Zhao Lianjin.
Upon hearing this name from the phone, both Dai Paipai and Wang Mingshuai's expressions changed drastically.
The couple hated this man to the bone.
Wang Mingshuai, in particular, wished he could personally dismember him and scatter his ashes to the winds!
However, Zhao Lianjin possessed certain anti-surveillance skills, making it impossible for even the police to track him down quickly.
Now.
Suddenly, an unknown young girl called Dai Paipai, stating that Zhao Lianjin was currently at Hulushan, completely defenseless and at their mercy.
Who was this girl?
How did she find Zhao Lianjin and subdue him?
And why, after subduing Zhao Lianjin, did she bring him to the remote foot of Hulushan before calling Dai Paipai?
Wang Mingshuai didn't want to ponder these questions.
He had only one thought—
To personally kill Zhao Lianjin!
Only by killing Zhao Lianjin with his own hands could he "repay" Zhao Lianjin for poisoning him, attempting to snatch his wife, and the deep-seated hatred for their company.
"Who are you?"
After her expression changed, Dai Paipai blurted out the question subconsciously.
The call had already ended.
"Mingshuai."
Dai Paipai held up her phone and looked at her husband.
Wang Mingshuai said nothing, but quickly walked into the kitchen.
After a clatter of knives, Wang Mingshuai emerged with a black plastic bag tucked under his arm. "Paipai, let's go to Hulushan."
"Wait, Mingshuai."
Seeing the venomous look on her husband's face, Dai Paipai's heart skipped a beat. She quickly said, "Calm down first."
"Can I calm down!?"
Wang Mingshuai roared, "That beast tried to kill me twice, to take you and my company! He even made it so I can only watch you now! Thinking of you and Li Qianfan."
He stopped abruptly, realizing something.
Dai Paipai stared at him blankly.
Disappointment gradually appeared in her eyes as she said softly, "Mingshuai, I'll be honest with you now."
Wang Mingshuai pursed his lips tightly, remaining silent.
"After you were in trouble, when Zhao Lianjin was forcing me into his bedroom, I saw Li Qianfan as my savior."
Dai Paipai looked up at the ceiling, her voice ethereal. "He also provided me with the protection and sense of security I craved. Gradually, I fell for him."
Wang Mingshuai's voice was a little hoarse. "Paipai, what did you two do?"
Dai Paipai's pupils shifted as she looked at him. "To make him protect me, I recognized him as my father."
Wang Mingshuai's jaw twitched violently.
Dai Paipai continued, "To make him my permanent protector, I kept seducing him. Sending him leg photos, my full body photos."
Wang Mingshuai's breathing became noticeably heavier, his hands clenched into fists, very tightly.
After Dai Paipai's confession, her guilt towards her husband, exacerbated by the mental escape, significantly lessened.
She said earnestly, "Mingshuai, please believe me. Everything was my initiative. He never touched me. From a physical standpoint, I am still pure and spotless. I also promise you, I will never have any improper thoughts about Li Qianfan again. I will only regard him as my benefactor."
She paused.
Then, with an extremely formal tone, she added, "As a father who can shield his daughter from the wind and rain."
Heh.
Wang Mingshuai chuckled, his tone softening. "Paipai, I believe you. Let's go, we'll go to Hulushan first."
Mingshuai doesn't believe that Li Qianfan and I are innocent.
Dai Paipai sighed inwardly, but she knew that no matter what she said now, he wouldn't believe her.
She could only prove it through her actions in the future!
She bit her lip hard and said, "Mingshuai, we should call the police."
Wang Mingshuai frowned. "Call the police?"
"Yes, call the police. Let the special task force go to Hulushan with us."
Dai Paipai nodded. "Because we can't be sure if the girl who called me is actually a trap set by Zhao Lianjin. What if he's luring us into the remote mountains?"
Her analysis made sense.
However, Wang Mingshuai refused to listen. "No! We can't call the police. Because if the woman who called you was telling the truth? Then if we call the police, I won't be able to get my revenge personally."
Dai Paipai said anxiously, "But what if it's fake, and it's a trap set by Zhao Lianjin to trick us?"
"I've already died twice, and now I've lost the right to be a husband. What is there to fear?"
Wang Mingshuai said coldly and strode towards the door. "If you're scared, I'll go alone."
Alas!
Dai Paipai stomped her foot in frustration and quickly put on a pair of athletic shoes. "Mingshuai, wait for me, I'll go with you."
As they entered the elevator, Dai Paipai picked up her phone.
Before she could unlock it, Wang Mingshuai asked, "Are you going to message your little daddy for help?"
