Chapter 13 Chapter 13 First meeting.

Ji Ning went home.

When she came out of the security checkpoint this morning, she wanted to follow her parents to see what kind of medicine they were selling. However, she was very angry because they were very agile and she... could not keep up.

There were so many people in the Ji family, and there were spies everywhere. Ji Ning did not rush back immediately, but wandered outside until late at night.

As for Fu Xiaoman, before the plane took off and before she reported the news of the eldest lady's escape to Fu Mingya, Ji Ning stopped her.

During that phone call, Ji Ning did not ask any questions.

When she first went abroad four years ago, Fu Xiaoman was unfamiliar with the place and had learned only broken English for many years. She was in a hurry even when she went out to buy some daily necessities. It was said that Fu Xiaoman was asked to accompany Ji Ning to school, but in fact, sometimes she was even the one who was taken care of.

In the first few months, Ji Ning was sincere to Fu Xiaoman, but her sincerity was not appreciated. Fu Xiaoman came with a mission, and she was entrusted by the lady to complete the function of "human surveillance". The value of friendship is not as important as the future.

Therefore, it was not the eldest lady's alienation that pushed her away. Ji Ning had lost her memory, but she was not stupid. She could tell her sincerity from her own at a glance.

Once upon a time, they almost became friends.

For the rare honesty in this phone call, Fu Xiaoman gave up the idea of ​​contacting Fu Mingya. There is no impenetrable wall in this world. How cruel it is for a lively and bright person to blur the meaning of life under the control of others.

What’s more, this “other person” is her parents, which is even more cruel.

Of course, with Fu Xiaoman's personality, it is impossible for her to take risks impulsively.

She has already received a good offer overseas. As for her father, Uncle Fu is old and has back pain after driving for a long time, so he has to give up this job.

So, Ji Ning returned home smoothly. Fu Mingya used to work until late at night before returning home, so he told housekeeper Jiang that he didn't need to follow the rule of leaving the lights on and waiting at the door. So, after the lights in the house were turned off one by one, Ji Ning entered the house.

How ridiculous! She just didn't want to follow her parents' arrangement to leave and had to go through so many difficulties just like now before she could return to her home.

During these days, memories of occasional rebellion in childhood flashed back in Ji Ning's mind.

She thought that this time, it would be just a small fight, and she would kill her parents by surprise, just like a child eager to be recognized...

However, when she saw Zhuzhu with her own eyes, her mind buzzed.

"After attending this wedding, you can go back."

"There's no point dwelling on the past; it just makes you waste your time in the present."

“It is better to use this time to do more meaningful things, such as cherishing the present.”

These days, her parents, as people who have experienced it, have repeatedly told her that there is no need to bring up the past again.

But the child in front of her felt so familiar to her, as if a precious missing piece of the puzzle in her heart had been found, but she didn't know where to put the piece.

The child's expression was one of genuine surprise.

It was the first time Ji Ning saw her and she didn't even know how to greet her. She just reached out and rubbed her head.

At the same time, she pondered for a long time, and even foolishly wondered if she could find the answer to her past that she could not remember from the mouth of the child in front of her?

"Do you know me?" she asked a ridiculous question.

Even someone as sharp and swift as Fu Mingya was stunned for a long time when he saw his daughter.

She finally calmed down and pretended nothing had happened: "Lin Li, take this child to the guest bedroom on the third floor first."

"Yes, we've been busy all day, and we all need to rest." Ji Guoting acted as a peacemaker, "We can wait until tomorrow..."

"Are you a mother?"

Zhuzhu's baby voice is sweet, timid, and expectant.

The blurred face of the mother ball in the original plot now has a face.

Mom is so beautiful. Zhuzhu seems to recognize her, but she is not sure.

And Ji Ning's heart skipped a beat.

Then, she turned her gaze to the file bag in Lin Li's hand.

There were words printed on the file bag: it was a professional paternity identification agency in South City.

…

When picking up your child, you have to follow the procedures.

There is no need to wait for parents to make up any ridiculous reasons such as adopting a poor child. Once they say those reasons, they may not even believe themself.

Ji Guoting held Ji Ning's hand, but at this moment, both his actions and words were too pale.

The results of the paternity test have not come out yet. The text shows that what the customer submitted was a hair sample.

Ji Ning immediately realized why Fu Mingya suddenly cancelled the original appointment with the styling studio before Bai Hui's wedding and made another appointment for her, saying that he wanted to design a new hairstyle for her.

