Bing Lan had the feeling she was the rat caught in the cheese trap.
" That .. " she paused to gauge Delun's reaction.
"The brother in the east is wearing the same watch as the guy who hid his face with a newspaper when I talked to the Bai group's secretary." Bing Lan revealed it to him.
That's not all.
There's more.
There were three people who watched her that day.
Bing Lan had a habit of scanning patient lounges for dangerous people, or people about to break into tears.
These three people walked in like they owned the place, rather than playing with phones, or calculating expenses, they were more interested in covering up their faces.
However, the hospital had reflective windows , and mirrors on the ceiling frame.
While people could avoid being spotted directly, it is but a child's work to spot them through the window or mirror.
However, if she revealed all these details to the extremely dangerous looking man in front of her, then she would probably get chopped into pieces and scattered around the world.
She did not want to die.
Neither did she want to lose her hands. Though Delun never had the intention of maiming her, only scaring her. After all, he stopped her hands from going beyond recoverable in both time lines.
Fan Delun caught on to the fact what she is saying is not all. However, he did not insist on calling her out.
"Why me? I could just as easily marry you to any random guy, and have the same result." he asked her.
"For the marriage tactic to work, it needs to be believable. The person I marry needs to be of notable power for Bai Ming to stay away from me.
The ruse is 'I, Bing Lan approached him with tricks and cheated on him'.
If the person is too low level, or the marriage looks like it's forced, he will probably break it up by forceful means." Bing Lan opined.
However, her brain worked, and provided her with a better idea than marriage.
The rich guy on TV is correct when he said 'All problems could be solved with money. If they were not, then just use more money.'
She was definitely beautiful enough for working any kind of honey trap, but right now, she's dirty, smelly or worse, both. Her beauty could not put in to play to it's full extent.
So, marriage to herself might not go down as well as she expected.
As she spoke her bullshit reasoning out loud , internally, she became more and more clear that perhaps she should just go the gold digger route and take money. Her only fear is that it's probably too late at this point to play gold digger. However, she is desperate. She had to try all means possible, even if the success rate is only one percent.
"Or you can always give me money to send me away. In the first place, I only rejected because I needed a little bit more money than a million. I would have agreed and left had you offered me just a bit more. Now is not a bad time. You can always convince me with money." Bing Lan's mouth worked without her permission.
She just couldn't help herself.
"I still think it's better for you to vanish permanently." Fan Delun said in his monotone Bass.
Bing Lan was struck dumb.
She is even more incensed that even under this crazy situation, his voice made her heart skip a beat.
For a moment, she thought her life flashed once more in front of her eyes.
A tense second passed in the room.
...
Fan Delun got up from the chair.
...
He walked over to the door.
…
A light bulb went off in Bing Lan's mind.
"A hundred percent your person! "She blurted out loudly.
Delun stopped from opening the door, turned to look at Bing Lan.
"You have to marry someone, either for love or business soon, won't you? Whether it is love or business, those marriages come with too many strings. In comparison, I come with zero strings. You will be my life line, and I will live or die with you. Isn't it better to have such a wife?" Bing Lan asked.
'It is indeed!', Fan Delun realized with a sudden start.
Even if he had realized that, he would have gone with threatening her or bribing her, if it was any other day.
However, it's not any other day.
One month ago, It's the day when he had the strangest breakfast with his grandfather, and a creepy politician. Yes, you guessed it right.
Fan Delun had come back in time, Just like BingLan.
The creepy politician had a daughter, Delun knows.
A real bratty, slutty, and stupid daughter.
His grandfather looked all too amenable to let them get acquainted. The intention of his grandfather to have him marry the politician's daughter couldn't be clearer had he announced it with a billboard.
Worse yet, the attitude of the girl he was seducing, Zhu family's eldest daughter, has changed all of a sudden.
The politician's daughter could be thrown aside easily. After all, the politician knew the difficulties involved, and he needed Fan Family's support more. Even if they break up, there won't be an waves.
However, the other girl is the daughter of the Zhu family. Her father is a lawyer, and not just your everyday lawyer either.
He is the owner of the largest law firm in the imperial capital, and has far too much power in the judiciary.
