Chapter 109 - Self-Rescue Manual of a Villainess

"Knock, knock, knock!" The sudden knocking at the door startled Nan Yin. She had just transformed back into her human form from being a cat, ready to test the agility of her new body. Only then did she open the door. To Nan Yin's surprise, the person outside was the little boy she had encountered earlier. She looked at the familiar-looking little boy and raised an eyebrow, teasingly asking, "What's up, little brother? Are you here to buy some self-defense weapons from this arms dealer?" The little boy's pupils dilated when he saw Nan Yin, but he ignored her teasing and instead anxiously asked, "Um, I bumped into you just now. Are you hurt?" Nan Yin blinked, genuinely puzzled by the little boy’s words. "What are you talking about? Have we met before?" Seeing Nan Yin's genuine confusion, the little boy breathed a sigh of relief. Indeed, the woman in front of him looked younger and wasn't wearing a black dress, but... wasn’t she just like the person he had encountered earlier? Watching the little boy pondering with his head down, Nan Yin couldn't help but become curious. She squatted down, touched the little one's face, and then asked with a smile, "Little one, I heard from your sister Lan that you've already awakened your special ability. Tell me, what is your ability?" The little boy immediately became alert, but it was just a habitual vigilance. He then pretended to be innocent and said, "Sister Lan already told you! My ability is speed! I can run very fast, like an airplane! Woohoo!" In truth, his real ability was a rare and special one called "Insight," but that was something he couldn’t disclose to anyone. Nan Yin sensed that the little boy was deliberately acting cute and hiding something. However, she didn’t have the habit of prying into others’ secrets, so she pretended not to notice and was quite content. After a few mischievous remarks, the little boy hurried off. Watching his departure, Nan Yin rubbed her chin, inexplicably feeling that the little boy might not be an ordinary child. It was all very puzzling. Before Nan Yin could make sense of it, Li Meng suddenly appeared. Her visible relief at seeing Nan Yin was quite evident. "I came to find you just now. The maids said you had taken a room and stayed alone. I thought something was wrong with your health again," Li Meng said, with her hands on her hips, pouting at Nan Yin. Nan Yin smiled and didn’t take it seriously. "As if it’s that easy for me to have health problems. So, what do you need me for?" Upon hearing this, Li Meng got angry, putting her hands on her hips and pouting at Nan Yin. "You invited me to the dance tonight. But as soon as we entered the mansion, you disappeared." "Hmm, well then, beautiful Li Meng, how can I compensate you?" Nan Yin was in a good mood and teased her, which was quite rare for her. Unexpectedly, when Li Meng heard this, she blushed and, under Nan Yin's puzzled gaze, asked softly, "Compensate? How about you accompany me for a dance later? I don't have a dance partner tonight." However, asking Nan Yin to be her dance partner when the dance hadn't even started yet, Li Meng led Nan Yin to her room. It was only then that Nan Yin learned that this mansion was entirely Li Meng's property, having nothing to do with the Dragon Qian Group or her outstanding father. Li Meng had bought this mansion entirely with her own money. Nan Yin felt deeply impressed. In her subconscious, she had always thought that the second-generation children were nothing without their family and elders. At least, they had no ability to buy such a large mansion completely on their own before they turned eighteen. After all, the most impressive second-generation individual she had known in her past life had only gone as far as calling himself the "Son of the Land." People like Li Meng were quite rare, to be honest. Seeing Nan Yin’s shocked expression, Li Meng felt proud, with a hint of uncertainty facing Nan Yin's question: "I wonder what kind of business Miss Li Meng did to buy this mansion?" Li Meng blushed and hesitated under Nan Yin's gaze for a while before whispering, "My mother and I earned the money through performances." Nan Yin was taken aback. Performances? What kind of performances? Did a young lady like Li Meng need to perform alone? And with her own mother? If she guessed correctly, Li Yi Tian had only one wife, Li Meng's birth mother, Christie Whitell. However, very few rumors circulated about this lady. At that moment, Li Meng looked at Nan Yin and then suddenly mustered the courage to grab something nearby, which turned out to be a guitar. Nan Yin was taken aback. Was this what Li Meng meant by performances? "I called you here for another reason today--I've composed a new melody. Could you... um... give it a listen?" Li Meng, holding the guitar, managed to amuse Nan Yin with her shy and coy demeanor. Did Miss Li Meng