Chapter 228: Rescue

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Xi Mo's face turned deathly pale. With tears in her eyes, she looked at Jian Ye and said with difficulty, "...What are you saying?"

"I hope you can die too," Jian Ye said.

...too.

Xi Mo was horrified. That strange word kept echoing in her mind.

"The first time I decided to kill myself, Jian Ye had already 'died.' So what if that nanny saved me? She forced all the hatred she filled me with to keep me alive, but I was no longer myself." Jian Ye sneered. "I found out Gu Qisong was Zhou Wenxu's friend, and Zhou Wenxu had been your bodyguard for years. I knew I might not be that far from you anymore. I told Gu Qisong I wanted to return to China to do something. After hearing about you and me, he refused at first. I said I would really kill myself. If he agreed to some of my requests and fulfilled my wish, I would return to Southeast Asia, keep accepting reconstruction, and live properly. In the end, Gu Qisong agreed. Gu Qisong is unbelievably stupid. I threatened him with suicide, and he had no choice. In fact, I had long been no different from dead. He is not smart enough. He isn't capable enough. He clearly didn't have enough ability to help me, yet he still insisted on helping me. His brain only has one track. He has almost no ability to solve problems. How is he any different from a stupid blockhead? During my reconstruction surgeries, all he ever said was for me to keep going, that if I held on I would recover. I don't want to hear that useless nonsense!"

Xi Mo struggled to look toward the door. Gu Qisong should be outside.

But Jian Ye said, "Of course he can hear it, and I'm not afraid of him hearing it. I already said all this to him when I wanted to stop the reconstruction surgeries. He could not understand why I said those things. He thought I was just throwing a tantrum because I was sick, and that everything would be fine after I calmed down. He is a hopeless blockhead."

Xi Mo turned her face and looked at Jian Ye again.

Jian Ye said, "After that, I came back to China with Gu Qisong. At that time, your manager was hiring bodyguards to travel with the film crew. Zhou Wenxu thought Gu Qisong really was in trouble, so he guaranteed him as a friend. Gu Qisong successfully got the job and became your bodyguard. With Gu Qisong by your side, it was very convenient for me to watch you from the shadows."

"The one who threw the dead chicken, the one who scattered nails on the road in Heizhugou, the one who brushed past me by the bonfire at night in Heizhugou, they were all... you." Xi Mo already knew the answer in her heart, yet she still asked through tears, "And the threatening letters pasted on the hotel room door, that was you too, right? Back then I could not understand why, with Gu Qisong's speed, he still could not catch that person. Now it seems he was protecting you. No matter what you did, you would never be caught. Even recording that empty stairwell video as proof was just a cover."

"Of course it was me. I wanted you to taste what it feels like to live in fear and panic for a long time." Jian Ye sneered. "Ruan Yesheng was sick then, yet you went to her room to take care of her, and you stayed there for so long! After Gu Qisong told me you and Ruan Yesheng were in the room, I pasted those threatening letters on Ruan Yesheng's door to make you afraid."

During the dead chicken incident, the two of them had been standing together. Although the chicken was thrown toward Ruan Yesheng, who had Xi Mo's appearance at the time, it was impossible to tell for sure who the target really was, because the direction could have been off. Hearing this, Xi Mo finally confirmed that Jian Ye truly didn't know she and Ruan Yesheng had swapped bodies. The one who had been sick back then was Xi Mo herself, but in Jian Ye's eyes, it had become Ruan Yesheng.

"Ruan Yesheng is so annoying." Jian Ye said hatefully. "That night on the set, she noticed me moving around and actually followed me. Luckily I managed to shake her off."

That night, the one who became suspicious of the woman in the cap and followed her was actually Xi Mo herself, but Jian Ye had always believed it was Ruan Yesheng tracking her.

"Did you ever go... outside Yesheng's hospital room one night? It was already after midnight." Xi Mo hurriedly asked again. That had not been Ruan Yesheng either. It had been herself.

Jian Ye sneered: "I already found her annoying enough. Why would I go to the hospital to see her?"

"Then did you ever appear outside Uncle A’Cuo's courtyard in Heizhugou?" While in pain, Xi Mo's mind raced nonstop. Jian Ye was not working together with Ding Qihong, Yang Zhen, or the man Miss Yu had filmed following them. She had to find out exactly when Jian Ye had followed her and what she had done. She needed to use elimination to identify the others' movements.

"Yes." Jian Ye looked very displeased. "But that dog noticed me and kept barking, so I had to leave immediately."

No wonder Baolai had kept barking outside then. When Xi Mo went out to look, no one had been there.

"Ruan Yesheng is annoying, and that stupid dog is annoying too!" Jian Ye said hatefully. "It chased me through the alley in Heizhugou, and even bit me."

Besides Yang Zhen, there was another person in that alley. That person had even had a piece of fabric bitten off their pants by Baolai. It turned out that it had been Jian Ye too.

After understanding all this, Xi Mo carefully continued, "Did you... ever enter my room while we were in Heizhugou?"

"No." Jian Ye's face darkened. "That dog was always in the yard. It barked whenever a stranger came. How could I get close to the house you were staying in?"

Now Xi Mo could confirm one hundred percent that someone else had entered her room back then. They had opened the lock without damaging it at all. Together with the strange smell and sticky substance left on the lock, what kind of existence was that person?

Thinking of it, Xi Mo shivered and asked, "Then what about using seafood to trigger my allergy?"

