Chapter 191 Predetermined Loss of Control

Xin Que had barely taken a couple of bites when a commotion erupted at the door.

A well-dressed woman, accompanied by several bodyguards, pushed open the door and entered. She frowned when she saw Xin Que and Ying Yun still sitting at the table drinking soup.

“Miss Xin,” she straightened her back without changing her expression, “I’ve already explained the car accident to you very clearly, and I hope you can be sensible…”

Xin Que didn't even lift her eyelids, but slowly put down the spoon. "Who are you?"

Ying Yunteng stood up abruptly and shielded Xin Que, saying, "You drove drunk and caused my wife to be injured and hospitalized, and you still dare to bully us and force us to swallow this insult... Let me tell you, we will not back down!"

The woman looked Ying Yun up and down, then suddenly laughed, "Just tell me, how much money do you want to shut up?"

The female lead is Xu Yuan?

Xin Que felt that this scene seemed familiar.

She felt like she had seen a male driver who looked a lot like this woman somewhere before.

He was also driving under the influence, and he was also a rich kid...

But soon, Xin Que put this strange sense of déjà vu out of her mind.

“I’ve already investigated your auto repair shop and the research institute where your husband works thoroughly.” The woman walked straight up to Ying Yun.

"It's quite a coincidence that the Xu family hired you before you retired... It's a pity that you betrayed our trust."

Her tall bodyguard immediately understood his employer's meaning and roughly shoved the bookish Ying Yun aside.

"I don't need to continue, do I?"

The disdain in Xu Yuan's eyes was almost tangible. "A retired, half-baked mercenary, and an illegal immigrant who smuggled himself into our country... Tell me, if I directly report your husband for illegal immigration, will you win or lose?"

"If I were you, the best course of action would be to collect the money and settle the case as soon as possible."

Xin Que neatly placed the chopsticks and spoon in her hand next to the soup bowl, pulled out the stool, and stood up.

Several tall, burly bodyguards gradually approached her, their imposing presence intimidating.

"Xin Que!!!" Ying Yun's pupils dilated suddenly, and he desperately broke free from the restraints and rushed towards Xin Que.

"Xin Que, let me tell you the truth, you're giving me face by coming here. It's because of our family's power..."

Xu Yuan's eyes widened.

"Shut up." Xin Que stood in front of her expressionlessly, holding Xu Yuan's head with her left hand and pushing the chopsticks toward her carotid artery with her right hand.

“I’m neither your father nor your mother, I have no obligation to listen to your performance here.”

Xin Que turned her head to dodge the bodyguard's attack from behind, and casually pulled Xu Yuan, who had gone limp, to her side, using her to block another bodyguard's punch.

"Miss!!!" The bodyguard was terrified out of his wits by Xu Yuan's carotid artery spurting blood. "Are you fucking crazy? You dare to kill members of the Xu family..."

Ying Yun was stunned on the spot.

He glanced at Xu Yuan, who lay dead in the bodyguard's arms, his eyes wide open, and then at Xin Que, who was closing in on the bodyguard.

"Bang."

"Bang."

Xin Que was grabbing the bodyguard's hair and slamming his head against the ground repeatedly.

Noticing the intense gaze behind her, she turned around and glanced back.

Ying Yun looked somewhat dazed.

After staring at Xin Que for a while, he seemed to come back to his senses and slowly said, "There are a total of four bodyguards."

The remaining two bodyguards' expressions changed drastically, and they turned and ran.

I had just run to the door when my mouth was covered and I was dragged into the bathroom.

Xin Que watched as Ying Yun very helpfully cleaned up the marks for her.

"Your technique is so skillful," Xin Que squatted down next to Ying Yun, "Have you done this before?"

Ying Yun was carefully wiping the blood-stained floor clean, and upon hearing this, he didn't even look up. "When you took me away from that country, we were being chased almost every day. We were used to it by now."

“But this time it’s gone too far…” Ying Yun frowned slightly. “The Xu family is one of the wealthiest families here. You killed their daughter, so the Xu family will never let us go.”

"Get rid of these bodyguards, and we'll leave the country immediately."

Xin Que glanced at the corpse with its eyes wide open in death.

The female lead died so easily?

Shouldn't important characters be brought back to the past...?

Xin Que's brain began to throb with dull pain again.

Ying Yun, noticing Xin Que's discomfort, immediately dropped the wet wipe in his hand and came over to check on her. "Does your head hurt a lot?"

"I'm sorry, I should have stayed with you to rest and recuperate," Ying Yun said as she went to find her painkillers, "but the situation is special now, and we have to get going immediately."

...

After dealing with the suspicious factors in the ward, Ying Yun took Xin Que out of the hospital without stopping and headed straight for the airport.

“Xin Que,” Ying Yun parked the car at the airport, “For safety’s sake, I only brought the medicine you will need. We can buy the luggage after we land… You taught me these things.”

Xin Que didn't say a word from the moment she got on the bus.

She began to reflect on her current situation.

Provoked, he killed a wealthy heiress with great local influence in a fit of rage, and fled abroad to evade capture...

From her perspective, everything makes perfect sense.

But Xin Que always felt that she had overlooked something.

Looking at the news on her phone about the Xu family's immense power, she had to focus all her energy on her current escape.

Perhaps because Xu Yuan's persona usually involves traveling around with bodyguards, no one noticed what happened to Xu Yuan during the three hours from when the incident occurred in her hospital room until Ying Yun and Xin Que boarded the plane.

Ying Yun carefully covered her with the blanket and lowered his voice, "We're going to transit through the airport in country X to reach another continent that's a bit further away."

Xin Que stared intently at his profile before finally speaking, "Aren't you going to take care of the research institute's business anymore?"

Ying Yun was taken aback.

“Without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” he said softly. “It’s not like it’s something I absolutely have to do, so let it go.”

Seeing Xin Que's gentle expression, Ying Yun's eyes crinkled with a smile.

The atmosphere between the two eased somewhat.

After a successful landing, before her connecting flight, Xin Que received a news pop-up on her new phone.

The body was exposed.

The trending topics included images of the Xu family couple in deep grief and news that the police were making every effort to find the murderer.

Ying Yun glanced at the news Xin Que was scrolling through and raised his hand to block her screen, saying, "Stop looking at it, it's affecting your mood."

Xin Que turned off her phone without saying anything.

The male lead's behavior is almost entirely different from what's depicted in the story.

He showed no emotional reaction to her killing the female lead, and even went to great lengths to help her dispose of the body and escape with her.

Xin Que did not consider herself lucky to have met such a romantic man.

If he were truly in love, he wouldn't have failed to notice the stark difference in Xin Que's behavior compared to before. It's just amnesia; it's impossible for every little detail to have changed so drastically.

If he and the original owner were merely a couple in name only, each getting what they wanted, he wouldn't be foolish enough to risk his promising future to pay the price for Xin Que's recklessness.

Loyalty?

Repaying a debt of gratitude?

love?

Xin Que silently rejected each of these unreliable answers in her heart.

She then thought of Xu Yuan, who had died at her hands.

"What are you thinking about?" Ying Yun handed the hot milk to Xin Que. "Still thinking about the Xu family?"

“It’s my fault,” Ying Yun naturally continued the conversation, “I knew you had ties with the Xu family, but the car accident happened so suddenly that I subconsciously used your real name. I should have used a fake identity to be hospitalized…”

Xin Que looked at him, not missing the urging in his eyes.

Xu Yuan and Ying Yun were both deliberately bringing up her entanglement with the Xu family.

"The Xu family?" she asked slowly. "What exactly is my past with the Xu family?"