Chapter 256 Signal
"Second Young Master, stop talking!" Perhaps afraid of upsetting Yu Xingtong, Zhu Ziqi stopped her, "Xia Mian will be dead soon, why bother with your image?!"
“That won’t do either,” Liu Er said dejectedly. “Although he and Zhou Pingchuan made my whole family lose face in the clan, I don’t blame Mianmian. Mianmian did nothing wrong. I don’t want him to hate me before he dies.”
Zhu Ziqi glanced at Liu Er, then at Yu Xingtong, a hint of impatience in his eyes. He clearly felt that his two teammates were acting strangely.
As they were talking, Liu Er had already hidden behind the garbage heap, as if Xia Mian couldn't see him and therefore hadn't participated in the kidnapping.
Helpless, Zhu Ziqi could only pull Zhou Ting over and press him down into the chair next to Xia Mian.
"Sigh," she pulled out a lighter and sighed deeply, "Today, you two can finally be together forever. First lovers can't forget each other, but because you've already separated and started your own families, you can only silently endure the pain of longing. But staying by the side of someone you don't love is too much for you. Rather than living like walking corpses, you decided to enter the next cycle of reincarnation together, so you agreed to meet here... to commit suicide for love. What a beautiful yet tragic word! Do you like the story I wrote for you?"
The more Xia Mian listened, the more alarmed he became. He finally understood why they had called Zhou Ting over—to create the illusion that he and Zhou Ting had committed suicide together, so that Zhou Pingchuan would live in the anger of betrayal and misunderstand him until his death!
What a vicious scheme!
After saying that, Zhu Ziqi called Yu Xingtong and Liu Er, and the three of them worked together to move a stainless steel bucket, more than half a person tall, from the corner of the wall. The moment the lid was opened, a pungent smell of gasoline wafted out.
"Don't worry, you'll be able to stay together forever soon." Zhu Ziqi handed Liu Er and Yu Xingtong each a basin of water. "But before you leave, I need to give you a bath first."
They planned to burn them directly into charcoal with gasoline.
Xia Mian couldn't think of a good solution for the moment, so he could only start with Zhou Ting. He turned to Zhou Ting and said, "I've said it many times, I don't like you, so what are you doing here?! You have a bright future ahead of you, why would you want to die with me?"
He said that to make Zhou Ting change his mind and disrupt their plans. Regardless of the final decision, every bit of time they could buy them was valuable.
Before he fainted, he was on the phone with Zhou Pingchuan. Zhou Pingchuan was very alert and would definitely have guessed that he was in danger. With Zhou Pingchuan's methods, finding him was only a matter of time.
Zhou Ting, whose face had been ashen, seemed to come alive upon hearing his words: "Mianmian, you care about me? You still care about me!"
Xia Mian really wanted to persuade Zhou Ting to leave. He couldn't give Zhou Ting what he wanted, and he didn't want to drag innocent people down with him. But at a time like this, his mind was still full of romance, which made Xia Mian want to punch him.
"Zhou Ting, do you know what death is? You're about to disappear from this world! Think of your older brother, he only has you as his son. Think of your grandfather, who has high hopes for you, are you willing to abandon them?"
The more he talked, the more excited Zhou Ting became: "I can, Mianmian, I'm willing to go to the Yellow Springs with you. I even brought the gift you gave me today."
Zhou Ting nodded downwards: "Look."
In the urgency of the situation, from the moment the blindfold was removed, Xia Mian had been trying her best to gather information and think of ways to escape, and hadn't really paid much attention to Zhou Ting.
He thought the gift Zhou Ting mentioned was from the original owner of the body, but when he looked down, he found it was a choker necklace.
A wild rose, red as blood, hangs from the center of the choker, while several tassels dangle from the back, exuding freedom and wildness.
This is... Xia Mian's pupils suddenly contracted.
This is the necklace he wore when he accompanied Zhou Pingchuan to the first ball!
After the ball, perhaps finding him too flamboyant, Zhou Pingchuan pinned him against the wall and violently ripped off his necklace. Because he was penniless, he searched everywhere after dawn but couldn't find it anywhere.
