Chapter 384 Madness Inside
“When I was 13, something big happened… and it was because of that event that we met.”
Jiang Ning, who had been staring at the champagne, turned her head for the first time and met Lu Junyan's gaze.
When she was 13 years old, her grandmother suddenly passed away.
Jiang Ning remembers clearly that her grandmother passed away suddenly after arguing with her grandfather.
However, she never dreamed that her grandfather would pin the blame for her grandmother's accidental death on her under the pretext of "intentional injury."
At that time, the Lin family's firecracker business was declining, and Lin Jingcheng was looking for a breakthrough and trying to enter other fields.
Lin Jingcheng attributed his business failures to a jinx in his family.
That is, Jiangning.
As a result, Jiang Ning didn't even have time to mourn her grandmother before the Lin family sent her to a juvenile detention center on charges of "intentional injury."
At that time, no matter how much Jiang Ning cried and begged, no one said a word for her.
Including her biological parents, Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao.
From the time she was born until she grew up, Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao, while not as hostile as Lin Jingcheng, did not show the warmth of blood ties in their eyes when they looked at her.
And so, Jiang Ning was inexplicably sent to a juvenile detention center for "re-education."
In City A's juvenile detention center, those with money and power can act arrogantly and domineeringly.
Unfortunately, the Lin family never stood up for Jiang Ning.
Therefore, Jiang Ning was placed in solitary confinement after only one week of being inside.
If it weren't for Lu Junyan giving her a piece of candy every day, giving her hope for life...
She felt she might go crazy inside.
Lu Junyan was taken out of the juvenile detention center before her.
Without Lu Junyan's protection, Jiang Ning was beaten a lot in the juvenile detention center.
However, unlike in the past, Jiangning's spiritual world is rich.
Because she has Lu Junyan.
She wants to live a good life, leave the juvenile detention center, and go out into the world to find Lu Junyan.
In the end, the Lin family did not leave her to fend for herself in the juvenile detention center.
They took her out.
But they confiscated her phone.
"I sent you to the juvenile detention center so you could reform and start a new life, but instead, you've learned nothing but romance at such a young age!"
At that time, Lin Jingcheng had heard about Jiang Ning's every move in the juvenile detention center, so he smashed her phone in front of her.
Later, Jiang Ning secretly took the broken phone to be repaired and managed to salvage the only photo of her and Lu Junyan together.
She still remembered Lu Junyan's phone number.
Although the phone book was broken, she had already memorized the string of numbers.
After getting a new phone, Jiang Ning secretly and nervously called Lu Junyan one night.
Jiang Ning had once wondered if Lu Junyan would take the initiative to contact her.
But after waiting for a long time, Lu Junyan still didn't contact them.
Later she thought that perhaps Lu Junyan had contacted her when her phone broke.
Jiang Ning began to worry that Lu Junyan might be anxious or angry if he couldn't contact her.
However……
After she dialed Lu Junyan's mobile number, she heard, "Sorry, the number you dialed is not in service."
Jiang Ning froze on the spot, his whole body turned to stone.
She originally thought that there was always a bond between her and Lu Junyan.
Although the two of them actually only knew each other for a short period of six months in the juvenile detention center.
However, love is not measured by the length of time you have known each other.
She and Lu Junyan shared memories of relying on each other and never abandoning each other.
She firmly believed that even if she left the juvenile detention center, she would be able to find Lu Junyan.
Instead of Lu Junyan's voice, an electronic voice echoed in Jiang Ning's ears, and Jiang Ning's heart grew colder and colder.
She couldn't get in touch with Lu Junyan.
After that, Jiang Ning never saw Lu Junyan again.
It was as if this person had vanished from her life.
Sometimes, in the dead of night, Jiang Ning couldn't help but let his mind wander.
Was her encounter, acquaintance, and love with Lu Junyan in the juvenile detention center all a beautiful dream, or an illusion?
Gradually, Jiang Ning stopped being so fixated on finding Lu Junyan.
Because she couldn't find it either.
She carefully hid this precious first love in her heart, secretly looking at the only photo of them together on her phone every day.
She thought that if God would be kind to her, perhaps one day she would be able to reunite with Lu Junyan.
Unexpectedly, before that, she received Lin Jingcheng's expulsion order.
"Master Huang said that if she stays in the Lin family, it will cause our Lin family to decline... Yue Heng, didn't Chu Yao's distant relative mention that he has a friend who has never had children and whose husband is gone... I think her surname is Jiang?"
After the night Lin Jingcheng had a detailed conversation with Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao, Jiang Ning was adopted by Jiang Xiaoya.
Jiang Ning indeed disliked the Lin family.
However, Lin Yueheng and Chu Yao are, after all, her biological parents.
She had grown up, but was inexplicably adopted by a stranger.
Jiang Ning initially refused to accept it.
But no one in the Lin family dared to disobey Lin Jingcheng's decision, so naturally she couldn't refuse it.
And so, Jiang Ning became Jiang Xiaoya's daughter and moved to City B.
"Looking back now, I should thank Lin Jingcheng for his cruelty back then... My mother is very gentle. Although she is not strong, she treats me very well and like her own son..."
As Lu Junyan listened to Jiang Ning's words, the way Jiang Ning addressed him clearly expressed Jiang Ning's attitude.
Her biological grandfather—she called him Lin Jingcheng.
And her adoptive mother—she calls her Mom.
Jiang Ning tilted his head back and downed the remaining champagne in his glass in one gulp.
"I've never believed in fate because of what the Lin family has done... But, coincidentally, after I was adopted by someone else, the Lin family did indeed prosper, somehow getting into the oil business, and eventually becoming the biggest financial backer of the C country government..."
After Jiang Ning finished speaking, he curled the corners of his lips into a self-deprecating smile.
"However... what goes around comes around, and the Lin family is now on the decline, falling apart... Tell me... after how the Lin family treated me in the past, should I help them now?"
Finally, Jiang Ning turned to look at Lu Junyan.
Their eyes met, and Jiang Ning's eyes were red like a rabbit's, showing no pity for the Lin family, only deep conflict.
Lu Junyan pulled Jiang Ning into his arms.
Jiang Ning was stunned.
She didn't expect Lu Junyan to suddenly hug her.
Lu Junyan held Jiang Ning tightly.
His heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by a hand, and the pain made it hard for him to breathe.
If Jiang Ning hadn't told him these things tonight, he would never have known that Jiang Ning had suffered so much as a child.
Holding Lu Junyan in his arms, Jiang Ning felt an incredible sense of warmth and security.
Living alone for so long, she almost forgot what it felt like to be hugged.
The air in the living room seemed to sweeten, and the temperature gradually rose.
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