The Law of Webnovels

Chapter 260: Chapter 260

Article 23. Aren’t Female Protagonists Always Getting Kidnapped? (Part 2)

I woke up from the loud noise of countless, overlapping pieces of wood collapsing.

‘What’s going on?’ Blinking swiftly, I lifted my head.

My head hurt, and even my vision became blurry, so I couldn’t see anything. I tried to touch my forehead but then realized that my hands were tied. The situation that took place before I opened my eyes, at last, came crashing into my head like a dream last night.

As if I had woken up from a nightmare, my eyes opened wide. My heart was throbbing, and I felt tingling arising from my fingertips. Soon, I was feeling a chill. ‘Yeah, that’s what happened,’ I murmured.

Ban Yeo Ryung and I had been kidnapped right after attending Hanwool Group’s anniversary party that Eun Jiho’s family hosted.

I mean, I did anticipate that this would happen someday. Wasn’t abduction almost like an annual event to female protagonists in web novels? I, however, never expected that it would occur at Hanwool Group’s party, where it was swarming with securities and bodyguards.

However, as I thought it over again, this plot seemed more dramatic. Committing abduction at a party hosted by the male protagonist’s enterprise… No incident would make the male lead feel guiltier than this one.

I should have not relaxed my attention just because there were bodyguards all over! I tore my hair out. How could I make such a mistake when I was proud of myself for being the master of web novels?!

Anyway, I still had a chance to make up for it, so I decided to keep myself together as much as possible from here on out. They said, drive gently over the stones; therefore, the key, for now, was to take a cautious and delicate approach in this situation. Besides, kidnapping incidents in web novels often didn’t have a bad ending.

Why?

Since the majority of web novel readers were students, these stories had to be admitted for all ages!

However, when thinking about a few happenings in the past, I couldn’t help but heave a sigh again. Regarding the car accident, wherein I nearly got killed by a truck in front of Eun Hyung or other incidents that took place earlier, I couldn’t just be assured that this novel was targeted for general audiences.

Thinking further to that point, I grimaced and fetched a deep sigh. I remembered that time Eun Hyung had a difficult time when I almost got hit by a car right in front of him.

Anyway, Eun Jiho… I wished he wouldn’t experience any inner struggles as harsh as Eun Hyung did in the past with that incident. Eun Jiho and Yoo Chun Young would definitely think that this happened because of them.

‘Please guys… this is happening because you guys are male leads in a web novel; there’s no other reason aside from that.’

While I rambled those thoughts that didn’t help me improve this situation, my vision began to return. Excellent, maybe it wasn’t a permanent visual impairment, huh? I lessened my concern for the age-appropriateness of this novel. Letting out a sigh of relief, I slowly raised my head to glance around.

It was a warehouse that was common anywhere near the highway without any special features. The cement floor was covered with dust, and the top was a slate roof.

The place had a high ceiling, which was piled with a bunch of empty beer boxes from floor to ceiling. One box was lying on the floor facing down; between the boxes and the floor, broken bottles were rolling around. Thus, the sound of beer bottles breaking because of the collapsing boxes might have woken me up.

I turned my head again. Ban Yeo Ryung was right beside me lying down on the floor while breathing evenly.

As soon as I found her, I crawled on my knees to get closer to Ban Yeo Ryung. My knees were stinging after laying on the cement floor for a prolonged period, but it was still bearable.

“Ban Yeo Ryung?”

Lowering my body to her, I called out her name quietly. She didn’t move an inch. I lifted my head again to observe her overall condition. Her underneath her disheveled hair looked paler than usual. Nothing much changed regarding her outfit; she was still wearing the same black mini dress that she wore at the party.

Perhaps Ban Yeo Ryung would also have a blurry vision once she awakened. I roughly guessed what had happened before we came here. As we made all kinds of attempts to escape from the back seat, the driver sprayed something at us, which forced us to lose consciousness immediately.

