Chapter 428 – Mei Lan, the Daughter of a Chinese Conglomerate (8)

“Ugh, my, why am I…”

Mei Wei had a face that she couldn’t understand why she had suddenly collapsed.
She deserved it and she did.
She would have been told all the time that she would have taken good care of her health and that she was young for her age.

“Please lie down and rest for a while.”

Although she treated him, he was a normal person, and both the poison accumulated in his body and its antidote were difficult for him to handle.
I moved him into the room and told Meilan.

“Shall we talk?”
“Ah yes…”

We went to another room and we talked alone.
Meiwei’s bodyguard looked at us with uncomfortable eyes as we went to the room alone, but Kaori and Katsumi were there, so they couldn’t do anything.

After coming to the room, Meilan kept looking at me.

“I’m sorry.”
“What?”
“I said useless things to my father…”

It was definitely unnecessary.
How many people with common sense could say such a thing to their father?
This could not be understood due to cultural differences, and the reason had to be found in the fact that the relationship between Mei Wei and Mei Lan was far more intimate than that of an ordinary woman.

I asked for that purpose.

“What kind of person is your stepmother?”
“Are you my stepmother?”

At my sudden question, Mei Lan blinked his eyes.

“The stepmother…”

Meilan looked at one corner of the room and was dazed.

“What can I say… My father only thinks that my relationship with my stepmother is good. Because we’re both acting. To be more specific, I am also acting between my stepmother and myself. A good mother-daughter relationship.”
“Why do you think it’s acting?”
“I know. That my stepmother was constantly monitoring my actions. And that she is constantly interfering with my line of sight.”
“Is it good?”
“Yeah… Actually, I didn’t think it was too big of a deal because I had no intention of getting married either. But her stepmother is also wary of me getting married and my husband inheriting her business.”
“Why?”
“It’s a bit rude to say this, but…”

Mei Lan hesitated to bring her words out.
But I quickly figured out what had happened.
Because the composition was too obvious for a third person to see.

“Is your mother greedy for Shenlong Enterprises?”
“That’s…”

It wasn’t Mei Lan, she couldn’t say.
She was a good girl, so no matter how much she was a stepmother, she couldn’t speak ill of her family.

“Her father had poison in his body. Accumulated for a long time. It must have been accumulated through food.”
“Yeah? Then she just collapsed…”
“Of course she must have been shocked by what Mei Lan said of her. But it only served as a trigger for her. She already had explosives in her body.”
“Oh my gosh…”

Only now she understood why Mei Lan had asked what kind of person my stepmother was.

“Then why did you interfere with my line…”
“He would have thought that if he killed his father and there were no men in the family, he could take over the business himself.”
“But my family doesn’t pass on the family business to women.”
“Perhaps you should have tried. But ironically, the poison must have interrupted my father’s night shift. Because it was piled up in the lower body.”
“I can’t…”
“I was just saying what I saw with my own eyes and what I guessed. I’d like you to talk to your father about more details.”
“I will!”

Meilan jumped up.
She left her room and went to the room where her own father was lying.

‘What the hell is this?’

She had no intention of getting involved in other people’s household chores, but it occurred to her that the situation was taking an unexpected turn.

She couldn’t let Mei Wei die anyway, so she saved him.
And it told me my guess as to why this happened.
If not, the same thing will happen again.
If Mei Wei’s poisoning was due to his wife, she did it with a clear purpose.
She would continue to bully Mei Wei until she achieved her goal.
If her father dies, she loses a place for Mei Lan as well.
Because she is young and not her heir, the voice she can produce must be small.

About thirty minutes later, May Wei came out of her room, supported by her daughter.

“You’re not feeling well, but you’re not taking any more rest.”
“No, thanks to you, I’m fine.”

Mayway had a miserable expression.
Maybe there was a corner where he heard the story I delivered through Meilan and pointed out something.

“How do I really repay this favor…”
“No.”

It could be said that not only Meilan but also Meiwei’s meeting with me was heavenly luck.
I had nothing more to say.

“I kept hearing bad things about my wife. But at least she is devoted to me and takes good care of her daughter, so I decided to trust her unconditionally. I feel very ashamed that my convictions should be shaken.”

May Wei said that she divides the world into two.
She knows who she can trust and who she can’t.
And it was his creed that the person who decided to believe would believe until the end.

However, a series of incidents occurred in which that creed was shaken.
I learned that I had stolen her daughter’s chastity, and that her wife had been poisoning her for a long time.
It was understandable that he was making a miserable face.

“What do you plan to do next?”
“So that’s what I mean.”

Meiwei looked at me seriously and said.

“Would you like to talk with me?”

He used to treat me with respect before he collapsed, but it bothered me that his way of speaking had changed now, but he was a lot older than me anyway.
In that sense, would you say it’s more comfortable than before?
It also happened with her daughter.

We went into the room alone.

“I’m sorry for showing you like that. I was so shocked…”
“I understand. Don’t talk like that.”

Even like me, I didn’t stay still.
If I hadn’t been the one who saved Meilan’s life, I would have turned a man with terrifying power into an enemy.

“And thank you so much for saving my life. I almost lost what I had worked on all my life in an instant.”
“It’s good that you don’t trust people too much. It’s not something I would say to someone with more life experience than me.”
“No, that is very true. To be honest, I don’t even know who to trust now. Maybe I think I’ve been trying hard to ignore myself.”
“What are you going to tell me…”
“Well, actually I was thinking of closing my business in China.”
“Yeah?”

I didn’t understand.
Speaking of Shinryong Corporation, it is a company that people all over the world do not know about.
Is it possible to organize with the simple words that the big global company organizes?

“I’ve always thought that I couldn’t survive in China any longer. It’s obvious what will happen if we go on like this. I’ll have no choice but to hand it all over to the thieves. For silence, send me to jail or… Kill me.”

I knew that the situation in China was not common sense.
However, when I heard this from a real Chinese conglomerate, the weight was different.

“Today is the first time we’ve met like this, but I don’t think Hunter is an ordinary person. Can you tell me more about yourself?”

I was a bit hesitant about Meiwei’s previous question.
Until now, the subjects I had disclosed everything about me were women who were exposed to ‘a crush for no reason’.
Because they were 100% reliable.
However, Mayway was not in that case.
Moreover, she was a person with a lot of money and power, although her position in China was at stake.
In Korea, most things are solved by the fact that he is an S-class hunter, but he had to be careful when dealing with international problems, especially against the great power of China.

I asked him

“How much do you love your daughter?”
“I value you more than my own life. If it’s for her sake, I don’t mind if I end up penniless right now and go to jail.”

Meiwei’s face was serious.
She seemed so resolute that she couldn’t even push a needle in.

“Well…”

I apologized to him once.

“I’m sorry about your daughter. It was the only way to save it. You may not understand. Was it possible to be treated only through that method? But I can’t understand my ability either. Probably many hunters do. It’s not like you have a 100% theoretical understanding of your abilities.”
“You know that. The Japanese women outside must be in the same situation as my daughter. Actually, that’s what upset me. If not, it wouldn’t have mattered if I married you. Hmm…”

Mei Wei tightly closed her eyes, as if thinking about it still hurt her stomach.