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Ji Nuan was so dizzy that she couldn’t get away from the sofa though she had tried to stand up several times.

She gave up after struggling for a while. She rubbed between her eyebrows and took her cell phone to check the time.

In her dizziness, she tried to figure out whether Mo Jingshen had heard what she said on the phone. She had lowered her voice, and he was in a meeting. Maybe he didn’t hear her clearly.

Ji Nuan bit her lip hard, trying to keep herself awake.

She didn’t know how long it would take her to lose consciousness. One minute, two minutes, or ten minutes?

Just when Ji Nuan was going to lose consciousness, a loud noise from the door woke her up.

Ji Nuan looked up only to see Mo Jingshen enter. He looked angry, and when he spotted Ji Nuan lying on the sofa, he coldly glanced around the room and then rested his stare on the teacup on the tea table.

Ji Nuan was relieved to see Mo Jingshen. Feeling him approaching her and smelling his familiar, pleasing body odor, she instantly came to herself. He touched her face to make sure she was all right. Seeing her lightheadedness, he stood up in anger.

Just in several minutes, several men who Ji Nuan had never seen fell in front of the door of the room.

Ji Nuan looked at Mo Jingshen who had opened the window to let the wind in from outside.

She felt much better after taking in some fresh air. She struggled to get up and heard a message notification from her cell phone. As she expected, as soon as the door and window were open, there was phone signal.

The message showed that Mo Jingshen had called her one minute ago, two minutes ago, and three minutes ago…

He didn’t stop calling her in this short period of time.

Ji Nuan had sobered up. Looking at the men lying outside the room, she heard Mo Jingshen saying to them in a cold voice, “I’m not interested in who is your boss. I think your boss doesn’t want me to know who he is too.”

Mo Jingshen’s men gagged these men with the cleaning rags they found in the bathroom.

At this time, Ji Nuan’s cell phone rang again. She picked up the call. “Nuan Nuan, did you call me?” Ji Hongwen’s voice sounded solemn as usual.

From his tone, she could tell that he had no idea of what had happened to her.

“Dad, are you in Hai City or T City?” Ji Nuan asked.

“How do you know I’m in T City? I came to visit a business partner in T City, but I’m too busy to see you. Who told you I was in T City?”

“Then, where exactly are you?”

“I’m in the hotel my business partner arranged for me. I got to go now. My business partner has sent a car to pick me up, and the car is waiting downstairs. I’ll go to visit you at T University before I go back to Hai City if I have time.”

“Okay, Dad, go about your business. I’m fine.”

“Really? I remember you seldom called me. I left my cell phone in my pocket and accidentally muted it, so I missed your calls.”

“Never mind.”

Then before Ji Hongwen asked her again, Ji Nuan quickly hung up lest he would be worried about her.

She believed what Secretary Zhou said because she asked Ji Hongwen’s assistant about Ji Hongwen’s recent schedule when she was chatting with Xia Tian via cell phone last weekend, and the assistant said he would visit T City.

She didn’t expect the man framing her up knew the Ji family better even than her. He knew who she contacted and trusted. The staff of the Ji Corporation had been simple, and Secretary Zhou had been acting reliably.

A chill ran up to her head, which instantly sobered her up.

She looked up at the man who was putting a towel-wrapped ice bag on her head and naturally reached out for the towel.

After receiving her father’s call, she had been sitting on the sofa feebly and didn’t have the strength to get up. Not noticing when those men lying on the ground were taken away, she just gazed at Mo Jingshen’s handsome, cold face.

“Feeling better?” Mo Jingshen moved his hand away from her head and coldly watched her as she pressed the ice bag on her forehead.

Ji Nuan nodded. “Fortunately, I called you. Otherwise, I can’t imagine what would have happened.”

At this time, some people spoke outside the door. Mo Jingshen’s men had taken the club’s manager away. Mo Jingshen gazed at her and touched her head. “It’s okay. We’ll leave after you sober up. Tell me exactly what happened to you today when we go back.”

Ji Nuan grunted in response. Although she still couldn’t move, she had sobered up with the fresh air and the ice bag.