Ban Yeo Ryung’s hands were also tied on her back. Even if she woke up, it wouldn’t be that helpful; however, I would instead help her regain consciousness and explain the situation before other bastards returned to this place. I was aware that this world existed inside a web novel; therefore, I already expected that we would get kidnapped someday. Unlike me, Yeo Ryung had no idea about it.

Having my hands tied behind my back, I had to use my legs randomly to shake Yeo Ryung.

“Yeo Ryung, wake up. Yeo Ryung?”

Did I call out her name about a dozen times? Yeo Ryung’s thin eyebrows waggled at last. Soon, her black pupils appeared through her fluttering eyelashes. Her always shining jet-black eyes were out of focus, unlike usual. It was just what I had expected.

She couldn’t see anything at all right now, so how frightened would she be feeling right now? That was when I quickly opened my mouth. Suddenly, she bounced up to her upper body, so I shuddered and pulled back defensively.

Sweeping my pounding heart, I murmured, ‘Gosh, we almost hit each other.’

At that moment, as if she heard me breathing even though she was currently blind, Ban Yeo Ryung spun her head and looked in my direction.

When our eyes met, I gasped in shock. I had to say, ‘I’m Ham Donnie! Don’t worry,’ but those words hardly came out of my mouth. My head went blank as if it was bleached into pitch whiteness.

The violent temper inside her eyes was that much overwhelming.

She might be blind right now, but her eyes were fastened on me unwaveringly. As if I encountered a tiger or lion in a jungle, I didn’t dare to budge.

A few seconds, which seemed like minutes, passed like that. Yeo Ryung finally let out her sweet and cheerful voice through her lips. What she said, however, didn’t match that beautiful voice at all.

“You guys are dead meat. I’m gonna break all your bones into pieces.”

Coming to my senses, I first turned around hesitantly to check if somebody had arrived in the warehouse before I even knew. After a while, I realized that we were still on our lonesome.

Hmm… Did she change her mind? Maybe… She might suddenly feel like killing me. Rambling those thoughts in my mind, I nodded as composedly as possible.

Meanwhile, Ban Yeo Ryung’s relentless remark continued.

“Do you guys know that being convicted on a kidnapping allegation is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment? I don’t want you guys to be judged by the law, though. Why? You’ve committed a felony so serious for justice to take its course.”

Only then did I realize that Ban Yeo Ryung wasn’t referring to me. I carefully opened my mouth.

“Um, Yeo Ryung.”

“I’m gonna fold your spines like a flip phone!”

“Excuse me… Yeo Ryung.”

“And wring your intestines out like a towel.”

“Um, ma’am…”

Around that time, my way of speaking suddenly turned very polite.

“How dare you touch Donnie?!”

“Ma’am Ban Yeo Ryung.”

“It’s fine if it was just me. I’m totally fine with that, but how dare you do this to Donnie?! Huh? You guys have been getting on my nerves since last year. Y’all dead meat now! You think I’m an idiot because I’m not doing anything? I’ll kill you until you die!”

At that moment, I carefully flung a question.

“Um, am I also included?”

“Of course, you are! None of you will be…”

She then paused to strike a retort and suddenly loosened up the corners of her strained lips. It looked like she had realized something. Holding back for a second, she then asked cautiously.

“Is it… you… Donnie?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

I still replied as politely as possible. If my hands weren’t tied behind my back, I might have put both hands on my knees with courtesy.

Staying still for quite a while, Yeo Ryung then smiled awkwardly out of the blue.

“Donnie, were you here until now?” she carefully asked in a voice that suddenly turned sweet.

“Uh… yeah…”

“You know that I didn’t intend to say those words to you, right?”

“Yeah… of course.”

Yeo Ryung then smiled like a blooming flower and answered back.

“Haha, I was afraid that you would get me wrong. Thank goodness, you didn’t.”

“No…”

“Hahaha, sounds cool!”