Chapter 50: Qi Yan's scared of heights?:

After I had finished my burger, I decided to grab my phone and began to take pictures. I was so engrossed in photoshopping my pictures that I didn't realise Qi Yan had woken up. "Why didn't you wake me up?" he asked, nearly giving me a bloody heart attack. "You looked so peaceful sleeping, I didn't want to wake you up," I replied passing him some food. He thanked me for the food and asked where we are. I gestured for him to look around. He got out of the car and walked towards the edge and muttered "wow,".

Then he took a step back and said, "I'm not a fan of heights,". I looked at him in confusion. Qi Yan was scared of heights. This big CEO is scared of heights. Qi Yan looked at me and whispered, " I can guess what you are thinking about," my face blushed as I quickly explained myself. It was quite strange cause I never could've guessed Qi Yan was scared of heights. "Why are you scared of heights?" I asked gently in case I touched a wound I shouldn't, however, Qi Yan looked perfectly fine and even smiled. "When I was around 10, one of my father's business competitors hired someone to kidnap me just to force my father to give up on one of the projects he was working on during that time. Who would've guessed that my father didn't even care? At that time my younger brother was already 3, so he already had another son to be filial. So why in the world would he pay the ransom for a son who hates him? It would make no sense. You might be wondering where my grandfather was. Well, he was in surgery during this whole time. His eyes were getting foggy so this surgery would help him see clearer. I was living with my parents for the time being. They managed to fool my grandfather by hiring someone who soundly likes me to pretend to be me. However, this backfired on them because it just so happened that this guy was one of my closest friends. My father thought that asking a poor kid to do it for money would mean that he would never tell anyone. As far as I know, the boy Ye Bai Yi (my secretary) slid a piece of paper into my grandfather's hand and gave it to my grandmother who then alerted the police. My father was in so much trouble back then that my grandfather wouldn't even talk to him. They still haven't mended their relationship yet.

The hired kidnappers were ordered to kill me if no one sends any money after the given time which was 3 weeks. The kidnappers tied me up on a moving crane and were about to drop me near the sea. However, I was saved because of a little girl. I don't remember how she did it, but I was thankful because she manages to convince the kidnappers to kill me in a way nobody will find the corpse. Quite a funny strategy but it worked. She managed to help me escape and I had to run to the nearest town center to find the police to help her. She would've died if the police hadn't run in to save her. My family did try to repay her, but they declined but both families know who each other is. But they wouldn't tell me," Qi Yan explained.

I looked at him weirdly, it was a common story in the upper class that Qi Yan had been kidnapped before. But it was quite a unique story. But was it such a conscience that I also was kidnapped around when I was 8? I also did help a boy to escape. However, I had to receive trauma therapy because I had PTSD*(1). Every night I couldn't sleep after it because I would often get nightmares of the trauma.

"Do you know what? I was also kidnapped around 8 years old. However, I was missing for two years before I was found. At that time, I was kidnapped the kidnappers would bring me everywhere to beg. At that time my parents didn't have that much money to look after me, although they still did. Which was one of the reasons they went bankrupt. The boy who I tried to save was kidnapped for a few weeks before he went home. How lucky was he?" I whispered whilst handing Qi Yan the drink I got him.

Glossary:

1. PTSD is short for post-trauma-stress-disorder.