Ch. 216..220: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 216-220
Chapter 216: Chapter 216 All Wrong Chapter 216: Chapter 216 All Wrong “Miss Jian Rou, do you take Mr. Sheng Siyuan to be your lawfully wedded husband, to live together in the estate of matrimony, to love, honor, comfort him, and keep him in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live?”
“I do!”
In the spotlight of the crowd, the officiating minister first asked the bride for her wedding vows.
Jian Rou, of course, agreed wholeheartedly.
Then, another round of applause broke out in the venue, blessing the couple anew.
The minister then turned to the groom.
“Mr. Sheng Siyuan, do you take Miss Jian Rou to be your wife, to cherish and love her for a lifetime?”
“…”
The man bowed his head, not answering the question.
His expression was somewhat peculiar.
Upon seeing this, Jian Rou grew anxious. She turned her head to look at the man and whispered urgently, “Cousin?”
After about ten seconds, the man finally raised his head.
“Mr. Sheng Siyuan?”
“Minister, I want to ask you a question. After arriving here, what would you do first to get settled in?”
He interrupted and, instead of answering, asked the minister another question.
The minister was taken aback.
“Well, naturally, I would first obtain proper identification documents according to the local regulations. Mr. Sheng Siyuan, it is your wedding ceremony now. Shall we continue?”
“Is that so?”
His response was still irrelevant to the original question.
However, his expression changed; his complexion turned pale as the blood drained from his face.
“Cousin?”
Jian Rou, sensing something wrong, didn’t care that all the guests were watching her as she quickly approached him.
“Cousin, what’s wrong? Whatever it is, can we talk about it later? Let’s just finish the wedding ceremony, okay?”
She was practically pleading with the man.
However, her heart sank when the man slowly lifted his head and looked at her. The panic in his eyes was something she had never seen before.
The illustrious CEO of Shengshi Group.
A man who stood at the pinnacle of the pyramid, now displaying panic in his eyes.
“She’s in trouble!”
“What?” Jian Rou didn’t understand.
“Who’s in trouble? Cousin, what are you trying to say?”
“…”
No one answered her.
The man, as if suddenly bereft of all composure and calm, dropped the wedding ring from his hand and removed the groom’s flower from his chest. He then walked down from the stage as if he had lost his soul.
“I was wrong, I’ve made a mistake. She didn’t change identities to hide; she’s in trouble, in trouble…”
He stumbled down like a lost soul.
Just then, the doors of the banquet hall burst open, and someone rushed in from the outside.
“President, it’s bad news! I just received word that the lady’s bounty on the underworld market is gone!”
It turned out to be Xu Guannan.
In an instant, overwhelming fear descended upon the man who had just walked down, his vision darkened, and he collapsed to the ground.
“President!”
“Cousin—”
The entire venue descended into chaos.
Jian Rou also rushed down from the stage, intending to help the man.
No, that’s not right.
She meant to stop him.
But by the time she had managed to lift her wedding dress and get behind him, she saw that he had already been helped up by Xu Guannan and was stumbling towards the exit amidst the confusion, without looking back.
“Sheng Siyuan, you stop right there!”
Jian Rou finally shouted loudly.
She clutched her wedding dress and, under the suddenly silent gaze of everyone present, trembled as she stared at the man’s retreating figure.
“Sheng Siyuan, this is our wedding. Where are you going? Are you going to abandon me?”
She asked, word by word, through her tears.
Hearing this, the man who was almost at the door finally stopped in his tracks.
Leaning on a bodyguard next to him, it took more than ten seconds before he slowly turned around, looking back at her.
“Sorry, Jian Rou, I can’t marry you.”
“!!!!”
It was like a bolt from the blue!
The wedding scene instantly burst into uproar, and all color drained from Jian Rou’s face.
Her mind went completely blank.
“Why? We are already having the wedding, why are you telling me now that you can’t marry me?”
She walked toward him step by step, her complexion as pale as a corpse.
Sheng Siyuan: “…”
Just as he was about to say something, someone suddenly charged out of the banquet, fury uncontained, and threw himself in front of Siyuan.
“Sheng Siyuan, are you playing us?”
It turned out to be Jian Zhongzhou.
When Sheng Siyuan saw this man, his expression became indifferent.
“Have I played you? Don’t you understand, Uncle? In Provincial City, if you hadn’t brought your daughter there deliberately, would Yin Hehe have been driven away by you?”
