718 A Million Times for You 80 (1/2)

After the filming was done, An Xiaoning took a shower and changed into a fresh set of clothes. Her wrists were no longer handcuffed either. She even watched the video of her staged execution together with Pei Yi.

Everyone is going to think that I died, she thought to herself while staring at the video.

Pei Yi watched the video twice to confirm that there were no errors before instructing Qin Guo to send the video to Tuoba Gucheng and Jin Qingyan.

”Ancestor, do we let the citizens of S Nation know about it?” Qin Guo asked.

”No, just them both will do. Just leave those citizens guessing. Otherwise, it's going to affect us negatively. I doubt Tuoba Gucheng will show it to his citizens anyway. Hurry and get my breakfast served. I'm hungry.”

”Alright.” Qin Guo did as instructed.

The door closed slowly. Pei Yi lay onto the couch sluggishly and looked at An Xiaoning from head to toe before saying, ”I fancy women who smile.”

An Xiaoning suddenly realized that she must have an awful expression on her face at the time. Thus, she hurriedly smiled and said in a thick-skinned manner, ”I love smiling. You'll be the only person I smile at from now on, Master Pei. No one else has the right to make me smile for them.”

He placed his hand on her neck and caressed her skin gently. ”You must keep your promise even if you don't mean it.”

His cold fingertips made her feel a little ticklish. However, An Xiaoning remained still and allowed him to continue grazing his fingers across her neck.

She accompanied him for breakfast as usual.

She focused on eating and dared not let her imagination run wild.

After breakfast, he sat at his office desk to work while she sat on a chair facing him. There was a glass bottle on the table that was full of paper cranes.

She decided to fold some paper cranes to kill time.

An Xiaoning had always found her time to be extremely precious and not to be wasted. It had never occurred to her that she would one day end up folding paper origami in order to kill time.

It was all she could do since he did not allow her to touch any electronic devices capable of disseminating information and keeping in contact with the outside world.

She ought to find a way to bring some joy to her otherwise mundane life.

She would go crazy just sitting around and doing nothing.

If Xi Bolai was considered to be intelligent, Pei Yi would be a prodigy who was ten times more ingenious than him.

Ten Xi Bolais wouldn't even be a match for Pei Yi.

Xi Bolai once abducted her with the clear motive of wanting to make her his property and getting his hands on a huge sum of money.

However, that was not the case for Pei Yi, who turned down an offer of one billion dollars. Evidently, he was not in need of money and was firm on his decisions. It also proved that he was a willful man who sometimes made decisions based on his emotions.

I'd be in a safe position, so long as I don't provoke him.

There's hope in escaping as long as I stay alive.

It's only a matter of time.

I can't be too rash or impatient, lest I provoke him and end up losing my life.

After all, no matter how invincible one may be, there'll always be someone who possesses greater power.

So what if she had to swallow her pride and stoop to pleasuring him with flowery words she did not mean? There would be a chance to escape as long as she stayed alive. It was not worth dying for at all!

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Not long after Pei Yi instructed the video to be disseminated, the national secretary of S Nation received the video in his digital mailbox and frantically reported it to Tuoba Gucheng.

”Your Majesty, the terrorists have sent us a video, it's about…” The secretary paused and looked at Lin Shishi before continuing, ”about Ms. An.”

”What video is it?” Tuoba Gucheng asked.

The secretary placed the laptop onto the table and said, ”Please take a look, Your Majesty.”

Tuoba Gucheng clicked the ”play” button with the mouse while Lin Shishi leaned in to watch it with him.

They watched the video that depicted An Xiaoning kneeling on the ground with her limbs tied together and a man standing behind her with a gun.

”Your nation has already given up on you. Do you have any last words?”