The Cunning CEO's Contract Wife

Chapter 142 We Are Sisters

Lin Ran took several deep breaths to suppress her anger and spoke somewhat urgently.

"What about the things inside?"

"Those things..."

Wang Mei smiled, raised her hand to admire her newly done nails, and slowly began to speak.

"Of course the trash is thrown into the garbage dump, what else would we do with it?"

"But it's definitely not going to be found now. So much time has passed, it's probably already turned to ashes."

Lin Ran was furious, but there was nothing she could do. Looking at Wang Mei's smug face and Ye Minghua's cold expression downstairs, she felt sorry for Lin Qing.

In her entire life, she actually loved such a piece of trash.

Just as Wang Mei was about to say something more provocative, Ye Chuchu walked in through the door.

He paused for a few seconds upon seeing the scene in the room, then approached Ye Chuchu with a delighted expression.

"Sister, what brings you back?"

Hearing her address, Lin Ran was taken aback, a hint of mockery flashing in her eyes.

"Don't call me sister, my mom only has one daughter, me."

Faced with Lin Ran's coldness, Ye Chuchu was not angry. She just smiled at her and leaned closer to speak softly.

"Sister, I know about Jiang Rao. I can help you deal with her, really."

"you?"

Lin Ran chuckled and looked Ye Chuchu up and down.

"Forget it, I don't want to be betrayed."

"I won't believe a single word that comes out of someone like you."

Before Ye Chuchu could get angry, Wang Mei couldn't hold back any longer.

"How dare you, you bitch, insult my Chu Chu?"

Along with the curses came a slap.

Fortunately, Lin Ran reacted quickly, taking several steps back to dodge the attack. Her expression changed, and she gave Wang Mei a cold glance.

"She asked for it."

After a pause, Lin Ran looked away, turned around, and went downstairs.

Since her mother's things are no longer here, there is no need for her to leave them behind.

Ye Minghua stared at Lin Ran with a sinister look in his eyes. Seeing that she was about to leave, he blocked her way without hesitation.

Meeting those eyes that were somewhat similar to Lin Qing's, Ye Minghua felt a pang of panic, but still spoke with a dark expression.

"Even if it's not five million, one million is fine too."

"You've worked at Xiao's for so long, you should have some money by now, right?"

"I'm your father, I raised you all these years, don't you know how to repay my kindness?"

Ye Minghua's heartless words instantly awakened the memories in Lin Ran's mind.

She was smiling, but her eyes were icy cold.

"You mean the time you spent working as a nanny at the Ye family's house?"

"Or is it that you and Wang Mei teamed up to anger my mother to the point of collapse, and then seized her house?"

Ye Minghua's face immediately turned cold as he looked at Lin Ran's arrogant demeanor, as if he were seeing Lin Qing in her younger days.

Before he could even think it through, his hand had already struck out.

Snapped!

This time, Lin Ran didn't have time to dodge and fell heavily to the ground, her cheek swelling up at a visible speed.

"Don't even think about leaving the Ye family today if you don't give me this money!"

Lin Ran slowly exhaled, her vision blurring. It took her a long time to regain her senses. She gave a self-deprecating smile, but then clutched the wound on her face, the pain bringing tears to her eyes.

She smiled and looked up at Ye Minghua.

"I'm so unlucky to have a dad like you."

Ye Minghua also managed a smile.

"Too bad I'm your father."

"Just give me the money honestly and all this will be fine. It's just a million, it's nothing to you, right?"

Lin Ran closed her eyes, looking like she didn't want to talk.

Even if she did have that much money, she wouldn't give it to Ye Minghua.

"good very good."

Ye Minghua called over several servants and locked Lin Ran in a small room.

"You can leave when I receive the money."

From beginning to end, Wang Mei and Ye Chuchu showed no intention of stopping it, standing aside as if watching a spectacle.

Lin Ran was pushed into the filthy room before she could even struggle, and the dust in the air rushed towards her as she arrived.

"Cough cough cough."

Lin Ran coughed from the choking, and it took her a while to fan herself to feel a little better. She looked around, and a hint of joy suddenly appeared on her originally calm face.

This is Lin Qing's former room. Just as Wang Mei said, most of her clothes and jewelry have been moved out, leaving only some useless trash.

Even so, Lin Ran patiently searched the room.

But as darkness fell, Lin Ran still hadn't made any progress. Looking at the closed door, she sighed with worry.

With her phone off and nothing in the room to contact the outside world, her only hope was that Xiao Jingchen would notice someone was missing from the house.

Meanwhile, Xiao Jingchen, whom she was thinking about, was engrossed in his work at the company and had no idea that she had returned.

As dawn broke, Xiao Jingchen raised his head, stretched his somewhat stiff body, and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.

Lin Ran wasn't home, yet he didn't have the slightest thought of going back.

"Zhou Qing, go and ask how the surgery is going."

Xiao Jingchen's tone was tinged with weariness. After giving his instructions, he took out his phone and swiped back and forth in the chat box with Lin Ran, but didn't send a single word.

Little did he know that the woman he was thinking about was locked in the Ye family's storeroom.

Although there was a bed in the room, it was piled with messy things, and dust would fly everywhere if you moved it even slightly. Even if Lin Ran wanted to tidy it up, she couldn't.

Forced by circumstances, she could only pull out a few relatively clean clothes from the bottom layer and spread them out on one side, then carefully lay down there to rest.

With her stomach rumbling, Lin Ran smacked her lips and actually fell asleep.

Not long after, he habitually rolled over and fell off the dirty bed onto the floor.

"Ouch."

Lin Ran cried out in pain and opened her eyes, her gaze falling precisely on the area under the bed.

A dusty gray kraft paper bag caught her attention.

She frowned, reached out and fished the item out. As soon as she opened it, a strong smell of Chinese medicine mixed with the smell of dust hit her.

Lin Ran's expression changed, and she closed the container.

She recognized the taste; it was the medicine Lin Qing had taken at home before.

If there's something fishy about the mother's illness, then there must be something wrong with this medicine.

Suppressing her excitement, Lin Ran stuffed the medicine into her pocket and opened the window to check the distance to the ground.

Two seconds later, the window was closed again.

Lin Ran sighed helplessly. How come she hadn't noticed how high the second floor was before? If she jumped, her legs would probably be ruined. She wanted to leave, but she didn't want to be carried away.