Chapter 486-488

Chapter 486: Burning Bridges 　 According to Yun Xi’s plan, they could wait until early the next morning to finish this plot. Let the prey experience the feeling of dying from apprehension. But to Mu Feichi’s eyes, anything could happen during a long night, and there were many unpredictable variables. He would rather catch the mouse first and play around with it while it was in his grasp. Therefore, during this restless night, he had decided with no hesitation to completely sever any way out for Lin Sen. Mu Feichi’s people had asked the female landlord of Lin Sen’s apartment to open the door for them. When Li Sinuo saw the group of people pouring into the living room, she was dumbfounded. 　 　 Lin Sen definitely wasn’t expecting to have just bandaged his wound before he was handcuffed by the police. He hadn’t even had the time to take Li Sinuo hostage. Soon, they were both handcuffed. Li Sinuo was in a daze and was having a hard time understanding what was going on. It took a long time for her to snap back to reality. Soon, she started yelling in a real panic as she watched the policemen turn the entire place inside out. “Who are you? What are you doing?” Li Zilan glanced at this young girl who was still of school age. She paled in comparison to that stubborn girl Yun Xi. At any rate, despite having parents who dragged her down, Yun Xi was self-reliant and self-loving. This Li Sinuo was truly shameful. Selfish, unscrupulous, and ruthless, she really wasn’t worthy of any sympathy. On the way to the apartment, one of the people who had been sent to serve as a bodyguard for Han Yaotian had said that when Lin Sen took her hostage, she had tried to drag Yun Xi down. If Yun Xi had really been taken as a hostage, the lovesick Young Marshal Mu probably really would have gone crazy. “Little sis, you probably still don’t know who this person really is, do you?” Li Zilan turned her head and glanced at Lin Sen, then chuckled and exposed Lin Sen’s real identity to Li Sinuo. With satisfaction, Li Zilan watched Li Sinuo’s eyes immediately widen, and she curled her lips charmingly while patting Li Sinuo’s cheek. “You’re in your third year of high school, so you should know what this means, don’t you? At any rate, your name really suits you. It sounds elegant and refined. I guess no one would associate someone like you with this kind of person, am I right?” 　 　 Lin Sen snorted coldly. Being arrested like this, he felt resentful and refused to give up. He decided to keep his mouth shut and refuse to speak. “No, it’s impossible!” Li Sinuo turned her head toward him in a panic. She stared at Lin Sen desperately and anxiously wanted to get a negative answer from him. “Tell me you’re just an ordinary person! Tell me!” “Even if he denies it, it’s useless. We have solid evidence. We don’t arrest people without evidence.” “Impossible... this isn’t true!” Li Sinuo shook her head in disbelief. In a panic, she looked at Li Zilan, the only woman present, and thought that she would be easier to persuade than the rest. “Big sis, I don’t know anything. I have nothing to do with him. I don’t know what he does, but it has nothing to do with me. I was also forced.” She knew in her heart that once she became associated with Lin Sen, no matter how squeaky clean she was, she would be dragged down. After New Year’s, she was going to take her college entrance examination. After repeating the year and having gone through all sorts of ordeals, she would finally get out of there. If something happened at this time, she definitely would be expelled. Once implicated in a matter so shamefully scandalous, she wouldn’t be able to clear her reputation ever. “Oh, burning bridges so soon after crossing the river?” Li Zilan glanced at Li Sinuo, then at Lin Sen, who looked infuriated. “Look at the true colors of the woman you fancy. Once it involves her future, she immediately abandons you.” Lin Sen’s face was contorted as he glared at Li Sinuo angrily without saying a word. People from the Mu Corporation searched around for a while and finally found a box embedded in the wall behind the shoe cabinet. When Li Sinuo saw what was hidden in the box, she suddenly gasped! ** Chapter 487: Killed Two Birds with One Stone 　 She had seen these things before! Wasn’t that what she had put in Yun Xi’s teacup? How could there be so much hiding in this house? Panic and fear burst through her mind. She suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Sen. Li Zilan carried a bag and walked up to her. “Look, you should be able to guess what this is, shouldn’t you?” Li Zilan looked at Li Sinuo mockingly. “Don’t tell me you don’t know anything.” Li Sinuo shook her head vigorously. “No! These things have nothing to do with me. I don’t know anything.” 　 　 “You live with him. Who would believe that you don’t know anything?” After the things had been found, Li Zilan waved her hand. “Take them all away! I’m going back to report to Young Marshal Mu.” “Big sis! Big sis! He’s responsible for everything. It had nothing to do with me. I don’t know anything.” Upon hearing Li Zilan mention Young Marshal Mu, Li Sinuo suddenly snapped back to reality. She wanted to tug at Li Zilan’s arm, but she was handcuffed, so she could only struggle. “Yun Xi...I’m Yun Xi’s classmate. Yun Xi and Young Marshal Mu have a good relationship. Can you help me send a message to Yun Xi and ask her for help? This really has nothing to do with me. I really don’t know anything.” “Ask Yun Xi for help?” As if she was listening to a funny joke, Li Zilan looked at Li Sinuo. “When you anxiously tried to push Yun Xi out as a shield to save yourself, maybe you should have anticipated the day when you yourself would have had to ask her for help.” “You, how do you know about that?” Li Sinuo looked shocked. At that time, she and Lin Sen had been the only people in the car, and, even outside the car, there were only Yun Xi, Han Yaotian, and a bodyguard. “Also, when you gave Yun Xi the drugs, you probably didn’t know what they were called, did you?” As she said this, Li Zilan glanced at Lin Sen. “He didn’t tell you that it was just a drug to destroy her psychologically, did he?” After Li Zilan’s reminder, Li Sinuo recalled what had happened here tonight, and she suddenly understood that she had been deceived. 　 　 