After he finished speaking, he walked over toward Shen Yunyun and the others. Shen Yunyun was still debating whether to tase him or spray him with pepper spray when Lin Mengxing pulled her back, signaling her not to act rashly.
Sheng Sinian brushed past them and headed outside—he had already achieved his goal. As long as they were trapped here, his objective was met. Everything else could wait. As long as she stayed here, he had no doubt he could win her heart again. Women were all the same, weren’t they? Bags, clothes, jewelry, sports cars, houses—or for the cheaper ones, just flowers. It didn’t matter, as long as he put in the effort.
Sheng Sinian grabbed his coat and went out. Soon, the roar of a sports car echoed from the courtyard. Clearly, Sheng Sinian had left the villa.
Lin Mengxing’s face was wooden, her expression grim. Shen Yunyun pulled her out again to clear their heads, and they returned to the spot where they had been talking earlier. Not far behind them, two security guards followed.
“Did you get anything out of him?” Lin Mengxing relayed everything she had managed to extract to Shen Yunyun.
After hearing it, Shen Yunyun suddenly recalled a compilation of terrifying supernatural events she had read before. One entry mentioned a wealthy man’s wife who was said to bring good fortune to her husband, so after her death, she was trapped inside a mansion. At the time, she had just treated it as a folk ghost story and hadn’t taken it seriously. But now, it seemed it might actually be true.
“If that’s the case, then he’ll never let you go, even in death. Since he dared to say it so openly, he’s not afraid of you telling me, and he’s confident neither of us will leave this villa alive.” Shen Yunyun was certain.
Lin Mengxing nodded. “If we behave and don’t try to escape, he’ll make sure we live comfortably here. If we don’t cooperate, he’ll probably do something even crazier.”
Shen Yunyun felt a surge of anger. Not wanting to go out and preferring to stay home all day, eating and lazing around, was one thing. But being confined and forbidden to leave was entirely another. Could she put up with that?
“I’m sorry, I dragged you into this. If I hadn’t insisted on coming to that damn funeral, none of this would have happened.” “What’s done is done, and regrets won’t help. Besides, if what he said is true, even if you hadn’t come today, once you became famous, he would have come for you anyway—there’s no avoiding it. Right now, we need to figure out how to deal with this. Until things are resolved, we should eat well and sleep well, make sure our health doesn’t suffer.”
Lin Mengxing knew she was mostly trying to comfort her, but there was no better option for now.
Back inside, Shen Yunyun invited Lin Mengxing to sleep with her. As soon as they entered the room, Shen Yunyun muttered, “So sleepy,” and collapsed onto the bed, losing consciousness. Lin Mengxing also felt an overwhelming dizziness. After a futile struggle, she too fell.
The moment she hit the ground, Shen Yunyun opened her eyes. She shook Lin Mengxing’s arm, got no response, then quickly activated her optical computer and released the flying vehicles. Two flying vehicles shot off into the night sky. By the time the guards outside heard the noise, the vehicles were long gone.
Half an hour later, the two returned to Goose City. Shen Yunyun dropped Lin Mengxing off at her place, then went back to the basement and activated the trading center. She directly summoned Xu Zimo.
Xu Zimo was holding chopsticks, about to pick up some food, when in the blink of an eye, the meal vanished from before him. No—he had vanished from the table. And then he found himself staring straight at Shen Yunyun.