Chapter 291

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Chapter 291: Heart of a Viper!

Zhou Cheng clutched his wound, his body trembling against the floor, wailing continuously.

Fang Yu glanced at Yu Yueyue lying on the bed.

Ding Ran stood nearby, her face pale as she watched Fang Yu emanating a cold aura.

She hadn’t expected Fang Yu to act so swiftly and find this place so quickly!

Fear rose from Ding Ran’s heart, instantly filling her entire body.

She felt ice-cold throughout, her legs weakening.

At this moment, Fang Yu turned his head to look at Ding Ran.

Meeting Fang Yu’s cold gaze, she trembled all over.

“F-Fang Yu…” Ding Ran spoke with a trembling voice.

Fang Yu remained silent, just staring at Ding Ran with indifferent eyes.

Ding Ran felt the surrounding temperature drop several degrees.

An invisible force pressed down on her shoulders.

“Thud!”

Ding Ran’s legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground.

“Fang Yu… I, I…” Ding Ran tried to speak but couldn’t get the words out.

Her hatred for Fang Yu had now been completely overwhelmed by fear.

“You shouldn’t have done this,” Fang Yu said with slightly furrowed brows.

“I, I didn’t want to… It was, it was Zhou Cheng who forced me to do it! He saw Yu Yueyue in the lobby earlier and thought she was beautiful, then he made me figure out how to knock her out and bring her to the room. I couldn’t refuse his demands, otherwise… he would beat me! Fang Yu, believe me, I truly had no ill intentions toward Yu Yueyue…” Ding Ran suddenly thought of an excuse and began speaking more fluently.

Fang Yu silently watched her without saying anything.

But hearing these words, Zhou Cheng, who had been crying out in pain, raised his head.

At this moment, Zhou Cheng’s face was deathly pale, his eyes bloodshot, with snot and tears covering his face, looking absolutely miserable.

He glared at Ding Ran with his blood-red eyes and howled, “You bitch, what are you saying!? What are you saying!?”

Zhou Cheng howled while struggling to stand up, trying to lunge at Ding Ran.

But as soon as he moved, his wound sent a wave of excruciating pain through him, and he immediately fell back to the ground, wailing in agony.

Seeing Zhou Cheng in such a miserable state, a hint of mockery flashed in Ding Ran’s eyes, and she felt more confident.

Fang Yu’s hesitation to act clearly meant he was giving her a chance to explain.

In his current state, Zhou Cheng couldn’t refute anything she said.

In other words, she just needed to push all the blame onto Zhou Cheng.

“Fang Yu, you must believe me, I was really forced into this. You should know that I would never do something like this…” Ding Ran pleaded with reddened eyes, on the verge of tears.

Fang Yu looked at Ding Ran, his expression still unchanged.

“Fang Yu, Zhou Cheng is a beast. After I married into the Zhou family, I’ve been treated inhumanely every day… He and his family never treated me as a human being. If I didn’t do exactly as he wanted, he would hit me, and I had no way to fight back, I could only endure silently…” Ding Ran continued to sob.

Most of what she said was actually made up. While her status in the Zhou family was indeed low, it was only in terms of having no say in matters.

After being forced to marry into the Zhou family, she had wanted to maximize her value by entering the family’s core business.

If she could gain enough influence and benefits, then the marriage would be acceptable, essentially exchanging her body for money.

However, Zhou Cheng and his family wouldn’t give her such opportunities, they wouldn’t even let her work in the Zhou corporation!

This was the root of Ding Ran’s hatred.

Without any power or access to the family business, her marriage into the Zhou family was pointless, reducing her to Zhou Cheng’s personal plaything!

Under these circumstances, Ding Ran’s inner hatred gradually fermented, from resenting Zhou Cheng to resenting Fang Yu.

As Ding Ran sobbed, she secretly observed Fang Yu’s reaction.

Fang Yu’s expression hadn’t changed at all.

But to Ding Ran, her words seemed to be working!

As long as she acted well enough and made Zhou Cheng sound even worse, she could shift all responsibility onto him!

She wanted Fang Yu to kill Zhou Cheng!

This way, Fang Yu would essentially be taking revenge for her. Afterward, she could use her status as Zhou Cheng’s wife to legally inherit his shares in the Zhou corporation!