“What did you say?”
As these words were spoken, Jian Zhongzhou was stunned.
And Jian Rou, standing behind him, also had an expression of utter disbelief, as if something had struck her mind.
Yin Hehe?
He was actually talking about… that woman? Wasn’t she already dead?
“She’s not dead, Mr. Jian. The Han Lina who was with the young master in Provincial City is our lady. They were getting along well, but when your daughter suddenly showed up, our lady started having a rift with our young master.”
Xu Guannan answered this question on behalf of his boss.
In an instant, as the words fell, the father and daughter were struck as if by lightning and couldn’t utter another word.
Even the elderly Mrs. Sheng of the Sheng family, who was approaching, visibly changed her expression and didn’t dare to move a step closer.
She had played no small part in this matter.
“Siyuan, is everything you said true? Xiaohan is Hehe?” It was the old master of the Sheng family who, after hearing the news, came over excitedly.
Sheng Siyuan nodded: “Yes!”
Old Master Sheng: “Then where is she? Where did she go?”
Immediately, Sheng Siyuan’s face turned pale again: “She’s in trouble; I have to go find her.”
Having said that, he turned and was about to leave.
“Since you knew she was Yin Hehe, why did you still agree to marry me? Could it be… you’ve been using me as a pawn for reconciliation between you two from the beginning? Was this wedding just a play you directed?”
Jian Rou’s screams followed from behind.
And this time, having lost her momentum, she no longer cared about holding back and cried out everything she had guessed.
The woman indeed was quite clever.
Sheng Siyuan stopped again.
However, his expression at that moment turned icy to the extreme, as if enveloped in frost. He didn’t even turn around before the biting chill was palpable.
“Do you really have the gall to ask me this?”
He slowly turned again to look at her.
“Jian Rou, I haven’t exposed the disgraceful things you’ve done out of respect for the fact that we grew up together. I haven’t destroyed your reputation, so you should be grateful!”
“…”
“Also, you’d better hope I find her safe and sound, because I won’t let off anyone involved in that incident back then!”
He was like a demon, exuding a terrifyingly cold aura. Those blood-red pupils were enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.
Jian Rou too, suddenly lost all color in her face.
She surely knew which incident he was referring to: it was about him being drugged, and after he was with that woman, they dragged him back.
Jian Rou watched him leave with her own eyes.
She looked at the chaotic wedding scene and felt like a joke.
“Sheng Siyuan, why are you doing this to me? I came back to you, do you hate me so much? Do you want to take revenge on me like this?”
She murmured to herself.
A strong sense of resentment surged up from the bottom of her heart, and she clenched the small bouquet tightly.
Even the sharp thorns pricked her delicate palms until they bled.
She seemed not to feel it at all.
Chapter 217: Chapter 217: He Completely Panicked… Chapter 217: Chapter 217: He Completely Panicked… M Country.
When Sheng Siyuan arrived here on a private jet, it was already the wee hours of the morning.
Yet even at this hour, Shengshi Group had already brought over local military representatives.
“Mr. Sheng, I am pleased to meet you again,” said the officer, adorned with two stars on his shoulder, rising to greet Sheng Siyuan promptly upon his arrival.
This rank was significantly higher than that of the Major implicated in the smuggling collusion last time.
Sheng Siyuan extended his hand, “General, I am also happy to see you. I’ve asked you here because I could use your help with something.”
“Please, Mr. Sheng, speak,” the General responded cordially.
After all, the last military scandal was not disclosed by this Asian business tycoon, sparing them from a potentially disastrous situation.
Seeing this, Sheng Siyuan got straight to the point.
“My wife has disappeared.”
“Your wife?” the General was taken aback.
“This… I’ve never heard anything about Mrs. Sheng. Could it be… Mr. Sheng, are you looking to enlist our help in finding her?” he asked, confused after his initial shock.
Unexpectedly, the seated man quickly produced a photograph from his person.
“No, actually you know her. She is the chief lawyer of Landun who resolved the traitor issue for you last time—Lan Yi!”
“…”
The General, staring at the photo in his hands, was dumbstruck!
Lan Yi, the famous wife of Shengshi Group? How could that be possible?
Knowing the name for so long, he had never once heard of her having another identity that was so explosive.
It took the General a while to digest the information.
