Chapter 254: No Saving—you Kill Them Then
Jiang Lixuan’s pupils contracted slightly. Enduring his fear of Jiang Hengzhi in his heart, he did chest expansion exercises and laughed it off: “What phone call? I was just playing a game!”
“That freaking jungler was too noob. I was playing Diaochan, and he wouldn’t even let me have a single blue!”
Jiang Lixuan complained to Jiang Hengzhi just like usual, then grumbled: “I was just about to snatch a blue from him, but then you suddenly popped up and scared me. He grabbed the blue. What’s wrong with you these past couple days? Why do you walk without making a sound?”
Jiang Hengzhi quietly listened to him finish, his gaze still fixed on his mobile phone, looking like he didn’t fully believe Jiang Lixuan’s words.
Jiang Lixuan tsked, shook the phone screen in front of him once, then quickly put it away: “See clearly? I was really just playing a game!”
“Besides, Nan Yuanman is living perfectly fine in Shangjing. Why would I, an abandoned uncle, keep bothering her?”
Jiang Hengzhi still didn’t speak, just quietly looked at him, the arc of his mouth curving bigger and bigger. He suddenly spoke: “You saw it all, right?”
Jiang Lixuan: “What?”
Jiang Hengzhi slowly walked closer to Jiang Lixuan: “That night, in the back kitchen, you saw it all, right?”
Jiang Lixuan’s heart sank slightly, his feet unconsciously stepping back: “Saw what? I was so sleepy and groggy then, I didn’t see anything.”
Jiang Hengzhi: “Is that so?”
As soon as the words fell, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Jiang Lixuan’s wrist, twisting it hard.
Jiang Lixuan felt the pain and let go of the hand holding the mobile phone. The mobile phone fell into Jiang Hengzhi’s hand.
Jiang Hengzhi flipped through the contacts and didn’t find Nan Yuanman’s entry. He frowned. Could it really be his illusion? Was Jiang Lixuan really not on the phone just now?
Jiang Lixuan’s heart relaxed a bit. Rubbing his wrist, he rolled his eyes: “See? I told you, I didn’t even save her number! How could I possibly call her!”
“I misunderstood you.” Jiang Hengzhi said calmly: “No matter. Don’t you know where Nan Yuanman lives?”
“Book a flight to Shangjing now and have her come back for the funeral banquet.”
Jiang Lixuan: “?”
“Jiang Hengzhi, are you sick? What funeral banquet out of nowhere?”
“I’m not sick. Her grandmother and grandfather passed away. As their niece, isn’t it normal for her to come back for the funeral banquet?” Jiang Hengzhi tilted his head, speaking innocently.
Jiang Lixuan didn’t react for a moment. When he grasped the meaning of his words, his eyes suddenly widened. He turned around and ran toward Ge Peiyao’s hospital room.
He had just run two steps when his feet suddenly stopped. His body couldn’t move anymore.
Jiang Lixuan: “!!!”
Jiang Hengzhi slowly walked up to him and held out the mobile phone in his hand. The originally low male voice turned into a eerie childlike voice: “Call her and get Nan Yuanman to come to S City.”
“This is your only chance to live.”
“You’d better grasp it well.”
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Shangjing, Feng Family Manor.
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yuanman always felt uneasy in her heart.
She didn’t know why. The Jiang family members had clearly reaped what they sowed and were already mired in trouble. She should feel the pleasure of revenge, but her heart felt nothing, and even a bit complex and annoyed.
She was still young and temporarily couldn’t understand why she felt this way, so after sitting in the living room for a while, Nan Yuanman decided to seek help from an adult.
Carrying her small shoulder bag, she da-da-da ran to Feng Yuli’s study room and politely knocked on the door: “Big brother, can I come in?”
Feng Yuli: “Please come in.”
Feng Yuli, who was working from home, was wearing loungewear with gold-rimmed glasses on his nose bridge. When he looked at Nan Yuanman, a gentle smile overflowed from the corners of his mouth: “Have you watered your plants?”
“Yes.” Nan Yuanman ran to Feng Yuli and burrowed into his arms like a little cannonball.
Feng Yuli picked her up and put her on his lap, keenly noticing her depressed mood. His warm big hand patted her back before asking: “What’s wrong? What happened?”
Nan Yuanman hesitated for a minute before telling Feng Yuli about Jiang Lixuan calling her for help.
She said sullenly: “Big brother, why don’t I feel happy when I hear that something happened to the Jiang family?”
“Logically, they are all accomplices in killing my mother. I should be happy they’re unlucky, but…”
Feng Yuli sighed softly in his heart. Old Master Nan had raised Nan Yuanman very well. No matter how cold or mischievous she usually was, her fundamental nature was still kind.
He asked: “Then does Nan Yuanman want to go to S City to help them?”
“No.” Nan Yuanman shook her head.
But she also didn’t want the Jiang family members to die.
“Then it’s simple. Just tell the 908 Bureau about this.” Feng Yuli smiled: “They’re specialized in handling these things. If they step in, the Jiang family members’ safety will be guaranteed.”
Nan Yuanman realized: “Oh right!”
She was about to send the news of the evil ghost appearing in S City to Zhong Xueliu when Jiang Lixuan’s call screen popped up again.
Nan Yuanman frowned. She wanted to hang up, but Feng Yuli stopped her: “Listen first to what he has to say.”
“Oh.” Nan Yuanman obediently answered the call.
Strangely, this time there was no sound of Jiang Lixuan from the other end, only heavy, rapid breathing.
Nan Yuanman: “?”
She tentatively called: “Jiang Lixuan?”
There was still no sound from the other end.
“If you don’t speak, I’m hanging up.” Nan Yuanman wasn’t in a great mood to begin with. After she said that, she was about to hang up when a muffled voice suddenly came from the other side.
“…Run… Nan Yuanman…”
“Run fast… Jiang Hengzhi he… urgh!”
This muffled voice was quickly interrupted. The phone on the other end seemed to be taken by someone else, and a childlike voice that Nan Yuanman was especially familiar with came through: “…Nan Yuanman, your uncle and grandmother are both in my hands. If you want to save them, come to S City.”
“I’m waiting for you.”
Nan Yuanman coldly: “Oh.”
“I’m not saving them. Kill them then.”
The childlike voice seemed choked by her. After a long pause, it gnashed out: “Even if you don’t care about the Jiang family members, you care about your mother’s grave, right?”
“If you don’t come, I’ll dig up your mother’s grave! And those villagers in Batang Village… heh! Do whatever you want!”
After the words fell, a sharp electrical static sound came from the receiver. The call was hung up.
After hanging up, ‘Jiang Hengzhi’ was furious and kicked the unconscious Jiang Lixuan lying on the ground: “What a bunch of trash! Can’t even serve as bait!”
If not for the 908 Bureau in Shangjing and the master having her control S City’s economic lifelines, she would have killed her way back to Shangjing long ago. Why would she need to go to such lengths to lure Nan Yuanman out?
She had originally planned to endure for a while longer, until she had all of S City’s tycoons under control before going back to kill Nan Yuanman. Who knew… this damn little bitch actually hurt the master’s skin!
The master had shown her great kindness in remaking her. She absolutely couldn’t tolerate this!
Red silk threads spread from ‘Jiang Hengzhi’s’ body, entering the head and limbs of Jiang Lixuan lying on the ground.
Jiang Lixuan’s body twisted as he stood up from the ground, opening his lifeless eyes.
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ expressionlessly led him toward Ge Peiyao’s hospital room.
No matter. Endure a bit more. Soon, she could take revenge for the master.
