Chapter 1868 - 1886: Ding Meichen (Part 8)
"You rest a bit more, I’ve got something to do and need to head out first." Xie Yibin comfortingly patted Ding Meichen’s back, then left the room.
Ding Meichen sat on the bed with her hair disheveled, her hands clawing at the blanket fiercely, her gentle face twisting into a grimace.
"Shen Zian, it’s been twenty years, and you still won’t stay buried. I’ve already sent your favorite nephew Shen Yu down to accompany you, and last year I sent your most prized disciple, Huo Dongfeng, down as well. How can you be so insatiable?"
That’s right! Shen Yu may not have died at her hands, but he was led astray by her deliberate misguidance from a young age. Before Shen Zian’s death, Shen Yu was undoubtedly a five-good youth—obedient, docile, sensible, and upright. In terms of both breadth of mind and demeanor, he was top-notch.
Shen Yu idolized Shen Zian and never showed a good face to Ding Meichen, venomously speaking ill of her before Shen Zian even at a young age.
Ding Meichen’s eyes grew cold. "Fine! Since you’re so greedy, don’t blame me. Next time, I’ll send your best friend Ji Yuanjie down as well. One by one, what a bunch of troublemakers!"
Ding Meichen quickly washed up and then changed clothes to go out. This time, she didn’t wear any of her usual favorite dresses or relatively more feminine clothing. Instead, she wore old clothes she never wore, looking quite shabby and dusty.
After leaving, she first went to a clothing store. When she came out of the store, she was in another outfit, wearing a hat, a mask, head lowered with only her eyes exposed. Ding Meichen twisted through the city, finally arriving at a shut-down state-run paper mill.
The paper mill was desolate, rarely visited by anyone. Ding Meichen entered the factory manager’s office, opened the door, and inside was Ji Wan who had long been awaiting anxiously, rising quickly from her seat.
"Meichen sister." Ji Wan nervously rubbed her hands.
"What’s wrong?" Ding Meichen didn’t bother to take off her hat, walked in with authority to the boss chair behind the factory manager’s desk, gesturing for Ji Wan to sit down instead of standing, as it was giving her a headache. "Why have you nervously called me here, what is the matter?"
After asking, Ding Meichen suddenly sat up straight, her posture perfectly stiff. "Don’t tell me something’s gone wrong? Or did you guys cause some trouble?"
"Pocky went to deal with Huo Beijiang, and ended up dying in a car collision," Ji Wan’s face turned pale, having been with Ding Meichen for quite some time, she deeply understood her ruthlessness.
"You said Pocky went to deal with Huo Beijiang?" Ding Meichen asked sinisterly. "Who instructed him to go? Was it me? I recall never giving such an order." The reason she could keep laughing until now was due to cautiousness and prudence.
She meticulously remembered who could be moved against and who couldn’t, never daring to be careless. Since Huo Beijiang returned to the Imperial City, she had been observing him secretly and closely evaluating his character weaknesses.
The more she observed, the more she found Huo Beijiang’s personality completely different from the Huo family and his deceased cousin. His cruelty and detailed deliberation was no less than Su Hai’s. Especially after the clash between Huo Beijiang and Leng Peixi resulted in Leng Peixi’s disastrous defeat, she added Huo Beijiang to her blacklist of people better not to encounter, let alone proactively oppose.
Was she insane? She had no grudges with Huo Beijiang, so why provoke such a person?