In the end, Xia Wan failed to keep A Miao from leaving. When Xia Mei suddenly awakened, A Miao took advantage of Xia Wan’s frustration. She shook off Xia Wan and escaped. The moment she walked out of the hotel entrance, she saw Shen I standing next to a car.
“Boss wants to see you.” He opened the car door.
A Miao glanced at the car emblem and found that she did not recognize this one either. She curled her lip and entered the car. When she discovered it to be empty, she asked, “Where is he?”
“Don’t tell me you think that Boss would stay here and wait for you.” Shen I looked at her through the rearview mirror.
A Miao chuckled and lowered her head. “Just pretend that I didn’t say that.”
The car journey appeared to stretch on. Only when the sky seemed to have completely darkened, did the car stop in front of the entrance into an appealing antique courtyard. She followed the man in black passing through the long winding corridor as if she had entered an antique courtyard.
“She’s here, Boss.”
The heavy doors carved out of real wood were pushed open from the inside. A man appeared and made a gesture to invite A Miao inside. She slowly entered and walked past a splendid screen to see Shen Xinglan sitting on top of a tall step.
“My subordinate told me that you didn’t answer your phone. Hm?” He reclined his back so that it rested against the armrest. He narrowed his eyes at her.
A Miao’s skin was threatening to break out in goose pimples. The man sat high up on the steps, looking like a hegemon that commanded the world.
“Do you want to die? Have you lost your tongue?”
A Miao rubbed the space between her eyebrows. “It was an inconvenient time.” She smartly took a seat nearby. “It’s not like you’re unaware of this.”
When Shen Xinglan looked at her dull eyes, he looked away. “I’ll get in touch with the Xia family at the end of the month. I’ll be attending Xia Wan’s birthday banquet.”
“You want me to get going during the banquet?” There would be so many people at the banquet. Even if Xia Yongqiang lost his bronze mirror, he would not know who had done it. It wasn’t like he could make everyone stay and search their bodies!
“Is there any problem?” Shen Xinglan thought that she was unwilling to.
A Miao shook her head. “Why didn’t you make a fake one?” If there was a fake at hand, it would be a piece of cake to exchange it with the real thing and end the issue.
“I don’t want to bother putting in that much effort.” Shen Xinglan leaned against the armrest, his look appearing to tell A Miao that this had nothing to do with her. She clenched her teeth. She knew that he was talking nonsense but she had no way of rebutting him.
“Fine. I’ll steal the bronze mirror and pass it to you at the banquet. Whether or not you can take it away will have nothing to do with me.”
Shen Xinglan stared coldly at her. “No. You must take it out of the banquet and pass it to my subordinate.”
“Why must I?” A Miao retorted angrily. “Do you think that the Xia family would let me take even one step out of the house?”
Sheng Xinglan smirked. “Because you owe me a favor today. Therefore you must take the bronze mirror out of the banquet.”
A Miao was about to reply when he raised his hand. “Do you know how much the injection costs?”
“H-How much…”
Shen Xinglan extended his finger. Under the light, his finger appeared to be bewitchingly beautiful. Unfortunately, A Miao was in no mood to admire it and asked nervously, “One hundred?”
“Pfft!”
The man sneered.
A Miao clenched her teeth. “One thousand?”
“Keke!”
This time, he laughed in jest twice.
“D-Don’t tell me it’s ten thousand?” She refused to believe this.
Shen Xinglan knocked on the armrest. “One hundred thousand!”
“You psycho!” A Miao shouted. “One hundred thousand for a shot! You might as well go and rob someone!”
“How did your cousin sober up?” Shen Xinglan suddenly asked.
A Miao recalled how Bai Youran and Xia Mei had fallen unconscious after consuming the antidote. When Xia Mei woke up, she was still muddle-headed and kept crying about her headache.
“Don’t you understand now?”
“I do…” A Miao replied dejectedly. She could immediately run and jump after getting the shot and suffered no after-effect whatsoever. So it turned out that the price for this was one hundred thousand. Had she known this earlier, she would rather fall unconscious.
Shen Xinglan nodded. “Remember this. If they capture you…”
“I must never tell them that I know you or it’ll my head on the floor!” She continued his words for him in a single breath.
“Well said.” Shen Xinglan waved his hand in a lazy manner. “You can go. Remember that you can’t reject my calls in the future.”
Instead of leaving, A Miao sat down and looked at him. “I’m hungry. I haven’t had a bite to eat.”
Shen Xinglan narrowed his eyes. This woman sure had guts!
“I’ll hang up your call if I don’t have anything to eat.” A Miao hugged herself.
“Shen I!” he called out in a low voice. “Take her out for a meal.”
A noise came from outside the door. Just as A Miao was about to turn around, she stopped and slowly walked up to him instead.
“Don’t close to me.” Shen Xinglan looked at her in disgust.
A Miao grinned and extended her hand to touch his body. She then immediately turned around and ran away.