Ignoring Liu Zihua, Fu Wenwen approached the four men who had captured her. Their bodies were wrapped in vines, leaving only their heads exposed.
"You've already seen my methods, do I need to demonstrate again?" Fu Wenwen smiled at them. The four men, their faces pale, shook their heads desperately.
"What do you want to know? We're just hired muscle, we don't know much," said the leader of the group, glancing at Fu Wenwen.
This time, their five brothers had indeed fallen into a gutter, going up against someone they shouldn't have.
Their second brother had already had his throat slit by her, utterly cold.
How could they have thought she was a soft target, someone they could easily manhandle, when she could act so ruthlessly?
"How many of the things he said are true?" Fu Wenwen pointed at Liu Zihua, who was still screaming in agony, and asked the man.
"Everything except one statement is true," the man said. Seeing the confident, cold smile in Fu Wenwen's eyes, a chill ran down his spine.
She had known all along that Liu Zihua was lying, yet she had deliberately not exposed him.
"It's not the Ling family, it's... the Wei family," the man said slowly.
"Why?" Fu Wenwen asked curiously.
"...Once the Ling family is brought down, the Wei family can swallow everything the Ling family possesses and replace them," the man lowered his head, hiding the emotions in his eyes.
"He always thought he was meeting with someone from the Ling family."
Fu Wenwen glanced at Liu Zihua, whose voice was gradually growing hoarse. "As expected, these two were just pawns from beginning to end."
"Su Xiaoxiao is the mastermind," Fu Wenwen said, glancing at the man and revealing what he had hidden. "Isn't that right?"
The man looked up at Fu Wenwen in terror, as if asking how she knew.
"Su Xiaoxiao was the one who got him out, wasn't she!" Fu Wenwen stated calmly.
"His words had too many loopholes. To deal with me and Lu Chengsen, he specifically found Liu Zihua?"
"Don't say he's nothing in Lu Chengsen's eyes, even in my eyes, he's nothing."
"Using him to attack us is simply laughable."
"The only one obsessed with Liu Zihua is Su Xiaoxiao. She went to great lengths to get Liu Zihua out just so he could come out in grand style, letting everyone know she married Liu Zihua, right?"
Every word Fu Wenwen spoke struck a chord with the man.
The man looked at Fu Wenwen with disbelief.
"Since you know everything, why are you still interrogating us?" the man asked, feeling defeated.
"Well... just to confirm," Fu Wenwen smiled. She was merely guessing based on his expressions.
Indeed, her intuition was correct.
Everything Liu Zihua said was too simple.
So simple... it felt too easy.
She believed that he had said everything just to get revenge on her and Lu Chengsen.
But she also didn't believe it.
"I don't know how she became the family head's woman, but when I met her, she was already the family head's mistress kept outside. The family head entrusted us five brothers to her and ordered us to obey her commands," the man said slowly.
"She told us to find people to impersonate members of the Ling family and rescue Liu Zihua. Liu Zihua didn't suspect anything."
"Why did you kidnap me today?" Fu Wenwen raised an eyebrow.
"She feared you would ruin her plans, so she ordered us to get rid of you," the man said truthfully, looking at Fu Wenwen.
Fu Wenwen remembered Su Xiaoxiao's smug and confident smile when she last saw her.
Now she understood why Su Xiaoxiao hadn't panicked at all at that moment.
It was because she had already ordered these people to silence her, ensuring no one would know that Su Xiaoxiao had used someone else's name to attend university.
"After silencing me, frame the Ling family, cause the Lu family and the Ling family to fight, ideally to the point of mutual destruction, and then the Wei family can emerge?" Fu Wenwen guessed.
The man nodded.
She was too sharp; he couldn't hide anything from her.
"What a brilliant scheme!" Fu Wenwen realized she had underestimated Su Xiaoxiao.
Look at her plan, step by step, interlocking.
If she was discovered, she could push Liu Zihua forward, claiming to be an accomplice.
If she wasn't discovered, she could still hide behind Liu Zihua, reaping the benefits and enjoying the wealth and glory the Wei family provided.
She could also appear in public with dignity, elevating Liu Zihua, making everyone believe that Liu Zihua had succeeded.
"Is the matter of framing the Lu family true?" Fu Wenwen recalled the plan Liu Zihua had just mentioned. This didn't seem like a lie.
"..." The man paused.
"Yes." Seeing the coldness in Fu Wenwen's eyes, the man pursed his lips and relented.
"Who did you bribe?" Fu Wenwen asked.
"We captured the grandson of Aunt Wang, who has served the Lu family for many years." The man's words made Fu Wenwen frown.
"What about the child?"
"...He's gone." Not daring to say that their third brother had tortured him to death, the man lowered his head.
Fu Wenwen slowly walked up to the man who had first molested her, not releasing his gag.
"It was you, wasn't it?"
The man's eyes widened in horror. Fu Wenwen knew the answer from his reaction. With a sharp sidekick, the man's head spun seven hundred and twenty degrees.
Even in death, his eyes remained wide with disbelief.
"Third brother." The man cried out in grief and anger as he watched his brother die at Fu Wenwen's hands.
"You never intended to let us go."
Looking at Fu Wenwen, the man said coldly, she had never intended to let any of them go from the very beginning.
"How could you possibly think I would let you go?" Fu Wenwen grinned.
Of course, she wouldn't let these scumbags go.
If she had been the helpless original owner today, would she have lived to see Lu Chengsen?
Clearly not. Moreover, with Su Xiaoxiao's venomous nature, she wouldn't even die a clean death.
From the moment that man saw her, his eyes had never left her, treating her as a possession, waiting for his move.
He must have been the 'surprise' Su Xiaoxiao had arranged for her.
No one would suspect that Su Xiaoxiao had given the order, because this man was already known for his sadism and enjoyment of tormenting people.
"I have only one request, give us a quick death!" After a long silence, the man begged Fu Wenwen.
"Tsk, you people, why do you always bring out my rebellious side?" Fu Wenwen pouted in dissatisfaction.
"I was originally going to give you a quick death, but hearing you say that, I'm no longer willing."
"You acted so cruelly towards that child, you don't deserve to be treated kindly," Fu Wenwen raised her hand, and five small carnivorous plants emerged from the ground.
"One for each of you. I'm being very fair," Fu Wenwen chuckled lightly. Two small carnivorous plants had already bitten onto two corpses.
The remaining three men cried out in pain as the corrosive liquid from the plants touched their skin, immediately burning their legs.
"Ah!" Even the men couldn't help but cry out from the burning pain.
The other two couldn't even make a sound, only writhing frantically, trying to escape the searing pain.