Chapter 20 Secretly Derailed
Before Cheng Zheng could rush forward, Xin Que had already drawn her knife and held it against Luo Huayi's neck. "Try taking another step forward?"
Cheng Zheng almost slammed on the brakes until they started smoking.
Luo Huayi finally came to her senses and shouted sharply, "Don't come any closer!"
After a moment, he wiped his lips angrily and said with a dark face, "Xin Que is not an enemy."
Cheng Zheng: "???"
......
After Xin Que tidied herself up in the restroom, Luo Huayi and Cheng Zheng exchanged knowing glances.
My intuition was right; this person was indeed the unloved eldest daughter of the Xin family.
Cheng Zheng had just finished applying medicine and bandaging the wound on Luo Huayi's hand.
Luo Huayi withdrew her gaze from Xin Que, "You know perfectly well what you're here to do at the Zhou family today."
"I'll let you off this time at most. From now on... you'd better watch yourself."
As Xin Que passed Luo Huayi and Cheng Zheng, her nonchalant voice finally rang out, "Before you're so self-righteous, why not first see what really happened here in the eyes of outsiders?"
Luo Huayi was taken aback.
“President Luo,” Cheng Zheng followed Luo Huayi and walked with him towards the entrance, “Why did you suddenly come to the Zhou family today?”
As soon as Luo Huayi opened the door, upon hearing this, he stopped and turned to look at his special assistant.
"President Zhou is away on a business trip, and Miss Zhou is at the concert..." Cheng Zheng explained to himself, "Won't people misunderstand if we come uninvited?"
"Especially since you went through the secret door to the study..."
Luo Huayi felt a chill run through her body.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Luo Huayi interrupted Cheng Zheng, her face full of disbelief. "It was Zhou Zichuan who was thrown into a panic by the recent series of news reports and asked me to help him. How did it become that Zhou Zichuan went on a business trip?"
Cheng Zheng looked puzzled. He quickly pulled up Zhou Zichuan's business trip information and handed the phone to Luo Huayi. "But President Zhou's flight was indeed this morning."
"And... what kind of news are you referring to?"
Luo Huayi snatched the phone away.
Everything has changed.
The news reports of the kidnapping of the Zheng family's son were turned into retaliation by the employees who had previously driven them to the brink of despair.
The news reports about the Wang couple being attacked and hospitalized at night have been replaced by reports that their tax problems have been exposed and that they have been hospitalized with acute cerebral hemorrhage.
The news reports about the Zhou family's involvement in organized crime and the mysterious death of the family head were changed to the family head being reported, resisting arrest with a gun, and being shot dead by the police in the street.
Everything was severed from Xin Que's involvement, and the Zhou family... seemed to have never been involved in this vortex.
Luo Huayi felt dizzy.
It's really hard to accept when your firm beliefs are refuted one by one.
But Xin Que was not surprised by this result.
From the moment Zhou Zichuan and Zhou Ziyan were silently escorted out of the secret room, she guessed that the plot rules did not intend to abandon these two characters.
The supporting male and female characters still have a lot of screen time. Since the plot doesn't intend to let them be eliminated by Xin Que's plan, it can only take the initiative to pull the Zhou siblings out of the vortex.
They even went so far as to erase the fact that Xin Que had committed evil deeds at several different places.
She stood among the crowd waiting for the traffic light at the intersection, concealing her figure.
......
"Excuse me, who are you looking for...?" Old Qian looked at the silent woman standing outside the ward with a puzzled expression.
Xin Que turned to look at Qian Xiaoxiao's father.
"Come see your daughter," Xin Que said, waving the fruit basket in her hand. "When I used to have a stall at the school gate, Qian Xiaoxiao often came to patronize my business."
"Qian Xiaoxiao hadn't transferred schools yet back then."
When Old Qian heard that the visitor could tell him most of his daughter's information, he gradually relaxed his guard and said, "Please come in."
Qian Xiaoxiao, lying in the hospital bed, seemed to have just woken up, but due to exhaustion, she quickly fell back into a deep sleep.
"It's a turn of events, a true turning point," Old Qian said, a smile appearing on his face as he looked at his daughter's gradually improving condition.
"We received civil compensation, and those bastards have all been imprisoned. The lawyer said that this case has been set as a precedent, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, they will all be severely punished."
Xin Que confirmed the situation of those families again, "Did those families come to cause trouble for your family again?"
Old Qian looked a little lost. "It's been a long time since I've been here... Oh right, those other places closed down a long time ago, didn't they?"
"Some went bankrupt, and some ran into trouble."
"The school leaders who protected those students were also taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission."
"Truly, justice prevails..."
Old Qian sighed, then saw that Xin Que had already put down the fruit basket and was about to get up and leave.
"Won't you stay a little longer?" Old Qian caught up with Xin Que. "Since the child was hospitalized, apart from reporters and our own family, very few people have come to see her. It's rare to find someone who remembers to smile..."
Xin Que walked out of the ward. "No need, thank you."
"Old Qian?" The woman walked into the corridor carrying food. "Who are you talking to?"
Old Qian instinctively pointed to his side, "There's a merchant who came to see Xiaoxiao..."
The woman looked puzzled. "Where?"
Old Qian looked back.
The woman's figure could no longer be found in the bustling corridor.
“That’s strange,” Old Qian shook his head and walked into the ward with the woman. “The fruit basket she sent is still here.”
......
"In the end, this deal didn't make me much money." Xin Que slumped onto the single bed in her rented room, lay on her back, and stared at the ceiling for a long time.
At best, we didn't lose money.
Xin Que slowly closed her eyes, deciding to rest first.
......
Luo Huayi went to Wuxiang Palace once again.
This time, Wuxiang Palace was deserted, with very few visitors.
Cheng Zheng and Luo Huayi walked through the front courtyard of the Taoist temple and into the quiet backyard.
It was that familiar greeting routine again.
When Cheng Zheng and Xuan Yunzi were talking, Luo Huayi felt that the scene was like a copy-paste from her memory of visiting Wuxiang Palace last time.
Even their own position seemed to perfectly overlap with the last time.
"Good friend?" the old man asked him, "What is troubling you?"
Luo Huayi came to her senses.
The statue of the God of Slaughter in the side hall remained unmoved, looking down at him.
Sunlight streamed down through the dense foliage, swaying gently, creating a jarring sense of disjointedness in everything before us.
What is troubling you?
Luo Huayi opened her mouth.
"I'm wondering..." He tried to sort out some of the recent mess, but the things that had happened recently were too crazy for him to explain.
The faint voice in his ear urged him to see Xin Que;
That night I was inexplicably drugged and held captive in a hotel;
Xin Que's entanglements with several wealthy families were suddenly rewritten...
It's getting more and more chaotic.
The final scene freezes on Xin Que's understated reminder before she leaves.
Luo Huayi stood tall under the gaze of the statue, his lips moving, his voice sounding somewhat unlike his own.
Is this world even real?
【alarm----】
[Humanoid restraint procedure 01 reported an error. The team leader in charge requests that this be reported to the administrator for immediate correction!]
Request received
[The mental prison system is currently undergoing maintenance and repairs.]
This is a low-level error; please do not escalate it to a higher level.
[Minor errors can be handled manually; only high-level errors related to key prisoners should be sent to the administrator for intervention.]
【receive. 】
[Core offender Xin Que underwent routine checks and was found to be without fault; therefore, no change in his level of supervision is required.]
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