1058 Perplexed and Smitten 118 (1/2)

\”What evidence have you got to prove that you didn't take him away?\”

\”How am I supposed to prove that? I really don't have a way to prove it. Why would I take him away stealthily when I clearly know that I would be the first person whom you'd suspect if he were to go missing?\” Sister Zhang scoffed.

Actually, she did make sense.

\”Please excuse us,\” An Xiaoning said to the man sitting on Sister Zhang's lap.

Sister Zhang gave him a peck on his cheek and said, \”Be good, wait for me outside.\”

The man stood up and left reluctantly.

The moment he closed the door, An Xiaoning sat down on the couch and asked, \”Do you dare to let me hypnotize you?\”

\”Hypnosis?\”

\”Yes, I do know a thing or two about hypnosis. That's the only way to prove your innocence, I'm afraid.\”

\”What if you ask me for my bank account details and password?\”

\”You mean, you think I'm short of cash? Get your bodyguards to monitor the process closely. How does that sound?\” said An Xiaoning.

After some consideration, Sister Zhang agreed, \”Sure.\” She called Liang in before saying to An Xiaoning, \”You may begin.\”

An Xiaoning had practised her skills only on subjects who were asleep. In fact, she had very little confidence in hypnotizing those who are awake and lucid. Thus, she said, \”I'm not sure if it'll work, but if it doesn't, I'll have to get my professional hypnotist to make a trip here.\”

To her surprise, she succeeded on her first try.

After hearing that Sister Zhang really was not the culprit, she decided to take further precautions, for fear that Sister Zhang was feigning being hypnotized. Thus, she whipped out her gun and pointed it at Sister Zhang.

Liang frantically interjected, \”An Xiaoning, what are you doing? Sister Zhang has already stated that she wasn't the one behind it. Why are you still pointing your gun at her?\”

Noticing that Sister Zhang was still lying motionless on the couch, An Xiaoning put her gun away and said to Liang, \”I was just testing her. You don't have to be so uptight.\”

Pursing his lips, Liang remarked in contempt, \”You're a lunatic.\”

She awakened the sound-asleep Sister Zhang and left straight away.

As soon as she stepped foot out of the door, she put on her earphones and switched on the live feed from the surveillance cameras. In no time, Sister Zhang and Liang popped up on her screen.

She had pasted a mini surveillance camera beneath the couch when she was in the room earlier.

Her purpose was to test Sister Zhang further, so as to determine if she was a suspect.

In the live feed, Liang was seen talking to Sister Zhang indignantly. He said, \”Sister Zhang, you have no idea what An Xiaoning did to you during the hypnosis. She even pointed her gun at you, saying that she was just testing you. I was scared out of my wits.\”

\”If I were the one who did it, why would I still let her hypnotize me? But just whom did Yun Chen offend? Who was the one who abducted him?\”

\”Who cares whom he had offended? Sister Zhang, you looked him up several times and tried to change his mind, but he just wouldn't concede. He simply insisted on working for An Xiaoning. An Xiaoning must have offended plenty of people. Who knows? Maybe it's one of her enemies who decided to take it out on her bodyguard.\”

Sister Zhang picked up her cigarette box and lighter, after which she lit up a cigarette and took a deep puff. \”That lad has got quite a bit of a backbone. If it weren't because of the circumstances that forced him to be so unwilling to continue working for me, would that secondhand good Mo Li have stood a chance? How is she any better than me? I even heard that she can no longer conceive. She's not any better than me, apart from the fact that she's younger. Fancy Yun Chen treasuring Ye Xiaotian's unwanted good.\”

Liang remarked, \”They're both the same. Sister Zhang, isn't he also a damaged good that you didn't want back then?\”

Sister Zhang stood up and gave him a tight slap. \”Shut your trap, who allowed you to criticize him? I'm the only person who can do that.\”

Liang clutched his face in pain, not daring to utter another word.

An Xiaoning switched off the live feed and put her earphones away inside her bag.