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Chapter 123 Not Taking Someone to Heart

Chapter 123: Chapter 123 Not Taking Someone to Heart

Qiao Rui really hadn’t expected that Elder Madam Pei would be so interesting, resorting directly to physical punishment.

She looked at Elder Madam Pei sitting there, like some high and mighty deity, exuding such an imposing presence.

"Wait!"

Just as the bodyguard was about to take her to the secret room, Qiao Rui spoke up in a deep voice, "Give me a reason."

Elder Madam Pei looked at her, not panicked in the slightest, even somewhat provocative, and coldly let out a laugh, "No reason."

Qiao Rui narrowed her eyes slightly and said coldly, "If there’s no reason, I’m afraid you won’t be able to control me."

Elder Madam Pei snorted softly, as if hearing the biggest joke, "Disciplining you, is this reason not enough?"

"Why should you discipline me?" Qiao Rui said calmly, "It’s not like I grew up on the Pei Family’s food, you didn’t give birth to me, nor did you raise me, what right do you have to discipline me?"

"Based on the fact that I am Pei Liyan’s grandmother, and you are now Pei Liyan’s wife having joined my Pei Family, you must accept discipline," Elder Madam Pei said with contempt, "Qiao Rui, don’t be too arrogant."

Qiao Rui nodded, her eyebrows slightly raised in a challenge, "To discipline me, to lock me in a secret room?"

"What if it is?" Elder Madam Pei had lost her patience, eager to lock Qiao Rui away and quash her defiant air.

Qiao Rui took a moment, then nodded again, "Elder Madam Pei, alright then, since you think as Pei Liyan’s grandmother you can control me, I will accept it."

"You would have to accept it anyway, whether you wanted to or not!" Elder Madam Pei couldn’t stand Qiao Rui’s attitude.

Qiao Rui shrugged, unconcerned, and turned her gaze to the bodyguard, speaking in a light tone, "Lead the way."

Elder Madam Pei was stunned to see her turn and walk away without fear, as if she had accepted the punishment.

She had thought that given Qiao Rui’s way of handling things, she wouldn’t accept it so readily.

But she had accepted.

This left Elder Madam Pei a bit taken aback, and she glanced at Sister Li standing beside her.

Sister Li immediately asked, "Elder Madam Pei, do you have any orders?"

"That damn girl Qiao Rui actually went to the secret room obediently," said Elder Madam Pei.

Sister Li said, "Humph! Elder Madam Pei, isn’t it simple, with six such strong bodyguards here today, the young mistress must have been frightened. She would have to accept it, whether she likes it or not. Better to walk in herself than to be forced."

"Indeed, she knows the score," Elder Madam Pei said, "Keep a close watch for me."

"Yes!" Sister Li nodded. "Rest assured, I won’t give the keys to anyone."

"Lock her up for a day and a night, without food or drink," Elder Madam Pei said solemnly, "We’ll talk tomorrow at this time."

"Yes!" Sister Li nodded again.

Qiao Rui was escorted by the six bodyguards into the secret room.

This so-called secret room was situated beneath the house of the villa on the east side, down the steps, leading into a gloomy and damp corridor. The lengthy corridor had a row of rooms, seemingly five or six of them.

They reached the door of a room at the very end, on the right.

The bodyguards stopped.

It was an iron door, forged from a single slab of iron, looking exceptionally sturdy.

The bodyguards opened the iron door, and the lights turned on immediately, revealing an approximately thirty-square-meter living space with an attached bathroom.

There was a bed in the room, bare without any bedding, just a plain wooden bed.

The bodyguard said to Qiao Rui, "Please, madam."

Qiao Rui glanced inside, and asked in a light voice, "Excuse me, gentlemen, has this place detained others before?"

The bodyguards were taken aback by the term "gentlemen," and then they looked at each other, none of them uttering a word.