Not only had she been deceived, she had also been used by Lin Sen. Lin Sen had used her to lure Yun Xi and Han Yaotian out, and then she had unknowingly become his eyes and ears. That was why he had showed up halfway to stop them and threaten Mr. Han to get him to hand over the things. From the beginning to the end, she was the one who had been kept in the dark and played for a fool. “You were used by him because of your own stupidity. And you did everything you could to set up Yun Xi, and you even poisoned her. You’re so cruel at such a young age, so do you really think it would be possible to ask her to help you now? Yun Xi is kinder than you, and Young Marshal Mu really listens to her, so if she puts in a word, you would still have a chance. Unfortunately, you have completely exhausted all of her sympathy.” With a soft snort, Li Zilan waved her hand, and the two guards holding Li Sinuo pulled her away. “Lin Sen, did you ever think that one day you would meet your demise at the hands of a little girl?” Lin Sen raised his head abruptly, and his widened eyes were firmly nailed to Li Zilan. “Seems like you’ve finally realized that you’ve been set up. Yes, you were indeed set up by Yun Xi. You wanted to use her to lure out Han Yaotian, but you didn’t expect that her counterplan would make you end up like this today. Even Li Sinuo was part of her plan. She has killed two birds with one stone, and it serves you right.” “Heh, losing to a little girl. I won’t accept my loss.” “What can you do even if you don’t accept it? There will always be someone better than you, so if you lose, you might as well accept it.” When she said this, Li Zilan sounded proud. As if Yun Xi was the disciple who had made her the proudest, her tone was full of pride that couldn’t be concealed. “Aren’t you guys arresting me just to lure out Crocodile? Dream on!” “We’re going to catch Crocodile, but do you think we need you to do it? You really take yourself way too seriously! Take him away!” *** Chapter 488: Her Resilience and Courage Were Not Inferior to Those of Men When Yun Xi woke up, the first thing she wanted to do was to ask Mu Feichi about the situation regarding surveillance on Lin Sen last night. She was worried that if things didn’t go as she had planned, he could actually run away. That would be extremely troublesome. Upon seeing her coming downstairs, Mu Feichi beckoned to her. Yun Xi stepped into the living room where she found that more than half of the living room was empty. Mu Feichi was sitting in an office chair playing with a topographic map model. 　 　 There was a huge real estate map in front of him, and a miniature model of each area had been placed on a sand table. The sand table was very large. It had probably been very inconvenient to move and transport such a large sand table. Yun Xi stepped forward and looked at the houses. The swimming pools and greenery that had been placed around them were all very realistic. The surrounding mountains, rivers, and lakes were also reproduced scaled down from 1,000 to 1. Yun Xi carefully glanced at the rivers, lakes, and mountains. After thinking for a while, she judged which area the topographical sand table map was based on from its rivers and mountains. If she guessed correctly, this was a sand table model of the entire area around Muyang Town. Although Muyang Town was poor, its area was vast and surrounded by mountains and ****** forests. The place where she had fallen to her death was from was a steep cliff in the area around Muyang Town. She had never expected to encounter Mu Feichi in that place. She looked carefully at the topography on the sand table and the model of the real estate that he had placed there. From this angle, it appeared that this was what Muyang Town would look like if it received a lot of investment and underwent a transformation. With new construction, planning, and development, Muyang Town could indeed have great potential. It was just that investment and strategic planning from large corporations and enterprises were needed here. Muyang Town had been poor for many years. If enterprises invested to accelerate its development, the town’s agricultural products could be put on the market, and the living standards as well as the economic conditions of the entire town would be greatly improved. 　 　 “Does the Mu Corporation plan to invest in the development of Muyang Town?” If there was such a plan, it warranted a large sum of money, and it would be a large project. Perhaps because the place was too poor, almost no one had ever had such an idea. “It hasn’t started yet, but it’s estimated to start soon. As for the board of directors, I plan to hold a meeting soon for voting to be done. Looking at her with a lazy smile and his legs crossed, Mu Feichi leaned back against his chair in a very relaxed pose. “Unexpectedly, you could guess my intentions just by looking at the topographic map. You have much potential.” He never thought of hiding anything from her, since she was going to stand side by side with him in the future after all. If he let her gain some familiarity with his business early on, she would have more experience later. Therefore, regarding official business, if he could trust Li Zilan, Qi Yuan, and Feng Rui, he could trust her unconditionally as well. Sometimes, he even wanted to hear her opinions. He could discern that she had a highly strategic mind. Her resilience and courage were not inferior to those of men. Especially after seeing her strategy of placing her enemies in a position where they could only fight to the death during the last cooperation between the Han family and the Chen family, he believed that his little wild kitten might even surpass him in the future. “I grew up in Muyang Town, so I know that place better than you do.” Regarding the childhood that she had forgotten, Yun Xi suddenly found that after being reborn, she remembered the days when she’d lived under other people’s oppression even more vividly. It was still vivid in her mind, as if it had been only yesterday. “It wouldn’t be difficult to develop Muyang Town. First, repair the road leading to the outside world, and then drive the development of agricultural products there.” As she said this, she pointed to a mountain and road on the sand table. “This place can’t be crossed by cars, and the surrounding vegetation is extremely dense. The mountain road is now blocked by this vegetation, and large vehicles can’t get in.” Mu Feichi looked in the direction she was pointing. This sand table had been finished for a long time now, so he’d checked it carefully already.