Some of them have even less guts and gumption than this girl does. Actually, I'm pretty impressed with how much resourcefulness and ingenuity this woman shows apart from this generic-male Gu character right now, because we are so obviously not meant to care about him, but somehow that makes it worse. A strong character always looks after those weaker than themselves, especially those who aren't attackers, and Gu is weaker than Ning. Plus, he had the good taste and sensibility to fall in love with her, right? Because she's awesome, and smart men fall in love with awesome babes. So why punish him for that?
Well its was obvious that she will end up with that other guy so it was needed to remove that guy...lol that poor soul and because Its would be boring to just kill him or make him feel in love with someone else so author decide that I would be fun to destroy him and I'm hundred prosent sure that that guy will du something stupid ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

Why does the female MC in Chinese Novels/Manhuas always/often gets abducted or kidnapped??? And it always happens because of the jealousy and stupidity of evil bitches...
Have you ever seen a male MC going through the same ordeal as a female character?