Oookay, this wasn't good at all.

Wei Wuxian could hear the loud slap and the thud of the body against the wooden floor and he wondered if there was some internal disagreement between the kidnappers.

His hands were tied in front of him by the zip tie, but he could still move his fingers, and now he nervously turned the ring from Lan Wangji around his finger – round and round and round. Just like what he always did when he was thinking.

This situation was not ideal, and judging from the way he passed out after only one punch – to the solar plexus nonetheless – the kidnapper should be very strong. Also he had the advantage of the surprise, but he was strong.

After some grunts and muffled screams from the woman, he heard the heavy footsteps on the rotten wooden floors and they moved closer and closer.

"Wei-xiong, do you remember me?"

The voice was suddenly beside Wei Wuxian, and he couldn't help but look up to see the man whom he met at the convenience store before – the one who touched him and gave him goosebumps.

He was so dead, he knew it.

"Uhm… you are… Ning, aren't you?" 

Wei Wuxian prayed that he remembered the name correctly. 

He saw the man had a muscular body, and his arms were full of tattoos from the back of his hand, up to his neck – judging from the way it peeked from up his shirt. 

But instead of being made by a specialist tattoo artist just like his, the man's tattoos were handmade and crude, and looked like they were made in prison.

What a shitty luck that he had.

"Yes, I am Wen Ning, Wei-xiong. I remember you very clearly ever since you always drop by in Granny's store and buy those snacks that you love. Here I brought some too." He suddenly took out a heavy bag from behind Wei Wuxian's chair and opened it to reveal all of his favorite snacks.

"Which one would you like to have first, Wei-xiong…? By the way, may I call you Xianxian?" 

The man was blushing and Wei Wuxian did not know what to say except he managed to nod.

"Good, now, Xianxian, which one do you want?" 

Thankfully Wei Wuxian was able to exercise his extraordinary patience that came with a long and arduous practice by facing his customers ever since he was just a trainee waiter.

But still, he was nervous, although he tried to act friendly and put on his customer service's mask on.

"Do you have the haw flakes candy?" Wei Wuxian referred to the sweet and sour candy shaped like coins that he loved and it was made out of the fruit of Chinese hawthorn.

"Of course I have them. I know you like them because you always buy them in bulk." He chuckled as he took out a package of the coin-shaped candy and tore it open, then fed it one by one to Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian hated it when someone handled his food without washing their hands first, and he could feel the rise of his stomach content, but he swallowed them back before he chewed on the candy.

It tasted sweet, and sour, and everything that he liked about the candy, and fortunately it helped with the nausea.

"So, Xianxian…" Wen Ning started to speak when Wei Wuxian finished the candy. "First of all, I-I have money. I know that you're in trouble because the Jins sabotaged your bar, but I-I really do have money. L-loads of them. And I want you to s-stay with me in exchange for me to buy the bar and p-pay for its debt."

Okay. 

What the hell was this man just talking about? Between the rambling and the stuttering, Wei Wuxian didn't really catch on to whatever he was talking about so fast. 

Debt? 

But to think of it, he knew that the Jins were the one behind the sabotage, so that meant only one thing.

"Did you work together with the Jins to sabotage my bar? So that you can buy me off like this?" Wei Wuxian was starting to grasp the situation and he suddenly got pissed.

This… – whoever this man was… – dared to mess with his life just because he wanted to be with him?

Wei Wuxian was not that stupid to not know that this man had a massive crush on him, but to mess with his bar, his friends, his life – so that he could be the knight on the white horse?

If he wasn't being tied down, he would skewer the man alive and roast him slowly over open fire until he was nice and crispy.

"Yes I did." His expression suddenly became ugly when he frowned. "It's your fault, you know. If you hadn't whored yourself to Lan Wangji, I would not take this drastic measure of working together with that… unpleasant woman." He looked disgusted and Wei Wuxian couldn't believe his ears.

He did all that stuff and he blamed it on others?

Yeah sure the woman was also guilty because she was in this too, but from what he heard, the kidnapping was fully that psycho's fault.

Wei Wuxian did not know how to reason with this man, when he suddenly caught a glint of something from the window that was located in the far corner, and he hoped it was what he thought it was.

"But, I am engaged to Lan Wangji, and we're going to get married soon, so how am I whoring myself if it's with my own fiance? The one that is going to be my partner, my husband, my benefactor, my everything? Who are you to decide if it's my fault or not? Are you some kind of a god or something? Wow, your confidence is really amazing. Did you get poisoned from the ink in prison? I heard that they were not hygienic. I bet you're the other's little bitch, aren't you? That's why you need to dominate everything and everyone because they all made you their bitch?"

From the redness of Wen Ning's face and the way he trembled and made a fist with both of his hands, Wei Wuxian guessed that he was right. 

And he decided to egg him on more.

"Hah, poor little Wen Ning who became everyone's bitch. How long was it? From your tats I bet it's long enough for you to do this fucked up shit. What? Are you sure you can get your thing up to fuck me after being fucked for so long by so many men?

When he finished his words, Wen Ning was so enraged, he took out the knife he had been hiding and charged at Wei Wuxian while yelling some profanities and denial, but when he almost cut him, Wei Wuxian could hear the sound of the gun and then the front door was being breached by the police in all black. 

The shot hit Wen Ning right on his right hand that wielded the knife – literally destroying it and only left a lump of flesh – and when the cops got in, they tackled him down so fast, cuffed him and took him away in a flash.

A few more people came in and checked on the unconscious woman and released Wei Wuxian then brought him out while checking him, before he was embraced by the crying Shen Qingqiu and Xie Lian.

After comforting his best friends, he saw that Lan Wangji stood just behind them and waited for his turn, and Wei Wuxian reached for him and buried his head in Lan Wangji's embrace while inhaling his comforting sandalwood scent.

"Hey, you." His voice was muffled because his face was smushed into Lan Wangji's shirt.

"I really can't leave you alone for a minute, can I?" Lan Wangji kissed his head and Wei Wuxian could feel that he was trembling lightly. "The minute I did so, you were conveniently kidnapped without a word, and I almost died from worrying about you."

"How did you know that I was here?" Wei Wuxian suddenly remembered. How did his fiancee find him? No one seemed to know where the psycho bastard took him, and yet Lan Wangji could, like he had a homing beacon.

"Well, the thing is…" Lan Wangji looked so sheepish, Wei Wuxian was suddenly caught on.

Homing beacon.

"Did you put some tracking device on me?" Wei Wuxian looked so amused that Lan Wangji blushed.

Well, that confirmed it.

"Where?"

Lan Wangji showed him his ring and he looked sheepish.

"You put a tracking device in the engagement ring?" Wei Wuxian was so astonished by the fact.

"Eh, not all the time. It would only activate if you turn it around three times. It's just a precaution because I know how you become anxious if something happens and you always twirled your rings. So I thought, why not make it so that I can always be with you when you have something in your mind? So, voila, the motion activated tracking ring. Not so bad, huh."

Lan Wangji looked so proud, Wei Wuxian couldn't help but laugh and give him a kiss.

"That sounds creepy, but I'm really thankful for that." Wei Wuxian suddenly hugged his fiance tight. "I was so embarrassed that I let down my guard and it got me kidnapped this easily like some damsel in distress, and I still had the thought of being saved by a knight in shining armor. Complete with the white horse."

It was Lan Wangji's turn to chuckle as he kissed Wei Wuxian back.

"Well, I guess you have them all then. I will be your knight in shining armor although I don't have a white horse. But I have a white Ferrari, and I think it's close enough?"

"It is enough, Lan Zhan. You are enough."