"Did you hear that? I gave them a chance, but they ignored me."
Lu Siqiao turned to look at Chen Luoshi and sneered, "Wanting to be a prostitute and also wanting to maintain a virtuous image? There's no such thing as having both in this world."
Chen Luoshi was so angry she was on the verge of collapse. She gritted her teeth and said, "Your reckless behavior will get you killed sooner or later."
Unexpectedly, Chen Siqiao raised her hand and slapped her hard across the face.
"This slap is for the person you hired to hit me," Lu Siqiao said coldly.
Blood trickled from the corner of Chen Luoshi's mouth as she angrily retorted, "You brat, I will never let you get away with this!"
Unexpectedly, Lu Siqiao came with a pen in her hand, pressed a button, and played back the conversation from the pen.
"Don't mess with me, or I'll make sure your Chen family can't stay in the capital." She said calmly, "I'll hand this pen over to someone else later. If anything happens to me, I'll make sure the entire Chen family is wiped out."
After saying that, she waved and left with Zhang Wei.
Chen Luoshi was dumbfounded.
How could she have imagined that Lu Siqiao had come prepared and even recorded their entire conversation?
She hurriedly called Chen Luoxia and told them what Lu Siqiao had incriminating evidence against her.
Chen Luoxia was so angry that she couldn't speak for a long time.
Fang Dingding said coldly, "Auntie, come back first. We'll discuss this matter further."
Chen Luoxia advised, "Dingding, but your illness—"
"Even if I die, I don't want her to save me," Fang Dingding said through gritted teeth. "I don't want a sister like that; she disgusts me."
Chen Luoshi quickly comforted her, "The recording pen in her hand must have been given to her by Cai Ming. Only with Cai Ming and Cheng Ze backing her up can she become so lawless."
"Don't worry, I will take down Cheng Ze and won't let him hurt you." Fang Dingding's voice became low and inexplicably confident.
...
Lu Siqiao led Zhang Wei out of the Jiangbin Hotel. It was already dusk when all the lights of the city began to twinkle. She first called her family to let them know she was safe before hailing a taxi and asking Zhang Wei to get in.
Neither of them spoke.
The neon lights cast a cold glow on Lu Siqiao's small face.
Zhang Wei looked at her quietly, then suddenly said, "If every girl could be as independent and strong as you, women in this world wouldn't suffer so much."
Seeing that he seemed to be speaking from the heart, Lu Siqiao asked, "Do you have something on your mind too?"
Zhang Wei said with a wry smile, "I also have a younger sister, only eighteen years old. She doesn't learn anything good and just hangs out with those hooligans. Sigh—"
Lu Siqiao glanced at him: "Like father, like son. You haven't set a good example for her, so who can you blame?"
"At the time, all I wanted was to protect her, to fight fire with fire, thinking that once I made something of myself, I'd give that bastard who seduced her a good beating. The thing is, I wasn't good at studying, and this kind of thing made money quickly, so I went down this crooked path," Zhang Wei said, scratching his head with a helpless expression.
Lu Siqiao was amused by his whimsical idea: "Using violence to fight violence? I'm afraid you'll end up in a labor camp before you even settle accounts with the perpetrators."
She asked the driver to stop on Minjin Road ahead, and Zhang Wei got out of the car.
Before the taxi could even start moving, Zhang Wei ran out carrying a girl covered in blood, crying loudly, "My sister miscarried! Quick, take her to the hospital!"
Lu Siqiao quickly told the driver to turn the car around and head to the People's Hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Lu Siqiao skillfully found a nurse, paid a 300 yuan surgical deposit, and so on. It wasn't until midnight that Zhang Wei's sister, Zhang Wan, was out of danger.
Looking at the pale, colorless face on the hospital bed, a young girl in the prime of her life looked as aged as an old woman, her eyes empty and lifeless.
Zhang Wei said painfully from the side, "I told you to stay away from Shen Minghui, but you wouldn't listen! Do you want to drive our whole family to their deaths before you feel at ease?"
Zhang Wan looked numb, neither crying nor making a fuss.
"Zhang Wan-" Zhang Wei was furious and wanted to go forward and hit her to wake her up, but Lu Siqiao stopped him.
"We're all hungry, go out and get us two bowls of porridge." She shooed Zhang Wei away.
When only the two of them remained in the ward, Lu Siqiao took out a bowl of spiritual spring water from her spatial storage and fed it to Zhang Wan.
Zhang Wan was beautiful, but she was like a walking corpse, letting her do whatever she wanted.
"You're only causing pain to your loved ones and joy to your enemies, wasting your life in vain."
"The best way to get revenge is to leave that jerk and still live a better life than him!"
Zhang Wan stared blankly at her for a long while, then a glimmer of light appeared in her eyes, and she murmured, "Little sister, you don't understand—"
“Yes, I don’t understand, but I know we should cherish life. If a person dies, they have nothing left,” Lu Siqiao said calmly.
Zhang Wan's gaze drifted, as if recalling something: "He once said he would give up everything for me. But his parents looked down on me and arranged a marriage for him with a rich heiress. In order to climb the social ladder, he secretly gave me abortion pills..."
“I used to be a good student, but I skipped school and hated studying just to please him, and ended up becoming someone that everyone hated.”
Zhang Wan's expression turned painful. She covered her head with both hands and said in despair, "I'm ruined. Everything is ruined."
Lu Siqiao said softly, "You still have your brother?" Then she told her about how Zhang Weiwei almost broke the law and went to jail to protect her.
Zhang Wan stared in disbelief, then burst into tears: "How could he be so stupid!"
She burst into tears, as if she had found catharsis in that moment.
When Zhang Wei returned and saw this scene, he was extremely anxious.
"Let her cry, she'll be fine after she's cried it out." Lu Siqiao stopped him and led him out of the ward.
The two sat in the corridor, enjoying the breeze. In the still of the night, the hospital ward was still brightly lit.
"Zhang Wei, I'll pay for it. You can take Fatty and the others to do some small business," Lu Siqiao said tentatively, taking a sip of warm porridge and feeling a warm glow in her heart.
Zhang Wei doubted himself, "I can't read a single word, what kind of business can I do?" He thought she was joking.
Lu Siqiao said seriously, "I'm serious. I'll give you capital and even give you advice. If you just do as I say, isn't that better than being a petty thug?" How bad could someone who loves his sister so much really be?
Besides, she needs people right now.
Zhang said in a panic, "I'm just afraid I can't do it and I'll make you waste your money."
Lu Siqiao laughed: "How do you know it won't work if you don't try? People always have to look forward. If you don't understand words, you can learn them. If you don't understand accounting, someone will teach you. As long as you're willing to take that first step, life will get better and better."
Zhang Wei was intrigued and quickly asked, "Then what should we do?"
“I recently took a liking to two shops near the No. 1 Middle School in the city. I think I could open a fruit tea shop,” Lu Siqiao said, revealing her plan.
Zhang Wei, who had never heard of this before, asked, "A fruit tea shop? Do you sell soft drinks there?"
"The fruit tea shop has a wide variety of products, including fruit milk tea, ice cream, French fries, fried chicken nuggets, and cakes, etc..." Lu Siqiao said ambitiously.
Yes, she wanted to develop her own business and establish the most popular milk tea shop in the 1980s.
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