Shi Nuan did not know how long she had stayed in the room, but the door only opened when the sky had turned dark. The person who was outside the door was still that same old woman. She looked at Shi Nuan and said, “Dinner is ready!”
Shi Nuan was quite shocked, but at that moment, she could not show any normal emotions. Hence, she stared at the old woman, but the latter did not care about her and turned around to walk away.
Shi Nuan immediately followed behind. She would rather go out and find out about the other party than stay in the room. Apart from that, she also needed to know where she was.
Shi Nuan followed the old lady down the stairs. As she walked down the stairs, she could feel a cold aura surrounding her. Even though it was summer, she still felt cold.
She frowned as the old lady brought her to the dining table. A man in black was sitting on the main seat with a newspaper in his hand. He seemed to be reading the newspaper. Shi Nuan walked closer. She could see that the man was wearing a silver mask on his face, but that was all she could see.
“Who are you? Why did you kidnap me here?” Shi Nuan asked as she walked nearer to the man.
Just when she was about to reach her hand and pull the man’s mask off, the latter quickly stood up and dodged it. His reaction was so fast that Shi Nuan could not even react.
“Kidnap you here?” J laughed all of a sudden. His voice seemed to be processed as Shi Nuan could not recognize his original voice. She felt a sense of oppression as J looked down at her.
“Didn’t you?” Shi Nuan asked.
“Mrs. Fu, how could you say that I kidnapped you here? I have provided you with delicious food and drinks.” J paused as he scanned Shi Nuan’s face. Interested, his smile remained as he observed her. “You should say that I invited you over as a guest instead.”
“Be your guest?” Haha, yeah, right.
Shi Nuan stared at J angrily. “I don’t know you, and this is also not how you should treat your guest.” She gritted her teeth as she looked at the man and added, “I don’t know what you want, but I’m telling you, my husband will come and rescue me when he knows I was kidnapped!”
J laughed as he heard Shi Nuan’s reply. “Mrs. Fu, please have a seat. Standing is not good for a pregnant woman, isn’t it?”
Shi Nuan clenched her fists tightly. Her words seemed useless against the man. It was as if she was beating the air.
J was not moved by her words at all. Thus, Shi Nuan gritted her teeth and sat down unwillingly before asking again, “Who are you?”
“Is that important to you?” J replied as he sat down elegantly. He was holding on to his cutleries. Under the silver mask, he was wearing a faint smile. “Mrs. Fu, you are pregnant. Don’t you want to eat first before talking to me?”
Shi Nuan looked at him. She had no choice but to pick up her cutleries and began digging in.
J’s smile widened as he saw the look on Shi Nuan’s face. “I like to communicate with smart people like you. Unlike your sister, you are a lot smarter.”
“My sister? Are you talking about Shi Wei?” Shi Nuan asked as she could not think of anyone else.
The last person she saw before she got kidnapped was Shi Wei. “Did you instruct Shi Wei to kidnap me?” she asked again.
J smiled faintly. “What do you think?”
Shi Nuan gripped her cutleries and sliced the meat in front of her forcefully, pretending it was J’s face. It was as if that was the only way for her to release her anger.
“Tsk, tsk. Mrs. Fu, you just can’t stay calm, huh?” Mrs. Fu!
From the moment Shi Nuan came down the stairs, the man had been addressing her as “Mrs. Fu” instead of “Ms. Shi” or “Ms. Su.” It seemed as though the man was targeting the Fu clan.
So Shi Wei was his pawn? Did he use Shi Wei to achieve his goal?
But, he could have instructed his subordinate to do so. Why did he use Shi Wei instead? Shi Nuan could not figure it out.
J’s subordinate could have taken care of her quickly. There was no need to involve Shi Wei. There was only one logical explanation she could think of. ”You wanted Shi Wei to help you achieve a certain goal?” Shi Nuan asked.
J furrowed his eyebrows and remained silent.
Shi Nuan grabbed her cutleries tightly and continued to ask, “I’ve seen Huancheng’s account details. There have been problems with the transactions since two years ago. These trivial problems were unnoticeable, but last year, some larger issues began to emerge. After that, the incident with my grandfather happened. Are you the reason why Shi Wei went to the hospital to infuriate my grandfather? Did everything happen because of you? Were you the person she met in that dark corner?”
For some reason, Shi Nuan connected all the dots, and her instinct told her that the man in front of her was the culprit behind all these. “Why do you want to go against Huancheng and the Shi family?” she continued asking.
“My grandfather did not do anything to you! And Shi Wei, she may hate me, but…” Shi Nuan paused for a moment and asked, “Were you the one who spread Shi Wei’s scandals on the internet?” She recalled Fu Chengyan denying spreading the scandal.
Fu Chengyan was always a man of his words. If he said he did not do it, that meant he did not do it.
“You used Su Su to cause a stir and then made Shi Wei and her turn against each other, thus resulting in Shi Wei directing all her hatred to me? Because of Su Su’s betrayal and all those scandals, Shi Wei could not get a foothold in the entertainment industry, and when my grandfather passed away, she was devastated to find out that my grandfather made a will with me being the biggest beneficiary. You took advantage of her hate against me and you sent her to kidnap me? Is that so?” Shi Nuan asked, staring straight at J.
J grinned as he maintained his smile. “I finally understand why Fu Chengyan fell for you.”
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