Chapter 40 Accident

"Are you really prepared to go abroad and never come back?"

Lin Yujing listened calmly as he finished speaking his heartfelt words, but only her heart knew how turbulent the emotions were.

Their relationship began beautifully, yet with ulterior motives mixed in.

Therefore, the entanglements of fate that followed seemed to be a blend of fantasy and reality.

She took a deep breath, looked away, and didn't reply.

But most of the words seemed to be buried deep in his heart.

If there's a future possibility, then it's not too late to answer with the rest of my life.

After all, what's done is done, and there's no going back in this world.

And along with them, deeply intertwined with fate, was a high-speed highway chase in the suburbs of Ohio, USA.

As the winter night deepens, the suburban roads are unusually quiet with few pedestrians.

Only the towering shopping malls on both sides of the road, their curtain walls adorned with diamond-shaped lights, shone like stars.

The yellow light flashed a few times, and Jiang Yingli heard Yun Yuedi mutter "Damn it," "Red light, baby."

Jiang Yingli glanced back and saw that the black Maybach showed no sign of stopping, seemingly determined to force her to halt. "Break through!"

"I'm really risking my life to keep you company." Yun Yuedi slammed the accelerator to the floor, the deep engine roaring like a whirlwind, the billowing smoke whizzing past the zebra crossing. "Damn, your brother's really gone mad!"

Seeing the two women rush past, Jiang Yingzhi accelerated the Maybach, following closely behind as it crossed the central avenue and disappeared into the twilight.

"Miss, I can't take it anymore!" Yun Yuedi felt her arm gripping the steering wheel starting to ache. Also, if her grandfather found out about her speeding with Jiang Yingli abroad, she figured she'd be finished too.

Tears welled up in Jiang Yingli's eyes, especially when he saw Jiang Yingzhi's unwillingness to let her go. His heart felt like it was being choked by a handful of sand, making it hard to breathe. "Let me use your phone."

When she ran out, she only took her ID card, passport, and an iPad without a SIM card. She relied solely on the mall's WiFi to stay in touch with Yun Yuedi.

Jiang Yingli dialed Jiang Yingzhi's number, and the call was quickly answered. A deep, sinister voice immediately came through the receiver, "Yue Di, stop the car."

“Brother.” Jiang Yingli’s voice trembled, and it was not hard to hear the grievance in it.

Jiang Yingzhi's voice softened a bit, "Xiao Li, be a good girl and come back with me."

Jiang Yingli's brow twitched slightly as he asked, "Brother, you won't love me, and you won't let me go, is that it?"

"Xiao Li, I'm protecting you."

Jiang Yingli felt a lump in his throat. "I've already caused a huge disaster. Going back will only mean certain death."

Both the Jiang family and the Shi family are prominent figures in Beijing's political and business circles.

Since she caused this trouble, the ancestors of both families who are honored with a place in the Imperial Ancestral Temple must be turning in their graves with resentment.

“Xiao Li, from childhood to adulthood, when have I ever failed to protect you?” Jiang Yingzhi still preferred to soothe her emotions first, which was also the way to quickly calm her temper every time. “Have Yue Di stop the car.”

Jiang Yingli also wanted to back down for a moment, but the sudden pain in her lower abdomen brought her back to her senses. "Jiang Yingzhi, but we all know that I am not your blood-related sister, so you have no responsibility to protect me."

One winter night when they were teenagers, the two of them almost froze to death in the yard, so the nanny carried her to Jiang Yingzhi's room to sleep.

The brother and sister hugged each other tightly, listening to the familiar sounds of smashing, hitting, and cursing coming from the living room.

Jiang Yingli buried his head in Jiang Yingzhi's arms in fear, as if listening to his heartbeat made him less afraid.

"Jiang Ci, why won't you sign the divorce papers!" Shi Er demanded hysterically. "What? Just because that woman is dead, you want to drag me and him down with you?"

