91: Chapter 91 Fox Spirit Queen 91: Chapter 91 Fox Spirit Queen She had just learned from the mouths of the two people who kidnapped the little guy that the purpose of the person who hired them was to take Jing Xuan’s life.
Those people had tampered with the yacht.
“Xiaxia, jump into the sea quickly, there’s explosive material on the yacht, they might want to blow up the yacht!”
As soon as she finished speaking, Su He heard a “plop” of someone entering the water over the phone.
Then there was a hissing sound of electricity, and the call was disconnected.
Just as Jiang Yan and the others were about to pursue on another yacht, a huge roaring sound tore through the sky, and a golden-red firelight instantly illuminated the sea area.
Every person’s eyes held a spark of fire.
No one had expected the yacht to explode.
In that moment, Jiang Yan’s heart seemed to be grasped by a pair of huge hands, his heart racing, and a wave of fear surged from all directions.
His limbs were cold, his scalp numbed, and his whole body trembled.
He had been assassinated countless times but had never been afraid.
Five minutes later, a rescue operation unfolded on the sea.
Had Jiang Feng not held him back, Jiang Yan would have already dashed into the sea to search on his own.
However, at the site of the explosion, the sea surface was littered with shattered yacht debris and floating oil, making it impossible for anyone but professionals to enter the water.
The man’s dark eyes were like abyssal whirlpools, his handsome face covered with a layer of chilling frost, terrifying to behold.
Jiang Qi said, “Master, don’t worry, the Young Madam has good fortune on her side, nothing will happen to her.”
Ten minutes later.
On the other side of the dock.
“Cough cough cough…”
Jing Xuan had choked in the sea, swallowed a few mouthfuls of salty water, and her throat was very uncomfortable.
After jumping into the sea, she was hit by a huge impact and nearly knocked unconscious.
Fortunately, Song Shi appeared in time, otherwise, she might not have had the strength to swim back.
Lu Fei was onshore to assist, and after the two of them rescued Jing Xuan, they immediately sent her to the hospital.
After the two assistants had taken her to the hospital, Lu Fei called Su He.
Su He was on her way to the dock when she received his call.
“Miss Su, our Miss is now in the hospital.”
“How is she?”
“She’s in the emergency room, we don’t know yet, but when we rescued Miss, she had no external injuries.”
“Okay, I will come over in a bit.”
After hanging up the phone, Su He made a call to Chen Chen.
To spare them further searching.
“Captain Chen, I’ve found the child, everything is fine, Jing Xuan has also been rescued by her assistant and is now sent to City First Hospital, thanks for your troubles tonight.”
After listening to her, Chen Chen was slightly taken aback, but said nothing, “Alright, I know, I will notify them, it’s no trouble, this is our job after all.”
“Thank you.”
After ending the call, Chen Chen approached Jiang Yan and said, “Mr.
Jiang, your wife has been rescued by her assistant, she’s now at City First Hospital.”
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City First Hospital.
When Jiang Yan arrived, he eerily saw Su He standing unharmed at the entrance of the hospital room with Lu Zhiyang and a doctor.
Jiang Feng and Jiang Qi were dumbfounded.
“This…”
The doctor was saying to them, “Rest assured, the patient is not in any serious danger, just inhaled some sea water in her lungs, luckily not much.
She may experience an irritating cough and cough up phlegm in the next few days, but it’s not a big issue, good care should suffice.
The patient’s internal organs are unharmed, and there are no wounds on her body, just make sure she rests in bed.”
“Good, thank you, Doctor Cheng.”
Doctor Cheng naturally recognized Su He since she was a notable figure in their hospital.
“I’ll go get busy then, if you need anything, just call me.” He laughed as he finished speaking, “Look at my memory, with Director Su here, we don’t have anything to worry about.”
Su He chuckled softly, “Not at all, this is your turf, I have no right to interfere.”
As her words fell, her wrist felt heavy, and her entire body fell into a familiar and warm embrace.
Jiang Yan felt a sense of having regained something precious, his empty heart instantly filled.
He pressed one hand against the back of her head, holding her against his chest, his chin gently resting on the top of her head.
“Good thing you are okay.”
