When Jiang Baiwan woke up, all she could see was darkness. Her eyes seemed to be tightly covered by something.

She tried to struggle, only to find that her hands and feet were also tied with ropes. Jiang Baiwan felt heavy. The tip of her nose was full of the smell of damp soil.

Remembering that she saw Shui Lan’er just before she passed out, Jiang Baiwan gritted her teeth angrily—— Had she gone mad?

Just when Jiang Baiwan was about to try to lower the cloth covering her eyes a little, she suddenly heard a slight sound coming from the door. She hurriedly resumed her previous position and lay there motionless.

Not long after, footsteps sounded. By the sound of it there was only one person, and that someone slowly walked up to Jiang Baiwan. Then there was no movement.

Jiang Baiwan tried her best to control her breathing, trying to guess who the person was with her closed eyes.

“It looks like she’ll stay asleep for a while.” Finally, the person spoke, but it was to herself. “Xiao Wan, I’m sorry. I’m doing this for your own good.”

Sure enough, it was Shui Lan’er. Jiang Baiwan didn’t even have the energy to get angry now. She could only call Shui Lan’er names in her heart.

Shui Lan’er squatted in front of Jiang Baiwan. She carefully observed Jiang Baiwan’s expression and found that there was no change. She pursed her lips and continued, “You know Xiao Wan, if it wasn’t for you, I’d be living a happy life now, right? It’s just that some things are already too late. There seems to be no use in me regretting it.”

“It’s just, Xiao Wan, without you, won’t my life be different?” Shui Lan’ers voice sounded faint, but it sent chills down Jiang Baiwan’s spine for a moment. She almost could barely contain calling out her bullsh*t before managing to suppress it—— Are you serious?! Just because you’re having a rough time, I have to disappear?

After Shui Lan’er was silent for a while, she let out a laugh. “Xiao Wan, do you know? Yunhan said that he wanted to break up with me because I hadn’t been faithful to him. But there’s nothing between Big Brother and I at all. I’ve been thinking for a long time, after entering the room that day, I suddenly felt hot all over. The problem should lie in this, right?”

Not so foolish, I see. Jiang Baiwan sighed in her heart, thinking that this thing wasn’t really done well. But if it wasn’t for Shui Lan’er, Gu Dongcheng wouldn’t know about her going at the banquet either.

It could be regarded as cause and effect in a sense.

“I just don’t know why you dislike me so much, Xiao Wan.” Shui Lan’er even started sobbing. “I obviously…… I obviously regard you as a friend.”

Jiang Baiwan immediately lost sympathy for Shui Lan’er and only headache remained. She couldn’t hold back any longer and opened her mouth. “I don’t have a friend like you. I remember saying this many times.”

Shui Lan’er choked and looked at Jiang Baiwan in surprise. “You’re awake?”

“I woke up just as you came in.” Jiang Baiwan simply sat up straight. “What do you want to do? Bringing me into something like a warehouse, blindfolded and hands and feet tied. Don’t tell me you want to dispose me?”

Shui Lan’er was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, “What I can’t understand the most is this look of yours. Why are you always so confident?”

Jiang Baiwan paused and then the corners of her lips curled up. “You’re asking me that, but why don’t you ask yourself? Why do you always think you’re right?”

In the next second, the cloth covering Jiang Baiwan’s eyes was ripped off. Shui Lan’er was dressed in low-key black clothes and she looked like a fish that had lost its moisture, shriveled and lifeless. She was crouching as she looked at Jiang Baiwan. Although she still has her big eyes, they no longer had the misty look they once had.

Jiang Baiwan felt as if the Shui Lan’er in front of her was like a walking corpse, inexplicable frightening.

“That’s it, you just look down on me.” Shui Lan’er was finally defeated and she yelled heartbreakingly at Jiang Baiwan. “You think my family has no money and I’m poor, so you bully me! You want to steal Yunhan away from me! You don’t even like Ji Chen, don’t think I don’t know!”

Jiang Baiwan looked at the hysterical Shui Lan’er, blinked her eyes and burst out laughing. She straightened her body, then said to Shui Lan’er leisurely, “Who told you that I don’t like Ji Chen?”

Shui Lan’er was taken aback.

“Yes, I did a lot of wrong things in the past. I apologize. I won’t whitewash myself.” Jiang Baiwan said very simply, “But after my family went bankrupt, I gradually realized that not having money is not a terrible thing. What’s terrible is not even having the strength to rely on myself and just clinging on men to live.”

“I dare say that I’d still be able to move on with my life even if I broke up with Ji Chen. How about you? After you lost Chu Yunhan, did the whole world come to a standstill?” Jiang Baiwan hit the nail on the head with single sentence. Shui Lan’er closed her mouth and stopped talking.

