Rebirth: The Time-locked Girl
Chapter 190: Sister Lan takes action, kneel down to reply [2 updates]

Chapter 190: Sister Lan takes action, kneel down to reply [2 updates]

At that moment, Cheng Yaozu also finally saw the girl’s face.

Bright as spring blossoms, radiant as the autumn moon.

But both of his hands were tied up with rope by Ye Wanlan, and the extreme pain rendered him incapable of admiring such stunning beauty, as he let out a pig-slaughter-like wail of agony.

Ye Wanlan paid no heed to his cries of misery, raised her hand, and with a fierce elbow strike, directly knocked Cheng Yaozu to the ground.

"Ah—!"

An intense pain shot through his back, and Cheng Yaozu’s legs involuntarily knelt on the ground, the pain in his knees as sharp as a knife cut.

"Mercy, my lord! Mercy, please!" Cheng Yaozu, with a swollen face and bruised nose, kept begging for mercy, "I daren’t anymore, I will never dare again!"

He didn’t even know how he had offended this madam and could only weep bitterly.

But no matter how many times he begged for mercy, it did nothing to lessen the pain in his body.

Cheng Yaozu could not endure it and passed out.

Only then did Ye Wanlan stop, lifting her leg, she kicked Cheng Yaozu to the side, squatted down, and untied the sack.

Cheng Qingli was still unconscious, her breathing sounded stable, but there were many new wounds on her body.

Ye Wanlan’s expression changed slightly, and she first helped Cheng Qingli to the base of a tree.

Afterward, she stuffed Cheng Yaozu into the sack, tied the rope tightly, exactly as it had been done before.

After cleaning up the traces at the scene, Ye Wanlan carried Cheng Qingli on her back and began to descend the mountain.

She freed one hand to call Jiang Zhengxue: "Hey, it’s me, Zhengxue, Qingli has been retrieved. I’ll meet you at the bottom of the mountain, and then we’ll go to the hospital."

Twenty minutes later, Father Cheng returned with a middle-aged man.

Seeing nothing but a bulging sack with no sign of Cheng Yaozu, Father Cheng just shook his head: "This kid, running off to play again, it’s good that the girl hasn’t woken up yet."

Afterward, he smiled at the middle-aged man: "This is the person I’ve brought you; rest assured, you’ve seen her picture. Although it’s three years old, this girl has grown even more beautiful, you definitely won’t get shortchanged."

One Cheng Qingli had earned him two sums of money; he was very satisfied.

"Alright, this is the final payment." The middle-aged man counted out a stack of bills and handed them to Father Cheng, "I’ll take the person with me, don’t regret it later. Once someone enters our Songshui Village, it’s impossible for them to leave."

"No regrets, of course, no regrets." Father Cheng grinned, revealing his teeth, "Just that this girl is stubborn, tough, she’s bound to need a beating or two."

"Tough bones? I’m best at breaking in tough cookies." The middle-aged man hoisted the sack, "Yo, Mr. Cheng, your daughter’s weight is no joke, feels like a full-grown man."

Father Cheng didn’t think too much about it: "Then I will go look for my son now."

As he descended the mountain, he tried to contact Cheng Yaozu.

But after several phone calls, all went unanswered.

"Where could he have run off to..." Father Cheng muttered to himself, "Maybe he ran home early."

**

Jiangcheng First Hospital.

After medical examination, Cheng Qingli had a high concentration of sedatives in her body, and she had suffered blows to the head and several other parts of her body.

Ye Wanlan covered Cheng Qingli with a blanket, her face void of any expression.

"Chairman Ye, even if General Manager Cheng’s parents favored sons over daughters, there was no need to go this hard on her, right?" the assistant’s voice was tinged with both pity and anger, "General Manager Cheng is still their biological daughter!"

"Hmph, who knows if she’s even biological." Jiang Zhengxue crossed her arms and spoke indignantly, "Sister Lan, we must not let them get away with this."

"Mm." Ye Wanlan said, "Let’s wait for Qingli to wake up first. After all, they are her relatives, and she should be the one to deal with them."

Jiang Zhengxue nodded, "Sister Lan, aren’t you afraid the Cheng family will run?"

"Run?" Ye Wanlan’s tone was cool, "Can they escape?"

At this very moment, the Cheng family.

After Father Cheng returned home, he found Mother Cheng sitting on the ground in a daze, somewhat puzzled: "What are you doing?"

Mother Cheng suddenly shivered, her face pale: "I, I..."

"What? Yaozu hasn’t come back?" Father Cheng looked around and couldn’t find Cheng Yaozu, "So where did he go? I thought he’d gone home early."

Mother Cheng’s voice trembled: "Yaozu, Yaozu hasn’t come back, but just now, someone..."

She was clearly frightened and struggled to utter a complete sentence.

Father Cheng was getting impatient, about to say more when he received a phone call.

"Mr. Cheng, how dare you deceive us?" the middle-aged man was livid, "We wanted your daughter, not your son. Your son is worthless to us; what do we need him for? Return the money immediately, or you’ll regret it!"