Dai Paipai's delicate body trembled slightly, and she silently put down her phone.
Indeed.
Dai Paipai worried it was a trap, but the revenge-driven Wang Mingshuai wouldn't let her call the police, insisting on going to Hulushan himself.
To ensure their safety, Dai Paipai had wanted to message Li Qianfan for help.
When in trouble, find Daddy—
This had become Dai Paipai's most instinctive reaction.
But Wang Mingshuai's sarcastic remark was like the coldest water, dousing Dai Paipai's head.
Ding.
The elevator door opened, and Dai Paipai stepped out first.
On the way to Hulushan, Dai Paipai, who was driving, remained silent.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Wang Mingshuai took out three knives from the black plastic bag.
There was a meat cleaver, a bone chopper, and a boning knife.
Wang Mingshuai fiddled with the knives, seemingly talking to himself. "Whoever tries to snatch my wife, I'll kill them."
The car suddenly jolted slightly.
Wang Mingshuai immediately looked at her.
Dai Paipai swallowed hard and whispered, "Mingshuai, you've changed."
Wang Mingshuai asked, "How have I changed?"
Before Dai Paipai could answer, he laughed self-mockingly. "Yes, after your good daddy saved me, he deliberately took away my rights as a husband. Even if my wife is beautiful, I remain like a monk in meditation, without any impure thoughts."
"He would never do that!"
Dai Paipai suddenly cried out, "He was so exhausted saving you, how can you not be grateful for saving your life, but instead think everything he did was to possess me?"
Wang Mingshuai, however, remained composed. "Paipai, it's you who has truly changed. Ever since we started dating, you've never yelled at me like this for another man. This is enough to prove that in your heart now, your little daddy is more important than me."
Dai Paipai's lips moved, then closed.
She was powerless to refute him.
At most, she could only think, "Mingshuai's current thinking is so extreme, it must be because the oleander poison damaged a nerve. Making him unable to think like a normal person. I wonder if my little daddy has a way to help him recover his damaged nerves."
The night breeze rustled.
The wheels rolled.
Hulushan.
It was a small mountain with an altitude of over three hundred meters, named for its shape resembling a tilted gourd.
The entire mountain was covered with scattered rocks and overgrown weeds.
A winding goat path led to the highest point.
Although Wang Mingshuai was a man, he had only recently recovered from a serious illness.
With Dai Paipai's support, it took them a full twenty minutes to reach the summit.
On the way up, Dai Paipai was constantly afraid someone would jump out!
No one appeared.
Only the hooting of owls from the valley and the gentle night breeze could be heard.
The crescent moon hung like a hook.
The cold moonlight illuminated the entire summit.
Without needing a flashlight, Dai Paipai could see a person tied to a jujube tree by the cliff.
The person was struggling weakly and ineffectively, their mouth taped shut, only emitting fearful and helpless muffled snorts.
"It really is Zhao Lianjin!"
Even with his eyes closed, Wang Mingshuai could recognize the snorts as Zhao Lianjin's.
After all, they were the best of brothers, knowing each other even better than their own parents.
Wang Mingshuai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he was filled with boundless energy. He threw off Dai Paipai, who was supporting him, and quickly walked over.
"Moo, moo."
Seeing Wang Mingshuai and Dai Paipai arrive in the cold moonlight, Zhao Lianjin struggled even harder, letting out muffled sounds.
Unfortunately, he was still under the effect of the "softening poison" he had concocted, and apart from wriggling like a maggot, he had little strength left.
Wang Mingshuai took out a flashlight, turned it on, and focused it on Zhao Lianjin's face.
After confirming once again that it was Zhao Lianjin, Wang Mingshuai suddenly tilted his head to the moon and let out a wild laugh.
His laughter was filled with malice and hatred.
Even the owl, which had just eaten a mouse and was perched on a branch singing, quickly shut its beak in fear.
Dai Paipai, standing not far behind him, felt her knees go weak and raised a hand to lean against a tree.
With a rip.
Wang Mingshuai violently tore off the tape covering Zhao Lianjin's mouth.
"Ah."
Zhao Lianjin cried out in pain and then frantically shouted, "Mingshuai! Listen to me, you must listen to me!"
"Speak, I'm listening."
Wang Mingshuai said slowly, took out his cigarettes, lit two, and offered one to Zhao Lianjin.
However, Zhao Lianjin did not feel relieved by Wang Mingshuai's calmness.
On the contrary, he was even more afraid.
They were the best of brothers.
Zhao Lianjin knew that the calmer Wang Mingshuai was, the more he hated him.
