As soon as he finished speaking, Dr. Xu's expression changed slightly. Everyone present quickly noticed his tense body.

Having blood on his hands, he quickly regained his composure after a moment of losing his temper and charged at Ruan Xianxian in a fit of rage.

"Bullshit! I just refused to help you fake your medical condition. Don't stop me, let me go and argue with her." His steps toward Ruan Xianxian were stopped by the police.

He put on an expression that said, "The sky has fallen and I am extremely wronged," making it difficult for the police to tell if he was telling the truth.

A tall, stern police officer questioned Ruan Xianxian seriously: "Young man, you must take responsibility for what you said."

What evidence is there to accuse Xu Feng of being a human trafficker?

Ruan Xianxian then told her story about a classmate whose family had taken his place in the rural service program, and how he had gone missing and been accused of running away.

She pointed to her woolen coat, then to Dr. Xu, whose face had changed several times in a gloomy manner.

"During the consultation today, he noticed I was dressed well and tried to probe me with a 'family photo' again."

They probably realized I came from a decent family and that I was genuinely ill, which is why they gave up on harming me.

The police understood that those who knew about and had taken family photos at this time were not ordinary families.

Ruan Xianxian added, "Afterwards, I followed him and personally witnessed Dr. Xu meeting with the human traffickers."

Suddenly, the police officers' sharp eyes locked onto Xu Feng, and they moved in a semi-encircling formation, with the long-legged officers drawing their guns.

Pointing a dark gun barrel at him, Xu Feng was terrified and on the verge of collapse. He shouted, "She's lying! She's lying. I didn't meet with those people at all today!"

Ruan Xianxian: "Oh! I was just kidding you."

Needless to say, Xu Feng was quickly brought under control. He wasn't a professionally trained enemy agent, and his mental fortitude was just so-so.

Coupled with the short time he had been "in the industry," he was quickly exposed under immense pressure.

After leaving the police station, Ruan Xianxian waved the fifty yuan reward she received from the station, refusing the offer of a free ride.

With a light step, he made a few turns back to the vicinity of the hospital's family compound and found Dr. Xu's bicycle, which he had hidden in a shed beforehand.

Oh, the unclaimed item is hers now!

In her past life, when she learned that she was to go to the countryside in place of her cousin, she struggled with the decision. After making many inquiries, she learned that she had some special illnesses that would exempt her from going to the countryside.

She sought out Dr. Xu, intending to fake her illness. How naive she was back then! Her thoughts were written all over her face. She was seen through and tricked out of the city, almost sold into the deep mountains.

If it weren't for a group of soldiers who were out on a mission rescuing her, she might have been sold to some remote mountain village to have children with an old man!

The story about the missing classmate is half true and half false. Maybe he escaped by hopping on a train, maybe he went to the other side of the river, maybe... he was sold!

Ruan Xianxian parked her bicycle in front of a two-story red brick building in the military compound. She hid the bicycle, pushed open the door, and walked into her familiar yet unfamiliar home.

The red brick walls are slightly mottled from the passage of time. In the spacious living room on the first floor, there are several pieces of wooden furniture, and calligraphy written by the old man himself hangs on the wall.

One side of the living room was a study, where the patriarch of the Ruan family was talking to her father. When she floated into the room like a ghost, the old man's teacup flew straight at her.

"You still know how to come home? An eighteen-year-old girl wandering the streets in the middle of the night. If you had even a fraction of Baozhu's thoughtfulness... well, you're hopeless."

Ruan Xianxian dodged the teacup that was thrown at her. The teacup crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces, splashing the scalding tea onto her feet.

Seeing that she dared to hide, the patriarch strode towards her with a powerful stride, "Tomorrow morning, we'll transfer your cousin's spot to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University."

Even if you go to school and get a job, you'll only be a burden to the organization. You might as well give it to someone who needs it.

"Ruan Xianxian, did you hear me? Answer!"

Ruan Xianxian bent down to pick up a piece of broken porcelain, a smile playing on her lips: "I heard you!"

He rushed over to Ruan Baozhu, who was sitting on the sofa like a child who had done something wrong, her head down and twisting her fingers, and grabbed her hair with one hand.

As she cried out in pain and looked up in terror, a shard of porcelain flew up from her other hand and pierced her shoulder.

"Ah! Grandpa!"

"You unfilial daughter, what are you doing?" Her father rushed up and kicked her, sending Ruan Xianxian flying. But she didn't forget to grab her cousin's hair tightly.

"Rebellion! Rebellion!" The old man was so angry that he was panting heavily, his heart filled with both anger and heartache as he tried to get close to his most precious granddaughter.

Ruan Xianxian got up, grabbed the teacup on the table, and smashed it on her cousin's head.

Bang!

Amid her cousin's screams, she looked up with red eyes and said, "Try hitting her again? I'll kill her."

"Grandpa, Grandpa!" Ruan Baozhu, one of the servants, flailed her legs and grabbed wildly, repeatedly calling for her grandfather to save her.

The sharp sound startled the birds perched on the ginkgo tree outside the courtyard.

Seeing that the old man was very angry, the father stepped forward and raised his hand to slap him, but Ruan Xianxian grabbed her cousin's hair and shielded her in front of him.

"You grew up in this compound, you try and see if I dare to do it?"

Just as tensions were about to rise, the daughter-in-law of the high-ranking official next door banged on the door. "What's wrong? Uncle Ruan, what happened to your family?"

The old man gave his father a look, and his father glared at her fiercely as if he wanted to devour her, then went to open the door.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. The child slipped and bumped his head. Your wife just got off work."

After this ordeal, the old man calmed down considerably and turned to sit on the sofa beside him.

His eyes were dark and unblinking as he scrutinized his granddaughter, as if she were a stranger, and his tone was stiff.

"Your name has already been submitted, and your assignment to the countryside is a done deal. What do you want by making this fuss?"

Ruan Xianxian: "Giving a university spot to this mentally challenged person is fine, but we'll have to pay extra!"

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