"Boss, you're misunderstanding. She's my senior sister," Ning Beichen quickly interjected, seeing the murderous intent in Liu Yilin's eyes, her gaze reddening as if she were about to terminate her cooperation with Nangong Feiyan.
"Senior sister? What senior sister? Even if she were a junior sister, it wouldn't be allowed! If you want to touch my people, did you ask me, Liu Yilin?"
Liu Yilin was still angry, not fully grasping the situation.
"Wait, what did you just say?"
"Boss, I said Nangong Feiyan is my senior sister."
Ning Beichen was exasperated.
"Nangong Feiyan is... is your senior sister?"
Liu Yilin fell silent.
Ning Beichen nodded at her and explained, "Senior sister was just greeting me and chatting casually. Boss, don't overthink it."
"Fine! Ning Beichen, when did you get a senior sister? How come I didn't know?"
Liu Yilin felt like a fool. She didn't understand why she cared so much about his affairs, especially when she saw Ning Beichen whispering with that woman. She became particularly angry.
"Boss, the fact that I have a senior sister is my personal privacy. I have no obligation to inform you."
Ning Beichen's face also fell. He felt this woman was being utterly unreasonable. She wasn't his girlfriend, nor his wife. Why should he share such private matters with her?
Liu Yilin, who was previously angry, suddenly froze. She wasn't usually an unreasonable woman. She didn't know what was happening to her. As long as it involved Ning Beichen, she couldn't control her temper.
"I... I didn't mean that. Aren't you my bodyguard? Isn't it normal for your boss to care about you? I was afraid you were being deceived."
Liu Yilin replied somewhat sheepishly, her heart pounding.
"I'd be deceived?"
Ning Beichen muttered to himself in surprise, but he still explained to her.
"She's my senior sister. I only found out a few days ago. She was just concerned and asking about my situation."
"So that's how it is. Then I misunderstood you both. I apologize."
Liu Yilin also apologized to Ning Beichen with great embarrassment.
"It's alright, Boss. You don't need to worry about my senior sister's cooperation with you. She has no ill intentions."
Seeing her attitude improve, Ning Beichen's mood also lifted, and he stopped dwelling on the matter.
On the way back, Liu Yilin asked curiously, "Ning Beichen, do you know your senior sister is from the Nangong family?"
"Yes, I do. She's the only one left in the Nangong family now, so I'm like her family."
Ning Beichen spoke of Nangong Feiyan with great sympathy.
Liu Yilin didn't know about these matters. After hearing Ning Beichen's words, realizing Nangong Feiyan was the sole survivor of the Nangong family, she too felt a pang of sadness.
"Ning Beichen, you should treat your senior sister well in the future. If you have time, invite her out and keep her company so she doesn't feel so alone."
Liu Yilin said to Ning Beichen.
"I will, Boss."
Although Ning Beichen said this, he couldn't help but find it amusing internally. Liu Yilin didn't know that Nangong Feiyan was trying to set them up and have them produce children for her to raise.
If she knew, she probably wouldn't be so enthusiastic.
As Ning Beichen drove Liu Yilin home, a large truck suddenly emerged from the side and crashed into Ning Beichen's car with a deafening roar.
Ning Beichen's car tumbled on the ground, sparks flying as it scraped against the hard concrete, accompanied by cracking sounds.
Despite his sharp senses, Ning Beichen couldn't be constantly vigilant twenty-four hours a day. The truck had been parked by the roadside, like any ordinary vehicle, so Ning Beichen hadn't paid it much attention.
However, as he drove past, the truck parked on the roadside suddenly started and veered directly towards their car. It was clearly intentional, not an accident.
The moment the car was overturned, Ning Beichen reacted, but being inside the vehicle, there was little he could do, and the time was too short. All he could do was lean over and shield Liu Yilin's head.
Crash, crash, crash...
The car rolled several times on the road before flipping onto its side.
At this point, the large truck clearly intended to finish them off. It continued to ram into their overturned vehicle, pushing it towards the edge of the road. Outside the road was an overpass, and below it, a large river that flowed into the sea.
With a bang.
The car was pushed over the guardrail and plunged into the large river below. Within three seconds, a loud splash echoed from beneath the bridge as the car submerged.
Then, the door of the large truck opened, and a figure jumped out from the driver's seat. The truck followed, plunging over the guardrail towards where Ning Beichen's car had fallen.
This was a precisely orchestrated assassination. From the moment of action to its completion, the entire process took less than two minutes, as if rehearsed countless times.
First, they overturned Ning Beichen's car, then faked a loss of control by the truck, pushed Ning Beichen's car over the guardrail, and finally, the truck followed, destroying all evidence and witnesses.
If Ning Beichen and Liu Yilin had died, it would have appeared as a common traffic accident. As for the truck driver, his body would likely never be found, and the authorities would eventually rule it a case where the driver's body was swept away by the river.
In the end, no one would be held responsible, and there would be no culprit. It would simply be an accident.
Ning Beichen and Liu Yilin would be dead, and apart from their families, no one would care.
What no one knew was that as Ning Beichen's car plunged into the river, Ning Beichen had, at the earliest opportunity, dragged Liu Yilin, kicked through the windshield, and pulled her out of the car.
Less than a minute after they emerged, the large truck fell from the sky, landing precisely on their former vehicle. If Ning Beichen hadn't promptly pulled Liu Yilin out of the car, they would have surely perished.
Ning Beichen, disheveled and radiating killing intent, looked at the unconscious Liu Yilin. He turned, cradled her in his arms, and administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Then, like a shark, he swam several kilometers downstream with her before finally coming ashore in an area covered with reeds and aquatic plants.