CHAPTER 376: CHAPTER 376: INSULTING IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY

Li Qingqing’s face turned pale, and she was breathless with anger, her face flushed red.

There was no way around it; ever since she gained weight, her body was clearly not as good as before.

She couldn’t help but gasp for breath when she moved, and her face flushed with excitement.

Most importantly, she couldn’t help but lose her temper over the slightest thing.

Shuixian said it was due to excessive liver fire, and the best remedy was to maintain a light diet and lose weight.

But only heaven knows how hard it was for her to start a business.

In the beginning, to win people over, every time she attended a dinner, she unconsciously gained weight.

She also developed a habit of drinking and eating meat, and now asking her to lose weight was equivalent to asking for her life.

"You have excessive liver fire. Do you want me to give you acupuncture?" Ningwan suggested.

"No need, Ye Ningwan, what do you actually want?" Li Qingqing angrily asked again.

Ningwan solemnly replied, "What I want is simple. Tell me one thing, resolve the confusion in my heart, and these things won’t be immediately revealed."

"Revealed immediately? You mean they will eventually come out?" Li Qingqing questioned.

Ningwan snorted, "That depends on your sincerity. For now, let’s first discuss the questions I want to ask. If you refuse to answer, these things will be exposed right away. And also, it’s best not to act carelessly towards me. Bai Qishu should have told you, I also brought someone with me. If I can’t leave, these will also be exposed immediately and handed over to the authorities."

Li Qingqing immediately took out her phone to call Bai Qishu for confirmation.

Sure enough, upon hearing Bai Qishu say that Ye Ningwan did bring someone outside,

she angrily hung up the phone and glared at Ye Ningwan with gritted teeth.

"Ye Ningwan, why do you have to go against me time and again?"

"It’s not me going against you; it’s you going against me. Let’s get straight to the point, no more nonsense. I ask you, what really happened with Zhan Hanjue back then? Including his bouts of amnesia, tell me everything."

"How would I know? This has nothing to do with me," Li Qingqing denied.

Ningwan said, "Li Qingqing, without some specific suspicion, I wouldn’t come to you, let alone ask you these questions. So, stop trying to deceive me; it’s pointless."

Li Qingqing’s face stiffened, glaring fiercely.

After a long while, she finally began to speak slowly, recounting what happened back then.

Back then, Tang Xiaowan went to find Wan Tianci, with Zhan Hanjue accompanying her for support.

Unexpectedly, they fell into Wan Tianyi’s trap; Wan Tianci wasn’t found. Instead, Tang Xiaowan and Zhan Hanjue, while being pursued by Wan Tianyi’s men, drove off a cliff into the sea.

"That’s all I know," Li Qingqing said.

Ningwan stared at her intently for a long while before coldly sneering, "Li Qingqing, even now, you still want to continue lying?"

"How do you know I’m lying? What I said is true; believe it or not," Li Qingqing said, agitated.

Ningwan replied calmly, "Of course I don’t believe you. Li Qingqing, I came to ask you this question because I already have some evidence. If you still want to keep lying, then this negotiation can’t proceed."

"Li Qingqing, my little junior sister has been smart since she was young. By now, you should stop hiding. After all, you don’t want to show up in front of Zhan Hanjue anymore, so why keep this secret? You couldn’t get him yourself, and you don’t want others to have him either."

At this moment, someone came out from the secret passage of the study; it was Shuixian.

Li Qingqing’s face turned unsightly.

Ningwan saw her but was not surprised, as if she had already known she was there.

Shuixian still had that innocent look of a young girl. Even though she was nearing forty, she dressed and styled herself like an eighteen-year-old, with thick bangs.

"Little junior sister, long time no see. You seem prettier than before. But so am I. Don’t I look younger?" Shuixian greeted Ningwan with a smile.

Ningwan snorted, "Did you get Botox in H Country? It seems counterfeit. With all of Li Qingqing’s money, couldn’t she find you a good doctor?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? This is completely natural; I didn’t get Botox," Shuixian’s demeanor crumbled as she shouted at Ningwan.

Ningwan was surprised, "But it’s clearly a mark of too much Botox. Are you sure you didn’t get Botox, senior sister?"

"Didn’t get it, didn’t get it, why don’t you worry about yourself first? Don’t come here to die," Shuixian retorted, furious.

Ningwan laughed, "You don’t have to worry, senior sister. If I had the courage to come, I have the confidence to leave. So, Li Qingqing, can you tell the truth now?"

Li Qingqing gave Shuixian a harsh look, but with no choice now, she couldn’t continue to hide it.

She could only reveal the truth to Ningwan.

Indeed, what happened back then wasn’t as simple as it seemed.

Wan Tianci was taken away by Wan Tianyi, and Tang Xiaowan went to find Wan Tianyi. What happened after that, Li Qingqing had no way of knowing.

However, after Tang Xiaowan came out from inside, she gave Zhan Hanjue a bottle of water to drink.

Zhan Hanjue, unsuspecting and thirsty, drank it, and after drinking, he passed out.

"I gave him the drug and even got a hypnosis master to hypnotize him, erasing part of his memory. Ye Ningwan, I really hate you. I know I can’t make Zhan Hanjue fall in love with me, but I can make him forget you."

Li Qingqing burst into harsh laughter here, laughing to the point of tears.

"Madwoman,"

Ningwan coldly commented.

Li Qingqing stopped laughing but still had tears in her eyes, looking at Ningwan said, "Yes, I’m a madwoman, but how did I go mad? It was you who drove me mad. Ye Ningwan, you have no idea, the things you easily had are things others couldn’t get no matter how hard they tried. I loved Zhan Hanjue so deeply and tried my best, but he never had a change of heart for me. Before you appeared, I might have had a chance. But because of your appearance, I had no chance at all. How can I not hate you, even if I can’t have him, I also can’t let you have him either."

"Where’s the antidote? Bring out the antidote," Ningwan coldly looked at Shuixian.

Shuixian shouted, "Why are you asking me for it, not Li Qingqing? I don’t like Zhan Hanjue."

"I know Li Qingqing’s medical skills only too well; she used Wen Daofu’s formula, improved it, and poisoned Zhan Hanjue, right? But she doesn’t have that ability; the only explanation is that you helped her. My senior sister, though you aren’t skilled, you were taught by our master personally, even a pig would learn."

"Ye Ningwan, are you scolding me indirectly?" Shuixian gasped.

Ningwan snorted, "If that’s how you want to see it, that’s fine, consider it a scolding. Or you can consider it a compliment. It’s not easy to formulate this medicine, and you managed to improve it in a short time, showcasing your medical skills."

"Tch, I don’t need your compliments. I can give you the antidote, but you need to destroy all Li Qingqing’s evidence first, then I’ll give it to you," Shuixian stated.

Li Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief; fortunately, Shuixian hadn’t gone out of her mind.

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