Chapter 316 Seeking Repayment for a Favor
Jiang Ning's eyes were straightforward, her words of refusal were blunt, and the harm she caused to Lu Junyan was also direct.
Lu Junyan lowered his eyes and smiled, a bitter smile.
"I have nothing to lose now, and I have plenty of time, so let me do what I want to do."
"Whatever you want!"
Jiang Ning sighed.
The guest room was completely silent, except for the sound of Lu Junyan eating cookies.
"Is the Lu Group alright now?"
"Yes, thanks to Bai Yichen for helping me."
With a slight exertion of his fingertips, Lu Junyan shattered the cookie into dust.
"You're not the only one who can save the Lu Group... As it turns out, listening to Bai Yichen also yielded good results."
As Jiang Ning spoke these words, he stared intently at Lu Junyan's profile.
That angular face looked like it had been smeared with soot, incredibly black.
She said that on purpose.
She wanted Lu Junyan to recognize the reality of the situation.
There is absolutely no way to win her back.
"So, to repay him, you went to a hotel in a foreign country with him, all alone together?"
Lu Junyan's eyes returned to their former cold and ruthless state, burning with naked jealousy.
"You booked two rooms, okay?"
"..."
"Moreover, Bai Yichen never asks me to repay him for anything he does for me."
"It's as if I'm taking advantage of someone's kindness."
Have you ever done me a favor?
The sudden problem in Jiangning made Lu Junyan's heart tighten.
When their eyes met, Lu Junyan felt that Jiang Ning's eyes seemed redder than before.
"What you did...wasn't it a form of making amends?"
make up--
These two words were like needles, piercing Lu Junyan's heart.
"After you realized you were deceived by Chu Qingxue, you remembered the hurt you caused me in the past... So what you did was just out of a sense of compensation... You don't really love me, Lu Junyan, and I don't love you anymore either... After dealing with that fake Gu Jinci, I've decided to accept Bai Yichen's confession and be with him... If you still want to be my assistant then, I won't stop you, because you'll only be the one who suffers."
After Jiang Ning finished speaking decisively, she poured a glass of juice and handed it to Lu Junyan.
Lu Junyan realized that this was a message to serve tea and see the guest off.
He took the juice, drank it all in one gulp, stood up, and asked:
"I have nowhere to stay, could you let me stay for the night?"
"Can."
Jiang Ning's reaction made Lu Junyan's eyes widen.
"Bai Yichen has plenty of room; I can take you there."
A storm of disappointment, and even anger, swept across Lu Junyan's face.
With his long legs striding forward, Lu Junyan couldn't help but glance back at Jiang Ning as he reached the door.
That one glance made Jiang Ning's heart skip a beat.
"...Get some rest, goodnight."
The guest room door opened and closed.
The air still seemed to carry the scent of Lu Junyan. Jiang Ning closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead.
Finding out the truth about the fake Gu Jinci was already exhausting enough for her, but Lu Junyan's appearance made her even more exhausted.
The hotel pillows were very comfortable, but she didn't sleep well.
She had a dream.
Her dream was a jumbled mess, making it impossible for her to tell whether it was real or not.
"I didn't hurt Grandma. She's the only person in this family who's good to me. How could I possibly hurt her!"
"You're just using this as an excuse to send me away. I don't understand if I'm even your biological child. Why are you treating me like this?"
"I don't want to go to juvenile detention... I don't want to... I hate you all!"
"Your name is Achu? What's your surname?"
"I don't want to say... I don't want that surname."
"Then I won't ask anymore. No matter what your surname is, you are you... Ah Chu, this name is really nice."
"My name is Lu Junyan... From now on, I will protect you!"
"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!"
"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?"
Jiang Ning suddenly opened his eyes, and in front of him was the ceiling of the hotel room, with a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.
It was a dream...
Jiang Ning took two deep breaths, his heart pounding like a machine gun.
"Why would I dream about these things again..."
Jiang Ning punched his head with his fist.
It is said that what you think about during the day, you dream about at night.
That's all ancient history, she's long forgotten about it.
Jiang Ning quickly tidied herself up and went to the lobby to meet Bai Yichen.
"Ah Ning, why do you look so pale?"
"It's nothing, I just had a nightmare."
Jiang Ning gave a wry smile.
Her head still hurts!
"What kind of dream?"
Bai Yichen asked curiously.
Jiang Ning thought about it for a moment.
Actually, her dream last night was fragmented and disjointed, so she couldn't remember it at all.
However, she still retained the memory the moment she woke up from the dream.
In her dreams, it's all about her past.
It has both good and bad aspects.
Bad is bad.
Good... but it could also be bad for her right now.
Bai Yichen noticed that Jiang Ning's expression was a bit off, so he quickly changed his tune: "Let's not talk about your dream anymore... The people from the international detective agency and security company we contacted are already downstairs at the Ace Group building."
"Okay, let's hurry over there!"
After all, they were in a foreign country, on someone else's territory, so Jiang Ning and Bai Yichen dared not be careless.
They spent a lot of money to hire famous international detectives and twenty skilled men from a security company.
Only then did they enter the Ace Group building.
If all goes well, Jiang Ning believes they will catch the corporate spy impersonating Gu Jinci here.
On the one hand, although the Lu Group has survived the danger period, what Gu Jinci did using Gu Lanlan was clearly illegal and criminal.
She wanted to capture Gu Jinci and bring him to justice.
In this way, the scandal of Lu's Group leaking customer information can be cleared from public opinion.
On the other hand, she also wanted to vent her anger for Gu Lanlan.
Jiang Ning is still not completely appeased.
After all, she was betrayed by her best friend.
However, despite her anger, she still considered Gu Lanlan her friend.
Gu Lanlan had never been in a relationship before, but Gu Jinci appeared before her like a prince charming.
She could understand why Gu Lanlan would get so deeply involved.
Lu Junyan had deceived her, deliberately aborted their child, making her unable to conceive again, and even spent time with Chu Qingxue during their marriage. He never protected her and even schemed against her during their divorce.
Such is Lu Junyan...
She also found it difficult to let go at one point.
Jiang Ning sighed.
No matter what, she was determined to see Gu Jinci in person and bring him back.
The group took the elevator to the 18th floor in a grand procession, but as soon as they stepped out of the elevator, Jiang Ning saw a sign hanging at the entrance of the Ace Group's office, and the words on it made her heart sink.
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