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In the darkness, a person lying on the cool ground is slowly waking up.
The unfamiliar environment and the darkness in front of him made his already bright eyes even sharper, without any sign of tension or discomfort.
Li Ao clearly remembered that he was kidnapped. When his car was driving on a quiet road, a car suddenly appeared from the opposite direction and blocked his way. Then several people who looked tough got out of the car quickly and knocked him and his driver unconscious in a targeted manner.
Who on earth wants to kidnap him and do something bad to him?
He sat cross-legged on the ground, thinking for an unknown amount of time. He heard several footsteps approaching from afar, stopping very close to him, and then the sound of a key unlocking the door was heard.
His eagle-like sharp eyes quickly shot towards the source of the sound. With a creak, the old iron door slowly opened with a harsh sound.
A beam of light came in, illuminating the dark and damp little room, and also illuminating the leading figure at the door.
His pupils trembled involuntarily. He was...
He muttered to himself in disbelief, "Impossible... He has been dead for a long time! How can a dead person be resurrected..."
The man at the door snorted in disgust, and looked at him with contempt as if he was looking at the lowest of rats. He walked in with a high-handed and inviolable step, as if he was a judge from the underworld, coming to pronounce sentences on crimes!
"It's you!" Li Ao was shocked when he saw his outline and facial features clearly from a close distance, but he quickly came back to his senses from his trance.
"Surprised? You shouldn't be! After doing so many bad things, didn't you ever think that you would eventually meet a ghost?" The man said as a matter of course. His handsome and gentle face was calm, with only a pair of black eyes emitting a wolf-like cold and bloodthirsty gaze.
Li Ao, lost in thought, suddenly curled his lips slightly, "I've long guessed that it was you who brought me here! What surprises me is that you don't look like Yue Lanhui at all. Personality, figure, looks... none of them are alike! It's as if you're not his child! Instead, you look like..." She squinted her sharp eyes as she studied him, then suddenly stopped herself from saying anything. After pondering for a few times, she spoke again, "The more I look at you, the more you look like they're the couple's child!"
"Oh? You still remember the couple? I guess they must come to your dreams day and night to seek revenge on you, making it impossible for you to forget them even if you want to!" Yue Lanjing raised her eyebrows and continued his words without hesitation.
"It's true that you come to my dreams every night, but you don't come to me for revenge, but to kneel down and kowtow to apologize!" Li Ao smiled and looked at the calm and self-controlled face in front of him calmly, which suddenly stirred up a storm.
Yue Lanjing's pupils suddenly shrank, and a murderous aura gushed out! His figure flashed, and he rushed towards Li Ao like an out-of-control beast, punching and kicking like a torrential rain... Finally, he grasped Li Ao's blood-stained chin with such force that it seemed to crush the bones into powder, and forced a small bottle of potion into Li Ao's mouth.
Seeing Li Ao swallow the medicine without missing a drop, the ferocity on Yue Lanjing's face gradually disappeared, leaving only a cold-blooded and cruel smile. "This medicine will slowly cause your body to fester and become inflamed, starting with your skin and moving on to your internal organs. In less than ten days, you'll be reduced to a pile of rotten flesh! Don't worry, this medicine won't hurt you, it will only make you itch, so itchy you won't be able to scratch it off. That's why I've arranged for ants and mice to gnaw on you. They'll be attracted by the delicious food on your body and will keep gnawing at you!"
Li Ao seemed not to hear what he said, nor did he care what would happen to him. He pondered to himself, "That's right! There's one thing I've been unable to understand, and now I finally understand. Yue Lanhui was killed by you! I couldn't understand why a son would kill his own father. This father gave you everything. What reason do you have to kill his own father? It turns out that you are not his son at all! You pretended to be his son for revenge! If my guess is correct, Yue Lanhui's biological son was kidnapped by you, and you killed him a long time ago! Yue Lanhui, Yue Lanhui, you must die with regrets! But his end is really not unfair! But you did the right thing by killing him!"
"Oh? Are you blaming me for wrongfully accusing you and seeking revenge against you?" Yue Lanjing stared at every expression on his face. Was he truly indifferent and fearless, or did he have other plans? This old fox was very cunning!
