Chapter 348: Chapter 315: Are You Still Going to Cover for Her?
Gu Qili didn’t bother to beat around the bush and replied straightforwardly: "I’m here to talk to you about your sister Qiu Yufei."
Mu Shuoqian picked up a cigarette with an expressionless face, the flame of the lighter flickered twice in his dark pupils, and a wisp of smoke gently poured out of his mouth.
"What happened to Qiu Yufei?"
"I might overlook the fact that she almost caused me to fall down the stairs and miscarry, but I can’t forgive her for wanting to kill Niannian after he was born. As long as her maliciousness remains, Niannian’s life will be in danger. I can’t guarantee when she might do something evil again." The pain of the past made Gu Qili hyperalert; she could not bear the agony of losing Niannian again.
Miscarriage from falling down the stairs?
Mu Shuoqian immediately thought of the graduation ceremony at A University, where she accidentally slipped down the steps, and he had rushed to catch her, everyone thought it was just an accident, but it turned out that Qiu Yufei was also behind this.
His eyes darkened suddenly, his chest seething with magma-like rage.
However, his silence made Gu Qili think that he was protecting Qiu Yufei, and she stood up in outraged indignation: "Mu Shuoqian, I know she’s your sister, but with such a wicked heart, she has harmed me and now wants to harm your son. Even so, do you still want to shield her?"
"You don’t need to worry about this matter anymore, I will handle it." Mu Shuoqian stamped out the cigarette in his hand.
"Fine, I can stay out of it, but you have to make your stance clear. If you continue to indulge your sister’s reckless actions and not care about your son’s life or death, then no matter what it takes, I won’t let Niannian stay by your side."
Mu Shuoqian’s gaze remained calm as he looked at her flushed face from anger,
And his silence undoubtedly intensified Gu Qili’s suspicions towards him, she shook her head in disbelief, her eyes filled with scorn and disappointment.
The abrupt ring of a phone call suddenly broke the eerie calm, Mu Shuoqian stretched his arm to pick up the mobile phone on the table.
"Hello?"
Whatever was said on the phone, Mu Shuoqian’s face gradually turned colder, he suddenly stood up, grabbed his coat hanging on the chair, and headed for the door; passing by Gu Qili, he called out to the outside: "Xiao Ran, see the guest out."
Gu Qili didn’t expect him to leave without explanation, and she couldn’t accept this attitude.
"Mu Shuoqian, are you really planning to cover for her?" Gu Qili caught up, only to be suddenly seized by the wrist and violently pinned against the wall,
Where did he get this confidence from?
Mu Shuoqian didn’t answer her question at all, but suddenly released his grip, and Gu Qili’s face turned to one side,
Mu Shuoqian’s car stopped in front of the gates of Tanxi Villa, not waiting for the bodyguards inside to come out, he had already swung the car door open and stepped out.
"Young Master Qian." The bodyguard shuffled beside him in step, looking a bit uneasy.
"Where’s the doctor?"
"Already here, dealing with it." The bodyguard bowed his head: "It was our negligence, Young Master Qian, we have no objections to however you decide to handle it.
"No matter what, the person must not die."
"Understood."
The bodyguard walked up to a bookshelf on the first floor, removed two books, revealing a switch behind them. He turned the switch, and the bookcase opened to both sides, revealing a dark and sinister hidden room.
"Young Master Qian, please." The bodyguard led the way, Mu Shuoqian ducked his head and descended the somewhat damp stairs.
This tunnel was clearly dug some years ago; water droplets seeped out on both sides of the wall, and occasionally, one could hear the sound of drips falling onto the stone steps.
The staircase zigzagged down the height of about two floors and then reached the chamber below. In this rough cave, except for an iron cage, there was nothing else. Inside the cage were two people, a woman lying on the cold ground, her hair disheveled, breathing faintly, and the other was the doctor mentioned by the bodyguard earlier. He had already treated the patient’s wrist wound and given her a sedative.
