When the phone rang, Liu Meiling was having dinner with Yi Tianran at a restaurant.
Upon seeing Yi Qilin's name on the caller ID, her expression darkened slightly. After hesitating for a moment, she answered the phone in front of Yi Tianran.
Before she could speak, an unfamiliar voice came through the phone: "Hello, are you a family member of Mr. Yi Qilin? He was in an accident and is currently being treated in the emergency room at Ren'ai Hospital. Please come over!"
Liu Meiling's expression changed drastically, and she abruptly stood up from her seat, her heart in turmoil. "What exactly happened?"
The person on the other end of the phone said something that made her face grow even paler and more unsightly.
After a long pause, she said in a hoarse voice, "I understand, I will get there as soon as possible."
After the call ended, Yi Tianran asked with concern, "What happened?"
Liu Meiling raised her head with a solemn expression and told her, "Yi Qilin's left eye was attacked by a sharp object, and he is currently in the hospital receiving emergency treatment."
Yi Tianran frowned and said in a deep voice, "Do you still want to go see him? Even if he has been using you all along."
"From the moment I deceived him with fake secrets, I gave up on him. But he has never suspected me. Perhaps he is too confident in himself and thinks that I will be devoted to him for the rest of my life."
A mocking smile flashed across Liu Meiling's face, though it was unclear whether she was mocking him or herself.
"Since he thinks I haven't betrayed him yet, I can't afford to show any weakness. I want to go and see what's going on, and see if I can use this opportunity to help you find something to use against Chu Lin."
It turns out that when Yi Qilin gave her the task of stealing Fu's secrets and said he would marry her afterward, she already guessed that he was deceiving and using her.
At first, she still had hope, and later she even wanted to foolishly continue to deceive herself.
But at the last moment, just as she was about to steal the secret by taking advantage of her identity, she stopped herself.
She no longer wanted to take advantage of Yi Tianran's kindness towards her, and then betray or hurt him.
Even though she was jealous of Yi Tianran's happiness, she could still feel how good Yi Tianran was to her.
That's better, a hundred times more sincere than Yi Qilin's.
Without comparison, she might have continued to be foolish, but after experiencing true love, she suddenly realized that her past actions of giving everything for a man were incredibly foolish.
Besides, he had no intention of marrying her and looked down on her from the bottom of his heart.
If that's the case, why would she help him steal secrets?
At that moment, she stopped and prepared to leave, but then the lights suddenly came on in the darkness.
She was startled, and the moment she looked up, she saw Yi Tianran leaning against the door with her arms crossed, saying in a deep voice, "I've been wondering if you'll take any action, and I didn't expect to see it tonight."
"You..." Liu Meiling was startled, staring at her incredulously. Countless thoughts raced through her mind. In that instant, everything became clear to her. "You knew I was an undercover agent? You've been suspicious of me for a long time?"
“It wasn’t that long ago!” Yi Tianran said coldly. “It was when the video of Yi Laosan being beaten by the three brothers was exposed on my phone that I guessed there was a mole among us.”
No one but me has ever seen that video, so how could it have been leaked?
Then I thought back, and realized I'd only ever lent you my phone. I immediately knew the answer.
She still refused to believe that her childhood friend was an undercover agent sent by Yi Qilin.
But upon closer reflection, clues had already been there, including Liu Meiling's personality change, various coincidences, and—
"When I approached you as Qin Yao, you were once unsure how to handle being set up on a blind date."
That day, I specially accompanied you to your blind date. On the way back, you went to buy milk tea, and I waited by the roadside. It was by sheer coincidence that I was attacked by a truck. Was this incident related to you too?
Liu Meiling remained silent for a long while, then slowly nodded. "Yes. Because you want to investigate the truth behind Su Mo's suicide, Yi Qilin was afraid you would find out things you shouldn't know, so he asked me to lure you out. He wanted to orchestrate an accident..."
At that time, she blindly followed Yi Qilin's arrangements and had no thoughts of her own.
Yi Tianran's gaze lingered on her. "If you had known back then that I was Yi Tianran, would you still have done this?"
Liu Meiling: "...I don't know."
Yi Tianran sighed softly and continued, "Later, when we met again abroad, you used walnut milk to test me, which meant you had already guessed my identity, right? After that, you created a chance encounter so that I could arrange for you to join the Fu family. Now that things have come to this, do you regret it?"
Liu Meiling smiled bitterly and said, "Does it matter whether I regret it or not? Didn't you already set a trap and catch me?"
“This is the last time.” Yi Tianran’s eyes seemed to sparkle with stars. “I wanted to be willful one more time, so I gave you a chance. I wanted to know if you would steal the secrets. Thank you for choosing to stop at the last moment.”
Liu Meiling looked slightly surprised. "You still believe me?"
"Of course, now you can see clearly who is sincere to you and who is just pretending, right?" Yi Tianran's face was full of smiles, and a sly glint flashed in her eyes. "So, you chose to give up because you don't want to be used by Yi Qilin anymore. But he has used you for so long, don't you want to get revenge on him one last time?"
Liu Meiling's heart was slightly moved, and she finally chose to cooperate with Yi Tianran, giving Yi Qilin a fake confidential document.
In the end, he indeed joined forces with Chu Lin to frame the Fu family.
Because Yi Tianran was prepared, she launched a surprise attack on them.
"I suspect that Yi Qilin's serious injury this time was no accident and must be related to Chu Lin."
Liu Meiling's expression was surprisingly calm. "That's why I need to go back to Yi Qilin's side to find out what's going on."
“I don’t need you to take such a big risk to help me.” Yi Tianran held her hand with concern and said seriously, “You finally managed to get rid of him, so please don’t step back into this swamp.”
Liu Meiling smiled knowingly at her, "Since we reunited, you have been the one helping me through one difficult time after another."
So this time, it's my turn to support you.
This is my own choice, no one forced me, it's my own will, can't you support my decision?"
Yi Tianran: "..."
Now that things have come to this point, if Yi Tianran were to stop her again, it would seem like she was being ungrateful.
"Then be careful in everything you do. If you are in any danger, notify me immediately and I will come to rescue you."
"Don't worry, I haven't been wasting my years by his side. I won't put myself in danger. I'm leaving now." With that, Liu Meiling hurried off to the hospital.
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