Li Yuqin frantically waved her hands from below the table, signaling, Drink it. At worst, you’ll only fall asleep.
Meng Liangcai also nodded. With family members watching over her, nothing could possibly go wrong.
Although Meng Yao had not drunk the bowl of drugged chicken soup, she had eaten the chicken wing soaked in it. There was no way she could escape the drug’s effects.
To make absolutely certain that the plan succeeded, Li Yuqin had added an extremely heavy dose.
Even if Meng Yao woke up halfway through, the deed would already have been done.
After finishing the chicken soup, Meng Yao knew she would definitely be affected, so she returned to her room early.
She pushed open the side window, looked toward Aunt Zhang’s courtyard next door, and whistled.
A head immediately popped out from the courtyard and made an “OK” gesture at her.
Meanwhile, because the drug was so powerful, Meng Ying began to feel dizzy and groggy. Supporting herself against the wall, she struggled back to her room.
Before she could think clearly, she felt her way through the darkness, collapsed beside the bed, and fell asleep.
Li Yuqin was considerate enough to arrange everything properly before taking the children back to her room.
At that moment, Meng Liangcai crouched in the courtyard, smoking an expensive cigarette and glancing around anxiously.
Under the full moon at midnight, a staggering figure felt his way into a room on the second floor of the Meng residence.
A moment later, a heavy, muffled thud sounded.
“Mm… Hot. It’s so hot…”
Meng Yao kept pressing herself against the cold body beneath her, murmuring helplessly.
The man pinned beneath her endured his physical discomfort and tried to push her away.
Unfortunately, Meng Yao’s reason had been completely overwhelmed by the drug, and her strength was astonishing.
She kept tugging at the man’s clothes, trying to press herself against that enormous block of ice to ease the unbearable heat in her body.
The intense stimulation made the man restless, and his restraint soon reached its limit. In a strained, hoarse voice, he warned, “You’d better not regret this.”
Meng Yao had already lost all control of herself. Unconsciously, she replied, “I… I won’t regret it.”
The man immediately turned over, pinned Meng Yao beneath him, and removed their clothes.
The room instantly became filled with fiery passion and intimate murmurs.
Early the next morning, a piercing scream shattered the morning calm.
“Ahhh!”
Meng Liangcai, who had been waiting downstairs for a long time, excitedly rushed up to the second floor with Ma Lijuan and several neighbors whom he had specially invited to catch the adulterous couple.
With absolute confidence, they slammed open Meng Yao’s bedroom door.
“You shameless couple! How dare you steal your younger sister’s man—!”
Li Yuqin abruptly swallowed the final word.
The room was completely empty.
Where were they?
While everyone stood there in confusion, a sharp female voice suddenly came from the room next door.
“Help!”
“You filthy hooligan! Get out!”
Ma Lijuan was the first to realize that something was wrong. She pointed toward the other room.
“No, they’re over there!”
A terrible premonition immediately rose in the couple’s hearts.
Their hearts sank.
Oh no. It couldn’t be…
By the time they thought of stopping everyone, Ma Lijuan and the others had already rushed into Meng Ying’s room.
The instant the door was forced open, the scene inside shocked everyone.
Meng Ying’s clothes were disheveled and her hair was messy. She sat on the bed, clutching the blanket and crying bitterly. Embarrassing marks covered her body.
Qi Yunhai had just received a slap from her. Holding his swollen red cheek, he angrily stared at the people who had suddenly barged into the room.
“What is this supposed to be?
“Don’t tell me you’re trying to frame me and extort money.”
Ma Lijuan and the other women covered their eyes and scolded him indignantly.
“What kind of thing is that for a young man to say?
“You ruined someone’s daughter’s reputation because you couldn’t control yourself, yet you’re still acting so righteous.”
“Exactly. The two of you haven’t even married, but you already slept together. It would be disgraceful if word got out.”
“You should have at least waited until she officially married into your family. You were far too impatient. Aren’t you embarrassed?”
Everyone criticized them one after another, leaving Meng Liangcai and Li Yuqin unable to raise their heads.
Every woman present was notoriously talkative and loved spreading gossip.
The couple had deliberately invited them over to catch Meng Yao in the act.
Who would have expected something to go wrong halfway through and for the person caught in bed to become Meng Ying instead?
Although the couple was furious, they still understood what mattered most.
Meng Liangcai hurriedly tried to send the nosy women away.
“This is our family matter, so it would be inconvenient for you to stay. Please leave.”
