"I heard... you've gotten together with a military officer?" Wu Xiulan probed, looking Meng Yingxin up and down, her sourness growing stronger.
Things are different now.
Meng Yingxin used to be so unfashionable, her pants were always half a meter too short. But now she dresses and acts all presentable, and you can tell she's doing very well, even better than Meng Yingxin. How can Wu Xiulan feel at peace with that?
"This is none of your business. If you don't want to die with the Meng family, release me," Meng Yingxin said. She was no longer the person she used to be. Wait, could she still hide in her own space...?
That's it!
Once no one was in the woodshed, she went directly into the weapon space, which was equivalent to temporarily escaping.
However, when she was about to put it into practice, she discovered that the very familiar spot on her wrist was now completely empty!
That's all!
The weapon space bracelet is gone!
Meng Yingxin couldn't believe it. Ever since she made a contract with the bracelet, she had never taken it off, not even when taking a shower. When she was in the weapons research group, she would put it away before changing clothes and check the bracelet as soon as she got back into her clothes.
Unexpectedly, she was only knocked unconscious and taken away, yet the bracelet was lost!
"Let you go? I wouldn't dare. My in-laws and your older brother would kill me..." Wu Xiulan feigned a pitiful appearance, but her tone and words were anything but pitiful. "Even if, as you say, they end up being arrested by the soldiers, I can say I'm innocent and forced. But if they aren't discovered, the dowry money I got from you can be enjoyed by both my son and me..."
Wu Xiulan has stopped pretending altogether.
Meng Yingxin: "..."
She had no intention of arguing with Wu Xiulan, and asked, "Where did the bracelet on my wrist go?"
“Oh, you mean that bracelet you gave me before? Of course, it’s returned to its rightful owner. I took it back, after all, it was a gift you gave me. I thought about it, and since your brother and the others are going to drug you anyway, you don’t really need any dowry, so let’s not waste it,” Wu Xiulan said.
Women never complain about having too much jewelry. Even if they don't wear it, just having it and keeping it makes Wu Xiulan feel comfortable.
"Drugned?" Meng Yingxin found it unbelievable.
Meng Chengfu quickly bought the medicine and decided to finish the job quickly. He planned to feed the medicine to Meng Yingxin, but Meng Yingxin refused and struggled fiercely.
"I won't drink it!"
"It's not up to you..."
"Come help me hold her down and pry her mouth open!"
"I'll do it!"
Meng Yingxin gritted her teeth, but she was ultimately all alone and couldn't withstand the family's determination to punish her. She could only watch helplessly as she was forced to drink the medicine, feeling it enter her internal organs...
"Heh, once you've taken the medicine, behave yourself. You'll be in for a treat when the effects kick in!" Meng Chengfu grinned lewdly, making it easy for anyone to guess what kind of medicine it was.
"Ugh—" Meng Yingxin's face changed color as she tried to vomit the medicine, but her limbs were bound, making it impossible for her to induce vomiting.
Just then, the smell of thick smoke seemed to come from outside, along with the sound of people arguing.
"Hey, isn't that Old Meng's house? Why is there so much smoke? I think it's going to catch fire!"
"Oh dear! Help! The house is on fire!"
It turns out that while everyone was working together to give Meng Yingxin the medicine, no one was watching Meng Hongji, who was playing with matches at home by himself!
Meng Hongji was daring; he took a match and set fire to the cushion on the chair. The cushion was filled with cotton to make it soft, so it burned very quickly...
There was also half a bottle of baijiu (Chinese liquor) that Meng Demao had drunk on the coffee table, which was practically accelerant!
"Our house is on fire! Quick, put out the fire! Go put out the fire!"
"The fire is so big, why bother putting it out? Quickly grab the money, get your son out, and make sure he's safe first!"
The family members each did their own thing, working together seamlessly, and all overlooked Meng Yingxin, who was still locked in the woodshed.
The fire grew larger and larger, eventually spreading to the woodshed.
Meng Yingxin was suffering from the thick smoke and kept coughing. Not only had she been given medicine, but she was also tied up and unable to move. If she stayed here, she would choke to death before she was burned to death.
"Help me—cough—help! There are still people here!"
"Cough—cough—"
There are still people here!
Because she was tied up, Meng Yingxin couldn't even cover her mouth and nose to make herself more comfortable; she could only cough a few times and occasionally let out a few cries for help.
However, it was noisy outside.
There was screaming and talking again, scolding the unruly child, and scrambling to put out the fire...
Meng Yingxin's consciousness became increasingly unclear, and her voice grew weaker and weaker. With the effects of the medicine taking hold, she felt extremely uncomfortable and lay on the ground, her body contorted in agony.
"Help……"
Meng Yingxin felt increasingly desperate. For a moment, she couldn't even tell whether it would be better to just choke to death or to be rescued and sold back to the old man.
People can laugh when they are in utter despair.
For example, Meng Yingxin at this moment.
But she was so unwilling to accept it...
Everything was clearly getting better. She met Qiao Shouyan, who saved and respected her. She learned about Qiao Shouyan's feelings and was preparing to accept him. But why did bad news keep coming one after another? First, Qiao Shouyan became a vegetable, and then she was captured by the Meng family.
God, are you deliberately trying to kill me?
"Why, why did you do this to me..." Meng Yingxin couldn't understand. All she could feel was the increasingly thin air and her increasingly difficult breathing.
Meng Yingxin realized that she was really going to die.
Good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years.
In that instant, many images flashed through Meng Yingxin's mind, almost all of them about Qiao Shouyan. If she could, she would want to start over so she could change her destiny and write a different life...
Just as she was about to breathe her last, Meng Yingxin suddenly thought of the days when she was bullied. It was during that time that she met Su Yueya, and Dr. Su told her many stories.
"If there is an afterlife, I will make you pay for your crimes in blood..."
"If there is an afterlife, I will make you pay for your crimes in blood!"
Amidst the thick smoke filling the room, in her final moments, Meng Yingxin mustered all her strength and cried out from the bottom of her heart, "If there is an afterlife, I will make you pay for your crimes in blood—"
Flames soared into the sky, burning everything to ashes.
The moment Meng Yingxin closed her eyes, everything seemed to be rewinding.
In the park, Meng Yingxin was knocked unconscious by Meng Chengfu.
Inside the weapons research institute, colleagues were discussing their wounded superior officer.
In the rented room, Meng Yingxin injured her finger while cooking.
On the street, Qiao Shouyan, who was buying roasted chestnuts, stopped Meng Chengfu, who was acting suspiciously.
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