“Mr. Sheng, are you joking? How could Mrs. Lan be your wife? To be frank, someone with significant power among us has hired her for legal affairs, and we are quite familiar with her, but we have never heard her mention such an identity,” he said.
“…”
The question dimmed the gaze of the man before him even further.
“We… had a misunderstanding, but I assure you, General, she is indeed my wife. Therefore, I must implore you to aid me in finding her!” he begged in a tone lower than he had ever used with anyone before.
The General was visibly moved upon hearing this.
“Alright, Mr. Sheng, please tell me what you need. If it’s within my power, I will spare no effort,” he promised.
“Thank you!”
Sheng Siyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Some ten minutes later, the General provided a complete list and details of all the military personnel involved in the rebellion.
“Mr. Sheng, most of the individuals listed here have been executed by us, but this Henry managed to escape from prison,” the General confessed somewhat guiltily while handing over the list.
Sheng Siyuan immediately looked up at him, “Henry? Isn’t that the mastermind behind those scoundrels?”
His expression turned steel blue.
So it was that the biggest fish had slipped the net, which explained why the bounty on the black market for that woman was so high.
“General, how did you let this happen? He was the top criminal, and you let him get away?” Sheng Siyuan demanded furiously.
“I am very sorry, Mr. Sheng,” the General said, his face full of shame.
“Henry has always held important positions in the military. Over the years, he has drawn many to his side. When we learned of this, it was too late to investigate, so when he was captured, those people colluded from within and without to rescue him,” explained the General.
“Shit!” Sheng Siyuan cursed on the spot.
If this man had escaped, there was no doubt that the chance of Yin Hehe falling into his hands was 90%.
He closed his eyes, instantly recalling the bloody and violent scene he had witnessed at Gala Port.
He shuddered even thinking about it.
He was right; that man was a beast, and he had nearly cut open Yin Hehe’s head if Sheng Siyuan had been just a few seconds later.
“Mr. Sheng, I am truly sorry. To make amends, let me offer you this: Should you encounter any danger while searching for your wife, you may call upon our military forces at will,” the General said, seeing Sheng Siyuan so emotionally charged.
The general, overwhelmed with guilt, immediately produced a ring symbolizing his identity right then and there.
Only then did Sheng Siyuan slowly open his eyes again.
For a moment, he stared at the ring before taking it and stuffing it into his pocket.
That evening, a global search order, amounting to a staggering trillion, was issued from this Asian business tycoon’s mouth. Within mere minutes, the shockwave rippled through the underworld and the legitimate paths alike, resembling a level-ten tsunami.
It was a trillion!
Xu Guannan was also stunned.
But such a huge investment yielded quick results, and by dawn, they had received news in the building.
“President, this Henry has been found. He’s hiding in the territory of the Tulan Society in Southeast Asia, so we can be sure that Madame has been handed over to the Tulan Society.”
Xu Guannan passed over a photo, carefully standing before this man.
The thing they feared the most had ultimately still occurred.
Sheng Siyuan tipped his head back and slightly closed his eyes. At that moment, as regret seeped into his heart, his entire expression, under the dim light inside the room, turned a shade of pallid grey, while his thin lips had started to turn a bit purple.
This was all his doing.
He knew full well that once she left his side, she would face immense danger.
Yet, he still let her go.
“President, are you… alright? Now that we’ve found Madame’s whereabouts, we can just go and bring her back. Please, don’t panic!”
Xu Guannan noticed something was wrong with him.
He immediately became anxious, quickly retrieving the bottle of medicine from the drawer and handing two pills to the man.
Fortunately, he took the advice.
He took the pills into his mouth, and after a short while, he recovered and stood up from his chair.
“Let’s go!”
“Yes…”
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Southeast Asia.
This is a tropical climate region.
Thus, even though it is already winter back home, the weather here is still scorching hot, oppressively so, making it hard to breathe.
Yin Hehe was currently locked in a room and feeling the same way.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Unable to take it anymore, she began pounding on the door forcefully.
“What now?” After a while, footsteps approached from outside and a woman asked impatiently.
Yin Hehe quickly said inside the room, “I’m very thirsty, bring me some water.”
“Want water?”
To her surprise, after hearing this, the person outside let out a cold laugh.
“Sure, you can have water, but only if you agree to marry Director Ang’s son, as your father wishes. Not only will you get to drink water, but I can also let you out.”
