Bab 102: 1.3.24: Jing Hao

"I did it." Qiang Yue told Ling Qiu the next morning he saw her. "They told me that it has been a little while, but the results will take up to six weeks."

"Six weeks!?" This wasn't beneficial to their plan at all! They needed to strike at that woman immediately or else the chance would disappear.

"Yes. I didn't want to disturb his resting place, but in the end, you left me no choice. Remember what you promised."

His stern voice was clearly filled with concern for that woman. Ling Qiu felt jealousy claw at her heart again, to which she meekly replied, "Of course. Do you want to eat lunch at—"

"Can't, sorry. I'll take my lunch break in my office because I need to review some documents." He politely declined before she even had the chance to say the restaurant's name.

She sighed. When will she ever get his attention or attract his feelings?

"Alright, that's fine. Just don't forget to eat. I'll be on my way now." She waved him goodbye and then left the hospital building.

The moment that she was pretty far away from the hospital, she immediately dialed a particular number. That particular number belonged to her friend and her partner-in-crime. That number belonging to Kang Yiyi. What Ling Qiu didn't know was that the other young woman did not treat her as a partner. The spoiled and rotten heiress only saw her as a puppet to control. This fact, she would come to know much later in regret.

"Yiyi," Ling Qiu addressed familiarly like they were the best of friends. Kang Yiyi rolled her eyes and automatically opened her mouth to scold, but she remembered who she was talking to. Instead, she gritted her teeth and listened. "The autopsy results will be available up to six weeks—"

"Impossible! Six weeks is too much!" Kang Yiyi grumbled. "Aren't you a nurse in the hospital? Couldn't you speed things up?"

Ling Qiu sighed. "I have no access to that. Luckily, Qiang Luo had died in the hospital I work at, otherwise, even keeping an eye on the results would be difficult. We have our hospital's pathologists examining him."

Excuses! That was the word that Kang Yiyi wanted to hurl in the face of the nurse, but instead, she kept her calm. "That's good. But I'll have to pull a few strings either way. Six weeks is too long. The evidence is already going to be planted soon."

"Alright, I understand. But anyways, Yiyi, where are you?"

"The café I was at two weeks ago, why? I don't suppose you want to join me?" Kang Yiyi silently wished that the nurse would say no.

"Of course not im—"

"A pity. I'll be missing you. The waiter is here with my drink, talk to you later!" Kang Yiyi hung up and rolled her eyes. Ling Qiu didn't want to rush over there, but hearing the words 'I'll miss you' made her realize that her friend was worth the rush. She quickly got to the cafe as she could.

Meanwhile as soon as she hung up, Kang Yiyi relaxed for another ten minutes after dealing with an idiot and dialed the person that took care of all her dirty deeds. His connections were more prominent and expanded than hers.

"Hello, darling." The cheerful voice sarcastically greeted. "How may I slave—ahem, assist you today?" If Xiao Yunhua was there, she'd remember the voice from the scene that the system showed her. This was the same voice that Kang Yiyi spoke to when she demanded an accident to happen.

"Jing Hao, I am not in the mood for your antics today." Kang Yiyi growled. "I need a favor—"

"Why would you call it a favor when you know that you'll force me to do it anyway?" Jing Hao muttered underneath his breath. "Go ahead princess, your wishes are my commands."

Kang Yiyi smirked as she sipped on the tea in the café she was at. Secluded a bit, nobody could hear her words, this she was sure of. "I need you to get one of your men to speed up the process of an autopsy."

"Huh. Not as evil as I thought as it'll be an easy hack to move the corpse examination above the earlier corpses... Wait. Is it with the same girl you've been keen with 'destroying' all these years?"

"Keen is an overemphasis of the situation at hand," Kang Yiyi glanced at her prim and perfect nails in admiration. "She is not worthy."

"You're right, obsessed would be a better use of words." He mumbled incoherently. She heard his remark but chose to ignore it. Instead, she explained that the poison that he had given to her was effective and the old man was dead.

"Ah, now that's more like you." Jing Hao spoke as though he was newly enlightened. "No wonder you want an autopsy. But simply being in the same room isn't going to prove that she is in the wrong."

"I know." Kang Yiyi said calmly. She smiled like she was an elegant queen when in reality, she seemed like a snake. "Which is why I need you to supply more of the good stuff."

"Are you really going to be an amateur and just shove it in her things like the old days and expect them to convict her for it?" Jing Hao rolled his eyes at the spoiled princess. Why he even bothered to be conversing with her for so long was all due to the evidence that she kept against them.

"You underestimate me too much."

"For good reason. Have you seen the size of your brain—"

"Enough! Focus or you will suffer the consequences." Jing Hao tsked and allowed her to continue. "You must also supply me with some hallucination drugs. X DRUG would work."

"You expect too much out of me. It's pretty expensive for a poor boy like me." Kang Yiyi wanted to strangle the man that wasn't taking her serious at all.

"Money is never an issue. I'll wire you one hundred."

"Million?"

"Thousand."

"You're ripping me off. No deal."

"Alright, ten million and no more."

"Now that's a deal, sweetheart. I'll send them later. As for autopsy, don't worry darling, I'll take care of it."

"You better." Then she hung up again. Collectedly, she sipped her tea again. Her mind wondered to the insidious ploy that was going to unfold before her.

All in due time... all in due time.

But what Kang Yiyi didn't know is that Ling Qiu had heard her. And subconsciously, she had recorded most parts of the conversation for extra security...