Unexpected Second Chance at Love

Inside one of the many rooms in the old and rundown Victorian hotel, Ning Mei laid on top of a bed not too far from the window.

”Mm.”

She muffles a soft moan as her eyes flutter open. She stares up at the unfamiliar ceiling and she frowns. However, it didnʼt take long before realization dawn on her and her body trembles.

Before she fainted, she remember the red mask man in the bathroom, then the news that Director Yeun had sold her off.

The scene of the bullet that shot pass her floats in her head. Her eyes widen and he quickly sits up to pat herself down. She didnʼt care that she was only wearing a bathrobe and continues to search for any wounds other than the small scratch she had on the arm.

She sighs in relief when there were no other injuries. Lifting her head up, she scans the room as best as she could. However, due to the poor lighting in the room, she was unable to make out anything.

”Where is this place?”

The bed she had been placed on was a full-sized bed. She moves her feet to the left as it was the direction the door was at. However, just when she tried to move her right leg, the sound of metals clanking enters her ears.

”…”

Like the cold breeze during a winter night suddenly blew in, Ning Mei felt herself frozen to the bed. Without moving her body, she turns her head in slow motion to look where the sound had come from.

”W-What… is this?”

Her lower lip began to tremble uncontrollably with the rest of her body following after. She stretch her arm to where her right foot is, and the tips of her fingers touches the cold chain that had been cuffed around her ankle.

”Ahh!!”

She shrieks loudly like a ghost had appear in front of her. At first, she thought it might have been her mind messing with her. However, being able to touch the chain cuff, she knew this was all real.

”No…”

Her head slowly shakes from side to side before gradually shaking it faster in denial. Dread and panic rush inside her and she frantically search for something in the room to remove the chain.

However, there was not a single tool for her to use or at least her eyes could not make out.

Seeing the only window that was only 3 feet away from the bed, she crawls down from the bed. She didnʼt care if her right ankle was still chained, the space between the bed and window was enough for her to get near.

Pulling the curtains apart, broken pieces of shattered glass fell onto her and the floor as the window was already broken. She ignores it and poke her head out to scream as loud as she could.

”Help! Somebody help me!!”

She has no idea where she had been taken to, but she believes that if anyone heard her plead for help, they will help her.

”Please! Help me! I have been kidnap! Someone call the police!”

Streams of tears pour down from her eyes as her sobs turn into wails. She screams every word at the top of her lungs, but it was as if the entire place had been deserted.

”Wuu… Somebody help me… Wuuu…”

After screaming for a while, her voice turned hoarse and she could only wail to herself. No matter how much she screamed, it was all pointless.

She realized that even the lights to the neighboring buildings were off and not a single shadow or car can be seen from the street below.

However, what Ning Mei did not know is that, the building she is in is in the middle of the slums. It is an area that society had long forgot about and even if someone were to hear her, they were not going to help her.

*Click

Just when she was about to call for help again, the sound of the door unlocks, and the creepy creak of the old door slowly opens.

Ning Meiʼs tears quickly stops and she turns around to see who it was. She doesnʼt know who it is and what is going to happen to her, but if this person has a good heart, he or she will help her escape from here.

She promises that she will give this person a big reward for helping.

”Please help me. I was brought here without consent. Please let me go.”

She cries for help and her tears that had stopped quickly fell down from her eyes again. Her entire being looked so innocent like a young maiden who had been captured by a group of bandits.

However, the second she saw the person, her entire being froze in place. Her legs turned weak and unable to stand up anymore, she slumps down onto the floor.

Standing in front of the opened door was a man wearing an expensive gray plaid suit. One can see how well kept he maintains his body structure, but the gas mask that covered his face gave off an eerie and sinister feeling.

”Noo!! Ahh!!!”

Ning Mei screamed in fear and her head shakes vigorously like she had turned into an insane person.

She didnʼt care if her right leg was now hanging up in midair due to the chain. All she wanted is to wake up from this horrible nightmare.

”W-Who are you? What… What do you want?”

Her words fell and the man wearing a gas mask takes two steps inside the room. However, he was not along as two more figures follow in after. Only, they were not wearing a gas mask but a white phantom mask.

Seeing the three men blocking the door, her eyes tremble as another wave of intense fear crawled inside her like tiny spiders.

”W-Why did you kidnap me? I havenʼt done anything wrong!”

She stutters in her words, but as she finished her last word, the lights inside the room flickers and the entire place brightens up.

Realizing the set up in the room, she abruptly shuts her mouth and her eyes widen in horror.

When she first woke up, she was in a panic state of mind that she didnʼt look at the room carefully. Now that she can see better, she could not believe her eyes at all.

The room was extremely old that the walls were covered with mold. Not only that, the bed she had awoken from was so old, she could see the disgusting stains that have been there for who knows how long now.

However, what made her unable to think the most were the cameras set up in the room.

There were three cameras in different parts of the room, but all of them were angled at the bed.

Her head moves from the cameras to the bed then after a long minute, her eyes widen more than ever. Her head darts at the three sinister looking figures and her face drained of any colors.

”No… No… No!!!”

A piercing cry escapes her lips and the chain that trapped her right leg clanks loudly.

She frantically shakes her head again as more tears stream down her cheeks like a waterfall. Since she is chained to the bed with no where to escape, it can only mean that these three men are going do whatever they want with her and record everything.

”Please, I beg of you. Let me go. Iʼll pay whatever amount of money you want. Just let me go. I am innocent.”

Her face distorted and she gasps between her sobs. At the same time, her hands reach for the chain and she tries to break free. However, despite the bed frame being old, it remained in place like someone had nailed it to the floor.

”Please, I am innocent. I havenʼt done anything to offend you.”

”Tsk. Oh, shut up already.”

One of the men wearing the white phantom mask spoke in irritation and he strides over to a chair in the room to sit down.

He looks at Ning Mei who had stopped screaming and he scoffs at her. Even though the front of her robe was loosened and showed her cleavage, he did not once find her appealing.

However, seeing her expression, he quickly knew what she was thinking about and he scoffs a sarcastic chuckle.

”You must really think too highly of yourself.”

He leans forward and place both his elbows on his knees. His head slightly tilts to the side as a murderous glint of light flash in his eyes.

”Youʼre not worthy to be touch by us.”