Jiang Baiwan smiled and looked at Shui Lan’er with pity. “I don’t know exactly what you want to do, but…… Shui Lan’er, you need to think clearly. Are all your problems really caused by me?”

Shui Lan’er gritted her teeth and pretended as if she hadn’t heard any of Jiang Baiwan’s words. “It’s too late for you to say anything now. I brought you here today and then Jiang Zhishu will follow. I’ve already talked to Uncle Jiang, when Jiang Zhishu arrives we’ll send you both outside the country together! It would be even better if Ji Chen shows up. It just proves how important you are in his heart, doesn’t it?”

Jiang Baiwan frowned. She looked at Shui Lan’er like she was looking at an idiot. “……You said you will send us outside the country? Does your family have a plane?”

Shui Lan’er froze at once.

“Look, your family doesn’t have a plane, let alone mine. How will Jiang Bo take me and Jiang Zhishu away? Stowaway?” At first, the atmosphere was a bit tense, but as soon as Jiang Baiwan opened her mouth, the whole conversation took another weird direction. “Stowing us away is obviously impossible. Do you want Jiang Zhishu and me to buy plane tickets honestly and go abroad just like that? You think I will safely board a plane? There’s even no need to mention Jiang Zhishu.”

Jiang Baiwan looked at Shui Lan’er with sympathy. “I know you’re easy to deceive, but I didn’t expect…… you’ll believe such a low-level lie.”

Shui Lan’er stood up straight, her expression astonished. She took two steps back. “No, it’s impossible.”

“What’s impossible? Go and ask.” Jiang Baiwan said sincerely, “I won’t be able to run away from here anyway.”

Shui Lan’er glanced at Jiang Baiwan’s bound hands and feet. She pondered for a moment before finally gritting her teeth and turned to leave.

After Jiang Baiwan confirmed that Shui Lan’er had gone out, she quickly began to bite the rope with her teeth. This rope wasn’t very thick, but it was tied quite tightly. Jiang Baiwan tried hard for a long time but failed to bite off the rope successfully. Instead, she almost broke her teeth, and couldn’t help being a bit discouraged.

After calming down for a while, she started searching inside the warehouse for any tools she could use. However, this place was obviously a storage warehouse and she could see nothing but sandbags around. Jiang Baiwan searched for a long time, unable to find a tool that she could used to free herself.

She couldn’t just sit still!

Jiang Baiwan simply stood up leaning on one of the sandbags. Although her feet were bound, she could move a bit. Jiang Baiwan struggled hard to move towards the window and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had a layer of iron bars, which was now rusted and broken, leaving sharp corners just enough to wear through the rope.

Jiang Baiwan simply jumped up towards the window. She hurriedly used the sharp corners to cut the rope. The broken frame was covered with rust and Jiang Baiwan had to be careful not to scratch her wrists. She was concentrating so hard that her forehead was covered with sweat.

Fortunately, no one came in during this time. Not long after, she successfully broke the rope on her hand. She breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly untied the rope on her feet, then Jiang Baiwan proceeded to head straight for the door of the warehouse.

But before she could reach it, Jiang Baiwan heard the roar of cars outside. Her heart sank and she subconsciously looked around just in time to see a lot of broken wooden furniture piled up by the door. She pulled one of the chair legs and quietly hid by the doorway.

The sound of car motors outside stopped and was replaced by the sound of human footsteps. The person’s footsteps sounded a little hurried, which was different from Shui Lan’er just now. Jiang Baiwan gripped the chair leg in her hand, her heart beating fast. She stood by the door, all the muscles in her body ready, waiting for the person to come in and gave him a fatal blow.

Soon, the sound of footsteps stopped at the door of the warehouse, and in the next second, it slowly opened. Looking at the figure gradually revealed with the opening of the door, Jiang Baiwan let out a loud cry while holding the chair leg as if it was a sword as she viciously slashed at the person, specifically targeting the position of his stomach.

Hmm? Why does it seem to have failed? Jiang Baiwan quickly opened her eyes and saw Ji Chen lying not far away from her. His face which had always been calm was filled with fear. It seemed that when Jiang Baiwan swung the chair leg, Ji Chen, who has sharp eyes, quickly fell on the ground, dodging Jiang Baiwan’s fatal blow.

“……Ji Chen?” Jiang Baiwan looked at him in surprise. “Why are you here? No, how did you get here so fast?”

“I came to save you.” Because Ji Chen was almost hit in the stomach by Jiang Baiwan, his mood was very subtle at this moment. “However…… you seem to be more powerful than I imagined.”