How can it be good to live such a humble life?

The man's figure sank into the sofa, his white fingers pinching the goblet, his knuckles turning white.

He slowly looked at Zhao Yan, with an emotion in his eyes that Zhao Yan couldn't understand: "You forced her?"

When Zhao Yan heard the man's words, she raised her brows and recalled what happened that year.

"Haven't you heard of it? 'Mei' was the top star back then. She's so pretty, why don't I use her to make more money?"

The meaning is self-evident. Zhao Yan once wanted to use "charm" to force her to accompany clients and earn more profits for her.

"However... Mei was a woman with a strong character. She refused to eat or drink at that time, and wanted to die rather than live in humiliation. What a beautiful face she had... So I felt pity for her and allowed her the privilege to work by my side."

Zhao Yan spoke in a very charming manner, but without a trace of emotion.

"You can leave now."

The man on the sofa said in a cold voice.

Zhao Yan took it in stride. She smiled calmly, turned around, stopped at the door, and said something to the man on the sofa: "When 'Mei' left, she said that there would no longer be 'Mei' in Fengqing Club from now on, so Mr. Mu, you'd better not worry about it."

Mu Heng's body stiffened, he lowered his head slightly, his face hidden in the shadows, and others could not read the expression on his face.

After Zhao Yan left the box, silence returned to the room.

The atmosphere was eerily quiet; the black-clad bodyguards standing behind Mu Heng dared not even breathe.

Mu Heng appeared in the Fengqing Club tonight, very suddenly.

Half an hour ago, in the study of Mu’s house.

"Master, Miss Ruan's information is already here."

There were two people standing in the dark study. The one who was talking was Mu Heng’s exclusive shadow, codenamed Liuhuo, who was responsible for handling underground matters.

"What do you mean?"

Mu Heng took a puff of his cigarette and asked calmly.

Liuhuo hesitated for a few seconds and reported: "Miss Ruan did leave the Ruan family five years ago. She went to Y County with her biological mother, but only her mother came back later."

"This incident was recalled by the old servant of the Ruan family. After Tao Hongmei returned to the Ruan family, she disposed of all the servants, as if she was hiding something."

"Miss Ruan disappeared for half a year, and the Ruan family did not send anyone to look for her during that time. According to the servants there, Miss Ruan ran away from home on her own and had nothing to do with Tao Hongmei."

Having said this, Liuhuo stopped and secretly observed the changes in Mu Heng's expression.

Mu Heng crushed the cigarette butt into the marble ashtray and immediately realized that something was wrong.

He said calmly, "Go on."

Liu Huo revealed the cruelest part of his investigation. "We tracked down the Huang family. They were sent abroad by Tao Hongmei. But we contacted Huang Rui, the youngest son of the Huang family. He, he said..."

"Ms. Ruan was sold by her biological mother."

This sentence suddenly exploded in Mu Heng's mind, and his body stiffened.

When Liuhuo learned about this from his subordinates, he was also shocked. How could a biological mother sell her own daughter?

As the saying goes, "Women have the most vicious hearts."

"Where did you go?"

Mu Heng's throat was dry and he asked in a stiff voice.

"At that time, it was in the Fengqing Bar in the next city. Later, the Fengqing Bar grew bigger and was renamed the 'Fengqing Club'."

The flowing fire is like this.

Mu Heng's eyes flickered slightly. He had heard of this bar. It was famous for its female hostess. Although it was not a place of entertainment, all the customers who went there to spend money were there for the women inside.

Liuhuo continued, "At that time, a woman named 'Mei' appeared in Fengqing Bar. She was said to be extremely beautiful and was the top star in Fengqing Bar at that time. However, no one had ever seen her. Half a year later, the bar's proprietress announced that 'Mei' had left."

Half a year...

This is so consistent with the time of Ruan Mengmeng's disappearance and reappearance. There is no need to delve into it, the answer has already surfaced.

The "charm" back then was Ruan Mengmeng.

Although Liuhuo had been wandering in the dark for many years and had seen many dirty things, this was the first time he had seen Ruan Mengmeng being sold to a brothel by her biological mother, and it made him feel sick.

How vicious is the heart of such a mother?

Liuhuo thought about it and told another story about Ruan Mengmeng.

"Master, we found out that one year after Miss Ruan returned to the Ruan family, she made an appointment with a psychologist and kept it a secret from the Ruan family. She was treated for depression for two years."

Mu Heng's breathing choked, and his hands on both sides of his body clenched into fists, with the blue veins on the back of his hands faintly exposed.

depression?!

Is it because of the experience in the past six months?

"And now?"

"There has been no medical record in the past two years. Perhaps his condition has stabilized."

Liuhuo was not quite sure about this. Ruan Mengmeng had no record of going to the psychiatric department of a large hospital, but maybe she had seen a private psychologist in private.

Mu Heng couldn't imagine how Ruan Mengmeng could overcome depression alone without the company of her family.

Struggling between the despair of her illness and the desire to survive, she must have been having a very painful time, but he didn't know her yet.

Mu Heng took a deep breath and felt so useless for the first time.

In the study, Mu Heng stood there stiffly, not moving.

Ever since he listened to Liuhuo's report, there was an inexplicable emotion in his eyes.

His whole body was stiff and he couldn't recover from the fact for a long time.

Ruan Mengmeng must have been very desperate back then.

When he thought of this, Mu Heng suppressed his anger and grief in his heart.

So, Mu Heng appeared in the Fengqing Club, and that led to his subsequent conversation with Zhao Yan.

After Zhao Yan left box 001, she returned to the office upstairs.

She looked at the bustling night scene outside the window with a complicated and unclear expression. After smoking a cigarette, she took out a diary from the drawer under her desk.

This was left behind by Ruan Mengmeng at that time.

She said that she didn't want to take away the memories of this place, and she didn't want to remember everything here.

When Ruan Mengmeng first arrived at the bar, she felt very depressed and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. She would often wake up suddenly in the dead of night, recalling the scene of being tied up.

Despair rose from the bottom of her heart, she couldn't help shedding tears, and cried silently in the darkness.

Ruan Mengmeng wanted to live. She struggled and gritted her teeth to endure it. She recorded all the pain in her heart and vented her emotions in her diary.

This diary records Ruan Mengmeng's painful memories.

Zhao Yan had a hunch about the man in box 001. He went straight to the Fengqing Club and asked about the whereabouts of "Mei" the first thing he did. He was probably related to Ruan Mengmeng.