While Chen Dong was secretly contemplating, thinking that Wu Meiling had come for real, Wu Meiling's eyes involuntarily glanced towards the door. Suddenly, her mouth opened wide as she shouted loudly, "Someone help... Save me..."
"Someone is trying to molest me..."
Wu Meiling used all her strength, but her voice was not loud, and it couldn't even escape the massage room.
Chen Dong chuckled, just as he had expected, an abnormal situation must involve something sinister. Wu Meiling was gentle and reserved, with a thin skin and a kind nature, not one to do bad things. From the moment Wu Meiling entered, Chen Dong had sensed something was wrong.
He had been guarding against Wu Meiling all along.
As anticipated, Wu Meiling shouted out that she was being molested.
With Wu Meiling's current appearance, her outer clothes completely removed, leaving only her undergarments and tangled up with Chen Dong, once her cries were heard and someone saw them, Chen Dong would be completely unable to clear his name.
But Chen Dong was prepared; just as Wu Meiling was about to scream, he pressed a point on her throat with his fingers. No matter how much strength Wu Meiling used, the sound she produced was very faint.
"Sister-in-law, I have treated you well too," he said.
"Why would you frame me?" he asked.
Wu Meiling's face turned ashen, filled with guilt, tears streaming down uncontrollably. "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I'm not human. You can hit or scold me as you please, I won't fight back," she cried.
Chen Dong furrowed his brows, "What exactly happened?"
With a thud,
Wu Meiling suddenly knelt down before Chen Dong, hugging his legs and crying, "Hong Dalai took my daughter and forced me to frame you."
"If I didn't do it, Hong Dalai threatened that I would never see my daughter again."
"Please, help me."
"Save my daughter, I'm willing to do anything if it means saving her."
Chen Dong's brows knotted together, a look of anger flashing in his eyes. Wu Meiling's daughter was her only reason to keep going; it was despicable to threaten her using her daughter.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I won't just stand by."
"Calm down first, why would Hong Dalai do this?"
Under Chen Dong's soothing, Wu Meiling's emotions stabilized quite a bit, "Our family owed Hong Dalai more than a million in high-interest loans. This afternoon, Hong Dalai's people found me, demanding repayment, but I had no money. So they threatened me, telling me to frame you for molestation, and then they would storm in and arrest you."
"If I didn't agree, Hong Dalai would take away my daughter, threatening me that if I didn't comply, I'd never see her again."
Chen Dong asked, "Why would Hong Dalai force you to frame me?"
Wu Meiling shook her head. "I don't know."
Chen Dong's expression fluctuated. Hong Dalai was considered a village bully and a cancer in Sweet Water Village. He made a lot of money from the sand and gravel business by leveraging the Hong Family's manpower and had hired a group of thugs to do his dirty biddings.
He and Hong Dalai had no personal vendetta, so why would Hong Dalai target him?
Chen Dong recalled the recent events one by one, noticing there had been a lot going on in the past two days. First, Chen Dong's parents had a car accident coming from the county village, followed by him being hit by a white van off the cliff while on his way to the hospital.
Now Wu Meiling was being threatened and slandering Chen Dong for molestation.
All these incidents targeted him.
Chen Dong remembered that a few days ago, a big boss named Liu Jinniu from the county planned to buy a large plot of land in the village to build a factory, including the six acres of land owned by Chen Dong's family, which Chen Dong and his parents had not agreed to.
Following that, both Chen Dong and his parents had accidents, and Wu Meiling was coerced into slandering Chen Dong for molestation.
This was no simple matter.
Wu Meiling might have been implicated as well.
Chen Dong helped Wu Meiling up, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I already have a plan to rescue our daughter."
Wu Meiling gripped Chen Dong's arm, clearly worried about her daughter, "What's the plan?"
Chen Dong chuckled, "Since Hong Dalai wants you to frame me for molestation."
"Then let's turn this sham into reality," he proposed.
Wu Meiling was momentarily stunned, not understanding the meaning of Chen Dong's words.
In an instant, Chen Dong lifted Wu Meiling and laid her on the bed, his hands pinning down her arms as he leaned in close, "Sister-in-law,"
"Next, I really will have to molest you."