"You're not seeking revenge, you're only deepening your father's sins!" Li Ao wiped the bleeding corner of his mouth and sat on the ground, saying with conviction, "In terms of badness, he's definitely ahead of us! But he's always been a goody-goody. If it weren't for the facts before my eyes, I'd find it hard to believe he'd do such a bad thing! Your father is so kind he'd risk his life for a dog. I couldn't understand it before, but now I think maybe they're the same kind, both beasts!"
"You don't even have an ounce of remorse, and you're still slandering him!" Yue Lanjing pulled out the gun from his men, wishing she could shoot him dead, but how could she let him die so easily!
"Oh! Few people knew his true identity before, and even fewer people know it now! How can I make you believe what I say?" Li Ao seemed really distressed about this.
Yue Lanjing stared at him with a sharp look of rebuttal, and said word by word, "But there are still people who know about what you did! For example, Zhuang Yulin, oh, that's not right! It should be Lin Yu! He has admitted that he was the one who poisoned the Tang family! But he was just following orders! You don't need to ask whose orders it was, you know, he is your subordinate!" In fact, he hasn't made a move on Lin Yu yet, these were all revealed by Lin Yu's stupid brother!
When the name Lin Yu was mentioned, Li Ao's expression froze for a moment, his brows furrowed again, and he fell silent, his expression unfathomable.
"Why do you have nothing to say?" Yue Lanjing thought that he would feel guilty, panic, and collapse, and finally confess and beg for forgiveness, crying bitterly... But he always looked as steady as a rock, with a clear conscience!
"If you don't believe me, what else can I say? But since you can find Lin Yu, it means you are very close to the truth! I do have a subordinate named Zhuang Yuling, but Lin Yu has never been my subordinate!" Li Ao said mysteriously, "Don't you understand? When he was Lin Yu, his master was your father!"
Yue Lanjing was stunned. This was obviously something he could never have imagined! It was also something he found difficult to accept!
"Later, when he was hunted by your father and nearly died, I saved him! From then on, he changed his name and followed me, started a business, and stopped fighting!" Li Ao looked at him with a little sympathy and a little sadness in his eyes...
Yue Lanjing refused to listen any further and interrupted him angrily, gritting her teeth, "I don't believe a single word you say!"
Just as he raised his fist again, the cell phone in his chest pocket rang. He immediately took it out and answered it. He left quickly before he finished listening, as if something important had happened!
It wasn't a big deal, really. It was just Asahirou looking for him—the fake Asahirou, of course. She said she had a shocking secret to tell him and was waiting for him in the office. He was intrigued by her secret, but there was no need to leave in such a hurry.
The reason why he fled was because he refused from the bottom of his heart to look at that disgusting face with no remorse, hypocritical, and ulterior motives talking nonsense and distorting the facts!
But that self-righteous, confident, and unquestionable look kept echoing in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it! This made him even more unable to look directly at it!
He returned to the office in a restless state of mind, and only when he saw the woman sitting in his office chair waiting for him did he force himself to calm down.
As soon as the woman saw him, she stood up and walked towards him with great joy, but he took off his coat and walked towards the clothes rack indifferently.
"There are so many reasons why we can't meet, and finally I've found one that will allow us to see each other!" Cangyue stopped her cheerful steps, curled her red lips slightly, and spoke in self-deprecating tones. Halfway through her complaints, she noticed that his face didn't look very good, and her expression turned to worry and concern, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? You look so bad!"
"Maybe it's because I've had too many things lately and haven't had enough rest. That's okay. What important thing did you say it was?" Yue Lanjing got straight to the point and was not interested in talking about other trivial things.
Seeing him walk past her coldly without even looking at her properly, she was so angry and sad that she didn't want to say a word.
Noticing something unusual, Yue Lanjing finally turned her gaze to her and found that she was staring at her with displeasure on her face.
Guessing her thoughts at a glance, Yue Lanjing walked over with a smile, took her hand, and walked to the sofa together. He sat down first, then let her sit on his lap, put his hands around her slender waist, and whispered softly, "You really don't know the reason why I didn't look for you? Do you know that if I meet you, I won't be able to do anything well! I don't want to do anything! I just want to hug you and kiss you!" He rubbed her ear for a while, "Although I can now deeply understand why ancient kings didn't even want to attend the morning court when they had a beautiful woman in their arms! But I really don't want to be a leader who is obsessed with beauty and doesn't do his job! Do you like me like this?"
Canyue's expression softened a lot and turned rosy, "But can you really bear not seeing me for so many days?" I remember that in the past, he couldn't bear not seeing me for even a single day!
