Huh?” Shen Xingran suddenly felt it was a bit absurd.

Heh.

This man was pretending.

He was clearly trying to hide his excitement, deliberately acting like he didn’t recognize him to avoid showing any vulnerability!

Shen Xingran smiled knowingly and said, “Mr. Ji, this act is pointless, don’t you think?”

“Everyone in the city knows what happened at my father’s birthday banquet, right? I’m not here with bad intentions. Don’t suppress your excitement now.”

As he spoke, Shen Xingran reached out and pulled Zhang Lin over forcefully.

Ji Min: “…”

He blinked, his expression blank for a moment.

The tense and even guarded mood he had suddenly felt dazed.

Shen Hongyuan’s birthday banquet?

Suppressing excitement?

Ji Min glanced again at the person beside Shen Xingran and his mind seemed to explode with realization.

The bizarre experience of being “caught in the act” and unable to defend himself flashed in Ji Min’s mind.

His expression immediately cracked.

“You mean him?” Ji Min pointed at Zhang Lin and asked.

Shen Xingran nodded.

“Just him?” Ji Min asked again to confirm.

“Yes, that’s right. Who else did you think it was?” Shen Xingran replied.

“Ha…”

Butler Chen couldn’t hold back and let out a chuckle.

Meanwhile, Ji Min’s expression became extremely complex in an instant.

First, he subconsciously let out a sigh of relief, dropping his worries.

Then, he was left speechless.

When he realized that his instinctive reaction had been like that of someone whose child had been kidnapped, a sense of anger and shame suddenly surged.

It was mixed with the frustration he had felt the first time he had been tricked by Lu Ran. Ultimately, it turned into a bubbling anger.

“First,” he said to Shen Xingran, “Stop calling him ‘brother’. He’s not that much older than you and has no obligation to treat you like a little brother.”

Shen Xingran was stunned.

“Second,” Ji Min’s voice turned cold, “Take your people and get out of here.”

Finally, he turned to the person in charge and, with gritted teeth, demanded, “How could you let anyone like this in?”

After saying that, he turned to leave.

The person in charge dared not stop him. He quickly called for security and had Shen Xingran and Zhang Lin thrown out.

When Shen Xingran was escorted out by the security, he was still in a daze.

What happened?

He had prepared so thoroughly!

What was going on now?

At the auction, Ji Min wanted to leave early, but thinking about the painting, he ultimately stayed to show respect to the organizers.

At that moment, his phone vibrated slightly.

It was his personal phone, which he had left in his coat pocket.

Ji Min took it out to check. It was a message from Lu Ran.

Earlier, his assistant had already confirmed Lu Ran’s safety and told Ji Min that Lu Ran was in a classroom in the Y University Complex Building.

Otherwise, Ji Min wouldn’t have so easily let Shen Xingran leave.

At this moment, Lu Ran had replied to the message Ji Min had just sent.

It was a voice message.

Ji Min put on his headphones and clicked on the message.

It seemed like Lu Ran had just finished class, as the background noise was very noisy.

There were sounds of bicycle brakes and students’ discussions and complaints: “Who’s the idiot who scheduled this timetable…”

The youthful energy, fresh and unrestrained, poured through the headphones.

Most clearly, there was the sound of the young man’s slight breathlessness.

It was as if he was running from one building to another while holding a book.

While running, he spoke into the phone’s microphone, “Why do you need me to send a voice message for this?”

The moment Ji Min heard that voice, he didn’t know how to describe it.

Today, Lu Ran had started school.

Suddenly, the figure who had always been by his side was gone.

The change wasn’t huge because there were still many people around him.

But it was a big change.

To be precise, it wasn’t a “change”, but the removal of the sudden “changes” that had appeared in his life recently.

And now, he was back to his old self.

But this state, somehow, was unexpectedly hard to get used to.

The moment he heard the voice of the young man, saying that the world went from black-and-white to color might be an exaggeration.

But Ji Min truly felt that Lu Ran’s unique voice had pierced through that invisible barrier around him.

It made everything feel alive and real.

It was as if life had never changed, yet somehow, something was different.

When he listened to the first voice message, the young man sent another.

“I’ve got classes all day today, but they’re all easy. If you need me, I’ll skip one to come over!”

Ji Min’s lips curled up without realizing it.

He’d gotten bolder.

He actually dared to openly tell him he would skip class.

“Focus on your studies.” Ji Min typed back a message.

