Chapter 786 - Stop Deluding Yourself (1/2)

Looking at the sorry figure of the man before her eyes, Liu Nuan's suspicion turned to reality. This time, she had no doubt that she was finished. However, she didn't plan on going down just like that!

”You know him?” questioned Xiao Li with no emotion in his voice.

”I don't,” Liu Nuan denied it outright. ”Who is he?”

Xiao Li pinched her chin and looked into her eyes, ”So you don't know who he is?”

She didn't back off, ”I don't know. Why are you asking me? How would I know him?”

”So you're not the one who hired the mercenaries through this man?” Xiao Li's voice was chilly, now tinged with a furious undertone. ”To kill Xiu.”

Liu Nuan was scared out of her wits but she didn't accept defeat. She knew if she did, it'd be the end of her.

”W-Why would I hire someone to kill Xiu?” she retorted. ”Don't try to blame me for something I didn't do. The attack on Xiu has nothing to do with me.”

Xiao Li glared at her, ”If you didn't do it, how do you know Xiu had been attacked? I don't remember making the news public. The only people who know about the attack had been the ones close to Xiu. And you certainly don't make that list.”

Liu Nuan frantically tried to look for excuses, ”You! You said it yourself that someone hired mercenaries to kill her. How else would I know? Don't try to turn me into the culprit.”

Xiao Li let her chin go and nodded his head. He turned to the man who was brought in and asked him, ”You also don't recognize her?” The man had been tortured badly and had no way to lie. So, he nodded his head. ”Is she the one who ordered you?”

The man looked at Liu Nuan who was glaring at him dangerously but he was more scared of the people who brought him here. If he knew that the person they were attacking had something to do with the Wen Clan, even if he was given the fortune of the world, he'd have not taken this mission. Who didn't know about the Wen Clan's ruthlessness?

”She... She is the one who ordered me,” he didn't even take a minute before revealing everything. ”Please, kill me. I beg you. I've told you what you wanted, so let me die now.” The man was smart enough to know that asking for freedom was useless. Asking for a silent death was the greatest mercy he could receive from bloodthirsty demons of this Clan.

”Shut him up!” said Xiao Li as he heard the man's wailing. His subordinates immediately struck the back of the man's neck with the side of his palm and made him unconscious. Only then did Xiao Li turned back to Liu Nuan as he asked, ”What do you have to say now?”

”You're trying to frame me!” she shouted. ”I didn't do anything at all! You're just trying to frame me! It's all your doing! Just because I sided with Meihui, you're taking revenge on me like this! I never did anything wrong!”