Chapter 667: A Million Tis for You (29)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“It’s difficult to take action on any of them, especially Jin Qingyan. Otherwise, you would’ve managed to harm him long ago. You’ve been planning it for so many years, and yet you still haven’t gotten a single chance to lay a finger on him.”
“I’m trying to think of soone far more capable than Yuan Mingzhu to take her place. Once I find that person...” Xu Youran imdiately felt much more relaxed at the thought of it.
“How could it possibly be that easy to find soone like that? Don’t you know that those who possess psychic powers are few and far in between?” Gu Dongcheng shot her idea down.
“Yuan Mingzhu’s death is such a pity. I wonder how the investigations are going,” Xu Youran lanted.
“Give them a call to ask about it.”
Finding his suggestion to be a good idea, Xu Youran proceeded to call the police station. After hearing that she was a close friend of Yuan Mingzhu’s, the police told her that the case about Yuan Mingzhu’s death had already been closed.
“Why has it been closed so soon? What is the outco?”
“The cause of her death was suicide. Her corpse is going to be cremated today, and her mother will be bringing her ashes ho.”
“Alright.” Xu Youran ended the call dejectedly and said to her husband, “They said that she had committed suicide, but I don’t believe it.”
“Isn’t that good? Would you rather the police find out that you were the one who instigated Yuan Mingzhu to do those stuff? I reckon soone must have intervened secretly, but there’s no point wasting ti to investigate this matter any further. It’s better to just leave it be,” said Gu Dongcheng as he sat up straight to put on his clothes.
Xu Youran sunk deep into thought but could not co up with a plausible explanation.
——
Fang Erlan was still deep in her sleep when her legs were lifted up above her head forcefully by Yan Ge, causing her head to be pressed down against the carpeted floor. He then dragged her out of the room as if she were a dead corpse. By the ti she opened her eyes, she was already feeling giddy and faint.
Staring at the handso man standing by the door, Fang Erlan quickly put on her shoes and apologized, “I’m sorry for causing you trouble and imposing on you last night. We’ll et again next ti.”
“Wrong, we’ll never et again. Don’t show up in front of ever again in the future. If you dare breathe a word to anyone at all, I won’t let you off,” he warned.
Yan Ge slamd the door shut with a loud thud and lay back down in bed. He did not manage to catch a wink at all last night, unlike Fang Erlan, who had slept soundly, as if she were in her own ho.
Recalling the incident last night, Yan Ge decided to verify if he had really left the door ajar or if she had trespassed with a spare key card.
Thus, he imdiately instructed his personal assistant, Xiao Li, to bring him the surveillance cara footage of the hotel, starting from the ti he returned from the lobby until Fang Erlan barged into his room. At last, the footage showed that he had indeed failed to close the door properly and that she had barged inside his room in order to seek refuge and hide from a man who was chasing her continuously.
“Brother, did this woman really barge into your room last night?”
“Show the footages from the other surveillance caras. I want all the footages starting from the mont she entered the hotel.”
“Alright, I’ll go right away.”
Yan Ge leaned against the headboard and stared at the footage playing on his computer screen while his heart began to sink continuously.
His assistant soon sent him the footage of Fang Erlan entering the hotel and watched it together with Yan Ge.
“Brother, this woman seems to be a fan of yours. Notice how she had been secretly staring at you for a long ti on the second floor. But she was stuck in a rather dangerous situation when the man was harassing her outside the toilet. I was so nervous for her. Fortunately, she managed to escape,” said Xiao Li.
Yan Ge instructed calmly, “Erase all of the surveillance cara footages and inform the managent staff that a woman was almost dragged away and violated within the hotel premises. Warn them that I’ll take action and expose them to the dia if they continue being so incompetent and lax with security.”
“Yes. Brother, you look really tired. Would you like to get so rest before leaving?”
“Nah, let’s leave in a bit.”
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An Xiaoning put on her feathered jacket and headed downstairs with her purse to see that Lin Mingxi was in the midst of having her breakfast. Upon the sight of An Xiaoning, Lin Mingxi smiled mysteriously and said, “I saw Jin Qingyan at our door last night. Was he waiting for you?”
An Xiaoning sat down and looked at her before answering, “I bumped into him outside the door when I ca ho from a visit to Yuan Mingzhu’s apartnt. He insisted on treating to so tea so I went over to his house before coming ho again.”
“Tea? Are you two going to get back together?” Lin Mingxi questioned apprehensively.
“Not a chance,” An Xiaoning answered with a straight face.
“How are things between you and that military Major?” Lin Mingxi asked.
“I treat him as a friend, but he says he considers as his girlfriend.”
Lin Mingxi burst into laughter and asked, “How do you feel about him, then?”
An Xiaoning drank her glass of milk with a straw.
“We’ve only t a few tis, and we don’t know each other too well yet. I can’t treat him as my boyfriend. He’s a really ticulous and caring man, though.”
Lin Mingxi was thrown into a stage of agitation the mont she heard her words. “Grasp onto him, then. He must have a strong sense of responsibility since he’s a military officer.”
“We’ll see how it goes.”
“Xiaoning... how’s the case regarding Yuan Mingzhu?” Mrs. Gu asked.
“There’s no need for further investigation. The case is closed, and suicide is claid to be the cause of Yuan Mingzhu’s death. Also, you guys don’t have to worry for the ti being. Yuan Mingzhu’s apartnt and money were all given to her by Xu Youran. I’ve seen the items Yuan Mingzhu used to perform her rituals. She was the one behind the change in Mingxi’s fate and Jin Qingyan’s mother’s death. To put it simply, it was all related to Xu Youran. Now that Yuan Mingzhu is dead, Xu Youran wouldn’t be able to find anyone to replace her for the ti being. Besides, I don’t think she would be getting her way easily from now on,” she answered calmly.
“I knew it was soone else’s doing right from the start,” said the intelligent Gu Beicheng.
It was obvious who “soone else” referred to.
“No matter what, Xu Youran is our common enemy,” said An Xiaoning.
That was a fact that everyone was well aware of.
“Beicheng, since you’re so close to Ye Xiaotian, could you try to persuade him and his mother to stop being so uptight about carrying on their family bloodline? Does the child’s gender really matter so much that they have to put Mo Li through so much tornt? I wonder if the child has been aborted yet,” said An Xiaoning, letting out a long sigh.
“Of course not.” Gu Beicheng peeled off a small piece of dough fritter and shoved it inside his mouth before continuing, “Mo Li has been confined to the four walls of the ancestral hall, and Xiaotian’s mother has instructed her bodyguards to keep a close eye on her round the clock.”
“What exactly happened?” Mrs. Gu asked.
An Xiaoning explained the situation briefly.
“What a great sin. Since Heaven has blessed her with four daughters in her life, what’s the point of going against His will? Aren’t they afraid of receiving a punishnt that they’ll regret for the rest of their lives?” Mrs. Gu remarked in distaste.
“Mrs. Ye is too obsessed with having a grandson and doesn’t want others to look down on the Ye family. So, she obviously couldn’t care less about the consequences. I’m just afraid it’ll be too huge of a price for them to pay. There’s no turning back. Refusing to accept a daughter and begging for a son cos with a set of conditions. Mo Li was just too unlucky to have t Ye Xiaotian in this life,” said An Xiaoning.
“Actually, he does love Mo Li,” said Gu Beicheng, who was bosom buddies with Ye Xiaotian.
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