"What is it?" Jiang Can asked, surprised.
Huo Zhixing gently took her hand.
“You must immediately dissolve your marriage with Gu Mang.” He looked at her. “Don’t worry about that, I have a way.”
"There's one more thing..." he smiled, "We'd like to ask Ms. Jiang to take over the project on the western outskirts of Yangcheng and help this land realize its greater commercial value!"
"What?" Jiang Can shook her head in a panic. "No, I don't understand anything!"
“No one is born knowing everything,” Huo Zhixing said softly. “You’ll grow quickly by learning as you go, starting from scratch.”
"But……"
“Can Can,” he enunciated clearly, “you can do it.”
Jiang Can bit her lip and lowered her head.
This feeling was strange; perhaps it was her inferiority complex at play, but she always felt that it was a condescending favor from him.
However, back when he wasn't Huo Zhixing, he gave her all his family heirlooms, handed over his salary card, and bought out the coffee shop for her... She didn't feel any of that.
Jiang Can silently withdrew her hand from his palm, a hint of sadness flashing across her face.
"Can Can, I didn't mean anything by it..." Huo Zhixing noticed that something was wrong with her expression and was about to explain when his phone suddenly rang.
Jiang Can glanced at him, then got up and went back to her room to take care of Yin Wenxi.
Huo Zhixing answered the phone, and Lu Lishan's voice came from the other end: "I've brought you the people you asked for, they're at my place."
"Okay, thanks," Huo Zhixing said in a deep voice.
"So, do all these people have a grudge against you?" Lu Lishan grinned mischievously. "How do you plan to deal with them? I've got quite a full set of the Ten Great Tortures here, want me to use them on you first?"
"No need, I just want them to do something."
Huo Zhixing hung up the phone.
Before going to find Lu Lishan, he went back to his rented room and took out the two marriage certificates from the cabinet. He smiled slightly, took them in his hand, and was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of the small rosewood carved box next to him.
The brass lock looks intricately crafted and probably cannot be opened with an ordinary key.
What is it that Jiang Mingyuan can't forget...?
Huo Zhixing's brow furrowed, and a multitude of thoughts flashed through his mind. However, he had no time to think about them at the moment; it was more important to get down to business.
He closed the door and hurried towards "Night Elysium".
Lu Lishan had already led the person into a small, dark room.
Those men squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, occasionally glancing around. They were all expressionless thugs, and they would wet their pants if they made eye contact with them.
Lu Lishan was watching from behind the monitor, his legs crossed and leaning back in his chair. He had just taken two sips of a glass of whiskey when someone lured Huo Zhixing over.
"Want some?" He poured Huo Zhixing a glass as well.
Huo Zhixing shook his head and looked at the screen.
"Are these the right people?"
"Yes, that's right."
"So, my setup isn't too bad, is it?"
Huo Zhixing glanced at him and said helplessly, "These are all junior leaders from the Civil Affairs Bureau. I asked you to 'invite' them here, but this entourage seems a bit excessive."
“You weren’t so calm when you called me!” Lu Lishan retorted. “Weren’t you furious back then?”
Huo Zhixing chuckled. He had always kept the marriage certificate in mind, so he secretly investigated the process of obtaining the marriage certificate back then, and found that these junior leaders seemed to have some problems.
That's why Lu Lishan was asked to "invite" them all over.
Lu Lishan rolled his eyes at him, scoffed, and led him to the small dark room.
Upon seeing a light at the door, the group rushed towards it.
"What are you doing!" Lu Lishan roared.
The group of men knelt on the ground with a thud. "Big brother, please spare us... We really don't know where we've met before, or how we offended you... Could you please give us a clear answer?"
"We'll do whatever our elder brother tells us to do!"
Huo Zhixing stepped forward and threw the marriage certificate in front of them.
"this……"
"The two people listed on this document want to dissolve their marriage." Huo Zhixing looked at them coldly. "But the man isn't here. Give me the fastest solution!"
The group exchanged bewildered glances, when a beam of light shone overhead, allowing them to clearly see the details on the marriage certificate.
"Gu Mang?" Someone recognized him and whispered tremblingly, "Isn't that... isn't that the son-in-law of the Jiang family..."
"You know him?" Huo Zhixing raised an eyebrow.
"I don't know him, I don't know him..." The man was sweating profusely and didn't dare to look up. In his panic, he blurted out the truth.
"But...but a year ago, Chairman Jiang sent someone to say that his daughter wanted to register her marriage and asked us to make an exception..."
Huo Zhixing frowned slightly, his gaze sharp, and casually put his hands into his pockets. "How can I make an exception?"
"That's right, neither party showed up, and they wanted us to register them using their ID cards..."
"Can't you just say it all at once?!" Lu Lishan slammed his fist on the table.
The man closed his eyes tightly, almost scared out of his wits, and blurted out everything that followed.
"I...I...I registered them! But when I checked on the computer, I found that Gu Mang's ID card had long expired. He's a missing person! How can a missing person get married? And also, registration is not allowed if neither party is present; that's the rule!"
"So I...I...I made two fake marriage certificates..."
"What?!" Lu Lishan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Is this marriage certificate fake?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The man was almost crying. "Because I took money from Chairman Jiang, I couldn't refuse to do things for him, but what I did was completely against the rules, and I didn't dare to break the law... so I... I made two fake certificates to get away with it!"
"Brothers, I'm telling the truth! I've kept Chairman Jiang's money in my account for over a year and haven't dared to touch it! Take it if you want... We have no choice but to let us go, brothers!"
Lu Lishan was dumbfounded, he really didn't expect there was such a thing.
Huo Zhixing, standing to the side, had a cold expression and clenched his fists tightly.
"So legally speaking, these two people are not a couple at all, right?"
"Yes!" The man's voice trembled, "Gu Mang and Jiang Can... are not husband and wife at all!"
The knot between Huo Zhixing's brows gradually untied, and the huge weight in his heart was suddenly lifted. Overwhelmed with joy, he showed no expression and couldn't utter a single word.
Lu Lishan gave his men a look, signaling them to take everyone out.
Now that only the two of them were left in the room, Lu Lishan patted him on the shoulder and laughed, "That's good, Jiang Can has nothing to do with Gu Mang! Heh, you've been impersonating that bastard for so long, didn't you realize that the ID card was invalid?"
Huo Zhixing shook his head, and after a long while, he managed to twitch the corners of his mouth and reveal a slight smile.
"Quickly tell Jiang Can this good news!" Lu Lishan said. "Maybe she'll be so happy that she'll get back together with you."
“She won’t reconcile with me not because of these two fake marriage certificates,” Huo Zhixing said calmly, “but because I lied to her.”
"Then... what are you going to do?"
“I’m taking her back to Yangcheng.” He said firmly, “I want to make her my real wife.”
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