It seemed like there was a long break between classes, as the young man was still playing on his phone, so the reply came quickly.

“Then why are you looking for me?”

Ji Min fell silent for a moment, thinking about why he had sent the message. He felt a bit embarrassed.

That Shen Xingran kept talking about someone who would “make him happy when he saw them”.

For some reason, Ji Min’s mind had immediately wandered to Lu Ran.

He thought maybe something had happened to the boy because of the Shen family.

But he never expected that Shen Xingran would bring Zhang Lin over instead.

For a moment, Ji Min didn’t know what to say.

But one thing was clear: this was something he could never let Lu Ran find out about.

No matter which part he knew… the guy would definitely laugh his head off.

So Ji Min replied bluntly: “It’s nothing, just asking casually.”

After sending it, there was no reply for a while.

Ji Min thought the class must’ve started.

But after a while, Lu Ran sent a screenshot.

It was a screenshot of the message Ji Min had originally sent — short and hurried with only a few words: “Send a voice message, hurry.”

Ji Min didn’t understand what the screenshot meant.

Then, another message came through, a “little dog shocked” meme.

Finally, a sly question.

“You… You didn’t make me send that just because you wanted to hear my voice, did you?”

The words weren’t explicit.

But each one carried that childish tone, almost like a sigh: “See? I knew you still like me.”

Ji Min: “…”

Well, that was totally Lu Ran’s style.

Even without the voice message, it was unmistakably him.

Ji Min was so angry that he sent several messages in a row: “What’s going on in that head of yours every day?”

“Turn off your phone and focus on your studies!”

Lu Ran, lying on his desk, poked at his phone.

His phone was a bit slow, so he had to poke at it several times before the messages refreshed.

Actually, the salary Ji Min paid him was enough to buy a better phone.

But when it came to spending it, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

After all, as long as a phone still works, there’s no need to replace it.

His classmates, noticing that he was chatting with someone saved as “Big Demon King”, couldn’t help but sneak over and ask, “Are you in a relationship?”

Lu Ran looked up, about to say, “No, just the boss.”

But just as the words were about to leave his mouth, he remembered that if Ji Min ever came to their school, he’d probably have to play the ex-boyfriend role again.

So, after thinking for a moment, he said, “It’s my… my ex-boyfriend who’s currently being pursued by me.”

His classmate, hearing such a complicated relationship for the first time, was completely stunned.

But soon, Lu Ran didn’t have the mood to care about that.

After finishing his morning classes, he went to the cafeteria for lunch and then took a trip to the lab during the break.

In the lab, he received some good news.

This year, the Elite Academy was recruiting again.

Unlike the complicated requirements for new students, this time, all that was needed were credits and an interview.

This was clearly good news for Lu Ran.

He calculated the credits he needed and signed up for several elective courses all at once.

That afternoon, Shen Hongyuan didn’t go to work.

He returned home early, waiting for good news from Shen Xingran.

Privately, he even hoped that Shen Xingran wouldn’t return tonight.

But Shen Hongyuan knew it was just wishful thinking.

Everything had to follow its course. The fact that Shen Xingran had managed to talk to Ji Min today and make a connection was already a good sign.

However, Shen Hongyuan was still confident in his son’s abilities.

Before long, he saw Shen Xingran enter the villa.

Shen Hongyuan paused for a moment, instinctively asking, “Why so early?”

Shen Xingran looked a bit downcast and simply said, “Nothing much, just came back.”

Shen Hongyuan smiled at him and gently said, “Come sit down and have some water first.”

After Shen Xingran had some food…

He then casually asked, “What did Mr. Ji say? Did you set up a time to meet again?”

Shen Xingran paused for a moment before he couldn’t help but complain, “Dad, that Ji Min must be crazy, right? He doesn’t like this, he doesn’t like that!”

“What do you mean?” Shen Hongyuan was stunned.

Shen Xingran had no choice but to explain how both he and Zhang Lin had been kicked out.

Shen Hongyuan was also in disbelief.

His face darkened.

Seeing his father’s sour expression, Shen Xingran hesitated for a while before saying, “Isn’t Big Brother coming back soon? Once he’s back, we can have him help us, right?”

“The important thing is not that!” Shen Hongyuan waved his hand irritably.

Then, in a fit of anger, he scolded, “How are you so useless?”

Shen Xingran was silent for a moment, speechless.

Shen Hongyuan paced anxiously in the living room.

None of them were reliable.

It seemed that he would have to handle it himself.


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