Chapter 164: The Death Of Ning Yao
“Ning Yao, you made one wrong choice after another. You lost your own instincts, and you can’t turn back anymore!”
Tears rolled down Ning Yao’s face. How did it turn out like this? How was she stuck with such an ending? She laughed, pointed at Ning Qing, and said, “Ning Qing, you are lying to me. I kidnapped you yesterday. Even if I escape to the ends of the earth, you would still not let me go. You want definitely chase me to my own death!”
Ning Qing looked calmly at the b.u.mp on her belly. She closed her eyes and said sorrowfully, “I don’t care if you believe or not. I gave my last grace to the child in your belly, but you’ve squandered your last chance!”
Ning Yao cried heart-wrenchingly. She looked at Xu Junxi. “Junxi, Junxi, please help me out. We were once a couple. I, Ning Yao, really did only have one man in my life.”
Xu Junxi looked sideways with ultimate determination. “Ning Yao, we will end everything here.”
“Junxi, don’t do this to me. I followed you for 3 years, I still have your child in my stomach, and you cannot be so cruel…”
“Ning Yao, you are still making use of the child in your belly? Don’t you have a touch of regret and guilt? Even if this were for the child inside you, do you still not understand? In this life of yours, your meeting with Xu Junxi was such a blissful matter. You said he was easy to cheat, but being easy to cheat is also another form of love. Those 3 years, he also did love you, and he believed in you. But it was you who used your own two hands to end this relations.h.i.+p between the two of you.”
Ning Yao stumbled backwards after listening and asked, “Junxi, is that right? You loved me before?”
Xu Junxi looked painfully at Ning Yao and nodded his head. “Those 3 years, it was you who filled in the gap in my heart. There was a time when I really wanted to marry you.”
Ning Yao sank onto the floor. Xu Junxi had thought of marrying her. She could be Madam Xu. She has ruined her own beautiful future.
She was worthless now.
Xu Junxi looked forward. She was standing right in his periphery. He could only see half of her gentle, white face, and actually, she actually understood him.
She always understood him this much.
The hole in his heart got bigger, bit by bit, leading his eyes to get wet. Maybe, he would never know what he missed out on in his life. “President Xu, Ning Yao would be handed over to you to deal with. I’m out of here.”
Seeing Ning Yao get apprehended, Ning Qing turned around and bade farewell to Xu Junxi.
“Sure, okay, I will get someone to bring you back.” Xu Junxi said.
Ning Qing did not oppose, and she turned to leave.
But at this moment, a shout pierced through the air. “Ah!!” Ning Yao took advantage of the situation to stand up and escape from the bodyguards. She pulled a 4 year old girl into her arms. The girl was frightened and sobbed sadly, asking her mum for help without stopping.
“None of you, come close, don’t come over. If you dare come cover, I will strangle her to death!” Ning Yao acted as if she had lost her senses as she held tightly onto the girl’s neck.
“Ning Yao, what are you doing? You must be mad, let go of the girl quickly!” Xu Junxi said in a serious tone while clenching his teeth. Ning Qing turned back to look; the girl has no strength to resist. Once Ning Yao exerted a little strength, the girl was instantaneously red in the face and had difficulty breathing.
Ning Qing came forward swiftly. She frowned and said in a serious tone, “Ning Yao, the person you hate is me. What’s the point of hurting a small girl? What about this, you release the little girl, come get me directly. If you want to leave, then I will let someone prepare a car and then give you a sum of money.”
“Ha, haha.” Ning Yao stared wildly and her sinister smile made her look scary, “Sure, I can release this girl, Ning Qing, you come over. You come here personally to carry this girl away.”
“Ning Qing.” Xu Junxi held onto Ning Qing’s elbow and said softly, “Ning Yao has gone mad, she didn’t propose any conditions and only asked you to go over. You will be in certain danger if you go over now.”
Ning Qing slowly withdrew her elbow. “Don’t worry, I will be careful.”
Ning Qing walked forward and approached Ning Yao step by step. She stood in front of Ning Yao and opened her arms. “Ning Yao, I am here. Give the girl to me.”
“Sure, here she is.” Ning Yao bit her teeth and threw the girl like a ragdoll towards Ning Qing. Ning Qing immediately grabbed the girl.
In a flash, Ning Yao took a sharp knife from her abdomen, and stabbed Ning Qing’s stomach. Ning Qing had prepared for this moment, she used one slim elbow to hug the girl in her embrace, and the other hand grabbed Ning Yao’s wrist like a bolt of lightning. When she exerted strength on her joints, Ning Yao whimpered in pain and the knife in her hand dropped freely onto the floor.
Ning Qing had escaped death once.
