Chapter 165 Inseparable
After spending half a day sightseeing and having lunch, Jiang Ruzhen said she wanted to visit the fashion design university.
With her current abilities, it won't be easy for her to find a seasoned designer.
She then opted to find two outstanding graduates and train them well so that they would feel a greater sense of belonging to her factory in the future.
When Lu Mingzheng heard that she wanted to find a designer, the recruitment list of their company from a few days ago immediately flashed through his mind.
He remembered the names of the first two students very clearly and told Jiang Ruzhen without hesitation.
This saved Jiang Ruzhen the time of figuring it out herself.
Furthermore, Lu Mingzheng also informed Jiang Ruzhen about the company's salary and benefits, giving her the most advantageous position in the negotiations.
They successfully recruited two outstanding graduates.
Jiang Ruzhen was thrilled to have found such talented people and immediately wanted to take them back to the factory.
Lu Mingzheng then regretted it and held Jiang Ruzhen tightly.
"Turn me into a tiny person and put me in your pocket and take me away."
Jiang Ruzhen hadn't expected this man to be so clingy, and it took her a lot of talking to calm him down.
Unexpectedly, just two days after she returned to the Yangcheng factory with two designers, people came after her.
No matter how clingy Lu Mingzheng is, he won't stop Jiang Ruzhen from moving forward.
He became Jiang Ruzhen's personal assistant, taking care of her daily needs.
Jiang Ruzhen threw herself into the busy design process.
She possessed a fashion sense that would be seen by later generations, and the two designers had professional skills. Their inspirations collided, and design drafts emerged one after another.
Jiang Ruzhen gave her brand a very catchy name – Zhenbaoge (珍宝阁).
Each piece of clothing is a treasure she meticulously designed.
And the person who wears them is a unique treasure of the world.
This is her original intention and beautiful wish in creating this brand!
Three months later.
During the long design process, Jiang Ruzhen learned a lot of professional knowledge from the two designers.
She also designed several clothes herself, handling everything from drawing to making them.
The finished garment received high praise from both designers.
They unanimously agreed to make Jiang Ruzhen's design the main style for this season.
The initial batch of 50,000 pieces produced using a prototype manufacturing process received high praise from distributors.
The clothes were snapped up by regular customers as soon as they were put on display in various branches.
Treasure Pavilion's name became an instant sensation, and orders poured in like snowflakes.
The boss's abacus was spinning rapidly as he calculated how to expand the factory area with the increase in working capital.
The second son has opened branches in several major cities across various northern provinces, keeping him extremely busy.
Taking advantage of a break in the middle, Jiang Ruzhen had someone carry the betrothal gifts to propose marriage to her second son, and the Mei family could see their daughter's determination.
Seeing the Shen family's rising power, they had no choice but to agree to the marriage.
The wedding date is set for spring after the Lunar New Year, so there's still some time to prepare.
Jiang Ruzhen, on the other hand, became a hands-off manager, taking her inseparable husband Lu Mingzheng around Yangcheng and buying several properties.
It includes two two-story villas in the city center and a quiet courtyard in the middle of the city.
Jiang Ruzhen liked that courtyard the most, while the keys to the two villas were given to the eldest son to manage.
The two moved into a small courtyard filled with flowers, and often spent their days cuddling in the study.
Lu Mingzheng was writing the new recruit training plan, while Jiang Ruzhen would sketch a few design drafts whenever inspiration struck.
The couple's leisurely time displeased the eldest and second eldest sons, who protested and strongly demanded that Jiang Ruzhen share some tasks so that they would have time to date.
Jiang Ruzhen worked hard her whole life in her previous life, and she has worked hard for so long in this life before her life finally got back on track.
How could I possibly give in so easily?
On a dark and stormy night, she secretly took Lu Mingzheng north to the capital.
Before leaving, she heard some follow-up news about Qin Lanlan.
She is pregnant.
"Whose child is it?" Old Hu asked, whipping Qin Lanlan like a madman.
Qin Lanlan screamed and begged for mercy, "It's yours, it's yours..."
"Bullshit! If it were me, my belly would be bulging, why wouldn't you say so? The child in your belly is definitely a bastard, the offspring of that bastard at the hotel, isn't it?"
Old Hu's face was contorted with rage; the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
He spent over a year painstakingly planting the seeds, but to no avail.
That bastard only planted the seed a few days ago, and it's already bearing fruit?
