Jiang Xiaonuan’s voice was faint and almost made her mother think it came from the other side of the world. It felt very unreal.

Mrs. Jiang’s heart tightened. She turned and asked doubtfully, “Xiaonuan, you won’t be too hard on yourself, will you?”

Jiang Xiaonuan repeated again. “Mom, I’m living like a puppet, what’s the point of living like this?”

Mrs. Jiang walked to Jiang Xiaonuan’s side quickly, took her head, and looked into her dark and dim eyes. Tears began to form in her eyes. She comforted her enthusiastically. “Xiaonuan, don’t scare me. You can’t take things too hard.”

Jiang Xiaonuan smiled faintly, but the smile looked extremely dreary. She said softly, “Mom, don’t worry, I won’t do anything stupid!”

Mrs. Jiang’s heart was finally at ease. She gently caressed Jiang’s hair and her voice trembled. “Xiaonuan, don’t say such things again. You scared me!”

Jiang Xiaonuan put her arm around her mother’s waist and said softly, “Well, Mom! I’ll never do that again!” She raised her head and said, “It’s getting late, go to bed now!”

…

Although the scandal between Gong Yu and Yun Muxi has been resolved, Ding Sisi was in the worst plight.

He Xin talked with Ding Sisi’s agent and dismissed her contract with Ding Sisi on the grounds of divulging secrets and defaming the cast’s image. She also requested a default fee of 10 million from Ding Sisi. Although 10 million was not much for Ding Sisi, she still felt a pain as if she had been cut in the arm. Ding Sisi has made a lot of money over the years, but she also spent a lot, so she did not have a lot of savings. Losing a large sum of money was able to make Ding Sisi furious.

Ding Sisi could not bear with this and needs to vent her anger on someone.

She picked up the phone and dialed Zhao Yuyan’s number. “Yuyan, are you stupid? Because I think you are. It’s all because of you. We blew it, and actually helped that bitch Yun Muxi. Now you ruined my reputation, made me lose the leading role, and I paid 10 million of default fee. I really would strangle you if I could!”

Zhao Yuyan knew she screw things up and could only humbly apologize to Ding Sisi. “Sisi, I’m sorry! It’s all my fault. I was actually so careless and let others get the upper hand. Please forgive me, I promise next time I will act normal!”

Ding Sisi shouted angrily. “There’s going to be a ‘next time’?”

Zhao Yuyan hurriedly added, “No, no! There won’t be! I’m really sorry!”

Ding Sisi went on to say, “I will give you a chance to redeem yourself!”

Zhao Yuyan brightened at this news and said quickly, “Sure, I will do anything for you.”

Ding Sisi felt satisfied and relaxed her tone. She resumed her usual arrogant tone and said, “I can’t put up with this. That bitch Lou Xue actually filmed the live broadcast, and made me a scapegoat with the crime of leaking secrets. I want her to pay the price! I want her to pay double for daring to ruin my plans.”

Hearing this, Zhao Yuyan hesitated and said, “Sisi, Lou Xue is the daughter of the Lou family. I’m afraid it will not be easy.”

Ding Sisi immediately said crossly, “The Lou family! The Lou family is nothing! A mere Lou Family makes you fear like this!”

It was not that the Lou family did not have power in the city, but compared with the man behind Ding Sisi, the Lou family was really nothing. However, that being said, the Lou family was still regarded as a big powerhouse in A city. Instead, the Zhao Family, where Zhao Yuyan came from, was really nothing. With her background, Zhao Yuyan really could not touch Lou Xue. However, now, it was Ding Sisi who wanted to end Lou Xue. Aware of Ding Sisi’s powerful backing, Zhao Yuyan naturally dared not say anything else.

Zhao Yuyan then asked, “What are you going to do then?”

Ding Sisi began to share her plans…

.

Lou Xue just came out of school. She came out very early today. As the driver had not arrived, Lou Xue took out her mobile phone and stood at the door playing games.

Suddenly, a white van sped to the front of Lou Xue. The door opened and two men got off quickly, grabbed Lou Xue by her sides and rushed back into the van.

Lou Xue was stunned by the sudden incident and asked in horror, “Who are you? What do you want?”

There were five men in the van, all of them looked rowdy and were obviously not good people.

The man in the passenger seat said, “Little girl, don’t blame us for being cruel, but you’ve messed with the wrong people. And we are only paid to do this. If you behave yourself, we will certainly not let you suffer too much. But if you don’t… Haha, don’t blame us for not being a gentleman.”

Lou Xue asked nervously, “Who paid you?”

The man grinned, looking like a ruffian and said, “This, you will know when the time comes!”

