Ji Xinyao quickly picked up the bag on the sofa, turned around and left without stopping for a moment.
"Engagement?" Gu Nanxi lowered her eyes and looked at Wen Qing.
Apparently he was in Beijing some time ago. Even though his subordinates collected the invitations on his behalf, he didn't notice because he was too busy. His eyes were filled with a bit of suspicion. He suddenly looked up at Ji Xinyao, but she was already there.
He opened the door and walked out quickly.
"Although we are not family friends with the Ling family, at least it is a marriage between the Procuratorate and the Public Security Bureau. After receiving the invitation, I always want to attend." Wen Qing clung to him with a look of dependence on her face, her watery eyes filled with anticipation.
Bo Guang: "I heard that Deputy Security Inspector will soon be promoted from deputy to full-time officer. Wouldn't it be great if his anti-corruption department maintains good contact with the city hall? Moreover, I seem to have heard that you and Deputy Security Inspector
The relationship with the prosecutor is not particularly harmonious~"
"Anti-corruption?" Gu Nanxi sneered: "It is the police who steal, and you are talking about the deputy security inspector you mentioned."
Gu Nanxi took out the arm that was tightly held by her, glanced at the time on her wrist, picked up her coat, and walked towards the door without looking back.
"Huh? Nancy..." Wen Qing turned her head in astonishment and looked at his indifferent back: "Also, during the Mid-Autumn Festival this weekend, grandpa said you haven't looked back at the house for half a year. Do you want to go back?"
He didn't stop or respond. In an instant, he was gone.
Wen Qing looked in disbelief at the door where he was no longer there, her long nails clasped tightly in her palms.
"Xiaoqing, Nancy is married after all. No matter how much she loves you and dotes on you, there will still be an appropriate distance. You have to adapt." He Jiezhen comforted her softly from the side.
Wen Qing turned her eyes and looked at her in surprise: "Godmother... you...?"
"What's wrong?"
"Don't you know Ji Xinyao's life experience? Didn't Cheng Cheng tell you when he was in Boston? That Ji Xinyao is..."
"The mistakes made by the previous generation are not Xin Yao's fault. Besides, I think this child Xin Yao is quite good. Nancy should really get married. Since the marriage certificate has been obtained, then this marriage is already a marriage.
Counted."
He Jiezhen smiled, glanced at the unwillingness that flashed in Wen Qing's eyes, said nothing, turned and walked back to the restaurant, looking at the table full of unedible breakfast, feeling a little helpless after all.
It seems that she has never had any connection with the kitchen in her life...
"But godmother, that's not what you said when you came back from Boston! You said you wanted to make the decision for me. You said there is no one else suitable to be your daughter-in-law except me. Godmother..." Wen Qing left immediately
When he came to her side, his eyes were full of worry: "How can you tell outsiders that Ji Xinyao came to power under the guise of public opinion, and Nancy didn't know her at all! In fact, as long as he leaves politics, he will no longer rely on public opinion.
`If ​​he is bound by theory, he can divorce that woman. Nancy doesn't love her! They have no feelings! This marriage is destined to not be happy! Godmother, you said you would help me!"
He Jiezhen turned to look at her: "Xiaoqing, your godmother knows that you feel uncomfortable. You have been growing up in Gu's family for more than 20 years. In your life, you have known that you are destined to marry him. Why?
Mom also knows that your dream since childhood is to grow up quickly and marry Nancy. It’s terrible to have your dream shattered. But marriage is not a child’s play after all. Since Nancy and Xin Yao are living well, you should find another good match, godmother.
This time I will make the decision for you and help you choose a good husband, and I will make your marriage a glorious one!"
Wen Qing lowered her head and suddenly smiled, but she burst into tears: "So you also know how important Nancy is to me..."
"Also, your godfather and grandfather, as long as you relax and praise Xin Yao more, their anger will dissipate a lot. The old man has loved you as his own granddaughter for so many years and has talked about it for more than twenty years.
Nian's granddaughter-in-law has become nothing all of a sudden, and he feels bad. Don't complain to them anymore, which will make them resent Xinyao even more. Xiaoqing, only when the family is harmonious can everything be prosperous!" He Jiezhen patted her gently.
He patted her hand and said, "Listen to your godmother and don't be sad anymore."
