"Mr. Ji, I believe what I said is fine, right?"
"An Nuan, do you think saying this will make me easily let you go?" Ji Wenyun walked up to An Nuan, stepping on her hand. He said coldly, "Do you want to escape forever? But I will never let you have your wish."
At this moment, Ji Wenyun was somewhat stubborn. He always had to retort to An Nuan's words.
Seeing this, An Nuan simply looked at the person before her calmly.
She seemed to feel no pain. Her hand was being stepped on by Ji Wenyun's foot, yet she made no sound of pleading.
But the more An Nuan was like this, the more agitated Ji Wenyun became.
He felt like a clown, performing a one-man show.
This was not what he wanted to see.
"An Nuan, kneel before Wanqing and apologize to her. That is what you owe her."
After making such an unreasonable demand, Ji Wenyun was stunned by his own words. His eyes were filled with disbelief. He never thought he would say something like that.
"An Nuan, I'm not wrong. You owe Wanqing this," Ji Wenyun's tone carried a hint of panic.
Ji Wenyun didn't know why he was panicking. Clearly, An Nuan was the one who had done wrong, yet why did he feel guilty and pained?
Listening to Ji Wenyun's words, a mocking smile curved An Nuan's lips.
As expected, no matter what she said, this man would pin all sorts of baseless accusations on her.
She thought of the past, and her eyes welled up with tears. Those beautiful memories belonged only to her.
All those beautiful things seemed to have never happened, as if she had merely imagined them.
She covered her mouth, preventing her true thoughts from escaping.
She knew clearly that even if she spoke, no one would believe her, and no one would care.
An Nuan no longer wanted to speak further with Ji Wenyun.
She felt as if her body could no longer hold on.
Later, her vision began to blur, as if she couldn't hold on any longer.
She persisted because she didn't want the man before her to say she was acting.
She felt that perhaps she could hold on for a little longer.
Seeing An Nuan's face turn unusually pale, Ji Wenyun's heart was touched. His heart softened, and he wondered if he had misunderstood her.
He originally reached out to help the person on the ground, even wanting to say something, but then he remembered Xia Wanqing crying in front of him. His initially compassionate expression vanished instantly.
He looked at An Nuan menacingly, almost fooled by her.
An Nuan was always good at pretending. As expected, Wanqing was right. Just now, wasn't he almost deceived by her?
"Yes, Mr. Ji, you say I owe Xia Wanqing, then I owe her." A cold smile tugged at her lips, her eyes full of loss. She murmured, "Then, what about me? Who owes me for becoming like this?"
"And who should I look for?"
"An Nuan, you brought this upon yourself by becoming this way."
"You deserve it."
Ji Wenyun looked at An Nuan coldly.
"Stop acting in front of me. Your acting is terrible."
"I haven't even laid a hand on you, and you're already acting like you're dying. Are you trying to gain my sympathy?"
An Nuan didn't know how she got through it.
She had already lost consciousness. She was just holding on. She didn't even know when Ji Wenyun left.
When she woke up, she was already in the hospital.
That familiar, pungent smell of disinfectant made her feel terrible.
At times, she even hated her own broken body.
If her body were still healthy, perhaps things wouldn't be so terrible. Perhaps some things wouldn't have happened.
The hospital only brought her fear. She fled in panic.
She didn't want to stay in the hospital.
For her, it was a nightmare.
She had witnessed too many partings and deaths. If possible, she wished she would never have to go to that place again.
When An Nuan returned to her residence, her packed luggage had vanished.
Someone had been there during her absence.
Was it Shen Xizhou?
As An Nuan was wondering who could have come, her phone rang.
An unknown number.
She instinctively pressed the hang-up button.
The unknown number continued to call.
Finally, she chose to answer.
"An Nuan, you want to escape, don't you? But I don't want you to have your wish."
Xu Ruowei's detestable voice came from the other end of the line.
An Nuan suddenly regretted answering the call.
She wanted to hang up.
She didn't feel she had anything to say to Xu Ruowei.
"By the way, are you eager to hang up my call right now?"
Xu Ruowei seemed to have guessed what An Nuan wanted to do and exposed her directly.
"Your important belongings are with me," Xu Ruowei said triumphantly.
"Xu Ruowei, what exactly do you want?" An Nuan asked urgently.
At this point, she no longer cared about anything else.
She had considered that this was Xu Ruowei's scheme, but even knowing it was a scheme, even knowing it was a trap, she still had to jump in.
With her belongings in Xu Ruowei's hands, she had no choice.
She knew even more clearly that Xu Ruowei calling her now was not to offer 'warm greetings.' She had something more important to do.
Xu Ruowei's calculating methods were truly cliché. Anyone could see through them, yet someone was foolish enough to believe her lies.
"An Nuan, if you want your things back, come to the Shen family," Xu Ruowei said with a light laugh. "Come to the Shen family, and I'll return them to you."
An Nuan hesitated. The Xu Ruowei on the other end of the line said mockingly, "What's wrong? Didn't you say those things were very important to you? And now you're hesitating when I ask you to come to the Shen family."
"I'm starting to doubt just how important the 'important' things you mentioned really are."
"If they were truly important, you wouldn't hesitate at all," Xu Ruowei said heartlessly, deliberately trying to provoke An Nuan.
An Nuan knew Xu Ruowei was doing this intentionally. But she also knew that if she wanted her things back, she had to obey.
In the end, An Nuan agreed to go.
She knew Xu Ruowei was plotting against her, and she knew she couldn't escape.
Even if this didn't happen, something else would have occurred.
Why were there such shameless people like Xu Ruowei in this world? She had given her everything, yet she was still not satisfied.
Did she want her life before she would be satisfied?
But she had once said, "Xu Ruowei, if you want my life, then take it," but she refused.