Su He heard his low and hoarse voice from above.
The frown buried in his chest twitched slightly, and she instantly understood why he said that.
She had switched clothes with Jing Xuan, to prevent Jiang Yan from finding her and following her to find Su Baobao.
She did manage to avoid Jiang Yan but forgot about Lu Zhiyang, who discovered the existence of her son.
Fortunately, he agreed not to reveal anything about Su Baobao to Jiang Yan.
She was a little surprised he agreed so readily, probably because of Jing Xuan’s sake, but she had also promised him one condition.
She reached out her other hand, gently patted his back, and said in a muffled voice against his chest, “I’m fine.
It’s Jing Xuan.
Let me go first; so many people are watching.”
Lu Zhiyang watched the scene, his eyebrows raised slightly, his face expressionless.
Doctor Cheng was somewhat surprised, the heart surgery goddess, Director Su, already seemed to be taken.
The man had handsome features and strong presence; he wasn’t someone to be trifled with at first glance.
He didn’t linger to watch the drama and turned to leave immediately.
“How come you’re here?” Jiang Yan looked at Lu Zhiyang and asked, “Didn’t you say that Jing Xuan’s matters had nothing to do with you before?”
Now that something happened to her, you come running so diligently to show your concern – really saying one thing and doing another.
Lu Zhiyang was caught off guard by his sharp words, his tongue pushing against the back of his teeth as if thinking about something, his lips curling into a devilish smile.
He laughed eerily and said, “Ah Yan, you’ve always been quite astute, and I won’t deny that, but I do find myself pitying you in some matters.”
“Mind your own business, or one day, I might just have your son call me daddy.”
After speaking, he didn’t care about the expression on Jiang Yan’s face and turned to push open the door to the ward, locking it behind him.
Jiang Yan: “…”
Su He cleared her throat, took him, and left the hospital.
…
Jing Xuan woke up the next morning.
Su He came to work early in the morning and took the time to visit her.
Lu Zhiyang took care of her for the following few days.
She was very uncomfortable with it, but no matter how much she tried to shoo him away, he didn’t leave.
In the end, she simply ignored him.
Not seeing, not asking, not speaking, when they were together, they could go the whole day without talking as if the other person was just a transparent entity.
Every time Song Shi and Lu Fei came to bring her food or some urgent documents, they could feel the chilling layer of ice on the ceiling of the ward, making them uneasy to stay for long.
Both were busy with their own duties, minding their own business.
But—
Occasionally, they would still argue.
The reason was nothing but that Lu surname person meddling with her affairs, telling her not to do this and not to do that, treating her like she was disabled.
“Lu Zhiyang, is there something missing in your brain?”
“Or is your brain waterlogged?
What right do you have to control me!”
Just now, she was seriously reading company documents when he suddenly came over, snatched them away, and said, “You’ve been working too long; your eyes need to rest.”
Rest my foot!
She had only been reading for an hour, which to her was like being bitten by a mosquito, a trivial matter!
Jing Xuan was trying very hard to control her temper; she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She raised her hand, looking at him, “Lu Zhiyang, you better return the documents to me while I’m still willing to speak with you nicely!”
The man wore a pair of gold-framed glasses, his narrow black eyes slightly narrowed behind the lenses, his demeanor calm, his face gentle and steady, but the words he uttered could always ignite Jing Xuan’s fuse.
“You don’t have to speak nicely to me.
You can say whatever you want, swear if you like, I’m all ears.”
Hearing the man’s casual tone, treating it like no big deal, Jing Xuan felt her anger surging up; she felt a fire inside her but couldn’t vent it, as if she was facing a ball of cotton – no matter how hard she hit, it didn’t seem to bother him at all.
It was as if, to him, Lu Zhiyang, everything that had happened in the past was nothing.
She glared at him, grinding her teeth, “Lu Zhiyang, don’t forget, we have no relationship!
You already have a fiancée.
Now you’re taking care of me and bossing me around; in what capacity, huh?”
“You want to be the mistress, but I don’t!”
“Get as far away from me as you can!”
She pointed at the door of the ward, her face full of anger.
She was really furious, very angry.
