CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 76: SEEKING FORGIVENESS

The next morning, Li Yulan suddenly appeared in the corridor of the VIP ward.

Several men in suits saw her coming and immediately reached out to stop her: "Sorry, this floor is forbidden for access."

Li Yulan glanced at the wide-open ward door: "I am Mr. Gu’s wife, here on his behalf to see your Young Madam."

"Sorry, without President Ling’s orders, even if Mr. Gu came, he wouldn’t be allowed near the Young Madam’s room." The man in the suit was businesslike, his voice cold.

Li Yulan furrowed her brows slightly, thought for a moment, and then took out her phone to call Gu Ningyue: "Sorry, the number you dialed is currently busy..."

The ward was silent with no sound at all, so she was... blacklisted?

Hanging up the phone, Li Yulan suppressed her inner anger and looked at the men in suits: "Could you help me tell Ning Yue that I came to see her."

"Sure. Please wait a moment."

One of the men turned and entered the ward. Shortly after, he returned to Li Yulan: "Sorry, the Young Madam says she’s tired and isn’t seeing anyone today. Please go back."

Li Yulan opened her mouth as if to say something more but ultimately said nothing, leaving angrily with her belongings.

Ever since Ling Tianyou and Gu Ningyue got together, Ning Yue had become increasingly arrogant.

Not only did she expose Wanwan and Ye Mingchen’s affair, but she also hit Gu Heng.

Now, she wouldn’t even see her own family.

Just wait! Once Wanwan becomes the Young Madam of the Ye Family, she’ll come crying to beg me sooner or later!

She doesn’t believe that the Ye Family would turn their backs and not help their in-laws in toppling the Ling Group.

Once Ling Tianyou falls, Gu Ningyue will have nothing left and will have to live at her mercy.

Thinking of this, Li Yulan felt a little better.

In the ward, Gu Ningyue lay on the bed, scrolling her phone with one hand.

She had just coaxed Ji Qianqian to sleep for a nap and hadn’t expected Li Yulan to come ruin her mood.

Always with the perfect timing!

Claiming to visit her, just to laugh at her under the guise of concern!

Too bad, she wouldn’t give Li Yulan that chance.

Meanwhile, in another ward in Y City, Gu Heng obsequiously handed a peeled banana to the woman on the bed.

Although her forehead was wrapped in gauze, her peerless beauty still captivated all attention.

"I don’t lack people to care for me here, you should go back early!"

"You have no relatives here, how can I be at ease leaving you alone?" Gu Heng sat on a chair, his eyes lewdly fixed on Lu Qingqing: "I’d rather stay here with you; you’re still more important."

Lu Qingqing glanced at him, "I heard your sister is also hospitalized. Isn’t it improper not to visit her and stay here with me?"

Bringing up Gu Ningyue, Gu Heng couldn’t help but snort contemptuously: "She doesn’t even need my care now, perhaps even if my mom went there, she wouldn’t be seen! I’d rather not hit a brick wall."

Lu Qingqing was slightly surprised, "Gu Ningyue is that arrogant now?"

Though she had only met Gu Ningyue twice before, she seemed like a timid and indecisive fool.

"Of course." Gu Heng recalled Gu Ningyue’s image and loathed her for making his tooth fall out: "You don’t know, since she got with President Ling, my sister looks down on everyone. The last time she came home, she almost gave my old man a heart attack."

Lu Qingqing chuckled, "All these years, you haven’t managed to cause your dad a heart attack, yet your sister has such a capability?"

Gu Heng was stunned, "I’m serious, once you meet her you’ll know! Relying on President Ling, there’s almost nothing she doesn’t dare do besides murder."

Lu Qingqing looked at her diamond bracelet pensively: "In that case, I must see her when I return."

She had already found out the reasons—someone had purposely manipulated things, took the opportunity of carelessness to kidnap Ji Qianqian while she was out shopping, and brought her to A City.

Just didn’t expect that Ji Qianqian wasn’t as clueless as they thought; during a transfer at the hospital, Ji Qianqian found the opportunity to end up meeting Gu Ningyue by coincidence, saving her life.

Over these few days, she traced through layer upon layer of networks to find the mastermind.

Those people must be waiting for her to come back and face the consequences!

She had only heard about such things and hadn’t taken them to heart. Unexpectedly, it was real, targeting figures like Ji Qianqian not only in A City but also in Y City.

They were foolish to not properly investigate whether these people truly had no support!

Targeting Ji Qianqian was simply courting death!

In a dim basement, a few men kneeled on the floor, trembling as they looked at the pair of leather shoes before them.

"Boss, we didn’t expect it to turn out this way. Please forgive us this time!"

"We’ll be careful in the future, please spare us this once, boss, I have elders and children at home..."

"Boss, we truly dare not anymore! Have mercy and release us!"

A chorus of pleas resounded in the room, but the man referred to as "boss" let out a cold laugh: "I forgive you, who will forgive me? I ask you, who told you to mess with Ji Qianqian? Didn’t you investigate before acting?"

"Boss, we were truly wrong!" One man lifted his head and slapped himself hard: "I thought Lu Qingqing was just an ordinary wealthy second-generation, and Ji Qianqian wasn’t related to her. She’s so beautiful; if sold to Southeast Asia, she’d fetch a good price! So we kidnapped her."

Teeth clenched, the man kicked him to the ground, "Fuck you! Now the higher-ups have spoken, you’re all goddamn dead!"

His anger reached its peak, and several others also took quite a few spiteful kicks.

The man let out a muffled groan but dared not even clutch the spot where he was kicked and quickly returned to kneeling properly beside the man’s feet: "Boss, give us another chance, in the West District..."

Pleading voices arose anew, irritatingly persistent.

The man gazed at those kneeling on the floor, too lazy to even deal with them: "Once Lu Qingqing is discharged, go and atone yourselves! Whether you live or die, I can’t save you!"

His voice fell as the man turned to leave the gloomy room.

It had come to this; there was no turning back for them.

Even though all operations had ceased, they could not escape the fate that awaited them.

After all, they had provoked someone they should never have, and now the time had come to pay the price!