298 Please Me 20 (2/2)

Jin Qingyue was having her dinner at the time. At the sight of a tipsy Mrs. Jin, she quickly instructed the servants to help her onto the couch.

”Mother, why did you drink so much?”

”Why… can't I drink that much? Qingyue, your father has been sentenced to a death penalty by the court. I won't be able to live on if he dies.”

Jin Qingyue ordered the kitchen helpers to brew some broth to cure Mrs. Jin's hangover before dismissing the servants.

She then sat down beside her mother on the couch. ”So what if you can't live on? Are you going to die with him?” Jin Qingyue scoffed.

”I do have such plans.”

”If you really did, then just go ahead and die quietly. Why do you have to come and tell me about it?” Jin Qingyue asked.

Staring at her with widened eyes, Mrs. Jin said, ”Qingyue, he's your biological father. Are you really just going to sit back and watch him die?”

”Other than the DNA test report, does it state anywhere else that he's my biological father? I've never felt his fatherly love for me at all. Since I was young, I've only seen him as the butler and treated him like an outsider. All of a sudden, he's become my biological father. It may not seem like much to you, but it came off as a huge blow to me. It's unacceptable to me, and I refuse to accept it just because it's the truth.”

”Didn't you feel how endearing and caring he had been to you since you were young? He had always treated you better than he treated your brother,” said Mrs. Jin as tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

”Seems like he had known that I was his child all along. The verdict of this matter is set in stone. It's not something I can decide anyway. Don't bring it up again in the future. Shaochuan doesn't know about this yet, I don't want him to find out about such a scandalous piece of news. It'll really bring me shame.”

”I really don't see a point in living anymore.”

Jin Qingyue took the bowl of broth from the servant and placed it onto the coffee table before saying, ”You may sleep in the living room after drinking the broth. I'm going upstairs to get some rest.”

Noticing how awful she looked when she entered the room, Shi Shaochuan asked, ”Who made you upset again this time?”

”My mother came to look for me in a drunken stupor.” After removing her clothes, Jin Qingyue laid down and glared at him. ”It's either you or my mother who constantly gets on my nerves. Are you two out to infuriate me together?” she hissed.

Shi Shaochuan decided to change the subject, in a bid to not upset her any further since she was still pregnant. ”Don't dwell on it anymore, go to bed,” he said calmly.

——

The secret agents Jin Qingyan hired had failed to rescue An Xiaoning, not because they were incompetent but because Xi Bolai had ordered for An Xiaoning to be heavily guarded by bodyguards who were all armed with guns. Security was so tight that even a housefly would not make it inside.

Upon realizing that Jin Qingyan's secret agents had infiltrated his den, he proceeded to move An Xiaoning to another secret chamber in the basement. He placed an extra bed in the chamber and decided to guard her himself.

He also ordered that no one was allowed to enter the den.

Thus, Mei Yangyang had still yet to find an opportunity to slip in, despite having learned most of the native language of Y Nation.

In the blink of an eye, one month had passed since An Xiaoning met with the mishap.

It was extremely cold during wintertime in December.

Mei Yangyang had been loitering near Xi Bolai's den for two days, in a bid to look for an opportunity to enter.

At past nine o'clock in the evening, Mei Yangyang made her way to the back of the den to find that a window on the third storey was left wide open.

She looked around before climbing up one of the walls, only to find that there were guards on duty inside.

Mei Yangyang whipped out a hooked rope and hooked it onto the window pane on the second storey. She supported her weight against an anti-theft window and climbed upwards to the window pane on the third storey. She peeked inside to find that it was a male bathroom, which explained why the window was left wide open.

She retracted the rope and hurriedly climbed downwards into the bathroom. An idea popped up in Mei Yangyang's head at the instant that she saw the ladies' bathroom opposite.

While the coast was clear, she swiftly sneaked into the ladies' bathroom. Soon, a pleasant-looking cleaner entered.

Just as she lifted her pants to take a piss, she was abruptly shot by a bullet from Mei Yangyang's gun.

Although she had died an innocent death, Mei Yangyang could not be bothered to dwell on it. Having already come this far and made it into Xi Bolai's den, her ultimate goal was to rescue An Xiaoning, do or die.

Mei Yangyang swapped outfits with the cleaner and brainstormed for a way to get rid of the corpse.

In order to leave no stones unturned and guard against all possibilities, Mei Yangyang carried the cleaner's corpse to the male bathroom and chucked it out the window.