Arranged marriage, love blossoms; a fiercely devoted soldier dotes on her alone.

at this time,

In the ward,

Zhao Ruirui lay on the hospital bed, her empty, lifeless eyes staring at the ceiling...

Nobody knows what she's thinking.

Two nurses stood on either side of the hospital bed, watching the constantly changing data on various medical monitoring devices.

Dean Jia specifically instructed that the patient receive the highest level of nursing care.

"squeak!"

Xiao Zhan pushed open the door and came in, followed by Xiao Liu from the National Security Bureau.

The head nurse immediately stepped forward and said respectfully, "Young Master Xiao, Dean Jia specifically instructed us to follow your instructions. The patient's condition is stable, and all vital signs are normal."

Xiao Zhan nodded and said, "Head nurse, thank you for your hard work. Please step aside for a moment. I have something to ask Zhao Ruirui."

Head Nurse: "Yes, Young Master Xiao."

The two nurses went out and closed the door.

Xiao Zhan walked to the bedside, stared at Zhao Ruirui's pale face, and said, "Congratulations, according to the examination report, the fetus in your womb is safe."

You should feel lucky.

Zhao Ruirui slowly looked away from the ceiling, then turned her gaze to Xiao Zhan, and said in a low voice, "I know what you mean by 'thankful,' because as long as I'm pregnant, giving birth, and breastfeeding, the police won't detain me, and the court won't sentence me to prison. I'm a graduate of Tsinghua or Peking University; I understand the law."

Xiao Zhan sneered, "You not only know the law, but you're also good at exploiting legal loopholes. You just don't abide by the law. You think you can get away with anything just because you're pregnant, and that no one will dare to do anything to you. Today's incident is a severe lesson for you. It's just that you've lost 50 million, but next time you might lose your life."

"Some things are best left untouched; touching them will result in utter destruction."

Zhao Ruirui's expression changed slightly, but she still seemed indifferent.

Xiao Zhan continued, "As far as I know, you and Qin Huanhuan had no other interaction besides your four years of university and later working together at Zhu Junjie's company. Why are you targeting her again and again?"

"Can I say that you're just jealous?"

Zhao Ruirui's gaze suddenly turned fierce, and she said viciously, "I'm just jealous of her, what can you do to me?"

Xiao Zhan smirked and said, "What can I do to you?"

"That's a good question. If a dog bites me, should I bite the dog back?"

Zhao Ruirui's eyes immediately flashed with ferocity as she shouted, "Xiao Zhan, who are you calling a dog?"

Xiao Zhan sneered, "Anyone who bares their teeth at me is a dog."

Zhao Ruirui immediately lost control of her emotions and shouted, "Xiao Zhan, I've already said everything I need to say. It was Madam Xiao who asked me to find Zhang Yingbao and suggested that Qin Huanhuan be tricked back to the countryside. Why are you still coming to me? Are you here to humiliate me on purpose? Or do you want to sleep with me? You stinking men are all the same, shamelessly telling me that having sex with a pregnant woman can ward off bad luck and bring good fortune."

"Come on, I'll just pretend I got fucked by a dog."

Xiao Zhan wasn't going to tolerate Zhao Ruirui. He sneered, "You were tricked by Yan Wenlong and lost your virginity without getting any money. It's because you were greedy, blind, and unreasonable. You're taking out your anger on me. Am I your punching bag or your dumping ground? With your IQ, you're supposed to be a graduate of Tsinghua and Peking University? You're a disgrace to Tsinghua and Peking University."

Zhao Ruirui stopped talking and just silently shed tears.

Some people are like that: if they're ruthless, you have to be even more ruthless; if they're fierce, you have to be even fiercer; if they're unreasonable, you have to be even more shameless. Only by beating them into submission and scolding them into submission can you succeed.

The ward fell silent.

Two nurses heard the noise and worried that something might have happened, so they gently pushed open the door to check the equipment and found that nothing was wrong.

Xiao Zhan gestured to the two of them with his eyes.

