Chapter 41 You two actually meet here.
"I'm so sleepy." Yi Jiu held his chin with one hand and held the coffee in front of him with the other. He came back at 9:00 last night and slept until 9:00 in the morning. It was quite comfortable, but he was still dizzy.
The effect of that glass of vodka was really refreshing.
"If I hadn't known you'd come back early, and come back alone, I would have thought you were fooling around with some omega? You pissed off President Mu so much that he left early in the morning." Cheng Chencheng looked disgusted as he stared at Yi Jiu, who was wearing pajamas and hadn't even washed his face. "You really can't afford to lose. You said you'd take care of our breakfast for a year. And you got up at this hour. If we had waited for you to get up at 7:00 to buy breakfast for the three of us, we would have starved to death a long time ago."
"What the hell are you doing so early in the morning? Mr. Mu's anger has nothing to do with me."
The "Miss Mu" I met was He Jingxin. President Mu and I stared at each other for just one second without saying a word.
Yi Jiu defended herself. Her head still hurt. She was also insulted by someone in the morning. She looked to the other side aggrievedly, "Sister-in-law, I was bullied. Why don't you take care of her?"
Chu Ranran also rarely confronted her, "The youngest is spoiled and pampered, and can't stand losing, playing tricks and rolling on the floor is basic. Only our family is a little better. But they are young and fearless, and they have a second-year illness. This kind of hard work of buying breakfast is not for us sisters to do."
Yi Jiu was confused. She immediately found the key in that sentence, "Boss Mu left. It has nothing to do with me. I didn't make her angry."
Mr. Mu from Beijing said he would stay for two or three days. The Cheng family had never thought of bringing them together.
I was thinking about going out to discuss a project development the next day. Chengjiang Group's strategic goal is to move from the coastal areas to the inland areas and develop towards Beijing.
Mr. Mu sent a letter of thanks last night.
He said he was thanking me for the hospitality, but unfortunately he had urgent matters in Beijing, so he hoped I could understand.
When you come to Beijing in the future, I will personally entertain you.
President Mu left. Before she left, everyone saw her coming to the cocktail party and dancing with Yi Jiu. Of course, Yi Jiu would not say that the President Mu dancing with her was He Jingxin. Therefore, Yi Jiu had to bear the blame for this injustice.
"I'll go find Youning. She buys on odd days, and I buy on even days." Yi Jiu finished her coffee and ran upstairs to get away from the battlefield downstairs. When she walked into Lu Youning's room, she stepped on something bumpy.
Yi Jiu bent down and saw a round label that was stuck on the omega last night. The front side had Shen on it and the back side had Shen Feitong on it.
Why is Shen Feitong's label here?
This is not a typical opening line for a one-night stand.
I smelled a strong scent of gossip early in the morning, but it was just dispelled by the uncomfortable smell of Yin and Yang.
She was about to knock on the door, but it was ajar.
At this time, the door was blown open by a gust of wind. Their rooms were all suites, so they walked into a study room, and inside was a screen partition wall to protect privacy. Going around the screen partition wall, there were bedrooms, bathrooms, cloakrooms, and piano rooms.
In the room, Yi Jiu smelled a pheromone scent that did not belong to Lu Youning. It was like a mixture of various floral scents, soothing and pleasant.
An iPad on the table was displaying a call, a strange call with no signature and only a line of numbers.
Coordinates: South City
She heard a faint sound...
——I have no relationship with them anymore.
——This is the last time, I will come to pay the ransom
"bite!"
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Lu Youning sat in her piano room, with a copy of an OST she had just finished in front of her. She looked at the messy bed sheets, listened to the sound of the wind blowing the curtains, the blue wind chimes hanging on the window made a crisp sound, and a layer of white snow mist condensed outside the window, making it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and illusion.
It was like the joy of last night, ambiguous, and a sense of stealing. It was a bad masquerade, and she and Shen Feitong had slept together at home for no apparent reason.
Her world collapsed at this moment.
It's normal for a one-night stand to happen in a hotel, but she actually...actually brought Shen Feitong home. She must be crazy.
Lu Youning's biological clock is very punctual, and she gets up at 6:00 every day. But she found a round head under the quilt, and she was really scared. When she opened the quilt, she found it was Shen Feitong.
