CHAPTER 757: 510 XIAOFENG FALLS OFF A CLIFF_2

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Su Peng first went to the Quan Family home, where the Quan couple was surprised to learn that Xiaofeng had arrived before him, "We didn’t hear about Xiaofeng arriving; could she have gotten lost?"

"I asked the airport staff, and she indeed took the flight before mine, so she should have arrived by now," Su Peng said.

"Let’s go, let’s all head to the Gu Family and see," Chu Qing said worriedly at the thought that her daughter might be in trouble.

Yan Junmei was actually at home.

"Junmei, Su Peng said that Xiaofeng should have arrived early this morning, and now it’s already past ten. She should be home by now. Where do you think this child could have gone?"

"Could she have lost her way? She has lost her memory, definitely doesn’t remember the way home," Yan Junmei called the housekeeper, "Housekeeper, go check around the airport and see if you can find the Young Madam."

"Yes," the housekeeper went out with some people.

"Where could this child have gone? It’s really worrying. Wouldn’t it have been better for her to just stay in the countryside? She had to come here, and it’s been half a day; where could she be?"

"Su Peng, did Xiaofeng call Acheng before she came? Does Acheng know you were coming?" Yan Junmei asked Su Peng.

At the mention of this, Su Peng’s expression turned slightly ugly, "Right after Xiaofeng left, I called Acheng, and a woman answered the phone, saying Acheng was asleep, and then she hung up."

A woman?

Chu Qing and Yan Junmei exchanged glances. What woman?

"Are you sure?" asked Chu Qing aloud.

Su Peng nodded.

...

Su Xiaofeng looked at the manor. The environment was indeed nice, but the surveillance was tight. They followed her almost step by step, making escape impossible.

But she certainly couldn’t stay here forever.

She was Acheng’s wife; what was she doing staying at the Shen Family’s place?

If others found out, she wouldn’t be able to clear her name even if she had a mouth to argue.

So, she had to escape.

Behind the manor was a cliff. Below the precipice was a farmhouse, and if she could just drop down successfully, she was certain she could escape.

After throwing Su Xiaofeng in the manor, Shen Mingsong left.

For Shen Mingsong, Su Xiaofeng’s arrival was nothing more than an added ten percent chance of victory for the Shen Family; the threat that Su Xiaofeng originally posed was practically non-existent.

"Miss Su," an auntie brought in some dishes to the room, "It’s time to eat."

Su Xiaofeng nodded, pretending to eat. Halfway through, she acted as though she were choking, desperately clutching at her throat.

Seeing Su Xiaofeng like this, the auntie thought she was really choking and hurried outside, "Come quickly, something’s happened, somebody come quick!"

Taking advantage of the moment the auntie went to call for help, Xiaofeng quietly slipped away.

She headed straight for the back of the manor.

In her hands was a bundle of torn bed sheets. She found a large tree to tie them to, then tied several loops around her waist. Looking down at the steep rock face below, she felt a moment of vertigo.

It was so high below; what if she was too afraid to jump?

"Su Xiaofeng, what are you trying to do? You wouldn’t be thinking of suicide, would you? I advise you not to do it. If you die, Gu Yecheng will just marry another beautiful woman, and then that woman will sleep with your man, your child will call that woman ’mom.’ Do you want to see that happen?" Shen Mingsong arrived and was told by the servants that Su Xiaofeng wanted to jump off a cliff.

This Su Xiaofeng must be thinking of escaping.

"Don’t lie to me. If I don’t escape, and Acheng finds out I was used by you, he will want to divorce me. Right now, I have nothing left but Acheng, and I don’t want to lose him or disappoint him." She couldn’t remember what she used to be like.

But all she wanted was to be a woman who didn’t hold Acheng back.

"If you want to jump, then jump. If you dare to jump, I’ll dare to cut these cloth strips and let you become a ghost beneath the mountain, never to return to the Gu Family again."