There was also the day when she was in Fu Mingya's office and opened the tablet but it was taken away.

When she saw the entry about little bitter melon baby on the trending search, she felt vaguely uneasy and hesitant, and her mother’s indifference in changing the subject…

They had already noticed the child's existence, but were still weighing the pros and cons.

It turns out that everything has a traceable path.

String them together to form a logical story.

The lights in the house were still bright.

The confusion and helplessness in Ji Ning's eyes slowly dissipated bit by bit, and finally disappeared completely.

Instead, there is anger.

Long-lost, surging anger.

Ji Ning has not yet realized what Zhuzhu's existence means, and she does not understand her former self.

But she knew her parents, they had the ability to manipulate and block everything, and they enjoyed controlling her into a ridiculous puppet.

But the fight was done in the name of doing good for her.

Fu Mingya never apologized, but he knew that the matter could not be kept secret.

One can almost guess how the arrogant daughter is lawless.

Now that she knows the truth, she will make a scene until everyone is humiliated.

However, when Ji Ning spoke, she was very calm.

"Is it fun?"

"Playing me around in circles, is this your group's KPI?"

Lin Li wondered in her heart how the eldest lady's emotions could be so stable, and then she lowered her eyes and looked straight at Zhu Zhu.

Suddenly I realized.

"I'll take the child back to the room first."

…

Getting angry is inevitable.

She was programmed to live according to their wishes, and was played like a top, spinning and twitching...

And she also has to be praised like a well-behaved little lamb for finally growing up.

What’s even more infuriating is that until this moment, Ji Ning still doesn’t know what happened that year.

In the living room, Fu Mingya and Ji Guoting were slow to come upstairs.

They sat at either end of the sofa, neither of them spoke a word, their ears filled with faint crisp sounds.

Just now, Ji Ning had lost her temper in the living room.

Now she moves upstairs to continue venting her anger.

The sound insulation of each room in this villa is very good.

But he could still hear the sound of Ji Ning throwing things upstairs. After being suppressed for a long time, the anger would eventually come out. Fu Mingya didn't care, just thinking of it as a little cat waving its claws, which would eventually stop.

Not long after, Lin Li came down.

She said that the little girl was tired after following the adults all day and had fallen asleep. The little girl was very well behaved and did not need to be coaxed. The adults rubbed her hair with their hands and she curled up and closed her eyes quietly.

The child is still young, and I have to admit that she is still young. I don’t know what is waiting for her in this family.

As Lin Li had expected before, is such a suffocating and depressing environment really conducive to the growth of children?

Lin Li did not stay any longer and left the Ji family.

When she was about to go out, she heard another loud noise.

It must be the sound of the antique vase breaking at the end of the corridor on the second floor.

But as Ms. Fu said, this will all pass.

Just like many years ago, Ms. Fu arranged the marriage without asking for Ji Ning's opinion. The eldest daughter could not accept it, and Ms. Fu just told her, as if conveying a task to a subordinate, that since she enjoyed the superior life brought by the family, she must bear the responsibility.

At that time, the eldest daughter was still very willful and tried every possible means to resist.

But now, four years later, I'm afraid she no longer has the energy to do so.

I had no choice but to accept it.

…

Zhuzhu doesn't recognize any bed. She can even sleep on the simple bed made of hard boards in the Zhao family, let alone the beautiful big bed in the castle.

The bed was very comfortable, even the pillow was soft. She pressed her head against it and made a hole.

But Zhuzhu still couldn’t sleep.

This was the first time she saw her mother. Without any hesitation, the smart baby recognized her mother's appearance at first sight.

However, my mother didn't know her.

Zhuzhu remembered that her mother had lost her memory.

The original plot and reality sometimes overlap and sometimes are so different that even adults may not be able to tell the difference, let alone a three-year-old kid.

It seemed that she was the only one who was happy to see her mother. When she came here, little Tuanzi was not welcome just like when she was in Yongrui Village.

The room was very quiet. Aunt Lin Li turned on a small light, and Zhuzhu was not afraid.

She got out of bed, stepped on the wooden floor with her bare feet, and opened the door.

It's late again.

All the lights in the castle have been turned off.

Just when Zhuzhu was about to go back to her room, she heard rustling footsteps coming from the second floor.

She looked over and saw her mother.

When Zhao Xiaojie and his grandmother watched TV, Zhuzhu watched too.

