Extreme Pampering-Chapter 75 - The Truth About That Night at Nanyuan
Chapter 75: Chapter 75 The Truth About That Night at Nanyuan.
Chapter 75: Chapter 75 The Truth About That Night at Nanyuan.
“You said Pei Yu met with Huo Heng?”
Shen Zhiyi’s turn was so abrupt that she nearly knocked over the chair, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
Xiaodong looked distressed, “It was Huo Heng’s proposal, and Chairman Pei agreed. I wanted to tell you, but you were filming at that time, and then I forgot about it.”
She scratched her head, “Nothing should have happened, right? They just talked for a bit.”
Shen Zhiyi sat back down in her chair, considering texting Pei Yu to ask about the situation, but then she hesitated.
Pei Yu hadn’t mentioned this to her, and there was no indication of anything unusual yesterday, but knowing Huo Heng as she did, she couldn’t imagine him saying anything good.
Xiaodong felt it was not a big deal, “Huo Heng clearly knows Chairman Pei’s identity, ah. He wouldn’t dare say anything, he doesn’t have the guts.”
She suggested, “Why don’t you ask Huo Heng?”
Shen Zhiyi shook her head, “He might not tell me the truth.”
After thinking for a while, she decided to ask Pei Yu in person, taking advantage of the lunch break on set, and had Xiaodong take her out.
Xiaodong glanced at the GPS, “Minghua? This name sounds familiar, there was a racing event there recently, someone almost died.”
The address was something Shen Zhiyi had overheard last night, Pei Yu never avoided her when making calls, and she heard him say he would go to Minghua this afternoon, so she planned to go there directly to find him.
“Racing?”
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Shen Zhiyi was unfamiliar with Minghua, having thought it was just a regular club. She had not expected it to be connected to racing.
“Yeah, but it seems there are other things too, I’ve only heard it from others.”
At that moment, a racing event was indeed taking place at Minghua.
The sound of racing engines drowned out the noise of someone being dragged on the ground and their desperate pleas for mercy, until a “bang”—the door shut.
Hands released, Xun Zhouxing lay limp on the ground, lifting a face too gruesome to behold, “Chairman… Chairman Pei…”
The elegantly decorated private room was exclusive to Minghua’s VIPs. Belonging to the Pei family for generations, Pei Yu prepared a cup of tea leisurely, the curling steam veiling his features, his voice cold and indifferent, “Do you know why I summoned you?”
Xun Zhouxing had been tracked down from abroad. He had spent nearly a month hiding, only to be found, but he hadn’t expected his pursuer to be Pei Yu. He racked his brain but couldn’t understand why he was targeted.
Half his face was swollen, his speech was muffled and fearful, “I..I don’t know, Chairman Pei, I don’t know anything. Did my father do something inappropriate in business?”
As a second-generation heir who only dabbled in commercial films, he couldn’t think of any reason powerful enough to warrant such a response from Pei Yu, leading him to suspect that he might have been implicated by his father.
Pei Yu stood up and walked over to him, looking down at the wretched coward who had been scared out of his wits. It was such a weakling who dared to do something so audacious.
He slightly curved his lips upwards, his gaze mocking, as he ground the tip of his shoe into Xun Zhouxing’s palm on the ground, lit a cigarette, and said indifferently, “Don’t you know why you fled abroad?”
No sooner had the clues led to him than he had escaped from the hospital to a foreign country, leaving no stone unturned. Bringing him back had indeed been a lot of trouble.
With his palm being stepped on, the pain was excruciating, but Xun Zhouxing didn’t dare make a sound; instead, he desperately tried to guess the other person’s intentions.
Initially, his urgency to leave the country was because he found out someone was investigating the drugging incident involving Shen Zhiyi at Nanyuan. Not knowing who it was and why they were looking into it, but after being warned by Song Ran, he learned that Shen Zhiyi seemed to truly have backed up by someone wealthy and powerful. Maybe the person investigating this was doing it to defend Shen Zhiyi’s honor. Xun Zhouxing, having had two ribs broken by his own father, knew he held no weight at home. If things went south, his family might not protect him, so for safety, he decided to flee abroad to avoid the storm.
Nearly a month had passed in hiding while he nursed his injuries and indulged in eating, drinking, and merry-making, almost forgetting the incident when he was suddenly forcibly brought back.
His dazed mind finally started to function, and Xun Zhouxing squeezed out a whimper from his throat, incredulous, “Is it, is it for Shen Zhiyi?”
The powerful figure Shen Zhiyi found was Pei Yu?!
He instantly recalled his own misdeeds.
That night, Xun Zhouxing attended a banquet on behalf of a friend and saw Huo Heng’s manager call Shen Zhiyi to come to Nanyuan to block drinks for Huo Heng. Having pursued Shen Zhiyi for a long time without success, a wicked idea suddenly occurred to him, and he immediately bribed a waiter to secretly spike Huo Heng’s drink behind everyone’s back.
It was an impulsive act, and the plan was not thoroughly devised. Xun Zhouxing thought that if Huo Heng drank that spiked drink, he could use the moment to record Huo Heng’s disgraceful behavior and blackmail Shen Zhiyi. Shen Zhiyi cared so much for Huo Heng that she might just surrender herself to him.
If Shen Zhiyi drank that drink… Xun Zhouxing had the waiter prepare a rest room with an unlocked door earlier. At the start of the banquet, no one was drunk or anything, and the restrooms were empty and locked. Shen Zhiyi would have no choice but to enter the only open rest room, and all he needed to do was follow her in afterward.
But things didn’t go as smoothly as expected. Xun Zhouxing got held up and couldn’t follow Shen Zhiyi immediately after she drank the alcohol. By the time he managed to excuse himself to search for her in the rest room, the room was empty.
He thought the plan had failed, assuming Shen Zhiyi might have called someone to take her away and had thus dismissed the whole thing from his mind, until he found out that someone was investigating the incident, which made him start to feel guilty.
“I was momentarily blinded by folly,” Xun Zhouxing regretted so much that it physically hurt. He wasn’t afraid of Shen Zhiyi investigating; even if she discovered it, she couldn’t do much about it, but now it was Pei Yu investigating him. He had never thought he would offend someone of his stature, “I really was just muddled at that time. I haven’t done anything to hurt Shen Zhiyi since then, I was just too impulsive…”
The rest of the words were choked in his throat as Pei Yu grabbed his hair at the back of his skull and violently smashed his head to the ground until his head was bloody, then he slowly began to speak, his eyes fierce, “Think carefully before you speak.”
The car race at Minghua’s racetrack was nearing its end. The last time Shen Zhiyi was here, it was Qin Fang who had passed a message to the manager and also handed her a pass so she could come and go freely.
Minghua during the daytime wasn’t as noisy as at night. Shen Zhiyi pressed the elevator button and went upstairs. The VIP room was easy to find, as the door had a plate marked with the surname.
Before she even got close, she could hear the chillingly sharp howls of a man from inside.
Her steps faltered, Shen Zhiyi paused, standing at the door hesitating, while the howls inside grew louder and clearer.
Her heart racing, she hesitated for a moment, then looked inside through the narrow view of the peephole.
