Wooing my Bodyguard Wife

Back at the hospital, Tianwei could only wonder at how things with his family could have imploded all at once. First his younger brother had people out to ruin him, then his father had a heart attack, and even the hospital wasn’t spared!

If he didn’t know better, he would think that someone was using a voodoo doll to curse his family,

But he did know better, and because he didn’t subscribe to this kind of superstitious nonsense, he believed that rather than a person’s curse, it would be more accurate to say someone had a grudge against his family, and would stop at nothing to bring them down!

That didn’t narrow down the list much, for his family had a lot of enemies. But for someone to be able to have the connections their enemy had… the list became a lot shorter.

Still, even with a smaller suspect pool, one had to have proof – and Tianwei was ready to get his by all means necessary.

He stared down coldly at the man with shaky legs, his arms held down by two bodyguards as he was forced to kneel in front of Tianwei.

Beside him, Captain Mu watched on impassively. They had moved their interrogation to a separate, empty, hospital room with better soundproof walls, just in case this man screamed loud enough to wake his father up. He didn’t want his father to wake so quickly.

“So.. Mr Li Fan, you’re claiming that police officers were trying to kill you?” Tianwei began smoothly.

The man known as Li Fan nodded, refusing to meet him in the eye. If he closed his eyes, he could still visualise the blood splatter on the walls and the blood pooling on the floor.

That could have been him. He shuddered in fear. How had everything gone so wrong so quickly!

“If you do not give us any useful information, I’ll personally hand you over to the police department. Perhaps they might have colleagues that’ll finish the job the second time around.” Tianwei continued evenly, while Li Fan could only look up in undisguised horror.

“You can’t! You can’t! I’m useful to you! They’ll kill me!” He yelled in panic, thrashing around as though trying to escape. But all his actions were futile; the bodyguards used more force to hold down his weak limbs, causing him to flail harmlessly instead.

“Then you’d better co-operate and give us actual useful information,” Tianwei said. “Or you’ll be joining your lover in the afterlife soon enough!”

Li Fan shivered harshly, nodding furiously. “I’ll tell you what I know! Please!” He pleaded, “Don’t send me back to them!”

Tianwei raised an eyebrow and gestured for Captain Mu to take the lead.

“Why did you try to kill Sun Jingwei?”

“I…I…” He stuttered. “I didn’t mean to!”

“What do you mean you didn’t mean to?” Tianwei interrupted. “You drove straight towards them with the intent to kill!”

“I… I mean… I wanted to injure him…maybe cause him to be paralysed. I wanted him to remain alive.” He wheezed out. “My main goal was rescuing Xiumin! His injury was supposed to be a distraction. If they got hurt, no one would care about her… “

“Foolish,” Captain Mu declared, and the bodyguards grabbed at his hand, slowly twisting it backwards. Li Fan began to scream in pain as his wrist slowly resembled a pretzel. Any further, and bones would begin cracking.

“What was Xiumin trying to do in the restaurant?” Captain Mu asked.

Li Fan choked out his answers through his sobs of pain. “She! She wanted to drug him to kidnap him! Let my hand go!” He wailed at the end.

Of course, Captain Mu and his bodyguards did not do as he said.

“On whose orders? Did she act on her own?” Captain Mu asked. This man was her accomplice then. He was her hired muscle to lug Sun Jingwei’s heavy body away, her backup in case things went wrong, and the driver of the getaway car that nearly killed Sun Jingwei and his wife.

“She wanted revenge!” The man gasped out breathlessly. “So our Boss told her where to find Sun Jingwei!”

Tianwei and Captain Mu exchanged glances.

“Who is this Boss, and how did he know where Jingwei was going to be?”

“I don’t know! I told Sun Jingwei already!” He tried to tug his hand away to no avail. Tears of pain were streaming down his face. “Please let my hand go!”

Captain Mu watched impassively as his wrist slowly turned purple.

“Please!” Li Fan begged. The pain was becoming unbearable. If he had known back then that this was how he would be treated after he was ‘rescued’, he might as well have let the officers kill him! At least they wouldn’t torture him like this!

Captain Mu gave the slightest tilt of his head. His team let his wrist go, but before Li Fan could even begin to feel relief, he felt them pulling his fingers back instead, stretching them painfully.

“Tell us what you told Jingwei.” Captain Mu demanded.

Of course, Captain Mu already knew what he said, but he had to make sure the stories matched. People could lie, but they tend to tell the truth when they were interrogated through torture.

“I don’t know his real name!” Li Fan repeated desperately. “He said he was Dimitri!”

Dimitri. The name didn’t mean anything to Captain Mu, but Tianwei’s eyes widened. This was the name of Jingwei’s hacker alias when he was a foolhardy teenager, believing that everything he did was fun and games – until it wasn’t.

That narrowed the list of suspects significantly. Not many were privy to the fact that his younger brother had a talent with computers. Now, Jingwei had given up this troublesome hobby of his after it had blown up in his face.

“How do you know Dimitri isn’t his real name?” Captain Mu asked.

“He’s Chinese!” Li Fan protested with teary eyes. “Which family would give their son such a weird English name?”