"I've given you the money. How can I be sure you've deleted the recording completely?" Bai Rongran said through gritted teeth.
Rong Lan smiled with narrowed eyes. Since Bai Rongran had asked this question, it meant she had decided to transfer the money. "Within 12 hours after I receive the money, if I'm satisfied with the price, I'll send you a video of the backup being destroyed. If I'm not satisfied, you won't get the video. So, you know what that means."
She didn't expect Bai Rongran to be so easily bluffed. The photos didn't even get a chance to come into play.
How scared was Bai Rongran of being discovered? If she was that scared, why still want to marry Chu Chuan?
Was this the so - called true love?
Bai Rongran gritted her teeth. "Fine, I got it! Rong Lan! You're ruthless! I underestimated your tricks!"
"No no no, it's not that you underestimated my tricks. It's just that you've got love - struck, Ranran. Haven't you noticed?" Since things were going so smoothly, Rong Lan was happy to chat a bit more with Bai Rongran. "Ranran, the perfect solution would be to have the baby aborted. Not only would I have no hold over you, but you also wouldn't have to worry about your belly getting bigger day by day."
Hearing this, Bai Rongran immediately covered her belly and looked at Rong Lan as if she were a heinous villain.
Rong Lan shook her head helplessly. When she had swindled money from Bai Rongran, Bai Rongran hadn't looked at her with such a murderous look. Now, she had just given what she thought was a good suggestion, and she was treated like a bad guy.
"Fine fine, seeing how you are, I know you're not willing. I won't say any more. Come on, let's go back the same way and go home for dinner." Rong Lan turned around with Bai Rongran.
"Rong Lan! Do whatever you want, but don't even think about my baby!" Bai Rongran's warning was serious and solemn.
Rong Lan lowered her eyes and glanced at Bai Rongran's belly, then sighed helplessly. "Ranran, this time I just wanted to give you a suggestion I thought was good. Look, Chu Chuan won't acknowledge this child. It was a result of his scheme against you. He won't show you the slightest bit of pity because of the child. In another month or two, when your belly gets bigger, how are you going to explain it to your family? If you're only having this child for Chu Chuan and not because you like kids in the first place, the only one who will be touched is yourself."
Considering how quickly Bai Rongran had transferred the money, this time her suggestion was very sincere, without any calculation.
Bai Rongran was stubborn and didn't want to admit that she was reluctant to abort the child because of Chu Chuan. "Rong Lan! How can you be so heartless! Trying to deprive a child of the right to come into this world! Even if it's not for Chu Chuan, I won't abort this child!"
Rong Lan chuckled. "Okay okay, I won't persuade you anymore. But Ranran, you should be careful. In at most a month, your belly won't be able to be hidden. Then how are you going to explain it to Mom and Dad?"
"That's none of your business! I'll figure it out!" Bai Rongran said with great certainty.
Rong Lan smiled, hiding the gloom in her eyes, and didn't continue this topic.
She suddenly remembered a girl who had come to her aunt's fortune - telling stall many years ago.
That girl looked exactly like Bai Rongran now. Both were wrongly swapped at birth and were recognized as their real family when they were adults. Both came from noble families. Both secretly had a child for the so - called love...
In the end, that girl gave birth to the child without telling her family. She gave up her identity as a rich young lady and lived in seclusion in the mountains. And the man who had sworn eternal love to her was just using her and her family's power to seize the highest position.
In the end, that girl was killed by the secret guards sent by the man she trusted whole - heartedly. The child... also died at the hands of the secret guards.
At that time, when the girl came to her aunt's fortune - telling stall, her aunt had warned her that the man she loved was not a good person. But the girl was so infatuated that she said she only believed in him. In the end, she ended up with nothing. While that heartless man had three thousand concubines in his harem and children running around the palace. He probably never regretted killing the girl who loved him whole - heartedly.
"What's your bank card number?" When they were almost at the door of their home, Bai Rongran just remembered that Rong Lan hadn't given her the card number, so she couldn't transfer the money.
Rong Lan stopped in her tracks and smiled sheepishly. "I forgot about that. I'll go apply for a new card this afternoon."
All her current cards were linked to Father Bai and Mother Bai. She still had to apply for a card that belonged only to her for convenience.
Bai Rongran rolled her eyes. "Send me the card number after you get it."
"Okay."
After getting the bank card, Rong Lan immediately sent the card number to Bai Rongran.
In less than two days, Rong Lan received a transfer of exactly one million from Bai Rongran.
Since she also used the cards given by Father Bai and Mother Bai, she knew that once the bank card transaction exceeded 200,000, a message would be sent to Father Bai and Mother Bai's phones. She wondered what excuse Bai Rongran had used to deceive them for such a large expenditure.
After receiving the money, Rong Lan turned on the computer, spent a few minutes recording a video of destroying the recording backup, and sent it directly to Bai Rongran.
Less than half a day after the video of the backup destruction was sent, Bai Rongran knocked on Rong Lan's door.
Hearing the knock, Rong Lan was startled and subconsciously covered the tablet on the table.
She got up to open the door. Seeing it was Bai Rongran standing outside, she squinted her eyes. "What do you want, Ranran?"
"I want to come into sister's room and stay with sister for a while. Is that okay?" Bai Rongran smiled brightly.
Rong Lan: "..." She stared at Bai Rongran's smile for a few seconds and was speechless for a moment.
Seeing her dear younger sister smiling like this, she knew it wasn't going to be anything good, but she couldn't refuse.
Rong Lan sighed silently in her heart, stepped aside, and said, "Come in, Ranran."
Bai Rongran wasn't the least bit polite and walked straight in.
Rong Lan closed the door and locked it. Then she turned to look at Bai Rongran. The smile on Bai Rongran's face had disappeared completely. She wasn't polite at all and just sat on the finger chair that Rong Lan liked the most.
"Bai Ronglan, do you need money badly now?" Bai Rongran got straight to the point.
Rong Lan sat down in her original position and quietly turned off the tablet. "Yes!"
She was too lazy to beat around the bush with Bai Rongran. Her intuition, honed over a hundred years, told her that Bai Rongran was asking this because she wanted to make a deal with her.
As for what the deal was specifically, it depended on what Bai Rongran wanted to say.
"I'll give you another million. You go tell Mom that you're willing to marry Chu Hengyuan in my place." Bai Rongran said.