Chapter 714: A Million Times for You (76)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
He purposely stopped here to make her tense. But obviously, Pei Yi was in for a disappointment as An Xiaoning’s eyes were clear like water and showed no change in emotion at all.
“There are many possibilities, and they all depend on my mood. I might kill you, or I might not and just keep you here. That’ll depend on your level of cooperativeness and attitude. However, there’s one thing I have to repeat to you. Unless I personally agree to it, it’s impossible for you to leave this place. Even a housefly won’t be able to fly out of here, much less a living human adult. You’d better throw that thought away because I won’t give you that chance to do so.”
An Xiaoning maintained a respectful attitude toward him. “Mr. Pei, I think your worries are unfounded. When I arrived, I saw as well how strict your security here is. I won’t pick a losing battle and ask for trouble for myself.”
Toward her words, he remained half-skeptical.
“The bookshelves here have all kinds of books. You can pick any if you want to read to relieve boredom.” After his words landed, he flipped open his laptop and started working.
She then picked a book to read.
It was really warm in the room and exceptionally quiet. The two just sat there doing their own things.
Honestly speaking, this treatment was far better than An Xiaoning had imagined.
She was not raped or given a beating, nor was she locked up in a smelly and stuffy place.
That was already a great thing to her.
However, her circumstances were not in the least optimistic. For him, killing her was as easy as pinching an ant dead.
Now, she could only try her best to keep her life. As long as she was alive, she had the hope to do other things. Without her life, there was nothing else to speak of.
While the situation in this room was like that, it was a different one in another room.
“Sister Qin, what is Boss trying to do? He’s not locking up that woman in the basement but brought her into the place he stays in, and they’re not coming out from there.”
Qin Guo darted a cold glance at him and uttered in an irritated tone, “How would I know? Why don’t you just ask Boss if you really want to know?”
“I don’t dare to.”
“Hmph.” Qin Guo sneered as she asked, “How’s the matter that I’ve asked you to handle going?”
“It’s already done. Now, all the discussion platforms online in S Nation have the news spreading already. They’ve continued to delete the news while we’re continuing to spread it. Sooner or later, they won’t be able to delete all of them. It’s already causing some discussion now. I believe that in just a while, the news will go wild.”
“Very good. You can go.” Qin Guo took out a bottle of nail polish and started applying it to her toenails on the sofa.
When the door was closed shut, she stretched out her legs, whose toes had already been fully applied with the nail polish, and put the bottle of nail polish aside. She was feeling rather upset inside.
Never would she have thought that Pei Yi, who did not even allow herself to enter his bedroom usually, actually let that woman bathe in his bathroom and even gave her new clothes. His treatment toward her was far better than she had imagined it would be.
This was not like his usual style.
Through the information from the investigations, Qin Guo already knew that more than one men liked An Xiaoning. Not only was there Jin Qingyan and Gu Beicheng, but there was also some Major. But no matter what, she attracted so much disaster and was infertile. She could not possibly gain Pei Yi’s interest. It was probably just so that he could better control her, she thought.
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The investigation team that Tuoba Gucheng had sent was ultimately fast and accurate. In just two days, their investigation produced results.
The one who had requested the deletion of the surveillance footage was actually the Head-of-Office, Xu Yang.
Head Officer Xu was detained for investigation, and the Xu family was completely flustered.
On the one hand, Mrs. Xu was worried that Xu Yang would be greatly affected by this. On the other hand, she did not want Xu Yang to reveal the truth.
But how could that be possible?
Between their son and their daughter, they could only protect one.
The matter of Xu Yang abusing his power could not be escaped for sure. No matter what the reason was, he would face suspension from work and had to be sentenced in court.
But, even then!
The motive behind what Xu Yang did had to be investigated.
No matter how much the Xu family wanted to prevent this, they could not do so.
Xu Yang came clean during the interrogation at the detention center. He was full of pity toward the little sister that had just returned home. Now that things had gone wrong, his mother had even made him seal his lips and not take on the full responsibility. However, how many people would actually be willing to do so?
Moreover, if he came clean, his sentence would be lighter. His position as Head Officer had now been reduced to that of a prisoner, and his life would be ruined already anyway.
Was it possible that the truth would not be discovered just because he hid it?
Hence, Xu Yang decided to just reveal everything.
In consideration of his own parents, Xu Yang ultimately did not reveal that they were the ones who’d instructed him to do so.
Xu Baizhi now became the new target the police were hunting for.
She and her husband were overseas and had not returned. After receiving news of them being wanted by the police, she and her husband went into hiding.
They did not dare to return home.
Nevertheless, justice prevailed as even escaping overseas did not make them safe.
The police in the country they were at also cooperated in hunting them down.
Xu Baizhi and her husband were suddenly in a state of panic as they hid everywhere they could, praying that they would not get arrested.
This was not all.
The matter about An Xiaoning getting kidnapped by Xu Baizhi and being passed to the terrorist organization had become a hot topic of discussion.
The debate online suddenly could no longer be suppressed.
Everyone took this incident very seriously.
Even in the middle of the night, the waves of discussion online did not disappear. Everyone was still eagerly debating about how the country would handle this kidnapping incident.
During these two days, he did not have any proper sleep at all.
There was no choice for him but to consume sleeping pills.
Otherwise, there was no way for him to fall asleep.
His heart was full of worry.
Such an extremist group, which did not flinch when they killed people, was completely inhumane.
They could simply kill the hostage if they liked.
He had just received news that they were going to negotiate with Tuoba Gucheng.
Now, everything would depend on the negotiation.
He could only quietly wait for the result of the negotiation.
“Young Sir, do we continue?”
“Of course. In case the negotiation does not go well, execute the plan to save her immediately.”
Fan Shixin hesitated to speak. “At present, the news of Ms. An being kidnapped has spread across the nation. It seems like there are people behind this who keep spreading the news. It can’t even be suppressed now. The netizens take joy in watching the show and don’t seem to think anything about it.”
“If it can’t be suppressed, then don’t bother. Every time something happens in the nation, a bunch of these netizens will start creating trouble and harangue each other. All of those keyboard warriors have endless enthusiasm for this. If we get them to actually go to the battlefield, I’m sure they’ll pee in their pants out of fear!” His voice was full of the frustration he had suppressed. “The other party is bent on disrupting the unity of our nation.”
Fan Shixin looked at the bottle of pills on the table and knew he had consumed some. “Young Sir, you should go and rest.”
“Umm.”
Jin Qingyan rested against the end of the bed, his head in excruciating pain.
He wondered how she was doing.
It was getting late in the night, and he eventually turned off the lights.
He barely managed to fall asleep. But at this time, another person was still up in the Autumn Palace.
Ever since Tuoba Gucheng had received the conditions of the other party, he was in an utterly confused state.
Pei Yi’s conditions were none other than to ask for the release of a few of their terrorist group’s members.
These few people were spies who’d been detained even before he had taken on the position of the President. If he were to release them, the dire consequences of this were unimaginable.
Moreover, releasing them was not a decision he could make on his own. This decision still had to go through the Cabinet.
Toward this matter, a vote had been carried out during a Cabinet meeting in the afternoon, and 98% voted against releasing these people in exchange for An Xiaoning.