He took a deep puff of his cigarette and, holding onto a sliver of hope, asked tremblingly, "Mingshuai, on account of our past as brothers, can you spare me?"
"Of course."
Wang Mingshuai smiled. "You're right, we are brothers. My company is your company. My wife is your wife. No matter what you've done to me, I won't kill you."
Zhao Lianjin's hope was extinguished.
He knew he was going to die tonight!
Since he was certain to die, why should he beg Wang Mingshuai for mercy?
Zhao Lianjin could beg Li Qianfan to spare him and voluntarily offer to be his dog.
But Zhao Lianjin, who knew exactly what kind of person Wang Mingshuai was, would never say such a thing to him.
"Lianjin, for the sake of our brotherhood."
Wang Mingshuai turned his head, glanced at Dai Paipai who was leaning against a tree and trembling, and then asked him, "Has Li Qianfan slept with Paipai?"
Dai Paipai's face turned as pale as paper.
Zhao Lianjin smiled.
A maniacal laugh!
It scared the owl three miles away, which quickly flapped its wings and flew away.
Wang Mingshuai watched him, making no move to stop him.
He simply took out a boning knife and toyed with it in his hand.
After laughing for an unknown amount of time, Zhao Lianjin's laughter slowly subsided.
"I, I knew you would ask me this question first."
Zhao Lianjin chuckled again and said, "Then I'll tell you, Paipai's promiscuous mouth might be worn out from rubbing. Do you think Li Qianfan slept with her? Ha, haha. If you were Li Qianfan, would you not sleep with such a top-tier repressed desire? Ha, haha!"
"You're lying!"
Dai Paipai screamed hysterically and suddenly lunged forward, snatching the boning knife from Wang Mingshuai's hand and stabbing it fiercely into Zhao Lianjin's chest!
Pfft—
Blood splattered.
Zhao Lianjin cried out in pain.
Wang Mingshuai recoiled in shock.
But Dai Paipai had lost all reason, enraged by Zhao Lianjin's words.
She had no idea what she was doing.
She was like a madwoman, raising the boning knife with both hands and, under Wang Mingshuai's horrified gaze, stabbing and stabbing and stabbing, again and again and again, into Zhao Lianjin's chest.
Crying hoarsely.
She repeatedly shouted one sentence: "I didn't! I wasn't slept with by Li Qianfan! I didn't, I wasn't slept with by Li Qianfan."
Finally.
Dai Paipai, her face and body covered in blood, stopped her frenzied stabbing.
Her eyes, which had been wild with extreme anger, gradually returned to normal.
Then she saw Zhao Lianjin.
Zhao Lianjin was long dead, beyond dead.
In his eyes, which had almost popped out of their sockets, there was only fear and disbelief.
Zhao Lianjin never imagined that Dai Paipai would dare to kill someone!
Clatter.
The boning knife fell from Dai Paipai's hand, hitting a rock.
Dai Paipai staggered backward, on the verge of falling.
Wang Mingshuai quickly reached out—
But just as Wang Mingshuai was about to help her, he rapidly retreated.
He was also afraid of Dai Paipai in this state!
Dai Paipai managed to grab a tree, preventing herself from falling.
She leaned on the tree, suddenly bent over, and vomited.
After almost spitting out her bile, she wiped her mouth with her hand and looked up at Wang Mingshuai.
Wang Mingshuai actually retreated again.
Dai Paipai's lips moved, and she slowly stood up again, staggering down the mountain path.
Wang Mingshuai hesitated for a long time, then, using the plastic bag to cover his hand, picked up the fallen knife and quickly left the scene.
Wang Mingshuai drove.
The car started and sped towards the city.
After the car's taillights disappeared into the distance, Li Chenyang emerged from the weeds at the bottom of the cliff and walked to the summit.
Looking at Zhao Lianjin's dead eyes, Li Chenyang gave a cold smile. With a wave of his right hand.
A sharp knife appeared in her hand as if by magic, easily cutting through the ropes binding the corpse.
Dai Paipai only killed, she didn't bury.
Li Chenyang had to clean up after her!
"This is the consequence of daring to scheme against the young madam."
Li Chenyang said disdainfully, and dragged Zhao Lianjin's corpse down the south side of Hulushan.
It was precisely ten o'clock in the evening.
In a suburban residential house (where Mo Bin first met the King).
Standing in the yard, looking around, Li Qianfan took out his phone from his pocket.
The caller was Li Chenyang.
"Young Master."
Li Chenyang said, "Zhao Lianjin is dead. Dai Paipai killed him with her own hands."
(Zhao Lianjin had once sworn that he could die by Paipai's hand. He had his wish.)