Chapter 1092: Your Life Is More Important Than Mine

Just at this moment, he received another phone call.

This time, he went outside to answer it.

When he returned, the boss had a different expression on his face; it was very complicated, but definitely not happy.

He gloomily instructed his subordinates: "Bury her."

"You can't do this; going back on your word will bring down divine retribution." No matter how calm Shi Ran was, she was still a girl, and she couldn't quite control her emotions.

A subordinate was also confused: "Why, Boss? We took the Sheng Family's money, but if we don't release her, what will we do if the Sheng Family retaliates against us?"

They couldn't understand it either; although they weren't good people, they still kept their word, and there was no precedent for taking someone's money and still harming them.

"Enough nonsense. Do you think I wouldn't have thought of something even your pig brain could figure out? But there's no choice; if she doesn't die today, my whole family will die."

He was very frustrated; he hadn't expected that someone who had spent years playing with hawks would actually have his eyes pecked out by one.

The phone call just now was from Li Wei. Li Wei threatened him, saying she had already taken his entire family to a "safe place," and if Shi Ran didn't die, his family wouldn't survive.

Shi Ran was grabbed by the arm and pushed out the door to the pit that had already been dug.

"I'm sorry, Miss Sheng. What I owe you in this life, I'll pay back in the next. Who told you to be so unlucky as to provoke Li Wei? She insists on you dying, and there's nothing I can do."

Shi Ran pushed them away and turned to run, but she was unfamiliar with the place and was caught before she had run very far.

"Don't come over, don't come over."

"Help! Help!"

She didn't care if there was anyone around; calling for help at this moment was an instinct.

"Ranran."

Hearing the voice, Qi Heng took off running in the direction of the sound.

"Ranran, Shi Ran!"

Shi Ran had just been tied up again and was about to be pushed into the pit when she heard Qi Heng's call.

"Boss, that's not good. Is someone coming?" The person digging the pit had sharp ears and was the first to hear it.

"Bullshit, you heard wrong."

Before his voice had even faded, the sound of someone calling Shi Ran rang out again, and this time it was closer and clearer.

"Qi Heng, I'm here."

"I'm here!" She strained her throat and shouted with all her might.

"Shut the hell up."

The thug wanted to cover her mouth, but he didn't expect Shi Ran to bite down on him!

She bit down hard, her teeth breaking the skin, and the smell of blood surged into her throat.

She almost vomited, but she suppressed the nausea and bit down firmly.

"Ah!!!!"

The thug felt the pain, and his howling was so loud it even drowned out the sound of Shi Ran calling for help earlier.

When Qi Heng arrived, a Dagger was held against Shi Ran's neck, and the thug was dragging her toward a helicopter.

"Let her go, and I guarantee you'll be fine."

"Bullshit. You've already chased us here, and you can still guarantee we'll be fine? We have no choice; if you want to blame someone, blame her for having bad luck."

Shi Ran had been full of hope, but seeing that Qi Heng was alone, her heart instantly turned cold.

How could he be enough on his own?

He was no match for these people at all.

"Qi Heng, leave quickly, don't worry about me. They were sent by Li Wei; go back and avenge me," Shi Ran shouted.

Qi Heng: "Stop talking nonsense. If we die, we die together; if we live, we live together. Avenge yourself; I don't care about you."

"Let her go and take me instead."

As he spoke, he didn't stop his pace, walking toward them step by step.

The boss was a bit flustered, and he couldn't help but wave the Dagger: "Don't come any closer, do you hear me?"

Qi Heng suddenly reached out and grabbed the blade, fresh blood flowing down his hand!

"Let her go and kidnap me."

The thug: "Do you think we're idiots? If we kidnap you, we shouldn't even think about living." Qi Heng's father was the Vice President of L Country and could mobilize the military and held real power; wiping them out would take mere minutes.

Qi Heng: "It's the same if you kidnap her. If anything happens to her, I'll make your whole family pay with their lives. What is Li Wei? What is the Li family? I mean what I say; you should believe in my strength."

"Boss, what do we do? We've run into a tough nut to crack."

The subordinate looked miserable, a desire to retreat forming.

Their families weren't in Li Wei's hands, so they weren't afraid of being threatened by her.

"Get on the plane, stop the nonsense."

He couldn't consider that much right now; ensuring the safety of his own family was more important.

Shi Ran spoke up at this moment: "He doesn't consider you brothers at all. Do you want to let yourselves and your families risk your lives for him?"

"The helicopter won't be able to fly out of the country's borders. Let me go; this is your only chance now."

The two men exchanged a look, then suddenly opened the cabin door and jumped out.

The plane wasn't taking off.

"We surrender, we surrender."

The two men walked over and stood behind Qi Heng.

The boss's nose was almost crooked with anger, but he had no way to deal with it.

In the end, all three surrendered, and Shi Ran was safe.

The police took Li Wei away from the examination hall.

She cried out that she was wronged, turning around to slander Shi Ran by claiming she had framed her.

But when the witness testimony and physical evidence were placed before her, her attitude immediately did a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

She wept bitterly, saying she had been confused for a moment and hadn't originally intended to do that; she had just wanted to scare her.

Even if such words were meant to trick a child, not even a child would believe them!

Sheng Hanyu was very angry; in the past, because their children were classmates, he had helped the Li family quite a lot.

As a result, they returned his kindness with enmity, actually wanting to harm his daughter?

Three days later.

The Li family announced bankruptcy, their liabilities exceeding their assets, and Li Xiansheng and his wife moved out of their luxury mansion to live in the city's slums.

People who have enjoyed luxury and wealth are uncomfortable everywhere in the slums.

The couple quarreled all day long, the wife complaining that her husband wouldn't go out to find a way, only knowing how to drown his sorrows in alcohol at home.

The husband complained that his wife didn't know how to raise their children, indulging their daughter in doing such immoral things, playing a good hand of cards into a complete mess, and blaming the mother and daughter for the family's current state.

Besides Li Wei, the Li family also had two younger brothers, two and four years younger than her.

The two boys were just entering puberty, and the terrible home environment left them with no heart for their studies, so they dropped out of school before long.

Li Wei was taken away by the police and sentenced to life imprisonment.

……

"Ouch, it hurts!"

"Does it hurt a lot? I'll be slower, you just bear with it."

Shi Ran was applying medicine for Qi Heng; originally this should have been a nurse's job, but when the nurses applied the medicine, he kept howling like a wolf, scaring all the nurses away.

Thus, this task became Shi Ran's responsibility.

She carefully peeled off the old gauze, disinfected the wound with iodophor, and then evenly sprinkled on anti-inflammatory powder.

"Hiss—"

Qi Heng gasped.

"Does it hurt? I'll be even lighter."

"No need, it doesn't hurt at all."

Shi Ran: ……

She glared at him reproachfully: "If it doesn't hurt, why are you making noise? You've got nothing better to do."

"That's right, I've got nothing better to do, hehe."

"Ranran, if only you could be by my side every time I get hurt."

"Are you sick? Who curses themselves like that?"

"Hehe, I'm just using a metaphor, it won't actually come true."

Qi Heng is cool in front of others; only in front of Shi Ran does he always seem not very bright.

"You aren't allowed to be so impulsive next time, do you hear me? That was a Dagger, and you just grabbed it like that? If the wound had been even a little deeper, your hand would have been ruined."

Thinking about it now, she still has lingering fears.