HPDBC Chapter 18 Filthy
Chapter 18 Filthy
Xia Yao's private lounge.
Ruan Ling sat on the single sofa facing the door with a cold expression, staring intently at the pretty waitress who looked to be in her early twenties and was being escorted in by bodyguards.
"Tell me, did you drug Miss Xia Xue?"
The waitress, kneeling on the ground like a frightened deer, cautiously raised her head to look at the big boss in front of her, and replied tremblingly, "I, I didn't want to, but, he, he threatened me, I, I had no choice, boss, please let me go, I still have a younger brother to support, I, I can't let anything happen to me."
Ruan Ling gave a cold laugh.
"Why did that person only target you and not someone else? Why don't you just confess!"
The waitress struggled to defend herself, saying, "Boss, this is victim blaming! Boss, I am the victim! I was coerced! I didn't mean it! I was just unlucky to be chosen! Boss, you must do me justice!"
Ruan Ling's gaze remained cold, but her tone softened somewhat.
"What did he tell you?"
The waitress breathed a sigh of relief and slowly recounted, "He gave me the drug, saying it was a sleeping potion that would only make people fall asleep and wouldn't cause any other harm. I said it didn't look like it, but he said it was a new drug and it was normal for me not to recognize it, so I believed him. I only put it in after I confirmed it was harmless. Boss, you must help me! I absolutely didn't mean to harm anyone."
Ruan Ling leaned back, looking down at the other woman with disdain, and said, "'Doesn't look like it,' 'Don't know her,' 'Confirmed,' haha, Wang Xia, listen to what you're saying. Does that sound like something someone doing this for the first time should say?"
Wang Xia's body went limp. How could she have let it slip? She had clearly practiced it in her mind so many times beforehand, so why did she still make a mistake at the last minute?
She knew she was finished.
With a "rip" sound.
Ruan Ling kicked the coffee table in front of her hard, and the coffee table made a screeching sound as it scraped against the floor.
"Wang Xia, confess now!"
Wang Xia's body jolted, and then, like a fish on a chopping board, she lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground in despair, honestly replying, "I was really forced into it at first."
"At that time, my brother got into trouble, and I was really at my wit's end. Like a headless fly, I was begging for help everywhere, and unintentionally, I ended up begging Yi Shao."
"After Yi Shao learned about my situation, he didn't say a word, but took action to release my brother and even helped him find a job."
"I was very grateful to Young Master Yi, and then Young Master Yi made a move on me. After he got tired of me, he asked me to drug his target."
"At first, I was really scared. I refused several times, but Yi Shao threatened me with his younger brother. My brother also helped Yi Shao persuade me, and that's when I started to waver."
"The first girl was a model. After I did this, I was terrified. I was worried that I would fall asleep and wake up the next day to find myself arrested. But the model knew that she had been drugged and that Yi Shao had slept with her, but she didn't make a fuss and chose to remain silent."
"Yi Shao said he gave me a sum of money, but I don't know the exact amount. Anyway, that was the end of it, and I felt relieved. Later, when similar things happened more often, I became numb to it."
"Yi Shao's initial targets were those models, but later, he gradually extended his reach to other girls."
At this point, Ruan Ling finally couldn't hold back any longer.
"Ruan Yi laid his dirty hands on the young lady who attended my party?!"
Wang Xia shook her head repeatedly, saying, "No, no, Young Master Yi knows that everyone attending the gathering is your friend, so he wouldn't dare to do anything. However, our venue isn't just for you to host a party, and the attendees aren't just young ladies..."
The chill on Ruan Ling's face remained undiminished.
"Ruan Yi, you're really something. I've worked so hard to make this venue bigger, and he actually did this kind of dirty trick in my venue."
He then stared sternly at Wang Xia and said, "And this time, how did you dare to drug Miss Xia Xue?"
Wang Xiaqian swallowed hard and mumbled, "The more you do it, the bolder you become, and then you stop having any taboos about it."
"Heh, you've done it too much, you've gotten bolder." Ruan Ling gritted her teeth and repeated the sentence, angrily saying, "Heh... good, well done."
Ruan Ling looked up and yelled at her assistant, "Where's Ruan Yi? Call him and tell him to get over here."
Before her assistant could speak, Shen Yan pressed her earpiece, whispered a few words to Xia Yao, who was sitting on the double sofa to the side rubbing her temples, and then took the initiative to say, "Ruan Yi ran away the moment the incident happened."
Ruan Ling frowned and said, "Didn't you block the exits? How did Ruan Yi escape?"
Shen Yan glanced at the security personnel next to Ruan Ling and said, "We have limited manpower, so your venue's security personnel will assist with the security at certain exits."
Needless to say, Ruan Ling already knew the outcome.
How could the security personnel at the venue dare to stop Ruan Yi, the young master of the Ruan family?
Ruan Ling laughed in exasperation.
"You guys are really something, aren't you? You only have eyes for Ruan Yi, not for me, right?"
Xia Yao suddenly spoke up: "Ruan Yi's behavior is too abnormal. Although this was done by his people, he did not order it. Even if it is exposed, it will not pose a great threat to him. What he should do is stay and clear his name, instead of running away. After all, what he did is nothing compared to this."
Ruan Ling then realized what was happening, stood up, walked to Wang Xia, glared at the trembling Wang Xia lying on the ground, and asked viciously, "What else are you hiding? Speak!"
Wang Xia buried her head on the ground and whispered in a trembling voice, "Yes, Young Master Yi, he... he asked me to put drugs in Miss Xia Yao's wine glass as well."
Ruan Ling understood instantly.
Xia Xue's job was a side job that Wang Xia took on.
Her main task today was to drug Xia Yao.
"Hehe..." Ruan Ling gasped for breath, her body swaying as she nearly fell. A middle-aged woman in her forties quickly steadied her, and Ruan Ling gave a bitter, dry laugh, looking at the woman supporting her and saying, "Aunt Sun, Ruan Yi, this is going to kill me, and kill our Ruan family!"
Xia Yao's face was as red as a ripe peach, as if you could squeeze water out of it. She raised her hand to stop Shen Yan from helping her up, leaned back on the sofa, and slowly said, "It's pretty much what I guessed. But what I'm curious about is, I was perfectly fine at the show, so how come something happened in the dressing room? What kind of trick is that?"
Wang Xia said tremblingly, "Young Master Yi said that this is a new drug he found. The drug in the wine glass has no effect when used alone. It needs to be used in conjunction with another drug to work. As for what the other drug is and how to use it, I don't know."
Just then, Xia Xue pushed open the door and walked in. Her face was cold as she looked around before fixing her gaze on the humidifier that was working.
"The other medicine is there."