A bodyguard opened the large lock on the cage, and the doctor bent over and walked out.
"You have nothing to do here anymore." The bodyguard handed the doctor a kraft paper bag stuffed with thick bundles of bills, then someone took a black hood and covered the doctor’s head. "Doctor, where did you go today?"
"I have been sleeping at home all day, didn’t go anywhere, even had pizza for lunch," the doctor replied smartly.
The bodyguard nodded: "Say one more word, and the lives of your entire family are not guaranteed. Get out."
After the doctor had left, two bodyguards brought over a rattan chair and placed it to one side, and Mu Shuoqian sat down facing the iron cage; someone lit a cigarette for him.
The environment here was dark and damp, never seeing sunlight throughout the year, water leaking from the cave ceiling, with rats and cockroaches scurrying about now and then, and because it was not ventilated, the air was filled with suffocating stench and the smell of rotting food.
"This woman is very sly; she secretly hid a bowl while eating, and it was with a fragment of that bowl she cut her wrists." The bodyguard glanced at Mu Shuoqian cautiously, "It was the oversight of the new bodyguard."
Mu Shuoqian silently smoked, not uttering a word, uncertain if he was angry or not, everyone around him dared not say another half a word.
About half an hour later, the person lying on the ground finally moved; she wore a dress so tattered it barely held shape, apparently an old style from years ago. Long-term exposure to the gloomy and damp environment had caused many eczema patches on her body; the once proud and beautiful face had become as gaunt as that of a starving ghost, and her eyes were even more lifeless.
When she slowly rolled her eyes and finally saw the person outside the cage, as if possessed, she rushed over, shaking the iron bars with both hands: "Shuoqian, let me out."
Mu Shuoqian exhaled a ring of smoke, his cold gaze further lowering the temperature in the dungeon.
Qiu Yufei would never forget that day four years ago, the excitement, surprise, and elation she felt when she received the first call from Mu Shuoqian, she even dressed up carefully for it.
He asked her to meet at the Tanxi Villa, which used to be the place she and Qiu Lan lived after returning to the country; thus, the villa was also vacant.
When she arrived with great anticipation, she stepped right into a huge trap; Mu Shuoqian had long set up the snare waiting for her.
He dug a cellar for her, prepared an iron cage, and imprisoned her.
Of course, he would not let her die, because she had secrets yet to tell him.
Facing the man, silent and cold like Satan, Qiu Yufei suddenly started to laugh, her current appearance akin to a begging street beggar, yet her voice was still as pleasant as ever.
"Mu Shuoqian, you’re scared, aren’t you? If I died, you would never be able to reconcile with her."
Four years had passed, she was tormented by him for four years, yet it still couldn’t extinguish her love for him.
On the streets of country M, when she was pinned down by a gang of thugs, it was Qiu Lan who appeared to save her, and standing beside Qiu Lan was the boy with always a cold look in his eyes.
She was adopted by Qiu Lan as his daughter, and they became siblings, she fell in love with him at first sight,
But Gu Qili was different; he indulged her, doted on her, even allowed her to have his child, but she could not accept it. Thus, she followed Gu Qili, instigated between them, even bribed a nurse to take a photo of the child, then had the nurse cooperate with Qiu Lan to deliberately make remarks in Gu Qili’s presence to mislead him.
She had planned to go to North Bridge and see with her own eyes how the child was thrown into the sea, but unexpectedly on the way, she encountered Mu Shuoqian in a car accident. She took him to a remote hospital and cared for him for a week while he was semi-conscious, which was the happiest time of her life because he only didn’t scorn her when he was unconscious.
Qiu Yufei’s gaze turned grim from the excitement of reminiscing, and through the iron bars, she stared unblinking at the man she both loved and hated: "Have you made up your mind? Let me out, I’ll tell you that secret, the one that can make you and Gu Qili reconcile."