The woman outside spoke venomously.
Indeed, the place where Yin Hehe was being kept was actually Lan Yi’s true home, and the Director Ang referred to by the woman outside was the powerful official whose son Lan Yi had fled from marrying years ago.
Five years had passed, and yet this family hadn’t given up on Lan Yi.
Yin Hehe stopped knocking on the door.
This situation, which she had encountered nearly every day since being captured over a month ago, was these people continually tormenting her to break her will, to imprison her.
But thankfully, she had made a name for herself in the legal arena under Lan Yi’s identity.
So Lan Yi’s father, who was also the boss of the Tulan Society, Lan Cuo, thought she was useful and did not harbor a killing intent towards her.
Otherwise, she would have already disappeared from this world by now.
Yin Hehe forced herself to try to sleep.
If she slept, she would forget about being thirsty.
But just then, the sound of high heels clicking approached from outside.
“What’s the matter? Is the Third Miss not complying again?”
“Yes, this wench is still stubborn, refusing to agree to marry the idiot. Miss Lin, do you have any other methods?”
The woman who had just insulted Yin Hehe immediately greeted the newcomer with a very warm tone.
Yin Hehe, upon hearing this, instantly opened her eyes!
Chapter 218: Chapter 218: Yin Hehe, So You Didn’t Win After All Chapter 218: Chapter 218: Yin Hehe, So You Didn’t Win After All “Miss Third, rest assured, I have plenty of ways to deal with her!”
As she listened to the familiar female voice reaching her ears, it wasn’t long before the clacking of high heels approached the door of Yin Hehe’s room.
Yin Hehe clenched her fists.
She had no choice but to sit up from the sofa again, waiting quietly.
Indeed, after a while, she heard the woman reach the door and, with a “click,” the lock was opened.
A very familiar woman stood before Yin Hehe.
“Miss Lan, I apologize for the intrusion, but here I am again.”
She was dressed very fashionably.
Unfortunately, no matter how nice her clothes and accessories were, they couldn’t make her bland face any more appealing.
Yin Hehe withdrew her gaze indifferently, ignoring her.
Seeing this, the woman finally lost her patience with these pleasantries, closed the door behind her, and her demeanor began to turn fierce.
“Yin Hehe, stop acting so high and mighty. Here, you’re just an ant under my feet, to be crushed without a chance to resist!”
She moved closer, standing right in front of Yin Hehe and hurled accusations filled with resentment.
Upon hearing these words,
Yin Hehe’s gaze turned cold once again, lifting to meet her face, and then to the long scar on her neck that couldn’t be concealed, even with a heavy layer of foundation.
“Lin Shuang, do you even recognize your status? I, Lan Yi, am the legitimate Second Miss here. And you? You’re nothing but a dog beneath Lan Cuo’s feet. You used to be the mistress to Sheng Siyuan, but now that you’ve climbed into Lan Cuo’s bed, you’re nothing more than a tool for his release, not even worthy of being a concubine. And you dare to compare statuses with me?”
Yin Hehe gently reminded her.
Her expression remained calm, but those words, once uttered, cut into the woman as if they were knives.
Instantly, her face began to contort.
“Yin Hehe, you bitch, I will kill you!” she screeched, lunging at Yin Hehe.
Yin Hehe watched her coolly.
Only when the woman almost reached her did she slowly look at her own fingers and say, “Do you think you’re qualified?”
“…”
“If even a single hair on my head is out of place, Lan Cuo won’t let you off, right?”
With just that one sentence, the woman who was lunging forward like a madwoman came to an abrupt halt.
Yin Hehe let out a cold laugh, got up from the sofa, and headed to the bed to rest properly.
This woman’s presence, if it had been a month ago, Yin Hehe would have had a strong emotional reaction upon seeing her.
But now, she could practically ignore her.
A poor wretch who had narrowly escaped death at her brother’s hands, even if she had managed to find the Tulan Society, to betray and capture Yin Hehe here.
So what?
Yin Hehe was still untouchable.
Yin Hehe reached the side of the bed.
“Fine, Yin Hehe, you are indeed arrogant now. I can’t touch you, but don’t get too pleased with yourself too soon. As long as you wear Lan Yi’s face, you won’t escape the fate of being controlled by Lan Cuo.”
