Lan Cheng.
2 AM.
While waiting for the traffic light at an intersection, Meng Jingwei, a food delivery driver, suddenly saw a sports coupe being hit by a large truck running a red light and flung tens of meters away, flipping upside down on the ground.
The car was severely deformed, its windows shattered, and a faint smell of gasoline could be detected, with the possibility of an explosion at any moment.
Still shaken, Meng Jingwei didn't dare to delay. She dropped her electric scooter and ran over to rescue the person.
Lying on the ground, she reached out and patted the face of the blood-covered man in the driver's seat, "Hey, wake up! The car is going to explode, get out quickly!"
Seeing that the man had no reaction, Meng Jingwei leaned her head into the car, unbuckled his seatbelt, and dragged him out, only to find his leg was trapped.
After several attempts to move him, the unconscious man weakly said, "Save me~"
"I can't pull hard enough."
Meng Jingwei tugged with all her might, but his leg was stuck very tightly, and no matter how much she pulled, it was useless.
Smelling the increasingly strong gasoline and the escalating danger, Meng Jingwei reluctantly let go of him and casually made an excuse, "Sorry, I still have deliveries to make. If I'm late, I'll... I'll be deducted money."
Meng Jingwei genuinely wanted to save the person, but she was also afraid of not succeeding and losing her own life.
"Save me. I'll give you... a hundred million."
Although dizzy, the man's survival instinct was strong.
"A hundred million?"
Hearing him mention money, Meng Jingwei's eyes lit up. She glanced at the car's emblem – it was a Ferrari.
He was indeed a rich man.
His promise should be trustworthy.
"There's a jack in the trunk." The blood-covered man struggled to open his eyes, wanting to remember the woman's appearance, but blood flowed into his eyes, blurring his vision.
"Okay."
Without delay, Meng Jingwei immediately ran to open the trunk, found the jack, and placed it between the seat and the center console. Only then did she drag the man out.
Just as they were a few meters away, they heard a loud bang. The car exploded, and the blast threw them heavily to the ground. The man fell into a coma.
Meng Jingwei's face turned pale with fright, and she patted her chest, "Phew, that was close..."
After a moment, she dragged him onto the electric scooter, tied them together with the rope used to secure her delivery box, and wobbled her way to the hospital.
At the payment window, the cashier asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Meng..."
Just as she started to give her name, she was interrupted by the cashier, "Oh, you're our director's daughter, Li Yun'er, right?"
Li Yun'er, her identical twin sister.
They had faces and heights that were like carbon copies of each other.
But their destinies were vastly different.
Because she was taken away at birth and passed through several hands before being sold to her current adoptive parents.
However, a month ago, her adoptive parents were involved in a car accident and were hospitalized with severe injuries, requiring expensive medical treatment.
At this time, her biological parents suddenly appeared, saying they could pay for her adoptive parents' treatment, provided that Meng Jingwei donate bone marrow to the Li family's son, who had leukemia, and that she must not show her face, which was identical to Li Yun'er's.
Her biological mother, Zhao Ruolan, had said, "Our Yun'er is proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting to poetry and dance. She is also the most beautiful woman in Lan Cheng. You are just a country bumpkin, not presentable, and you absolutely cannot ruin my Yun'er's good reputation with your existence."
To pay for her adoptive parents' medical expenses, Meng Jingwei reluctantly agreed.
She had been too lazy to put on makeup while delivering food late at night today, and she didn't expect to be recognized.
What's more, she had mistakenly entered her biological father's hospital, so she could only default to being 'Li Yun'er' and paid 5,000 yuan under her name for the surgery fee.
After settling everything, exhausted, she returned to her rented room, took a shower, and while washing her dirty clothes, she found a black diamond ring with a rhombus shape in her pocket.
Meng Jingwei didn't think much of it. She placed the ring on the table and lay down on the bed, wanting to take a nap.
At some point, a knock sounded at the door.
"Who is it?"
She shuffled in her slippers to the door and opened it, only to see Li Yun'er pushing the door open and walking in.
"Why are you..."
Before Meng Jingwei could finish her sentence, Li Yun'er slapped her across the face, "Meng Jingwei, did you forget what I told you? Are you being a slut?"
The tall Li Yun'er had long black hair cascading down her shoulders. Her exquisite and beautiful features were lightly powdered, exuding an elegant and noble aura, an innate beauty that was captivating.
In contrast, Meng Jingwei, dressed in cheap pajamas and shuffling in slippers that cost nine dollars and ninety cents, was worlds apart.
Meng Jingwei was furious and slapped Li Yun'er back.
To save her adoptive parents, she was forced to endure the difficulties of her biological parents, but she was never someone who would be at anyone's mercy or bully the weak.
Along with the crisp sound of the slap, Li Yun'er cried out, "Meng Jingwei, how dare you hit me?"
Meng Jingwei's strength was much greater than Li Yun'er's. The slap made her cheek slightly swollen.
Meng Jingwei shook her stinging hand, her eyebrows furrowed. "You should endure being hit! I'm not your mother, expecting me to indulge your arrogant temper?"
"You went to my father's hospital with a strange man in the middle of the night. How am I supposed to conduct myself if word gets out? And you have the nerve to talk back!"
Li Yun'er, her face flushed with anger, pointed at her and added, "When I came to Lan Cheng, I warned you not to flaunt yourself with 'my face'. Don't you want your adoptive parents' lives?!"
If someone hadn't informed her father this morning, she would still be kept in the dark.
"Your face... ha."
Meng Jingwei let out a self-mocking laugh, her eyes filled with sorrow.
Look at this unfair fate, even with the same face, she wasn't allowed to show her true appearance.
At this moment, Li Yun'er's phone rang.
She took her phone and walked to the side to answer it. Glancing sideways, she happened to see the black diamond ring with a rhombus shape on the table.
This diamond ring looked familiar...
"Mommy, what is it?" she asked.
"Heavens, darling, when did you save Young Master Qing? You didn't even tell Mommy about such a big thing. The Qing family just sent someone over, saying they want to meet you in a week."