A fallen heiress was brutally accused and forcibly taken from her - Chapter 9

Xu Suxin had been in that room for too long, facing a group of mute machines every day. She desperately needed to absorb some fresh scents.

Xu Suxin commented, “This is the first time I’ve discovered that your flavor is quite gentle.”

Qian Shanyue’s eyes darkened slightly as she observed her.

If you asked Xu Suxin directly what had happened, she definitely wouldn’t tell the truth. Instead, Qian Shanyue asked bluntly,

“Did she bite your neck?”

Xu Suxin was surprised that she saw through it at a glance and replied,

“It’s her dog.”

Qian Shanyue raised an eyebrow.

“She was bitten by your dog?”

Xu Suxin: “?”

She blinked in disbelief, staring at the aloof Qian Shanyue in astonishment.

“How could you even ask that?”

Xu Suxin never dated, nor did she ever express affection for anyone. She had a terrible temper; anyone who offended her would face her vengeance, as though all her energy was devoted to it. Her romantic history was completely blank. The only virtue she possessed was that she remained chaste, pure-hearted, and untouched by love.

Qian Shanyue’s question was too direct, and she didn’t get an answer. So she changed the subject.

“What exactly is going on between you and Lu Chenxing? Why is she locking you up?”

Xu Suxin mumbled,

“It wasn’t really… they invited me to dinner, but I didn’t appreciate it, and things didn’t go very well.”

“Invited you to dinner?” Qian Shanyue frowned. “Why would she invite you to dinner?”

Xu Suxin was bankrupt. What was the point of inviting her to dinner?

Xu Suxin asked,

“What do you think?”

Qian Shanyue replied,

“She has taken a liking to you and is trying to take you by force.”

Xu Suxin was stunned and couldn’t help laughing.

“No, does it really look like that to you?”

“It certainly does. Otherwise, how could her dog have a human mouth?”

Qian Shanyue lifted her chin toward the mark on Xu Suxin’s neck.

“Or maybe her dog took a liking to you, and she helped her dog forcefully take you away.”

“…”

Even after hiding it so carefully, someone had still figured it out.

Xu Suxin said weakly,

“It wasn’t really forced. They gave me good food and drinks and tried to get me to remember some things, but I couldn’t recall anything, so the two of us just kept arguing.”

“If she really wanted to imprison me, she could have locked me in the basement and hidden me away. Even if you searched the place, you might not have found me.”

Qian Shanyue had always been calmer than either of them, and those words failed to convince her.

After remaining silent for a long time, Xu Suxin finally whispered helplessly,

“We fought, and I injured her while I was drunk.”

Qian Shanyue asked,

“Did you fight on the bed or off the bed?”

“?”

Qian Shanyue explained calmly,

“Fighting in bed counts as making love. Fighting off the bed counts as mutual fighting.”

She spoke with the seriousness of an academic lecture, but Qian Shanyue was ultimately too indifferent toward sex to understand that true intimacy never cared about location.

Aside from the bite mark on her neck, Xu Suxin had no other injuries. As for Lu Chenxing, the distance had been too great and the night too dark to tell whether she had been hurt.

In Xu Suxin’s memory, there had never been anyone named Lu Chenxing.

She suddenly said,

“Tell the driver to go faster.”

Qian Shanyue looked surprised.

“Huh?”

Xu Suxin was thinking about the earlier car accident.

She was afraid Lu Chenxing might resort to another underhanded trick. She was already in enough trouble herself and didn’t want to drag her friends into it.

The car sped through the streets and entered the city.

The hospital arranged for a specialist examination. By midnight, the results showed that all indicators were normal and no prohibited substances had been detected.

It was too late to return home, so they simply checked into a VIP ward.

Remembering something, Xu Suxin asked,

“Thank you for these past few days. How did you find me?”

“Fu Qiran saw her leave directly when we were at the racecourse that day. I had someone follow her, and she came here today.”

The Fu family was a true scholarly family, with every member engaged in the arts. Although they occasionally accepted discreet private commissions from wealthy clients, they always maintained an aloof reputation.

These two people should have been like parallel lines that never intersected.

So how had they come to know each other?

Xu Suxin asked,

“Weren’t you following Lu Chenxing?”

“She kept returning to the Lu family residence, and nothing seemed unusual. It wasn’t until Fu Qiran visited her several times that I confirmed she owned that villa.”

Xu Suxin thought for a moment.

Lu Chenxing hadn’t returned during those two days and had seemed unusually preoccupied.

She asked,

“What’s the relationship between Fu Qiran and Lu Chenxing?”

“You don’t know?”

Qian Shanyue asked in return.

After being imprisoned immediately following their reunion, Xu Suxin had no idea that Lu Chenxing even had friends.

She answered seriously,

“Don’t look at me like that. I know nothing about her. My own family’s problems are enough to drive me crazy. How would I know who Lu Chenxing is or how she built her fortune?”

Qian Shanyue turned to her assistant.

“Prepare a copy of Lu Chenxing’s information.”

“Get some rest. Tomorrow will be fine too. You’ve worked hard.”

The assistant nodded and quietly left.

“I used to be at odds with Fu Qiran.”

Xu Suxin casually supplied a possible explanation.

“I once asked her to paint something for me, but she refused.”

Then she suddenly exclaimed,

“Oh!”

Quickly adding,

“You know Amber, right? Her horse. Red Lightning defeated it.”

