She really didn’t need to know who the man was; for many years, she had treated him as if he were dead. Knowing or not knowing didn’t matter, but the allure of "clearing her name" was too great for her to resist.
Yes, she couldn’t live in this world forever under the false identity of An Ning, nor could she live like a rat forever, only able to survive in the darkness, where no light shone.
Her chest rose and fell for a long time before she finally, slowly, loosened her grip and let her go.
Upon seeing this, Yang Xueshan immediately tilted back her head and took a long breath, like a fish that had almost died, finally getting fresh water. The moment she was released, she started to breathe deeply and rapidly.
Ye Ning stared at her without speaking until her breathing finally stabilized. Then, with an icy look, she said, "Where is it?"
Yang Xueshan turned her head, "You haven’t..."
"You have no right to negotiate with me. I’ll tell you, you now have only two options. First, give me what I want, and I’ll let you go. Second, die!" She was like a snake in the darkness, her gaze cold and sharp, sending a shiver down the spine.
Yang Xueshan finally began to feel afraid. Lying there, she thought dismally for a while before finally agreeing, "Fine, I’ll tell you where it is. But I can only give you half of everything; otherwise, even if you kill me, I will not give it to you."
She just stared expressionlessly at Yang Xueshan as she wrote an address in a small notebook by the bed. Seconds later, abruptly, she pulled out a syringe from her body and jabbed it fiercely into Yang Xueshan’s arm.
Yang Xueshan was caught off guard, and she cried out in pain and anger, "What are you injecting me with?"
The girl holding the syringe gave a chilling smile, "When making a deal, it’s normal to need some bargaining chips. You have nothing, so staking your life as collateral isn’t odd, is it?"
"Oh, and just a reminder, this stuff has a short incubation period, just two or three days, so you’d better hurry up. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, it’s not my problem."
She was really like a devil, carrying out the most brutal acts, yet her face, which was as pretty as the girl next door, revealed the most innocent and guiltless of smiles.
Yang Xueshan watched, dumbstruck, forgetting to struggle until the needle was pulled from her body. Only when she felt the pain did her brows furrow in agony, her gaze fixating on her.
"How could you become ? You weren’t this terrifying before."
"Is that so? What was I like before? Naive? Kind? Or just a clueless Little White Rabbit?" She patted Yang Xueshan’s face as if petting a dog she owned.
Yang Xueshan abruptly came to her senses, and that sense of self-inflicted humiliation made her face red with shame, her neck swelling up!
Hadn’t she been forced into this by her?
When Ye Ning finally left, she took the small notebook with her and, of course, tidied up the messy bed a bit. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if the two policemen outside noticed.
And in the hospital room?
The woman, who had still harbored a sliver of hope to exploit Ye Ning and make a getaway, furiously punched the hospital bed once she saw Ye Ning take the items and leave.