The bite marks on Shen Feitong's fair neck and the kiss marks on her collarbone told her that they had slept together. She had slept with Shen Feitong. Their relationship had become impure since then.
Shen Feitong woke up slowly and hugged her clingingly. Her eyes were full of tears. She put her arms around Lu Youning's neck and kissed her earlobe. "Ningning, can you give me a good morning kiss?"
Lu Youning's whole body was in a state of stiffness, she didn't dare to move, nor did she dare to look back. Just then she saw the screen of her mobile phone light up, she got up from the bed, broke away from Shen Feitong's embrace, and felt as embarrassed as if she had been caught cheating.
She picked up a piece of clothing and put it on. She picked up her phone in panic, but when she saw it, Shen Feitong smiled, "Sister Ningning, you are still shy."
"You are one day older than me, do you have any shame?"
The voice in the morning was hoarse and carried a hint of unintentional anger. The voice was low and gentle, which made Shen Feitong feel better. She sat up from the bed and looked around, "You actually know my birthday."
Lu Yuning: ...
Shen Feitong said again: "My clothes are no longer wearable, give me a new one."
Since the two of them were similar in size, Lu Youning found a set of clothes for her from the cloakroom. When Shen Feitong was fully dressed, Lu Youning heard her phone vibrating constantly, so she muted it and said shyly, "Sorry for last night!"
In the adult world, an apology.
I just don't want to take responsibility.
Seeing Lu Youning's face getting uglier and uglier, Shen Feitong said seriously, "Ningning, actually our two families can get engaged. Our two grandfathers made an agreement between the Shen and Cheng families, without mentioning anyone in particular. If you can't speak up, I can talk to my grandfather."
"Shen Feitong, can I take you home first? Can you please stop calling me Ningning?"
Shen Feitong's eyes were misty. She pulled Lu Youning's hair and called softly, "Ningning, can't you?"
Lu Youning said nothing and refused silently.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward and Lu Youning was speechless. She really wanted to say, I am not suitable for marriage at all.
But Shen Feitong's tears fell on the back of her hand. She knew she was in the wrong, but she didn't want to be the queen of the sea, so she had to coax and deceive her and wipe her tears for her. "Can you go back first? What you want is a relationship where both parties are happy."
After finally coaxing Shen Feitong away, she bought some breakfast from outside. After all, whoever in their group of four did not get an order would have to pay for breakfast for four people for a year.
She stared at the WeChat message on her phone:
Yesterday 9:00 AM
LMM: Ningning, give me 1 million, otherwise I will be beaten to death.
LMM: 1 million yuan is just a drop in the bucket for you, but it can save my life.
6:10 AM
A strange message from Nancheng
Lu Youning, your mother owes me 1 million yuan for gambling debts. You should quickly pay her back. Otherwise, I don't mind cutting off one of her arms.
After she bought breakfast, she returned to her room and saw the screen full of dozens of calls, all from one person, LMM.
LMM=Deer Mommy, this is her biological omega mother who gave birth to her.
In her name, there are only three English letters: LMM. This was never required by the Cheng family. She changed it herself.
A strange number from South City finally got through...
"Lu Youning, your mother owes us 1 million in gambling debts." A cold male voice rang in her ears. Lu Youning was too lazy to say a word. The other party cursed a few times, and then a thin, sharp female voice came, "Ningning, can you help your mother? This is the last time, otherwise, your brother and I will be beaten to death."
"I have no money."
As these four words came out of Lu Youning's mouth, she heard the wailing of women and the crying of children.
She curled the corners of her lips wickedly. Listening to the howling, her whole body felt relaxed and her thoughts flowed. She outlined a few lines of music on the staff.
The man grabbed his phone again and yelled, "Lu Yuning, are you so cruel? Do you want to see your brother's arm?"
Lu Youning once again distanced herself from the matter and coldly sentenced them again, "I have no relationship with them for a long time. My brother is just the son of this lady's remarriage."
"Lu Youning, you are watching someone in need without helping. You no longer recognize us now that you have climbed up the social ladder. You abandoned your mother and brother to please the Cheng family. You are a celebrity after all. Aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation?" The woman's sharp voice did not stir up any waves in Lu Youning.
The man snatched the phone and issued an ultimatum, "Do you care about the Cheng family's reputation? Do you care about the Cheng family's stocks?"
".....Okay, this is the last time, I will come and pay the ransom."