At the time, there were only the two of them in the room, and he wondered if Zhou Pingchuan had taken it and then used money to shut him up.
This necklace might be in a trash can, picked up by a scavenger, or delivered to the front desk by a hotel cleaner... but it could never be on Zhou Ting.
So it... was really taken by Zhou Pingchuan.
Therefore, this was a signal from Zhou Pingchuan to him.
Zhou Pingchuan is trying to find a way to save him!
It's estimated that after Liu Er found Zhou Ting, Zhou Ting wasn't confident and urgently contacted Zhou Pingchuan. Zhou Pingchuan then gave the necklace to Zhou Ting, hoping to put Xia Mian at ease.
Given Zhou Pingchuan's style of doing things, he will definitely have other plans.
He had even considered waiting for the fire to start, burning through the ropes, then urinating on his clothes to escape. Seeing the signal, Xia Mian felt a little more at ease.
Next, we need to buy time for Zhou Pingchuan's rescue.
Xia Mian: "I told you I don't love you, I don't love you at all. Do you know what death is? It hurts! Forget it, I can't reason with you. Second Young Master, you have someone backing you up, don't you?"
Liu Er opened his mouth as if by reflex, but Zhu Ziqi stopped him: "Don't tell him! Ha, a man who's about to die, yet he has so many questions."
The three men had already started pouring gasoline at their feet, the strong smell making Xia Mian's eyes water. He blinked, tears welling up in his eyes as he moved: "It's because I'm about to die that I want to know who's behind this. If I'm not mistaken, he's the one who came up with all this ideas, isn't he? Second Young Master, please let me die knowing the truth, tell me."
Liu Er was always chivalrous and had always coveted Xia Mian. How could he resist when Xia Mian begged him with tears in her eyes? He opened his mouth to speak again.
Zhu Ziqi quickly dropped the basin and covered Liu Er's mouth. Yu Xingtong had also regained her composure by then, and together with Zhu Ziqi, they restrained Liu Er.
This team was clearly hastily assembled and lacked unity. Xia Mian, recognizing this, continued, "Fine, you don't have to tell me. I'm just curious why he didn't come forward himself and instead had you carry out the plan. What benefits did he promise you? Have you considered the possibility that the plan might fail? If it fails, will he abandon you? I already have a guess as to who this person is. Do you really think he has the means to get you out of this mess?"
"Even if the plan succeeds and we are burned to death, as the spouses of the Zhou family head and the next heirs of the Zhou family, the Zhou family will never let it go. Suicide for love? Aren't you underestimating the Zhou family a bit too much?"
"I can tell you definitively now, you've been played," Xia Mian said, looking up at the three of them with a confident and certain tone. "The person behind this just wants to use you to get rid of me and Zhou Ting, so that he can create an opportunity to get close to Zhou Pingchuan! I don't know what benefits he promised you, but his ultimate goal is just to satisfy his own selfish desires!"
Yu Xingtong couldn't bear to hear Zhou Pingchuan's name at all. She was the first to break down, suddenly clutching the basin and muttering in a low voice as if having a seizure: "No, Zhou is mine. No one is allowed to get close to him, no one is allowed to get close to him..."
Liu Er was initially hesitant, but upon hearing this, he lowered his hand.
"What are you all doing? Don't listen to his rambling," Zhu Ziqi scooped up a basin of gasoline and poured it over Xia Mian's head. "He's spouting nonsense and making a death throes. Can't you see through his little tricks? Think about all the disgusting things he's done to you, and then think about how he'll be writhing and screaming in the fire. Doesn't that feel good? Get to work, finish this quickly and get out of here."
A word from Zhu Ziqi was like a wake-up call. After a brief exchange of glances, Yu Xingtong and Liu Er picked up the basin again, prompted by Zhu Ziqi's words.
In the few seconds they hesitated, several tranquilizer guns pierced the air. Before they could react, they struggled a few times and fell straight to the ground.
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