"Can’t you say?" Seeing their hesitation, Qiao Rui said, "Indeed, I’ve only heard that such deep household secrets have their own ways, but they’ve always been just rumors. Now that I’ve seen it for myself, it surely is an eye-opener!"

She walked in.

The bodyguards didn’t say a word; there must be surveillance equipment, forbidding them from speaking.

Qiao Rui naturally wouldn’t force anyone to talk.

She entered the room, looked around, and sure enough, spotted at the top of the room, in each of the four corners, a security camera.

Indeed, there wasn’t a blind spot, allowing for 360-degree surveillance of the person locked in this room.

As soon as the bodyguards saw her enter, they directly closed the door.

Qiao Rui was left alone in this secret chamber; she took out her mobile phone, glanced at it, and saw no signal.

Huh, what a clever trick—no way to contact the outside world.

She walked to the bathroom door, took a glance, and thankfully, there was a toilet and a washbasin, which seemed clean enough.

She closed the door and sat on the toilet lid, motionless for a long time.

In the surveillance room, Elder Madam Pei glanced at the video of the secret chamber and asked, "Where is Qiao Rui?"

"Reporting to Elder Madam," said the bodyguard in charge of the surveillance screens, "The young madam has gone to the bathroom. She looked at her phone after entering the secret chamber, seemed to notice there was no signal, and then went to the bathroom. She’s been inside for ten minutes now."

Elder Madam Pei frowned. "She’s been in there that long?"

"Yes."

"Keep a close watch on her; don’t let her die," Elder Madam Pei said coldly.

"Yes!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the door opened.

Qiao Rui walked out of the bathroom, approached the bed, and checked the smooth plank bed with a touch of her hand, then examined her hand in front of her—no dust!

Only then did she feel reassured enough to lie down on the bed.

Watching Qiao Rui suddenly lie down in the video, Elder Madam Pei was also startled.

Qiao Rui lay on her side, indifferent to being watched; she closed her eyes and didn’t move again.

Elder Madam Pei stared at the screen for a few minutes and asked, "Is she asleep?"

The bodyguard adjusted the footage, making it very clear, and nodded. "It seems that she has fallen asleep."

Elder Madam Pei simply sat down and watched the screen for a long while; she found it hard to believe that Qiao Rui could remain so calm.

But there she was on the screen, lying quietly on her side on the plank bed, not moving at all, and looking rather well-behaved.

After watching the footage for over half an hour and not seeing Qiao Rui move, Elder Madam Pei assumed she must truly be asleep.

Suddenly feeling angry and also a bit surprised, she stood up, "Let me know when she wakes up!"

"Yes!"

As it turned out, Qiao Rui slept until nine o’clock in the evening.

From one o’clock in the afternoon straight through to nine o’clock at night.

She woke up.

The bodyguard, who had been keeping a vigilant eye on the surveillance for eight hours and whose eyeballs were tired from not moving, was startled when he saw Qiao Rui stir in the footage, his eyes now bloodshot.

As soon as he saw Qiao Rui wake up, he immediately reported to Elder Madam.

But just after he finished the phone call, he noticed that Qiao Rui had gone back to sleep.

After the old lady arrived and saw the footage, Qiao Rui had turned over and switched off the light, then went back to sleep.

Although the image was still visible, such night vision was eerie, motionless as if

Elder Madam Pei said, "This is what you call being awake."

"She had woken up, but who knew the young madam would turn off the light and sleep again," the bodyguard felt quite wronged.

Elder Madam Pei scoffed, "Is she a pig? Sleeping for the better part of a day?"

Nobody dared to respond.

Elder Madam Pei asked another question, "Sister Li, Liyan has received the message, hasn’t he?"

Sister Li nodded, "Yes, Elder Madam, the young master already knows the young madam is locked in the secret chamber."

Elder Madam Pei chuckled lightly, "He knows, yet takes no action; it seems he truly doesn’t hold Qiao Rui in his heart."