He Lanjin stood in front of He Ruoxue, looking like a madwoman. "I wouldn't move too much, if I were you," He Lanjin said in feigned concern. "The more you move, the more agitated the spider might get. What if it burrows into you?"
He Lanjin was a kind person, but she could not sympathize with He Ruoxue, who was responsible for bringing this thing here. Good thing He Lanjin was vigilant; otherwise, the spider would have bitten her to death in bed.
"I wonder what it would do... do you think it will eat your uterus? It is such a big spider. What if it's venomous? What should we do?" He Lanjin said in a worried tone as she released He Ruoxue from her hold.
He Ruoxue's expression changed. between her and He Lanjin, she knew a great deal more about how venomous the spider was.
If it really was the black widow she bought from the black market, then its venom would be strong enough to bring her serious damage, even kill her.
"No." He Ruoxue panicked. She hurriedly took off her clothes and pulled off the sanitary pad. She did not care that He Lanjin was watching her with a smirk.
The black widow was so scared that it crawled into the only opening it could find. He Ruoxue tried to pull the spider out, but the only thing she managed to pull out was a leg. The rest of the spider had inched itself in.
He Ruoxue's face turned ashen. The black widow had crawled inside her. It might gnaw at her uterus and secrete all the venom out of its tiny body. He Ruoxue would then...
She jumped up and down, but the thing would not fall out.
He Lanjin sat on a chair, cupped her chin in her hand and watched the scene as if it were a movie.
The smile in He Lanjin's eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by a cold expression. The conversation between He Ruoxue and that man echoed in He Lanjin's ears. Someone entrusted that man to go to He Ruoxue's house and tell her parents to send He Ruoxue to the He family...
And He Ruoxue, young as she was, was able to make use of the things she heard from eavesdropping on her parents and that man. She even went as far as risking her life to secure herself a place in the He family—proof that He Ruoxue, even at a young age, was really cold-hearted. Was she just putting on a silly and shallow image to hide her ruthlessness?
"He Lanjin, you vicious woman! You will die a horrible death, treating me like this!" He Ruoxue seemed to have gone crazy as she used all her strength to dig out the poisonous spider.
He Lanjin, seeing how worked up He Ruoxue had gotten, took the pair of chopsticks on the nearby table and threw them at He Ruoxue. "Use these," He Lanjin said. "I don't think your fingers are long enough to reach the spider inside you."
He Ruoxue eyed the chopsticks that fell to the floor with a clink and hurriedly picked them up. She poked herself with the chopsticks with the sole intention of getting the spider out.
He Ruoxue looked like a madwoman, a far cry from the coquettish and sexy image she had always projected.
The scene before He Lanjin had become so unbearable to watch that she had to turn away.
He Lanjin thought about her own brush with death earlier. What if that spider did bite her while she slept?
He Ruoxue's face was getting paler and paler by the second. Her hands trembled so much that the chopsticks fell to the floor with a clang.
"Doctor. I must find a doctor," He Ruoxue said in a daze as she ran out of the room, not caring that she was wearing nothing but a skimpy dress. She shivered in the cold winter night. She cried out in pain as she fell to the ground as her delicate feet stepped on the rubble caused by the earthquake.
He Lanjin watched He Ruoxue from the window in He Ruoxue's room. He Lanjin was not in a hurry to leave, so she looked around the room instead.
She picked checked He Ruoxue's phone, which was on the bed. There was no record of strange IP addresses that could lead He Lanjin to He Ruoxue's "secret" contacts.
"Could He Ruoxue have another card?" He Lanjin wondered out loud. She could not find a single clue that would reveal He Ruoxue's background; she needed to keep He Ruoxue alive is she were to solve this mystery.
Lost in her thoughts, He Lanjin turned around to see Qiao Hanye leaning against the door. He was looking at her with tenderness in his eyes.
"Mrs. Qiao." Qiao Hanye's magnetic voice rang in the well-furnished room. He walked toward He Lanjin and said, "You've had enough fun for one night. Shouldn't you be getting some sleep?"