Her hands on the steering wheel began to sweat. She had not felt like this for a long time since she got back behind the wheel. Her heart pounded wildly, and there was a nagging uneasiness.‘Will Jin ever forgive me?'He said that anyone could betray him but her.However, she was doing it now. She was doing such a thing to him for Mrs. Kang... The thought of him drinking mouthfuls after mouthfuls of the vegetable beef soup she made and the sight of him lying in bed... Ling Yiran felt a pang in her heart again.'Stop thinking about it,' she told herself. What mattered most now was to send her mentor and his wife out of Shen City.Once she arrived at the freeway and the person who helped her find out her mentor and his wife's whereabouts took them on the freeway, they should be fine.The car gradually approached the freeway, and Ling Yiran could already see the familiar words on the signboard!However, as the car got closer and closer to the freeway, she froze. Her foot on the gas
"No, I'm doing this because..." She tried to explain, but his fingers pressed on her lips, preventing her from going on.Then, her eyes suddenly widened. She saw his other hand pull out an amulet and a bottle of pills from his pocket.That was the amulet Gu Lichen had given her. That was where she got the address to seek help to find her mentor and his wife. The bottle of pills was the sleeping pills she had prepared. She had added sleeping pills to the vegetable beef soup tonight, but he, who should be asleep right now, was in front of her."You went to the address Gu Lichen left you and drugged me for Mrs. Kang. Yiran, is this how you love me?" His fingers played with the two objects in his hand.Ling Yiran's face grew paler, and her throat burned. 'He knows! Or, should I say, he has it all under control?'"I changed the pills in your bottle into ordinary vitamins so I wouldn’t fall asleep as you planned. As for the person you contacted to help you today..." Yi Jinli's eyes glan
This was his best compromise!Ling Yiran bit her lip. "What if... I won't go home with you?"His eyes darkened, and his voice grew colder. "Have you thought this through?""Jin, we can't delay Mrs. Kang’s treatment any longer. I have to send her back to L City, or she’ll die! I can't watch her die and do nothing!" she said bitterly."So you're going to hurt me anyway, aren't you?" he muttered."I'm sorry. I'm sorry..." It was all she could say. Then, as if she was too scared to meet his eyes, she turned around, sped back into the car, and started it.She wanted to send Mrs. Kang back. She could not let Mrs. Kang die!"Yiran, can we leave?" Old Lawyer Kang asked nervously."I'll try," said Ling Yiran. She was not sure herself. Besides Jin standing there, there were also barricades set up at the front. Could she really break through them?Yi Jinli just stood there, staring coldly at Ling Yiran through the windshield.When Ling Yiran started the car, he just stood there without
’Is he... really walking away?' Ling Yiran was shocked. Then, his men removed the barricades that were in place and the road to L City was unimpeded once more.Her eyes were full of disbelief as she slowly turned to look at Yi Jinli, who was standing on one side.His face was expressionless. Even the eyes that were looking at her seemed to hold no emotion.Ling Yiran felt a pang in her heart and mouthed silently, ‘Jin, I'm sorry!’Her foot stepped on the gas pedal, and the car shot out onto the freeway!Yi Jinli looked at the leaving car coldly. After a long time, he slowly raised his hand and placed it on his heart.'It... hurts so much!‘Is this how it feels like to be betrayed by the person you love the most?'Mother betrayed Father once, and now Yiran... has betrayed me too!’...Ling Yiran drove to L City numbly, but she kept recalling the way Jin had looked at her. It was as if she had hurt him terribly.'Jin, just this once! Just this once, okay?' she shouted to herse
"Young Master Yi has been in the mourning hall for hours and hasn't come out. Young Madam, did something happen between you and Young Master Yi?" Uncle Kwan said a little worriedly.Ling Yiran did not know how to reply to him, so she hurriedly said, "I'll go look for him!" With that said, she ran in the direction of the mourning hall.Uncle Kwan was about to say that Young Master Yi had ordered that no one was allowed to enter the mourning hall, but he said nothing in the end.'Young Master Yi said no one is allowed... but Young Madam is often an exception! Besides, if something did happen between them, everything will be alright after Young Madam sees Young Master Yi.'Uncle Kwan thought optimistically.Ling Yiran rushed into the mourning hall and saw Yi Jinli standing motionless in front of his father's memorial tablet. He looked just like a sculpture.The soft light in the room shone on him, but there was an indescribable chill exuding from his entire being."Jin..." Ling Yir
He said, "Ling Yiran, do you really think you can recklessly hurt me just because I love you? Do you know that you're the first person to drug me and stand before me unharmed?"What he said made her feel utterly embarrassed. "I... I admit I did it because you love me, but I just didn't want things to get to the point that it would be irreversible. I didn’t want you to do anything you'd regret. Jin, will killing your own mother and having her punished make you happy?"He suddenly pushed her against the wall nearby. Then, he leaned over and breathed in her face."What makes you think I'll regret it? Do you think you're a fighter for justice because you've been a lawyer for a long time? How do you know I won't be happy doing all that?" he asked with a sneer.She froze."Do you know how I felt when I drank the bowl of vegetable beef soup you made when you wanted to drug me? Do you know how I wished you had never shown up at the freeway? Yiran, I gave you so many chances, yet you still
She stared at his face as it magnified before her eyes. Then, his lips brushed her cheek and stopped at her ear.She heard his voice say, "Yiran, I won't forgive you."Her blood froze as if she was in an ice cellar....Qin Lianyi looked at her best friend's haggard look and could not help asking, "What's wrong? Did something happen?""I... I did something that hurt Jin," Ling Yiran said bitterly."Did you quarrel with Yi Jinli?" Qin Lianyi asked quickly.'Quarrel?' Ling Yiran smiled wryly. It would have been better if they had just quarreled. She did not even know where Jin was right now.He left Yi Residence and had not returned after saying that he would not forgive her in the mourning hall that night.She went to his office, mansion, and even the street where his father died, but she could not find him. When she asked Gao Congming, he only said, "Young Master Yi wants some time to calm down and doesn't want to be disturbed."Gao Congming refused to say anything more whe
Qin Lianyi found herself getting muddle-headed when she thought of this. It was as if something was pressing on her heart."Bai Tingxin probably doesn’t know about it." Ling Yiran seemed to see through what her best friend was thinking and said, "I don’t think Gao Manlin has left Shen City. If Bai Tingxin wanted to help her, someone would have taken the blame for her and she’d never end up being wanted by the police."Qin Lianyi froze slightly, then she looked down and murmured, "It seems that Bai Tingxin doesn't love Gao Manlin or me that much after all." A man like him probably loved his career and success the most. Women were just something to spice up his life."Lianyi, maybe Gao Manlin visited Bai Tingxin's mansion for something else. Maybe it's not what you think," said Ling Yiran.Qin Lianyi said, "Why do you think a man would let a woman stay at his mansion for the night? And more than once? If the Bai family wanted to acquire the Gao family's properties, why couldn’t they