Chapter 33: Played by a Seemingly Soft and Easy-to-Bully Little Cub
Qin Wan was instantly stunned.
So, this group had nothing to do with debt collection.
They were coming after Gu Xinglan.
Whose brain operated on such a bizarre frequency to actually think Gu Xinglan had instructed him to crash into someone?
But needless to say, the person opposite him was definitely Gu Xinglan’s enemy.
Qin Wan felt a bit of anger, mixed with sorrow.
He had already been bullied so miserably by Gu Xinglan. Now, having just regained his freedom to step outside, he was implicated by him again, dragged here by his enemies for such an impolite interrogation.
Gu Xinglan truly was his nemesis!
The two of them were definitely astronomically incompatible!
Qin Wan shook his head, telling the truth: “No, no one instructed me. That was purely an accident.”
“An accident? Is there such a coincidence?” The man’s voice was pleasant to the ear, yet cold and detached.
“It really was an accident, sir. I didn’t even know Gu Xinglan beforehand, so how could there be any instruction?”
“Oh? You didn’t know each other before? What about now?” The man’s voice took on a hint of frivolous amusement. “What is your relationship?”
Qin Wan’s brow furrowed fiercely.
“N-Nothing… no relationship…”
“No relationship? Then why would he take you home and keep you?”
“Qin Wan, I advise you to read the situation. The fact that I found you and brought you here proves this wasn’t just a whim.”
“So you’d better obediently tell the truth. Otherwise…” The man paused. “You might have to suffer a bit.”
Qin Wan was furious inside, but he tried his best to stay calm: “Sir, I’m not lying. Everything I said is the truth. Crashing into Old Master Gu was truly an accident. Could you… please let me go?”
The man gave a cold snort. “Since you refuse to cooperate, I have no choice.”
Almost the instant his words fell, the baseball bat in the burly man’s hands swung heavily into Qin Wan’s stomach.
“Ah—” He let out a cry of pain, his body curling up in agony.
But the burly man didn’t stop; two more vicious strikes followed immediately.
The metallic taste of blood surged into Qin Wan’s throat.
Soon after, a warm liquid trickled down from the corner of his mouth.
“Little thing, ready to talk now?” The man not far away asked, his voice carrying a trace of an inexplicable smile.
It involuntarily reminded Qin Wan of the sadistic eldest young master from the Sheng family.
“I… I really didn’t…” His voice trembled, his breathing rapid.
Accompanied by the slow, heavy sound of footsteps, the man emerged from the shadows and walked up to him.
Qin Wan struggled to lift his head.
The person opposite him was a young man around thirty, handsome, with a smile on his face.
“If you still don’t want to talk, I’ll use another method to pry your mouth open,” the man said, shooting a glance at the burly man.
“Yes, Boss.”
A wave of terror washed over Qin Wan’s heart. He began to struggle desperately again, trying to break free from his restraints, but it was undoubtedly futile.
By now, a leather whip was already gripped in the burly man’s hand.
With a sharp, piercing crack of the whip.
A searing, flesh-tearing pain engulfed Qin Wan’s entire body.
The sensation instantly dragged out the terrifying memories buried deep in his mind.
This whip was undeniably made of a special material. Striking the body felt like being slashed with a flexible blade.
“No!” he cried out. “Let me go! You… let me go!”
But the second lash fell mercilessly.
“I’ll release you when you tell the truth,” the man said coldly.
“I am telling the truth!” Qin Wan yelled. “It’s the truth! Are you… are you trying to force a false confession out of me?”
Another lash struck him.
The intense pain caused Qin Wan’s rationality to gradually crumble.
“Bastards!”
The fear and fury in his heart could no longer be contained; he erupted recklessly.
“You f*cking lunatics! Let me go! Bastards!”
“If you have a grudge against Gu Xinglan, have the guts to fight him out in the open!”
“Doing something this shameless and despicable… you f*cking have no shame!”
The whip continued to fall heavily, splattering blood.
Qin Wan felt as if his entire body was being torn apart by the pain.
He kept cursing through his teeth.
But the strength in his body was waning, and he went increasingly limp.
He threw his head back, gasping heavily for air.
In his blurred vision, a bright red dot suddenly flashed.