Lu Youning bought a high-speed rail ticket.
As soon as Lu Youning came out, she ran into Yi Jiu. Yi Jiu walked behind Lu Youning with a smile, massaged her shoulders and legs, and said flatteringly: "Second sister, go to South City and take me one."
"impossible."
Yi Jiu took out the label she had picked up, Shen. She smiled wickedly, pinched the label between her fingers, raised her eyebrows, and said: "Second sister, you said that grandpa knows what you and Shen Feitong did last night, can you still leave?"
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South City High Speed Rail Station
The radio in the high-speed rail station kept playing: Welcome all passengers to Nancheng, Nancheng is an ancient city with a long history, most famous for its pear blossom wine...
"Youning, were you from South City?"
Lu Youning looked towards the place he had not returned to for nearly ten years.
It seems that nothing has changed here. The quaint buildings, the narrow two-lane road, the dust blowing up in front of you, the pedestrians running at red lights. Lu Youning nodded, she had no regrets: "I went to junior high school here, and then my grandparents took me to Haicheng to study."
Lu Youning rented a three-bedroom, two-living room apartment for Yi Jiu.
The developer of this apartment building has a good reputation throughout the country, and the property management is relatively good. Most importantly, it is 20 kilometers away from my broken home.
Walk out of the apartment and come to a bus stop.
The old-fashioned bus stop sign had the name of the station written on it, and the paper had already come unglued and was crooked. A half-old bus stopped in front of her, then took new passengers to the next stop.
The splash of water from the speeding bus almost landed on her shoes.
There is a saying that if you hate a person, you will hate the city where that person lives.
She called a taxi, thought for a long time, and hesitantly gave an address: Lujiazhuang, Huayang Street, Pingjiang District.
"Miss, your accent sounds a bit like Nancheng, but more like a coastal city." The driver said enthusiastically, "Lujiazhuang on Huayang Street has been renamed. The government demolished the area to protect the ancient buildings, so it was renamed Nanwan Community. We are both from Nancheng, but we are not as lucky as those in Lujiazhuang."
Lu Youning asked: "Why do you say that? The demolition is not limited to Pingjiang District."
"When Lujiazhuang was first demolished, each person was given a compensation of several million. In order to promote development and protect ancient buildings, the government relocated half of the original inhabitants of Lujiazhuang back, gave them houses in the Nanwan community, and compensated them with hundreds of thousands of yuan in demolition compensation. You see, after all this, they have houses and money."
In the end, it's all about envy and jealousy.
"It is said that an anonymous netizen reported that a family surnamed Lu received a relocation fee of NT$5 million. Someone later went to investigate. The family of four was interviewed by a reporter. The woman burst into tears and said with great emotion that her spouse, an alpha, and her eldest daughter, an omega, had both died in the line of duty."
Lu Youning agreed: "A family of loyal heroes, then do you know where the little daughter went?"
"The woman said that she was kidnapped by a wealthy family as a child bride. She went to the family's house several times to ask for her daughter back but to no avail. Her daughter tried to curry favor with the rich and powerful and regarded her as bad luck. Life is so dramatic."
"You thought this woman was a good person. Who would have thought that she would get the demolition money and quickly get married. She married a good-looking but useless alpha who was addicted to gambling and gave birth to a gangster alpha son who flirted with his omega classmates at a young age. She squandered her family fortune of several million dollars, and the woman treated them both like babies all day long."
She was snatched away as a child bride, and she clung to the powerful and wealthy, and she was treated as unlucky. So, to whom did she give the 2 million yuan she once gave to pay off her gambling debts?
It turns out that this is how others describe her.
Lu Youning's eyes were cold and she clutched the bag tightly. She really wanted to strangle him to death. She said lightly, "Uncle, I don't know about these things. I've been away for a long time."
"No wonder. Are you coming back to visit relatives or to find a job? Although South City is close to the capital, Beijing, its development in the past ten years is far behind those coastal cities." The driver is a talkative person. "In a few days, the Beijing election will begin. This time, the popular candidate will be one of the Mu family and the Xiao family."
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Yi Jiu put on a hat and a mask and walked on the streets of South City. She walked leisurely and carefree. She stretched out her hands, put them to her ears, and took a breath of fresh air, which was mixed with humidity and dirt, but did not hinder her comfortable mood.