Wen Qing said nothing, clenched the small Chanel bag in her hand, her expression did not change, but her cold eyes no longer looked at He Jiezhen.
Ji Xinyao left the community and had to walk for about ten minutes to the bus stop where she took the bus. She felt a little congested at first, but as soon as she breathed in the fresh morning air outside, her mood suddenly improved a lot.
, while walking towards the station, he put on his large black sunglasses.
As she was walking, a familiar black Land Rover drove up behind her and stopped beside her.
She originally wanted to ignore it, but the car was parked beside her and within sight. She couldn't find any reason to pretend that she couldn't see it, so she had to stop and turn her head to look at the car in confusion.
The car window slowly rolled down, revealing that elegant face. Gu Nanxi didn't speak. Even though she was wearing sunglasses, she could still feel the consideration in his eyes.
After a stalemate like this for a few seconds, he asked nonchalantly: "Isn't there a bus stop opposite Nippori? How come it's so far away?"
"The bus from that station can't reach our company."
Ji Xinyao secretly rolled her eyes behind her sunglasses. He was really a young man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He must have never taken a bus. It's no wonder that he didn't know that buses have fixed routes.
Not that he didn't see the meaning in her eyes, Gu Nanxi calmly raised the corners of her mouth, raised her arms, casually placed them on the car window, and glanced at the station not far ahead: "There are so many people, so it's not crowded.
?"
"On the bus, it's normal to be crowded. You can ride so far for only one dollar. It's a good deal." She replied lukewarmly and continued walking towards the station.
However, Gu Nanxi's car slowly drove beside her at a very slow speed. The closer she got to the station, the faster she walked. Suddenly, among the crowded crowd over there, a man who looked to be in his early twenties quietly walked towards her.
She put her hand into the pocket of the middle-aged woman waiting for the bus next to her. From Ji Xinyao's side, she could see it clearly. Gu Nanxi saw it and her eyebrows gradually narrowed, but Ji Xinyao seemed to have seen nothing.
Just turn your head and shift your gaze.
Until the man secretly pulled out the middle-aged woman's wallet. Suddenly, Gu Nanxi took out her cell phone and wanted to take a photo of this scene.
Ji Xinyao saw his movements with sharp eyes, turned around and rushed to the door, and stopped him from taking pictures: "What are you doing? Are you crazy? What kind of pictures are you taking?!"
"It's not appropriate for me to come forward in this situation. What's wrong with sending the photos directly to the police station and letting them solve it on their own?" Seeing her fuss, Gu Nanxi glanced at her with a bit of fun in her eyes.
"What if your photo-taking action is seen by the thief's accomplices? Those habitual thieves may be desperate people. If you meddle in your own business, they may how to deal with you! I ask you, do you have any common sense?
!" She chirped and snatched his phone away. Seeing that he had already taken the photo, she immediately glared at him: "What a dog meddling in other people's business!"
Gu Nanxi looked at her intently for a while, then sneered: "Who on earth has no common sense?"
As he said that, he took back the mobile phone she had snatched away and motioned her to get in the car with his eyes.
Ji Xinyao was too lazy to pay attention to him. Seeing that he was stubborn, she turned around and walked towards the station.
Gu Nanxi frowned and patted the horn before she paused. The thief over there seemed to notice them because of the sound. Ji Xinyao gritted her teeth and turned to glare at him: "You did it on purpose.
no?"
"If you don't want to be retaliated by the thief, just get in the car." He raised his eyebrows, but there was no warmth in his eyes.
No matter how reluctant Ji Xinyao was, she saw that the thief just stood there in the crowd and refused to leave. He first answered the phone, asked just one sentence, then hung up the phone, then squinted his eyes and looked towards her, as if
She already knew that they had just filmed him committing the crime, and was waiting for an opportunity to come over. She was not stupid. How could she dare to walk to the station at this time? She suddenly turned dark and quickly walked around Gu Nanxi's car, herself
Opened the door and got in the car.
Xin Xun didn't do anything. As soon as she got into the car, she put down the bag in her hand, raised her hand to push the hair on her cheek behind her ear, and said angrily: "It's bad luck for me!"
Gu Nanxi glanced at her with a half-smile, and did not rush to drive, but just glanced at the anger in her eyes: "No wonder there are fewer reporting calls now, and I don't even receive a few reporting letters from the city hall.
