Chapter 77: 077 Why don’t you just take a megaphone and shout it out?
“Could it be that after she attempted suicide, she had a major epiphany?”
“A temperament might drastically change, but her abilities couldn’t possibly double, could they?” Tang Ze rejected Sun Ling’s suggestion. “No, I’m feeling really uneasy right now, wait for me to calm down.”
Just as the two were at a loss, Shi Lan and Yan Shixiu’s voices came from outside the door, scaring Tang Ze and Sun Ling into huddling together.
In the corridor, President Yan gazed at Shi Lan for a moment, and then said, “Rest early.”
Shi Lan nodded, “Goodnight, my friend.”
The next second, Shi Lan used a card to open the door, but upon entering, she was bound tightly with the sash of a bathrobe by Tang Ze: “Sun Ling, come and help!”
The two of them tied up Shi Lan and then threw her onto the sofa, and afterwards, they took a frying pan and a soup ladle from the suite’s kitchen, making a cross shape with them. From two meters away, they asked Shi Lan, “You’re definitely not An Lan, so who exactly are you?”
Shi Lan looked at the belt wound around her body, feeling a headache coming on: “First, let me go. If there’s a mark left, Tang will think tomorrow that I was playing bondage play in my room!”
“No way, you need to make things clear first, or we don’t dare to let you go. An Lan has been under my command for years; I know everything about her. An Lan is very weak, always bullied and oppressed, nowhere near the person I see before me. So, what’s really going on?”
Miss Shi understood that she couldn’t keep it hidden from those close to her, but she hadn’t expected to be exposed so quickly.
So, she sighed and said earnestly, “You need to untie me before I can talk properly.”
Having no other choice with the two simpletons, Shi Lan said, “On the day An Lan tried to kill herself, she didn’t survive the rescue attempts. That same day, I was in Thailand, and I happened to get into a car accident. When I woke up, I had become her.”
Upon hearing Shi Lan’s words, Tang Ze and his companion were stunned for a moment, not knowing how to take it in.
“Even if you’re going to make up a story, at least make it believable,” Tang Ze didn’t believe a word.
“I, too, really wish this were some tall tale I’m spinning,” Shi Lan glared at them.
Unexpectedly, at this moment Sun Ling suddenly took a stand: “I believe her.”
“You believe anything she says? When do things happen in the world?” Tang Ze yanked at Sun Ling.
“Then how do you explain her abilities doubling?” Sun Ling pushed back defiantly.
“Then she might have had plastic surgery…”
“Can you have plastic surgery to look exactly the same? And who would get surgery to look like An Lan just for fun?”
Tired of listening, Shi Lan, bound on the sofa, interrupted the two: “Can you untie me first?”
Tang Ze looked at Shi Lan, still unable to accept it: “I just don’t believe it, anyway.”
“Do you think I wanted to become your An Lan? Even if I were a beggar, turning my life around wouldn’t be as hard as hers,” Shi Lan disdainfully retorted. “Whether you believe it or not, An Lan is no more. She eternally froze herself at twenty-one years old just for a jerk and his floozy.”
“Fine then, if you say you’re not An Lan, who are you?” Tang Ze calmed down a bit and asked again.
“I can answer that. During the time An Lan committed suicide, there was another news story that hung on the front pages for several days – the female heiress Shi Lan…” Sun Ling answered excitedly. But then as he got to the latter half, he turned to look at Miss Shi in shock, “You… you…”
“Not bad, some insight at last.”
“Damned unreal!” Tang Ze cried out excitedly.
Remembering Yan Shixiu in the next room, Shi Lan glared at him, “Would you prefer to take a megaphone and announce it outside?”
“My God, no, I need to think this through…” Tang Ze found the revelation too overwhelming, pacing back and forth in the room.
“Or else why do you think I could speak several foreign languages? Why do I know how to ride horses? Why could I write a technical email that shook the Glory headquarters just like that, could your An Lan do that?”