Isn't this a veiled way of saying that he's physically incompetent?
Fuck your mother!
He wanted to kill someone.
He raised his hand and slapped the woman beneath him hard, then kicked her in the stomach, still not satisfied.
Qin Lanlan shielded her abdomen with her arms, desperately blocking Old Hu's frantic kicks.
She gritted her teeth and persevered; she couldn't lose this child, which was her only connection to that man.
As long as she has the child, if she manages to escape this hellhole someday, she can use the child as a link to find that man and live the life of a wealthy wife.
Otherwise, she would have ended her own life long ago during the time she was brought back to China.
Ask yourself, who could bear to go from being a beloved princess to a prisoner overnight?
She didn't know what life was like for the rich before, but after falling into Old Hu's hands, she could have just drifted along aimlessly.
But now she used to live a life of luxury, where she was waited on hand and foot by Jiang Ruzhen.
They ate exquisite dishes and wore fine silks and satins.
She could take a taxi as soon as she went out, and so many rich young men would rush to fawn over her.
Li Yu, in particular, treated her with utmost tenderness and affection.
He didn't even despise what she considered the dirtiest place, and served her with the gentlest care until she felt like she was dying.
She could not forget that extravagant and refined lifestyle, nor could she forget the gentle treatment that person had given her.
She must protect their child so that she can escape and find him in the future.
"ah--"
Feeling a burning pain in her back, Qin Lanlan bit her lip and stubbornly endured it.
She only released her bleeding lips after Old Hu got tired of hitting her.
Old Hu had a suspicion in his heart, but he was still unwilling to give up. While Qin Lanlan was asleep at night, he found a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to take her pulse.
The doctor could tell the baby's gestational age just by touching the baby's hand.
He smiled and congratulated Old Hu, "This child is already over three months old, congratulations on becoming a father."
Old Hu's face instantly darkened. He saw the doctor out, then turned to Qin Lanlan, staring at her with sinister eyes without saying a word.
In the middle of the night, Qin Lanlan woke up groggily and found that her hands and feet were all tied up, and she was lying on the cold ground like a starfish.
She struggled desperately, looking at Old Hu, who was walking towards her with a whip in his hand, with fear on her face.
"What are you doing? Let me go, you old geezer! Murder is illegal... Ah—"
Before Qin Lanlan could finish speaking, a scream pierced the night sky.
Old Hu's whip struck her most vulnerable spot.
Qin Lanlan opened her mouth wide, sweat beading on her forehead from the pain, and her whole body convulsed violently.
She thought the inhuman torture she had suffered before was the limit of suffering, but now she realizes that compared to the pain she is experiencing now, those were nothing.
It hurts so much, it hurts so much...
The pain of being whipped there was unbearable for a human being; she felt it was even more unbearable than childbirth.
This is nothing short of torture.
"Please...let me go...I...promise...I'll...live...a good life with you from now on..."
The intense pain was eroding Qin Lanlan's reason, and she unconsciously begged for mercy.
But Old Hu's expression didn't change at all. His eyes twitched, and he grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth as he muttered incessantly.
"A mistake is a mistake, and I won't accept it. Let's put an end to this error then..."
Qin Lanlan watched as Old Hu's face grew increasingly ferocious in the dim light, and she struggled even more fiercely.
"What...what are you going to do? I was wrong, I was wrong...please, let me go..."
"ah--"
Another scream rang out, followed by the sound of pounding on the wall from next door.
"Keep your voice down, it's the middle of the night, are you trying to call back a soul?"
The neighbors had long been dissatisfied with them; they caused trouble day and night, and this old man Hu wasn't afraid of exhausting himself to death.
Old Hu casually grabbed a tattered rag and stuffed it into Qin Lanlan's mouth, while his whip cracked fiercely.
Qin Lanlan's screams were all blocked in her throat. She choked until her eyes rolled back and she groaned incoherently.
Just bear with it, just bear with it. That old man just wants to vent his anger. After he's done torturing her, she'll still have a chance to escape...
Just bear with it a little longer...
"Pfft—"
While still dreaming, Qin Lanlan heard the sound of her body being pierced. Her arms and legs suddenly stiffened, and the intense pain caused her eyes to pop out of their sockets.
His eyes widened as he stared at the dark, rotten wood on the roof, and he bit his tongue hard with his back teeth.
A warm current flowed from her body...
It's over, she's completely finished...
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