Ding Ran grew more excited as she thought about it, her eyes gleaming.

She glanced at Zhou Cheng, who lay motionless not far away.

Her previously failed plan could now be completed today! And it would be completed even more perfectly!

Using someone else’s knife to kill!

“Fang Yu, do you know how terrifying Zhou Cheng is? Earlier, he just saw Yu Yueyue in the lobby and said he would definitely… tonight… He said after he was done, he would bring his brothers to… and then throw Yu Yueyue into the sea… When I tried to stop him, he slapped me…” Ding Ran continued fabricating her story.

“If you were slapped, why isn’t there any mark on your face?” Fang Yu suddenly asked.

Ding Ran’s expression changed as she raised her face, pointing to her left cheek, saying, “He hit me right here.”

“Not even a red mark? Your skin must be quite thick,” Fang Yu said, raising an eyebrow.

“I, I don’t know why there’s no mark, maybe because this face has been slapped too many times…” Ding Ran said with a miserable expression.

Fang Yu looked at Ding Ran and shook his head.

Ding Ran’s heart sank, and she quickly said, “Fang Yu, I was really forced into this, I just told you…”

“Boss!”

At this moment, Li Bingyan and Fat Liu ran up and entered the room.

Seeing the situation in the room, their expressions changed.

When Li Bingyan and Fat Liu saw Ding Ran sitting on the ground, they looked even more surprised.

They had eaten with Ding Ran before and naturally recognized her.

“Counselor Ding!? Why are you here?” Li Bingyan stepped forward and asked.

Fang Yu glanced at Li Bingyan and said, “She’s the one who took Yu Yueyue.”

Only then did Li Bingyan and Fat Liu notice Yu Yueyue lying on the bed.

Then, they noticed Zhou Cheng lying in a pool of blood, without clothes.

At this point, even a fool could guess what had happened.

However, Li Bingyan and Fat Liu couldn’t understand why Ding Ran would do such a thing.

They weren’t close to Ding Ran, having only shared one meal, but they had found her gentle, and with her beautiful face, it was hard to feel negatively about her.

“Boss, this…” Li Bingyan looked at Fang Yu.

When Ding Ran saw Li Bingyan and Fat Liu, her eyes lit up.

With these two present, Fang Yu surely wouldn’t do anything to her.

“I’ve already explained to Fang Yu, I was forced by that man,” Ding Ran said. “After bringing Yu Yueyue back to the room, I kept trying to stop Zhou Cheng from going further, stalling until Fang Yu arrived… otherwise, Yueyue would probably have already been…”

“So that’s what happened! I knew…” Li Bingyan said with sudden understanding.

At this point, Fang Yu spoke up: “She’s lying.”

Li Bingyan and Fat Liu were stunned.

Ding Ran’s face changed dramatically.

“Fang Yu, what will it take for you to believe what I’m saying? You know I wouldn’t do such things, I’m not that kind of person…” Ding Ran cried.

“Your ability to lie is impressive. But unfortunately, I’ve been watching you since you put Yueyue on the bed,” Fang Yu said calmly.

Ding Ran’s face instantly turned deathly pale!

Fang Yu stopped speaking and walked forward.

Ding Ran screamed in fear, trying to back away.

Fang Yu reached out and touched her forehead with his finger.

A white light flickered from his fingertip, and Ding Ran’s movements immediately stopped, her eyes becoming vacant.

“Tell us what you did to Yu Yueyue, and your true thoughts,” Fang Yu said.

“Alright,” Ding Ran agreed mechanically, and then began to reveal her inner plans.

“Yu Yueyue delivered herself right to us… so I suggested that Zhou Cheng should… and then throw her into the sea, where no one would find her, this way I could successfully get my revenge…”

“I wanted to use this opportunity to borrow someone else’s knife for murder, to get Zhou Cheng killed, and then take over his… I wanted to gain control in the Zhou family…”

Ding Ran mechanically stated her inner thoughts, while Li Bingyan and Fat Liu listened with cold sweat forming on their foreheads.

They hadn’t imagined that Ding Ran’s inner world could be so twisted and dark.

If what she said was all true, then she was truly a venomous beauty in every sense of the word!