The two set down their empty wine glasses, and Xu Jingsong’s originally mild smile gradually beca colder and colder.
"To be honest, I didn’t want things to co to this point either. Sadly, you’re a woman whose mind is hard to change once it’s made up. Forgive , Yuanyuan..."
Seeing the stark change in Xu Jingsong’s expression, Gao Yuan felt her heart slowly sinking to the bottom...
"What do you an by that?" Her voice was slightly trembling.
"Haha! Our wine is the sa, but the glasses are not.
In just two minutes, the drug will almost take effect.
Don’t worry, it’s a kind of hallucinogenic aphrodisiac that lets you remain conscious, but you won’t have any mory or pain. This is... my final rcy towards you."
"You... drugged ? Why?!" Gao Yuan’s body was trembling slightly.
"Why? Ha! Because you’ve taken too much, and neither I nor the Xu family can allow assets to be siphoned off..."
Xu Jingsong chuckled lightly, his eyes cold and unfamiliar as he watched Gao Yuan.
"Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you. I’ll just keep so photos and videos. If you don’t agree to the settlent terms I propose outside court, these might beco evidence of your infidelity or might get leaked at so point.
Whether I destroy them or you want to be disgraced, it all depends on your choice!"
Xu Jingsong finally revealed his sinister fangs, stating his true intentions.
"So, it really is like this..."
Gao Yuan had heard the whole truth, feeling a chill spreading through her body, her heart seed gripped tightly, and tears finally started flowing again.
So, that man... had been telling the truth all along.
"You said you wouldn’t harm ? Hah! Do you know what it feels like to be betrayed by the person you trust the most? Do you know this will make wish I were dead?
I didn’t want to believe it, I didn’t want to believe you would really harm .
Maybe because... I still held the last thread of fantasy about you..."
Gao Yuan gave a miserable smile, "But just now, you personally extinguished it."
"Hmm?" Xu Jingsong felt sothing was not quite right.
Gao Yuan’s reaction seed abnormal?
At this ti, shouldn’t a normal woman, no matter how strong her ntal state, show so panic?
What’s more abnormal is... why do I feel so hot?
Xu Jingsong couldn’t help but loosen his tie, his eyes turned red, and his head felt sowhat groggy.
"You..."
"Yes, just now while you were picking things up, I switched the wine glasses." Gao Yuan said, tears streaming down her face, laughing.
Xu Jingsong’s eyes widened, shocked as he looked at Gao Yuan, his body growing increasingly weaker.
"You thought I was moved to tears just now? Those were tears of utter disappointnt in you!
Do you know where you slipped up? You just said that you had already convinced Xu Bonian?
Hah! I understand my father-in-law better than you, his own son."
"No... impossible..." Xu Jingsong’s eyes widened.
You’re suspecting just based on this?
Xu Jingsong would not know that others had already planted the seed of suspicion, and it needed just a bit of extra soil to sprout.
He staggered trying to stand up, but the next mont he fell to the ground as his chair knocked over with a loud crash onto the floor.
Xu Jingsong, with his last bit of willpower, reached toward the direction of the door.
"Quick... co quick... ugh~~~~"
A mont later.
With trembling hands, Gao Yuan moved the electric shock device away from Xu Jingsong’s body, sitting on the floor with a tear-streaked face, her eyes hollow.
Looking at Xu Jingsong collapsed on the floor, the hallucinogenic aphrodisiac seed to have started to take effect.
Even in an unconscious state, Xu Jingsong was visibly affected.
Why? Why must you do this to ?
Despair, fear, sadness... a mix of emotions intertwined, pushing Gao Yuan nearly to the edge of collapse.
Thinking of the terrifying scene she might face tonight, the anger in Gao Yuan’s heart flared up like a wildfire igniting furiously.
Gradually, her eyes began to turn red.
The next mont, this seemingly gentle and weak woman suddenly grabbed a flat pan off the table with hysteria.
"Damn you!"
"Bang!"
Even in unconsciousness, the soul-deep agony made Xu Jingsong tremble violently.
"You damned soul!"
"Bang! Bang!" Two more strikes, and Xu Jingsong lay motionless.
"Knock! Knock!"
It seed the chain of events inside had finally caught the attention outside, as a sudden knock sounded at the door.
This knock finally snapped Gao Yuan, who had nearly lost her sanity, back to reality.
She then realized she was still in danger.
"Mr. Xu, is everything okay inside?" Cui Jizhong’s voice ca through.
In a panic, Gao Yuan stood up and imdiately ran to lock the door.
"Click!"
Cui Jizhong clearly heard the sound of the door locking, sensed sothing was wrong, tried turning the handle, but found it was locked, and his expression changed imdiately.
He was aware of tonight’s plan, and if it were Xu Jingsong, he would not have locked the door without a word.
Sothing had gone wrong!
"Bang! Bang!"
"Mr. Xu! Mr. Xu, how are you? Soone co quickly!"
Hearing the commotion outside, Gao Yuan looked around in terror, seemingly searching for an escape route.
But with only a solid piece of tempered glass inside the private room and not even a window to open, where could she flee to?
Gao Yuan looked around and could only pick up the electric shock device from the floor, pointing it nervously at the door.
She knew that with this device, she was no match for Cui Jizhong and a few of Xu Jingsong’s bodyguards outside, but now... it was her only solace.
"Mr. Xu! We’re going to break down the door!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Listening to one bang after another at the door, Gao Yuan’s body trembled slightly.
