Chapter 436 A Great Merit
It was already night when Ruby woke up.
Looking at the unfamiliar ceiling overhead, she froze for a moment before she remembered what had all happened.
In a flash, she jerked up and blanched as she looked around the room at the unfamiliarity of it all.
Just as she was about to turn over and get out of bed, the door to the room was pushed open from outside and Levi came in with a glass of water.
“Ruby, you’re awake.” Seeing her, Levi’s eyes lit up and he hurriedly took steps forward.
“How do you feel now? Do you want some water and something to eat?”
Ruby looked at his concerned face, her whitened lips pursed, suddenly grabbed his arm and asked eagerly, “Where is Olivia? Where is Olivia? Have you found her?”
Levi cast a reassuring look at her, put the glass of water on the bedside table to one side and raised his hand to touch her cheek.
“Don’t worry, Olivia has fallen asleep, Chester searched extensively on the road and found that Olivia hadn’t actually fled too far, she had been hiding underneath the sides of the road, found a shelter and had been waiting for you to go to her. Just now she stayed by your bedside for a long time, but because she was frightened and had been tossing and turning all day, she couldn’t hold on and fell asleep. I carried her back to her room. Wait till tomorrow morning, and then you can go and see her again.”This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.
Hearing him say this, Ruby put her mind at ease.
Luckily, those men from Benjamin did not chase her out to find her and take her away, otherwise the consequences would have been unthinkable.
But ……
Her face grew whiter and whiter as the man’s words echoed steeply in her mind.
“Josie ……” After a moment’s interval, she clenched her lips and a murmur of regret rolled out of her throat.
Levi’s lips curled lightly, and he suddenly raised his hand and flicked her on her bare forehead.
“I know what you are sad about, but don’t be sad, Josie is not dead, and the rest of your Red League is all alive and well now.”
At the sound of his words, Ruby was stunned and stared at him blankly.
“What do you say? Josie and the others didn’t die? Do you know that Jin Yuan has caught fire and they, they are all trapped inside ……”
Just as her words fell, Evans suddenly walked in with a smile on his face.
“Ruby, did you forget about me?”
His appearance caused Ruby to be stunned again, then she remembered, and said in a low voice, “Well, there are so many things going on these days that I indeed did not think of you.”
Evans: “……”
“At least I’m a big credit, can’t you be more polite?” At that moment, Evans raised his eyebrows, then snapped his fingers at the door, “Come in, your lady is looking for you.”
Josie walked in, her eyes gleaming as she looked at Ruby.
Seeing her standing unharmed, Ruby thought for a moment that her eyes had been blurred. Her gaze went up and down on Josie before she believed that the person standing in front of her was not a ghost, but a flesh and blood human being.
Realizing this, her emotions were like a rollercoaster, up and down, and now all of a sudden she was at the top again, unconsciously poking herself forward.
“How did you escape? What the hell was going on? And where are the others?”
Josie curled her lips into a smile and glanced towards Evans.
“Thanks to Mr. Yip, it just so happened that he came back when the fire first started, he saved us in time, otherwise, we would have been blocked in the Jin Yuan and would not have been able to escape at all.”
Seeing that her lady was still worried, she added, “Don’t worry, Miss, the rest of Red League are also fine and are now guarding the villa.”
Upon hearing this, Ruby asked, “Where am I?”
Levi replied in a warm voice: “This is one of Layton’s villas, he heard that something happened to Jin Yuan and also went to help, now he is letting us stay in this vacant villa first.”
At these words, Ruby felt relieved completely.
At this point, Evans asked her, “Who are those people? And what did they kidnap you for? Is it still for the things in your hands? But haven’t your grandfather’s relics already been handed over to District 7? What’s the use of them arresting you?”
When the subject came up, Ruby was silent and did not say anything.
She half-lidded her eyes and glanced over her arm.
The eye of the needle the man had stuck down was barely visible, but she remembered clearly that part of the potion had entered her body.
She was confident that her deduction was not wrong.
The potion must have a holding effect or the ability to control her.
And unfortunately, not only did this third of the potion fail to take complete control of her, but it stimulated the plum mark on her chest.
She remembered vividly that the plum mark on her chest suddenly launched into heat again as the man injected the potion into her body.
The feeling was all too familiar, and she had experienced it before, so it was clear that it was the Plum Blossom Mark that helped her to resist the effects of this potion that had entered her body.
But the other side didn’t know it.
All this time, she had been in the open, while Benjamin had been in the dark, trying to figure out how to reckon with her.
Now it was time to switch this around.
She said, “I am not sure. Wyon is very paranoid, and he has long hated me for what I did to his company. And this time he wanted to use Olivia to threaten me.”
At these words, Levi’s brow knitted up, obviously not quite believing this statement.
“Wyon? But those men don’t look like Wyon’s men, couldn’t it be someone behind the scenes?”
Ruby looked at his suspicious gaze and hesitated before raising her hand to cover her head, seemingly in some pain.
“I …… I can’t remember.”
At these words, Levi’s face suddenly turned ugly.
“Ruby, what’s the matter with you? Is it a headache? I’ll get a doctor!”
Ruby watched him get up and leave without stopping him, her face still looking bewildered, but the bottom of her eyes were clear.
If she wanted to fool Benjamin, then she had to keep her mouth shut and hide it even from Levi, only then would Benjamin believe that something was really wrong with her.
On the other side, Benjamin sat grimly in the living room sofa, his eyes so stern they could almost kill.
“Piece of shit!” A roar rang out, accompanied by the sound of a water glass being smashed on the floor.
“You even failed to bring her back! You can’t even handle such a trivial matter! What use would I have for you!”