It was the little red dot on the inside of the bracelet on his wrist.
Qin Wan’s chaotic mind remembered: Gu Xinglan had said that when he activated the listening function, that tiny red dot on the inside of the bracelet would light up.
Staring at that dot of light, he felt as if he had grasped a lifeline.
Gu Xinglan had activated the eavesdropping exactly at this moment, and since there was a tracker, he would definitely find his way here soon, wouldn’t he?
He believed Gu Xinglan wouldn’t just sit back and ignore him.
After all, in his own words, he hadn’t “played enough” with him yet.
Thinking this, an idea sparked in Qin Wan’s mind.
“Stop hitting me, stop… let’s… let’s talk…” he gasped out.
The man raised a hand toward the burly man, and the whipping stopped.
“Mn, ready to talk?”
Qin Wan panted heavily: “I need… I need to know who you are first…”
The man let out a scoffing laugh. “Fine. My name is Gu Xinglin, Gu Xinglan’s fourth cousin.”
Qin Wan remembered the chatter from his former colleagues at the hotel; they had mentioned the intense internal power struggle within the Gu Corporation.
The main competitors were the Fourth Young Master, Si Shao Gu Xinglin, and the Seventh Young Master, Gu Xinglan.
So he already grasped the general situation.
Gu Xinglin was trying to force him to confess that Gu Xinglan was the mastermind, seizing leverage against him to fabricate evidence of usurping power and hiring someone to cause harm.
Qin Wan had a quick mind, and a plan instantly formed.
A dark, cunning gleam flashed in his fox-like eyes.
“Gu Xinglin…” He deliberately repeated the name, afraid that Gu Xinglan wouldn’t hear it clearly on the other end of the signal.
“You’re saying I was instructed by Gu Xinglan. Do… do you have evidence?” He gasped a few times, trying hard to steady his breathing.
Gu Xinglin pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose.
He paced two steps around Qin Wan. “Naturally, I have no evidence, which is why I invited you here. I just need you to provide me with a little bit of evidence.”
Qin Wan’s voice turned utterly defeated. “Gu Xiansheng, if I say no, are you going to beat me until I confess that he instructed me?”
Gu Xinglin nodded. “Mn, absolutely. I naturally have ways to make you confess.”
Qin Wan’s small face scrunched up, his voice carrying an emotion of absolute hopelessness.
“So do you actually want to hear the truth, or do you just want to hear me say what you want me to say?”
“Gu Xiansheng, I know you and Gu Xinglan don’t get along and you want to ruin him. But if you two have conflicts, don’t take it out on me! Isn’t doing this… a little immoral…”
Gu Xinglin became irritated. He snatched the whip from the burly man’s hand and lashed out with it himself.
“Little cub, you still dare to talk back!”
“Ah—stop hitting, stop hitting!” Qin Wan cried out again.
“Gu Xiansheng, please stop hitting me! It hurts so much! Whatever you want me to say, I’ll say it, okay? I’ll listen to you entirely!”
Gu Xinglin’s voice was full of anger: “Willing to talk now? Good, then hurry up and confess that Gu Xinglan instructed you to knock down the old man!”
“Okay, I’ll say it…” Qin Wan mumbled with a crying tone. “But, that really didn’t happen!”
“F*ck!” Gu Xinglin cursed in exasperation, lashing out with the whip again.
“Didn’t happen! Didn’t happen! Well, does it happen now?”
Accompanied by his frustrated, furious cursing, the whip struck Qin Wan heavily again and again.
“It happened, it happened…” Qin Wan wailed, his voice trembling.
“Then speak up!” Gu Xinglin roared.
He gave the burly man a look.
The burly man pulled out a black voice recorder and pressed the switch.
Qin Wan shivered. “You want to record this? Is it to… use as evidence?”
“If that’s the case, I… I still can’t confess to something I didn’t do…”
Only then did Gu Xinglin realize that he seemed to have been played by this seemingly soft, easy-to-bully little cub.
Translator’s Note: Hi everyone! Things get incredibly dark here, but remember what Gu Xinglan’s real plan is! He’s playing 4D chess, but Qin Wan is no easy pushover either. The ‘bait’ tactic definitely brings out some major angst. Hang in there!
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