— Rong Lan! What do you want me to do!
— Help me invite Chu Chuan to a place.
— Impossible!
— Don't be so quick to refuse. Let's talk about the conditions. As long as you do as I say, you won't have to go to jail. Moreover, I won't send you back to the mental hospital. You've spent so many years in that place. Now that you've finally gotten out, do you really want to go back? All I'm asking you to do is make a phone call to Chu Chuan and invite him to a place. Of course, you can refuse me. If you do, you'll have to go back to the detention center.
— You'll hurt Xiaochuan... No!
— I admit I'm not just inviting him out for a cup of milk tea, but I can guarantee that I won't do anything to endanger his life, nor will I let him suffer any permanent injuries. Ms. Han can do the math and see if this deal is worth it. You've been planning for Chu Chuan for so many years and haven't had a peaceful life. Now all you need to do is make a phone call to him. From then on, I'll never bother you again, and Chu Chuan definitely won't blame you.
— I... I... Is what you said true?
— Of course.
— Then let me think about it...
Rong Lan saw Chu Chuan's face turn black as he listened to the recording. She leaned over and held the phone screen in front of Chu Chuan so that he could clearly see the content on it. "You'd better take a good look. The end time of this recording is 4:12 p.m. today. I stopped the recording after I left your mother's place. I waited until she finished calling you and then left. Just think back. Didn't you receive the call at around 4 o'clock?"
Chu Chuan stared intently at the phone screen in Rong Lan's hand, his eyes fierce. He wanted to find even the slightest trace that the recording was forged. However, Rong Lan wasn't afraid of him looking at it. She didn't even stop the recording until he heard his mother softly reply "Okay" in the recording, followed by the sound of his mother calling him.
"So? Do you still think I'm lying to you?" Rong Lan took back her phone and slowly stopped the recording.
Of course, this recording wasn't real. It was forged by Wang Tong, her all - purpose employee who would do anything for her.
Seeing Chu Chuan's furious reaction, it was obvious that he believed the recording. It seemed that she had to prepare more year - end bonuses for Wang Tong.
Chu Chuan bit his lower lip, forcibly holding back the sorrow and anger in his heart. His eyes were filled with malicious hatred as he looked at Rong Lan. "You tricked my mother!" He had never suspected that his mother would team up with others to harm him. So when he received the call from his mother, he rushed to No. 1 Square without hesitation. Even when he opened the door and saw that there were only men in the milk tea shop, he didn't suspect anything. It wasn't until he caught a glimpse of Bai Rongran out of the corner of his eye that the next second, he was knocked unconscious.
"Tsk, self - deception." Rong Lan crossed her legs and looked directly into Chu Chuan's eyes without any fear. "I told Ms. Han that what I was going to do would hurt you, but it wouldn't take your life. However, for the sake of freedom, she chose to let you get hurt. Chu Chuan, you have to admit that you've been betrayed again. If Ms. Han really couldn't bear to let anything happen to you, she wouldn't have agreed to me no matter what I said."
"You!" Chu Chuan clenched his fists tightly. He was so angry that he gasped for breath, his eyes bloodshot. "You're just quibbling!"
Rong Lan glanced at Chu Chuan's wrists tightly bound by the hemp rope and said with a smile, "You'd better not struggle too hard." Chu Chuan really wanted to get out of the situation of being tied to the bed. His wrists were already bleeding from the rubbing of the hemp rope, but he still kept moving.
Chu Chuan stopped talking to Rong Lan. Instead, he looked at the silent Bai Rongran. "Ranran, can we have a good talk?"
Rong Lan saw Chu Chuan's humble look as he tried his best to put on a gentle smile. She couldn't help but burst out laughing again. If this guy had always maintained this attitude when her Ranran sister was pregnant, things wouldn't have ended up like this. He was really—
so stupid.
Hearing Chu Chuan call "Ranran", Bai Rongran patted her chest to calm down the nauseous feeling in her heart. "What do you want to talk about?" Her tone was extremely cold. She only glanced at him and then looked away, afraid that she would vomit if she saw his face.
"Ask her to leave. Let's talk." Chu Chuan calmly slowed down his tone.
Bai Rongran could tell that the "her" Chu Chuan didn't name in his words was Rong Lan. She sneered. "We don't have any relationship now. What private things do you have that my sister can't hear?"
Hearing the word "sister", Rong Lan lowered her head to hold back her laughter. Her Ranran sister would only call her sister when they needed to unite against the outside world. It was so cute.
Chu Chuan's face changed with anger because of Bai Rongran's disdainful and cold tone. But he knew that among the two people present, the only one who might soften her heart was Bai Rongran. He could only pin his hopes on Bai Rongran.
He turned to look at her, gritted his teeth, and put on a gentle smile. "Then I'll just tell you directly. First of all, I must apologize to you. It was my momentary mistake that made you suffer such serious injuries. I'm sorry to you and to our unborn child. I'm really sorry. I know you hate me, and I don't expect you to forgive me. I know it was you who made the crying sound of a baby appear in my house in the middle of the night, and I also know that my dismissal has something to do with you. But I thought that since I did such an excessive thing, it was right for you to take revenge. So I've endured all your revenge."
Rong Lan's expression gradually turned cold as she listened to Chu Chuan's shameless apology.
It was really hard for Chu Chuan to have the face to mention the "unborn child". Moreover, Chu Chuan knew about her Ranran sister's means of revenge. Did he not want to fight back? It didn't seem so. The reason why Chu Chuan couldn't do anything to her Ranran sister was that Bai Rongran always took bodyguards with her when she went out, and Chu Chuan simply couldn't find the opportunity.
Bai Rongran wasn't angry. Instead, she just thought it was funny. She used to dream of Chu Chuan talking to her so gently, but now, she only thought that such a smile was so fake that it made her nauseous. She felt so sick that she didn't even want to respond.
Rong Lan cracked her knuckles. "Ranran, when will those people arrive?" If they didn't come soon, she might not be able to hold back from attacking Chu Chuan.
"They should be here soon." Just as Bai Rongran finished speaking, there were three knocks on the door. Then, the bodyguard opened the door with the room card and led ten men in suits in.
Rong Lan tilted her head and curiously sized up the people brought in by the bodyguard. She kicked backward with her feet and the chair slid a short distance to the bay window. "The people Ranran sister found look so normal. How come?" They all looked decent. Although they weren't handsome, it seemed that they couldn't make Chu Chuan feel humiliated.