fear being ridiculed? True, it was possible that if someone told Nan Yin how much Mr. Ma's son loved the electric guitar and was quite obsessed with it, Nan Yin might have mocked the situation. But in front of Li Meng, Nan Yin wouldn't do that. Li Meng was her good friend, and in Nan Yin's eyes, as long as it wasn't a vile preference, she would choose to support it. Li Meng waited for a while, expecting to hear the anticipated "astonishment" or "mockery," but instead, she saw encouraging eyes from Nan Yin, which left her in disbelief. "You..." Li Meng was a bit stunned. Frankly speaking, today was the first time in six years that she had shown her electric guitar to someone else, having developed a habit of being ridiculed. Li Meng naturally assumed that Nan Yin, like others, would ridicule her because her status as the daughter of the Long Qian Group didn't permit her to engage in such unorthodox activities, at least according to many others' opinions. Even her father, Li Yi Tian, considered her to be unproductive. But Li Meng had fetched her guitar in front of Nan Yin because of a special feeling she had for Nan Yin... a feeling she temporarily labeled as genuine friendship. Due to this sentiment, Li Meng was determined that even if Nan Yin made fun of her, she would play her favorite hobby to the girl. Now, with Nan Yin's encouraging gaze, Li Meng felt like crying. For the first time in six years, someone had acknowledged her hobby. "Don’t daydream. Let me see your skills. I'll have to attack you if you don't play well," Nan Yin joked. Li Meng looked deeply into the snow-haired girl's eyes, as if wanting to etch the image in her heart. And so, the guitar that Li Meng had enjoyed alone for six years finally rang out in front of others for the first time. Li Meng's guitar playing was gentle, yes, gentle, and it gave Nan Yin a feeling completely different from the rugged rock she was used to. For the first time, she realized that an electric guitar could be played so delicately and sweetly. After Li Meng finished playing, she put down the guitar and let out a sigh of relief. For some reason, she felt that something in her heart had been released while something else had been elevated. ---------------------------------- Chapter 110 "In fact, I didn't have the identity of the second miss of the Long Qian Group before I turned twelve," Li Meng said as she pulled Nan Yin to sit on the sofa, lost in her own thoughts. Nan Yin's curiosity was piqued because these were things that had not been mentioned in the original work. She, as someone who possessed the foresight of the plot, had no knowledge of these events. "Before my mom met my dad, she didn't even know that he was the future heir of the Long Qian Group. They met and fell in love in Moscow, Soviet Union, and spent five years of love there," Li Meng said, looking somewhat melancholic, revealing that this period of love was not as simple and happy as she made it out to be. "Five years later, my dad had to leave my mom to return to the family to participate in the inheritance. In order to protect my mom from being harmed by his competitors, he had to leave her, and in my mom's eyes, he abandoned her." "Although my dad gave my mom a lot of money before he left, she sent it all back unchanged. Then she relied on her band to hold concerts and tours across the country," Li Meng said as she picked up her guitar. "This was the guitar of the band she played in at the time, which eventually ended up in my hands." Nan Yin nodded, then suddenly thought of something. "So, your mom… was she touring while pregnant?" Li Meng nodded quietly. "Because neither my dad nor mom knew about me. My mom found out about the pregnancy a month after my dad had left and couldn't get in touch with him." "Unable to do anything, my mom had to disband the group and used the money she had saved to buy a house in the Siberian ecological zone, where she gave birth to me and my sister." "That year, the Soviet Union and the Shinkai Empire signed the 'Nebuchu Treaty,' in which the Soviet Union handed over most of the Asian territories to the Shinkai Empire. My mom had to move with the political axe and ended up in Great Britain," Li Meng said with a smile. "That's when I learned English, with a proper London accent too." Nan Yin also smiled. In her eyes, Li Meng was a very optimistic child. In this situation, Li Meng was not likely to have had a happy childhood. "After giving birth to me, my mom settled down as a full-time mom. However, when I was six, she revived her passion for the band, but by then, she had lost contact with her previous bandmates, so she had to start over with me and my sister in tow." "It was during this time that I got this guitar and fell in love with music. It wasn't until I was twelve years old that my dad found us," Li Meng sighed suddenly. Nan Yin raised an eyebrow. "How did your dad find you then? Wasn't it