If the girl wants to marry him, he would have no choice but to accept her with both hands, and look after her like a queen at this point.
After all, he was the one who started courting her first. He couldn't say you looked like a juicy fruit out of every one's reach, so I wanted to use 'liking you' as a shield to block other girls.
Even if he were to topple over his grandfather and take over Fan family business, by then, their interests will be far too entwined with Zhu house for him to extract himself safely.
In the past life, if just a month could be called that, the politician's stupid daughter has done all she could to enrage Zhu family eldest miss. Delun has suffered too much in collateral damage.
Thus, marrying this little girl would indeed be hedging a lot of bets. If nothing else, it will give him enough psychological support when rejecting the girls.
He could manage a thousand hard hearted criminals, but he seems to fail at managing irrational girls. Too much damage angered their fathers, too little damage did not deter them.
Marrying BingLan, and then starting a secret marriage rumor will indeed be the best shield against unwanted females.
However, There's a catch.
This little girl is too smart.
Smart underlings are dangerous.
Yep, she is better off dead.
"How nice it would have been if you had been like this from the beginning. " he said gently.
Bing Lan frowned in response. Those are not good words.
Ideally, at this point, she should be shouting 'Anything! I will do Anything to live.'
However, Bing Lan didn't want to any thing in order to live.
She is doing this in the first place to save her dream, not her life.
She could give up her freedom, and many other things, but being a surgeon was her dream. She would never be able to give up this dream.
He may as well kill her.
"You dying is the better solution." the man said, pointing a gun to her head.
Bing Lan did not close her eyes.
It could be said in the last life she has taken his life.
After all, while he let go of her hand, she did grab it in panic. he wouldn't have fallen to death otherwise.
With this, they will be even.
Then, a second trickled by...
Sweat started forming up on her crown.
The sweat drop slowly rolled down, from the sides of her face, to her neck, and below.
Bing Lan still was looking down the barrel of the gun.
All of a sudden, the man removed the gun away from her forehead, and sat back down in the chair.
Bing Lan had the strange feeling the boss might have pulled the trigger on her had she begged for her life.
"Your life is mine." Delun said.
In his low bass voice, it's more like a thread of fate moving to weave a spell on herself.
From now on, the only way to separate from the man in front of her is death.
Bing Lan's courage only extended this far.
She has been looking down the gun barrel half in spite, half in frozen fear.
So, all she could do now is nod stiffly.
The boss opened the door, and the minions flooded in like ants from a hill.
He waved his hand.
Bing Lan's hands are freed.
"Small two will go with you to collect necessary documents. " He said, and a petite gangster came up.
Bing Lan was surprised to find 'Small two' is a girl.
As expected, Boss is a boss.
He is thorough.
Bing Lan followed the girl out, and went straight to her home.
She brought out her ID, and the necessary legal documents.
They went straight to a specialty hospital giving out necessary health documents, most importantly, there was an appointment available at the civil affairs bureau.
Bing Lan was under the impression these were by name only appointments which must be made in advance.
What the ?!
She did not even have enough time to form a plan.
They got married as part of the last appointment of the day, it is only when the flash of of light startled her did she get back to her senses.
Just.. ' What did she do? '
Gods!
She could not believe she's legally married now.
She is only twenty.
She turned twenty yesterday!
More surprisingly, Fan Delun turned twenty two only a month ago.
She did not expect him to be that young.
But then, he has the kind of sharp face that probably will look the same from twenty to fifty.
She walked out of the registration office, still unable to believe the red book she's holding is her marriage certificate.
A car stopped in front of them.
A chauffeur walked to the backdoor, opened the door for Delun.
He sat in the car before Bing Lan could get a single word out.
Then the chauffeur gave a small bow to Bing Lan, drove the car away.
'That's it ? '
Eh …?
Ehhh … ?
EHHHHHHHHHHHHEH …. ?!!!!!
Before she could choke on surprise, her mobile rang.
Wait, her phone had been smashed when they grabbed her.
What phone does she have?
Yet, she checked her pockets.
Indeed, there's a phone.
And a very expensive fruit version at that.
She accepted the call.
"This will be your phone from now on. My number is already there. When I call, I expect you to pick up within three rings." The voice coming from other side was very sexy.