Chapter 99 Begging for Mercy

"What did you say?"

"You are also a pawn in her plan."

Sheng Tingzhou scoffed coldly, his eyes filled with mockery.

"Zhou Yuze, I was really blind. I didn't realize you were so stupid. You were being made a fool of and you were still laughing about it."

It turns out that Qiao Yiqing herself had given all those drugs!

It was not someone else, not a misunderstanding, not a coincidence.

She personally planned and orchestrated the entire operation step by step.

Zhou Yuze paused for half a second, then his eyes turned cold.

"You really think you can do that?"

He used to think she was just willful and had a bad temper, but not a bad person at heart.

She throws a tantrum and breaks things, and he tries to appease her.

She was jealous of others, so he avoided them.

She cried and said he didn't love her enough, so he made up for it by doing even more.

I never expected her to be so ruthless.

He dared to scheme against so many people, trying to ruin Song Zhiwei and even drag him down with him!

"Is there any evidence?"

Qiao Yiqing gritted her teeth, her nails digging into her palms, refusing to let go.

She did it flawlessly.

How can you convict her based solely on her words?

The most terrifying thing in the world is not conclusive evidence.

Instead, everyone knows the truth, but no one has anything useful to offer.

But she forgot that in this world, as long as you have enough resources and connections, you can succeed.

The so-called "perfect" is nothing but a joke.

Sheng Tingzhou raised his hand and beckoned.

The bodyguard immediately pulled out a stack of papers, all of which were transfer records and shopping lists.

The amount, time, and recipient's name were all included without omission.

"I had someone dig these out."

He said coldly, his voice low.

"Miss Qiao's subordinates bought medicine on the black market and transferred money to Zhuoye's employees to keep them quiet."

Zhou Yuze snatched the order form, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

He gritted his teeth, forcing himself to calm down, his gaze sweeping over the cold numbers and names line by line.

The moment he saw the contents, his face turned as white as a sheet.

What suddenly exploded in my mind was the image of Zhiwei curled up in bed last night.

"Qiao Yiqing...you actually...are so vicious?"

He finally managed to squeeze out a sentence.

Qiao Yiqing felt a sharp pain in her heart from his gaze, knowing she couldn't win the argument, and her rationality teetered on the brink of collapse.

She suddenly realized that she was finished, and there was no use in pretending or acting anymore.

Suddenly she jerked her body away, her shoulder slamming into the arm of the bodyguard beside her.

"Zhou Yuze! You bastard! It's all your fault!"

She grabbed his suit collar, tears and snot streaming down her face, her makeup a complete mess.

"If you didn't like me in the first place, why did you flirt with me? You were the one who approached me first! You were the one who handed me the umbrella, you were the one who stayed up all night with me to finish the project, you were the one who stayed by my bedside when I was sick! Tell me, wasn't that all fake?"

"When you were being nice to me, you were still thinking about your niece, Song Zhiwei. Aren't you disgusting?"

She screamed, her voice cracking.

"You never loved me! I was just a tool for you to fill your emptiness, wasn't I? Then why are you pretending to be so affectionate? Why are you looking at me like that now?"

Mo Huaizhi, standing to the side, couldn't stop smiling.

His mind went blank, and his ears were ringing.

It turns out that Qiao Yiqing drugged Zhou Yuze in order to force him to stay with her.

She wanted to create a night just for the two of them, hoping to use this method to keep him firmly in her grasp.

But Zhou Yuze... has always liked Song Zhiwei?

No wonder Sheng Tingzhou came in person that day.

Mo Huaizhi's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.

He felt his legs go weak and he almost couldn't stand up.

He almost became cannon fodder.

If it weren't for Sheng Tingzhou's intervention, he might have been made a scapegoat and burdened with a stain he could never wash away for the rest of his life.

Mo Huaizhi secretly glanced at Sheng Tingzhou's face, but the other party remained expressionless.

He immediately shrank into a corner, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Have you gone crazy enough?

Zhou Yuce clenched his fist.

He never expected her to say such a thing.

He grabbed Qiao Yiqing's wrist with such force that he almost crushed her bones.

"Qiao Yiqing, don't force me to give up on you completely."

He was stunned for a moment when he said those words.

So, he still had room for sympathy for her?

Qiao Yiqing laughed hysterically, her lips twisting into an almost distorted arc.

"Ha, give up?"

She sneered, her voice sharp.

“You dumped me for that bitch Song Zhiwei a long time ago, so what’s there to talk about giving up or not? Do you think I don’t know? Every time you come back from a business trip, the first thing you do is ask about her; when you’re in a meeting at the company, there’s always a coffee coaster she made on the table; at the charity gala, you refused all your female companions’ invitations just because she said, ‘I hope you can come home soon.’”

Her laughter was shrill, her eyes were bloodshot, and she stared intently at Zhou Yuze.

"Do you know that your best brother slept with the woman you love most? How did it feel? Was it great? Was it incredibly exciting? Don't you feel like fate has been incredibly unfair to you?"

Zhou Yuze's face was as gloomy as the sky before a storm.

He stood there, his body stiff, but his mind was in turmoil.

If he had known this would happen, he would have preferred to die with the old lady rather than agree.

If we hadn't agreed to that marriage plan, and if we hadn't given Qiao Yiqing that false impression, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out this way.

His mind was filled with the suffering Zhiwei had endured last night.

Those scenes played repeatedly in his mind.

Sheng Tingzhou spoke coldly, his voice like ice.

"Bodyguard, take her away."

"yes!"

Several men in black immediately surrounded Qiao Yiqing and grabbed her arms.

She struggled, kicked, and screamed, but was dragged mercilessly toward the door.

The high heels scraped harshly on the floor before disappearing at the end of the corridor.

"No! You can't arrest me!"

She was trembling violently, her nails digging into her sleeves.

Suddenly, she turned around abruptly, staggered towards Zhou Yuze, her knees almost touching the ground, trembling uncontrollably.

"Yu Ce, save me! Please! Please, save me... I can't go in, I can't..."

Zhou Yuce stared at her face, his gaze deep and intense.

He stood there, motionless for a long time, his breath almost frozen.

Time seemed to stretch out, and the air was so heavy it was suffocating.

Finally, his Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Sheng Tingzhou, for the sake of our brotherhood, let her go."

He hates her.

He hated her betrayal, hated her cruelty, hated that she had personally stabbed the person closest to him into the heart.

But she once... truly loved him.

He had been certain of that sincerity, and he had responded to it.

Even if he were to be reduced to ashes now, he still couldn't bring himself to do it.

Sheng Tingzhou sneered.

“Brother? You’re using our friendship to save a viper who harmed your niece? Your brotherhood is too cheap, Zhou Yuze.”

He closed his eyes briefly, his thick eyelashes trembling slightly.

When I opened my eyes again, all that remained was a bottomless silence.

Qiao Yiqing panicked completely.

She had heard about Sheng Tingzhou's methods far too many times.

Cold-blooded, ruthless, and meticulous.

Once a living person falls into his hands, very few of them come out unharmed.

She lunged forward and grabbed Zhou Yuze's sleeve tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh.

"Yu Ce, can you really watch me die? Can you really... be so heartless? Isn't she your ideal woman? But I... I was the one you were going to marry!"

Zhou Yuze remained silent for a second.