Ji Nuan told him what happened just now, from how she received a call from Secretary Zhou to how she was locked up in this room. Mo Jingshen looked at her and said flatly, “The one behind this plot bought over your father’s secretary and lured you here in the name of your father. I’ll find out what role Ji Mengran, Secretary Zhou, Shen Heru, and anyone else played in today’s affair.”

“Who do you think did this?”

The noise outside had gone. Ji Nuan did not know how Mo Jingshen’s men would deal with this club, but she knew these people would be in serious trouble.

Mo Jingshen put his hand over her cold forehead lest she should be hurt by the chill. He took the towel and ice bag from her hand and threw them on the tea table. “This person must be among the members of the Ji family. If it’s not the old one, then it must be the young one. Just stay here and wait for me for a while. Let me solve this club first.”

With that, he asked her to get herself a comfortable position on the sofa, took off his suit jacket, and covered her body after patting her shoulder reassuringly. Then he went out and closed the door.

Several of Mo Jingshen’s men in black suits were waiting outside. They had got the list of those who booked rooms in this club today. As soon as Mo Jingshen came out, they handed him the list.

Not long later, a young girl hiding in a room not far away was brought out. She cursed and struggled when being pulled out of the room. However, when she spotted the man who wandered over unbuttoning his shirtsleeve, she froze.

Ji Mengran never expected Mo Jingshen would show up here in such a short time. The last thing she wanted was Mo Jingshen finding out her true colors.

The man’s cold and harsh eyes rested on her face. Obviously, he was not surprised to see Ji Mengran here.

Ji Mengran’s body stiffened under his stare. She was pressed against the wall of the corridor by the men in black suits. She finally found her voice more than ten seconds later.

“Brother Jingshen?” Ji Mengran’s face was pale. “Why are you here?”

As far as she knew, Mo Jingshen should be occupied at this time tonight because he had an important meeting to attend, but why was he here?!

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Mo Jingshen stood there. He had given his suit jacket to Ji Nuan, so he only wore a black shirt. He stood there calmly yet indifferently. Casting her a cold glance, he turned around to talk to his men, not looking at her again.

When he finally placed his eyes on her, he said coldly and distantly: “Tell the man behind you to come out.” Apparently, he didn’t want to waste time on her.

Even though Ji Mengran was used to his cold and condescending attitude, after being pressed against the wall by his men, she was angry. She glared at him. “What are you talking about? You know I have long hated Ji Nuan. No one is behind me. I designed this all alone. That’s how you see me, isn’t it?!”

Ji Mengran was agitated and almost growled when she was speaking.

However, the man standing opposite her remained cold and silent, giving no response.

She felt at once that she was always a buffoon in his eyes. Being ashamed into anger, Ji Mengran shouted, “I just hate Ji Nuan. I just hate seeing you two playing lovey-dovey in front of my eyes! Since you’ve caught me, you can just punish me as you want!”

She was confident that Mo Jingshen wouldn’t do anything to her, let alone kill her because she was Ji Nuan’s biological sister, Ji Hongwen’s daughter, and a member of the Ji family.

Mo Jingshen glanced her indifferently. “I wonder why the man behind you is so stupid as to use an idiot like you to go against Ji Nuan. Ji Nuan must have left him no choice.”

“Mo Jingshen!” Feeling humiliated, Ji Mengran shouted angrily, “Do you know how much I love you?! Is it wrong to love you? But you don’t even bother to spare me a glance! Since you’ve decided to marry the daughter of the Ji family for your alliance with the Ji family, why did you choose Ji Nuan? Am I worse than her?! I can’t accept it! I just wanted to get closer to you by taking advantage of the fact that Ji Nuan didn’t want to marry you! It was Ji Nuan who didn’t want this marriage! She didn’t cherish you, but you always defend her! Why? Why are you so nice to her? Just because you’ve married her?! Why can I only stay far away and watch you two playing lovey-dovey?! How is she better than me?”

Mo Jingshen gave her a cold yet aloof smile. “You are not even close.”

“You…” Ji Mengran bit her lips in anger. Then she glanced at the other people present and said to Mo Jingshen, who was several meters away from her, “Haha, not even close? No, she is not even close! If who you should marry is the daughter of the Ji family, then Ji Nuan isn’t qualified at all! She is not born by my fa…”

Suddenly, the door of the room behind Mo Jingshen opened. Ji Nuan walked out and rushed up to her.