She couldn’t understand what on earth he was trying to do?
There had been no relationship between them for a long time, yet he always had to act in front of her as if he was her man, controlling her—what was this all about?
After she finished yelling, she saw that he remained motionless standing in front of her, so she grabbed a cup by her hand and threw it at his forehead without any hesitation.
“Bang!”
The cup hit his forehead and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces of glass.
Jing Xuan was stunned; he actually didn’t dodge, she thought he would.
The assistants standing outside could hear the commotion inside and immediately pushed the ward door open.
Lu Wu: “Master Lu, what’s wrong?”
Song Shi: “Miss Jing, are you alright?”
The two people in the ward ignored them.
Lu Zhiyang sighed, looked at her on the hospital bed, and said, “Are you less angry now?
Can you rest well?”
Jing Xuan stared at the blood flowing from his forehead, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
But after hearing his words, she snorted coldly, “Crazy!”
After that, she lay down, pulling the covers over herself tightly.
The two assistants were somewhat confused by this scene.
At six in the afternoon.
Su He came.
“You said you hit Lu Zhiyang?” Su He was peeling an apple for her and paused slightly.
Jing Xuan confirmed with a hum, “Who asked him to be so nosy?
Who does he think he is to me?
He and I were over when he chose to get engaged to Ye Hanqing.
We have no relationship whatsoever.”
She was clear-headed about her relationship with Lu Zhiyang.
There was no way she and he would be together again.
Su He passed the peeled apple to her, and she took it, biting into it.
“If there really is any relationship, it’s just that of an ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend.”
Su He wiped her hands, then said, “Guess who’s trying to target you this time?”
Jing Xuan blurted out almost without thinking, “Ye Hanqing.”
“That sure?”
“I’ve been racking my brains these past two days, thinking of people I’ve offended, why they’d want me dead.
On the business front, I’ve always won by merit; they have no reason to take action against me, and besides, I haven’t gone for their jugular either.”
Jing Xuan analyzed while munching on the apple, “As for my second uncle and the rest, they dare not kill me.
Although they’ve been dissatisfied with me taking over Jing Group, they can’t do anything about me.
If I suddenly died, all of Jing Group’s assets would be forfeited to the state to serve society, and they wouldn’t get a penny.”
“After thinking it over, it could only have been Ye Hanqing.”
What Su He found from her investigation was also related to Ye Hanqing, “But she’s got a clean slate, she didn’t leave any evidence against her, so the police can’t convict her.”
Jing Xuan smiled and said, “Old lady here doesn’t care about that stuff; they can’t touch her, but I can.
It’s not the first time anyway.”
“But really, I just don’t understand, does my existence really make her feel that insecure?” She tilted her head, looking puzzled, and asked Su He.
“Miss Jing, aren’t you underestimating your own charm?”
“Hey, that’s true haha, Miss Jing’s beauty and ability aren’t something anyone can rival, Miss Jing is the Fox Spirit Queen of the rich and powerful circle, enough to make them all scared.” Jing Xuan arrogantly raised her eyebrow.
Then she looked at Su He, blinked her sparkling eyes, and added, “Except for my Baobao.”
Su He smiled as she watched her, and like that, she readily accepted the title of “Fox Spirit Queen” given to her.
Others would’ve blown up over it.
This word could be a compliment or a criticism; it all depends on how one defines oneself.
As long as you have a clear conscience.
People with dirty hearts see everything as dirty.
Sometimes, most people tend to assume that beautiful women will use their beauty to do unspeakable things, which is a generalization.
“What are you planning to do about it?
Besides being the Ye Family’s Miss, she’s also the future daughter-in-law of the Lu Family.
I heard that Lu Zhiyang’s mother really likes her.
Aren’t you afraid of offending Madam Lu?”
Su He narrowed her eyes slightly and glanced at her as she spoke.
“Psht, she may be the Ye Family’s Miss, but I am the Jing Family’s Miss!
The Lu Family’s daughter-in-law isn’t the Empress, and as the chairman of Jing Group, am I not as good as a Lu Family daughter-in-law?”
Jing Xuan scoffed, “What a joke, like I’m scared of her?