She only half understood the adult TV series, but she could still guess the cause and effect.

Mom is running away.

Ji Ning was carrying a big, bulging schoolbag.

The schoolbag was a leftover from her student days, left in the cloakroom like a souvenir, looking shabby and she hated it, but it was the only bag she could carry more luggage with.

The backpack was half the length of her body, and even walking became difficult for her with it on her back.

I looked up and saw a faint light. When I looked over, I saw a little dumpling peeking out.

"So you live in this room."

Ji Ning went upstairs without wearing shoes.

Zhuzhu in the trending video seems to be different from her appearance in real life.

The lens can magnify people. At this time, the children look even smaller. When they blink, their long eyelashes flutter like butterfly wings.

This was the second time Ji Ning met Zhu Zhu.

Without making a formal self-introduction, he just pinched her little face gently.

It is soft.

Seeing Zhuzhu staring at her schoolbag, Ji Ning explained, "There are some clothes and toiletries in it. I can't stay in this house anymore. I have to leave."

As she got closer to the truth day by day, she realized that the high-sounding words were just a cage built for her by her parents. As long as she enjoyed the glory of being the daughter of the Ji family, she would not be able to escape from the cage and become herself.

She was leaving, leaving with dignity and swagger.

Reality is different from drama. Ji Ning would not have the nerve to leave her gold card and go out to live a miserable life... After being deceived for so long, it is not too much to ask for some mental damages.

Perhaps soon, Ms. Fu will take action.

But anyway, that's in the future.

As for now, just be happy while you can.

When Ji Ning said this, her chin was raised, her eyebrows were dancing with joy, and she looked proud and dazzling.

Zhuzhu had seen the outline of her mother in the original plot, and the mother she imagined was the same.

But later, she had an accident and her mother was heartbroken, like a balloon that had suddenly deflated and could never go back to the way it was before.

The original plot in the dream has a voice-over in the second half.

It was a mechanical voice, regretfully telling the life story of the original heroine. It said that her life seemed to be paying for the willful and wrong decision she made four years ago. Until the last moment of her life, no one knew whether Ji Ning had regretted it, but as a bystander, I only felt that Ji Ning and the original hero had messed up their lives for an extra child, which was not worth it.

Zhuzhu is an unnecessary little burden, that's what the original plot says.

Since many plots in the original story came true, Xiaotuanzi believed them to be the truth.

"It's so heavy." Ji Ning said, "Let's go!"

Without Zhuzhu's mother, she is as unrestrained as in the first half of the story.

The little girl tilted her face upwards and carefully memorized her appearance at that moment in her heart.

Finally, she waved her little hands and said in a baby voice, "Goodbye."

Zhuzhu is so reluctant to leave.

Ji Ning, on the other hand, looked at her little hand with a puzzled expression.

"What do you want to see you again?" Ji Ning touched her forehead, "Let's go!"

The little girl looked at her stupidly.

Until Ji Ning pulled me down the beautiful spiral staircase in the castle.

It turned out that her mother came to take her away.

…

It's late at night.

In a top-floor suite at a hotel in North City, the arc-shaped panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows offer an unobstructed view of the city's night scene.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, a man with neat short hair and a well-tailored suit was looking at the city landmarks that were slowly lighting up.

Assistant Director Wen is still reporting.

Finally, he said, "And here is a photo of the lady you asked me to find. Please take a look."

Four years ago, Mr. Jiang met a girl by chance and fell in love with her. Later, the girl disappeared without even saying hello, as if she had never appeared.

Assistant Wen met the girl once.

Different from the dull Mr. Jiang, she is eccentric and passionate, bright as the only ray of light shining into his conventional life.

During these years, Mr. Jiang searched all over the world for her, his only worry being that something bad might happen to her.

"One of my classmates stayed in a group in North City after graduation. On that day, the prince of his company got married. The scene was grand. He happened to be there to do something, so he took a photo of the wedding scene and posted it in the group for us to see."

Obviously, Jiang Cheng was not interested in the secrets of the wealthy families in North City.

"I think the silhouette inside looks like the girl you're looking for."

As expected, Jiang Cheng looked over.

The so-called wedding of the century was naturally luxurious, and the bride and groom looked like a perfect couple, but Jiang Cheng's gaze fell on the direction of Assistant Wen's finger.

The girl in the lake green haute couture dress has a slender back, with her long chestnut hair flowing. She is exquisite from head to toe, and it is obvious that her outfit has been carefully crafted.