, it turns out that most people have your mentality of turning a blind eye."
Ji Xinyao disagreed: "What else can we do if we don't turn a blind eye? How many young angry youths are there in this world who dare to speak out? After all, it's just two words 'who dares'?"
He started the engine and drove the Land Rover, which was out of place near the bus stop, away.
He didn't speak, but his eyes expressed disapproval.
She scolded: "This is the kind of society we have now! I'm just an ordinary citizen like everyone else who dares to get angry and dare not speak out for fear of causing trouble! Unlike you, who is in a high position and those criminals want to attack
How about you, I'm afraid you have to look in the mirror to see if you have that strength!"
"It seems that it's very easy to anger you." He smiled half-heartedly.
She turned her eyes to him: "What do you mean?"
He was silent for a moment and then said calmly: "I'm sorry about Wen Qing."
She immediately stopped talking and looked at him blankly: "I...I didn't do it because of her..."
"She is the orphan of one of my grandfather's comrades who died. She was adopted by the Gu family after she was born. Like Gu Yufei, she is the apple of the Gu family's eyes and is loved by everyone. She is also the first choice of my future wife that the family has been optimistic about since she was a child.
, if I hadn’t been too busy these years, maybe we would have gotten married when Wen Qing turned twenty. But my feelings for her are almost the same as Yufei, and there is nothing between a man and a woman. Just like I said to you
I have always said that as long as the person I marry is pleasing to my eyes, it will be the same for everyone, so I have never explicitly rejected the marriage, so her expectations are getting bigger and bigger."
As he spoke, he paused, and seeing that she was listening quietly, he continued: "Until that incident happened, I was just following the trend. On the one hand, I dispelled the doubts of the public, and on the other hand, I was doing a good job for my own life.
It’s a normal hierarchy. We are both of marriageable age, and besides, I really like your little hedgehog, so this is how we got married.”
Ji Xinyao frowned at his words "little hedgehog" and glanced sideways at him, only to see him smiling faintly.
She rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction and whispered in a voice that only she could hear clearly: "You are the hedgehog, your whole family is all hedgehogs..."
He had a deep smile in his eyes, drove the car at a steady speed, and said in a deep voice: "Wen Qing's heart is at a huge gap right now. Don't take what she said to heart."
It turns out that he said so much in a roundabout way, just to comfort her.
Ji Xinyao raised her eyelids: "I didn't take it to heart, but it just happened suddenly, so I was at a loss for the moment."
"That's the best."
His voice returned to its usual calmness.
Normally it would take her at least half an hour to take the bus, but it only took him ten minutes to drive to the downstairs of their company. She hurriedly got out of the car, but then she remembered that she should say thank you. As soon as she turned around to say thank you, she saw in front of her eyes
But the car had already sped away like an arrow from its string.
Her expression froze, and she looked at the retreating shadow of the black Land Rover in surprise, with a bit of confusion in her eyes.
Why did Nancy Gu have to explain so much to her?
She arrived at the company ten minutes early today. Ji Xinyao walked into the empty office, thinking about sorting out the files first. Suddenly, a stack of photos fell out from nowhere, clattering all over the floor.
I hurriedly knelt down to pick it up, but as soon as I picked up one and took a look, my face instantly turned pale.
She picked up the photos on the ground one by one in surprise. The color of the photos was the same as the color photos from more than 20 years ago. In each photo, there was a pool of blood and someone who fell from a height had been completely pieced together.
limbs and a pair of dead but still wide-open eyes full of resentment and hatred.
An extremely horrified feeling quickly passed through her body. Ji Xinyao fell to the ground and looked at the photos one by one in disbelief.
how come……
This was a photo taken by reporters who rushed her mother after she jumped off a building twenty years ago. Many photos at that time were sealed because they were too tragic and bloody. How could they appear on her desk? Look at these photos, like
It was taken by a digital camera on an old photo and then redeveloped. The scene in the photo was as if it was brand new, which pierced her eyes.
Twenty years ago, she was so young. She and Xiu Li were carried downstairs by adults. They watched stupidly as their mother's body was carried away. She looked at the pool of blood and didn't understand what was happening in front of her. Later, she finally understood.