“Slap!”

A loud, slapping sound rang.

Even the men in black suits, who wouldn’t be easily shocked, looked at her in surprise.

Mo Jingshen’s cold stare rested on Ji Mengran’s reddened face. His eyes were cold, without any heat.

Ji Mengran couldn’t believe she was slapped by Ji Nuan again. She stared at Ji Nuan with wide-open eyes.

Her beautiful nails that she had just done half a month ago dug deep into her palm. She glared at Ji Nuan. “Ji Nuan, how dare you slap me? I swear I will make you pay me back by ten times, no, a hundred times! You will regret it for the rest of your life!”

No one ever dared do this to her. Last time, Ji Nuan slapped her in the Ji family while their dad was around, so she had to let her off.

But now she hit her in front of Mo Jingshen! She would mock her at most before when Mo Jingshen was present.

Ji Mengran immediately went mad. Like a shrew, she tried to break free from those men to pounce at Ji Nuan. She looked even more ferocious than last time in the Ji family in Hai City.

Ji Mengran struggled so hard that the men had to press her neck, which made her scream in pain. Then, a man walked out of the elevator.

Watching the man walking up to them, Ji Nuan frowned.

That man pulled Ji Mengran back, and she fell into his arms. The man rudely pressed her against his chest to stop her from struggling. Then he glanced around the whole corridor. His stare didn’t stop when passing Ji Nuan’s face but crossed with Mo Jingshen’s cold stare.

As she expected, it was Sheng Yihan.

Ji Nuan had guessed he designed this plot against her when she saw the teacup on the tea table.

As a doctor, Sheng Yihan didn’t drink coffee or any beverage with additives. He liked drinking tea, especially the mild-tasting ones.

Looking at Mo Jingshen, Sheng Yihan smiled while exerting greater strength to control Ji Mengran who was still trying to jump at Ji Nuan.

Ji Mengran felt pain. This man almost crushed her ribs just to stop her from hurting Ji Nuan. Unable to bear the pain anymore, she screamed, and her eyes turned red. “Brother Sheng, let go of me! Ji Nuan has hit me more than once! How could she do this to me?! She is merely a bastard who doesn’t even know who her biological father is! Let me go… Ouch…”

Sheng Yihan suddenly grabbed her wrist hard. She felt such extreme pain that she almost cried.

Although Sheng Yihan held Ji Mengran in his arms, everyone could tell he was really rough with her.

Ignoring the cry and curse of Ji Mengran, he indifferently looked at Mo Jingshen under the light of the corridor.

This man looked genteel and mild, but he almost broke the ribs of the woman in his arms. He looked noble, gentle, and well-educated. There wasn’t any trace of violence on his handsome face, but Ji Nuan felt a chill from the depths of her heart.

Just like when she was still a kid in the Ji family. He pressed on towards her step by step with this smile on his face…

Being stared at by Sheng Yihan, Mo Jingshen glanced at him casually and said flatly, “The knife you chose is not sharp enough. You can blame no one but yourself. It won’t help even if you kill her right here. I don’t mind seeing bloodshed, but Ji Nuan is here. You better be careful not to scare my wife.”

Ji Mengran looked at Mo Jingshen blankly and helplessly. That night, after she was thrown to the haunted abandoned area by Ji Nuan and Feng Ling, Sheng Yihan’s car stopped in front of her.

But what did Mo Jingshen mean?

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Sheng Yihan slowly cracked a smile. “Mr. Mo.”

He gave Mo Jingshen a mocking look. “I thought Ji Nuan was still being protected by that female bodyguard.”

While speaking, he relaxed the hand that almost crushed Ji Mengran’s ribs and rudely pushed her out of his arms. He dropped his hand.

Mo Jingshen glanced at him and then turned his eyes toward Ji Mengran who was pale from the pain and seemed to try to work out a way out.

Ji Mengran shook her shoulders and complained, “Brother Sheng, I know I acted too rashly and didn’t follow your plan, but you know how much I hate Ji Nuan. I lured her here in the name of my father. I know you didn’t expect she would come here… I never wanted to expose you… but…”

Sheng Yihan looked at her expressionlessly. “What’s the point of you saying this now?” His voice was flat and emotionless.