The two nurses then tactfully left the ward.

Guoan's Xiao Liu stood quietly by the door, watching...

Two or three minutes passed like this.

"Why!"

Xiao Zhan sighed softly, then said in a calm tone, "Zhao Ruirui, you've really had a tough time, but you're very strong. You've shouldered such a big thing as pregnancy all by yourself, and I have to give you a thumbs up for that."

Zhao Ruirui raised her tearful eyes and looked at Xiao Zhan.

She didn't understand what Xiao Zhan meant by saying those words.

Xiao Zhan continued, "I came to find you not to humiliate you. I'm not that bored, nor as shameless as you imagine. Besides, I know my mother won't contact you on her own initiative because she doesn't know you. My mother will certainly not give you two million on her own. The bank has records of how much money you took from my mother. I can find out everything with just one phone call."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ruirui's expression immediately tensed up, and her eyes were filled with a deep sense of apprehension as she looked at Xiao Zhan.

Because Xiao Zhan's words hit her weak spot, she thought that if she didn't say that she had taken the initiative to find Lin Wanrong and took a ten million cash check from Lin Wanrong, no one would know.

Little did he know that Xiao Zhan, knowing his mother well, began to doubt what she said.

Xiao Zhan took in Zhao Ruirui's subtle facial expressions and changes in her eyes.

He continued, "Zhang Yingbao's death has nothing to do with you. Although you set a trap to deceive him and Liang Yanhong, it's a separate matter. Let's keep things separate."

"I'm giving you one chance to tell the truth about the deal you made with my mother. I promise you, whatever benefits you got from my mother, I won't take them back."

Zhao Ruirui blinked a few times and said resentfully, "You're not lying to me, are you? You're trying to get information out of me first, and then you're going to deal with me."

Xiao Zhan smiled calmly and said, "I always keep my word. If I were the kind of person who doesn't follow the rules, doesn't keep my promises, and has no bottom line, I wouldn't have sent you to the hospital for emergency treatment. I would have let you have a natural miscarriage. Once you lose the protection of the fetus, you would face legal sanctions. But I didn't do that."

"In other words, I can deal with you using the simplest and most brutal methods. Do you think you can withstand it?"

"Can you avoid confessing when the time comes?"

Zhao Ruirui's body trembled involuntarily.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. With Xiao Zhan's abilities and methods, he definitely wouldn't be able to withstand it, and he would eventually reveal everything.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ruirui felt less resentful and said, "Young Master Xiao, it was I who took the initiative to talk to your mother. That day, I accidentally saw your mother talking to Qin Huanhuan and giving her a check for ten million yuan, asking her to leave you. Qin Huanhuan didn't take the check and only said that as long as Xiao Zhan was willing to sever ties with me, she wouldn't take a single penny and wouldn't bother him."

"So I volunteered to go to Mrs. Xiao and told her that I had a way to bring Qin Huanhuan back to the countryside from the capital. Then I asked Mrs. Xiao to give me a check for ten million yuan as operating expenses."

"Later, I went to find Zhang Yingbao and his wife and came up with a plan to have them take Zhang Ai'ai out of the hospital and back to the countryside. Given Qin Huanhuan's personality, she would definitely go back to the countryside to find Zhang Ai'ai. I also gave Zhang Yingbao sleeping pills and told her to find an opportunity to give them to Qin Huanhuan. After Qin Huanhuan fell asleep, I would imprison her at home and take away her phone. As long as she was cut off from contact with the outside world, after a while, you and Qin Huanhuan would lose contact and the matter would naturally be dropped."

Xiao Zhan nodded, still calmly asking, "Zhao Ruirui, where did you get the 'flying bird' drug in the sleeping pills?"

Zhao Ruirui was stunned...

Xiao Zhan sneered, "You're not going to say you don't know what a bird is, are you?"

Zhao Ruirui hesitated for a moment, knowing she couldn't hide it any longer, and then said, "Actually, he gave me the sleeping pills."