Chapter 588: Trump Card

In truth, if Su Qing were to intervene, Su Mei might still have a chance to live. But Su Qing had no intention of doing so. She had never been one to repay evil with kindness.

It was best to respect the fate of others and let go of any savior complex. Su Mei’s current predicament was the result of her own choices, and Su Qing would naturally respect that.

"Su Qing..." Seeing Su Qing just watch her with a cold expression, a chill ran through Su Mei’s heart. The pain in her chest intensified, and her breathing grew more ragged. She struggled to reach a hand toward Su Qing. "Please... Please, save me."

"Save you? So you can come back and harm me and my family in the future?" Su Qing said coolly. "Besides, you’re beyond saving."

"No, I don’t want to die," Su Mei said, her heart pounding with fear. When she saw Su Qing turn away, ignoring her, panic surged through her. ’Am I going to die? Am I really going to die?’ Su Mei couldn’t accept it. ’My face isn’t even healed yet! The beautiful life I was waiting for hasn’t even begun! How can I be dying now?’

Overcome with bitter resentment, Su Mei’s face twisted into a snarl. She shrieked, "Su Qing, I hate you! If you had just gotten that powder from Mr. Gong to heal my face, I never would have come to Beijing! If I hadn’t come to Beijing, I never would have fallen into their hands! And if I hadn’t fallen into their hands, I wouldn’t be dying! It’s you! It’s all your fault! You did this to me! I hate you! I hate you so much!"

The torrent of curses came out with surprising fluency, but her face quickly grew even paler. Her vision began to blur, and her consciousness started to fade.

"No... I don’t want to die... I really... really don’t want to die... Save me... Save..."

As her fragmented pleas faded, Su Mei’s voice grew quieter and quieter. Finally, her eyelids drooped lifelessly, and her breathing gradually ceased.

Su Mei was dead, filled with extreme resentment and jealousy.

"Heh. You’re quite the heartless little girl." Realizing he couldn’t escape, Master Wen paradoxically grew calm. He squinted at Su Qing. "If you don’t care about your family, feel free to kill me. I admit defeat; I’ve fallen into your hands today. However, if you want your relatives to live, I suggest you treat me with a bit more respect. Otherwise... heh heh."

Master Wen chuckled, a smirk on his face as he looked at Su Qing.

Su Qing raised an eyebrow and asked coolly, "Otherwise, what?"

"Your mother and your maternal uncle are nearby." Master Wen laid his cards on the table. "And I’m not afraid to tell you, it’s not just them. Some of the people with them also have my Child Gu inside their bodies. I don’t know what you did to make me lose control of the Mother Gu in my own body, but I will tell you this: with the type of Gu I cultivate, if the Mother Gu and its Child Gu have no contact for one month, the Child Gu will self-destruct."

A smug look crossed Master Wen’s face. "You probably don’t know how terrifying it is when a Child Gu self-destructs, do you? They travel through the bloodstream directly to the heart. Then, the swarm gathers and begins to devour the organ until they literally eat themselves to death. Without the Mother Gu’s control, they will take their host down with them. And I am the only one who can make them leave a host’s body safely."

"So, this is your trump card? You’re using this to threaten me?" Su Qing asked calmly.

"What, you think it won’t work?" Master Wen chuckled. "If you don’t believe me, just kill me. In a month, your family will be joining me anyway. You’ll be the one who killed them with your own hands. Do you dare to try it?"

"Heh, I’m so scared," Su Qing said with a cold laugh.

"You don’t believe me, little girl?" Master Wen narrowed his eyes. "If you don’t, you’re welcome to try."

’Master Wen was gambling. He was betting that Su Qing cared about her family’s lives. As long as she cared even a little, she wouldn’t dare harm me, and my safety would be guaranteed.’ He swore to himself that as soon as he regained control of the Mother Gu, he would make every last one of that damn girl’s relatives die a horrible death. ’I’ll make her rue this day. I’ll make her live in agony for the rest of her life.’

Su Qing said nothing, merely giving a light wave of her hand. In the next instant, everyone in the courtyard’s eyes widened in shock. The entire yard was suddenly filled with a writhing mass of airborne vines, and they were surging toward them.

There was nowhere to run.

Within seconds, everyone in the courtyard was bound tightly by the vines.

"You damn girl, do you really not care about your family?" Master Wen shouted, a mix of shock and fury in his voice.

Su Qing smiled faintly. "You just focus on guarding that Mother Gu of yours."

With that, Su Qing turned her gaze to Brother Liu.

"Wh-what are you going to do?" Brother Liu was consumed by regret. ’I should never have come after Su Qing again. I spent five million to hire a Master, but in the end, he was no match for her at all. And now I have to face her wrath.’ If he could do it all over again, he would have just quietly found a new business. ’So what if she shut down my operation? So what if I was making less money? It’s a hell of a lot better than losing my life!’

Brother Liu regretted it so much he wanted to go back in time and slap himself silly.

But regret was useless now. He looked at Su Qing in terror, a cold dread washing over him.

"Care to explain why you’re provoking me? Did you hire this Master Wen?" Su Qing asked, looking at Brother Liu.

’The first piece of jadeite she received carried Spiritual Energy, and the second was a silk scarf containing a Gu Worm. These were definitely not things an ordinary person like Brother Liu could arrange. Su Qing had realized at the time that whoever was targeting her must be someone like a Feng Shui Master.’

She was just curious what kind of grudge this man held against her that would make him go to the trouble of hiring a Feng Shui Master to deal with her.

"I... I made a mistake," Brother Liu stammered, not daring to reveal the real reason.

"Not talking?" Su Qing lifted her chin slightly, her gaze sweeping habitually over the men strewn across the ground.

In reality, Su Qing’s glance was completely casual, but it was the last straw for one man whose nerves were already shattered. He burst into tears and wailed, "I’ll talk! I’ll talk, I know everything! You worked with the police to take down a human trafficking ring, and my boss was the leader behind it! He hates you for cutting off his income, so he went to Xiangcheng to hire this Master to deal with you! And—and your cousin! My boss was the one who caught her and brought her here to the Master! I’ve told you everything I know! Please, let me go! Let me go, I don’t want to die!"