“Are you sure?”

Qian Shanyue looked at her over her glasses.

Xu Suxin nodded.

It sounded like a reasonable excuse.

Red Lightning had won, so she couldn’t lose face.

Qian Shanyue replied,

“Lightning only came in second.”

“…”

Tsk.

Completely unnecessary.

“After you left, it went crazy again.”

That genuinely surprised Xu Suxin.

“…Its name is Red Lightning. Stop calling it Lightning.”

Their conversation gradually came to an end.

Exhaustion weighed heavily on Xu Suxin.

She closed her eyes, but for some reason couldn’t sleep.

After a while, she turned toward the empty side of the bed.

She hadn’t slept at all that night.

It felt as though something familiar was missing.

More than physical exhaustion, it was mental fatigue.

Unconsciously, she rubbed her wrists.

After only three days, she had already begun growing accustomed to the restraints.

The following morning, the assistant returned with the documents.

Breakfast was served as well.

Xu Suxin picked up a spoon, ate a couple of mouthfuls of porridge, and began reading Lu Chenxing’s file.

Only after investigating did they realize how much trouble they had caused back then.

Lu Chenxing was the illegitimate daughter of the Lu family.

More precisely, the Lu family had numerous illegitimate children, while the married couple never produced a legitimate heir.

She had been born to Madam Lu and her lover.

Because she was mixed-race and the truth couldn’t be concealed, she was sent abroad immediately after birth.

At the age of twenty, she established herself in Silicon Valley within a single year.

At twenty-two, she earned her fortune through the stock market.

By twenty-four, she had quietly infiltrated the Lu family and become its most influential figure.

She seized her father’s authority and eliminated every other illegitimate heir.

All of it had been done so quietly that only the Lu family’s inner circle knew the truth.

At that time, Xu Suxin had been drowning beneath her father’s debts and never realized how dramatically the outside world had changed.

Only now did she finally understand the true meaning of having escaped death.

The documents contained no mention of Lu Chenxing’s activities within China, suggesting she had erased nearly every trace of them.

Xu Suxin herself appeared to be the only remaining witness.

It even seemed likely that Lu Chenxing remained cautious because of Chinese law.

Otherwise, she might already have acted.

Xu Suxin had little appetite.

She put down her spoon, picked up the clothes her assistant had prepared, and got ready to change.

Qian Shanyue asked,

“You don’t remember any of it either?”

Xu Suxin didn’t want to discuss it.

Everything she had done in the past was a dark chapter in Lu Chenxing’s life.

Given Lu Chenxing’s unstable temperament, involving Qian Shanyue would only place her in danger.

There was no reason to drag anyone else into it.

She nodded.

“Stay away from her from now on. Don’t associate with her. She’s extremely vindictive.”

The clothes had been selected according to Qian Shanyue’s style and looked almost identical to what she herself was wearing.

Xu Suxin made no complaints.

She simply said,

“Thank you.”

Without turning around, Qian Shanyue replied,

“There’s a changing room nearby.”

The white suit paired with the white satin skirt was normally associated with a cool and restrained elegance.

Yet when worn by Xu Suxin, it became unexpectedly seductive, giving her the appearance of a captivating enchantress.

She underwent two additional examinations to confirm that no drugs had entered her body.

She even received a rabies vaccination.

As the needle pierced her skin, Xu Suxin frowned and turned her face away.

Several unpleasant memories immediately resurfaced.

The assistant quietly whispered to Qian Shanyue that Fu Qiran had been spotted in the corridor.

What a coincidence.

Perhaps someone else was here as well.

After receiving the injection, Xu Suxin stood to leave as quickly as possible.

Halfway there, she suddenly stopped and turned around.

Fu Qiran stood outside the examination room.

Her fair skin contrasted with the soft black hair falling over her shoulders, the ends curling slightly.

She carried herself with clean, gentle elegance, like a white rabbit.

A fresh bloodstain was faintly visible beneath her sleeve.

Tsk.

So that’s the type they liked.

Sensing Xu Suxin’s gaze, Fu Qiran looked up, confusion written across her face.

Xu Suxin casually raised an eyebrow.

For a fleeting instant, an evil thought crossed her mind.

Take her away.

Make Lu Chenxing cry.

Fu Qiran’s eyes drifted to the marks on Xu Suxin’s neck.

The confusion immediately vanished, replaced by unmistakable rejection.

Pointless.

Xu Suxin instantly lost interest.

After getting into the car, she was about to call the company when she suddenly realized something important was missing.

She hadn’t brought her phone.

Nor any of her identification documents.

She had left too hastily the previous day.

And even if she had asked for them, Lu Chenxing never would have returned them.

Qian Shanyue handed over her own phone.

“There should still be enough time to replace them.”

Xu Suxin frowned.

“The company seal is still there too.”

Qian Shanyue looked puzzled.

“You carried all of that with you whenever you went out?”

Xu Suxin replied,

“That’s what bankruptcy looks like.”

Given her current circumstances, she might not even be able to successfully replace those documents.

If the process dragged on until travel restrictions were officially imposed, everything would be over.

Not to mention the company seal.

With that final piece of leverage in hand, Lu Chenxing could completely cut off every possible escape route.

Even if she escaped from that villa…

So what?

Lu Chenxing wanted her to feel as though there was nowhere left to run.

To become a shadow that followed her everywhere.

A presence she could never shake off.