What should I do? What can I do?
That’s right! Call the police!
She finally rembered she could call the police, but before she could take out her phone from her handbag, the door was smashed open with a loud bang.
Cui Jizhong was the first to rush in and was stunned for a mont when he saw Xu Jingsong lying on the ground.
What was going on here?
In a situation where it was a calculated ambush and a one-on-one showdown, Xu Jingsong had been counter-killed by Gao Yuan?
That was absurd!
However, now was not the ti to think about that, because Gao Yuan had already taken out her phone...
"Stop her!"
"Ah!" Two burly bodyguards instantly subdued Gao Yuan from both sides, knocking her phone away, and she couldn’t help but scream.
"Help! Help!" Gao Yuan struggled.
But no matter how much she yelled, it was as if everyone outside had disappeared, and no one appeared at all.
Cui Jizhong and another bodyguard helped Xu Jingsong onto the sofa.
After checking his breathing, Cui Jizhong breathed a sigh of relief.
"What happened?" Another person ca in from outside, it turned out to be that blond guy.
Seeing everything that happened in the room, the blond guy was also astounded.
Cui Jizhong didn’t have the ti to deal with him and glanced at the electric shock device that had fallen on the ground, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Madam, could you explain this?"
Gao Yuan glared back at him.
Seeing this, although Cui Jizhong didn’t know why Xu Jingsong had failed, it was obvious that Gao Yuan had realized sothing.
He looked at Xu Jingsong, who seed not likely to wake up any ti soon.
Although a hiccup had occurred... the plan must still be carried out!
He signaled to the blond guy with his eyes, and the blond guy hesitated for a mont and then understood. He took a towel out of his pocket and sprinkled sothing on it from a bottle.
"What are you doing? Let go of !" However, Gao Yuan still couldn’t free herself from the grip of the two bodyguards.
Seeing the blond guy approaching with a malevolent smile, Gao Yuan’s heart slowly sank...
What fate would she face next?
No! No!
Gao Yuan shook her head frantically, her eyes shifting from fear to despair...
However, just then, it suddenly got noisy outside.
"Hey! You can’t go in there! This is a private restaurant!"
"Get out of the way, we’re from the city criminal police! We’ve received a tip-off that there’s drug trafficking here, if you dare block us again, you’ll be arrested for obstruction of justice!"
"You guys..."
Soon, four or five people barged in, led by Wang Zhao Ping!
He glanced around the booth and showed his police badge.
"I am Wang Zhao Ping from the criminal police. We’ve received a tip-off that drugs are being trafficked here. Hey! You two, are you trying to kidnap a woman?"
The two bodyguards looked at each other and then at Cui Jizhong, whose face was extrely unsightly but who remained silent. They had no choice but to release Gao Yuan reluctantly.
"Who’s in charge here? Show your IDs. What’s with the guy lying on the sofa? Drunk? Take him back for a blood test!"
Gao Yuan felt as if she had gone from Hell to Heaven.
She collapsed on the floor as if drained of all strength...
...
"Bang!" The car door was closed.
"Thanks, Captain Wang!"
"You’re welco. We have to help each other out. Plus, I really despise people who resort to such vile tactics!
But this guy has quite a background; I suspect the evidence we have won’t be enough to touch him."
[Ding ding!] As he spoke, Wang Zhao Ping’s phone suddenly rang.
He glanced at the caller ID, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"Brother ng, I need to take this call downstairs."
After saying that, Wang Zhao Ping opened the car door and stepped out. "Hello! Chief..."
Watching Wang Zhao Ping making the call outside the car, ng Lang turned to look at Gao Yuan sitting in the back seat, curiously staring at him.
"How co you’re here?"
Well... that’s a tough question to answer.
If I said I ca to boost my favorability, you would probably think I’m crazy.
If it weren’t for the fact that you can’t earn favorability by doing good deeds anonymously, I would have just stayed ho and played the puppet master.
"As you saw, I was the whistleblower."
"So, you saved ?"
"Strictly speaking, it was the justice-seeking civil servants who saved you."
"How did you know I was here?"
"If I said I used trans-ti-space positioning, you definitely wouldn’t believe . So, just assu I was passing by."
Gao Yuan: "..."
"I... should have believed you sooner," Gao Yuan said sowhat dispiritedly.
"That’s not important anymore. What you said is already history, and history isn’t ant for regrets. You should think about how to make history!" ng Lang said earnestly.
"Make history?" Gao Yuan hugged her arms and curled up her legs, seeming a bit cold, her eyes also a bit vacant.
"I once thought that getting a divorce was the start of my own history, a farewell to my first half of life.
But after tonight, it suddenly feels like there’s nothing hopeful left in life. When even the most trusted ones can betray you, what are people really living for?"
ng Lang was taken aback by her words.
Dammit! Did I end up doing more harm than good today?
Nobody told that being disrupted mid-way through turning evil could suddenly make one think of giving up!
Hey, hey! Sis, pull yourself together, I’m still counting on you for my dicine!
"So, are you saying you choose to yield to fate, and then... leave this world to those you despise, those who have hurt you?"
Gao Yuan was taken aback by his words.
She fell silent for a long while.
If it’s that guy... I don’t want to!
Seeing Gao Yuan’s silence, ng Lang smiled.
"Do you want to know where the dividing line between the first half and the second half of a person’s life is?"
"Hmm?"
"It’s right here, right now!"
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