Jiang Ci angrily smashed the porcelain ornament next to the TV cabinet to pieces, along with his furious voice, "Yes! From the moment you unilaterally violated the prenuptial agreement, we will be bound together for life, until death do us part."

"You bastard!" Shi'er liked to vent her emotions by screaming, and this time she didn't forget to say words that were like daggers cutting into her heart, "If you hadn't been so weak-willed back then, how could we have compromised with our parents to get married!"

In her youth, Shi'er was a well-known beautiful and talented woman among the young men of Beijing's elite circles.

Whether studying or working, I am always surrounded by a group of admirers.

The one who won her heart was the least compatible of all her suitors.

Boys from rural areas, aside from being good-looking, have a bleak future.

When the poet's parents found out, they immediately broke up the couple.

Despite Shi'er's desperate pleas, he resolutely arranged her engagement to Jiang's Biotechnology's eldest son.

Jiang Ci, the eldest son of Jiang's Biotechnology, was also a well-known figure among the young men in Beijing's social circles at the time.

The most famous of them all was Wang Lan, the most popular actress who was kept by his side. He practically gave her the moon and stars as gifts, and there were even rumors that the two had registered their marriage abroad.

Therefore, the two families, being well-matched, almost immediately reached an agreement.

Upon hearing this news, Shi'er, who had always lived by romance, felt as if the sky had fallen.

Fortunately, she quickly contacted Jiang Ci, and the two reached an agreement that they would not compromise on their family matters.

"I was about to board the ship and leave!" On the eve of her wedding, Shi'er and her lover planned to elope.

Finally, the person who led the men to the dock and forcibly sent her back to the Shi family was none other than Jiang Ci, who had helped devise the plan.

For more than a decade, whenever Shier brought up this matter, she felt an urge to tear him to pieces.

"And what makes you any better?" Jiang Ci pointed to the locked Chu-Han boundary on the second and third floors. "This is the Jiang family home. When have you ever respected me? For over a decade, that man has practically made this his own home!"

"You forced me into this first!" Shi'er's voice was sharp and thin, as if it had the force to pierce through the clouds. "When you and Wang Lan had Jiang Yingzhi, did you ever take me or the Shi family seriously?"

"Yes, I'm getting revenge on you. Revenge for so brazenly bringing a man home!" Jiang Ci said viciously, "I named our child Jiang Yingzhi to warn you to know when to stop!"

Shi'er then let out a few sarcastic laughs, "It's alright, I should thank you for giving me the opportunity to have Jiang Yingli for Brother Fu. Consider it a way of returning the favor to you."

"You bitch!"

"coward!"

Then came the audible clash of swords.

The living room is a battlefield; everything that can be seen, touched, and picked up becomes a weapon for the two of them.

Language, however, became an invisible bullet piercing the two siblings hiding in their bedroom.

The two siblings ultimately became the only divine punishment to be sacrificed in this battle.

"Brother, if you don't let me go, I promise our fate will be the same as Mom and Dad's," Jiang Yingli sobbed.

In the rearview mirror, Jiang Yingzhi's car finally slowed down.

Yun Yuedi breathed a sigh of relief, stepped on the gas pedal again, and prepared to shake off the black Maybach.

Just as Jiang Yingzhi's car was about to disappear from sight, the two heard a loud bang from behind.

Jiang Yingli turned around and saw that Jiang Yingzhi's car had crashed into a roadside utility pole.

Dark gray hairs filled the sky as she screamed, "Stop the car! Stop the car!"

When he ran out of the car, Jiang Yingli didn't even bother to put on shoes. He ran barefoot in the Ohio winter and rushed towards Jiang Yingzhi without a care in the world.

But just as she was about to run over, she saw the Jiang family's convoy chasing after her.

Jiang Yingli stopped in his tracks. The brother and sister gazed at each other across the biting wind and the salty, pungent smell of blood.

"Brother!" She almost forgot the call wasn't over yet. "This is the last time I'm asking you, do you love me?"

"..." The long silence seemed to be Jiang Yingzhi's answer to her.

