Jiang Ran stopped in her tracks, and a maid stepped forward respectfully and said, "Miss Jiang, our master invites you in."
"Um."
The maid led Jiang Ran to the corridor, where she was standing on an expensive map, and the crystal chandelier overhead made her look somewhat dazed.
"Miss Jiang, please."
The maid opened a door and respectfully gestured for the room to be entered.
Jiang Ran looked inside and saw the man standing in front of the window with his back to the light. His eyebrows and eyes were cold, and his thin lips were slightly pursed under his high nose. His whole person exuded a cold and indifferent aura.
Jiang Ran curled her lips and walked inside.
“Mr. Huo, thank you for lending me the manor to stage this play.”
To make Jiang Minghui fascinated by the Qu family's wealth, he needed to witness their riches firsthand.
She didn't know the Qu family at all, but the Huo family was considered one of the four major financial groups alongside the Qu family, so their financial strength was naturally not to be underestimated.
As expected, when Jiang Minghui saw the manor, his eyes were filled with shock and greed.
If she's not mistaken, he should be rushing to divorce Shen Qingwan as soon as he gets back.
Hearing her words, Huo Siyan's lips curled slightly, and his gaze towards her revealed a deeper meaning: "It's alright, but how do you plan to pay the reward?"
Jiang Ran's expression remained unchanged. She knew very well that no one would help her for no reason.
If someone deliberately approaches you, they must have an ulterior motive.
Therefore, she had long known that Huo Siyan was only willing to help her because he wanted something from her.
Although she doesn't know exactly what he wants, it's a fair deal nonetheless.
She was willing to make this deal with him in order to get revenge.
She wouldn't have done this if she hadn't been forced to. It's just a pity that she asked Xia Shiwen to help investigate Jiang Minghui's crimes back then, but the investigation took a long time and yielded no results.
She had no choice but to rely on the Huo family's power; she had to send Jiang Minghui and his daughter to prison in order to avenge her past life's grudge.
Fortunately, by leveraging the Huo family's influence, she had already collected a considerable amount of evidence against Jiang Minghui. Once he divorced Shen Qingwan, she would send him to jail!
Jiang Ran had a faint smile on her face and spoke slowly and deliberately: "I am very grateful for Mr. Huo's help. We had already agreed that Mr. Huo would come to me for payment after I had completed certain tasks."
Upon hearing this, Huo Siyan's thin lips curved slightly, a gentle smile playing on his lips: "Do you know what I want? And yet you dare to agree to this?"
"What's there to be afraid of? You can't possibly eat me, can you?"
Jiang Ran always had a faint smile on her face, not because she wanted to smile, but simply out of politeness towards her trading partner.
Jiang Ran glanced at the time and politely said again, "It's getting late. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
"etc--"
Jiang Ran stopped in her tracks, turned around, and smiled at him: "Mr. Huo, is there anything else?"
Huo Siyan narrowed his eyes, his burning gaze fixed on her: "You really don't remember me?"
"....."
here we go again.
Jiang Ran was speechless. Why did he keep emphasizing this?
I really didn't know him before! Why would he think I knew him?
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Ran continued to smile politely: "Mr. Huo must have mistaken you for someone else. I could not possibly have met you before."
What about past lives?
Huo Siyan's gaze towards her gradually became complex, filled with scrutiny.
What she's doing now is clearly revenge against the Jiang family, and there's only one reason she's doing this—she's been reborn.
But she actually said she didn't remember him...
Was she faking it?
Seeing his silent demeanor, Jiang Ran sighed inwardly and said as if coaxing a child, "Then tell me, when did we meet before? Where did we meet? What was I wearing that day?"
"You were twenty-two that year... wearing a wedding dress, at our engagement ceremony..."
"......."
Jiang Ran was utterly speechless. See? He's doing it again.
"Please, I'm only eighteen, twenty-two? Did I travel to the future to meet you?"
Seeing Huo Siyan's serious expression, Jiang Ran didn't want to say anything too harsh.
Huo Siyan's behavior is really strange. He keeps emphasizing that he was engaged to me. Could it be that he has some kind of mental illness?
That's probably it. He might have a mental illness that's causing memory confusion, or he might be mistaking himself for someone else.
However, she didn't care about any of that; it was just a fair transaction between them.
After leaving, Jiang Ran went straight back to the Jiang family home.
Her guess was right; Jiang Minghui had returned to the Jiang family and was forcing Shen Qingwan to sign the divorce papers.
"Shen Qingwan! Don't push your luck! Are you going to sign this divorce agreement or not?!"
Shen Qingwan said coldly, "You wouldn't sign when I offered you the opportunity before, so it won't be so easy for me to sign now!"
"You bitch!" Jiang Minghui said angrily, raising his hand to slap her.
Seeing this, Jiang Ran took a few big steps forward and stopped him.
"What are you doing here again? You're not welcome here."
Jiang Minghui placed the divorce papers on the coffee table, his eyes bloodshot, and said, "Get the hell out of here, you brat! You better not piss me off, or the consequences will be something you can't handle!"
He'll be the Qu family's son-in-law from now on, and he'll have everything he wants. It'll be easy for him to deal with those two bastards!
They'd better treat him well right now, and he might spare her life because she's his biological daughter. But if she dares to provoke him, he won't care whether she's his biological daughter or not!
And that bitch Shen Qingwan, she's lucky to have even caught his eye. Now that he's over fifty, he still has such charm that he's won Miss Qu's favor. That bitch Shen Qingwan should be secretly happy to have been his wife for so many years.
Tonight he has figured out Miss Qu's feelings. She wants to manage the Qu family with him alone. After they get married, he will let her enjoy a life of luxury at home. At that time, the Qu family will be under his control.
Seeing his arrogant attitude, Jiang Ran knew that he truly believed he could become the Qu family's son-in-law.
She couldn't help but sneer inwardly.
After glancing at the divorce agreement, Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow: "Want a divorce? Then you'd better leave with nothing, otherwise we won't sign."
Jiang Minghui wanted to get angry, but then he thought that the Qu family was very wealthy and he would soon be a member of the Qu family, so he didn't care about this little bit of marital property.
Thinking of this, he immediately picked up the pen and urged Shen Qingwan to sign: "If you want to leave with nothing, then leave with nothing. Just sign it now!"
Shen Qingwan took a deep breath, glared at him fiercely, picked up a pen, and wrote her name on the agreement.
Seeing that she had signed, Jiang Minghui breathed a sigh of relief, and Jiang Ran also breathed a sigh of relief.
Both of them had their own ideas in mind at that moment.
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