Unexpectedly, the woman calmed down and began to mock her once more.
Yin Hehe let out a cold laugh but still didn’t engage.
However, just as she was about to lie down, the woman took out something.
“So nonchalant. Do you think someone will come to save you? Sheng Siyuan, perhaps? Well, you needn’t bother. He’s too preoccupied to care about you now.”
After saying that, she turned on the device in her hand and passed it to Yin Hehe.
Yin Hehe glanced at it.
For a moment, she couldn’t help but grimace.
“Do you see it? That’s right, it’s his wedding. Hahahahahaha…”
The woman suddenly burst into raucous laughter.
“Yin Hehe, bet you didn’t expect this. Neither of us won. This heartless man has married a woman neither of us thought of. Isn’t it ironic? Hahahaha…”
“…”
Sharp laughter.
For a long time, it was piercing in this room.
Yin Hehe slowly withdrew her gaze, and at that moment, it indeed took her more than ten seconds to calm herself down.
“You are wrong, this woman, I made him marry her.”
“What did you say?”
The woman, who had been laughing wildly, suddenly stopped laughing.
“You made him marry her?”
“Yes!” Yin Hehe lowered her head, her thick eyelashes hiding all the emotions at the bottom of her eyes.
“As his lawyer, of course, I had to analyze the maximization of his benefits, and Miss Jian is the most suitable match for him. Is this suggestion not good?”
Yin Hehe turned her head to look at this woman.
At that moment, her glaze-colored pupils were so calm that they seemed like still water, without a ripple to be seen.
Lin Shuang was dumbfounded.
It was quite a while before she, as if greatly provoked, pointed at Yin Hehe and cursed loudly, “Are you sick? You actually made him marry another woman, Yin Hehe, you are just a lunatic!”
“Hehe~~”
Yin Hehe didn’t even look at her.
A lunatic?
That’s right, she was a lunatic.
But what’s wrong with being a lunatic? A lunatic wouldn’t get hurt, nor would they throw themselves into that abyss of no return.
Is that not good?
Finally, Yin Hehe lay down on the bed.
Lin Shuang saw this, and in the end could only leave in a fit of rage, but this time, she must have felt an even greater sense of defeat.
Because, when it came to that man.
She could never be as free and easy as Yin Hehe.
Yin Hehe fell asleep.
When she awoke again, it was the cooled-down temperature of the room that startled her awake; she suddenly opened her eyes, only to find that it was already dark outside.
“Tiya, just let me see your sister, okay? I’ve already asked your father’s permission.”
Just then, voices came from outside the door.
Yin Hehe got up.
She grabbed a towel and wiped her body off hastily, her throat so dry that it almost smoked, causing her to walk to the small table in the room and tilt the cup there straight into her mouth without explanation.
A drop…
In the already empty water cup, there was only this one drop left.
Fortunately, the middle-aged woman outside, who had been pleading, was finally allowed in.
So in the pitch-black room, Yin Hehe only heard the “click” of the door opening. A middle-aged woman in a tube dress, draped with Tais on her shoulders, walked in holding a golden canister in her hands.
“Jiajia, it’s mom, turn the light on.”
“…”
Yin Hehe immediately turned the light on.
Then, like a starving ghost, she rushed to the woman and grabbed the canister from her hands, gulping down its contents.
If she hadn’t come, she might have really died from thirst.
“Drink slowly; mom has plenty more.”
The second lady, seeing her daughter tortured like this, couldn’t help but start wiping her tears again.
It had been a month.
Her long-awaited daughter, instead of awakening her father’s conscience and evoking his pity, was now being tormented by him even more ruthlessly.
“Jiajia, it’s all mom’s fault for being useless. If mom had a powerful maternal family, your dad wouldn’t dare treat you like this.”
“…”
Chapter 219: Chapter 219 Self-Rescue Chapter 219: Chapter 219 Self-Rescue Yin Hehe finally had enough to drink.
She put down the can, and seeing that there were fresh beef and bread left on the tray, she unceremoniously started eating them with her hands.
“Mom, this has nothing to do with you. The chess pieces he needs to use, no matter who they are, he won’t show any mercy.”
Having had her fill of food and drink, Yin Hehe finally managed to comfort Lin Shuang, Lan Yi’s biological mother.
