Chapter 130 Design
It was ten o'clock in the evening when we returned to Beishan Villa.
After washing up, Shi Yin returned to the bedroom. The incense burner on the coffee table was already lit with lavender scent, and there was a vase on the bedside with a few fresh lilies in it.
She had seen it in his notebook.
Lily has a sleep-inducing effect.
Shi Yin walked over, touched the thick lily petals, and smelled their fragrance. She opened a drawer, took out the medicine she needed to take every day, poured a few pills, and swallowed them with water.
The phone vibrated a few times.
Meng Xi sent the news: "Second Miss, Secretary Li was attacked on his way home at night and has been sent to the hospital. The residential complex where he lives also suddenly caught fire, and many things in his house were burned."
"knew."
"You should rest early."
"Um."
After Shi Yin sent this message, she turned off her phone. She glanced at the large bed beside her, her hands hanging by her sides slightly curled up. She tried several times but still couldn't lift the quilt to get into bed.
She walked to the French window.
Snuggled into the chaise longue sofa.
She had always disliked the night, and after being diagnosed, she hated it even more. The nights were long and sleepless. She still had nightmares and woke up with aches all over her body.
She is very stubborn.
If you say you will give it a try, you must grit your teeth and keep going.
Just after midnight, the lights in the courtyard of Beishan Villa went out, and the occasional sound of flowing water could be heard from the direction of the artificial lake. At three in the morning, a few birds landed on the balcony's electric pole, occasionally flapping their wings and lowering their heads to peck at the feathers on their bellies.
Around 4:30 in the morning.
Shi Yin closed her eyes while lying on the chair.
Not long after she fell asleep, her brows began to frown, cold sweat gradually appeared on her fair forehead, her breathing quickened, her chest heaved, and her hands tightly clenched the blanket around her.
…
Shi Yin put on some light makeup in the morning.
Wearing a white long skirt.
Wearing a lavender knitted sweater.
She rarely wore such bright clothes, and at first glance, she looked full of life and in high spirits, with delicate skin, rosy cheeks, and a look of abundant vitality.
She said that it was the incense and lilies Han Zhan ordered that helped her sleep well at night.
This made Han Er happy.
He took her hand as if asking for a reward, bent down in front of her, and put his face close, motioning for her to kiss him. Shi Yin smiled silently, and stood on tiptoe to give him a light kiss on the cheek.
After breakfast, Shi Yin grabbed her car keys and headed out. She went to Jingcheng Hospital and, following Meng Xi's instructions, took the elevator to the tenth floor of the inpatient department. After knocking on the door and entering the ward, she saw Secretary Li, leaning against the headboard, dressed in a blue plaid hospital gown with a bandage wrapped around her forehead, looking disheveled.
Different from his previous arrogance and tolerance after being forced to betray, this time when he saw Shi Yin, Secretary Li seemed to have seen a savior. He did not even care about the IV needle on the back of his hand, and slid down from the bed, trying to pull her with trembling hands, but did not dare to touch the corner of her clothes. He just kept calling her "Second Miss".
Shi Yin glanced at him.
I pressed the bedside bell.
A nurse rushed in moments later, helped the man back to the bedside, and re-infused him with fluids. After they left, Secretary Li buried her head in tears, "How could Shi Tianhong do this to me? I had no choice but to provide the incriminating evidence, but I'm prepared to take the full responsibility for him and won't let him suffer!"
"You're right. He let Cheng Lan, who was lying in the hospital, take the blame for him, ignored Shi Qinghe who was about to go to court, and even snatched your project book without authorization. Even his family members acted like this, let alone a servant like me who has no blood relationship with him."
"I was so stupid. I thought he would understand my difficulties. I didn't expect him to hire someone to kill me and set fire to my wife and children! If you hadn't secretly hired bodyguards to protect me and sent people to check on my family as soon as possible, my family of three would have died last night."
Secretary Li knelt on the bed.
He bent down and kowtowed heavily to Shi Yin several times.
"Second Miss, I was blinded by my ignorance and followed Shi Tianhong so foolishly that I failed to live up to your repeated kindness. After this incident, my heart and soul are all yours! I will do whatever you ask me to do and will obey you in every way!"
Shi Yin was silent.
