The night in the city, brightly lit, with a constant stream of vehicles and bustling crowds, was exceptionally lively.
But who would know that a corner of the city also harbored a darker side, and a conspiracy was brewing there.
In a damp and dark basement, a small figure curled up.
The sound of high heels, "Click, click, click," getting closer and closer.
"Screech..." the door opened.
A beam of light made its way inside, stirring the small curled figure on the ground.
"Oh, sister, no, Luo Shuhua, you sure are tenacious. Starving for three days and still not dead yet?"
Upon hearing this familiar voice, the little figure on the ground strained to turn around. It was her own sister, or more precisely the daughter that her parents had adopted, Luo Jiayu.
Was her sister coming to rescue her? But the tone in which she spoke earlier seemed off. Why?
She tried to speak, but her mouth was taped shut. After three days without so much as a drop of water, her mouth was parched, and she couldn't make a noise.
"Sister, you have such a strong will to live, you just won't die easily, tsk tsk tsk... Would you like to know why? Well, I could tell you," Luo Jiayu crouched down, and with a "ripping" sound tore off the tape from Luo Shuhua's mouth.
Luo Shuhua winced in pain.
"I've been calling you my sister for years, and it's sickened me for just as long. Luo Shuhua, why did Mom and Dad have to give birth to you? If not for you, all of the Luo's would be mine!" Luo Jiayu spoke with a grimace and somewhat in a mutter to herself.
Luo Shuhua did not respond, just quietly watched this so-called sister. Her parents treated her as their own, and she herself would share all her thoughts with her. She never thought this sister could be so greedy!
"You didn't think about that, did you? Even though you were driven out of the Luo family, grandpa left a will before his death, offering you 20% of shares from Luo's assets when you turn twenty-five."
"Luo Shuhua, if you were to die, wouldn't all these shares be mine? Don't you agree? Hahaha..." Luo Jiayu's laugher had an eerie tone.
Luo Shuhua found Luo Jiayu to have lost her sanity. With a hoarse voice, she said, "Do you dare?"
"Heh, why wouldn't I? Luo Shuhua, if anyone’s to blame, it's your long-live grandpa who, even after death, managed to create such a mess. Fortunately, I got wind of this matter before our parents did." Luo Jiayu revealed in a triumphant tone.
Luo Shuhua shut her eyes, her heart bandaged in pain. She had never anticipated her grandpa leaving such a will.
Since she was expelled from Luo family, she barely had any returns. But she had to go back to the Luo home upon hearing about her grandfather's death two days ago.
Indifferent to Luo Shuhua’s pain, Luo Jiayu continued, "Luo Shuhua, I've always indulged you since childhood, always gave you the best of everything. I wanted to mold you into a reckless, pompous, and arrogant lady!
And not bad, you’ve pretty much lived up to these tags. Only, you turned out to be too smart.
You have not even graduated from college yet, but your performance at Luo’s Corporation as a part-timer outweighed my work of two years. How do you expect me to tolerate that?
Do you still remember the Luo Corporation's price-leak incident? You were so wronged back then, right? I should tell you, it was me who revealed everything to the Mo family."
How could Luo Shuhua forget? Not only was she wronged, but her family didn’t believe her either. This incident directly led to her expulsion from the Luo family.
She had no choice. The demise of Grandma Luo had a direct connection with the Mo family, and Luo’s and Mo’s were literally neck-to-neck rivalry.
"Luo Jiayu!" Luo Shuhua gnashed her teeth in anger.
"Don't glower at me like that. And your good friend, Xu Kemin, she died cruelly, tsk tsk." Luo Jiayu made a remark with some disdain.
"What did you say?" Luo Shuhua decoded her words with disbelief.
"Yes, that day in the hospital, she dared to point fingers at me. Claiming she had evidence that I framed you, leading to your departure from the Luo family. I mean what’s the point in keeping someone like that around?
"Anyway, Xu Kemin's disease was incurable. All I did was to relieve her of her suffering."
"When she wanted to hit me back then, her hands were so scratched up, they bled."
"Then I had a brainwave, remembering the bracelet you loved that I casually took. I deliberately broke it and left it on Xu Kemin's sickbed, then called you to the hospital."
"Then I called over Mu Yichen. Good, he now believes that Xu Kemin's death is directly related to you."
"After that, I purposely told Mu Yichen in front of you that you liked him and were jealous of Xu Kemin. Believe it or not, he actually did."
"But what I didn't expect was him proposing marriage to you."
"How's your two-year marriage going? Were you happy? Studying and working part-time at school must be tough, huh?"
"Mu Yichen has really played an unexpected hand. I thought he would kill you for Xu Kemin, but instead, he married you in secret. He really intends to torture you for a lifetime!"
"Luo Shuhua, you must be exhausted. Go join your grandfather and best friend."
"The Luo family, and Mu Yichen, will both be mine!"
"No, why are you so cruel?" Luo Shuhua angrily replied. Had she not heard it with her own ears, she would not have believed a sister could be so malicious.
"Luo Shuhua, what do you mean by cruelty? Am I not helping you? Your life must be so tiring. In your next life, be born in a good family. Hahaha," Luo Jiayu, ignoring Luo Shuhua's anger, clapped her hands, and two burly men came in.
"Hurry up, take her to the car. The person and the car are now both yours. Here, this is fifty thousand yuan, consider it as if we've never met," Luo Jiayu said.
"Deal, don't worry," the two men responded with lecherous smiles.
Luo Shuhua, terrified, looked at the two men approaching her. She wanted to scream, but her mouth was covered again. She didn't understand Luo Jiayu's intentions. Didn’t she just say she wanted her to join her grandfather; wasn’t that equivalent to killing her?
Could it be that she was destined to be violated and then killed? The thought alone was terrifying.
However, at this moment, she was physically drained. She hadn’t eaten for three days, and she had no strength left to resist. One of the brutes carried her out of the basement.
The rain was pouring outside. To her surprise, she saw her own QQ car parked in the open. The two men roughly shoved her into the car and took off.
One of the men was driving while the other kept a watchful eye on her, causing her to tremble in fear.
The two brutes conversed joyously using crude vulgar language. Suddenly, the one driving said, "The brakes on this damn car are failing…”
Before he could even finish his sentence, both men and the car plunged off a cliff, followed by a thunderous explosion.
That day, the news reported that the disgraced heiress of the Luo family, Luo Shuhua, had lived a debauched life, died tragically in a car accident while fooling around with two sturdy men.
All kinds of disgraceful labels were inexplicably attached to Luo Shuhua.
Luo Shuhua felt that she would never rest in peace even in death! Perhaps due to this, her soul had nowhere to rest and continued to waft aimlessly.