The person we were most grateful to right then was Pan Xiaorou. She had saved Meng Yifan.
But we never could have imagined that she was also the one who had steered Meng Yifan toward Tao Xiaoyu.
I had checked the number that sent the text. It was Pan Xiaorou's number!
Seventh Master took the phone and looked, and couldn't help marveling. "She really is clever. For a woman to beat her husband's family in the fight for control and get the entire board to vote her in as the new chairwoman, she certainly knows how to play her cards."
Meng Yifan frowned. "You're saying this President Pan who got me out is the same person who texted me?"
Song Xiaotian sighed and nodded. "That's her."
"Then I'm going to settle the score with her!"
Meng Yifan slammed the table angrily and got up to go find Pan Xiaorou.
We hurriedly held him back and tried to reason with him. "What good would confronting her now do? All she did was send you a text, and you played right into it. Besides, what could you do to her? She's the chairwoman of a corporate group. You only just got out. Don't stir up more trouble."
Meng Yifan sat back down, still fuming.
Song Xiaotian frowned. "I don't get it. She was already planning to send someone to kill Xiang Kai and Tao Xiaoyu. Why set Meng Yifan up too?"
It seemed somewhat unnecessary.
I said, "That's where she was clever. When she sent someone to kill Xiang Kai and Tao Xiaoyu, she didn't yet know Du Yunting was going to kill Xiang Kai too. If she'd succeeded, it would have been a straightforward crime of passion. Not only would the police have suspected her, but Xiang Kai's family and the