Lan Yi, in the Tulan Society, was Lan Cuo’s second daughter, and her mother was also just one of many women to Lan Cuo. Because she was the second one brought into the Tulan Society, everyone called her Second Madam.
But in fact, in Tulan Society, the person with the least weight and presence was none other than this Second Madam.
Because she originated as a nightclub hostess.
“No, that’s not it. Your sisters and younger sisters are in much better conditions than you, but your dad hasn’t touched them; he’s only targeting you. Isn’t it because I’m easy to control, then what is it?”
The Second Madam still looked very sorrowful.
The fingers of Yin Hehe, which were busy eating, gradually stopped.
She realized she needed to save herself.
It had been over a month, and even she didn’t know what she was hoping for anymore, leading to the current lack of any activity.
Maybe her mind had gone to mush?
“Mom, you’re right. Then can you manage to have father come to visit?”
Finally, she asked out loud.
The Second Madam, who was wiping her tears, immediately looked up.
“You want to see your dad? What do you want to say to him? Jiajia, you can’t just say anything to him, otherwise…”
We haven’t even said anything yet.
This woman was already filled with fear.
It’s apparent, then, what kind of a brutal and tyrannical person Lan Cuo was within the Tulan Society.
Yin Hehe nodded and continued to reassure her, “Don’t worry, I won’t speak carelessly to him. I just want to chat with him about the marriage alliance.”
“…”
Then, the Second Madam tearfully went out to call him.
Not long after, Yin Hehe, who had changed into a clean set of clothes, saw the notorious Southeast Asian mafia boss appear at the doorway of the room.
“I heard you wanted to see me?”
Lan Cuo, in appearance, didn’t look at all like the cruel and violent gang leader.
Rather, he looked refined, with a face that wore glasses, and at a glance, he seemed more like a university professor.
Yin Hehe stood up.
“Yes, Father, I want to discuss a business deal with you,” she cut straight to the point.
Hearing this, Lan Cuo, who had come in puffing on a cigar, glanced over with his eyes shining through his glasses.
A hint of surprise showed on his face.
“Business?”
“Yes,” Yin Hehe calmly nodded her head.
“You want me to marry Brigadier General He Ang’s son, which is undoubtedly to gain his support to ensure the Tulan Society has government backing to grow bigger in Southeast Asia. But Father, have you considered that this He Ang’s power is merely limited to our region?”
She sat down at the small table set with wine glasses, gesturing with her hand in a composed manner, no longer like a young girl at that moment.
Instead, she seemed more like a big shot who was there to talk about a genuine collaboration.
Lan Cuo again revealed a trace of shock.
However, he quickly returned to his usual demeanor, walking toward the small table with a look that took this far more seriously.
“Then, according to you, do you have any better suggestions?”
“How about we set our sights a bit further, on General Guo Su?”
Yin Hehe casually mentioned a name.
In an instant, Lan Cuo, who had just sat down, was struck with a wave of shock, and lifting his head, he looked at his daughter incredulously.
“Guo Su? You dare set your sights on him? Do you even know who he is? He’s the local defense…”
He nearly blurted out the top authority of the place.
But the daughter in front of him, seeing his astonished expression, simply smiled serenely.
“What of it? Father, you should know that these past few years, out in the world, I’ve actually taken orders from many people of global influence,” she declared, “Just because they hold high positions, doesn’t mean their hands are clean—they have more shady dealings than one can count, and I’m the person who handles these affairs for them!”
“!!!!”
Finally, the Southeast Asian tycoon fell silent.
In his eyes, it was as if a tumultuous tide had risen, staring at his daughter as if only now he began to truly scrutinize her.
Yin Hehe said nothing more.
She knew he needed time to digest the news.
So, she simply picked up the red wine glass in front of her and began to drink leisurely.
“I finally understand why that Major Henry looked at you with such hatred in his eyes when he brought you here, yet he dared not touch you.”
“Hehe`~”
Yin Hehe listened to the middle-aged man’s words of astonishment and laughed casually.
“So, Father, would you be willing to work with me?”
“Yes!”
Lan Cuo finally nodded in agreement.
“As long as you can facilitate an alliance between the Tulan Society and Guo Su, I will no longer force you to marry his son. Moreover, I can proclaim to the world your status in the Tulan Society, that you, Yin Hehe, are my sole heir!”
No one could have imagined that the Southeast Asian tycoon, in his excitement, would promise such a lucrative condition.