But at this moment, Xu Junxi grunted softly, “Ning Qing, be careful!” both Ning Qing and the little girl were held in Xu Junxi’s embrace, and another knife was stabbed into his chest.
The bodyguards rushed forward and pinned Ning Yao down. Ning Yao had actually hidden two knives. One did not work, so she took out the other.
“Xu Junxi, are you ok?” Ning Qing quickly put the girl down, and used her hand to try to stop Xu Junxi from falling down.
Ning Yao saw that she had stabbed the wrong person. She shook her in a trance. “Junxi, Junxi, I am sorry. I did not do that on purpose. You want to kill Ning Qing! Why did you block the knife for her? Why?”
Blood flowed freely from Xu Junxi’s chest. His face was pale and he looked painfully at Ning Yao. He said weakly, “This stab was not for protecting Ning Qing, but… I am paying you back…” It was in return for the scar she sustained while saving him.
They did not have any more debts towards each other.
“Xu Junxi, don’t talk anymore. Let’s go to the hospital.” Ning Qing used her hands to apply pressure on his wound and was in a hurry. Xu Junxi saw black in his eyes, and his shaking hands were pointing up, he grabbed onto Ning Qing’s hand which was on his chest.
He said, “Ning Qing, today when we were on the carousel, I wanted to ask you, if, if 3 years ago, if I didn’t get lost because of Ning Yao. Then we…”
Ning Qing froze and slowly took her hand back. “There are no maybes on this earth….Even if you did not get lost because of Ning Yao, I met Lu Shaoming.”
That was the most beautiful meeting on earth.
…
In the hospital, Xu Junxi was undergoing an operation. That knife stabbed him far enough away from his heart that he was not in life threatening danger. He was still asleep under anesthetic, and he had been pushed into the ward for further observation.
Ning Qing stood by the door of the ward and looked in. At this moment, Aunt Xu hurriedly ran over, “Junxi, where’s our Junxi?”
Aunt Xu was overwhelmed with emotions and wanted to see Xu Junxi, but the doctor blocked her.
“The patient isn’t in danger. He will awaken naturally after the anesthetic wears off. Now it’s prohibited to see him. Can I please ask his family to wait outside quietly?”
Aunt Xu saw her own son with a pale face lying on the bed and her heart was broken into pieces. She saw Ning Qing and furiously asked, “Ning Qing, let me ask you, how did my son get injured? Was it you that took the knife and stabbed into him? What evil did my son do to you?” Ning Qing rolled her eyes. She was too lazy to engage in this nonsense conversation, and she turned away and prepared to leave.
Aunt Xu was not satisfied and came chasing after her, “Oi, Ning Qing, what att.i.tude do you have now? You still have not told me what happened to my son!” After Mother Xu spoke, she saw a few police officers. The police officers stopped in front of the ward and asked, “Is this the ward of Miss Ning Yao?”
Ning Yao?
Aunt Xu heard and ran forward. She stood by the door of the ward and looked in. Ning Yao was on the bed. She was curled up in fear at the head of the bed. She was already mad, her two hands were scratching wildly. “Go away, go away! Don’t touch me! I don’t want to go to prison, I didn’t kill anyone…”
The nurses blocked at the door and said, “Sorry police officers, the patient is not of sound mind anymore, she is 5 months pregnant and her emotions are high now. That’s why she’s bleeding. We need to give her treatment, please wait for half an hour.”
“Bleeding?” Aunt Xu was shocked, she grabbed onto the hand of the nurse and asked, “How’s my grandchild? You have to protect my grandchild, that is the first descendent of the Xu family.”
The nurse shook off Aunt Xu’s hand and banged the door shut. Aunt Xu slowly looked to the police officers. “Officer, what did Ning Yao do? Are you guys here to arrest her?”
“Yes,” the officers nodded their heads and said. “Ning Yao used a knife to stab the victim, Xu Junxi, and also masterminded a warehouse kidnapping yesterday. We are here to arrest her now.”
Aunt Xu took a few steps back and shook her head in disbelief. “What? It was Ning Yao who stabbed my son? She is so cruel!” Ning Qing looked coldly on the scene in front of her. She did not say anything and left. Karma played its role.
After two steps, a familiar figure appeared in front of her. Mu Yunfan walked out of the room. He had changed into a windbreaker with Butler Zhou by his side. There were two bodyguards behind him. He looked like he had discharged. Ning Qing stopped in her tracks. Mu Yunfan saw her coming towards him. His face was still a little pale, but bore a warm and gentle smile. “Qingqing, why are you at the hospital?”
“Oh, Xu Junxi is injured, I came over to check on him.”
Ning Qing did not want to elaborate and she asked, “Have you been discharged? What time is the flight tomorrow?”
“It’s an 8 o’ clock flight,” Mu Yunfan replied.
