Chapter 530: I'm Uneasy as long as the Nangong Family Is Safe
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Nine Miss of Maoshan: [Are you sure you won't trick me and finish my homework?]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [Of course, but you have to call me daddy first.]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [Daddy!]
That exclamation mark was Qiao Jiu's final stubbornness.
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [Good girl--]
Immediately, another message followed.
[Daddy is also busy. You students are frantically catching up on homework before school starts, and I have to prepare a whole lesson plan after school starts.]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [West Xi, go die!]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [With such a well-behaved daughter like you to feed, I can't bear to leave this mortal world. Don't worry, daddy will finish the lesson plan and help you with your homework.]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [Really?]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [Daddy doesn't lie.]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [I'll believe you for now. I'm going to draw a talisman. If you don't finish my homework, we'll have a life-or-death duel. Either you die or I perish!]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard sent her an emoji of [Good girl, pat on the head].
Qin Ruan finished reading the conversation between the two, and the arc of her lips remained lifted.
Seeing the two stop chatting, Qin Ruan tapped the screen a few times with her slender fingertips.
Qin Ruan: [Did I enter the wrong group? A large-scale family reunion?]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [Sister Ruan Ruan!]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [ younger sister Ruan is here. Look, I just met my daughter. Do you consider building a family together and raising a child?]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [West Xi, stop fooling around! Sister Ruan Ruan has a husband and a child in her belly!]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [...]
[Mistake, mistake. I still have principles and won't be a third party in someone else's relationship.]
Qin Ruan knew he was joking.
Neither of them had seen each other in person. When she first entered the group, West Xi of Qingcheng Guard was very cold towards her.
After a few months of getting acquainted, the other person's attitude gradually warmed up, although they liked teasing each other.
Qin Ruan's gaze fixed on the profile picture of West Xi of Qingcheng Guard, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
She sent a message in the group.
Qin Ruan: [@West Xi of Qingcheng Guard/Just read the chat messages. Are you a teacher?]
West Xi of Qingcheng Guard: [Don't I look like one?]
Qin Ruan spoke honestly: [Your personality doesn't match with this profession.]
Nine Miss of Maoshan: [Sister Ruan, now that you mention it, West Xi is also at Shengshi Academy, in the same school as you. It's quite a coincidence.]
[...] Qin Ruan.
[...] West Xi of Qingcheng Guard.
The two of them had only communicated online and didn't know they were in the same school.
Qingcheng Guard Xishi: [@Qin Ruan/Qin Ruan, is that your real name?]
Qin Ruan: [Yes.]
Maoshan Ninth Miss: [Wow! Do you two actually know each other?]
Qingcheng Guard Xishi: [I don't remember having someone with that name among my students.]
Qin Ruan: [I've had many teachers, so I can't recall them all clearly. But I don't think I had a teacher with a personality like Xishi's.]
Qingcheng Guard Xishi: [I'm still up late preparing for my lessons. Gotta go for now.]
He changed his tone from his previous lightheartedness.
Something flashed through Qin Ruan's mind, and she furrowed her brow lightly.
Just as she caught that fleeting thought in her mind, the curtains in front of the window moved.
A flicker of firelight flashed outside the window, fleeting.
Qin Ruan knew it was Li Manning who had arrived.
She set aside her phone and walked to the window.
"Li Manning!"
As soon as the words fell, the disheveled Li Manning appeared in front of Qin Ruan out of thin air.
Her soul was in a sorry state, her white nightgown was torn and messy, and her face bore faint bruises.
Qin Ruan frowned. "Are you hurt?" Her cold voice carried a hint of concern.
Li Manning smirked. "No, just a minor inconvenience. That old lecher, Wu Daoyuan, was more insatiable than I expected. I've never seen him so desperate. I purposely made myself look ugly when I met him, and he pounced on me immediately."
"In order to pass on the information to him, I had to engage with him for quite some time before I could escape. I barely made it out in time!"
Seeing that Li Manning was unharmed, Qin Ruan asked, "Did he enter the Nangong residence?"