She signaled him to get up with her eyes.
"You were willing to take responsibility for everything for Shi Tianhong and explain those illegal and criminal activities. Some of the signatures were yours?"
"Yes, Second Miss." Secretary Li confessed everything. "Shi Tianhong is very thoughtful in everything he does. For those illegal activities, he never signs only one person's name. He always divides them into several parts. If something goes wrong, he can find someone to take the blame. Cheng Lan does this, and so do I."
"You mean, as long as Shi Tianhong puts all the blame on you, he can get away with it this time?"
"yes."
At this point, Secretary Li immediately pulled out a black card from his pocket and handed it to Shi Yin: "Second Miss, this is something I recorded privately, and Shi Tianhong doesn't even know about it."
"There's a video of him at Shi's residence discussing money laundering with a representative from abroad. Shi Qinghe was home at the time, and she appears on camera for four or five seconds. As long as she can come forward and testify personally as Shi Tianhong's biological daughter, even if Shi Tianhong pushes the blame onto me, he will still be held responsible for money laundering."
Shi Yin took it.
He lowered his eyes to glance at the tiny memory card.
She walked forward, patted Secretary Li on the shoulder, and said in a gentle voice: "Don't worry and recover."
"Thank you, Second Miss!"
Secretary Li felt both hatred and relief as he watched the woman disappear through the doorway. He hated Shi Tianhong for being such a worthless person, but was relieved that Shi Yin was such a soft-hearted woman.
At this time.
The wife came out of the bathroom holding some washed fruit.
She heard all the conversations in the room.
The woman walked to the bedside, looked at her injured husband with heartache, and asked tentatively: "If Shi Tianhong really pushed you out, saying that you signed all those documents and that you did all the illegal things, then will you also go to jail?"
“Sometimes the sound is there, but I can’t!”
"Will she protect you?"
"Of course!"
"But you are a traitor."
"How can you talk like that?" Secretary Li gave her a sidelong glance. "I've come to my senses. Meng Xi was Shi Qinghe's person back then. Shi Yin took her in, valued her, and considered her in everything. They're all traitors. If Meng Xi can get that treatment, I'm sure I can too."
"Really?"
The woman still didn't quite believe it.
Secretary Li said she had long hair but little experience. "Shi Yin is young. A few sweet words to win her over, and then a token of loyalty, will move her. Once she helps me exonerate myself, I'll have her support me as the chief secretary of the Shi Group. Then, I'll learn a few of her secrets and manipulate her, and a steady stream of money will flow into our Li family."
Outside the door.
Meng Xi was waiting in the corridor.
He carefully put away the card Shi Yin handed him and reported quietly, "Second Miss, I've paid the balance to the people I hired to chase Secretary Li down the road and set fire to Secretary Li's house last night. I've asked them to leave the capital."
Shi Yin hummed.
As he entered the elevator, he bumped into several prosecutors. Watching them walk toward Secretary Li's ward, Meng Xi asked, "Shi Tianhong will probably try to pin the blame on Secretary Li. Do you want to save Secretary Li?"
"Save him?"
"He gave you the memory card. Does that mean he's truly surrendered?"
Shi Yin glanced at her, pressed the elevator door close button, and said, "It's hard to tell if someone is sincere or not. Mr. Li is probably expecting me to help him, but he has no choice but to go to jail."
"You don't want him?"
"He was able to betray Shi Tianhong and secretly record Shi Tianhong's secrets, so he can plot against me in the future."
Hearing this, Meng Xi suddenly straightened his back, his words were barely coherent but he still spoke hurriedly: "Second Miss, please believe me, I will never plot against you, let alone betray you! I followed Shi Qinghe when I was with her because I really had no other choice -"
"I know."
Meng Xi was stunned.
She stared at Shi Yin's delicate profile with light makeup, and she didn't speak for a long time. Meng Xi felt very lucky to have met the Second Miss in this prosperous metropolis like Beijing where she had no one to rely on.
Pull her out of the quagmire.
Help her reach the sky.
Still trust her so much.
Meng Xi used to think that the soldiers who died for their masters in TV dramas were fake, and no matter how much gratitude they received, they would never repay it with their own lives. At this moment, she realized that people really could die for another person.
That's how she treats Shi Yin.
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