Chapter 1280: Paying Respects to an Enemy in the Middle of the Night

This way of putting it is clearly inappropriate, but it is the truth.

Forget it, what is real cannot be false, and what is false cannot be real; she will have to know sooner or later.

This matter caused quite a stir in Jiangzhou back then; as long as one wants to investigate, it is very easy to find out the truth of the matter, it cannot be hidden.

So Shi Ran steeled herself and simply told the truth: "Liu Min, there is something I must tell you the truth about..."

Yun Qitian blocked her path: "I'm telling you, I was also present at the time."

"Amin, Ranran has never told you about this, mainly because she was afraid of affecting her friendship with you... Your father came to Jiangzhou back then intending to kidnap Ranran, and then Qi Heng arrived; in order to save her, he fell from the roof together with your father..."

The same facts, when spoken with different rhetoric, will have different effects.

Yun Qitian did not lie; the facts were basically restored, and although this matter seemingly started because of Shi Ran, it had nothing to do with her.

However, if Shi Ran were to say it, she would definitely take all the responsibility upon herself!

Her personality is naturally like that.

If she were to meet a smart person, there would be no issue at all, because a smart person would discern things for themselves.

But Liu Min is not smart; she is simple and impulsive, and she believes whatever is said to her.

After he finished speaking, Liu Min was not agitated; she said calmly: "I know about this; I also knew when my father came to Jiangzhou back then."

"He wanted to find the Ji Family Treasure and wanted to kidnap Ranran to threaten the auntie into revealing the location of the treasure; I tried to persuade him, but he wouldn't listen to me."

Shi Ran:...

Yun Qitian:...

The couple looked at each other, feeling an urge to throw Liu Min out of the window!

This woman is truly naive; if she hadn't said it, they wouldn't have known.

Yet she just had to say it, just like that, so bluntly.

Fortunately, Shi Ran is not a petty person; if she were even a little bit petty, could she still deal with her?

Although the two felt uncomfortable inside, it soon passed.

Liu Min is just that kind of person; they won't hold it against her.

Although she lacks sophistication, she is easy to get along with.

She puts everything out in the open; black is black, white is white; this personality... is the spitting image of a young Wang Yong!

Shi Ran and her husband still took her to the place where Liu Quan fell to pay their respects.

It was already late when they went; Liu Min set up offerings, candles, and a photo on the roof.

Then she started crying in front of the photo.

The wind on the hospital roof at night was very strong, and her crying was so miserable that it seemed a bit eerie.

This was the hospital roof, after all; it scared the patients' families into constantly reporting it to the hospital Security Guard, but the Security Guard knew and didn't dare to intervene.

Although they didn't know Liu Min, they didn't dare to provoke those two financial tycoons on the roof.

One was the son of a famous brain expert, and the other was the goddaughter of the Chairman; they couldn't afford to offend either of them.

After paying respects to her father, the three of them walked down from the top floor.

Liu Min had red, swollen eyes; she smiled at the two of them, grateful: "Thank you for being willing to accompany me; sorry for delaying your time as a couple, I'm going back." She lived at the Wang Yong Villa.

Shi Ran: "It's so late, let us take you; you can't go back by yourself in the middle of the night as a girl."

They took Liu Min to the Villa, only to find that Wang Yong had been looking for Liu Min until he was frantic.

In the evening, he went to deliver a late-night snack to Liu Min, but there was no one in the room.

His subordinates didn't know where she had gone, and her phone was still turned off.

Wang Yong thought she had secretly returned to the country for revenge, so he hurriedly sent people to the airport and major docks to search.

He stayed at the Villa, pacing back and forth, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

When his subordinates reported that Liu Min had returned, Wang Yong ran out in a hurry to greet her, asking with concern repeatedly where she had gone.

Why was her phone turned off?

Was she in any danger, and why was she with Shi Ran and the others?

Liu Min answered truthfully that her phone was off because it had run out of battery and she hadn't noticed.

Going out late at night was to pay respects to her father.

She was afraid he wouldn't agree, so she didn't tell him.

Upon learning the truth, Wang Yong didn't have a single word of complaint.

Instead, he asked if she was hungry.

The food was all in the pot, ready-made; he could just have the cook heat it up for her to eat.

Shi Ran protested: "Uncle is biased; I also went out at night, and it's already the middle of the night now, why didn't you ask if we had eaten, and only asked her?"

Of course, she wasn't truly jealous.

She just wanted to poke through that layer of window paper between the two of them.

Wang Yong's old face flushed: "You have many people who care about you and think of you, but she has no one to love her, so I care for her a little more."

Liu Min suddenly threw herself into Wang Yong's arms and burst into tears.

She thought of her father; when her father was alive, she was carefree, arrogant, and domineering, doing whatever she wanted, and no one would scheme against her; those who did would be severely punished by her father.

But her father was dead, her backing was gone, and naturally, her protection was gone too.

The people around her all wanted to scheme against her and use her as a pawn!

Wang Yong's behavior made Liu Min feel "fatherly love" once again, and she couldn't help but throw herself into Wang Yong's arms and cry loudly.

He felt a little embarrassed, but he couldn't push her away, so he could only pat her back gently to comfort her.

Shi Ran and Yun Qitian walked back to the car on tiptoe and drove away.

L Country.

The Presidential Palace.

Qi Heng sat high above in a large office chair, while a man bound with ropes knelt below him.

The man's legs below the knees were covered in blood, and there were two bloody holes at his kneecaps that were still oozing blood.

His face was deathly pale, but his teeth were clenched tight.

"You won't talk, is that it?"

Qi Heng smiled slightly, a strange grin tugging at the corners of his mouth: "I have ways to make you open your mouth. Whether you talk sooner or later makes no difference, other than you suffering more."

The kneeling man spoke: "I don't know." After he finished, a large mouthful of blood and foam gushed from his mouth.

He truly did not know, it was not that he refused to speak.

The organization had its own rules; those who accepted the contracts and those who executed them were strictly separated, precisely to prevent anyone from exposing the others once they were caught.

But Qi Heng did not believe him.

Coming to the Presidential Palace to assassinate him, and still not confessing honestly?

That was a crime compounded.

"Drag him down and serve him well."

The man was dragged away, and the "service" resulted in wails of ghosts and howls of wolves.

The thugs used every method, the assassin endured every torment, yet not a single word of what Qi Heng wanted to know was pried out.

"President, what should we do now?"

The assassin was already on the verge of death, gasping for his last breaths.

He said indifferently: "Hang him on the perimeter wall to expose his corpse for three days, and let everyone see the consequences of assassinating me."

This tactic of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys was usually effective.

But this time, it did not work.

Not only did it fail to serve as a deterrent, it instead attracted wave after wave of assassins.

Everyone in the Presidential Palace felt endangered.

The atmosphere was tense and jittery everywhere.

The nerves in everyone's minds were in a state of extreme tension, their spirits highly strained.

Zhu Qingrui said to Qi Heng: "President, this cannot go on; it is not a long-term solution. In another half a month, even if we aren't killed by assassins, our own minds will collapse."

Qi Heng frowned, his expression very serious: "Do you think I don't know that? It's not like I have a choice. If you have any ideas, speak up quickly; at a time like this, why are you still holding back?"