The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

[The following arc may contain a lot of information. Readers are advised to be prepared for it.]

Li Yuming hugged her daughter tightly. "I'm sorry, Lanni." Her heart trembled just at the thought of many things that could have happened. 

Li Lanni snuggled comfortably and replied emotionally, "Mom, please don't apologize. I'm the one who should be sorry. I hid things from you." 

Patting her head, Li Yuming looked at her daughter and said, "As long as you don't do it anymore." 

"Actually, I didn't say anything before because you trusted her very much. And I had just lost my memory. Of course, you would believe her more and think that I'm just paranoid." 

"What nonsense are you saying? Of course, I would believe my baby more than anyone. Li Lanni, you are more important to me.

Is that why you didn't tell me anything?" 

"Yes." Li Lanni admitted. 

Li Yuming had to admit that she had trusted Ji Feifei too much. If not, that girl would never have had the chance to scheme against Li Lanni right under her nose. She should have to be more careful too. She regretted till her intestines turned green. It was her carelessness that caused her daughter to suffer silently.

"But from now on, no more secrets, right?" Li Yunming looked into her daughter's eyes and asked.

"Yes." Li Lanni replied honestly and snuggled deeper into her mother's arms

After revealing the secrets and hurt buried deep in her heart to her mother, she felt as if a huge load had been lifted from her shoulders. Now that she doesn't have to feel guilty anymore, she felt refreshed.

...

Unlike the embracing mother and daughter, the Ji family was a mess. 

Madam Ji was sulking on a sofa, too depressed to say anything. 

"My daughter... my own daughter... How can that be?" she kept mumbling. 

What was worse, after all that news blew up, Ji Feifei was not even in the least bit apologetic. On the contrary, she had even yelled with her hands on her h.i.p.s, "So what if Xiehan is my brother? Is it wrong to like a handsome man? I would like him even if he were my father!" 

And regarding the bullying incidences, she had dismissed it saying that they all deserved what she did to them. 

"How could my baby do this?" Madam Ji broke down just thinking about it.

Old Master Ji didn't say much either. Ever since that expulsion incident, he had known that his daughter had strayed away from the right path.

He, in fact, has seen right through her manipulative side and knew that she might have done more unspeakable deeds. 

And yet, his wife would never let him take her to a school for wayward children. 

Ji Xiehan had been right. Indeed, Ji Feifei was going to be the Ji family's downfall. 

What Old Master Ji didn't know was that dark clouds were looming over them, and more trouble was brewing their way.

...

The following evening, Li Yuming was exchanging some pieces of information with her daughter when Ji Xiehan dropped by. 

For the sake of convenience, Li Lanni had told her mother about her plan with Ji Xiehan. She tactfully didn't mention Xia Luna. 

She wanted to tell the matter about Xia Luna too, but she stopped when she realized it would be too much for her mother to take.  After all she might have received a considerable shock when she knew that the girl she had pitied and treated so well had been scheming against her daughter. 

When Ji Xiehan arrived, they all started discussing what he had found out. 

"I have obtained evidence that she has indeed been involved with many crimes.  Every one of the people she disliked has been harmed in a way or another." Ji Xiehan was practically embarrassed to have such a woman for a sister. 

How was he supposed to face his in-laws now? 

Was it too late to disown her?

He cleared his throat and went into detail. "The Ji family hasn't been giving her a lot of money. Since she started being a spendthrift, father basically froze her cards. 

So she has been getting money from illegal business: drug trafficking." 

Li Lanni was shocked. She had thought about such a thing, but she didn't expect it actually to be true. It came as a huge surprise. 

Li Yuming was even more shocked. And here she thought that Xia Luna was a cunning girl. If Xia Luna was cunning, then what was Ji Feifei? Wasn't she practically the devil? 

"What are you planning to do? Sue, her?" Ji Xiehan asked Li Yuming. 

Li Yuming, in turn, looked at her daughter. She was the one who had been mostly affected by Ji Feifei's schemes. She would go by her opinion. 

Li Lanni thought hard about it and just stared into space. She would have really loved to skin that girl alive, burn her to death, or just choke the guts out of her. 

But then again, there was such a thing as law. 

If she resorted to doing things the same way those unlawful people did, how would she be any different from them? 

In the end, she looked at Ji Xiehan. "Let's sue her. I want to uncover all the crimes she has been involved in and let the court sentence her fairly. 

Just... just don't do anything to make her sentence lighter, okay? You and your family, leave it entirely to the court." 

Ji Xiehan was perplexed. He had expected Li Lanni to execute a huge punishment or personally torture Ji Feifei. But then how could his Lanni stoop to their level? She would surely punish them but lawfully.

She need not ask him not to intervene in this matter, he would always be her support even if she asked him for illegal stuff. 

He only hoped that his parents had learned a lesson because if they had, they would never try to shield their daughter this time. 

... 

When Ji Xiehan left their villa, he called to let a bodyguard drive his car back. Meanwhile, he strolled on his own. 

It was not that this whole matter did not sadden him. 

That was his sister, after all. 

He knew that the little brat had some stupid fantasies about him. But even then, he had been hoping that she would grow out of it. 

After all, it was normal for young girls to adore their brothers. 

Besides, he had not even been there when Ji Feifei was born. He had not been there in her childhood either. They would only meet a few times when he came back to the country to visit his parents. 

Aside from that, their brother-sister relationship was too distant. 

He was partially to blame for this. Ever since he knew that he had a sister, he hadn't been a good brother. 

He and his little sister just didn't hit it off. It didn't help that the girl was somewhat clingy from the very beginning.  Hence instead of trying to be closer to her, he spent almost all his time avoiding her. It was no shock that she didn't actually see him as a brother but as a man instead. 

Ji Xiehan couldn't help blaming his past self. For her to be in this situation, he shared equal responsibilities as their parents.

Then again, that girl was weird in every way.  It wasn't just about her crazy i.n.c.e.s.tuous fantasy. All that bullying she had done couldn't be excused. And drug trafficking... that was a severe case.

Thinking of all these things, Ji Xiehan rubbed his forehead and sighed. What's done cannot be undone. So he could only hope that with this, his sister will realize her mistakes and change for good.

Aside from this, Ji Xiehan was also thinking about another result of his investigation. 

Ji Feifei didn't have anything to do with Li Lanni's accident. Or at least there were no ties to her. 

He had then tried to investigate the guy who was in the car with Li Lanni at the time. He had a feeling that guy must be connected somehow. 

This was mainly because that Yang Su seemed to have been a little close to Ji Feifei. He knew he was paranoid, but nothing could be brushed off. 

However, the guy had been in a prolonged coma before he died. He didn't even have the chance to question him. 

As for Yang Su's personal life, it was spotless aside from that tiny connection he had with Ji Feifei. 

But they were from the same school. It wasn't a surprise. Besides, that guy was Li Lanni's boyfriend. No one would plot to harm his own girlfriend, right?

Perhaps it was really an accident, after all?

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I know many of you will be mad at me for making Lanni choose to sue Ji Feifei, but hey... don't hate me yet. In the next arc, you will understand why Lanni chose that.