001: Hell is empty_2

In her seventeenth year, she was finally brought back to the Mu Family from Hua Mountain.

Before, Mu Qingli thought that her father had truly remembered his daughter.

As it turned out, there was another calculation.

This damn preference for sons over daughters.

After a bout of piercing pain.

"The heart has been removed," Doctor Zhao, holding a blood-drenched heart in his hands, walked over to Mu Junliang.

Mu Junliang's face revealed a relieved smile, "That's great! Doctor Zhao, please perform the surgery on our Tianyi right away!"

Mu Qingli could only stare tightly at the heart, unable to do anything as she watched her life slowly being extinguished.

She was like an animal that had been caged.

"Mr. Mu, I can prepare for the surgery for the young master immediately, however, I have one condition…" Doctor Zhao paused slightly as he spoke, his refined eyes drifting among those present, before finally resting on Mu Qingli.

Mu Junliang answered impatiently, "Whatever the condition, Doctor Zhao, just say it!"

As long as his only son could survive, he was willing to give up everything.

Hearing this, Doctor Zhao's mouth curved into a satisfied smile and he said, "Mu Qingli's body must belong to me."

This was a very good experimental subject, even without a heart, with the help of machines, she was still very much alive, and a possessive desire close to madness surfaced in Doctor Zhao's eyes.

Having expected to hear some excessively harsh condition, it turned out to be just a body, Mu Junliang responded with a sycophantic smile, utterly uncaring, "Doctor Zhao, as long as Tianyi lives, as for the rest, anything that pleases you can be taken away."

Mu Junliang said this without any emotion, as casually as if he were crushing an ant.

Upon hearing this, Doctor Zhao's mouth drew up into a satisfied smile. He gestured to two people behind him and coldly ordered, "Take her away!"

Mu Qingli's operating table was moved to another sealed room.

Her body was filled with tubes and a heart pacemaker, lying on the bed like a mummy.

"Tap, tap, tap—"

The sound of high heels echoed in the air, somewhat grating.

"Creak."

The door was pushed open.

From outside, a graceful figure entered, wearing a purple dress that fluttered like that of a Heavenly Immortal.

She walked slowly to the bed, looking down at Mu Qingli with a smile of pride, her gentle voice whispering, "Dear sister, I've come to see you."

Mu Qingli just looked at her, her phoenix eyes half-closed.

The person standing before her used to be the sixth young miss of the Mu Family, Mu Lanke, also her younger sister.

But six years ago, the eldest young miss of the Gu Family in Imperial City passed away in a car accident, and in that accident, Mu Lanke's identity underwent a dramatic change. The Gu Family discovered that their eldest daughter was not their own flesh and blood, but had been switched with another baby at the hospital by mistake.

Upon investigation, the Gu Family found that the child who had been switched at birth was indeed Mu Lanke.

Consequently, Mu Lanke was grandly claimed by the Gu Family, transforming from the sixth Mu Family's young miss to the Gu Family's eldest young miss.

And she changed her name to Gu Lanke!

When Mu Qingli was still with the Mu Family, she had a good relationship with Gu Lanke and could not understand why Gu Lanke would also change in this way.

Gu Lanke laughed with a sinister glint in her eyes, "Regardless, we are sisters after all. You're leaving, and I should at least see you off."

"Get lost!" Mu Qingli spat out coldly.

In Gu Lanke's eyes, there was only a look of triumph, devoid of her former warmth and kindness, "Look at your pitiful state, you won't be in this world for long, so let me tell you a secret, so you can die knowing the truth."

Gu Lanke lowered her voice and leaned close to Mu Qingli's ear, whispering softly, "Actually, you are the true Gu Family's eldest young miss! I have merely replaced your identity. To think, you were so foolish, your own parents were in front of you, yet you called them uncle and aunt."

Gu Lanke had taken her place!?

Upon hearing this, Mu Qingli's eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at Gu Lanke!

The Gu Family was the foremost among the four major households of Imperial City, one hundred Mu Families couldn't equal one Gu Family, how did the mere Gu Lanke manage such a deceitful switch?

Gu Lanke extended her hand adorned with bright red nails and gently lifted Mu Qingli's chin, her tone tender.

"Oh, and do you remember saving someone on Hua Mountain long ago? He is the most noble man in Imperial City, but now, his savior is me, I am his fiancée."