Such a big engagement party was cancelled just like that. If it was because of her, I'm afraid Lu Jing and Qian Wanyue must hate her to death now.

Hang Peng's voice came again,

"I don't mean anything else. I just want to remind you that the young lady from the Qian family is not a pushover. You should be careful."

Zhou Qian said, "Don't worry, I will be careful."

"You can always call me if you need anything."

"Thanks!"

"By the way, what do you think about going out to relax?"

Zhou Qian thought about it and agreed, "Okay."

"Okay, I'll pick you up then."

After ending the call, Zhou Qian called his boss and asked for a few days off. He didn't want to go to work in this state and be forced by a group of people to recall the nightmare last night.

…

The engagement party was cancelled at the last minute, and no matter what the reason was given to the outside world, Lu Jing could not escape a beating.

And the attack was unprecedentedly ruthless.

Lu Jianhong collapsed on the sofa due to exhaustion from the fight, while Lu Jing, who was kneeling on the ground beside him, was covered in blood but still didn't make a sound.

He looked sarcastically at the panting man on the sofa, "Are you done? I'm leaving after you're done."

Seeing that he was still acting as if nothing had happened, Lu Jianhong jumped up in anger and whipped him again, cursing,

"Rebellious son, I shouldn't have pitied you in the first place. If I had taken you back, I should have let you and your useless mother starve to death on the street."

Lu Jing stood up. Because of the pain in his body, his forehead was covered with a layer of sweat and his face was pale and ugly.

He had a cold face and sneered, "Don't make your ugly heart sound so high-sounding. Why did you bring me back? Do you need me to tell you?"

"Even if I had my own reasons for bringing you back, so what?" Lu Jianhong said confidently, "You helped me consolidate my position in the Lu family, and I also gave you a life that no one else could match. You should be grateful."

"Grateful that you tortured me like a devil?" Every look in Lu Jing's cold eyes was filled with deep hatred.

"You brought this upon yourself," Lu Jianhong roared. "If you had been more obedient and stopped going to your slutty mother all day, would I have beaten you and locked you up?"

Lu Jing suddenly jumped up and grabbed Lu Jianhong's neck, warning him fiercely, "If you dare to say a disrespectful word to her again, I will kill you."

"You beast, you're rebelling... uh..."

Before Lu Jianhong could finish his words, Lu Jing's hand around his neck suddenly tightened, and there was a bloodshot murderous look in his eyes.

Looking at the angry Lu Jing, Lu Jianhong finally realized that he was afraid. He opened his mouth and uttered with difficulty, "Lu Jing, you don't want your things anymore?"

Lu Jing's cold eyes suddenly shrank, and there was a mixture of obscure emotions in his eyes. Finally, his hand slowly loosened.

"brute!"

After Lu Jianhong came back to life, he waved his hand and punched Lu Jing, "If you want to get your things back, then obey me, or I will make sure you never get them back."

Lu Jianhong's punch was so powerful that Lu Jing's nose started bleeding profusely. He ignored it, leaned on the sofa with his head down, and his eyes were cold.

…

In the blink of an eye, a special day arrived. Zhou Qian contacted Jiang Ningning early, fearing that she would oversleep and delay things.

After Jiang Ningning received her call, she quickly drove to Zhou Qian's house to pick her up.

As soon as Zhou Qian got in the car, Jiang Ningning took out a handbag and handed it to her.

"What?"

Zhou Qian had already opened the bag while asking. Seeing tens of thousands of dollars in it, her heart warmed and her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

Jiang Ningning fastened her seatbelt while saying, "Boss Gou deducted the bonus, otherwise he could have gotten tens of thousands more. But it doesn't matter, we'll give him some more when we have more money."

Zhou Qian sniffed and hugged her, "Thank you, Ningning."

These two days, she sold some of the jewelry that Lin Chenyi had given her before, and together with the commission from the Lin family's wedding banquet, she made a total of tens of thousands of yuan.

She had originally planned to borrow some from Ningning, but she didn't expect that she knew her so well.

Jiang Ningning saw her crying and wiped her tears distressedly, "Baby, don't you know that women's tears are priceless? You are going to bankrupt me."

Zhou Qian was successfully amused by her and wiped away his tears. "Ningning, thank you so much. I will die without regrets to have met a friend like you in this life."

Jiang Ningning's eyes widened. "You just bankrupted me, and now you're trying to shorten my life. Can you please be a little nicer to me?"

Zhou Qian hit her coquettishly, "You're so annoying. You don't understand any romance at all."

"I know you understand romance, but don't do it next time. I can't handle it." Jiang Ningning gave her a playful look.

Zhou Qian smiled and took the money. "Lend me this money first, and I will pay you back slowly later."

"Don't worry, life is so long, you can't rush it."

Zhou Qian smiled and said nothing more. Some things were understood in each other's hearts even if they were not said.

Holding the heavy bag, Zhou Qian felt a little less heavy in his heart. Although no amount of money could save a life, it was a little more compensation and gave him some psychological comfort.

The two were about to leave for the high-speed rail station when Zhou Qian received a call from the hospital saying that Zhang Landi was missing.

"Go to the hospital quickly."

"What's wrong?"

"My mother is missing."

"Isn't Auntie in the hospital? How come she's gone?"

"The nurse said she was going to be pushed out to bask in the sun, but she disappeared in the blink of an eye."

"Don't worry, he might have just gotten lost accidentally. Let's go over and take a look." Jiang Ningning said as she started the car.

"But what about going to City A?"

Jiang Ningning stepped on the accelerator and the car stopped. She raised her wrist to check the time. If she went to the hospital now and then to the high-speed rail station, she would definitely miss the time.

"Let's go find Auntie first, and then try to find another bus."

Zhou Qian nodded. This was the only way.

The two people rushed to the hospital and went to the monitoring room. According to the direction provided by the monitoring, everyone went to look for people together.

I searched for over an hour and looked everywhere I could, but still couldn't find it.

Later, news came from the monitoring room that someone might have left from the construction site north of the hospital, because Zhang Landi was last seen at the construction site.

If they left the hospital, it would be more difficult to find him, so Zhou Qian had no choice but to call the police for help.

With the help of the police, Zhang Landi was finally found in a park at three o'clock in the afternoon.

She was standing alone in the park, holding a stuffed doll in her hand, grinning happily, surrounded by many people pointing at her.

When Zhou Qian saw this scene, he felt sad.

The woman who had been strong all her life finally didn't have to be so strong anymore. She didn't have to open her eyes every day to fight for debt, nor did she have to face the world's eyes.

For her, this may also be a relief.