Jiang Cheng couldn't see her face clearly, but the figure in his mind kept lingering and he couldn't see her face again.

"It's not her." Jiang Cheng said calmly, "Assistant Wen, you know her situation at that time."

Assistant Wen understood what he meant.

The scene of Mr. Jiang's encounter with the girl was like a plot from an old melodramatic novel. The heir to a listed group met an ordinary beautiful girl by chance and was moved by her positive and vigorous tenacity. This brief encounter was engraved in his mind. Even many years later, he was still looking for her all over the world and could not forget it.

At that time, the beautiful girl was extremely poor. How could she suddenly change herself into a woman wearing a high-end dress worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and mingle in the world of fame and fortune?

"only……"

Assistant Wen said, "Mr. Jiang, everything she said was just her own words... her name, identity, school she graduated from, and even her family of origin. We checked that information and found it difficult to verify."

The lights of the city landmarks moved and poured into the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a shadow on Jiang Cheng's angular face.

It makes his outline more three-dimensional.

"What do you want to say?" Jiang Cheng's expression was calm.

"I mean..."

"Would you have been, would you have been..."

Before Mr. Jiang completely lost his patience, Assistant Wen gritted his teeth and finished his words in one breath.

"Could it be that we have encountered a pig slaughterhouse?"

As soon as the words fell, the suite fell into silence.

Assistant Vent retracted his neck and slipped away slowly and silently like a gust of wind.

Jiang Cheng was left alone, typing a line of words into the browser:

What is a pig slaughterhouse?

…

Ji Ning was running, her long hair flying in the autumn wind.

She looked back and found that the baby's legs were very short, and his feet stomped on the ground with a "clacking sound" as he tried hard to catch up.

Zhuzhu exerted all his strength and stretched out his short legs as far as he could.

They were not familiar with each other, but at this moment, they became each other's only comrades-in-arms.

During the three years after losing her memory, Ji Ning lived in a state of depression.

But at this moment, all constraints seemed to be completely thrown away.

The daughter of the Ji family broke through the darkness and took the little daughter she had just recognized with her. The two of them walked through the courtyard, and the sky was filled with scattered stars.

There is a door there, and when you leave, a new life will appear before your eyes.

But the door was closed.

Leaving now would mean running away, so how can we make a big fuss about it?

Ji Ning raised her head and looked at the low wall of the Ji family villa.

The low wall was covered with flowers, isolating her from the outside world, and she was eager to give it a try.

Looking back, Ji Ning said to Zhu Zhu, "Let's go, climb over the wall!"

That’s how it’s played out on TV: to escape from a cage, you have to climb over the wall.

"Can you?"

The little dumpling shook his head.

Obviously, she doesn't.

Ji Ning has not yet realized that she is a mother, and she thinks that Fu Mingya and Ji Guoting are totally unqualified as parents, so she has no reference point.

But she can teach herself.

"I'll teach you."

Ji Ning rolled up his sleeves, took off the schoolbag on his back and threw it outside.

Just by listening to the sound of the backpack falling to the ground, she could calculate the distance between the low wall and the ground. She said seriously: "It's the same height outside as it is inside."

The little dumpling tilted his head, his eyes full of admiration.

It’s so amazing!

Ji Ning turned her head and raised her chin, her eyes sparkling.

The yard was quiet, with only Ji Ning and Zhu Zhu there.

They moved very quietly and whispered to each other, like two little thieves.

Ji Ning was getting better and better at it, and said to Zhu Zhu, "I'll go explore the way, and you watch and learn."

She climbed the wall just like she was climbing a tree. Although she had no memory of it, it felt like she had practiced it before. She leaped up in a few "swish" steps, supporting herself with her hands, and was light and nimble.

By the time she was about to jump, Ji Ning had already lost herself in the admiring eyes of the children.

"I'm going down!"

With a "thump", Ji Ning landed on the ground and stood steadily.

It's like——

A heroine who shows off her skills in costume films by performing Qinggong.

She patted the dust off her hands, stood on tiptoe with pride, and shouted to the yard, "Wait for me to come back and pick you up."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ji Ning heard the sound of light footsteps.

The gate of the yard was pushed open by Zhuzhu without even a creaking sound, let alone the possibility that someone was blocking it.

Tick, tick, tick——

The baby came over in small steps to join her.

Ji Ning:?