"I-I am sorry. My Daughter…"
Jiang Yuyan looked at the men standing at one side. "Tell her what happened to the man."
"The driver of the truck didn't shut his mouth even after getting warned so we cut his tongue," Gu Hai informed.
The woman swallowed her words back and stayed silent and Jiang Yuyan commented, "Let's take a look into your honorable work, and then we can decide what to do with your daughter."
"I told you….."
"Get the knife ready if she interrupts me again," Jiang Yuyan instructed as she opened the file.
"I already have it ready knowing this woman can be noisy."
Saying the butler pulled out the knife from the inside pocket of his suit. The knife was wrapped in the leather covering, but one could see what kind of knife it was.
The woman didn't dare to say a word after this, and Jiang Yuyan continued.
"Human trafficking...Hmm! So, you get the girls from all over the world at a cheap price and sell them here at a higher price. Most of the girls are minors and kidnapped to bring it here while a few are abandoned by the poor families… Ohh…!"
Jiang Yuyan stopped as she turned a few pages that made others curious about what Jiang Yuyan saw suddenly.
"The girl you sold till now, most of them are kids and here you are complaining about your daughter being so young."
Jiang Yuyan said it normally as nothing affected her and she was only interested in a woman's daughter.
The woman gulped. She wanted to say something, but the fear of losing her tongue kept her silent.
Jiang Yuyan looked at her as she said, "Do you know all those kids you sold to those lusty men died just after one or two days. Can you imagine what must have happened to them?"
Jiang Yuyan was getting angrier the further she read. She looked at the woman who was sitting quietly and asked, "Do you?"
"I….." the woman couldn't speak further.
"Seems like you don't know. Don't worry, we will watch your daughter closely to get to know everything."
"My daughter…."
The woman stopped as the butler stepped forwards and kept the knife on the center table in the room and Jiang Yuyan continued.
"The girls in the basement of your mansion are being tortured if they say no to work for you. You starve them, your men beat them and raped them too."
The woman kept quiet as she listened to Jiang Yuyan.
"Thud!"
Closing the file, Jiang Yuyan threw it at the women and instructed in the firm voice, "One more name needs to be included in this file. Write it with your own hand, your daughter's name."
The woman looked at the file and tears rolled down from her eyes. She looked at Jiang Yuyan as she shook her head to say no.
One woman in the suit stepped forward and offered her a pen, but she didn't accept it.
"Even if you won't write the name of your daughter, it won't change the fact that she contributed in flourishing her mother's honorable business. What a lovely daughter you had. Was she really pretty?" Jiang Yuyan asked, her expressions cold and her eyes emotionless.
The woman broke into a loud cry when Jiang Yuyan talked like her daughter was gone already.
"Save my daughter, please. Take my life instead," the woman pleaded.
"Even if she gets saved, there is no use. The loss has already been done and I doubt you can get her back in the condition."
"Bring her back to me. I will make everything right for her, and later you can take my life."
"Why should I? You reap what you sow."
"Please let me save my daughter. Please." The woman pleaded as she cried her heart out.
"Well, I don't mean to be the representative of those troubled women because it's not my responsibility what they had gone through but I would like to say something."
Hearing Jiang Yuyan, the woman stayed quiet to see what she would say.
"You forced them to do the work they didn't want. Even after you earned a fortune, you didn't bother to stop and help them to make their lives better. You forgot you earned the money by making them work, so how do you expect your daughter to get the chance to get her life back? Won't it be unfair to your daughter's colleagues?… Ohh… Calling them your daughter's colleagues won't be wrong as she joined the business at their levels, right?"
"Get that knife and stab me. Do whatever you want. The last wish of a dying person you have to listen," the woman shouted.
"Is there any such compulsion, or you going to haunt me after your death?" Jiang Yuyan asked nonchalantly.
Seeing Jiang Yuyan so adamant about not ready to listen, the woman could do nothing but cry her heart out as she mumbled, "My daughter, please save her….."
"You know what pisses me off the most is when one man does something wrong to the woman in that way but what worse is when one woman pushes the other woman in that pit. Your daughter had to bear the weight of your sins and for me she does not differ from those girls. You call them sluts, so now your girl is the one too."
"You bitch. Stop comparing my daughter to those lowly creatures. They are meant to suffer because their families can't support them and they had no life but my daughter is a princess whose mother took care of her like a delicate flower… You...but…you crushed that flower."
"Then tell me what I should call your daughter if not the slut?" Jiang Yuyan said, her intentions clear- provoking the woman.
"You…If I get the chance, I will get you to my mansion's basement and make my all men rape you like beasts, you bitch, just free me once."
The woman looked like she lost her mind in the pain of losing her daughter.