, but she has already come out of the pain and fear, but she did not expect that one day she would see these photos, as if the scene twenty years ago would be reappeared in front of her eyes...
She took a breath and wanted to look away. She couldn't bear to look at the woman whose facial features were blurred in a pool of blood. But just as she was about to turn over the photo, her expression suddenly froze and she raised the photo again.
Only then did he see a bunch of broken crystal necklaces scattered on the ground in the pool of blood.
This crystal necklace...
It was exactly the same as the one her mother gave her, but she clearly remembered that there was only one necklace, not two at all. Could it be that the one her mother was wearing was fake?
But why did she jump off the building with the fake necklace when she committed suicide? So much so that the Ji family never discovered it in the past few years. Later, when they finally discovered that the crystal necklace was not destroyed, but was in her hands, they
Start looking for her everywhere.
Until it was close to 8 o'clock, colleagues started to walk into the office one after another, looking at her sitting on the floor with confusion. Ji Xinyao quickly straightened her expression, collected the photos on the floor and put them into a brown paper bag on the table.
, but suddenly stared at the brown paper bag in his hand.
Where did this brown paper bag come from?
Could it be that these photos were placed here before?
Who put these things in her place? Not many people know about her past, so who did it? What does it mean to show her these photos? Is it a threat?! 13acv.
She frowned and squeezed the brown paper bag in her hand, until more and more colleagues came into the office, she quietly put the paper bag into the drawer.
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afternoon.
Su Xiaonuan, who had taken two days off due to a foot injury, actually came to work. As soon as she walked into the office, she said: "Sister Ji, there is a handsome guy driving a Ferrari downstairs who wants to see you."
Ji Xinyao was signing several press releases delivered from below. Suddenly her pen tilted and she almost drew out. She raised her eyes suddenly, only to see Su Xiaonuan shrugging shamelessly and indifferently: "I just entered."
When we were at the company, the man grabbed me and told me to tell you that he was waiting for you."
"...Driving a Ferrari?" Ji Xinyao's mouth twitched. She knew which ancestor was downstairs without even thinking about it.
"Yeah, if I remember correctly, it should be the latest Ferrari. I saw it in a car magazine two months ago. It's really cool!"
Ji Xinyao remained silent, lowered her head and signed another press release. After thinking about it, she got up and walked out.
Just as she reached the first floor, she saw Qin Muyan leaning against the front desk and teasing the customer service lady at the front desk. The customer service lady was already twirling her fingers with her face flushed shyly. She couldn't help but rolled her eyes over there and walked over quickly: "
Why are you looking for me? I'm warning you, if you dare to ask for leave for me without permission today, don't blame me for saying I don't know you!"
As soon as he heard her voice, Qin Muyan looked away from the blushing receptionist and turned to look at Ji Xinyao, who didn't look very friendly: "Why are you so angry? Have I offended you?"
"Yes, you, Mr. Qin, have not offended me! I can't stand up to people like you. Can you please stop coming and disturbing me during my working hours? Even if this is a company under your Qin family, I think I still
Do you have some personal freedom rights?"
Qin Muyan scolded, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked closer to her step by step.
Ji Xinyao immediately took a step back alertly and glared at him: "Stop, don't come close to me!"
The guy didn't seem to hear him, and walked towards her. She couldn't dodge, and her wrist was clamped by him. She immediately frowned and said angrily: "Qin Muyan! What are you going to do in front of a large crowd? Let go!"
"I was drunk last night?" he asked.
"Nonsense." She twisted her wrist but couldn't get away, gritting her teeth angrily.
"Then who sent me back?"
"Of course the two of us will send you back together. You're as drunk as a dead pig, dead again!"
"Ah?" Qin Muyan was suddenly startled, and suddenly pulled her in front of him, lowered his head and smiled with evil intentions: "Then did you do anything to me last night?"
Ji Xinyao scolded her coldly, and said subconsciously without thinking: "What can I do to you? Stop being sentimental! You might as well worry about whether your good brother has done anything to me!"
Qin Muyan smiled: "What are you talking about, Nancy? You are not the type he likes. Even if you throw yourself into his arms, he probably won't do anything to you. Besides, you don't have much flesh on your body."
, besides me, who else can have feelings for you~"
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