Wooing my Bodyguard Wife

"My arm is getting tired," Yue Niang said warningly, "maybe I should rest this stake right on this lovely eye -"

"I don't know! I don't know!" Ding Fei wailed as he struggled to get free. "Everything is confidential Ma'am! I don't know who hired us!"

"Give me your phone."

"What?" Ding Fei asked, not registering her words. His brain was already lost in the maze of terror.

"Phone, now." Yue Niang repeated, with the imperious manner of a queen, or more accurately, a mother that found her child spending too much time watching videos online and not enough time studying.

Her instructions cut through the maze of terror in Ding Fei's mind, and he instinctively handed his handphone over without thinking.

Yue Niang opened it. "Tsk, fingerprint lock. Kids these days and their gadgets…You brought your real phone for this," she grumbled disbelievingly. Did they not have the budget for burner phones? Or had the state of criminals deteriorated to this extent?  "Unlock this before I chop off your fingers and do it myself."

Ding Fei obediently lifted his thumb and unlocked his phone, wanting to keep his fingers. He couldn't afford any more permanent grievous injury! He didn't have insurance for this!

Yue Niang glanced at the phone, quickly browsing through his messages, a frown forming on his face. This man received a transfer of five million won as a deposit when he accepted the mission to kidnap Sun Jingwei and her daughter, and Yue Niang knew he would probably receive the rest of it if he succeeded!

Five million won as a deposit… whoever was in charge of this kidnapping attempt had deep pockets, so the kidnapping wasn't for money, even if Sun Jingwei would fetch a hefty ransom. She scowled; what nonsense did her daughter get pulled into this time around?

Meanwhile, Ding Fei watched her carefully from his own remaining eye, and slowly sidled away from her, before making a break for the door, his legs wobbling like jelly. He only had this chance to escape!

"Stop right there," Yue Niang declared ominously, dragging him back by his collar. She brandished the stake at him to stop him from fleeing. "You and I aren't done yet!"

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MEANWHILE, THE REST OF THE HOUSE…

"ROBBERS! ROBBERS! IN OUR HOUSE!"

The entire household was just finally calming down and getting ready for bed after the heated confrontation earlier, but Li Yue Niang's yell jolted all of them into blind panic!

Robbers have entered their home! In all of Li Tai Xuan's 28 years of existence, this had never happened! No one would rob their home because their house was exactly the same as every other house in the area. If someone told Tai Xuan their restaurant had been robbed, he'd be more understanding.

But their home?

"Mom? Is Mom alright?" Tai Xuan yelled out, jumping from the bed as he heard his mom's scream reverberate through the house. "Xin Yu, stay inside the room and lock the door, I'll go and check it out!"

"But that's dangerous!" Xin Yu protested, half-clinging to his arm. "They could have weapons! You can't go! You could die!"

"And just let them rob our house? Of course not!" Tai Xuan pried her clammy hands away from his arm. His wife was trembling with fear, but she dug her heels into the ground in an attempt to stop him from leaving the room.

"And Mom could be in danger. Just do as I say - call the police! Lock the windows and the door!"

With that final word of warning, he pressed a quick kiss to her lips, and then shoved Xin Yu back into the room. He closed the door with a loud bang, ignoring the stricken, worried look on his wife's face.

"Husband! Husband!" Xin Yu cried out, thumping on the door. But she at least had the sense to stay indoors, even as every inch of her longed to follow him to make sure he was alright. She had to do something! She hurriedly locked the windows and grabbed her phone, hiding under the bed.

Yes, she had to call the police… the police…

She shakily dialled the number for the police. Someone finally picked up after a depressingly long time.

"Police station, what's up?" A cheerful voice greeted her. It was such an entirely unprofessional opening but Xin Yu was too relieved to care.

"Officer! It's me - Xin Yu from the noodle restaurant! You must help me! Robbers are in our house!" Xin Yu screamed into the phone.

"Robbers? You must be joking," the police officer laughed at the other end of the line. "Your house doesn't have anything to rob!"

"Hey!" Xin Yu cried out, offended. "We're not that destitute! And I'm not joking! You have to send someone over now!"

"Really?" Xin Yu had the feeling the police officer was reclining on his chair, his feet on the table as he spoke to her. "Then tell me, how many robbers are there in the house?"

"I… I don't know. I'm inside my room! Under my bed!" Xin Yu's voice quavered.

"What did they take?" That man asked indulgently.

,m "How would I know?!" Xin Yu exclaimed. "Didn't you hear that I was under my bed?"

"And you say you're not joking," the police officer commented mockingly. "Oi lady, don't you know that making false reports is a crime? Just because you're so free at night it doesn't mean all of us are the same! Don't waste our time!"

"This is very rude of you! Hey! Hey! You -"  Xin Yu complained, but the sound of the dial tone greeted her ears. This blasted man actually hung up!

'Useless man!' Xin Yu raged as she clutched at her phone. These police officers never took their jobs seriously, and spent more time as lackeys of the late Mayor Poh since the low crime rate made their jobs near obsolete.

This area was so remote that no one took crime seriously because there was hardly any crime to begin with. Everyone knew everyone, so it hardly took any effort to snitch on each other. Their police

But now there was a problem, and there was no one to help!