Chapter 73 I'll Sleep with You Tonight
Shen Lu was frightened by his indifferent attitude, but she still insisted on telling him the whole story.
"Mr. Lu, I know Qingqing and you may have had some unpleasantness before, but now human life is at stake. I hope you can help her."
When he heard the words "human life is at stake", Lu Yan's expression changed. "What's going on?" he asked sternly.
Shen Lu told Lu Yan the whole process of the incident, including his own guesses.
After hearing this, Lu Yan finally lost his composure. He said to Shen Lu, "Don't worry about this matter. Leave it to me."
Then he quickly got into the car with Shen Xing and drove out of the underground garage, as if he had already found a solution.
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In the villa.
At around seven o'clock in the evening, the aunt came to bring food to Li Qingqing again. She put the plate on the table in the living room and knocked on Li Qingqing's door.
But after knocking for a long time, no one answered the door, so she opened the door herself and went in. After opening it, she found Li Qingqing lying on the bed and sleeping, with the quilt covering her entire body.
The auntie who brought the food walked over and called her, "Girl, get up and eat."
But after calling several times without any response, the lady who brought the food pushed the bed. Only then did she realize that the person lying on the bed was not a person at all, but just the outline of a pillow.
When she hurriedly came to the villa hall, the man had already run away.
…
Ten minutes ago, Li Qingqing saw that it was almost time for the meal to be delivered, so she hid at the stairs in the lobby on the first floor and waited. When the aunt who delivered the meal came into the room to wake her up, she quickly slipped out of the villa.
After escaping, Li Qingqing didn't dare to run far away, but hid in the bushes next to her. The aunt who delivered the food followed her out the door, looked around, and ran in another direction when she didn't see anyone.
Seeing her walking away, Li Qingqing immediately ran towards the villa closest to her.
As she ran, she looked back to see if anyone was following her. Fortunately, the only person guarding her seemed to be the aunt who delivered the food.
It was already getting dark. Li Qingqing saw the lights clearly on in the villa not far away. She was ecstatic. There were other people living there. She was saved.
…
The aunt who delivered the food ran to the guard room on the island and called Mu Xingyi to report that Li Qingqing had escaped.
But Mu Xingyi on the phone didn't seem worried at all. Instead, he comforted his aunt: "It's okay, she will find out sooner or later. There's no need to lock her up in the future. She can't escape."
"Okay, got it."
…
Li Qingqing came to the villa where the lights had just been turned on and began to knock on the door loudly, calling for help: "Is anyone there?! Is there anyone inside?"
After a while, a pregnant woman came out and opened the door for her. She looked her up and down, then asked her in a timid voice, "Who are you looking for?"
"I've been kidnapped. Can you help me call the police?" Li Qingqing felt that the pregnant woman's reaction was very strange, but she didn't have time to think about it at the moment.
The pregnant woman looked at her without saying anything. Her expression remained numb. After a few seconds of silence, she shouted into the room, "Auntie Wang, there's someone here." Then she walked away.
Li Qingqing looked inside through the crack of the open door and couldn't help but gasp.
There is more than one pregnant woman in the entire villa hall!
This strange scene made Li Qingqing's hair stand on end. "What's going on?" She unconsciously took a few steps back.
…
Just then, the familiar voice sounded behind her again.
"Qingqing, didn't I tell you to be obedient? Why are you running around again?"
Mu Xingyi appeared behind her at some point, and Li Qingqing felt that his voice at this moment was extremely cold and crazy.
She slowly turned around and looked at Mu Xingyi's fake smile that looked like a human skin mask, and she felt like her heart was about to stop beating.
At this time, the woman called Aunt Wang came to the door and saw Mu Xingyi standing outside the door. She called out "Doctor Mu"
Mu Xingyi waved at her, indicating that she had nothing to do here, so Aunt Wang obediently closed the door again.
Li Qingqing couldn't help but feel the hairs on her body stand on end watching all this. She asked him in a trembling voice: "...Why are there so many pregnant women here?"
She had already vaguely guessed it in her heart, but she still couldn't believe it. She suddenly remembered her previous encounter with Fang Yingqiu at Shi'an Hospital. Now thinking about it, maybe that chance encounter was not a coincidence at all.
Mu Xingyi smiled slightly and walked over to hold her shoulders. "Let's go back first, Qingqing. It's windy outside."
Li Qingqing was taken back to the villa by Mu Xingyi like a zombie. Only then did Mu Xingyi slowly say to her, "Qingqing, look how good I am to you. I don't want you to be like them."
Hearing this, Li Qingqing felt that all the capillaries in her body were rapidly contracting, and her lips began to tremble unconsciously: "Same as them... Why are they like this...?"
Although she already had a rough answer in her mind, she still hoped that Mu Xingyi could explain it to her.
Mu Xingyi looked at her frightened face and comforted her: "They are doing this to make money for the family. I am not making things difficult for them."
"But, what you're doing is illegal..." Li Qingqing said tremblingly. She didn't know how many illegal things Mu Xingyi had done behind his back, and she also knew that her words had no deterrent effect on him, but at this moment she didn't know what else to say.
Mu Xingyi lowered his head and chuckled: "But what if the law is on my side?" He looked at Li Qingqing with a playful look.
"What do you mean?" Li Qingqing couldn't help but look at him with wide eyes.
Mu Xingyi sighed, "Qingqing, you are still young, you don't need to understand these things now. You just need to understand that this world is not as beautiful as you think, but I can protect you and let you live in beauty forever."
Li Qingqing just felt that Mu Xingyi was crazy now, but she felt that such a large industrial chain was not something that Mu Xingyi could do alone. Perhaps there was a bigger force behind him.
Li Qingqing guessed that Fang Yingqiu's case was probably part of the entire industry chain, so she tentatively asked him, "...Do you know Fang Yingqiu?"
Hearing the name Fang Yingqiu, Mu Xingyi stroked his chin and thought for a moment before saying, "I do have some impression of this person. She's also a student at your Haihua University, right? She's from the same class as you. But she's quite lucky; her employer is willing to provide her with separate accommodation."
"But she has been abandoned by them now..." Li Qingqing remembered what Qiao Yan had told her about Fang Yingqiu's situation.
"Oh? Really?" Mu Xingyi didn't seem to care at all. "Then she's lucky. If other people's employers are unhappy, they don't have the autonomy they need to work for themselves like she does."
“…”
Li Qingqing now feels that this industrial chain seems to involve more than just dy.
Mu Xingyi rubbed her shoulders and looked at her gently: "Qingqing, I said I don't want you to know the dark side of this world. You are very innocent, and I don't want you to be contaminated by these dirty things, so don't ask any more questions, okay?"
"One last question,...is the situation the same in all these dozens of villas?" Although Li Qingqing didn't want to believe it, there seemed to be no other answer now.
"Yes." Mu Xingyi gave her an affirmative answer in an indifferent voice.
“…”
Li Qingqing fell completely silent. She felt like she was with a devil.
Mu Xingyi suddenly touched her head and said in an intimate tone: "It's getting late, go to bed early, I will sleep with you tonight."
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