Gu Yilong: "I thought your specialty was stealing, but I didn't expect your specialty to be knowing you're in the wrong and still defending yourself..."
Michelle: "I don't know what you're talking about..."
Gu Yilong: "Pay the insurance compensation, and I'll pretend I know nothing."
Michelle: "I told you it wasn't me who stole it!"
Gu Yilong pulled out a pile of photos from his pocket and slapped them onto Michelle's body.
He was truly angry...
Michelle picked up the photos. They were pictures of her "cleaners" on a mission, and even the van with the pest control advertisement was captured...
Michelle: "With just these, you want to frame me?"
Gu Yilong smiled, staring intensely at Michelle. She had learned to be shameless.
Gu Yilong: "That van is still parked in your backyard. Shall I take you to see it now?"
Michelle finally realized Gu Yilong had come prepared, and every piece of his preparation felt like a step onto the edge of death.
Michelle: "You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
Gu Yilong: "Because I couldn't bear to see you kneel and beg me. Do you remember what you said to me?"
Gu Yilong: "You asked me if I would beg, even on my knees, for a chance at life for the woman I loved most if she was about to die before my eyes..."
Gu Yilong: "The woman I loved most, kneeling before me, begging me for a way out for the one she loved..."
Michelle bit her lip tightly. She didn't even realize she had clenched it so hard that her beautiful, thin lips were tinged with blood...
Gu Yilong lifted Michelle's chin, forcing her to look at him.
Gu Yilong: "Open your mouth."
Michelle: "..."
Gu Yilong forcefully pried Michelle's mouth open. He didn't understand why there were tears in her eyes again.
But he couldn't overcome this woman. She refused to speak, and she would rather die than admit she was that woman.
Gu Yilong grabbed her by the neck and lifted her.
Gu Yilong: "You really can steal! You stole someone else's identity and lied to me for so long. I thought you were dead, and I almost fell in love with you because you were like her! Are you going to live with a stolen identity forever? Ji Wan!!!"
Michelle's struggling hands suddenly stopped. She never imagined Gu Yilong had discovered her secret of being Ji Wan!!!
With a crash, the door to the lounge was kicked open. Axe saw Michelle with her neck in a chokehold and, drawing his bodyguard's pistol, was about to fire.
Bang!!!
Close call. Gu Yilong's secretary, Ivan, acted swiftly, giving a forceful push. The shot went wide, but the entire floor-to-ceiling window was covered in a dense spiderweb of cracks. The bullet was embedded in the bulletproof glass.
Gu Yilong released his grip. Michelle collapsed onto the sofa. She took a few breaths and looked up at Gu Yilong.
Axe: "Are you alright?"
Michelle smiled at Axe and shook her head.
Michelle tightly gripped Axe's hand, suppressing his anger. She knew Axe would be furious seeing her bullied, but she was now more afraid that Gu Yilong would tell Axe the truth.
Michelle: "Mr. Gu, as agreed, the insurance compensation will be credited tomorrow. Don't worry, we are people who keep our promises."
Gu Yilong looked at Michelle, then at Axe, whom he hadn't seen in a long time. But this time, he didn't even want to exchange pleasantries.
Whether it was Ji Wan or the current Michelle, they had both chosen men more capable than himself. That hadn't changed at all.
Only after Gu Yilong's men were escorted out could Michelle finally breathe a sigh of relief, but Axe became even more confused.
Axe: "You agreed?"
Michelle: "Wasn't this tacitly approved by you?"
Axe: "..."
Seeing Axe's silence, Michelle became even more certain that the outrageously unequal insurance policy had been authorized by Axe, otherwise, his subordinates wouldn't have been able to sign it.
Axe: "I was trying to protect you. Your decision to steal an artificial heart was a mistake from the start..."
Michelle: "My mistake? Wasn't it to save you!"
Axe: "Michelle..."
Michelle shook off Axe's hand. She was already fed up. She couldn't believe that after so long, Axe still didn't understand! Did she have to watch him die?!
Michelle: "We paid to avert disaster, are you satisfied?"
But no matter how Axe called Michelle's name, she refused to turn and look back. She left the room angrily.