The sole heir to the Tulan Society.
This position was indeed very tempting.
That very night, Yin Hehe finally slept in an air-conditioned room, indulging in a luxurious bath and a feast for dinner.
Afterward, she slept soundly.
In this world, she could rely on no one but herself.
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The next day.
When Yin Hehe woke up in her room, the second lady burst in full of high spirits.
“Hehe, your father is calling you for breakfast. Hurry up, let these servants attend to you quickly, and we’ll head down.”
“Ah?”
Yin Hehe was bewildered.
But the servants, filing in through the door under the second lady’s command, pulled her out of bed without question and began to dress and groom her, leaving Yin Hehe wholly unaccustomed to such treatment.
Twenty minutes later, when she finally emerged, she had been transformed into a dazzling young heiress.
“That damned wench, I don’t know what love potion she gave to your father to turn things around so quickly.”
“Exactly!”
Across the building resided Lan Cuo’s other wives and children.
At this moment, seeing Yin Hehe dressed so beautifully and escorted out of her room by the servants,
they were so enraged they almost ground their teeth to bits.
Especially the third daughter, Tiya, who had been recognized as the legitimate young miss of the Tulan Society and was Lan Cuo’s favorite.
“Third Miss, from the looks of it, it seems the Second Miss is about to steal your limelight.”
Lin Shuang appeared out of nowhere.
As she observed Yin Hehe being escorted down by the servants, receiving a star-like treatment, jealousy crept into her eyes like vines, and she quietly approached the third daughter to drop this chilling remark.
“She shouldn’t even dream of it!”
With those words, the third daughter’s temper flared.
“My mother is the main wife of the Tulan Society, the one my father sought from my grandfather’s family. What right does a child born to Lan Yi, a woman of the night, have to compete with me for that position?”
The thoughtless woman immediately went to seek her mother.
Indeed, within the Tulan Society, if any of Lan Cuo’s women had a say,
it would be the first wife he had married.
And this first wife had considerable local influence, coming from a well-known and respected family.
Chapter 220: Chapter 220: Let Her Die Here! Chapter 220: Chapter 220: Let Her Die Here! “Mom, did you see that? That little bitch went to have breakfast with Dad today, a privilege even you haven’t had,”
When Tiya saw her mother, she deliberately brought up the matter.
All at once, the Lady of the House, who was already feeling sulky after learning about it, turned green with anger.
As everyone knows, in the Tulan Society, the number of wives and children who can dine with Lan Cuo is very small.
Especially the very formal breakfasts.
The Lady of the House gritted her teeth with hatred.
“What has this wench said to the master? Why did everything suddenly change?”
“Lady of the House, it shouldn’t be the Second Lady.”
Lin Shuang stepped forward as well, like a venomous snake, and after she approached the Lady of the House, she pulled out a secretly filmed video from her phone.
“Look, Lady of the House, this was taken last night by someone who secretly filmed the President entering Lan Yi’s room. However, they didn’t dare to film inside, so it’s unknown what the father and daughter discussed.”
“What did they say?”
The Lady of the House, upon seeing this, became even more enraged.
She fixed her gaze eagerly on Lin Shuang, wanting to know everything.
Seeing her reaction, Lin Shuang knew the time was right and immediately analyzed for the Lady of the House, “Lady of the House, the Lan Yi of today is not the pitiful little girl whom everyone could bully in the past. She’s now a renowned attorney across the globe.”
“…”
“So, I guess she must have made some deal with the President, promised to undertake even bigger tasks for him, and that’s why he is overjoyed and raised her status so abruptly.”
This woman, truly having dealt with Yin Hehe, with seven or eight years of contention, had thoroughly grasped Yin Hehe’s nature.
Bigger tasks?
Upon hearing this, the Lady of the House became even more anxious.
“What is this task? There are so many matters within the Tulan Society, and the master never discusses them with us. Where could we even look into this matter?”
“There’s no need to look.”
Lin Shuang remarked ominously.
“Lady of the House, what is there to look into? If you go snooping around, you might even anger the President. Wouldn’t it be better to simply put an end to it?”
“End… it?”
The Lady of the House looked puzzled at this woman.
But she saw Lin Shuang staring down with sinister eyes, and in a second, she made a cutting motion across her throat with two fingers.
That was… a sign of murder!