Lou Xue asked again, “How much did they give you? I’ll pay you double, let me go!”

The man hesitated for a moment, then said, “We have work ethics. We can make money, but we should also earn ourselves some credit. Otherwise, how can we do business in the future!”

Lou Xue still wanted to ask something else, but someone behind her tied her hands and feet with a rope, stuck a piece of black tape on her mouth and covered her eyes with a black cloth strip.

Lou Xue immediately sank into darkness and felt panic! Human’s greatest fear was the fear toward the unknown: not knowing where they were going, or what will happen to them, or what kind of enemy they were facing.

Lou Xue panicked, she could feel her heart beating loudly, as if it would jump out of her if she opened her mouth right now! This kind of fear actually made her start to weep. Tears soaked the blindfold and she felt uncomfortable in the eye.

Suddenly, a cell phone rang with a cheerful tone in the van. Lou Xue recognized that it was her ring tone.

A tart man nearby said, “Brother Tiger? What to…”

The man who was on the passenger car said again, “Turn it off! Throw it out.”

The sound of the cell phone being turned off was heard. Someone opened the window and the wind blew in. Outside the window, only the sound of the van speeding along was heard. The window of the van was closed quickly then, and the van was quiet again.

Lou Xue could only analyze what happened through the sounds. She knew that her mobile phone was turned off and thrown out of the van. Now she could only wait like a dead fish on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered.

…

After a long time, the van finally stopped. Lou Xue was pushed out of the van and she felt like she was brought into a room.

Brother Tiger’s voice rang again. “Hello? Everything is done here!… Good! No problem, don’t worry!”

Brother Tiger hung up the phone, Lou Xue heard very little useful information. She could only guess that someone gave Brother Tiger a task, but Brother Tiger did not seem to intend to untie her.

She was listening carefully to the surrounding movements when she heard footsteps coming towards her. Someone vigorously tore the black tape on her mouth. She felt pain and let out a scream. Her mouth was pinched by someone, and liquid from a bottle-like object was poured into her mouth.

Lou Xue was scared, she didn’t know what she was fed. She began to shout loudly. “What! What are you doing? Let me go… Please, let me go… Please…”

As Lou Xue shouted, her voice gradually weakened and in the end, she was almost begging and crying. Lou Xue was brought up like a real lady, she never bowed her head to anyone. This time she was really scared. She was afraid and did not care about her status anymore. She actually begged them humbly.

At this moment, the sound of a woman’s high heels rang, the woman came closer and said, “Brother Tiger, prepare to start! I have brought the DV!”

Lou Xue heard it clearly, and that was Zhao Yuyan’s voice. Then she started to shout aloud, “Zhao Yuyan? It’s you, Zhao Yuyan, isn’t it? I have nothing against you. Why did you do this to me? Do you know that if my father knows, your Zhao Family will be finished?”

Zhao Yuyan knew Lou Xue recognized her voice. She stopped hiding and removed Lou Xue’s blindfold. With a smile, she said, “Lou Xue, sorry, you do hold nothing against me, and I don’t want to do this either, but you offended Sisi! I have no choice! If you want to blame someone, don’t blame it on me, blame it on whoever plans this! Whoever finds you trouble, you find them!”

Zhao Yuyan dished out the main culprit. Her Zhao Family could not afford to provoke the Lou family, so she could not take the accusation. However, Lou Xue probably did not dare to touch the people behind Ding Sisi, and could only bury this in her mind.

When Lou Xue heard that Ding Sisi was behind it, she asked doubtfully, “Sisi? Why does she want to do this?”

Zhao Yuyan chuckled and explained. “Think about it! Why did you film the live broadcast? You dug your own grave and you can’t blame anyone else! I can’t help you either! This time, Sisi lost her leading female role and paid 10 million penalty fees. She can’t keep this down and have to vent her anger! You… well, you are the punching bag!”

Zhao Yuyan did not give Lou Xue the opportunity to respond. She then immediately said to Tiger Brother nearby, “Tiger Brother, get ready to start.”

Lou Xue already knew what was going to happen soon. Her body felt hot and dry, her consciousness began to dissipate, and a sense of foreboding hit her heart, like a dark storm enveloping her.

Lou Xue shook her head in horror and shouted angrily. “You can’t use such cheap means and do dirty things to me! No! This will destroy me!”

Zhao Yuyan looked at Lou Xue with a sneer and said, “Cheap means? Dirty things? No choice, this is not what I want! You’d better cooperate obediently, or you may be destroyed more thoroughly.”

Zhao Yuyan raised the DV in her hand, turned to Brother Tiger and said, “All right, don’t waste time, let’s start!”