The latter's pale face turned solemn as she nodded. "The guard possessing his soul went in. He doesn't recognize Nangong's head or Nangong Chang. I guided him on the way."
"You guided him?" Qin Ruan's eyebrows furrowed.
Li Manning tidied up her messy hair and casually replied, "I've been to the Nangong residence before and have some impression of the layout inside. I knew roughly where they would be."
Qin Ruan asked, "Do you know why Wu Daoyuan was lingering around the Nangong residence?"
Li Manning recalled, "I'm not sure. It seems like he was waiting for someone. From what he said, he seemed to know that his master was involved with the Nangong family. After his master's death, Wu Daoyuan's entire puppet became corrupted, emanating a foul stench that almost suffocated me!"
After fixing her hairstyle, Li Manning's white nightgown gradually returned to its original state as her consciousness willed it.
Qin Ruan looked at the time and turned back to Li Manning. "Can you estimate whether he has found the Nangong family head or Nangong Chang by now?"
"It should be around that time," Li Manning replied uncertainly.
Qin Ruan touched the thin veil-like curtain beside her, lost in thought.
After a moment, she said to Li Manning, "The Nangong residence has no barriers. From now on, keep an eye on them, especially Nangong Chang and the Nangong family head. If anything seems amiss, inform me immediately. Can you do that?"
"There's nothing I can't do," Li Manning replied.
She adjusted her shoulder, exuding a seductive charm.
Qin Ruan narrowed her eyes. "I remember you met Nangong Chang before your death. You're not still infatuated with him, are you?"
"It's not to that extent. Among the many men, he was one of the better ones to me," Li Manning said, unconcerned about being discovered regarding her past relationship with Nangong Chang.
Now that she was already dead, love and romance held no meaning for her.
Li Manning looked at the captivating figure of Qin Ruan before her. Her appearance and aura were even more outstanding, surrounded by a mysterious mist in the moonlight pouring in from outside the window.
"Do you have a grudge against Nangong Chang?" Li Manning was curious why Qin Ruan was so cautious about the Nan Gong family and even wished for their misfortune.
Qin Ruan chuckled at the question.
A grudge?
If we were to talk about grudges, it would involve past lives.
During the incident with Big Brother and Tang Ya, she managed to piece some things together.
In the past life, Uncle and Han Xian easily gained control of the Qin Corporation because they had the support of the Tang family.
However, the Tang family and the Qin family were not on the same level at all; they had no real power.
Uncle and Han Xian were only able to successfully seize the company because of Tang Ya's presence.
They orchestrated the death of Tang Ya, just as they did in this life when Big Brother collided with her.
Even though Tang Ya was unharmed, they faked her death in an attempt to take over the Qin Corporation.
If it weren't for the backing of the Nangong family, they wouldn't dare to do such things.
The downfall of the Qin family in the past life had the shadow of the Nangong family behind it.
In this life, Big Brother was targeted by Nangong Chang, who didn't care at all about the life or death of the Qin family.
Qin Ruan thought that if it weren't for herself and the Hou family standing behind her, the Qin family would not have been safe and sound.
And tonight, Nangong Chang pointed a gun at Qin Mei.
He pulled the trigger.
He really wanted to kill Second Brother.
If she hadn't stopped him in the end, everything would have returned to the predetermined course of the past life.
The Nangong family held a great deal of ill will towards Third Young Master as well.
The people they targeted were all the people Qin Ruan cared about.
Qin Ruan let go of the curtains in her hand and smiled at Li Manning.
"I can't rest easy as long as the Nangong family exists."
In Li Manning's astonished eyes, Qin Ruan slowly said, "To eliminate potential threats, that's called a permanent solution. The Nangong family has malicious intentions, and I have a premonition that if I don't deal with them, I will pay the price."
Since that's the case, why would Qin Ruan give the Nangong family an opportunity to harm her?
"Alright."
Li Manning had nothing to say.
She felt that Qin Ruan's heart was a bit ruthless.
Thinking about her identity and her abilities, everything seemed to have a reasonable explanation.
In a world of the strong, it was always cruel.
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