"That was me too." Jian Ye studied her expression. "But I only knew you had an allergy. I just wanted to make you suffer a little. When you were little, your allergy was not that serious. I had no idea that time would become so severe that you had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. Before that, Gu Qisong thought I only wanted to scare you and make you suffer mentally, not physically. He thought that was my wish because I told him you had such a wonderful life while mine was worse than death. I said making you suffer a little would make things fair in my heart. When Gu Qisong realized the seafood had almost killed you, he wanted to end everything. But how could he? Once some things begin, they can't be stopped. After working as your bodyguard for a while, he said that if you learned the truth, you would definitely be willing to talk to me and resolve everything between us. He had run out of options. He thought you had the ability to save me, so he wanted to tell you everything about me. I almost laughed at how stupid he was. I told him if he told you, I would kill myself. Every single time, he was threatened by the same trick."

"But..." Jian Ye suddenly changed the subject. "Gu Qisong actually thought you could save me? Can you? After working by your side for so long, the balance in his heart actually tilted toward you. Why are there always so many people around you who believe in your ability and care about you? Why do I have nothing? But look at yourself now. You are trapped here. You can't even protect yourself. Yet he still expected you to talk to me. Gu Qisong is a joke."

"He had no other choice." Xi Mo tried to make her voice as soothing as possible. "You told him to kidnap me, and he did it. He thought you had never been willing to meet me, so there was no way for us to talk. At least by bringing me here as you wanted, you could finally talk to me and let me know what happened to you."

"Yes." Jian Ye gave a light sneer. "I knew he would agree, so I told him to bring you to see me. I didn't want to do it this soon, but a few days ago Gu Qisong said someone had taken a very clear video of me following you. He told me to stop immediately, or I might be exposed at once. So I had to speed up my plan."

"...Your plan?" Xi Mo's heart trembled.

Jian Ye said nothing more. She walked to the table in the darkness, unlocked a drawer with a key, and took out a box. She brought it over to Xi Mo, opened it, took out two syringes and a bottle of medicine, and silently drew the liquid into both syringes.

When Xi Mo saw the syringes, her whole body shook violently.

"You see? You are completely powerless. There is nothing you can do." Jian Ye finished preparing the syringes and pressed one hand against Xi Mo's arm. Xi Mo's hands and feet were tightly tied. She tried to break free, but it was impossible.

"Sister, as long as we return to our childhood, back to that fire, everything will end. If we had both died in that fire, none of what happened afterward would have happened. But I still don't want your face to be ruined by the fire. That would be such a waste. Jumping from this floor will not work either. Your body would be mangled, and everyone would know. You would become a joke for the entertainment industry to gossip about. They are not worthy of talking about you." Jian Ye held Xi Mo down with force. "So I thought of a better way, a drug injection. Don't worry. It doesn't hurt. After the injection, the body will not look frightening either. I will inject you first. I'm afraid if I inject myself first, I will not have enough strength left. To be safe, you will go first. I promise that after I finish injecting you, I will immediately inject myself too."

Her eyes curved into a smile like an endless nightmare. There was no doubt she meant every word. After finishing Xi Mo's injection, she would definitely follow her.

Xi Mo felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. She stared at the approaching needle. She knew she could not call for Gu Qisong outside. If she angered Jian Ye, Jian Ye would only become even crazier.

"There are not many people in this neighborhood. Gu Qisong will take care of our bodies. Then your friends, and your Ruan Yesheng, will come too. They will cry so sadly, but no one will reveal how you died. They all love you so much. How could they bear to expose it? They will even have to make up a reasonable cause of death for you. So don't be afraid. I thought everything through before choosing this place."

The needle came closer and closer.

At that moment, Xi Mo had only one thought in her mind.

She had to stop Jian Ye's hand, even if only for a moment.

"Sister, die with me." Jian Ye said. "We will return to our childhood."

Her voice sounded like Death whispering in the dark night.

"Mom was murdered on purpose!" Xi Mo cried out, trembling. "She didn't die in a car accident!"

Jian Ye froze. The needle stopped in midair.

Xi Mo realized it had worked. Crying, she said in a trembling voice, "I found one of Mom's notebooks. I also learned many truths about her death. Mom was brutally murdered! That driver was only a cover! I'm not lying. Mom's memory had become bad back then, so she wrote things in the notebook to remind herself. It included things about you. She even reminded herself to call you and wrote what she planned to say during the call."

At that moment, Xi Mo spoke as fast as she could, yet every word remained as clear as possible.

She was racing against death.

"What notebook?" Jian Ye immediately asked. "Where is it?"

"It is with me." Xi Mo said with a trembling voice. "I still remember what Mom planned to tell you on the phone. I... I can recite it to you."

She had carefully read Jian Yuan's notebook many times before. After she finished reciting everything in the notebook related to Jian Ye, tears filled Jian Ye's eyes.

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"Mom was murdered after a planned scheme. Don't you want to know the truth?" Xi Mo desperately gave Jian Ye a reason to keep living. "I have already found some clues. I can tell you everything... As long as we have enough time, one day we will find the person who killed Mom... Yezi, give us a little more time... Just a little more time..."

"...Mom." Jian Ye's expression twisted as she muttered, "Who did it? Who..."

Just as Jian Ye was distracted, the door burst open with a loud bang, and light from outside instantly flooded in.

Xi Mo quickly looked over and saw that Lin Tingyu had kicked the door open. Cui Jiayu stood at the entrance aiming a gun at Jian Ye. Several people from her team followed behind her. On the other side was Lu Qingming's anxious face, along with some of the people he had brought. Zhou Wenxu was there too, standing in front.

Ruan Yesheng rushed out from behind Lin Tingyu. Her face was already covered in tears.

"Xi Mo!"

Xi Mo's heart seemed to stop beating at that moment.

Lin Tingyu immediately stepped in front of Ruan Yesheng and held out her hand to block her. Cui Jiayu shouted angrily at Jian Ye,

"Drop what's in your hand immediately! Put your hands behind your head!"