There was a moment of silence in the air.
Ning Man'an looked at her coldly, her gaze as deep as a cold pool: "Wake her up, but remember, members of the Ning family can be killed, but not humiliated."
Upon hearing this, Cha Meiling chuckled softly.
She curved her alluring eyes, her expression filled with deep sarcasm: "Killing is acceptable, but humiliation is not? The Ning family's unity against external forces is truly... touching."
Cha Meiling looked directly at her, her tone carrying an all-knowing certainty—
"Eldest sister, don't tell me you haven't even considered the thought—if Ning Bingyu, Ning Yuan, and the rest of the second branch of the family were all dead, wouldn't you be the only heir left in this vast Ning family?"
If the Ning family were truly as united as their family motto, the Ning clan would not have fallen to its current state!
What's Ningman'an doing here? What a show-off!
Ning Man'an remained unmoved; nothing Cha Meiling said would affect her.
It made Cha Meiling look like a clown, which ignited a nameless anger in her heart.
Cha Meiling simply stood up and smiled, "I'll go check on Ning Yuan first."
Suddenly, as if remembering something, Cha Meiling's eyes gleamed with an excited yet strange light—
"By the way, eldest sister, you just promised my godfather that if he needs to deal with Ning Yuan... for example, cut off one of her hands or something, would that be considered an insult to the Ning family, or killing her?"
Ning Man'an didn't even lift her eyelids, but coldly ordered the female secretary standing to the side, "Take Miss Annie over and wake her up."
The female secretary nodded and gestured "please" to Cha Meiling without any expression.
Cha Meiling followed the female secretary through the corridor and arrived at Guan Ningyuan's room.
Two burly men stood at the entrance, their expressions stern.
The female secretary gestured for the bodyguard to open the door and led Cha Meiling into the room.
Ning Yuan had been untied by this time, but her wrists were still handcuffed to the headboard.
She lay in bed, her eyes still glazed over, half-asleep and disoriented.
The female secretary walked to the bedside and took a tray from a bodyguard standing nearby.
There was a syringe and a sterile cotton ball on it.
She put on medical gloves, skillfully extracted the medication, and then found a vein in Ning Yuan's arm and disinfected it.
Then, he deftly inserted the needle into the vein and slowly injected the medication.
Cha Meiling stood aside, quietly watching all of this, a chill running through her heart.
Ning Man'an, a woman who lives on the edge of a knife, surely has all sorts of shady drugs in her possession!
Not long after, Ning Yuan on the bed trembled a few times and let out a low moan.
She slowly opened her eyes, her gaze initially somewhat confused, but it quickly focused and became clear and sharp.
Her prolonged coma left her pale, with cracked lips, and she looked extremely tired and weak.
When her gaze fell on Cha Meiling, her pupils suddenly contracted, and a look of astonishment flashed across her face.
But she quickly calmed down, ignored Cha Meiling, and turned to the female secretary next to her: "I want to see the eldest sister."
The female secretary spoke in a flat, emotionless voice, like a machine: "When the young lady wants to see you, she will naturally see you."
After saying that, she put away the used syringe, turned and left with her bodyguard. With a soft click, the door closed from the outside, isolating her from everything outside.
In the room, only Ning Yuan and Cha Meiling remained, and the air instantly became stagnant and subtle.
Cha Meiling walked to the bedside and looked down at her.
She reached out her fair hand and gently brushed Ning Yuan's sweaty forehead.
The movements appeared gentle, but the gaze was as if admiring a work of art about to be destroyed.
"Little sister, look at you now, you're really... pitiful. One second you were brought into the inner circle of power by Brother Yu, and the next you've become a lamb to the slaughter."
Ning Yuan tilted her head slightly, avoiding her touch, a look of disgust flashing in her eyes: "Cha Meiling... stop talking nonsense, what do you want to do?"
Cha Meiling seemed to have heard something extremely interesting, and suddenly chuckled softly—
"What do I want to do? I definitely want to... have a good talk with you."
She pulled over a chair, crossed her legs, and sat down with a composed and elegant posture.
This contrasted sharply with Ning Yuan, who was weak and disheveled in bed.
Ning Yuan stared coldly at the exquisite yet repulsive face before her.
This woman, who schemed to prevent her from acknowledging her relatives in her past life, is now stabbing her in the back in this one.
Her voice was hoarse from weakness, but it didn't hide her sarcasm: "What are we talking about? How you went to such lengths to steal my jade chili pepper and prevent the Ning family from finding me?"
"Shall we talk about how you instructed that idiot Tang Zhenzhen to frame Wei Heng, trying to control my fate in your hands?"
She simply couldn't understand how a woman like Cha Meiling could have married Rong Zhaonan in her past life.
Cha Meiling elegantly tossed her cascading curly hair: "That's right! I did it! So what? I told you a long time ago that this industry isn't for you."
"Human hearts are treacherous. You were greedy for wealth and insisted on rushing in to claim kinship. Look at what happened to you now?"
Ning Yuan sneered as she listened to the hypocritical rhetoric she had repeated time and time again: "So, I should thank you?"
Cha Meiling stared at her defiantly, even with a hint of resentment: "That's right! Isn't that so?"
She leaned forward slightly, her voice low, carrying a sinister anger—
"If you hadn't suddenly appeared, I could have opened the Swiss bank's vault with that jade chili pepper!"
“With that huge sum of money, how could my Cha family have fallen to this state today? It would be natural for me to marry Ning Bingyu.”
"With our two families joining forces through marriage, Daddy wouldn't have thought of bringing down the Ning family. Then the Ning family wouldn't have been targeted by those international capitals and would have ended up like this today!"
Cha Meiling almost pressed her face against Ning Yuan's, her eyes filled with venomous resentment—
"It's all because of you! Ning Yuan! You're a jinx! You ruined everyone's lives! You knew perfectly well that no one in the Ning family needed you! Why didn't you die in the mainland? You could have died in that poor, remote place! Do you deserve this wealth and status?!"
Seeing her hysterical state, Ning Yuan calmed down instead.
She even let out a scoff, a light laugh carrying endless mockery—
“Madam Ning is my mother, not yours, Cha Meiling. I have Ning family blood in my veins, but you don’t! Whether I deserve this wealth or not is not for you, an outsider, to judge!”
"I can claim relatives whenever I want, and I can't claim relatives whenever I don't want to. When did it become your place, an outsider, to decide my fate? Do you think you're a god?! No, you're just a lunatic!"
Cha Meiling stared at her darkly: "You..."
Ning Yuan interrupted her rudely: "That jade chili pepper is my token! It belongs to the Ning family! What does it have to do with you, Cha Meiling? It's none of your business!"
Once he started talking, his saliva began to flow, and his swearing became much smoother.
"You're spouting nonsense and turning black into white! Your logic is that if others don't live according to your wishes or do things your way, it's all their fault, they've ruined you? Cha Meiling, stop being crazy!!"
"Slap—!" With a crisp sound, Cha Meiling angrily raised her hand and slapped Ning Yuan hard across the face!
"Shut up, you lowly Northern girl!"
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