After I shared my thoughts, Mr. Ji said with a stern face, "If your father finds out, he'll beat me up."
Mr. Ji's stern face suddenly uttered such a sentence, which made me both laugh and cry. I quickly smiled and said, "No, no, my dad looks so frail, how could he possibly be able to take you down, Uncle Ji?"
Uncle Ji's stern face suddenly curled up slightly at one corner of his mouth: "You dare say your father is weak? Go ahead and do what you want. I'll pass on your words to your father, and then he won't be beating me up."
I was stunned for two seconds before Mr. Ji made me laugh. Ji Kang also laughed along. I didn't expect Mr. Ji to be such a humorous person. When I first entered the Ji family, I thought it was a cold and serious family. But after just a few words, I found Mr. Ji to be quite interesting.
After Mr. Ji made a phone call to my father, he was about to let us leave when he suddenly looked at Ji Kang seriously and said, "Ji Kang, this is the last chance I'm giving you. Bring Su Su back safely and protect her. If even a hair on Su Su's head is missing, I'll have no choice but to hand you over to Old Man Bai."
Ji Kang suddenly shivered and quickly said with a forced smile, "Uncle, don't worry, I will definitely protect Su Su."
After saying that, Ji Kang led me to the garage and deliberately chose the car that he had smashed with the fire extinguisher. I took the car keys out of my pocket and handed them to him, and we got into our respective cars.
After getting in the car, Ji Kang opened his phone, found an unfamiliar number, turned the phone to me, and said, "I'm going to call Bai Cheng. Don't say a word."
I nodded in agreement. Ji Kang dialed Bai Cheng's number and put it on speakerphone. A moment later, a familiar voice came from the other end of the line. It really was Bai Cheng. After Bai Cheng said "hello" and heard that there was no sound from our end, he did not hang up the phone, but remained silent for a while.
I gave Ji Kang a look, and Ji Kang then composed himself and said, "President Bai, the person is with me. What should I do next?"
Bai Cheng's tone was slightly wary: "Didn't Mr. Ji go back? How did you manage to bring him out?"
Ji Kang said, "I was exposed, so Miss Su ran away to avoid being caught. But I found her. To keep it a secret, I mobilized everyone to search for Miss Su, which alerted Mr. Ji to come back. I'm leaving the Ji family now under the pretext of looking for Miss Su. No one would expect that Miss Su is right here in my trunk."
Bai Cheng snorted coldly: "You're not as useless as the rumors say. Alright, now that we've caught the guy, just go to the car wash in the underground parking lot of the commercial building, park your car, put down your keys, and leave. This matter won't involve you anymore."
Ji Kang looked at me, nodded, and said into his phone, "I want to see my brother."
Bai Cheng fell silent. He clearly hadn't expected Ji Kang to suddenly request to see Ji An. After a moment of silence, Bai Cheng said, "Okay, take Su Yi to the Commercial Building first. I'll let you see her after I've treated your brother."
Ji Kang's tone carried a hint of anger: "I want to see him today. I won't bring Miss Su over until I see him."
Bai Cheng fell silent again. I heard a sound from the other end of the phone, like a collision. Ji Kang called out "hello" a couple of times without getting a response, then hung up. I guessed Bai Cheng must be angry and had smashed the phone on the ground. It must have been a carpeted floor, because the sound of the phone falling wasn't very crisp.
Less than a minute after the call ended, Bai Cheng called back: "Okay, I agree. Go directly to Tomorrow Company."
After getting the answer he wanted, Ji Kang hung up the phone, quickly started the car, and headed towards Tomorrow Company.
After the car had driven for a while, I couldn't resist my gossipy nature and asked, "Is Mr. Ji your uncle?"
Ji Kang nodded: "That's right, Mr. Ji is my mother's half-brother."
I stared at Ji Kang in surprise: "Then why do you and Ji An also have the surname Ji?"
Seeing my confusion, Ji Kang smiled and said, "Ji An and I take our mother's surname because my maternal grandfather did not agree to my father and mother being together. However, my mother insisted on following my father, so my maternal grandfather kicked her out of the house. After my mother became pregnant with me, she was emotionally unstable and cried every day, missing my maternal grandfather and grandmother very much. So my father immediately decided to let me take my mother's surname, hoping that my birth would win back my maternal grandfather and grandmother. It did have some effect, but it was not very obvious. My maternal grandfather thought that my father wanted to use this to fight for the Ji family's property."
I asked hesitantly, "Then why does Ji An also have the surname Ji?"
Ji Kang said, "My father felt that if my brother and I each had a different surname, it would seem like we weren't close. He was worried that we would forget our sibling bond because of our different surnames, so he decided that my brother would also have the surname Ji."
I nodded: "I see. No wonder Mr. Ji didn't help your family when they faced bankruptcy several times, only showing up the last time."
Ji Kang sighed: "My uncle is actually a good person. It's just that there were rumors at the time that he wanted to choose a successor from among his collateral relatives. My uncle has no children and is unmarried. After our family's troubles, he wanted to see if I could turn the company around. If I could, he planned to groom me as his successor. But I didn't have that ability, and my uncle didn't pay attention to me anymore. I only found out about all this later when I went to my uncle's house. He had been secretly keeping an eye on us. He had his eye on Ji An at the time, but unfortunately Ji An..."
Ji Kang didn't say anything more, and I didn't ask any more questions. After arriving at the underground parking lot of Tomorrow Company, Ji Kang got out of the car, and I followed him out. However, I got into a car that Mr. Ji had arranged before we arrived, and there were three thugs arranged by Mr. Ji in the car to protect my safety.
I put on the earphones Ji Kang gave me and turned them on. I could see the footage from the pinhole camera that Ji Kang had installed on the button. Ji Kang called Bai Cheng as soon as he got out of the car. Bai Cheng was waiting for him in the office. When he arrived at the elevator entrance leading upstairs from the parking lot, a security guard stopped him and called to confirm before swiping his card to let Bai Cheng into the elevator.
As soon as Ji Kang and Bai Cheng met, Bai Cheng asked, "Where is Su Yi?"
Ji Kang said, "I brought her. She's in my car. I'll bring her up after I see my brother."
Bai Cheng didn't speak, but a murderous glint flashed in his eyes. He turned around and led Ji Kang through the office area, into an internal elevator, and upstairs. After turning a few corners, I saw a very familiar place: a space capsule, exactly the same place I had seen in the illusion. I whispered into my headset, "Ji Kang, when you pass by those space capsules, try to move your body left and right to see the situation inside them clearly."
Ji Kang didn't say anything, but waved his hand in front of the camera to indicate that he understood...
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