Ning Qing nodded her head and said, “Okay.” She put on a smile and said,” I wish you a smooth journey, see you.”
Ning Qing left.
Looking at Ning Qing’s figure, Mu Yunfan balled his hands into a fist. She was reluctant to even say one more word to him now.
“Young Master.” Butler Zhou caringly came to put a hand Mu Yunfan’s elbow. Mu Yunfan waved him away, indicating that he was fine. He stood there looking at Ning Qing as she walked away, his eyes expressing a deep long chillness.
…
Ning Qing walked to the Tea Pavilion villa. While she was walking, she sent a message to Lu Shaoming.
[Hubby, Ning Yao was arrested, Xu Junxi is injured and in the hospital now. Everything is settled now, I am returning home. Waiting for you to come back to eat dinner with me.]
[Okay] It was barely 3 seconds and the man’s reply came.
Ning Qing placed her phone back into her pocket. She lifted her gaze to look at the bright city in the distance, and her heart was somewhat heavy. She, Xu Junxi, and Ning Yao finally did have an ending, but it was a pity that this ending involved a young, innocent life. Ning Qing felt weird, it was a woman’s innate 6th sense and she had a bad premonition.
When she returned to the Tea Pavilion villa, the villa was empty. “Auntie Yang, Auntie Yang.” She called out a few times but Auntie Yang was not inside the villa.
Could Auntie Yang be on vacation? Ning Qing did not mind.
She walked into the kitchen and the vegetables had been washed clean. But they were still raw. Ning Qing rolled up her sleeves and prepared to cook personally. After slaving in the kitchen for one hour, dinner was finally ready.
Just as she finished, she heard the sound of a car approaching the villa. Ning Qing ran to the door and she stood by the stairs to see Lu Shaoming get out of the Bentley.
“Hubby, you are back.” Ning Qing opened her arms and ran down the stairs into his embrace. Lu Shaoming carefully embraced her and kissed her hair. He said in a pampering tone, “What would you do if I didn’t catch you in my embrace?”
“How could you not?” Ning Qing stretched out her white finger to poke his stone like chest .
“Hubby is the best, he would definitely hug me.”
Lu Shaoming curled his lips into a small smile. He picked up his woman and walked towards the villa. “Like your husband’s muscles? It seems like I have to persist on exercising every night.” Ning Qing paused for a few seconds before she could understand his meaning.
She punched him and said, “If you want to exercise, go to the gym, you are not allowed to make dirty jokes.”
Lu Shaoming frowned, meaning – With wife present, his body need not worry!
Ning Qing went into his embrace. They looked into each other’s eyes sweetly and both smiled. When they were about to enter the villa, Ning Qing suddenly recalled, “Hubby, why is Auntie Yang not in the villa? Is she on leave?”
Lu Shaoming paused in his tracks. “Auntie Yang is not in the villa?” The moment he said those words, two bright headlights shone. The two of them looked and saw a police car pull up in front of them.
Lu Shaoming looked on and placed Ning Qing gently back on the ground. Ning Qing was puzzled. “Why would the police come here?”
Lu Shaoming’s eyes darkened, one of his hands was in his pocket, another on Ning Qing’s soft and tiny waist, pulling her into his embrace.
4 police officers walked over and the officer in front showed his badge. “Young Master Lu, how are you? I am the sergeant on duty. I have to disturb you today because your wife Ning Qing has been indicted on a charge of premeditated murder.”
“What?” Ning Qing was shocked.
Lu Shaoming was calm and silent. His hand on her waist pinched her a few times to comfort her. He opened his mouth slowly. “My wife killed someone? Where is the evidence?”
“30 minutes ago, Ning Yao, who was in hospital, was murdered by someone in a way that looked premeditated. Two lives were instantly lost. We have eyewitness and closed circuit surveillance camera to show that it was your wife that killed Ning Yao. The evidence stands against her.”
“Ning Yao is dead?” Ning Qing went forward to deny it. “This is not possible, 30 minutes ago, I was at home. It must be a doppelganger, someone who looks like me!”
“Madam Lu, if you were at home at that time, do you have an alibi?” the police officers asked politely.
Ning Qing felt her heart sink. Things were amiss, and Auntie Yang was not around.
She knew that someone had included her into their plans to commit an act of murder. The police officer showed his warrant and said, “Young Master Lu, I am very sorry. We must act in accordance with legal procedures. If Madam Lu murdered Ning Yao, with such strong evidence… This is the warrant, we need to bring Madam Lu away. We ask Young Master Lu to cooperate with our work.”
Lu Shaoming tightly shut his thin lips and did not speak. Ning Qing held onto his sleeve and said, “Shaoming, I will go with them. I didn’t kill anyone. I believe that the law will prove my innocence.”