Xia Lan was in a nightmare, desperately trying to escape. She wanted to flee from the bad guys' pursuit, but she was too weak. She was caught, ruthlessly sent to a desolate mountain village, and locked in a cellar.
The unfamiliar sense of oppression made Xia Lan want to escape, but the more she struggled, the more she was bullied. She had only one thought in her mind: she had to escape.
But she had nowhere to escape; despair surrounded her. She struggled, not wanting to be swallowed by the darkness, but the darkness still held her captive.
She felt increasingly suffocated and desperate, on the verge of being completely annihilated, when a deep voice suddenly entered her mind.
"Xia Lan... wake up..."
"Xia Lan, wake up... don't sleep..."
“Xia Lan…”
His voice was like a rope she felt in the dark; she gripped it and walked through the darkness, his voice growing clearer and clearer in her mind…
"Xia Lan!" Qin Yu looked at Xia Lan, who had finally opened her eyes, his eyes filled with tears.
"Brother Yu?" Xia Lan slowly sat up and looked at Qin Yu beside her. Beside Qin Yu, an old lady was holding a pair of chopsticks and pinching her fingers.
Although she didn't feel any pain, Xia Lan didn't know what she was doing.
Looking at Qin Yu, Qin Yu simply expressed his gratitude to the old lady.
"Grandma Wang, thank you." Qin Yu said to Grandma Wang.
"It's nothing, it's nothing. My soul just got scared away. I'll call it back and it'll be fine," Grandma Wang said with a smile, then packed her things and left.
"...Is this some kind of summoning of my soul?" Xia Lan looked at Qin Yu, somewhat curious.
"Do you know how long you've been unconscious..." The doctor slowly walked over and glanced at Xia Lan.
"This kid tried everything to wake you up, but nothing worked. He didn't want me to prick you with a needle, so he called Grandma Wang to perform a soul-summoning ritual for you, and you actually woke up!" The doctor was speechless, feeling that his profession had been challenged.
He wanted to wake Xia Lan by pricking her with a needle, but Qin Yu refused.
They would rather believe in feudal superstition.
snort.
What I hate most is that she actually woke me up.
I got even angrier.
"...As long as it works." Qin Yu looked at Xia Lan's bewildered and surprised eyes, and ruffled her hair. "You've been asleep for a long time."
"How long?" Xia Lan blinked and asked.
“Three whole days.” The doctor glanced at Xia Lan and answered calmly.
"What? Three days?" Xia Lanxin was shocked. She felt like she had just woken up for a short while, and three days had already passed?
"What about your job?" Xia Lan asked slowly, remembering her work at the department store.
"I've already spoken to you on your behalf. Because of the special circumstances, Minister Yang said you should rest assured and go back to work when you're better."
"That's good." Xia Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing Xia Lan's usual smile return, Qin Yu felt relieved. "Are you hungry? I made you some porridge, would you like some?"
"Yes!" Xia Lan's eyes lit up. As soon as she woke up, she could feel that her body was starving.
Qin Yu smiled and brought over the porridge that he had made sure it was warm. Xia Lan wanted to take it and eat it herself, but Qin Yu refused.
Qin Yu fed Xia Lan bite by bite.
The doctor couldn't stand it anymore. "Tsk tsk tsk, anyone who didn't know better would think she's crippled. You don't have to spoil your wife like this, do you?"
"You don't have a wife," Qin Yu said calmly.
"Qin Yu, you've really gone too far! I'll never marry a woman as depraved as you..." the doctor scoffed.
"You don't have a wife, you wouldn't understand," Qin Yu repeated.
"..." The doctor gritted his teeth in anger.
Xia Lan was amused, never expecting that Qin Yu could leave someone speechless.
After filling her stomach, Xia Lan looked at Qin Yu and asked curiously, "Those human traffickers..."
"They've all been sent to the police station," Qin Yu said earnestly to Xia Lan.
Xia Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
Qin Yu glanced at Xia Lan, and then slowly recounted what had happened over the past three days.
Upon hearing a report of human trafficking, the police immediately dispatched officers. When they arrived in the village to investigate, Lao Wu returned with a man who turned out to be an accomplice of the two human traffickers. The three of them were taken away by the police.
After being interrogated by the police, the three traffickers finally confessed and told the truth.
It turned out that someone in the village had asked them to kidnap Xia Lan. That person promised that if they succeeded, they would receive two hundred yuan, and the money from selling Xia Lan would also be theirs.
The two were not human traffickers; they were simply tempted by the offer of two hundred yuan and decided to commit the crime.
They had originally planned to make their move during the day, but when they saw Qin Yu's tall and strong physique, they chickened out and decided to come back at night.
The man said Qin Yu would go out at night, so they squatted near Qin Yu's house for a long time until they saw Qin Yu actually leave home before they dared to make a move.
Unexpectedly, just as they finally managed to capture Xia Lan, Qin Yu and his group caught up with them.
As for the person who was there to meet her, he was the real human trafficker. He was in charge of transportation. As long as the two people handed Xia Lan over to him, he would immediately take Xia Lan to his supplier.
It's fair to say that once Xia Lan is in his hands, finding her again will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The police told Qin Yu what they had found out, but when Qin Yu asked who the person the man had implicated was, the police shook their heads.
The man met them at night, in the woods, but he didn't see them at all, only certain of one thing.
It was a man, and he was quite old.
They were supposed to have Xia Lan give a statement, but she remained unconscious.
The police couldn't say anything, but they told Qin Yu to go to the police station to give a statement after Xia Lan woke up.
After listening to Qin Yu's words, Xia Lan fell silent.
The man was quite old.
"Who could it be?" Xia Lan looked at Qin Yu, whose eyes darkened.
Xia Lan felt that Xia Wei was the one who best fit the description of the people she had offended.
"Could it be my uncle Xia Wei? He hates me, so he thought of hiring human traffickers to sell me?" Xia Lan guessed.
Qin Yu had also considered Xia Wei, but later he dismissed the idea.
"That person knew I would go out at night, so he must be from the village."
Because those two people were so certain that Qin Yu would go out at night, Qin Yu assumed that they must be people from the village who knew he was going out that night.
Either I saw him go out at night, or...
I knew what he'd be doing out at night!
"Who else knows about these things about you?" Xia Lan glanced at Qin Yu, sensing that this person was likely targeting Qin Yu, not her.
"..." Qin Yu shook his head. Before there is any evidence, everyone is a suspect.
But the villagers at least knew that this person was definitely next to his house!
More likely, those two people knew him, but were too afraid to expose him...
Qin Yu felt that the latter possibility was more likely.
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