"What?!" Father Cheng was incredulous, "You’re saying my son is in the sack? That’s impossible!"

Cheng Qingli was the one he had personally tied up!

At this time, Mother Cheng finally managed to squeeze out a sentence, "Just now, two girls came to our house, and they both seemed troublesome. They asked about Qingli’s whereabouts, and one of them left, I guess, I guess it’s..."

Father Cheng exploded in anger, "Never mind about that now, first come with me to save Yaozu."

His son was his very foundation, after all!

**

Four hours later, Cheng Qingli slowly came to.

She stared at the stark white ceiling for a full thirty seconds before murmuring, "I couldn’t have gone straight to heaven, could I... I’m such a cute person, I definitely wouldn’t go to hell. Angel sister, am I right?"

"Right," came a voice with a faint smile from above her head, "But sadly, this is not heaven, it’s a hospital, and there are no angel sisters. Feeling any better?"

Cheng Qingli jolted awake, stammering, "Lan, Sister Lan?"

Locking eyes with those familiar blue pupils, in that instant, Cheng Qingli felt an urge to cry.

She choked up, "Lan, Sister Lan, I thought I would never see you again."

"Thanks to your little assistant, realizing you hadn’t clocked in for work on time and hadn’t asked for leave in advance, something must have happened," Ye Wanlan said with a slight shake of her head, "It was my oversight, too."

"How could I blame Sister Lan, it’s my own fault for being too soft-hearted," Cheng Qingli’s voice was muffled, "I thought my mother was really seriously ill, and that’s why I was tricked."

Ye Wanlan nodded, "Qingli, this matter was orchestrated by Fang Qingya. Do you have any clue?"

"I don’t know." Cheng Qingli was bewildered, "Aside from the time when Fang Qingya brainlessly slandered you for stealing Sheng Yunyi’s painting, and I scolded her, we haven’t had any other interactions."

"Hmm," Ye Wanlan said, "I’m also wondering what it is about you that can attract more hatred than me."

With that, she dialed Madam Fang’s phone number.

The phone was quickly answered, "Hello, Miss Ye."

"Madam Fang, I’ve said before that your third daughter is like a ticking time bomb," Ye Wanlan stated coolly, "If you can’t handle her, then let me take care of it. Of course, I can also terminate our cooperation."

Upon hearing these words, Madam Fang’s expression grew stern, "Miss Ye, I truly didn’t know what Xiao Ya has done again, but she has indeed been behaving abnormally these past two days."

"Thirty minutes, Jiangcheng First Hospital," Ye Wanlan said, then hung up the phone.

Madam Fang’s heartbeat began to accelerate, and she found it hard to calm down.

She immediately called for her driver to take her to the First Hospital and phoned Patriarch Fang and Fang Qinghan.

**

Elsewhere, in a private café in the city center.

Fang Qingya was having afternoon tea with Sheng Yunyi.

"By the way Qingya, you asked me last time how to make a girl disappear quickly—" Sheng Yunyi brought up the topic as if casually, "Did someone offend you?"

"That Cheng Qingli, you know her, the one always following Ye Wanlan," Fang Qingya scoffed coldly, "I don’t know what kind of love potion she’s given to my dad and mom to make my mom like her so much."

Sheng Yunyi realized, "So that’s how it is. But Qingya, there are things you really shouldn’t do yourself. It’s better to delegate and let others handle it."

"Of course, how could I possibly do it myself?" Fang Qingya stirred her coffee, slightly smug, "I just need to pay, and there will be people willing to do things for me."

If she lost the support of the Fang Family, her comfortable life would disappear too, so she absolutely couldn’t allow Cheng Qingli to return to the Fang Family.

Sheng Yunyi only smiled, without a word.

Fang Qingya glanced at her phone, estimating the time. Father and son Cheng should have taken Cheng Qingli to Songshui Village by now.

She had checked, that place was very isolated, once in, don’t even think about coming out.

Just as Fang Qingya was preparing to go shopping with Sheng Yunyi, she received a call from Madam Fang.

Madam Fang’s voice was unexpectedly calm, "Fang Qingya, come to the First Hospital right now, no matter what you’re doing."

"Mom, are you ill?" Fang Qingya was oblivious to anything being wrong, as she began to gather her things, "I’ll be right there."

She intended to use this time to get on Madam Fang’s good side.

In case things came to light someday, she’d still have some security.

Sheng Yunyi’s gaze flickered, "Qingya, let me go with you."

The two hastened to the First Hospital and found the room number given by Madam Fang.

"Mom, I’m here, what happened—" Fang Qingya’s voice cut off abruptly when she saw Cheng Qingli, she exclaimed in disbelief, "How are you here?!"

Cheng Qingli was supposed to be locked up in Songshui Village by this point!

"Auntie, Qingya has been with me all day today," Sheng Yunyi spoke gently, "She—"

"Get out, Sheng Yunyi, I didn’t ask you to speak, and I didn’t invite you here," Madam Fang’s voice was cold, "Fang Qingya, kneel and answer me!"