Sheng Yihan did help her for a reason, but he never asked her to drug Ji Nuan or lured Ji Nuan here in such a stupid way.

Ji Mengran was too impatient. Unlike Sheng Yihan who could be extremely patient, Ji Mengran just couldn’t wait.

Ji Nuan drawled. “So, I was lured here, partly because my sister who hates me wanted to set me up, and partly because you want to get something from me?”

Hearing her cold voice, Sheng Yihan lifted his eyelid. His light-colored eyes looked almost transparent.

He didn’t answer to Ji Nuan but looked expressionlessly at the elegant and handsome man standing under the light.

Sheng Yihan had met Mo Jingshen at the Shine dinner party. Their first meeting that was not that pleasant doomed that today’s affair wouldn’t be solved peacefully.

“Well, don’t speak to me this way. Since we’ve been close, what do I still need from you?” Sheng Yihan asked her with a smile.

His look was inscrutable and annoying.

Reluctant to be ignored, Ji Mengran suddenly turned to Ji Nuan and stared at her arrogantly. “You’ve heard what I said just now, haven’t you? Ji Nuan, you’re not Dad’s daughter! Your mother married Dad with you in her belly! Even though she married Dad and you were recognized as Dad’s first daughter for so many years, there is no Ji’s blood in you! How proud you were and how pathetic you are now! Ji Nuan, for the sake of our past sisterhood, I can forgive you for stealing so many things from me, but not including Mo Jingshen! Who do you think you are? What makes you think you can stand here, calling yourself ‘Mrs. Mo’? You’re the one who should be ashamed!”

Although Ji Mengran’s eyes were still red, she had an extremely disdainful smile on her face when she said these words. With the ingrained pride that belonged to a real Ji, she coldly squinted at Ji Nuan.

Mo Jingshen didn’t look at Ji Mengran but shielded Ji Nuan who remained expressionless behind him. Then he turned to Sheng Yihan and smiled mockingly. “The secret that Ji Hongwen tried to keep was easily found out by you when you were in the Ji family, wasn’t it? Now Ji Mengran used this not-so-secret secret as her trump card. The bait that you carefully prepared for Ji Nuan was swallowed by Ji Mengran?”

Sheng Yihan sneered, and his eyes went cold. “Since you called it a not-so-secret secret, you should know it can’t be the bait.”

Mo Jingshen looked at him for a while and then turned his eyes to Ji Nuan.

Ji Nuan remained silent since Ji Mengran said those words.

Or to be exact, she had been mentally prepared for this news because the women of Hai City’s upper class had long been gossiping that she was an illegitimate daughter. Also, after she grew up, she found out that she didn’t look like any Ji.

Although she needed time to digest this news, it was not a shock to her.

As Mo Jingshen said, Ji Mengran was being stupid taking this “secret” as her trump card against her.

If Ji Nuan was still the previous life Ji Nuan who was so depended on the Ji family, this news might be a blow to her.

But she was not.

Whatever the truth was, Ji Nuan did not depend on the Ji family at all. The only thing connecting her and the Ji family was her gratitude and affection toward Ji Hongwen.

Under Ji Mengran’s arrogant glare, Ji Nuan gradually cracked a calm and indifferent smile. “But what you long for never mattered to me, so what can you get by saying these smug words except self-consolation?”

Ji Mengran paused and then purposely asked her out loud, “So you mean your marriage to Mo Jingshen never matters to you too?”

Ji Nuan glanced at her and asked her word by word, “Do you hate me so much because the only thing I care about is this marriage and the only thing I’ve strived for is the man who you are desperate to get but can’t get? Is it for this reason that you not only set me up but also tried to kill me several times, despite our twenty-year-long sisterhood?”

“You don’t even know who your biological father is. How can you have the cheek to stand here and say these…”

Ji Mengran was going to refute when Mo Jingshen had taken Ji Nuan’s hand and walked into the room behind him, ignoring anyone else in the corridor.

He took Ji Nuan into the room and closed the door of the room.

She looked up only to see the man pursed his thin lips and called her gently, “Nuan Nuan.”

Some part in her heart that had been hurting since Ji Mengran said those words suddenly settled down.

She said in a soft and calm voice, “I’m stronger than you think. I’m fine. I just need some time to digest the news.”