Ni Yaozu is dead.

Ni Qingguo has been arrested.

Ni Fang fainted.

Only Xiao Yuanbing, who has no blood relation to them, is busy with their affairs to the point of exhaustion.

When Ni Fang woke up, it was already 5 hours later.

Xiao Yuanbing gave her only a cold glance before reporting what he had done.

"The doctor has examined you, and you're fine."

“I’ve entrusted Aunt Liu’s family with handling Ni Yaozu’s funeral arrangements, since you wouldn’t know how anyway.”

“I’ve already inquired about your brother’s matter at the police station. Actually, the police said last time that he was released early. If he hadn’t been released earlier, he definitely wouldn’t have been able to get out. The police arrested her because they really found something that was related to him.”

Before Ni Fang could speak, Xiao Yuanbing interrupted her, "You don't need to say anything. I've done all I can. If I can't do it, forcing me won't help. Although I have money and power, I'm not a local. Even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake. There are many things I really can't do."

“But my brother is still at the police station.” Ni Fang said, tears streaming down her face.

“It’s not just your brother, your whole family is in the police station, but I have no power. Ni Fang, even if you ruin me, I can’t do this. At worst, we’ll just stay in there forever.”

Xiao Yuanbing had already said so much, how could she not understand?

“However…” Xiao Yuanbing looked at Ni Fang, “I just thought about it, and maybe there is someone who can save him.”

"who?"

"Lin Wei".

Ni Fang frowned. "Yuan Bing, why do you, like Qing Guo, insist on saying how capable Weiwei is? This child grew up under my nose. Do you think I don't know her capabilities? If you can't do it, she certainly can't."

"I know, but I remember you said that the day before Weiwei's college entrance exam, she almost missed it because she saved someone, and you even scolded her, right?"

"Yes, the exam venue was quite far away. She rode her bike there a day in advance to check it out, but she encountered a car that had overturned. She even rescued someone from the car. Later, the car exploded and she was knocked unconscious. When she woke up, it was the day of the college entrance exam. If her dad hadn't taken her on a roundabout bike ride, she wouldn't have made it at all."

Ni Fang remembered this incident not because she was worried about Lin Wei, but purely because Lin Wei was injured and she was trying to extort money from the person she had rescued when the man quietly transferred to another hospital without even leaving his name.

She cursed about it at home for several days.

"so what?"

Xiao Yuanbing glanced at her and said hopelessly, "According to what I overheard, if I'm not mistaken, the person Weiwei saved is Shen Jize, the young master of Hong Kong."

This identity was simply too far removed from Ni Fang's reality; explaining it to her like this would be completely incomprehensible to her.

"Does he have a powerful background? Is he very rich?"

"It's not just about having money; with just one phone call, your brother's entire family can come out unharmed."

Ni Fang gasped, and after a thousand thoughts, she finally understood what Xiao Yuanbing meant.

"You mean, I should beg Weiwei to contact this person and rescue my brother and his family?"

Ni Fang felt that there was no possibility of it being feasible.

"It's no use. Weiwei is the most vengeful girl. No matter how much I offended her before, it was only in private. If I begged her in public, she might change her mind. But now that things have blown up, I'm worried she'll kick me when I'm down if she finds out about this."

“I know, that’s why I’m not suggesting you beg her,” Xiao Yuanbing explained. “I heard that before the Crown Prince left, he left Weiwei a copper coin. I saw it on Weiwei before. If we can get our hands on that coin… everything will be solved, right?”

"You mean, you want me to get Weiwei's copper coin and use her favor to blackmail the Crown Prince into repaying us?"

“Yes, if the Crown Prince doesn’t know that his savior is Weiwei, then you can just claim her. If he does know that she is Weiwei, what’s wrong with you, as Weiwei’s mother, asking him to repay the debt? Even if it’s exposed later, you are Weiwei’s mother, so it’s not a complete deception, and he can’t do anything to you.”

"But... can things really go this smoothly?"

"Whether it goes smoothly or not is not important, what matters is the result. Don't you want to save your brother?"

Through Xiao Yuanbing's persuasion, Ni Fang seemed to see a glimmer of hope for Ni Qingguo's release.

pity--

Dead memories suddenly resurfaced in her mind.

"Wait, Vivi seems to have lost that copper coin."

"Lost?" Xiao Yuanbing's breath hitched. "How do you know it's lost?"

"That copper coin looked quite exquisite, so I asked the girl to let me wear it. But she treasured it like it was something and absolutely refused to let me wear it. So I just put a string around my neck."

“She was wearing it properly before, but she lost it by accident on the day of her father’s burial. Qingguo and I both know about this, right on the day I moved out of the house.”

Xiao Yuanbing's face was extremely ugly.

Given how things had developed, he had no choice but to speculate about Lin Wei's thoughts using the worst possible assumptions.

"Are you sure the copper coin is missing? Could it be that she's hiding it, like Ni Qingguo said, that she knows about kidney transplants but isn't telling us and is even hiding? Could it be that she knows the other person's identity and is worried that we'll take the copper coin, so she's deliberately creating the illusion that it's lost?"

Ni Fang gave the other person a disdainful look, her attitude no longer as cautious as before. "How would I know? But I'm sure that during my trip to Jiangcheng, I didn't find or see that copper coin on Weiwei's person or at home."

"Let's go to Jiangcheng."

-

Xiao Yuanbing drove his car and knocked on Lin Xiaomeng's door around dinner time.

"Weiwei, I'm your mom."

Ni Fang's cry of "Mom!" startled the three people eating in the room.

Lin Wei put down her chopsticks and ran to the kitchen to get a knife.

"What are you doing? That's a knife for chopping bones," Lin Xiaomeng quickly stopped her.

“The death of Ni Yaozu is not enough to give them a break. If I don’t scare them, they’ll dare to come back.”

But just as Lin Wei angrily charged out with her knife, she was met with Xiao Yuanbing's warm and friendly face.

The fear and anger hidden deep in his heart were about to burst forth almost instantly.

The hand that was jokingly extended was tightened by Lin Wei, and finally froze in mid-air.

Lin Xiaomeng sensed something was wrong and quickly stepped in front of Lin Wei.

"Who are you?"

"Um, that's me." Seeing that Xiao Yuanbing didn't introduce her, Ni Fang quickly stepped forward to explain, "This is Weiwei's father's boss at the construction site. It's been a long time since we last met, so I wanted to see how Weiwei is doing and brought her along."

"Is this your home? Is it appropriate to bring men into other people's homes like this?"

Ni Fang didn't have much patience for Lin Wei to begin with, and Lin Wei's words were unpleasant, almost always upsetting Ni Fang as soon as she opened her mouth.

"You don't like it when I say you're ill-mannered. Look at yourself. Even if I didn't teach you, is this how your father raised you?"

"You don't need to tell me what my dad taught me. If someone is being overly helpful, they're probably up to no good. If you're here for Yuanyuan, I'd be cutting you with this knife right now."