“Brother, if you just say you love me, I’ll go back with you,” Jiang Yingli demanded almost pathologically.

At first, there was only the hum of an electric motor on the other end of the phone, before Jiang Yingzhi's weak but warning and threatening words came through: "If you want to escape, run far away, or I'll catch you."

Jiang Yingli's tears froze on his face and were completely dissolved in the night. "Jiang Yingzhi, then remember this: you were the one who rejected me first."

After saying that, she hung up the phone and ran to Yun Yuedi's car without looking back.

Only after watching the Jiang family's convoy rescue Jiang Yingzhi did she fasten her seatbelt and softly utter, "Let's go."

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As Lin Yujing and Chen Jingshu peered through the classroom window, her phone vibrated in her pocket. It was a message from Chu Yan: "Have Jing-ge answer the phone."

Lin Yujing handed the phone to Chen Jingshu and asked, "Does Chu Yan know I'm here...?"

"When he came to find me this morning, he saw me coming out of your room and thought..."

Lin Yujing instinctively clutched her collar, "You did this to me!"

"Jingjing, if I really wanted to do something, you wouldn't have been able to hide it by now," he said slyly.

Lin Yujing gave him a playful glare and urged, "Hurry up and call him back."

As soon as Chen Jingshu dialed Chu Yan's number, an anxious voice came from the other end, "Brother Jing, something terrible has happened to the Jiang family."

Chen Jingshu was initially somewhat dismissive, saying, "Hasn't something serious already happened? What could be even bigger..."

Chu Yan tried his best to keep his tone calm as he said, "The Jiang siblings were in a car accident abroad. Jiang Yingli died at the scene, and Jiang Yingzhi is currently in a coma with serious injuries; his fate is unknown..."

The phone was on speakerphone. Lin Yujing silently looked up and saw Chen Jingshu's brows furrow. She replied calmly, "Understood. Pack your things, we'll go back to Yijing this afternoon."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yujing was at a loss for words for a long time.

After all, this was an ending she had never imagined.

Everything happened so suddenly, in just a few hours since this morning.

The Jiang family was first embroiled in a scandal involving the siblings, and then the siblings were involved in a car accident abroad, resulting in the death of Jiang Yingli and serious injuries to Jiang Yingzhi.

The plot is so fantastical that if it weren't for her own personal experience, it would seem too unreal.

"A-Shu." Lin Yujing's voice trembled, her shock deepening.

Perhaps Jiang Yingli was not just the person in the rumors to her.

Instead, he had actually met her, greeted her, and listened to her talk with great hope about how she deeply loved her brother.

Chen Jingshu sighed, as if he hadn't quite recovered from the phone call, and simply pulled her into his arms. "Don't be afraid, I'll handle everything."

She nodded and raised her hand to hug Chen Jingshu tightly.

Perhaps it is because death always has a tremendous impact on people's souls, Lin Yujing at this moment also became extremely attached to Chen Jingshu's embrace.

"Who's there?" Just as the two were still reeling from the sudden news of Jiang Yingli's death, a man's voice rang out.

The two looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was a school security guard in a security uniform.

The security guard was initially very serious, but after getting closer and recognizing Lin Yujing, he immediately smiled and greeted her, "Isn't this the classmate who's about to go abroad to pursue a doctorate? You still managed to sneak in."

Lin Yujing scratched her head and smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."

Amid the festive atmosphere of the Lunar New Year, the security guard did not actually blame her.

Seeing the two of them embracing so intimately just now, she suddenly remembered what happened the night before and said, "You said before that you had no relatives in China and were planning to study abroad and not come back. Now you do, right?"

Lin Yujing looked at Chen Jingshu guiltily, just in time to see his expression change.

"Uncle Security Guard, we'll be going now." She grabbed Chen Jingshu, wishing she could disappear on the spot.

But as soon as they reached the teachers' office, Chen Jingshu shook off her hand and asked with a serious expression, "Are you really prepared to go abroad and never come back?"

A note from the author:

good evening!

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