Zhu Qing and Lou Rouer didn't realise as they were talking, Ashlyn and Catlynn had long slipped inside and were waiting in the shadows, they were waiting for the perfect timing as mentioned to them by Su Chen.
"Yeah, you are right! Your family must be worried for you", Lou Rouer spoke sympathetically.
"Hmm."
Lou Rouer's heart softened.
'Look at this girl.'
'She is talking so politely.'
'Her actions are so sincere, I don't believe there was any valid reason to keep her imprisoned.'
-Taking out her mobile phone from her jeans pocket, she handed it to Zhu Qing.
Zhu Qing's heart was on cloud nine when she saw Lou Rouer readily agreeing with herself.
Like a cat grabbing a piece of fish, she quickly snatched the phone from Lou Rouer's hand and dialled her dad's number.
On the other end, no one picked up the call for the first time
She called again, but the result was still the same.
In desperation, she dialled the third time and finally, someone answered.
"Hello?"
-A heavy voice of a middle-aged man could be heard.
"Dad!"
"Daddddd!"
"It's me, your daughter Zhu Qing."
-Even though she was lying lifeless some moments ago, her current body was beaming with excitement.
"Dad, you know I was careless, a rich second generation named Su Chen."
"Shut up, you unfilial daughter!"
Before Zhu Qing could complete her sentence, a loud shout from the other end interrupted her.
"I can't believe I have such a stupid daughter like you."
"Ugghh!"
Ahem..Ahemm~
Zhu Qing could hear her dad coughing badly, it was only now she noticed her dad's voice was very weak and feeble as if he had aged prematurely.
"Dad, What's wrong, are you okay?"
'If something happened to her dad, who will save me from this villain Su Chen's house?'
'Looking at this policewoman, she seemed to have no brains. I hardly doubt she can take me past those maids', Zhu Qing's actions were filled with her calculations.
"What happened?"
"Isn't it all because of you?….Such a naive daughter!"
"Where the fuck have been you for the past 2 days?"
Taking a deep death, her dad reprimanded sternly.
"Do you know what the current situation of our family is?"
"Without consulting me you emptied all our ancestor's piled-up treasuries to buy a fake elixir!"
"When I came back home yesterday morning, all the elders were happy saying this is a heavenly treasure …drinking just a few drops of it, we will breakthrough to the grandmaster and above realm. You know most of our family's grandmaster-level powerhouses have passed away and the remaining ones are in seclusion. We urgently need to raise our strength, otherwise, we may lose our position as the strongest martial art family!"
"I was so happy that my daughter brought such a gift for the family. Without any hesitation, all the elders took a couple of drops from the big 10 litre bottle you brought. Heck, we even made our grandmaster-level powerhouses in seclusion also drink a part of it."
His voice became heavier, and a cry of a grown-up man echoed through the speaker making the atmosphere gloomy.
"And, by the evening everyone fell sick! It was only at that point we realised that was not some heavenly elixir but a vicious poison."
"Fuck, no matter what we did we couldn't find a suitable antidote, as a result, all cultivators in our family fell unconscious one after another. By today's morning, the majority of the weak-minded have already died."
"Almost the entire family's core people are bed-ridden at the moment. Even I…"
"I think that we, the remaining people can only stay alive till tomorrow morning, after that our body organs will probably stop working"
-In the end, his voice seemed to lose all strength, there was a deep silence.
"Was Su Chen telling the truth?"
"He poisoned our entire family?"
"Now who will save me?"
-Zhu Qing lost all her previous demeanour.
Still not wanting to give up, she spoke with a last hope.
"Dad, everything is done by that bastard Su Chen. He fooled and plotted against us. I even found the heaven-chosen child, his name is Chu Fang. As long as we can make an alliance with him, ruling the world is just around the corner."
"He even imprisoned me."
Hearing her daughter's words, her dad gave a deep sigh~
"Su Chen?"
"The heir to the Su Family?"
"Daughter, you really messed it up this time."
"Do you know the Su Family is currently one of the strongest? Except for Ji and our Zhu Family, no one in the country can shake them."
"If he has imprisoned you then you must beg him for an antidote else we all will perish."
"Dad, as long as you can send some powerful people, I promise everything will be settled."
"I will take care of everything", Zhu Qing was crying out aloud.
Hearing her words, her dad coughed another mouthful of blood.
"Didn't you hear me? All our strong people are currently bed-ridden trying to suppress the poison in their bodies."
Aaghhh~
"Okay, maybe I will see you in the next life if you can't bring the antidote by tomorrow."
The condition of her dad seemed to be deteriorating at an alarming rate as he decisively cut off the call.
"Dad?"
"Dadddd?"
Understanding that the call was disconnected, Zhu Qing's last hope was also broken.
Her mind was messed up!
'Ask Su Chen to save her father?'
'But if she doesn't do that she will become a big sinner.'
From her childhood, she had countless times dreamed of leading her family to glory. Now the same family is on the verge of perishing only because she was a little overconfident and blindly believed Su Chen's words.
Seeing her in such a state everyone had a different reaction.
Lou Rouer, due to her close distance, could hear all the conversations between the daughter and father pair.
She reaffirmed her belief that today she will take Zhu Qing out of this room and will punish Su Chen.
Lou Rouer felt Su Chen was heartless. Just because someone has a little grudge you will wipe off their family clean?
'What a vicious heart Su Chen has', Lou Rouer seemed to warn herself.
