Chapter 644: Punishment

"Then why don't you expose me? Why do you let me stay by your side for so long?!" Qiao Xuewan laughed coldly, "Have you really discovered it, or are you just saying this to deceive me?"

"Do you think there is any need for me to lie to you now?" Qiao Yanmeng stared at Qiao Xuewan with a smile. She stepped forward and grabbed Qiao Xuewan's hair, forcing her to look at her in pain.

"Don't you know why I keep you by my side? I told you that if you speak out some things yourself, the price you pay for them is different from if I speak them out for you."

Qiao Xuewan didn't know what she was thinking. She was silent for a long time and finally said nothing.

"Do you still have patience?" Zhan Tingbei asked from behind Qiao Yanmeng: "I am getting a little impatient."

"Me too." Qiao Yanmeng stepped back and motioned the two men standing beside him to come forward.

They stood on Qiao Xuewan's left and right sides and reached out to grab Qiao Xuewan's wrists.

The expression on Qiao Xuewan's face suddenly turned into fear. She looked at Qiao Yanmeng in confusion and said with gritted teeth: "If you really come, you are not afraid of me..."

"Pull it out. If you keep talking nonsense at this time, she will think we are lying to her if we don't do it for real."

Qiao Yanmeng smiled, and his men nodded. They held down Qiao Xuewan's hand, and a bloody nail was pulled out by the root.

The veins on Qiao Xuewan's neck were throbbing with pain, and she couldn't make a single sound due to the severe pain.

"Keep going until she says so."

Qiao Yanmeng gave the order coldly, and another nail fell to the ground. Qiao Xuewan said in a rage, "What do you want to know? I'll tell you. Get them out!"

"Now you feel the pain, what were you doing just now?"

Qiao Yanmeng stepped forward and patted Qiao Xuewan's face, then smiled and said, "Your nails have been pulled out, so I told you that I kept you by my side just to get to know the news about Xia He and Xia Xue. After all, you pretended to be Xia Xue because you were sure that I would never expose you, and your confidence came from knowing that Xia Xue would never come back, right?"

"So what?"

"Did you kill Xia He and Xia Xue?" When Qiao Yanmeng actually asked this question, she was not as excited as she had expected. She was as calm as a pool of stagnant water.

The dead cannot be resurrected, and revenge for them will not change anything, but Qiao Yanmeng just doesn't want them to be buried in obscurity underground where no one has ever walked.

Therefore, sometimes revenge is not always joyful. It is just one kind of pain covering up another kind of pain.

"I didn't kill them. You think too highly of me." Qiao Xuewan laughed wickedly, her hair was in disarray. She took a deep breath and continued, "Why don't you think about where I was when Xia He disappeared? How could I have killed both of them?"

"Qiao Yanmeng, you thought you could avenge those two sisters by discovering my true identity. You are dreaming. They died because of you!"

Qiao Yanmeng's breathing stagnated. How could she not know?

Qiao Xuewan came for him. Xia He and Xia Xue would never offend her. Their deaths were most likely to pave the way for her to pretend to be Xia Xue. In the final analysis, someone took two innocent lives in order to murder him.

"Who killed them!" Qiao Yanmeng put her hands around Qiao Xuewan's neck. "Tell me, who killed them? How much do you know? Now, tell me everything."

"If I tell you, will you let me live?" Qiao Xuewan was having trouble breathing, her face flushed, and she was almost suffocating. "I won't tell you, absolutely not."

"Dream."

When Qiao Xuewan was about to faint, Zhan Tingbei behind her suddenly spoke.

"Since she doesn't want to talk about it, let's ask her another way. Don't you want her to die so easily?"

Qiao Yanmeng glanced at Qiao Xuewan, who was almost out of breath, and finally loosened her hands around her neck.

"You go and teach her a lesson."

Zhan Tingbei ordered in a cold voice, then reached out and held Qiao Yanmeng in his arms, "Mengmeng, let's go to the side and wait for a while."

"Okay." Qiao Yanmeng nodded, and followed Zhan Tingbei to sit on the bench with his back to Qiao Xuewan. Her palms were covered with sweat, but Zhan Tingbei held her hands without any disgust.

"She can't handle it."

Zhan Tingbei has his own set of punishments for those who betray him or are undercover agents.

Anyone who has been subjected to this kind of punishment will eventually become a loser. It is almost impossible for anyone to escape unscathed from the punishment, let alone persist in being tough.

Besides, Qiao Xuewan doesn't look like a tough guy. Her purpose has always been revenge, not to cover up anything for others.