Qi Mingyuan no longer wanted to look at her. He had no idea how many times he had been deceived by her pitiful appearance in the past twenty years. Now, he only felt endless regret.
"I shouldn't have saved you from those people twenty years ago!"
These words were like a sharp blade, fiercely cutting through Qu Jingyun's heart. He regretted it...
In fact, she also wanted to live a good life with Qi Mingyuan at the beginning, but her inner inferiority and unbearable past made her worried and anxious, and Qi Mingyuan's favoritism towards Qi Shengzhi made her feel uneasy, and she urgently needed to use her own children to consolidate her position in the Qi family.
It was obvious that her son was many times better than Qi Shengzhi in every aspect, but it did not shake Qi Shengzhi's position in Qi Mingyuan's heart at all.
He always dotes on Qi Shengzhi unconditionally, no matter how bad Qi Shengzhi's grades were, how weird his temper was, or how many troubles he got into since he was a child. Even if Qi Mingyuan scolded him harshly, he actually couldn't bear to hit him.
When Qi Shengzhi got into trouble outside, he quietly paid money to avoid trouble.
When Qi Shengzhi was doing business, he was silently protecting him from behind.
Qi Mingyuan didn't like any of the candidates she had shown Qi Shengzhi before, so in the end she carefully selected the Yue family, a returned overseas Chinese with extensive connections and a large family fortune, for him.
She spared no expense in organizing the grandest wedding in the city for him, and the betrothal gifts were so generous that she was jealous.
Now he's even talking about handing over the Qi family's business to him. How could this not drive her crazy?!
A tear rolled down Qu Jingyun's eye. She quietly stood up from Qi Mingyuan's bedside, without pestering him like she usually did in the past.
Qi Shengzhi suddenly felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, and subconsciously raised his legs to run towards Qi Mingyuan.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Qu Jingyun grabbed a paper cutter from Qi Mingyuan's desk, jumped onto the bed and pressed on Qi Mingyuan, holding his neck with one hand and pressing the paper cutter against his heart with the other!
"stop!"
Qi Shengzhi cried out in panic.
All I heard was Qu Jingyun's sharp voice shouting:
"Call the guy who called the police back here! If you dare to call the police, I'll stab him to death!"
Yue Feiying came back to her senses from her shock, immediately turned around and rushed downstairs, pulled out the phone line that Rong Yongsi had just dialed, and pulled the stunned Rong Yongsi back to the second floor.
"This guy! This phone line! We haven't reported it to the police yet, so don't act rashly!"
Rong Yongsi only then noticed the dramatic scene before him and was immediately frightened:
"You, don't mess around! Killing someone means paying with your life!"
After hearing this, Qu Jingyun laughed crazily. The sharp tip of the knife pierced deeper into Qi Mingyuan's chest and was about to pierce through the fabric of his clothes. Qi Shengzhi's heart tightened when he saw this.
Just as she was about to open her mouth to stop him, Qu Jingyun finally stopped laughing due to exhaustion. She patted Qi Mingyuan's face, which looked as pale as death, and said proudly:
"This guy is right, life for life. If I go to the police station, I probably won't come out alive!"
"I'm going to pay with my life anyway, so I'll exchange my life for two, no, three lives, isn't that a good deal? Hahahaha——"
Qi Mingyuan was already weak, and with Qu Jingyun pressing him down so heavily, with one hand tightly gripping his throat, it looked like he was having difficulty breathing.
Qi Shengzhi couldn't help but say:
"Let him go! If you want to save your life, come at me! Isn't it me you hate?!"
Qu Jingyun rolled his eyes, with a strange smile on his lips:
"You little bastard! Even now, you still want to plot against me?!"
"I can easily control him, a dying man. What about you? Do you think you're stupid, or am I stupid?"
As she spoke, she exerted force with her hands. Qi Mingyuan's face began to turn red, and blood slowly seeped through the fabric on his chest.
Qi Shengzhi's eyes were bulging with anger. He wanted to rush up and push Qu Jingyun away, but he was afraid that before he could run to the bed, Qu Jingyun would stab him with the sharp knife.
At the critical moment, Yue Feiying grabbed his hand and suddenly said:
"If you kill him now, you won't be able to escape. You might as well make a deal with him!"
This sudden sentence made Qu Jingyun pause what she was doing. She turned her head suspiciously and looked at Yue Feiying:
"A deal?"
Yue Feiying nodded heavily:
"In this world, only your own life is the most precious. What's a bargain if you exchange one life for three? If it were me, I wouldn't be willing to exchange even a hundred lives of others for half of my own!"
"So, don't get stuck in this now. If you don't kill... him, you can still use him for a deal. If you kill him, the deal won't work."
Yue Feiying originally wanted to say "don't kill anyone", but when she thought of what Qu Jingyun had said just now, she estimated that she had killed more than one person. In order not to irritate her, Yue Feiying pretended to know nothing.
These words, which seemed to be considering her, really touched Qu Jingyun.
Who would be willing to give up hope of living unless they have no other choice?
Qu Jingyun remained silent. Seeing that Qi Mingyuan's face had turned red and Qi Shengzhi was about to rush over, she finally asked:
"How do you make a deal?"
As she stood up and looked at Yue Feiying, the hand that was holding Qi Mingyuan's neck loosened a little, and Qi Mingyuan's expression visibly relaxed a lot.
Yue Feiying said without hiding anything:
"I know that what you've always wanted most is the Qi family's fortune, but the current situation is that even if my father-in-law gives you everything, you can't take it away."
"It's better to be practical and ask him to give you more money than you can spend in your lifetime, and then you can find a new city to start a new life."
Qu Jingyun was somewhat tempted by Yue Feiying's proposal.
She had indeed been dwelling on a dead end just now. In her rage, she was thinking of exchanging one life for another, but why should Qi Mingyuan's life be exchanged for hers?!
If she could get a sum of money that she could never spend in her lifetime as Yue Feiying said, and start over in a new place, wouldn't that be much better than dying together with Qi Mingyuan?
"You are Qi Shengzhi's wife, why should I believe what you say?"
Qu Jingyun stared straight into Yue Feiying's eyes, then turned his gaze to Qi Shengzhi who remained silent:
"There's no grudge between us. If you get the money, you might let me go. But Qi Shengzhi is probably eager to chop me into pieces. How could he let me go so easily?"
Yue Feiying turned her head and glanced at Qi Shengzhi. At this moment, there was no doubt in his eyes, only trust in her.
She raised the corner of her mouth, revealing a confident smile, and turned back and said:
"You don't have to trust me, just trust the money."
"I'll be your hostage with the money. When you feel safe, you can release me. How about that?"
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