As for Madam Lu, well, she never really liked me, so it doesn’t matter whether I offend her or not.
Anyway, she’s not my mother-in-law; I have no need to please her, and even if she was, I wouldn’t have to please someone who doesn’t like me—I’m not a masochist!”
Seeing her so open-minded, Su He chose not to say much more.
But what she said wasn’t without reason.
Living in this world, one lives for oneself.
Not everyone deserves your kindness, nor is anyone obligated to treat another well; it’s all reciprocal.
“Besides, don’t I still have you as my trump card?” Jing Xuan said, tilting her chin up towards her.
Su He: “Alright, alright, I’ll be your backup.”
Jing Xuan bit into an apple fiercely, “Once sister has recovered from her injuries, I’ll seek retribution from her!”
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DK Headquarters building.
Jiang Feng and Jiang Qi stood erect in front of the massive mahogany desk.
Jiang Feng: “Master Wu, regarding those seven million you asked us to trace, we’ve found the trail.
The money ended up in an account owned by a man named Lin Wei.”
“Lin Wei is the boss of some thugs in the Shouyang Road area.
However, after receiving that money, he hasn’t touched it at all.”
The man leaned back in his chair, his hands resting on the armrests, his well-defined fingers rhythmically tapping.
“Hmm, where is he?” the man asked in a deep voice.
Jiang Qi replied: “I’ve already sent Fei Yang to capture him.”
The man stood up, “Let’s go have a look.”
“Yes, Master Wu.”
Half an hour later.
Gold-plated Club.
In the top-floor private room.
The man sat in the host’s seat, like an emperor surveying his realm, his long legs crossed, one hand casually resting on his knee, the other on the back of the sofa, noble, stern, and composed, radiating a chilling aura that made one’s heart tremble.
Kneeling before the coffee table was a man with his head bowed, shaking uncontrollably.
“Big…
big…
big brothers, why…
why did you ask…
ask me to come?”
Jiang Feng and Jiang Qi beside him found his speech incredibly painful to listen to, as he couldn’t finish a sentence.
They wondered, wasn’t he the head of some thugs?
Why was he so cowardly?
“That’s enough, stop shaking.
Lift your head; Master Wu has something to ask you.” Jiang Feng stretched out his leg and gently kicked the man’s ankle.
Upon hearing this, Lin Wei slowly lifted his head, his heart pounding with fear.
When he saw the man seated in the place of honor, his pupils shrank sharply, as if he’d seen a ghost, and he collapsed backward, landing on the floor with a thud.
He mumbled: “You…
you…”
Jiang Yan’s eyes narrowed, his voice low and icy: “Do you recognize me?”
When Lin Wei saw him, a flash of surprise crossed his eyes, clearly recognizing him.
Jiang Feng and Jiang Qi had never before seen anyone react with such terror upon meeting their Master Wu.
He might be a bit cold, but he wasn’t a ghost – surely not frightening enough to create such a reaction?
Lin Wei shook his head, stuttering, “I…
I don’t…
don’t recognize you.”
He wasn’t lying; the person he recognized was a smaller version of him.
He looked so damn similar!
So the man before him was the father of that little terror?
But thinking back on Su He’s warning that day, his heart also felt fuzzy with fear.
Indeed, this was his bad-luck year, where nothing seemed to go right, and he’d even managed to provoke a whole bunch of fearsome ancestors.
After this, he would definitely have to visit a temple and pray!
Jiang Yan’s cold gaze stayed on him: “How did you come to possess those seven million?”
Lin Wei collapsed on the ground, his fear prompting him to lick his lips, “I…
I won it at a casino.”
The man’s sharp, angular features curved slightly, immediately sending shivers down Lin Wei’s spine.
The man’s voice was harsh: “I’ll give you one minute to think carefully before you speak, or else I’ll have you locked up for life.
You won’t ever get out of jail, just the theft of my seven million is enough to keep you behind bars forever.”
This sentence was all too familiar to Lin Wei; that little terror had said the very same thing; he shuddered at the memory.
“No, no, I’ll speak, I’ll tell you…”
He tentatively began: “That money was transferred to me by a kid the night before last…”