Meng Ya shut her eyes for a painful impact that never came. It was a freefall of three seconds and then she landed in a pair of strong arms that caught her in time.

"Ah? It's not painful," she said with her eyes still shut.

An extremely cold voice spoke that made her shudder. "Isn't it? I wonder why?"

Meng Ya froze. Her eyes flew open and she saw Fu Renshu was carrying her in his arms. For a moment, she slipped into a trance seeing his handsome profile so up and close. A gulp passed her throat, gazing at his beautiful face at such proximity.

No, no! What are you doing? He is the hooligan who has kidnapped you! This is not the time to be starstruck!

Fu Renshu tightened his grasp on her waist, making her yelp. "Ah, ah! Your fingers! Your fingers! You are stabbing me, idiot!"

"If you had hit the ground, the pain would have been much more than just my fingers poking your waist," he dangerously said. His gaze was as dark as some ominous storm.

"What has it got to do with you?" Meng Ya said, "You are a kidnapper and a hooligan who has trapped me in this place! You won't care even if I die," her eyes slightly stung in tears, "In fact, you will be happy if I go to heaven. You don't need to worry about my threat anymore!"

Fu Renshu snickered. "You are right. I won't have to worry about you spilling the beans but then I also don't want to deal with your dead body and the mess. So, I have to keep you alive."

"You are one heartless bastard!" She struggled in his arms. "Put me down!"

"Shut up! Only a fool would attempt something like that. Did you see the height before pulling out that stunt or have you gone blind?"

"Well if a certain hooligan is imprisoning me then I have no choice."

Fu Renshu narrowed his eyes on her. He turned and started walking back towards his house. She widened her eyes. "Hey! Where are you taking me?"

I have to escape!

He ignored her cries and resistance in his arms.

"You hooligan let me go!" Meng Ya even pulled his hair and kept smacking on his chest, but her hits were as light as a feather to him.

The maid was once again shocked to witness the scene ahead. Usually all the women would try their best to get Fu Renshu's attention and impress him but here she saw a completely different scene of someone driving him away.

Fu Renshu dropped her on the bed again just like last time. Before she could even move, he grabbed her wrists together and pinned her hands above her head.

She froze. At that distance, she could easily smell his cologne and the sudden warmth from his towering body made her shiver.

Fu Renshu pinched her jaw with his other hand and said, "I already said that you don't need to stay locked up here. Agree to my conditions and you are free."

Meng Ya bit her lower lip, making his brows slightly twitch. That action of her teeth chomping on her lip strangely seemed... enticing to him. He couldn't help but stare at her lips and felt like...

"W-where are you looking?" Meng Ya stammered. "Don't you dare have any designs on me!"

Fu Renshu snapped out of his stupor. His gaze darkened at her words. "You seem to have a bad memory. I told you that I have high standards. And don't talk about me. I saw you ogling at me just now when I carried you. I should warn you not to have any designs on me!"

Her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "Who will ogle at a goon like you? You are a tyrant! A beautiful maiden like me will never even throw a glance at an ugly man like you!"

He choked.

A beautiful maiden? Where?

A dangerous smile lit his lips. "Who are you calling ugly?"

"Who else is here other than you!" She harrumphed.

He had an urge to throw her under the bus. "If I am so ugly then why were you sexually assaulting me just a few minutes ago?"

She stared at him, speechless.

"Sexual assault? When did I do that!"

He sneered. "With your eyes. What kind of perverted intentions were you looking at me with?"

Her jaw dropped wide open in disbelief. "You…"

Sure, I stared at him a bit, but I didn't...I didn't…

"In your dreams! Like hell I would want to be intimate with you! Even if you are the last person on earth - no - the entire universe, I still won't target you that way!"

"Oh really?" He smirked.

He raised her chin and to her utter shock, he suddenly landed his lips on hers. Her eyes popped out of her sockets. She remained frozen like an unmoving log of wood.

He tilted his head and expertly glided their lips together in sync. His lips captured her lower lip between them, sweetly sandwiching and smothering her with his kisses.

A minute later, he parted away and was satisfied to see the dumb expression on her face. "Well, you said you wouldn't target me, but you sure enjoyed the kiss, huh? You didn't push me away at all."

Inside Meng Ya's small brain, everything short-circuited and it came to a full shutdown. She could believe that Fu Renshu just kissed her.

With great difficulty, she found her voice that broke and stuttered. "Y-y-you…y-you….k-ki-kissed me…"

"Pretty much," he smiled.

Imaginary steam escaped her ears and she glared at him. "H-how dare you steal my f-first kiss!? You took away a beautiful maiden's kiss virginity."

He wished to puke blood.

"Kiss virginity? Is that even a word?"

But he raised his brow at the first part.

First kiss huh...

"Shut up! You accused me of having perverted intentions but what did you do now!?"

He sneered again. "I just returned your sexual assault with revenge. You violated me with your eyes and I took your first kiss. Now we are equal."

"!!!"

Like hell we are equal!

Fu Renshu stood back on his feet and stepped out of the room. Begin shutting the door, he warned. "Stay obediently here and don't cause trouble or I will make your life hell difficult."

Be banged it shut.

Meng Ya threw a pillow at the door and screamed. "You hooligan, pervert! I will have my revenge one day! Let lightning strike you dead for stealing a maiden's lips you bastard!"