"It's because I know I can't bear it, so it's better not to see you for a day. You know, letting you go after meeting you is also a kind of torture!" Yue Lanjing coaxed her into a shy little woman in an instant.
Canyue clung to his neck greedily. There were some words she couldn't say out loud, so she could only say in her heart, "As long as you don't abandon me and are still willing to coax me, I will be satisfied!"
"I know your concerns, and I'm not unreasonable. It's just that I have a secret I really want to share with you!" She planned to tell Yan Mingchi first, because without his order, she didn't dare to make a decision on her own.
But Yan Mingchi disappeared at this time, and her heart involuntarily leaned towards Yue Lanjing.
"What secret?"
"You don't know that Li Ao has come to see me many times before?"
"You want to tell me that he wants to pursue you?" If this was the secret she was telling, he was very disappointed in his heart.
"Are you jealous?" Canyue smiled sweetly and gently scratched his straight and tall nose.
"Well! Remember, never let other men touch you in the future! I will go crazy!" Yue Lanjing pretended to be jealous. Canyue was overwhelmed by the love he created and did not notice the warning in his cold eyes!
No matter what, she is now using the body of his beloved woman, he must keep an eye on her and not let this woman ruin or defile her!
His gaze suddenly became vague, as if he had returned to a day several years ago, also because of Li Ao, but that time he was really jealous!
He was so happy at that time! His eyes seemed to be filled with warmth. He was so happy to have her by his side! Why did he only understand what he really wanted now?
And where was she now? Was the pain Yue Lanxiu had caused her really that great? Did she really love Yue Lanxiu that much? Couldn't she just look back at him again? He would change for her, he would be devoted to her wholeheartedly!
Seeing the fragile and helpless light in his eyes, Canyue's heart suddenly softened. Was he afraid that she would fall in love with someone else and leave with someone else? It turned out that he still cared about her very much! She quickly hugged him tightly and comforted him, "There won't be another man! My heart has long been unable to accommodate another man! The relationship between Li Ao and me is not what you think. In fact, Li Ao is my father!"
Yue Lanjing's ears seemed to ring with thunder, and he was obviously startled, but he didn't hear what she said clearly. Or maybe he heard it but suspected he had misheard, so he frowned and asked, "What did you say? I didn't hear clearly."
"I said, I am actually Li Ao's daughter." She bit his ear and giggled.
Not sure if it was because of her actions or her words, Yue Lanjing felt a chill all over her body. "You acknowledge him as your godfather?"
"Why would I want to have a godfather? He's my biological father!"
It was like another bolt of lightning, this time hitting the top of his head. His whole body suddenly became stiff as a stone, except for his eyes, whose pupils were shaking violently due to fear!
"It's incredible, hard to believe, isn't it? I was shocked for a long time, and even now I'm still wondering if I'm dreaming that a father actually appeared! But we've done a paternity test, and we're 100% related by blood!" Seeing that he remained motionless, as if he had been struck by a needle, she waved her hand in front of him and asked sharply, "What's wrong with you? You seem a little too shocked. Don't you like Li Ao being my father?"
"How could that be?" After a moment of speechlessness, Yue Lanjing finally woke up, but his mind was still in a trance. Her words shocked every cell in his body, and he couldn't calm down for a long time!
Li Ao is Zhao Rirou's father? How is that even possible? Is God kidding him again? Li Ao is his father's murderer! And Zhao Rirou is the woman he loves most, the woman he plans to be with and cherish for the rest of his life! How can they be father and daughter?!
If they were really father and daughter... astonishment and confusion turned into great panic, and one's heart could not help but sink, falling into an icy cold pool!
Canyue was still saying something, but he didn't hear anything. He just responded casually, just wanting to get rid of her quickly.
After Canyue left, he locked himself in the office. His landline and cell phone rang many times, but he seemed to hear nothing, and his consciousness fell into the abyss of despair!
I don’t know how long it took, I only know that day turned into night, and the lights outside the window were bright until a few hours later, Guan Shaoling came in from outside with the key.
"Why are you locking yourself up here? Do you know that there are many people outside looking for you?" Guan Shaoling called him outside the office. When he heard the phone ringing inside, he thought of taking out the key to open the door and take a look. Unexpectedly, he really saw his figure in the darkness.
