Chapter 224 Nothing will happen to me
Tears were about to burst out of Chen Qing's eyes. He must have been discharged early. His illness had not completely subsided and his face was still pale. When he got closer, he could see that his eye sockets were dark and blue, and he obviously had not rested well.
She turned her face to the side, holding back her sobs, and said, "I have lost weight specifically."
"Not eating to lose weight again?" Jiang Jingyan was not very happy and spoke in a slightly lecturing tone.
He did not tolerate Chen Qing's bad habit. The little girl was too thin and weak. She could be knocked back several meters by someone who bumped into her, and she couldn't fight back even if she was beaten.
The first time Chen Qing clamored for weight loss was when she participated in a provincial competition in high school. After the performance, Mrs. Luo played back the video at home. She insisted that she looked like she was carrying a washbasin on her shoulders on the stage. Mrs. Luo didn't have time to monitor her three meals a day, so she found a way to escape the nanny's eyes and only drank milk for a week until she fainted at school due to shaking hands.
The emergency contact person at Chen Qing's school was Mrs. Luo. Unfortunately, she was on tour that time and didn't answer the call. That night, the nanny and the maid couldn't wait for Chen Qing to come home, and couldn't contact Mrs. Luo, so they almost called the police. When they ran to the school to ask, they found out that Chen Qing had already been sent to the hospital for an IV drip.
At that time, Jiang Jingyan had just begun to avoid suspicion and would not meet unless it was an important matter. In the evening, he went to another province for a meeting and stopped by Luo's house. He learned about this matter. From then on, Lian Zhuo was added as the school's emergency contact.
In fact, Chen Qing has never been fat. She suffered in junior high school, and she finally became plump and rosy in high school. Her face is a little fatter than her body. She looks cute and well-behaved, and her figure is suitable for her age. Jiang Jingyan is happy to see her healthy. Whenever she loses weight, he always stares at her and feeds her back bite by bite.
"You came here, did you find what you were looking for?"
"Found it." Chen Qing's voice was like a mosquito's hum. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm afraid you'll get into an accident."
She pinched her palms hard, knowing that this was Yan Baiqing's territory and that he could hear her even without a wall, so she didn't dare to respond.
"Don't go into places like this by yourself in the future. It's not safe."
"Yeah." Chen Qing clenched his fists.
Jiang Jingyan unbuttoned another button to vent the heat. He received the news and left everyone in the conference room to rush over. He broke out in a sweat on the way. "Have you been to the third building of the Imperial Palace?"
"not yet."
"Why not?"
Chen Qing stared at the tip of his leather shoes, his eyeballs swollen. "Mrs. Luo said that it was a dowry, and the dowry cannot be touched before the wedding."
Jiang Jingyan looked at her and suddenly laughed, "You are deliberately fooling me."
He was good at telling lies. She didn't go because she didn't dare to stay alone in an unfamiliar environment. But he was worried about where she lived. The security system of the Imperial Mansion was top-notch. In that home, she could temporarily get rid of all the spies around her.
"I'm leaving first."
"Stop," he ordered.
Chen Qing subconsciously slowed down his pace, "You said three minutes..."
"I'll keep you for three minutes, thirty minutes, three hours. Who dares to say anything?" Jiang Jingyan raised his chin, "Sit down."
She didn't listen, tugging at her sleeves and mumbling, "Just put it this way."
The man played with the cigarette and said, "Go to the Imperial Mansion. I left something for you."
"What?"
"Wan Lihong's testimony."
Chen Qing suddenly looked up, then quickly calmed himself down and glanced at the figure outside the door.
"I told you, don't interfere with the investigation." Her voice trembled with panic, and she bit her lower lip tightly. "Can you withstand their revenge? A small bracelet from Mr. Xu has forced you to cooperate with the investigation until now. I beg you, please don't investigate, okay?"
Jiang Jingyan's eyes never left her, his cheekbones protruding, veins popping out of his forehead. He found an excuse to comfort her, "Zhao Ming took Wan Lihong away, and it implicated my father. I'm not doing this for you, but for the Jiang family."
