Inside the black minivan.
Mu Yiran sat in the middle seat, with Wen Qingyu next to her holding a knife to her lower abdomen.
"So where are you taking me? Where's the recording I asked for?" Mu Yi asked, looking out the window as they drove further and further away from Guan Yi, heading towards the mountains.
Wen Qingyu, who had been staring at her phone, scoffed upon hearing this, "Mu Yiran, I didn't expect you to be so capable. You've been plotting to take over the Wen family for more than just a day or two, haven't you?"
Mu Yiran glanced at her. "What are you talking about?"
Wen Qingyu continued, saying as she had planned, "You should know what was recorded in the recording you wanted, otherwise you wouldn't have agreed to come with me as soon as I mentioned it."
As if she wouldn't continue speaking until she received a reply, Mu Yiran hesitated for a moment before responding:
"Yes, I know what was recorded in the recording."
"The dinner you had with Li Zhenrong a while ago was planned in advance, right? You knew what he was there for. He used the program crew as an excuse to invite Helian Xin and me to the hotel."
Mu Yiran smiled. "I...called you here?"
Wen Qingyu continued her nonsense, "Yes, otherwise how would you explain that you happened to be at the software park's underground clubhouse a few days ago? Don't deny it, more than ten reporters saw it clearly. Are you trying to say that you didn't know Helian Xin was there because you knew it was a shell company under Li Zhenrong's name?"
“............”
"You know, Mu Yiran, because you want to get revenge on Li Zhenrong, because you know what Li Zhenrong has done, and you're afraid he'll confess what he's done in China, so you want to get rid of him in advance! Because you know that the recording I have contains your mother Wen Qie's money laundering deal with Li Zhenrong ten years ago, using Saorsa and Wen's assets!"
“............”
"You want to protect your mother's reputation! You want to protect Saorsa! You plotted to frame me and the Wen family in order to get the recording and the Wen family! Isn't that right!"
"........"
Mu Yiran slowly shifted her gaze from the constantly flashing dashcam footage, looked at Wen Qingyu's ferocious expression beside her, and nodded:
"certainly..."
"no,"
Wen Qingyu panicked, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Mu Yiran's hand, which was tucked into her pocket, gripped the knife she had taken from Shi Youxi tightly. She leaned closer to Wen Qingyu and said, word by word:
"You're the one talking nonsense."
"Because what you recorded wasn't these things at all!"
She spotted the low bushes appearing through the car window behind Wen Qingyu and suddenly drew her knife—
"despair."
Mu Yiran turned her head and looked at Qi Qiulin, who had appeared behind her, with no surprise, as the back of her head bumped against something hard.
Qi Qiulin gripped the gun, her dry eyes scanning Mu Yiran up and down. She snatched the knife from Mu Yiran and threw it out the window.
"As expected, the evidence left by that bitch Wenqie is indeed here with you!"
"You deliberately put the Nianhua brooch on the auction website just to lure me out, didn't you!"
He specifically reminded her that Mu Yiran had already met Cong Nianhua and even knew things she shouldn't have from him.
She knew Mu Yiran was investigating who the real murderer of Wen Qie and his wife was. She used the brooch to test her, to lure her into the situation and get her to tell her everything. But what good did it do?
If only she had been more ruthless back then and dealt with all these people cleanly! Only the dead can't speak!
Mu Yiran showed no fear, and sneered:
"It's to lure out the murderer who killed my parents. Sharon, who went from being Saorsa's little assistant to becoming the world's number one Chinese fashion queen, you! Qi Qiulin!"
"It was you who conspired with the Wen family to murder my parents!"
Qi Qiulin's expression was indifferent, and she clicked her tongue:
"Ah... that bitch Wenqie... even her child is just as worthless as her!"
She grinned. "That's right, it was me. I told them that Wen had evidence that Wen Zaosi was laundering money and trafficking drugs overseas and wanted to put the Wen family in jail. I also suggested that they remove the vacuum pump from Mu Yanzhe's car, which caused their brakes to fail and cause an accident on their way back."
She knew Mu Yiran was investigating who the real murderer of Wen Qie and his wife was. She used the brooch to test her, to lure her into the situation and get her to tell her everything. But what good did it do?
"So what if I said it all?!"
"I was just saying it casually. Who would have thought that Wen Qie would actually die because of these things? No one can prove that I personally suggested it, and I didn't even replace the vacuum pump. What can you do to me? Blame your pure and virtuous mother for meddling in other people's business!"
"I just wanted to make a little money. I've worked for her like a slave for so long, what's wrong with making a little profit by using her name! She has everything! And she still wants to stop me from getting rich! She's an outsider who broke ties with the Wen family a long time ago, why doesn't she just pretend she doesn't know? She's the one who insisted on interfering! She's the one who threatened me first!"
"You shameless!" Mu Yiran spat, her eyes red. "How did my mother help you! You were supposed to be fellow disciples! And you repay kindness with enmity like this!"
"Where am I shameless! As shameless as Wen Qie! She uses her family background to label herself the number one design talent?! She's already married but still has an ambiguous relationship with her senior! You think she didn't get anything out of money laundering?! You think your mother is so high and mighty! She just wants to steal the lion's share from me and can't stand seeing a junior assistant like me rise above her!"
"I'm shameless?!"
"Heh, say whatever you want."