Yue Lanjing not only turned a deaf ear to him, she didn't even react at all. Guan Shaoling couldn't help but turn on the light. After confirming that it wasn't a ghost, he continued to ask in surprise, "Are you okay? Do you already know?" That's why she looked so depressed, so depressed that it was hard to breathe! Her face was also very ugly!
But these aren't the only reactions he should have!
"Are you going to check on Zhao Rirou?" Shouldn't he have rushed over to stay by her side? Why was he sitting here alone, feeling depressed?
"What did you say!" Yue Lanjing finally reacted. She suddenly stood up, stepped onto the sofa and jumped directly in front of him. "What's wrong with her?"
Guan Shaoling couldn't help but stagger back a step, "She, she is poisoned!" He thought about it and swallowed the words "It's very dangerous now", for he was afraid that this guy would lose his mind!
"How could she be poisoned? Where is she now? What's the situation?!" Yue Lanjing's already pale face instantly looked even more bleak and weak. Before she could finish her question, she rushed out.
"Well, let me take you there first!" Guan Shaoling followed closely.
"Thyme said she tried to contact you many times but couldn't get through. That's why she called me to tell me that Chao Rirou was poisoned and asked me to inform you as soon as possible!" Guan Shaoling had already stepped on the accelerator. He stared at the road ahead while explaining the main purpose of Thyme's visit. "She probably suspects that one of our people poisoned Chao Rirou, and she's probably looking for you to get the antidote to save her!"
Yue Lanjing supported his forehead with one hand and closed his eyes. He looked as if he had taken on too much and was unable to cope with it. Too many unexpected things happened, and each one was like a sharp knife that stabbed into his chest without warning, each one more ferocious than the last!
Hearing Guan Shaoling's words, he suddenly opened his cold eyes, "Could it be Shui Wulian who did it? She still refuses to give up?"
"That was my first reaction, so I went to look for her immediately, but I didn't find her because she is not in the country now. She went to another country to relax! It seems that we have wronged her!" Guan Shaoling defended Shui Wulian.
"Then, could it be Master?" Yue Lanjing proposed another possibility exhaustedly.
Guan Shaoling was much calmer and more composed now. "You're too worried that Zhao Rirou's heart has been biased. Making random guesses like this is unfair to them and very disheartening! You should know that Zhao Rirou has many enemies, and her master is the most likely one!"
Yan Mingchi? The cold light in Yue Lanjing's eyes deepened. He had only recently learned that the great devil also had someone he cared about! His weakness had finally been exposed!
While we were talking, the car had arrived at the hospital.
Zhao Rirou is now in the emergency room, and Yue Lanjing can only see her figure through the glass.
She looked pale and fragile, lifeless and dying. His heart was instantly crushed by an invisible hand!
When Thyme told him that Chao Rirou was in a very dangerous condition and could die at any time, his tall figure couldn't help but sway. Guan Shaoling, who was standing beside him, supported him in time. Guan Shaoling could clearly feel his body trembling!
After an unknown amount of time, Yue Lanjing forced himself to stay awake and prevent panic from consuming his thinking ability. "How can I save her?" His voice was still trembling.
"The fastest and most effective way to treat it is to find the person who poisoned him! Right now, all I can do is suppress the spread of the toxins, but I can't eliminate them! After I used the drugs on them, the toxins seemed to have gone dormant. They haven't disappeared, and they could wake up at any moment and start working even more wildly in the body!" Thyme suddenly took a deep breath, otherwise she seemed unable to continue. Her eyes couldn't help but moisten, and she tried to blink away the useless tears. "Every time they wake up, the danger increases. If there's no antidote within three or four days, the various organs in the body will... By then, even if there's an antidote, it won't be of any use!"
Yue Lan stared at the person on the bed silently. After a while, the light in his dull eyes rekindled, and he turned around and left without saying a word.
Before leaving, the firm look he left behind seemed to tell Asahirou: I will never let anything happen to you!
Thyme guessed that Yue Lanjing must have gone to find his master Luosha, because Luosha's gang was very likely to attack Chao Rirou!
"Although there are many people who want you dead, there are also many who don't want you to die. You must hold on for us. Everyone is trying their best to save you! Although the medicine that Yue Lanxiu brought back is useless, fortunately Yue Lanxiu found his master. His master's medical skills are much more advanced than mine, and he is more knowledgeable than me. He will definitely find a way to save you!" Thyme said to the person lying quietly, not knowing whether she was comforting her or comforting herself. "Although his master seems to be targeted by Yan Mingchi, Yue Lanxiu has already rushed over to save him. You should believe in your man's strength. He will definitely save his master and bring him to you!"
