Why are you making it sound like a life-or-death situation?
Ning Jiu'an felt embarrassed. Looking at Li Mufei's carefree and decadent appearance, he found it a bit funny, but he was also afraid that if he laughed at her, she would punch him in the chest with her little fists.
"I'm just saying! It'll be so hard to ask Xiaoyueyue out in the future. My brother has been single for 23 years, and now that he finally has a wife, he's going to be all over her, right? My brother may seem cold and aloof, but he's actually very caring!"
Although Li Shaochuan can be a bit scary when he's angry, he's really gentle when he's nice to her. I remember her classmates used to envy Li Mufei for having a brother.
"And what about me? Do I hurt you?"
Hearing Li Mufei praise Li Shaochuan, Ning Jiu'an panicked. He had never been praised like that by her before! And he was incredibly good to her!
"Oh my, you're jealous of my brother? That's a bit childish, isn't it?"
Li Mufei immediately pinched Ning Jiu'an's cheeks and gently twisted them.
"I just feel like I haven't done enough because I've never heard you praise me."
He wasn't jealous; he was just always afraid that he had somehow wronged Li Mufei.
"You're so good to me, you love me so much, isn't spending every day with you the best compliment I can give you?"
Li Mufei was stunned. It turned out that people who love you always feel they don't give you enough. She was a little touched, seeing Ning Jiu'an's slightly disappointed look...
"Don't be so insecure, okay? You're perfect. It's me who's sometimes a bit short-tempered and makes you angry..."
Indeed, she can be a little willful and unreasonable when she gets angry, but Ning Jiu always tolerates it and even tries to coax her.
"I know you do this because you care, and sometimes I'm actually quite happy about it."
Ning Jiu'an grinned foolishly...
"How silly!"
Li Mufei habitually grabbed his collar and happily gave him a sweet kiss.
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The following afternoon
T City
Lan Jingyan Base Basement
"Baby, the person is inside. Do you want to interrogate him alone, or do you want me to come with you?"
Lan Jingyan has always respected her, but he was afraid that if he were there, it would affect Yan Xiluo's interrogation.
"Let's do it together. I don't plan to make a move today."
She roughly guessed that these people were deliberately captured by the mastermind behind the scenes; otherwise, someone as cautious as him/her over the years would not have easily let his/her subordinates fall into their hands.
Because he/she is certain that his/her subordinates will not reveal any information to her, or perhaps these people simply do not know who their superiors are.
"good."
The two entered the dimly lit room, where all four men were tied to stools and gagged with cloth.
Yan Xiluo and Lan Jingyan sat down on the stools in front of them.
"You know why I'm here, so I won't beat around the bush. Whoever can provide me with useful information, I'll let them go and help them get a new identity to evade the pursuit from above."
Yan Xiluo leaned back lazily in her chair, crossed her legs, and casually rested her hand on one side. Her tone was neither warm nor cold, and her face was expressionless.
Lan Jingyan listened quietly and stayed by her side.
"The only reason you're so tight-lipped and willing to work so hard for your superiors is because they have a fatal weakness in your hands, right?"
Seeing that they didn't react, Yan Xiluo continued speaking.
"For example... evidence of a crime, a life-saving favor, or even your family members being in his hands? It's nothing more than these few possibilities. Whoever is willing to give me useful information, I will keep my promise and guarantee the safety of your family members."
Yan Xiluo approached them step by step, pacing back and forth in front of them.
They remained unmoved and showed no reaction whatsoever.
"Do you know that you were deliberately sent to your deaths by your superiors to fall into our hands? And do you know that the consequences of falling into our hands are dire? He doesn't even value your lives, are you sure you still want to work for him, even to the point of losing your lives?"
Yan Xiluo simply gave up and sat down again.
Hearing Yan Xiluo say this, the group looked at each other in disbelief... Was this all specially arranged by the higher-ups?
“That’s right. If I hand you over, you will all die. You don’t believe her, but you can believe mine, right? I, Lan Jingyan, always keep my word. What she just said is what I also wanted to say. Her promise to you is also my promise to you.”
Lan Jingyan had already seen that they were wavering, so she continued to add fuel to the fire.
At this moment, Pang Jiayi came in and whispered something in Yan Xiluo's ear.
Pang Jiayi handed her a cell phone and then stepped back to Yan Xiluo's side.
Who is Ah Yao?
When Ah Yao heard that only his wife would call him by that nickname, he instantly became excited, and the stool shook along with his body.
"Ah Yao, is that you?"
Yan Xiluo came to him and pulled the cloth out of his mouth. She knew that he would not bite his tongue to commit suicide until he understood what was going on.
What did you do to my wife?!
A Yao glared angrily at Yan Xiluo and shouted at him excitedly.
"Congratulations on becoming a father! Your wife gave birth to your son last night at H City People's Hospital. It's just a pity... your child will be fatherless, and you won't even get to see your child..."
Yan Xiluo didn't want to say such heartless words, but that person didn't hold back at all when sending people to hunt her down.
She just wanted to provoke him. If he was willing to talk, she would keep her promise. If he didn't, she would have no choice but to hand over the evidence from that day to the police and let them handle it.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"
Ah Yao was already in tears... mostly because of guilt towards his wife.
“Our boss is called Ah Hu, but he’s not the one behind it all. None of us have ever met the real boss! I was in debt to loan sharks and couldn’t pay it back. They wanted to chop off my hand, but Ah Hu saved me and then made me work for him. Later, fearing I might change my mind, he had someone monitor my wife 24/7. If I ran away, my wife would suffer too! That’s all I know… We’ve never met the person above us, we don’t even know his name, we just call him our master.”
Ah Yao hurriedly told everything he knew without hiding anything.
"Just as I thought, they really don't know who the people up there are! Do you have a picture of Ah Hu or anything like that?"
It wasn't all for naught... at least they learned that their superior was called Ah Hu, so that's some progress, right?
"I don't have a photo... but he has a distinctive feature, I don't know if it will be useful to you?"
Ah Yao tried hard to recall all his memories of Ah Hu, hoping to find some useful clues.
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