Chen Qing couldn't hold it in any longer. Overwhelming emotions and tears surged. She suppressed her voice, trembling all over. "It's me who implicated you. I've been implicating you since I was 14. Don't investigate anymore. I'm with Yan Baiqing. They won't do anything to me. But you're different. They're waiting to plot against you and step on you. What if they hurt you—"
She paused, biting her lip until it broke. "What will I do then? I'll have lost my parents, my home, and you..."
Jiang Jingyan looked at her without saying a word, the bloodshot eyes were horrifying.
"Don't cry." His voice was as hoarse as it could be. "I'll be fine."
Chen Qing turned around and ran out of the hall.
Yan Baiqing stood at the foot of the stairs. The evening breeze blew away the smell of alcohol, making his mind clearer.
"Let's go."
The door of the club opened silently. Yan Baiqing looked back and saw several CEOs of the Chamber of Commerce escorting Jiang Jingyan out. Their voices were neither too loud nor too low, just enough to reach his ears.
"I was negligent. I forgot that Mr. Jiang doesn't like occasions like this."
"No, it has nothing to do with preferences. Our Mr. Jiang is the most honest and upright person. Even after retirement, he still has discipline and never sets foot in entertainment venues."
Chen Qing avoided his gaze as the man walked down the stairs one by one. His voice was rich and full of smiles. "I'm sorry to have ruined everyone's fun. Let's move to another place. I'll arrange it."
Her heart ached. Jiang Jingyan came specially for this purpose, probably because he was afraid that she would be embarrassed in front of Yan Baiqing, so he used the excuse of socializing to create the illusion of an accidental encounter.
Yan Baiqing stood there motionless. The people from the Chamber of Commerce just nodded without greeting him, implicitly making their position clear.
Chen Qing shrank back, afraid that others would recognize her and confirm the rumors.
The thick night and the man's body intertwined. Chen Qing raised her head cautiously. When passing by, Jiang Jingyan glanced at her as if nothing had happened, and walked away without stopping.
She felt inexplicably empty inside.
Yan Baiqing lowered his eyes. Chen Qing's eyelids and nose were red, and traces of tears remained. "If you can't bear to leave, why do you have to separate?"
She didn't respond immediately.
After getting in the car, Yan Baiqing had just sat down when he heard a laugh beside him.
"I remember what Mrs. Jiang said when she advised me to leave him." Chen Qing clasped her hands together and rolled her thumbs over her knuckles, where there was a layer of calluses from her piano practice. The touch was rough and stinging.
She took a deep breath, her eyes empty and numb. "Mrs. Jiang said, 'You're born at the wrong time, you meet at the wrong time, you love at the wrong time, so you can only blame fate for playing tricks on you.'"
"But you still care about him and secretly went to the hospital to see him, right?"
Chen Qing was stunned, and a chill spread down his spine.
The carriage was filled with his scent, mysterious, dangerous and boundless.
Yan Baiqing chuckled, "Qing'er, I don't believe you will hate him. Since we want to cooperate, it's better to be honest with each other."
"I don't hate him. Going to see him is to satisfy my conscience." Chen Qing turned his head away. The neon lights flashed by like a phantom. Two faces were reflected on the glass window, half overlapping, half disappearing. "I may blame his father, but the deeds of the previous generation should not be borne by the children."
The man paused, "You think so?"
"Yeah." She closed her eyes, looking extremely tired.
What Yan Baiqing got out of Li Xiangli was an address.
Li Xiangli initially refused to cooperate, insisting there was no hidden truth and that the official report was the truth. Hua Mei had him taken to ecstasy and then into the abyss, forcing him to tell the truth.
Wan Lihong is even more resistant than him, but she is probably really unaware of the situation.
Yan Baiqing did not show up throughout the process, and later turned against the party. The people involved also fled far away and could not be traced back to him.
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