When Yue Lanjing started the car and was about to leave, her way was blocked by a Rolls-Royce. The window of the Rolls-Royce lowered, revealing Hua Chuyu's cold and sharp face, and his eyes shot over like a blade.
"Why is this guy here? What is he going to do?" Guan Shaoling frowned and said unhappily. He stopped fastening his seat belt, opened the car window and prepared to stick his head out to negotiate.
Could this guy already know they were the ones who kidnapped Li Ao? Li Ao is the mastermind behind the Sunrise Group, so Hua Chuyu must also be working for him! Now that his master is missing, the dog must be terribly worried, but why would he choose this critical moment to come to the door?
Before he could utter a single word, Yue Lanjing's behavior beside him made his heart beat faster. Yue Lanjing still released the handbrake and shifted into reverse with an expressionless face. The car began to move backwards, but there was no way for them to leave. Was this guy going to hit Fei Hua Chuyu's car and rush out?!
Hua Chuyu also understood his behavior and said calmly, "I know who did it!"
Next, Yue Lanjing braked the car as he expected, staring at him without blinking, as if studying how much truth his words contained.
Although Hua Chuyu did not say it explicitly, they all understood what he was saying. Guan Shaoling got out of the car when their eyes met.
When he walked to Hua Chuyu's carriage, he heard Hua Chuyu say in a voice that only Guan Shaoling could hear, "Li Ao can save her."
Guan Shaoling's eyes changed immediately. Hua Chuyu took his expression in, sneered, and drove away.
At first, he thought his father's disappearance was related to Yan Mingchi, but after his investigation, he felt that the direction was wrong! Yan Mingchi seemed to have disappeared before his father!
Yue Lanjing was the second person he suspected. It was just a suspicion at first, but now he was 100% sure that it was them who did it!
Guan Shaoling felt a chill running down his back, and walked back to the car with a look of grave concern on his face.
After telling Yue Lanjing about the matter, Yue Lanjing was overwhelmed with mixed feelings for a moment, but he didn't have time to sort out these emotions. He only had one thought now, no matter whether what Hua Chuyu said was true or false, and what his real purpose was, as long as he could save Chao Rirou, he would try any chance!
Yue Lanjing's car shot out from in front of them like an arrow. Hua Chuyu changed into another car and followed closely behind without making a sound.
Let Yue Lanjing know that Chao Rirou’s poisoning is related to her father. Although it is a risky move, it is the fastest way to save her father and sister at the moment!
The tracking was going smoothly at first, but a long container truck suddenly changed lanes illegally, separating his car and Yue Lanjing's car. He was worried that he would lose them, but after the truck drove away, he still caught sight of Yue Lanjing's car going straight at the four-way intersection ahead.
He quickened his pace to catch up, and a car turning right caught his attention, because it looked familiar, and he couldn't help wondering where he had seen that car before.
He quickly caught up with Yue Lanjing, the distance between them being about the same as before. However, his expression suddenly changed because he realized that Yue Lanjing was no longer in the car. Guan Shaoling was driving the car! How could this happen? How could Yue Lanjing suddenly disappear? His mind raced, and the next moment he understood. That big truck was indeed strange. It was probably when he was blocked from view that Yue Lanjing got out of the car!
This damn guy really can't be underestimated! He was already hiding well enough, but he was still discovered by that guy!
So where did that guy go? He couldn't help but slow down the car and stopped at the side of the road. It was pointless to follow Guan Shaoling. He would definitely not find the person he was looking for!
He suddenly remembered the familiar car that turned the corner. Could that car be Yue Lanjing's? As he pondered this, he turned the car around and drove in the direction of that car! The confusion in his eyes gradually cleared up, and he couldn't help but speed up. He remembered who the car belonged to. It was Guan Shaoling's! The person sitting in that car must be Yue Lanjing!
Guan Shaoling breathed a sigh of relief, "That guy turned around, I finally got rid of him!" He glanced at Yue Lanjing who was hiding under the seat and laughed, "It's hard for you to lie in the car like a dog!"
Under normal circumstances, Yue Lanjing would definitely make him pay for what he said, but he really wasn't in the mood now.
Guan Shaoling also knew that he had no ability to make him relax, and hoped that Li Ao could really save Chao Rirou!
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