“I am free at last,” she cried.
She finally no longer had to follow the Cheng family's rules, such as returning home before 10:00 p.m. every night, reporting via video who she spent the night with, and finally reporting where she spent the night.
Perhaps she had been suppressed for too long in the Cheng family, and she really couldn't figure it out. She knew that the so-called curfew was imposed by the family after she came.
The dim street lights fell on her, she turned on her lighter and lit a cigarette. Unlike a cigar, this cigarette was neither good nor bad, and the tobacco spread in her mouth and into her throat.
It was quiet around her and she was squatting on the ground.
She felt that her acting skills were getting better and better. She played the role of a well-behaved and docile alpha in front of He Jingxin, and a normal alpha in front of the Cheng family, but she was a trapped beast in her heart.
She took a puff, and she kept saying, "I'm free now, I must be unrestrained." But the self-discipline she had cultivated over the years only allowed her to take a puff.
She even took a puff of the cigar, holding it in her hand and rolling the cigarette between her fingertips.
Why did she run away from the Cheng family? The Cheng family treated her very well, obeyed her in everything, and loved her very much. They even gave her this Cheng family ring.
Since she came back from Country M, she has suffered from serious mental illness.
It's getting worse day by day, and I can't tell the direction day by day.
Generally speaking, mental illness is often caused by things around them. He Jingxin's trampling on her feelings and her return to the Cheng family were at most the cause of emotional disorders.
She had a sensory impairment, and the only clue she found was that she had a dream.
She dreamed of a garden that was on fire. She couldn't find the direction or the exit, but she heard what her grandfather and the secretary said, saying that she had been abandoned in the flowerbed in South City.
So she came looking for this place.
Suddenly, there was a crackling sound, and the street light above her head suddenly went out, and then all the lights on the street went out. The whole world was in darkness, with only the cold wind playing music.
But out of the corner of her eye she spotted a pair of familiar eyes in the darkness.
Darkness is the most unfriendly to these people with sensory impairments, and her cell phone was out of battery.
For example, right now, Yi Jiu has a hard time distinguishing her left and right sides. She is trapped in a vortex. And there are obstacles all around her.
In which direction is a red fire hydrant, in which place is a lonely telephone booth, and in which place are several isolation piers, which are spherical stone piers.
She squatted on the ground, she laughed softly, the last bit of light extinguished at her fingertips, and the ashes disappeared into the air. She chose to choose a forehead collision, or a knee collision, or a foot kick against the partition.
Choose one of four
There is only one right place.
But she was even more certain that she would make mistakes in all three areas at the same time.
Suddenly, a person holding a flashlight appeared. The long period of darkness made Yi Jiu's retina slower than others, and she slowly focused and formed a portrait, "Miss, I'm the assistant police here. The power is out on this street. Do you need help?"
"I need a taxi."
"Then I'll take you there." said the assistant police officer.
This road is not long, only a few hundred meters. Only a beam of flashlight illuminates the road ahead, and Yi Jiu pauses unconsciously, looking at the darkness behind her, as if looking for an answer.
Yi Jiu quickly hailed a taxi, which took Yi Jiu away from the darkness.
On the other side, He Jingxin walked out of the darkness. President Mu beside her didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You two can actually meet here. You fled to South City to stay away from her. She also came to South City to stay away from you."
He Jingxin said calmly, "It was an accident."
"There aren't many people in South City, at least several hundred thousand, and there are eight districts. You two didn't meet in Pingjiang District, where you used to live, but met in other districts. I think you two are in tune with each other. You are in tune with each other!"
He Jingxin was silent. The light in her eyes was particularly dazzling. President Mu put away his joking thoughts and said, "I'll have someone follow Yi Jiu. Don't worry. We'll know where she lives soon."
"...She doesn't like me. She said I was the source of her mental illness." He Jingxin was bitter and helpless. When she mentioned that I was the source, she felt panicky. Her hands were shaking, and her pheromones were trembling at the same time.
President Mu reached out and held her hand. He Jingxin's anxious heart was soothed by her. "...You don't have to tell me. She may just come here to relax. And I...why should I make myself unhappy?"
She found another excuse to evade President Mu's claim of telepathy. "Besides, she has her own family to accompany her. I am just a passer-by in her life."
She said timidly: "I'm still staying in the villa in Pingjiang District these days."