Chapter 245 Accomplice

Perhaps... this new mineral vein bidding process itself is a trap—

Jiang Ning set a trap for Chu Qingxue.

Despite having reached this conclusion, Lu Junyan never told anyone.

The result was—

This possibility has come true.

Lu Junyan squeezed his eyes shut, his brows contorted in pain.

This pain is not caused by stomach pain.

Instead, he believed that he had become an accomplice in Jiang Ning's efforts to bring down Chu Qingxue.

But in Jiang Ning's eyes, he had always been Chu Qingxue's accomplice.

Lu Junyan was in so much stomach pain that he curled up into a ball, sweat streaming down his high, straight nose.

However……

The woman who used to brew his traditional Chinese medicine on time and carry him down eight flights of stairs when he had a stomachache—

She's no longer by his side.

I won't bother with him anymore.

Lu Junyan suddenly felt that he might as well just die from the pain.

After leaving the Lu Group, Jiang Ning drove to Country C.

Although she didn't want to go, in order to bring down Chu Qingxue, she asked Zhong Cheng to help two people she thought she would never have contact with again.

Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao were waiting for Jiang Ning at the restaurant.

Seeing Jiang Ning appear unharmed before them, Chu Yao couldn't help but burst into tears.

When Jiang Ning was murdered and went missing, Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao learned that he was later hospitalized. The two of them wanted to visit Jiang Ning as soon as possible.

However, Jiang Ning, through Zhong Cheng, told the two that she did not want to see them.

Ultimately, for the sake of Jiang Ning's recovery, Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao did not appear in person, but instead learned about Jiang Ning's current situation through Zhong Cheng.

They were overjoyed to learn that Jiang Ning needed their help.

What they feared most was that Jiangning would sever ties with them and never speak to them again.

If possible, Jiang Ning would not want to ask Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao for help at all.

However, without the credibility of the C country government, it would be absolutely impossible to lure Chu Qingxue into the trap.

The Lin family is equivalent to the government of Country C.

Jiang Ning sat down opposite Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao.

Chu Yao wiped away tears of joy from the corners of her eyes with a tissue.

Jiang Ning knew that Chu Yao wasn't pretending or acting.

But belated family affection is just as cheap as grass.

When she was framed and thrown into a juvenile detention center, Chu Yao and Lin Yueheng were accomplices, even if they weren't the instigators.

Later, she was forced to become Jiang Ning, which was also facilitated by these two people.

When Lin Chu could no longer live as Lin Chu and had to accept becoming Jiang Ning, she never wanted to see those two people again.

She had assumed that neither of them wanted to see her.

At least until that day when they met again, neither of them had ever been a part of her life.

Now, if he were to pretend to be deeply in love with her again, Jiang Ning would only feel disgusted.

However, Jiang Ning still obediently accompanied Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao to dinner, listening to the two of them chatter on and on about the recent situation of the Lin family.

Originally, she didn't want to have any further involvement with the Lin family, Lin Yueheng, or Chu Yao.

But if a single meal could bankrupt Chu Qingxue, why wouldn't she be happy to do it?

"Oh right, Chu..."

"Please call me Jiang Ning."

Jiang Ning raised his head and glanced at Chu Yao indifferently.

Chu Yao looked embarrassed.

Jiang Ning's cold and distant gaze wounded her heart.

But she had no right to blame Jiang Ning.

Because Jiang Ning suffered even more heartbreak and pain than she did back then.

"Jiangning..."

Chu Yao changed her mind.

"Your ex-husband, Lu Junyan... what kind of person is he exactly?"

Jiang Ning tightened his grip on the knife and fork.

So... is this the real reason why Chu Yao and Lin Yueheng invited her to dinner?

In order to find out about Lu Junyan from her, so as to decide whether or not to marry off his adopted daughter Lin Wanrong, whom he had raised himself.

Jiang Ning gave a cold, curt smile.

She thought that after so many years, her biological parents had finally had a change of heart!

Jiang Ning couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest.

As it turns out, both her parents and Lu Junyan approached her for the sake of others.

"Lu Junyan is a handsome and talented man; whoever marries him will be happy."

Jiang Ning finished speaking calmly, and then heard Chu Yao ask:

"If he's so good, why did you divorce him?"

Because Lu Junyan doesn't love her.

Because Lu Junyan personally aborted their child.

"A simple investigation would tell you... I was condemned by the entire internet in Country A back then, accused of having an extramarital affair and being promiscuous... Naturally, the Lu family severed ties with me..."

"Mom believes you are definitely not that kind of person."

Chu Yao tried to hold Jiang Ning's hand, but Jiang Ning quickly avoided it.

believe?

No one in the Lin family ever believed her.

“Mrs. Lin, we have no relation to each other in terms of household registration.”

Jiang Ning solemnly reminded her, and Chu Yao immediately burst into tears.

Lin Yueheng, standing nearby, promptly changed the subject.

"The government of Country C has a project; I wonder if you'd be interested?"

"oh?"

Jiang Ning raised an eyebrow. "What project is it?"

Chu Yao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Lin Yueheng's words had piqued Jiang Ning's interest.

She acted too hastily.

She wanted to inquire about her daughter's love life, but Jiang Ning remained aloof and distant.

Fortunately, her husband had a solution.

Maintaining their relationship with Jiangning by discussing business and projects has clearly been effective.

After having dinner with Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao, Jiang Ning returned to City A.

She originally thought this meal was meaningless, just a way of returning a favor, but she didn't expect to make a new discovery.

She received a message from her employees as soon as she returned to China, saying that the acquisition had been completed.

Jiang Ning curled his lips into a smile, then abruptly turned the steering wheel, and the white BMW 3 Series immediately turned around and drove onto another road.

Meanwhile, at Chu Qingxue's studio.

The bank's collection manager has already brought a notary to carry out forced liquidation.

"No...this is my company, it's my life's work...you can't take it away!"

Chu Qingxue tried to stop the debt collection manager, but was pulled away.

"Of course he can take it."

Chu Qingxue turned her head at the sound and saw Jiang Ning with a beaming smile.

"Because you're bankrupt."

Jiang Ning's words were spoken casually, but they dealt a fatal blow to Chu Qingxue.

Chu Qingxue stared with bloodshot eyes and gritted her teeth, but could only watch helplessly as Jiang Ning was riding high.

This time, the collection manager wasn't Zhao Quan. He didn't know Chu Qingxue, but he knew Jiang Ning.

"President Jiang..."

At that moment, two more people arrived.

Chu Qingxue knew these two people, but they were sent by Jiang Ning.

When Song Lili and Wang Yang saw that Chu Qingxue's studio had been shut down, their faces flushed red and then turned pale.

They were Chu Qingxue's best friends, but now none of them dared to speak so arrogantly about Jiang Ning as they had in the past.

"President Jiang, these are all the design drafts."

The collection manager handed Jiang Ning every single design draft he had collected from Chu Qingxue's studio.

Chu Qingxue's expression changed instantly.

"That's my design!"

Chu Qingxue tried to snatch it, but Jiang Ning casually pushed her to the ground.