091 Sleeping Pills in Desperation
Wang Heng didn’t walk directly into the Hua Qin Hotel. Instead, he passed by the entrance and sat on a bench not far away.
The hamster crawled out of his pocket, squatted on his leg, raised its little head, and asked, “Figured out what to do?”
“It’s a bit difficult…” Wang Heng couldn’t help scratching his head. “If I call the police, I have no evidence. If I break in, I’m not a special forces soldier. Even if I know which room he’s in, it’ll be hard to handle.”
The hamster: “Use your clever little brain and think carefully?”
Wang Heng had a flash of inspiration. “Now that you mention it, I really have an idea—you can come in handy!”
The hamster: “?”
Wang Heng: “I’ll go buy sleeping pills. You climb into Liu Rong’s room, drug him, and then open the door. I’ll pretend to enter accidentally, discover the fugitive on the wanted list, and report him. What do you think of this script?”
The hamster pointed to itself. “You mean, the most important tasks of infiltration and drugging are left to me? But I’m just a support.”
Wang Heng said seriously, “That’s right. So the final job of taking the kill is left to me. You’re responsible for controlling the enemy.”
The hamster: “Don’t you think the task for me, the support, is a bit too heavy?”
Wang Heng: “I don’t think so.”
The hamster: “…Your shameless look really has the charm of my younger days.”
“Thanks for the compliment.” After Wang Heng finished speaking, he stood up and walked towards the residential complex a little further away. There were usually pharmacies near residential areas.
**
Ye Kang stood in his office, looking at the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling window, dejected and speechless.
As a media tycoon who started from scratch and a top player in the Lin City business circle, he never would have thought that he would end up in such a state one day.
The emerging internet giants had put his main business in a predicament. And at the most critical moment, the bank that he had cooperated happily with before withdrew its loan. Of course, this wasn’t the end of the road, after all, he had plenty of savings. He had placed hundreds of millions of funds with his old friend Liu Rong.
However, five days ago, when he tried to ask Liu Rong for money, Liu Rong ran away overnight.
Ye Kang sensed something was wrong and hurriedly called the police to freeze this ‘old friend’s’ account. But the police told him that the so-called remittance account actually only had a few tens of thousands of yuan in it.
The money had all been swept away by Liu Rong.
Of course, Ye Kang wasn’t the only one who suffered. Several local merchants in Lin City had lent money to Liu Rong. The problem was that Ye Kang was the tightest on cash among these merchants. And his financial straits happened to become known to others.
As soon as the news spread, the partners who used to chat and laugh with him tightened their purse strings one after another. In just a few days, Ye Kang was shocked to find that his capital chain had completely broken.
And those few big creditors reacted extremely fast, actually joining forces to sue him in court!
What is desperation? This is it.
Ye Kang held his phone and dialed a number with trembling fingers.
A moment later, his ex-wife answered, “Hello, what is it?”
Ye Kang swallowed and said with difficulty, “You’re so well-informed, you must know my situation… It doesn’t matter if you don’t help me, but Little Xun isn’t an adult yet. Can you take care of her?”
His ex-wife sneered, “She’s not my biological daughter. Why should I take care of her for you?”
“But her biological mother died long ago!” Ye Kang shouted irritably, then immediately softened his tone and pleaded, “Didn’t you get along well with her back then…”
“Back then was back then, now is now. I have a meeting. Don’t bother me.”
With that, his ex-wife hung up the phone decisively.
Ye Kang clutched his phone tightly and was silent for a long time.
His grip tightened, the phone creaked, and his knuckles turned white.
He really wanted to throw the phone directly out of the 28th-floor window, but on second thought, it was a busy downtown area outside. What if it hit someone?
So he really wanted to laugh.
He had already made up his mind to commit suicide, yet he was still considering the safety of passersby. Maybe this was the reason for his failure? If it were those wolf-like peers, they would definitely only want to drag a few more people down with them before they died…
Thinking wildly, Ye Kang put down his phone and picked up the medicine bottle.
Inside the bottle were dozens of sleeping pills, more than enough to ensure he would never wake up again.
Now, it was time for the final step.
Ye Kang picked up the water glass.
But just then, there was a sudden knock on the office door.
Ye Kang was stunned and ignored it. He had locked the door long ago. No matter how long the person outside knocked, he wouldn’t open it.
However, the next moment, the door was opened with a key.
A girl came in, wearing a private middle school skirt uniform, with a thin figure and a beautiful but pale face. Her hair was originally long, straight, and black, but the back of her head sported a fiery orange single ponytail, beautiful and flamboyant.
“What’s in your hand!” The girl noticed the medicine bottle in her father’s hand, screamed, rushed over, and snatched the bottle away.
Ye Kang couldn’t help but smile bitterly. It seemed his plan had failed again.
The frustration of the past five days was more than he had experienced in the past decades of his life.
And his daughter, this girl named Ye Xun, slammed the table and said angrily, “You want to end it all? Have you thought about what I’ll do!”
Ye Kang still had a bitter smile on his face. “If I die, no one will come to you for debt. They will take everything I have, but no one can take the car under your name. Sell the car, and it will last you a long time, until you graduate from university and find a job to support yourself…”
Ye Xun interrupted, “How can you admit defeat just like that? The court hasn’t opened, the company hasn’t dissolved, and that Liu Rong hasn’t been caught yet!”
Ye Kang: “In such a short time, they can’t catch him.”
Ye Xun: “Who told you they can’t catch him? I just got news from a classmate that Liu Rong ran to Rongdu. The police are ready there, just waiting for him to appear!”
Ye Kang looked up at his daughter’s anxious face and suddenly felt a little gratified. He had given up hope, but his daughter hadn’t? Regardless of the final result, at least this spirit was very good. Her future life shouldn’t be too bad, right?
But the next second, the girl’s strength couldn’t hold up anymore.
Ye Xun slumped on the table and wailed loudly.
“Wah… If you’re not even afraid of death, why are you afraid of debt…”
The man who had intended to seek death saw his daughter crying uncontrollably in front of him, and the frustration and irritability were indescribably intense.
But suddenly, his phone rang again.
Ye Kang picked up his phone and glanced at it. It was the police officer who had contacted him before.
He answered the call and heard the police officer say, “Hello, is this Mr. Ye? We just received a lead from Rongdu. Someone seems to have found Liu Rong in a small hotel…”
