Chapter 188 Sir, Miss Ji doesn't want you anymore.

At that moment, a Maybach pulled up next to them.

Gu Yanchen came down from inside...

Inside the van, the situation suddenly changed.

The three men were tied up like earthworms; their faces were unharmed, but their bodies were in bad shape.

Jiang Ran leaned against the car door and said to Ji Ying, "I left one that can still talk. Ask whatever you want."

Ji Ying exchanged a glance with her, and Jiang Ran understood. She nimbly stepped back five meters away, maintaining a distance without being out of sight.

Ji Ying nodded slightly to her, as if to thank her for this tacit understanding.

"Are you one of Madam Liang's people?" she asked.

Zhang Nan was pinned down by two burly men, his breathing was labored, but he was full of ambition.

"I would never betray my boss."

Ji Ying took off her shoes.

The pointed heels were raised high, pointing directly into his eyes.

"Answer carefully."

Zhang Nan swallowed hard. "I was just following orders. If I hadn't done my job properly, I wouldn't have been kept alive until now."

Okay, that's a tacit admission.

"So..." Ji Ying paused, "you're the most skilled person around him?"

"Of course."

Ji Ying raised the shoe again.

Zhang Nan became anxious, "This time it's the truth, I'm not lying to you."

“I’ve seen that assassin before. He’s tall and thin, and his build doesn’t match this chubby guy,” Jiang Ran said from five meters away.

Ji Ying turned to look at her.

Telling her to stand further away meant I didn't want her to hear me, but her hearing was too sensitive...

Jiang Ran shut her mouth.

Ji Ying looked at Zhang Nan again, "Besides you, is there anyone else Xie Lingfang can use?"

Zhang Nan sighed, "No, with her status, she naturally understands that the more people involved, the easier it is to make mistakes. There are too few people she can trust, and even fewer she dares to use. That's why she always only contacts me directly, and she never goes through a third party when she needs to give instructions."

Ji Ying frowned slightly at his words.

"Miss Ji, her malice towards you isn't too deep. She just wants you to leave the eldest young master for a while. How about... you go on vacation?"

Ji Ying laughed at his words, "Your eldest son is in this restaurant. How about I take you to him and make them break up?"

"No!" Zhang Nan panicked a little. "Madam will kill me."

"Then you should persuade her to find someone to take Liang Yanchuan's place."

Zhang Nan was stunned for a moment.

"Don't tell me you didn't know that the shell company tricked him into signing the contract."

Zhang Nan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to agree, but seemed to have some difficulty.

Ji Ying waved to Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran walked over.

"Is there any way to make him more confident in persuading his wife?"

Jiang Ran looked at her with an expression that said, "Watch me!"

The car door closed the next second.

Zhang Nan's wailing and howling were all muffled inside the car.

A few minutes later, Jiang Ran opened the car door and jumped out.

Inside the car, Zhang Nan was speaking incoherently on the phone.

Jiang Ran dusted off her hands and said to Ji Ying, "It's not a big problem."

Ji Ying nodded.

Gu Yanshen grew impatient and got out of the car.

"When are you coming with me?"

Ji Ying's eyes were indifferent. "I'll go tell Liang Jian."

Gu Yanchen chuckled.

Ji Ying turned to look at Jiang Ran, "After we reach an agreement, could you please return Xie Lingfang's dog to her?"

Jiang Ran didn't refuse, "But, you want to go with him?"

She glanced at Gu Yanchen.

Ji Ying nodded and headed towards the back door of the restaurant.

Before they even reached the place where they had been kidnapped, Liang Jian arrived.

"Where have you been all this time?"

Before Ji Ying could reply, Liang Jian's face darkened.

Because Gu Yanchen appeared behind her.

Gu Yanshen said calmly, "We chatted outside for a while, and you only just remembered to look for her now? What if I were a dangerous person? Are you planning to collect her corpse now?"

Ji Ying glanced at him but didn't say anything.