Qi Qiulin pressed her forehead against Mu Yiran's and yanked off the conspicuous jade bracelet on Mu Yiran's left wrist. "You don't know, do you? This new bracelet she wore at the transaction site back then contained all the evidence of my money laundering and drug trafficking with the Wen family. She pretended to cooperate with our transaction, but actually deliberately hid so many recordings in the jewelry. I searched for a long time... and it turns out she put it with you. Ha... you always managed to escape before, but this time God will finally look after me!"
Qi Qiulin laughed maniacally as the car entered a tunnel, and the surroundings instantly went dark.
She forcefully pushed against Mu Yiran and shouted ahead, "Stop the car!"
The hired man immediately stopped the car.
The next second, Mu Yiran was pushed down, and in the tunnel, there was an identical nanny van parked there.
Wen Qingyu was confused. "What's going on! Didn't you say you were going to just drive away?"
Qi Qiulin took the dashcam from the car in front and gave the man a wad of cash.
He then shoved Mu Yiran into the driver's seat of another car and instructed Wen Qingyu, "You go to the passenger seat and watch her. Only if she blocks our way can we drive out!"
Wen Qingyu, without suspecting anything, got into the passenger seat.
"Walk!"
Mu Yiran had no choice but to drive her black van forward.
Only after the car disappeared from sight did the man hurriedly pull out his phone. "Hello! Mr. Li! The car headed towards Binhai Airport! She also took the dashcam! And a gun! Miss Mu was driving that car!"
"Understood." Li Bingcheng had been eavesdropping for a while. Looking at the moving red dot on the iPad, he exported the recordings of Qi Qiulin's confessions, which he had just saved from the monitor in the driver's car. He then said to the middle-aged man in police uniform sitting next to him:
"Director Lin!"
The middle-aged man nodded: "Leave it to us!"
A few phone calls and an order were all it took for the troops near the airport to instantly assemble into a task force.
Lee Byung-seung couldn't sit still any longer and got into the car heading to the airport.
The secretary beside him reported, "Chairman Li, the police have already gone to arrest Wen Zaosi as ordered!"
“No…” Lee Byung-seung murmured.
"What?"
Lee Byung-seung thought carefully: "If Qi Qiulin wanted to escape, she wouldn't need to change vehicles and take the mountain road... This whole ordeal will only waste her time..."
The stronger his bad premonition became, the more uneasy Li Bingcheng felt, and he immediately said:
"Call Mo Mumu and the others! Tell them our exact location!"
"But Miss Mu said not to let Shi Youxi know—"
"You think they haven't noticed after all these minutes?!"
Li Bingcheng's phone is practically going crazy from Mo Mumu's constant chatter!
It's only a matter of time before the people at Time Gate find him! But he's terrified! Even if the military can deploy skilled snipers! Even if they have men stationed at every entrance…
But what if?!
What if something happens in those few minutes and seconds?
What if Qi Qiulin changes her mind at the last minute, further threatening Mu Yiran?!
He dared not gamble Mu Yiran's life against Qi Qiulin, who had now become a fugitive!
"Shi Youxi doesn't need to know! The people from Shimen will come! If anything happens, they will risk their lives to save Ranran."
The secretary immediately did as instructed.
At the same moment, upon receiving the message, Shi Si immediately said to Ai Ni and Shi Jie, who were searching for the person outside:
"It's in Qiushan, next to Binhai Airport! I'll have someone go with me! Hurry up!"
"We must bring Mu Yiran back before he wakes up!"
Guan Yi was in a complete mess at this moment. Shi Si was helpless as he watched Guan Shiyan being surrounded by people from the procuratorate and reporters who had rushed to the entrance of the hall.
"What the hell is going on?!"
He quickly led his men to the rescue.
There was a lot of noise at the entrance to the ward.
No one noticed when the man, who should have remained unconscious due to the sedative, woke up.
The tall figure eavesdropped clearly from the doorway.
At the same time.
Police officers, armed with an arrest warrant, stormed into Wen Zaosi's VIP room on the top floor of Building 2 of the Guan Yi Hospital, only to find that he was already gone.
The people searching Wen Zao Si's vehicle downstairs were horrified:
"Jiang Wen is here! She's badly injured! Call an ambulance immediately!"
"Director Lin! The person has escaped!"
"Go after him! He might be heading to meet up with Qi Qiulin! We have to stop him!"
Watching the police leave the parking lot, Wen Zaosi trembled as he ran to a corner, continuing on his phone:
"Hey! I escaped as you said! Now where do I go?"
Qi Qiulin's voice drifted out: "Come to Qiushan from the Binbei road!"
"Remember, get there within ten minutes! If the police catch up with you, I won't care."
"I'm coming right away!" Wen Zaosi gasped for breath, took the key Qi Qiulin gave him, drove the car, and sped off without hesitation.
He didn't notice that no sooner had he left than a man in a hospital gown appeared behind him, staggering slightly.
Shi Youxi had somehow obtained the car keys. He tensed up, found the car, and got in.
His scarlet eyes stared blankly ahead.
There was only one thought in my mind:
Hills...
My sister... is in Qiushan...
She promised to have dinner with him... She said she would stay by his side and make sure he took his medicine obediently!
…I need to go find her.
Shi Youxi unlocked the car and the headlights came on.
He was going to find his sister and ask her to come back so he could fulfill his promise.
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