Drama Novel
Chapter 271
Chapter 271
Chapter 271 Charmine walked straight to the balcony, tied the rope around her waist, and put on the gloves. “You two will help me pull on the rope,” instructed Charmine, “so hold on tight.”
“What?” blurted Rio in shock, his eyes wide open. “Charmine —I mean, Boss! Boss, are you going down to save her yourself? This is the eleventh floor! If anything happens to you, how a m I supposed to face your grandpa?”
Eric, too, frowned and walked forward. “Let me do it, you hold on to the rope.”
If anything happened to Charmine, he-out of everyone-would be killed by all sorts of people since he brought Charmine back to Burlington!
“Now’s not the time to sit still and do nothing,” countered Charmine. “Also, are any of you as skilled as I am?” 1
Charmine’s remark stunned the two men silent, especially Eric. He knew that Charmine was skilled and resourceful; perhaps he was only a fraction of what she was even with his abilities..
Regardless…
Saving a person replying on a rope was too dangerous. If anything was to happen, he could not face his supervisor. 1
Still deep in his thoughts, Charmine pushed the rope and more gloves into their hands as she said, “Be calm, and don’t trigger her.”
With that, she climbed the balcony 50 meters high up the sky. She stood on the fence of the balcony under the white clouds and blue sky, her figure lean and fit. 11
Rio watched with his heart in his mouth. “Boss, please come back down? Let’s think of another way! You’re the only cousin I like, and if anything happened to you…”
“Shut your mouth! Hold on tight,” Charmine snapped at him before diving from the balcony and faced their way!
Eric instinctively held onto the rope in his hands. Rio, too, held on tight as he shut his eyes tightly out of fear.
Charmine jumped down just like that? She jumped down! They were on the eleventh floor, at least 50 meters tall!
Meanwhile, on the building opposite them, a number of news reporters had already found their spot and live-streamed Scarlet’s suicide attempt. The live-streaming platform raked up hundreds and thousands of viewers, each armed with their share of insults:
(Even Gigi didn’t attempt suicide. How dare you try to commit suicide?]
(Just jumped already! Why are you still pretending? Disgusting!)
(I don’t get how the third-wheeler has the stomach to try and jump off the building. She even tried to act as if she was the victim.)
(Ew! Disgusting!)
Scarlet, still on the balcony, wore an expression carved in pain, sadness, and desolation. She suddenly stood up and stood on the tall balcony high up in the air. She slowly closed her eyes a s silent tears rolled down her cheeks, and she opened her arms-as if she was about to fly and leaned forward.
She was just about to jump off when out of the blue, a black figure shot down from above and gave her a kick.
Scarlet—who was about to fall-was instantly kicked back in. She fell backward, followed by a loud crashing sound, while the black figure shot down swiftly, akin to a typical spy.
The reporters and viewers in the live-streaming platform gasped and shrieked in shock.
Both Eric and Rio had firm grips on the rope, but the free-fall was so overwhelming that the rope in their hands slipped down uncontrollably. The friction between their gloves and rope gave off tiny sparks. 1
In the blink of an eye, Charmine shot down to the seventh floor. The two men hastily grabbed onto the rope and tightly gripped it to stop the free-fall. The rope stopped reeling after that, but Charmine was suspended in the air. All content is © N0velDrama.Org.
Once they assessed the situation, Rio and Eric exchanged glances and pulled up the rope at the same time, using all their strength to pull Charmine up.
Suddenly, a faint ‘click’ was heard. They both looked down to see that the rope was faltering, ready to snap, outside the balcony!