Chapter 728: Chapter 728: Weighing the Pros and Cons
Xi Ya struggled to resist with her legs. She gradually felt the increasing pressure from Rong Ling’s strength; he truly intended to share the same fate with her!
She finally got scared and screamed, “I’ll tell, I’ll tell…”
She spilled everything in a rush: “I received an assignment to deal with a man. They drugged you, and then… tonight, you’re my task. By tomorrow morning, a large number of reporters will besiege the hotel. At that time, I will accuse you of assaulting me in front of the hotel. President Li will surely try to bail you out, and when that happens, the Li Family’s many adversaries will seize the opportunity to kick them while they’re down… If she tries to protect you, she will certainly drag the Li Family into a public opinion whirlpool…”
Rong Ling’s gaze sharpened, “Huake really puts in a lot of effort!”
Xi Ya: “Don’t struggle anymore. Tonight, you won’t be walking out of this door!”
Rong Ling: “Who said I wanted to go out?”
He flipped Xi Ya over his shoulder, pinned her tightly to the bed, twisted her arms behind her back, pulled out a belt, and tied it around her wrists in a dead knot.
Xi Ya struggled, revealing an incredulous look, “Are you crazy?”
Rong Ling: “Kind of!”
He threw Xi Ya onto the bed, and after doing all this, he collapsed back against the wall as if exhausted, sliding down to sit on the floor.
Xi Ya struggled to get up, rubbed against the headboard for a long time, and barely managed to lean half of her body against the headboard.
She looked towards the bed; Rong Ling had his head bowed, his face flushed red like blood, sweating profusely, clearly showing the drug’s effect maximizing.
Xi Ya: “Do you think I’m joking with you? You’re under the effect of Black Gold! They gave you such a high dose. Do you think you can resist the drug’s effects with sheer willpower?! If you tough it out, you won’t survive till dawn!”
Rong Ling panted heavily, impatiently saying, “If you keep talking, I’ll throw you out the window!”
Xi Ya jumped in shock and retorted, “Why are you so harsh to me!!”
Rong Ling: “Then shut up! I don’t want to… waste energy talking to you!”
Xi Ya: “I’m just afraid you’ll die, I’m scared of dead people!”
She feared that if Rong Ling didn’t make it to dawn and died beside the bed, she would be stuck in a room with a corpse.
Moreover…
Seeing how handsome Rong Ling was, it would be such a waste of good genes if such a handsome man died just like that!
In a blink of an eye, two hours passed.
Xi Ya had dozed off for half an hour, then woke up again to a “thud” sound of something falling beside the bed.
She opened her eyes and saw Rong Ling collapsing to the floor, his previously flushed face now pale as paper, and his lips showing a dreadful bluish tint.
Xi Ya’s heart skipped a beat.
Who could have thought that this guy’s willpower was so terrifying! He actually resisted the drug’s effects with just willpower!
Could he be frigid?!
Or… is he just incapable?
But even the weakest man, when injected with such a large dose, shouldn’t easily resist such allure!
Or does he prefer to die rather than touch her?
Xi Ya struggled to roll off the bed, moved to his side, and called out to him, “Hey! Hey! Wake up… are you okay?!”
Rong Ling opened his eyes, feeling dizzy, his vision blurring, and his breathing getting increasingly erratic.
Xi Ya grew more and more nervous, afraid that someone might die: “Can you hear me?”
Rong Ling closed his eyes, and Xi Ya’s voice seemed far away, inaudible to him.
A metallic taste welled up in his throat.
Instinctively, he wanted to swallow it back, but his stomach cramped acutely, and unexpectedly, a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
Seeing him start to bleed, Xi Ya’s pupils trembled: “Are you alright!? You’re starting to bleed!”
Rong Ling painfully turned over and saw the woman in front of him with tears welling up, struggling to twist her body to break free from the belt. He suddenly said coldly, “Stop making noise, alright?”
Seeing he could still talk, Xi Ya quickly said, “You’re about to collapse, do you have any strength left? Help me untie, and I’ll call 911.”
Rong Ling closed his eyes, without even the strength to speak.
Before Xi Ya could say anything more, she heard a flurry of footsteps outside the door.
She froze for a moment, and in the next second, two bodyguards burst through the door!
“Rong Ling!”
The two men called his name as they rushed into the room. Upon seeing Rong Ling collapsed on the floor with a woman beside him, they exchanged confused glances.
Xi Ya nervously asked: “Who are you!?”
The bodyguards walked over to help Rong Ling up, only to see him with blood on his lips, utterly shocked: “Rong Ling, what’s wrong?!”
They had been waiting at the apartment. Seeing Rong Ling not return, they immediately used tech to locate his phone, discovering its last signal at this hotel, and rushed over!
Xi Ya trembled, seeing the two bodyguards filled with a murderous aura, not daring to speak.
The bodyguard turned to Xi Ya, sternly questioning: “What happened to him?!”
Xi Ya said, “He… he was injected with Black Gold Medicine…”
Black Gold…
Clearly, these two bodyguards didn’t know what Black Gold Medicine was.
Xi Ya said, “Oh… it’s… something that excites men, and if the dosage is too high, it can be toxic… he seems to be showing signs of poisoning now…”
The bodyguard glared angrily, “Did you inject him?!”
Xi Ya hurriedly said, “No, I didn’t…”
The other assistant said, “Ah Chen, don’t ask too many questions now, his condition is dire, we need to get him to the hospital immediately.”
“Understood.”
Ah Chen immediately picked up Rong Ling, seeing him vomiting blood, dared not carry him on his back, fearing pressure on his abdomen might make the bleeding unstoppable!
“Let’s go!”
…
Beijing Airport.
Li Yufei had just landed and received a call from the bodyguard: “President Li…”
Holding the phone, Li Yufei listened to Ah Chen’s report, her face suddenly turning cold and serious: “What?”
Beside her, Shao Chen noticed she suddenly stopped and returned to her side.
Li Yufei held the phone in silence for a long time and asked, “How is he now?”
“Still in the emergency room.”
Li Yufei bit her lip, “Have you figured out the whole story?”
“It seems to be Huake’s doing. When we arrived at the hotel, we saw him with a scantily clad woman. But… nothing seemed to have happened between the two. We suspect Huake intended to target Rong Ling, creating a sex scandal, and if you intervened to protect him, it would drag the entire Li Family into turmoil.”
Li Yufei roughly understood.
Having been in the financial sector for so long, she’d seen all sorts of childish and dirty tactics in the business world, but still, it was her first time encountering something so absurd and hateful!
Li Yufei: “Stay put at the hospital, and report to me promptly if anything happens.”