CHAPTER 166: CHAPTER 161: THE FEMALE SUPPORTING CHARACTER OF THE SPIRITUAL SPRING SPACE

Li Ziye, Lian Lan’s first-life husband, although Ye Qiu was not clear about the details of their marital life, Ye Qiu knew that Lian Lan was definitely uncomfortable, otherwise, she wouldn’t have bankrupted the Li family after marrying Lin Jiayan in her second life.

Lian Lan lied that tonight was Director Yi’s wrap-up party to deceive her here to Li Ziye’s place, she could already guess their malicious intent.

"What do you want?" Ye Qiu stared at Lian Lan with cold eyes, her aura overpowering, causing Lian Lan to panic to such an extent that she couldn’t speak.

"It was presumptuous of me." Li Ziye looked at Ye Qiu with a face full of apologies, "Today is my birthday, Lian Lan knew I admired you for a long time, but never had the chance to meet you, that’s why she reluctantly deceived you to come here, I’m really sorry."

"Huh." Ye Qiu sneered, "I don’t accept apologies, goodbye." She said, and then made to leave.

Seeing this, Li Ziye quickly blocked the exit, looking at Lian Lan with a smirk: "Lian Lan, it seems like your relationship with your roommate is not very good!"

Lian Lan’s face looked extremely awful, but with a schadenfreude expression, she said to Ye Qiu in a tone that feigned kindness, "Ye Qiu, it was wrong of me to lie that it was Director Yi’s wrap-up party, but Li Ziye genuinely wants to meet you. His family owns a publicly listed company, and he himself is a young talent, I did this for your benefit."

"Then you can keep him for yourself." Ye Qiu looked at her indifferently, "Also, the one hundred thousand yuan you owe me, it’s best if you return it this week, otherwise I will sue you in court."

After saying this, seeing that Li Ziye was still blocking the door, and several men who came to watch the chaos surrounded her, Ye Qiu coldly said: "Move aside!"

"Don’t be so angry." Li Ziye laughed carelessly, "Now that we know each other, we are all friends. It’s my birthday today, it’s not nice to not give face."

"Move aside, otherwise I’m calling the police."

Seeing that Ye Qiu was still utterly unaccommodating, Li Ziye’s face turned cold: "Don’t be ungrateful, Lian Lan, pour your friend a drink."

Soon, someone brought over a drink, and Ye Qiu knew, there must be something wrong with it.

"Ye Qiu, I advise you to just drink it obediently." Lian Lan watched Ye Qiu with delight, if she drinks this, Ye Qiu would be done, falling into the hands of the trash like Li Ziye, what can she do then?

"What you’re doing is illegal." Ye Qiu turned to avoid it and was about to take out her phone to call the police.

But the people around her were prepared and snatched her phone away, laughing and teasing, "Beauty, don’t be so disdainful of Brother Li, it’s just a drink, once you’ve drunk it, we’ll let you leave."

"You should drink this kind of drink yourself." After speaking, Ye Qiu, taking advantage of Lian Lan’s momentary daze, grabbed her wrist and poured the drink down her throat.

Disregarding Lian Lan’s terrified expression, she sneered sarcastically: "Aren’t you the one who claimed to be doing this for my benefit? Then you can drink this wine on my behalf!"

The door was blocked by someone, and taking advantage of the moment of surprise from the crowd, Ye Qiu squeezed through the encirclement and ran toward the safety exit. When the crowd came to their senses to catch Ye Qiu, she had already run out the door.

"Brother Li, what do we do?" someone anxiously asked.

"If she ran, she ran, we still have another one here," Li Ziye’s gaze towards Lian Lan was sinister.

"What do you want to do?" Lian Lan stepped back in horror upon hearing this.

"What do I want to do?" Li Ziye chuckled, "Since your friend didn’t give face, then you’ll have to take her place."

"What you’re doing is illegal." Lian Lan screamed loudly, her body trembling with fear.

"Did you not know that luring Ye Qiu here was illegal?" Li Ziye laughed carelessly, "If I’m the mastermind, then you’re the accomplice. My family has money, we can just spend some to fix this. You’re a minor celebrity now, right? Want to make it in the entertainment industry? Don’t care about your reputation? Feel free to call the police, I don’t mind."

"Ye Qiu has escaped, and she will also call the police; they’ll be here soon." Lian Lan knew that Li Ziye, who always relied on family wealth to act recklessly, had done this before in a past life. In this life, she wanted nothing to do with him, knowing full well that her threats were useless against him, but she was desperate.

"She’s fine, even if she calls the police, what reason would she give?" Li Ziye crossed his arms, laughing at Lian Lan’s naivety.

"But I was forced, you can’t coerce me to do anything." Lian Lan’s voice shook, possibly because of the drugs.

"First, you entered this door willingly; there are surveillance cameras outside. Second, you picked up the drink yourself; your fingerprints are the only ones on it. Who knows if you did this deliberately to chase wealth and fame? I am the one being framed. An innocent man deceived by a vain woman—I should be the one calling the police."

Li Ziye laughed wildly, grabbing Lian Lan’s chin harshly, "You better just comply. If you serve well, both the 200,000 and the role of the leading lady will still be yours."

"Ye Zi, what happened?" Although Ye Qiu came with Lian Lan, she knew early on about Lian Lan’s scheme and had Liu Qingqing wait for her at the parking lot.

"Qingqing, go to the police station." Ye Qiu closed the car door, finally relaxing.

Liu Qingqing didn’t hesitate, quickly driving off, her face stern as she asked, "What did Lian Lan do?"

"Forced me to drink drugged wine and stole my phone."

"This crazy woman." Liu Qingqing spat out in disgust, then anxiously said, "But what if they have already destroyed the evidence?"

Ye Qiu, hearing this, pulled a recording pen from her bag: "I was prepared for them."

"Well done." Liu Qingqing cheered, "We absolutely cannot let her off easily this time."

"Qingchuan, do you know them?" In the director’s office, Director Zhang saw his friend staring intently at the two young women filing the report and asked curiously.

"I’ve met them a couple of times." Yi Qingchuan forced himself to withdraw his gaze, putting aside the troubled feelings stirred by recent family issues.

Director Zhang clearly knew the backstory. Seeing his expression, he sighed almost imperceptibly, saying that being born into such a powerful family has its downsides—many choices aren’t theirs to make. It wouldn’t allow another escape into the entertainment industry like Uncle Yi did.

"Old Zhang, I have to go soon, keep an eye on these two girls’ case for me, please—" Yi Qingchuan paused, deciding against saying more, "Never mind, forget it."

After Yi Qingchuan left, Ye Qiu and the others were still giving their statements.

"What’s the situation?" Although his friend said to forget it, Director Zhang decided to personally examine the case.

"Director!" The officer taking the statement stood up to salute.

"Drugged?" Director Zhang read through the statement and glanced at Ye Qiu’s ravishing beauty, already imagining a scenario.

"Xiao Gang, notify Qiangzi and the others, dispatch them immediately."

"Yes, Director."