The scene was indeed too embarrassing for them to remain any longer.
Before leaving, Ma Lijuan deliberately walked over to Li Yuqin and kindly advised her.
“Sister Li, since the deed has already been done, you should arrange the children’s marriage as soon as possible.
“This isn’t exactly something honorable. The sooner you resolve it, the better it will be for both of them.”
Soon, only the three members of the Meng family and Qi Yunhai, who was unhurriedly putting on his clothes, remained in the room.
Seeing that Meng Ying had been taken advantage of, Li Yuqin’s eyes reddened with anxiety.
“What happened? Why was he in your room?”
Meng Ying roared in despair, “How would I know? Ask him!”
Meng Liangcai approached Qi Yunhai and politely asked with a frown, “Did you accidentally enter the wrong room last night?”
After all, he had been the one to invite Qi Yunhai over. Now that it had already happened, it would be inappropriate to blame him.
Besides, the Meng family still needed the Qi family’s help to improve their situation.
Without concealing the disgust in his eyes, Qi Yunhai walked to the doorway, looked around, and replied disdainfully, “I didn’t get it wrong. Didn’t you say it was the room on the left side of the second floor?”
The second floor…
The left side…
Li Yuqin was stunned. She turned and shouted at Meng Liangcai, “You told him that?”
Meng Liangcai defended himself immediately. “How could that be possible?”
He could swear to heaven that no matter how despicable he was, he would never set up his own biological daughter.
The letter he had asked someone to deliver clearly said, “Come to the Meng residence at eight tonight so we can become better acquainted.”
Moreover, when Qi Yunhai arrived the previous night, he reeked of alcohol. Worried that something might go wrong, Meng Liangcai had personally taken him to the door of Meng Yao’s room before leaving.
Who could have known why he later entered Meng Ying’s room instead?
Qi Yunhai became furious after listening to them.
“Didn’t you send someone to deliver two letters to me one after another yesterday?”
They had warmly invited him to come over as a guest. He had come, and they had already slept together, so why were they now acting as though they wanted to deny everything?
Besides, wasn’t Meng Ying the one the Qi family had originally discussed marrying?
It did not seem as though he had slept with the wrong woman at all.
A strange silence filled the room. Even the sound of a needle falling could have broken the stillness.
Qi Yunhai irritably ran a hand through his hair.
He hated arguing over matters that had already been decided.
“We’ve already slept together, and we were going to get married sooner or later anyway. At worst, I’ll ask my parents to come over earlier to discuss the wedding.”
“No! I won’t marry you!”
Meng Ying cried as she shoved Qi Yunhai.
“Get out!”
Suppressing his anger, Qi Yunhai demanded, “Wasn’t your family the one desperately trying to marry you off to me?
“Now you’re acting as though I forced you. Who are you trying to gain sympathy from?
“No matter how you calculate it, I’m the one suffering the greater loss in this arrangement!”
How dare a ruined woman like her be picky about him?
Had it not been for his physical condition, what respectable family would ever be interested in someone with Meng Ying’s circumstances?
He swept a vicious gaze over the three of them and spat heavily on the floor.
“Bah! What terrible luck.”
She could marry him or refuse. It was not as though the Qi family was desperate for this marriage.
Everyone knew which family was truly anxious.
With that, he turned around and left the Meng residence.
Meanwhile, inside a hotel room, Meng Yao abruptly opened her eyes.
She stretched her body and discovered that she was aching all over.
What had happened?
She had experienced an erotic dream last night.
Could it have been real?
Covering her burning face, she struggled to recall everything that had happened.
Not long after returning to her room, she had started feeling dizzy. To prevent herself from completely losing consciousness, she had grabbed the scissors from the table and stabbed herself hard in the thigh.
Then, she pushed open the window and jumped from the second floor without hesitation.
Had she not experienced the misery of her previous life, she never would have had the courage to jump despite her trembling legs.
Although she now possessed impressive fighting ability, she had not yet fully adapted to this body.
Fortunately, she had only scraped her skin and suffered some bruising.
Meng Yao had stumbled toward the hotel.
She only remembered reaching the hotel and using her final shred of consciousness to embrace a large block of ice before entering the room.
She could not remember anything that happened afterward.
She had originally assumed that the drug had been so powerful that it caused her to have an erotic dream.
However, as she stared at the messy bedsheets, she fell into confusion.
The man in her dream had clearly defined abdominal muscles and long, powerful legs. The sight of him had been utterly captivating.
Yet she could not remember his facial features at all.
Who exactly was he?