Liang Jian raised his chin and arrogantly replied, "Unlike you, I don't keep a murderer's brother and a ruthless stepsister by my side, letting them abuse my wife. She won't be in danger with me."

Gu Yanchen's smile didn't reach his eyes. "I feel that President Liang is a bit different from before. You weren't this arrogant before."

Not wanting outsiders to see the flaws in his disordered memory, Liang Jian looked at Ji Ying and said, "Let's go after we've finished talking."

Ji Ying stood still. "It's not over yet. He's taking me to the company. We'll talk on the way."

Liang Jian's expression changed slightly, and he suppressed his emotions as he said, "You must remember whose fiancée you are now!"

Gu Yanchen immediately raised his eyebrows, revealing a playful expression.

Ji Ying remained calm, even asking with a hint of indifference, "I just exchanged a few words with him. Is it something shameful? Why are you so nervous?"

Liang Jian was speechless at her words, and his face grew even more unpleasant.

Ji Ying was afraid he would have a relapse, so she quickly stepped forward and patted his back. "I know what you wanted to say to me, but let me think about it some more. I have something to do today, so I'll be leaving now."

After saying that, without waiting for his reaction, Ji Ying and Gu Yanchen left the restaurant together.

Things were going smoothly for Jiang Ran, but not long after, Liang Yizhi called.

After hearing Liang Yizhi's question, Jiang Ran looked at the departing Maybach and reported directly, "Sir, Miss Ji doesn't want you anymore. She left with her ex-husband."

Liang Yizhi, “…”

Inside the Maybach, Ji Ying sat close to the door, looking out the window.

Gu Yanchen smiled faintly, "I know Liang Jian has a mental problem, but I didn't expect Liang Yizhi to agree to you becoming his fiancée. Are women shared in the Liang family?"

Ji Ying turned her gaze to him, her eyes devoid of warmth. "Liang Jian saved me. I'm only doing this to cooperate with his treatment. Even if there's something between us, it's none of your business. Didn't you say you had some progress?"

Gu Yanchen's eyes darkened, and he got back to the point: "The woman who protected you just now, she also went to the abandoned factory that day."

"so what?"

"She was present when Xia was murdered, but she didn't intervene. Also, guess who's in charge of that lab in Beijing that Xiao's father found that can culture hearts from cells?"

Ji Ying frowned, a sense of unease rising in her heart.

Gu Yanchen's smile deepened.

"It's Shen Ruofu, the second daughter of the Shen family. In other words, when we were at our wits' end and heartbroken over Xiao Xia's heart condition that day, Liang Yizhi clearly knew there was a shortcut through the Shen family, yet he watched you suffer without saying a word. Do you know what that means?"

Ji Ying clenched her fingers, trying to dispel the slight wavering in her heart.

But Gu Yanchen answered for her, "Yingying, if you are someone he deeply loves, then your affairs are his affairs. But if he only uses you as a substitute, then he doesn't need to interfere. Do you still think..."

"Stop talking!" Ji Ying yelled at him.

These words were like a cold key that unlocked the Pandora's box in her heart called "uncertainty".

He had pampered his wife for over a decade, and he was even willing to marry her memorial tablet. He also had the authority to allow his nominal "sister-in-law" to wander around his hotel room in a short nightgown.

This is the unease she felt these days when she was with Liang Yizhi.

Gu Yanshen keenly sensed the crack in Ji Ying's emotions and believed that the time was right.

He reached out, wanting to gently stroke her cheek as he used to.

However, before his fingertips could even touch her, Ji Ying, as if being approached by a ferocious beast, forcefully pushed his hand away and shouted sharply, "Don't touch me!"

"Yingying, the danger around me is over, we can start over..."

Gu Yanshen was about to forcefully approach again.

A Hongqi suddenly overtook them from the side and forced them to stop.

The car door opened, and Liang Yizhi stepped out, looking at the two people in the back seat through the Maybach's windshield.