All the lights in the municipal government staff housing building were extinguished, plunging the entire compound into darkness.
Jing Yingyan, holding a gun, hid behind a pillar with his secretary beside him.
"Commander, they all have guns. I'm afraid we won't be able to break through. They've also cut off the power, so we can't make phone calls and can't get anyone to come to our aid."
Jing Yingyan gripped his pistol tightly, remaining calm: "Don't worry, someone will come to rescue us!"
The gate had already been opened, and someone rushed inside under the cover of darkness. By the dim light, Jing Yingyan fired a shot and wounded one of the attackers.
Just as Qianjin was about to die, Ye Jingchi arrived with his men.
They quickly apprehended all the people, and some of the lights in the courtyard were turned on.
"past!"
Someone brought up the leader, but it wasn't Nan Shiran.
Ye Jingchi and Jing Yingyan exchanged a glance, and they knew something was wrong.
"Ye Jingchi, go back quickly!"
Ye Jingchi didn't care about anything else and led a small group away from the government compound to rush home to his family's apartment building.
Car headlights were flashing on the road before we even reached the family quarters.
Ye Jingchi signaled everyone to stop.
Nan Shiran stood in front of the car, toying with a pistol in her hand.
"Ye Jingchi, aren't you supposed to be very smart? How come you didn't guess I would use a diversionary tactic this time?"
"Nan Shiran, what exactly do you want to do?" Ye Jingchi questioned.
Nan Shiran sighed: "What I said I wanted to do, didn't I already tell you? Don't you understand yet? I just want to be with you. As long as you agree to me, I'll let your wife and children go."
As they were talking, Li Ying and Chenchen were pushed to the front.
Diudiu was beside him.
"So this little girl was someone you arranged?"
Nan Shiran laughed arrogantly: "Ye Jingchi, you never dreamed that I would send a little girl to follow you and keep track of your whereabouts at all times."
Ye Jingchi said calmly, "Nan Shiran, you deliberately created trouble in Jiangcheng just to lure me here, capture me, and make me live with you, isn't that right?"
Nan Shiran's face darkened: "You were always mine, you were mine in the past life, and you're mine in this life. But why, why do you like Li Ying instead of me? I'm not convinced!"
"So you've repeatedly tried to harm Li Ying and me, just like Feng Sinian?"
Nan Shiran scoffed: "What is Feng Sinian? It was me who taught her how to control Nan Huaiyu."
"Did you give Nan Huaiyu to Feng Sinian?"
"That's right, the Nan family should have been under my control, but the Nan family favors sons over daughters. I'm clearly more capable and smarter than Nan Huaiyu, but the old man insists on letting Nan Huaiyu inherit the Nan family and kicks me out. My marriage is unhappy, and my career is also unsuccessful, all because you don't listen to me!"
Nan Shiran was somewhat manic.
Ye Jingchi knew he couldn't provoke her at this moment, so he softened his tone.
"Nan Shiran, your hatred for the Nan family should not be directed at innocent children. Don't you find it pathetic to use a child to do all this?"
Nan Shiran disagreed: "She's not a child. She's already eight years old, she just looks small. I give her food, drink, and clothes, and she listens to me, that's right. Besides, Ye Jingchi, you don't know how useful a child is if she's obedient. Take tonight for example, if it weren't for her, how could I have caught Li Ying and your son so easily?"
Ye Jingchi gripped the gun in his hand and asked, "Nan Shiran, tell me, what do you want?"
Nan Shiran grabbed Chenchen and pointed at Ye Jingchi: "Kneel down! Otherwise, I'll smash his head in!"
Without hesitation, Ye Jingchi knelt down.
"Dad!" Chenchen called out.
Nan Shiran pinched Chenchen's mouth: "Don't talk or shout, or I'll get angry and send your dad to heaven. Then you'll be like Diudiu, without a dad."
"Nan Shiran, I've already knelt down. Please release the child and release Li Ying." Ye Jingchi softened his stance.
"Ye Jingchi, you're really willing to kneel down for this woman and child? You love her that much?"
Nan Shiran was clearly provoked again, and she became somewhat manic.
“Nan Shiran, I don’t know what you mean by the past life, but I want you to see clearly that my wife is Li Ying and my child is Chenchen. And you have embarked on a path of no return. You have gathered some lawless people in Jiangcheng and organized a department to oppose the government. This is like throwing an egg against a rock.”
"If you can disband them now and surrender, you can still try to get lenient treatment."
"Ye Jingchi, do you think I'm a three-year-old? You think you can fool me? No way!" Nan Shiran grabbed Chenchen's collar: "Ye Jingchi, I want you to kill Li Ying with a gun right now! Otherwise, I'll kill your son!"
"Nan Shiran, I originally wanted to save your life, but why are you so stubborn?" Ye Jingchi appealed to her emotions.
“Save me? Ye Jingchi, how could you possibly save me? I used your mother, Tang Yu, to get her imprisoned. Now I've illegally organized people to attack the municipal government. What good do you think I can do? But it doesn't matter! As long as I watch you kill Li Ying with your own hands today, even if I die, I can die in peace.”
"You're insane!" Ye Jingchi stood up and gripped his pistol tightly.
"Yes, I am crazy. I went crazy the day you chose Li Ying. I don't understand why you had to abandon me and choose her? I'm clearly the leading lady!"
Ye Jingchi raised his pistol: "Nan Shiran, I'll ask you one last question: Will you release my son and Li Ying or not?"
Nan Shiran grabbed Chenchen tightly and sneered, "Ye Jingchi, don't try to scare me. I'm not easily frightened. If I don't see you beat Li Ying to death today, I won't let your son get away with it!"
Li Ying glanced at Nan Shiran and said to Ye Jingchi, "Ye Jingchi, don't waste your breath on her. She's gone mad; she's not a normal person at all. Just shoot!"
Nan Shiran turned to look at Li Ying and sneered, "What, do you think that just because you've died a heroic death, Ye Jingchi will be completely yours? If you die, in a year or two, Ye Jingchi will marry another woman. What will you have then?"
Li Ying argued forcefully: "Nan Shiran, you're not ignorant of these principles, you know men's hearts are easily changed, but why are you so insistent on Ye Jingchi marrying you? You can clearly have your own life, why do you have to make things difficult for yourself?"
"Enough with the nonsense!" Nan Shiran roared in fury. "I am the woman Ye Jingchi should have married, but he didn't. If he had married me, my status would be different, and I wouldn't be looked down upon by the Nan family. My life would be perfect! But now I'm nothing, I have nothing, only a crime! It's all your fault, all your fault! Ye Jingchi, shoot! Kill Li Ying, or I'll kill your son!"
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