Chapter 92: You can deceive others, but don't deceive yourself

Your dad is still old!

You didn't hold back, and you left me a miserable life!

If I were him, I'd have beaten you to death by now!

Li Jiaci's mouth curled up as he spoke lightly.

No sooner had his words fallen than Li Qinglan suddenly turned around, her expression shocked and angry.

"Is it you?"

Li Yonglin had incurred a massive gambling debt.

She was coerced and beaten by Li Yonglin.

All of this is thanks to the person standing before us!

Li Qinglan lunged forward, pounding Li Jiaci's chest, shouting like a madwoman: "Li Jiaci, what exactly do you want? Do you really have to drive me to death to be satisfied?"

The next second, Li Jiaci coldly shoved her to the ground and brushed off his clothes in disgust.

How come, when the situation falls on your own head, you feel like the sky is falling?

When you put me in a deadly situation, why didn't you think for me?

All of this is the consequence of your own making!

Stop blaming heaven and others, you Li Qinglan don't deserve it!

If it weren't for the people coming and going on the street...

Li Jiaci really wanted to spit at her.

"You all blame me, resent me..."

"But you never asked why I did this!"

"If I had a choice, how could I have ended up like this!"

Li Qinglan collapsed on the ground, her hair disheveled like a madwoman.

She managed a bitter smile.

However, Li Jiaci impatiently poked his ears and said coldly: "Li Qinglan, stop pretending to be crazy and foolish; you obviously have a choice, you chose profit and betrayed our years of feelings, right?"

"I was forced!"

"Lin Niansheng threatened me with my student status!"

Li Qinglan clenched her fists and pounded the ground as she shouted.

"Hah."

"Are you the type to be intimidated by such a threat?"

"Your student status is just an excuse!"

"Lin Niansheng promised to send you abroad after the deed and give you a generous reward!"

"This is the fundamental reason you betrayed me!"

Without letting Li Qinglan explain.

Li Jiaci bent down, chuckled lightly, and said: "Is it hard to admit you're a selfish, greedy, sinister and vicious woman? No matter, even if you don't admit it, your actions are enough to reveal your filthy nature; people would avoid you at all costs."

"It's not like that..."

"No!"

"I, Li Qinglan, am not this kind of person!"

Li Qinglan's gaze was dazed, and she suddenly shook her head.

"Li Qinglan!"

"You can deceive others!"

"But whatever you do, don't deceive yourself!"

Li Jiaci wiped the smile from his lips.

Immediately after, Li Qinglan clung to his thigh, pleading bitterly: "Jiaci, for the sake of our years of feelings, let the gambling house spare me; even if you killed me and sold my parts, I wouldn't be worth that hundred thousand!"

"Scared?"

Li Jiaci's eyes turned cold.

"I'm scared, I'm terrified!"

"Please, give me a way out!"

"Whatever you want me to do, I'll do it!"

Li Qinglan continued to cling tightly to his leg, her body trembling like a sieve.

Seeing this, Li Jiaci sneered: "What you've done to our brothers can never be repaid in this lifetime; now I'm just collecting a little interest from you—treat it as karmic retribution, what you deserve, and digest it slowly."

Having said that, he mercilessly kicked her out.

"Jiaci, don't go..."

"Li Jiaci!"

Li Qinglan watched his back disappear into the hospital lobby.

Just moments ago she seemed ready to die or live, but in an instant her expression changed and she became fierce.

"Everyone wants me dead!"

"But I won't let you have your way!"

"Li Jiaci, don't let me get a chance!"

"Let's settle new and old grudges together!"

Li Qinglan stumbled to her feet.

Suddenly, she felt a wave of dizziness.

She covered her head and staggered to the roadside.

Only a piercing brake sound came from ahead.

A rusted minibus screeched to a halt at the roadside.

The vehicle door was pulled open.

Several burly men jumped out of the vehicle.

Li Qinglan panted heavily; by the time she realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

"Mmm—"

A damp cloth was pressed over her nose and mouth.

The pungent smell, carrying an anesthetic effect, instantly scattered her senses.

At the moment she was thrown into the minibus, Li Qinglan went limp all over, her eyelids growing heavier and heavier.

As the vehicle just started, she went black and fainted dead away.

No one knew how long had passed.

Li Qinglan was jolted awake by a piercing chill.

She shivered a few times, slowly opening her heavy eyelids.

As far as she could see, everything was thick ice walls.

This place…

What place is this?

Could it be that the casino people came looking for her in advance?

"Boss, this lass has woken up!"

Suddenly, a low voice came from beside her ear.

Li Qinglan struggled to sit up and looked toward the speaker.

He was a middle‑aged rough man holding a pig‑killing knife, wearing a blood‑stained robe.

Aside from his ferocious face, the pig‑killing knife kept dripping blood.

In his other hand he held a walkie‑talkie.

Just moments ago he had been speaking into the walkie‑talkie to the other end.

Suddenly, a door‑pulling sound rang out.

Li Qinglan immediately turned her gaze toward where the door was opening.

Only then did she horrifiedly discover that hanging beside the door were black pigs that had been gutted.

This place was undoubtedly a refrigerated truck.

It was specially responsible for transporting frozen pork.

No wonder this madman held a blood‑dripping pig‑killing knife.

Creak… creak…

Someone stepped onto the vehicle on thick ice bricks.

Li Qinglan lifted her heart to her throat, too scared to breathe.

She couldn't help but not dare.

The madman seized her arm and flung her straight to the other's feet.

"Don't kill me, I beg you!"

"I will definitely repay that sum of money to you!"

"Give me a little more time…"

Li Qinglan lay trembling on the ice.

At that moment, someone handed the other party a wooden chair.

As that person slowly sat down, Li Qinglan finally saw his face clearly.

Unexpectedly… it was him?!

Zheng Degui!

Even before Li Qinglan hooked up with Lin Niansheng, she had already met this man a few times.

She also knew that Zheng Degui and Li Jiaci's lumber mill were rivals; earlier, when she went to the lumber mill to find Li Jiaci, she saw several troublemakers secretly handing out Nian Yong Lumber Mill's business cards, which bore Zheng Degui's contact information.

"Is it you? Why did you abduct me?"

Li Qinglan had thought it was the casino people!

She was almost scared to piss her pants!

Only hearing Zheng Degui chuckle twice, his expression teasing, he said: "Beauty, you've been abused by a man, right? Hehe, it's fine, bro will help you get revenge!"

"How will you help me?"

Li Qinglan asked suspiciously.

What's more curious is how the person before her knew she had gotten into trouble.

Could it be that the other side has been sending people to tail her?

Zheng Degui reached out, and immediately someone handed over a wad of bills.

Estimated at least thirty‑to‑fifty thousand.

This made Li Qinglan's eyes involuntarily light up.

Now what she lacks most is money.

"Hehe, want it?"

Zheng Degui stacked the bills in his hand and asked mockingly.