Zhou Wan narrowed her eyes, and lifted her chin, clutching the blanket tightly: “If his father finds out that Lu Xixiao’s girlfriend is your daughter, do you think he’ll be angry at his son, or you?”
Guo Xiangling was shaking with rage, both her person and voice trembling: “Zhou Wan!”
“Then you might have to slink away from the Lu family.”
Zhou Wan had never spoken with such a sneering tone in her life.
She couldn’t control her malice, but deep in her heart she deeply despised herself, and hated herself – this appearance did bear some resemblance to Guo Xiangling.
Guo Xiangling: “What do you want?”
She closed her eyes briefly, saying: “Give me 300,000 yuan, and I can keep quiet.”
“This is blackmail.” The sound of high heels quickly striking the ground came through the phone, probably Guo Xiangling walking somewhere else. She pressed her voice down, saying hoarsely, “Zhou Wan, you’re blackmailing me for 300,000 yuan, I can call the police right now and have you arrested!”
Zhou Wan thought she probably couldn’t feel heartbroken anymore.
Her mother threatened to have her arrested, and she could still laugh.
“Have you forgotten? You’re my mother. If you call the police, what do you think they’ll do?” Zhou Wan said, “Moreover, aren’t you afraid of this becoming public knowledge?”
Guo Xiangling might be heartless, but when it came to ruthlessness, she couldn’t match Zhou Wan.
She was like a wolf cub baring its fangs – though alone and weak, once she bit someone’s neck she would never let go, even if it meant mutual destruction.
After all, she had nothing left to lose.
Guo Xiangling stopped her angry shouting.
She was weighing her options.
Zhou Wan knew she had half succeeded.
Although she was using the misunderstanding that Lu Xixiao had inadvertently created to borrow his influence.
She knew clearly that if the police were called, she would completely lose.
If Lu Xixiao learned that she had approached him for such purposes, he would never deal with her again – he hated betrayal.
Guo Xiangling’s predicament would naturally be solved.
After a long while, Guo Xiangling said: “I only have 150,000. There’s 50,000 in your father’s card, I can give you another 100,000.”
Zhou Wan remained silent.
Guo Xiangling gritted her teeth: “This is all I can manage. My life isn’t as good as you think – Lu Zhongyue is guarding against me, I can’t possibly ask him for that much money.”
She was telling the truth.
Zhou Wan: “The remaining 150,000, you’ll transfer it to me within three months, or on this day three months from now, Lu Zhongyue will know everything.”
Guo Xiangling suppressed great nausea, her nails turning blue from clenching, before forcing out: “Fine.”
Zhou Wan hadn’t planned to do this today.
Everything had happened too suddenly – she hadn’t expected to meet Guo Xiangling today.
It was her excessive words that had pushed things to this point.
But this was good too.
As long as grandmother could get treatment, as long as grandmother stayed healthy, she would part ways with Guo Xiangling from now on, never interfering in her affairs again.
However, after three months.
Just three months.
After three months, would Lu Xixiao still be interested in her?
Zhou Wan was exhausted. She lay on the bed, and before long, her phone received a transfer notification.
Received: 150,000.
She looked at the zeros at the end, counting them several times.
Zhou Wan had never had so much money before, yet she couldn’t feel happy at all.
This heavy sum felt like evidence of some crime, stamping an unerasable mark on her.
Everything was irreversible now.
She had finally taken this step.
Greedy, dark, vicious, hypocritical, selfish, deceitful.
She lay quietly on the bed, arm across her eyes, as still as if asleep.
After a long while, Zhou Wan slowly curled up.
Her heart sank heavily.
Her jaw ached from clenching, but she still couldn’t hold back a whimper. She buried her face in the blanket, breathing rapidly and chaotic, knuckles white.
In the end, all efforts were pale and powerless.
She broke down crying on that quiet, night.
Fate had led her to finally fall into a mire of mud, her whole body dirtied, stained black, blocking out the light.