Chapter 57: Escape

Suman's face was swollen from being beaten.

She dodged at first, but later on, she remained motionless, her face burning, and the corners of her mouth were numb.

Shen Qing had had enough of beating her, and was tired. He let go of Su Man, sat on the bed, and looked down at Su Man condescendingly: "I searched you when you came in. This phone is definitely not yours. Only Aunt Chen came in during this time. Did Aunt Chen give it to you?"

Su Man pursed her lips and said nothing.

The big men were searching around in the house with rough movements, making loud "ping pong" noises.

The furnishings in the room were in a mess, and Su Man's girlish ornaments fell to the ground, some rolled to the corner of the table, and some broke into pieces.

Shen Qing said: “I’ll give you a chance, take the initiative to hand over your phone, otherwise, I will fire Chen Ma.”

Su Man's lips moved, and her eyes, which had been as stagnant as a pool of water, finally moved.

Outside, someone brought Chen Ma in.

Chen Ma was old, and the big man was holding her like a skinny old hen, and he easily forced Chen Ma to kneel in front of Shen Qing.

Su Man couldn't help it any longer, "Aunt, Aunt Chen is an elder in the family, how could you treat her like this?"

"Are you heartbroken? If you know you're heartbroken, then just be obedient and don't make a fuss. All that Chen Ma is suffering now is caused by you. It's useless for you to beg me. How Chen Ma is treated depends on your performance."

Su Man got up from the ground, walked over and helped Chen Ma up.

Mother Chen looked at Su Man with tears in her eyes. She didn't feel aggrieved, but more distressed.

Su Man walked silently to the bathroom, took out the hidden mobile phone, and handed it to Shen Qing, "It's none of Chen Ma's business. I forced Chen Ma to give it to me. Don't fire Chen Ma. There are still several people in Chen Ma's family who rely on her for support..."

Su Man said, kneeling at Shen Qing's feet, begging: "Aunt, can't I not go to the competition? Let me go, I will definitely listen to you in the future."

Chen Qing pulled her away and stood up. "I hope you really know you're wrong. It's impossible to let you go. During this time, just take a good rest at home. When the competition is over, find a husband and get married quickly. I will help you quit your job at school. I spent so much money to train you, not to lose money! Whatever happens, you have to give me back my money, right?"

Shen Qing took his men away.

Mother Chen followed him out, looked back at Su Man a few times, and was pushed out by the big man.

The door to the room was locked again.

In the house, only Suman was left, and the house was in a mess.

Su Man knelt beside the bed with empty eyes, and suddenly laughed, self-deprecatingly and contemptuously.

Her aunt, who raised her, compared her to an investment, a stock, which she bought with money and then hoped someone else would buy it for a higher price.

Shen Qing’s words made Su Man feel more uncomfortable than those slaps.

Su Man got up from the ground and lay down on the bed. She looked out the window with her eyes open and never closed them.

It's late at night and everyone is asleep.

Finally, everyone in the Shen family went to bed.

Suman got up from the bed and pulled out all the sheets and bedding from the closet.

She tied the sheets together end to end to make a rope as thick as her arm. She wrapped one end around the bed and tied a knot at one foot of the bed, and threw the other end out of the window.

She had observed the bodyguards' rotation schedules a few days ago, how often they changed shifts, and how often they entered and exited the Shen family.

The bodyguards will not change shifts from early morning to six in the morning of the next day.

The places they focused on guarding were only the door of Suman's room and the front door.

Su Man's room faces west, so if she escapes through the window in the middle of the night, she will basically not be discovered.

They also didn't expect that such a delicate young lady would take such a big risk and do such a thrilling thing.

Su Man tested the firmness of the bed sheet and climbed out of the window with the little cash she had.

The room was on the third floor. Su Man felt a little panicked as she was hanging in the air.

She is afraid of heights.

So she didn't dare look down the whole time.

I could only rely on my feeling, look up at the sky, and focus on the rope made of bed sheets in my hand, sliding down little by little.

Su Man looks delicate, but in fact, people who have practiced dancing for many years are very strong and have a stable core. In addition, she is very light, so the whole process of sliding down is under her control.

Just when she landed a little below the second floor, she accidentally glanced down, and that one glance made her dizzy.

The whole person suddenly fell to the ground.

While falling, Su Man's will to survive made her try her best to hold on to the bed sheet tightly.

Although he fell down hard in the end, his thighs and buttocks were hit hard.

Due to a certain amount of resistance and the fact that the ground downstairs was a thick layer of grass, Suman did not fall too badly.

With years of dance experience, Suman knew that she had no broken bones.

This is the most optimistic scenario.

Su Man lay on the lawn, took a break for a while, climbed up from the lawn, stumbled, and climbed out of the wall.

It was 3:30 in the morning when we arrived at Qiao's house.

When Qiao Shiyan heard the doorbell, he got up, put on his clothes, opened the door, and was awakened from his sleepiness when he saw Su Man.

"Suman?! How did you…"

He looked Suman up and down. She was wearing a thin home dress, with wet grass clippings on her trouser legs. Her long hair was braided into a fishbone braid, and it was messy, as if it had not been taken out and combed for several days.

Her face was also very haggard at the moment. "Can you let me go in and talk?"

She was clearly standing, but Qiao Shiyan always felt that she would fall down at any time.

He subconsciously reached out to help Suman and brought her into the house.

Qiao Shixin was awakened by the noise. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and came to the living room.

Seeing Su Man, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Teacher Su, didn't you go home? What happened?"

The little girl's eyes were full of fear.

Qiao Shiyan said, "Go pour Teacher Su a cup of hot water."

After the brother and sister and Su Man sat down on the sofa in the living room, Su Man told them what had happened in the past few days.

Qiao Shiyan clenched his fists halfway through listening.

In the end, I couldn't help but curse: "It's not that I'm being rude, but you, my aunt, are such a scoundrel!"

Qiao Shixin pouted and hugged Su Man: "Teacher Su, don't go home. You will stay in our house from now on. Your aunt is a big bad guy."

It seemed as if the one who was wronged was not Suman, but herself.

Su Man rubbed the little girl's head and asked Qiao Shiyan, "Am I going to miss my flight today?"

Qiao Shiyan spoke frankly, "I don't want to disappoint you, but without a passport, you can't leave the country at all. I can expedite the application."

"How long will it take?"

"It will take at least a day."

Su Man smiled bitterly, then quickly cheered up: "It doesn't matter, as long as it can be done. All my identity documents are with my aunt, and I need to apply for temporary documents. I really have no other choice, so I thought of you."

"No problem, I'll help you." Qiao Shiyan waved his hand, very loyally, "I've accumulated a lot of connections in these years of lawsuits. You can rest assured and take care of yourself in the next two days so that you can go to the competition properly."