The Lady of the House’s face went pale…
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Yin Hehe’s breakfast that day was quite satisfactory.
As the infamous leader of a Southeast Asian gang, his diet was naturally of the highest standard, and all the more so since it was to entertain her.
“After breakfast, I will take you to the capital.”
Unfortunately, just as she put down her chopsticks, the eager President of the Tulan Society proposed this itinerary.
Yin Hehe nodded her head.
“No problem, but I need you to send more people to protect my mom, or could you let her move out? Find her a new place to live?”
Yin Hehe glanced at the people of the Lan Family not far away that were watching her like a hawk and thoughtfully considered Lan Yi’s birth mother’s situation.
Lan Cuo gave her a look.
“It seems, these years your mother has stayed by my side, her greatest contribution was giving birth to a daughter like you. Fine, I’ll get her a new house.”
He agreed without hesitation.
Soon, the two of them set off towards the capital of Southeast Asia, where General Guo Su was located.
It was not long after they left that a phone call was made to the capital.
Yin Hehe didn’t notice.
She slept soundly during the trip, and when Lan Cuo woke her up in the capital, it was already afternoon.
“We’ve arrived. I’ve arranged a meeting with Guo Su’s adjutant at the hotel, as he just arrived and it’s only possible to meet someone close to him.”
“It’s okay.”
Yin Hehe didn’t have any objections to that.
Soon, the two got out of the car and checked into the city’s most luxurious five-star hotel.
And that adjutant, after they reached the top floor, met with them.
“You must be Lan Yi?”
The moment the adjutant saw the two, his eyes didn’t greet Lan Cuo but instead locked tightly onto Yin Hehe.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe handed over her credentials and business card.
Immediately, the adjutant’s eyes lit up significantly upon looking at them.
Lan Cuo, witnessing all this, could not help but look at his daughter with a very approving expression in his eyes.
He was also very pleased inside.
The chances of success for this matter looked very high.
“I wonder, what does the general mean? If I can settle this smuggling case for him, what would his reward be?”
Yin Hehe was very efficient, she flipped through the paperwork the adjutant had brought, and quickly, she casually posed her question.
The adjutant immediately promised enthusiastically, “As long as Lawyer Lan speaks up, General Guo Su will certainly assist.”
“Alright then, cooperate with my father!”
Finally, Yin Hehe pointed at Lan Cuo, who had been sitting beside her all this time.
Lan Cuo was also smart and immediately passed over his business card.
“I’m Lan Cuo from Tulan Society. Since the General has this hobby, why not cooperate with me? I can guarantee that I will take over all future risks, making sure they never bother the General. I will handle everything personally.”
“You!!!”
The adjutant, completely astonished, was speechless for a long time.
Understandably, having finally found a prominent lawyer to fish himself out of the mire, he was about to step into another deep pit.
Who would want that?
In the end, the adjutant left, his reason being he needed to discuss with Guo Su.
Lan Cuo, seeing this, became a little anxious.
“Is this deal not going to happen?”
“No, since Guo Su has already committed a crime, then he will only choose the best place to take refuge, rather than making a clean break. That’s the nature of greed!”
Yin Hehe calmly continued eating her meal, reassuring the man.
Hearing this, Lan Cuo finally took a deep breath of relief.
Shortly after they finished their meal, Lan Cuo, being unusually considerate, let Yin Hehe go up to the hotel to rest, while he left the hotel himself.
Yin Hehe knew that he must have other businesses in the area.
Right away, she also did not inquire further. Accompanied by a few members from Tulan Society, she returned to the hotel and lay down on the bed to rest.
“Ugh…”
Suddenly awakened, it was an asphyxiating discomfort that roused her.
Yin Hehe opened her eyes.
But she discovered that the room had unknowingly filled with white smoke, and now that she smelled it, in addition to the intensifying feeling of suffocation, her throat started to feel as if it was being scraped by a blade.
What’s happening?
Her face immediately changed color, and struggling to get up from the bed, she stumbled to the room’s door.
“Open… the door, help… me…”
She knocked with all her might, hoping the Tulan Society members outside would hear her.
But after knocking for well over a minute, there was not the slightest stir from outside.
In the end, she staggered over to the phone in the room, intending to call for help.
However, when she picked up the receiver, there was no sound!
“Save… me…”
As Yin Hehe passed out, the last thing she cried out was those two words.