said that they had lost contact?" Li Meng shook her head. "To be precise, it was my mom who found my dad. She saw my dad at a news conference for the Long Qian Group on TV and contacted him." "After that, my sister and I moved to the Li household, and my mom stopped being in a band," Li Meng said, feeling a bit sentimental. Nan Yin also sounded a bit empathetic. This girl had been through a lot. She couldn't help but wonder about her mother... "So, your mom..." Nan Yin hesitated before deciding to ask. "Oh, my mom," Li Meng tilted her head. "After moving into the Li household, she joined hands with my dad and stopped me from playing guitar. She said I was now a lady from a rich family and couldn't play like that anymore." Nan Yin: ??? What kind of talk was that? Why did it change from a moving family drama about inheriting her mother's music to a teenage rebellious drama "They won't let me do it, so I'll do it anyway"? The plot changed so quickly! Seeing Nan Yin's rapidly changing expression, Li Meng, looking puzzled, tilted her head again. "What's wrong, Xiao Yin?" "N-nothing," Nan Yin confirmed again. "Since neither of your parents wants you to learn guitar anymore, do you really like it?" Li Meng immediately nodded, her eyes shining as if she held a special fondness for it. "Yes, yes! In fact, I was quite puzzled at first. Why didn't my mom let me learn the guitar? She used to love music so much," she said. Nan Yin was speechless for a moment. Honestly, didn't Li Meng already say it herself just now? Her mom formed a band to earn money to support her family. Music was nothing more than a hobby. Now that she had married into a wealthy family, why would she still be so upfront about it? Nan Yin figured that Li Meng's mother probably hoped her daughter could inherit the vast Long Qian Group. After all, from Nan Yin's understanding, Li Meng's sister, Li Sha, had already married and gone to the Shinkai’s Dongying Province. Well... Are rebellious teenage girls the same everywhere, even at eighteen? Following this, Li Meng had Nan Yin play several guitar pieces for her, claiming they were her original compositions. Nan Yin also expressed her trust in her good friend. Then, the dance finally began. Li Meng successfully invited Nan Yin to be her partner at the dance, and the two charming girls became the center of attention at the party. But... why was Li Meng blushing like a tomato the whole time? Was she blushing because she was from the Leander family? Nan Yin was very puzzled by this. Days without major events always seemed to pass by quickly. In the blink of an eye, it had been almost a month since Li Meng's party. During this month, Nan Yin instructed Bai Lang and Fube Zhengsi to secretly annex many gangs and territories in the Filo District. In this situation, Ambrella International Company, a weapons dealer, gained more control. More and more gangs and civilians who wanted to protect themselves began to purchase weapons from Ambrella International, which partially alleviated Nan Yin's worries about the sales issue. In this scenario, Nan Yin also personally approved a batch of weapons to be sent directly to the Motorcycle Club's territory. Thus, the Motorcycle Club, which had already begun to prepare for battle due to Ambrella International's rapid expansion, was temporarily resting. However, Nan Yin understood that the conflict between herself and the Motorcycle Club would eventually erupt. All current actions were just temporary measures, and she would have to find a way to solve the Motorcycle Club problem once and for all. During this period, a big event or a little thing happened: the world's college entrance examination had begun. In this world, unlike Nan Yin's previous life, the college entrance examination was universal worldwide. It was divided into two parts: the supernatural ability entrance examination and the academic subject examination. Those who believed they had good supernatural abilities could participate in the supernatural ability entrance examination and enter a supernatural ability academy, while those who felt they couldn't make any breakthroughs in the supernatural realm would only take the academic subject examination. Nan Yin was unable to take part in the supernatural ability examination, so she directly arranged for Jiang Mi and Xia Yi Yi to take the examination. As for Nan Xi, with our kind male lead Su Xiao Yu having already arranged everything for her, which Nan Yin didn't have to worry about. Under this circumstance, the three-month-long supernatural ability examination began in full swing. (Note: The supernatural ability examination includes but is not limited to publicizing the previous supernatural ability test results of the students, kindling and testing supernatural abilities, and training. Those who fail would only have a week's duration, while selected students would undergo the examination for three