Falling from such a high place, one wouldn’t die, he would be skinned alive.

Hearing Shen Mingsong’s words, Xiaofeng hesitated.

She wanted to escape, but she didn’t want to die.

"Su Xiaofeng, why don’t you go die, if you die, perhaps your memory will come back. You lost your memory due to an accident, maybe you can regain it through another accident." Lin Jing’s words suddenly echoed in her ears.

"Su Xiaofeng, can’t bear to leave, can you? Then come back." Shen Mingsong looked at her, a coldness in his eyes, "I don’t like being threatened, it makes me lose patience."

Xiaofeng looked into his eyes and felt her heart palpitate.

Panic struck her heart, perhaps it was the left foot stepping on the right, or maybe the right foot on the left, her body suddenly lost balance.

By the time Xiaofeng’s hands tried to grab one of the pine trees, it was already too late, her entire body fell downwards as if losing its center of gravity.

"Quick, pull the rope, we can’t let her die." Shen Mingsong had the same shock in his eyes as she fell.

The people below scrambled to pull the body, perhaps unable to bear the weight, only to hear a tearing sound, the cloth strap broke.

"Ah...." At the moment the cloth strap broke, Su Xiaofeng’s voice was heard, panic stricken.

Shen Mingsong glanced below, and saw no sign of Xiaofeng.

"Young Master, should we go look for her?"

"No need, whether Su Xiaofeng is dead or alive, it has nothing to do with us. Remember everyone, I have never seen Su Xiaofeng, and Su Xiaofeng has never been here. Everyone got it?" Shen Mingsong sighed internally, she really was a fool, knowing the danger and yet daring to come here, if not to court death then what?

"Did everyone hear the Young Master’s words? If anyone can’t keep their mouth shut, Su Xiaofeng’s fate will be your fate." The steward listened to Shen Mingsong’s words and sternly warned the people below.

"Yes."

"Let’s go back."

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"Girl, you’re awake." An old man was holding a bowl of herbal medicine and was about to help Xiaofeng sit up to drink it when he saw that Xiaofeng had already opened her eyes and was looking around, he kindly greeted her.

Xiaofeng glanced at the old man and then at the soup medicine, her memories of falling off the cliff came back to her.

The original owner said, come back, I saw the son and daughter, they are sensible and obedient, I also saw the parents, they are just like what I wanted before.

My only wish now is to live well with Acheng, so I’m leaving, you come back, live on in this world for me.

In a flash, the body lost consciousness.

And then, she woke up.

It must’ve been the old man in front of her who saved her.

"Grandpa, did you save me?" Xiaofeng’s voice was somewhat hoarse.

"Not really." The grandpa sighed, "It’s strange to say, you must have fallen from the cliffs above, but there is not a scratch on you. You just didn’t wake up, so I went to buy you some medicine, and by the time I came back, you were awake. Young girl, what made you want to end your life like this?"

"Grandpa, you misunderstand." Xiaofeng smiled, "I just lost my footing and fell, I was tied with a cloth strap when I fell, and just before reaching the bottom, the strap broke, otherwise how could I be without injury?" She must have been saved by Xiaoqi in that moment of the fall.

"I see."

"Grandpa, where are we?"

"This is Jiulong Village, let me tell you, our place used to be famous, it was the place where Jiulong stayed." The grandpa spoke of the village legend with interest.

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"What, Xiaofeng has come to the Imperial Capital, and after almost a day, there is no news of her." Gu Yecheng’s eyes narrowed when he received the message from Ye Fei.

"Yes, that’s what the Madam said, the Madam asked if the Young Madam was with us."

Ye Fei found it to be laughably bewildering that the Young Madam would come alone to the Imperial Capital without saying a word, and still so mysteriously.

The Young Madam was always clever, how could she be so muddle-headed this time?

Her coming at this time was clearly inviting someone to kidnap her, then use it to deal with the Young Master, wasn’t it?