Chapter 126 Compensation

The next day at noon, the An residence.

"Dad, I'm going out to see them," An Qiqi said as she walked down the stairs.

An Zecheng stood at the door, watering the flowers and plants, "Let the guards take you. Don't go too far."

"Okay," An Qiqi readily agreed, not resisting as she used to.

An Zecheng turned around with the watering can, his eyes filled with concern. "Can you control your emotions?"

"Hehe." An Qiqi smiled helplessly, "It's all in the past. What's there to control?"

"Okay, go ahead," An Zecheng replied, carrying the watering can to the side hall.

"I'm leaving!"

An Qiqi, accompanied by her father's personal guards, walked out of the house.

...

Around one o'clock in the afternoon, inside a high-end restaurant in the Longkou District.

An Qiqi, dressed in a white dress with her hair up, sat quietly in a private room on the second floor, calmly watching the scenery outside the window.

After a while, the waiter opened the door of the private room and led in Father You and Qiuqiu. "Miss, your guests have arrived."

"Thank you," An Qiqi turned her head and responded softly.

Qiuqiu had called An Qiqi last night and booked the earliest flight today to come to The Dragon City Rises with her father.

The You family had excellent financial resources and paid a sky-high bail of six million to the Joint Police Department, allowing Qiuqiu to be temporarily free, but she could not leave the territory of District One.

Of course, this bail might have been secretly instructed by Kang Dinghuang's people, because they didn't want to escalate the matter further, so they gave the You family an opportunity to resolve the issue.

At the door of the private room, Qiuqiu looked at An Qiqi, her eyes flickering and her expression very nervous.

"Please sit down!" An Qiqi took the lead in breaking the silence.

"Ah, okay!" Father You didn't seem too embarrassed. He nodded at An Qiqi and sat across the square table with his daughter.

Old You had fought in the political arena for many years and had secretly managed many industries in recent years. For people like him, face and dignity were not worth mentioning in critical moments.

"Qiqi," Father You hesitated, "Ah, this matter is really hard to talk about...!"

"Hehe." An Qiqi looked at him, a smile on her pretty face.

"Qiqi!!"

Seeing that her father couldn't start the conversation, Qiuqiu immediately took the initiative and said, "I'm here to apologize to you."

"I don't think there's any need to apologize," An Qiqi picked up the fruit knife on the table and gently cut a small piece of fruit in her plate. "Everyone for themselves, and the devil take the hindmost."

"I really had no choice at the time! If I didn't say it according to their script, then we would both be finished... You know, I'm about to enter the system. Once I have a stain on my record," Qiuqiu said with tears in her eyes, "Who did I offend? It's an undeserved disaster for me!"

An Qiqi brushed her hair, "I said, you don't need to explain to me. I can understand."

With one sentence, Qiuqiu was speechless. She could clearly feel that An Qiqi seemed to be different from before.

"That's right, Qiqi, we did do something inappropriate in this matter," Father You took over, his expression very sincere. "But the matter has already happened, and it's useless to say we regret it now. But fortunately, the result is good! Look, how about this, our family will give you a separate compensation...!"

An Qiqi smiled and said nothing.

"I know, your family definitely doesn't lack money, but this is also a way for us to express our guilt," Father You sighed. "You and Qiuqiu grew up together as childhood friends! Please, for the sake of so many years of relationship, just let her go. My Qiuqiu really has had it rough. She was involved in this matter for no reason, which not only affected her future but also exhausted all of us. I'm begging you, okay?"

An Qiqi looked at the father and daughter, still not saying a word, only bowing her head to eat the fruit.

"We're prepared to offer five million. If that's not enough, you name a number," Father You looked at An Qiqi and added again.

An Qiqi didn't respond.

Qiuqiu clenched her fists, her voice slightly excited, "Do you really have to force me to my death?! I was helping you at the time!"

An Qiqi looked at her, "No, the reason for your anger is because Wang Ying, whom you have always looked down on, dared to lie to you! You didn't know when you stabbed her neck with a glass shard that she was specifically working with others to set up this scheme just for me."

Qiuqiu's lips wriggled, choked with emotion, and she didn't know how to respond.

"I have recalled the whole thing countless times when I was in prison. I remember every one of your micro-expressions!" An Qiqi said in a calm voice, "This situation now is the consequence that everyone should bear."

Qiuqiu stared at her blankly, "So, you agreed to let me come, not because you wanted to talk at all?!!"

"I didn't say we couldn't talk," An Qiqi looked at her with calm eyes. "But if you don't want to be sentenced to life imprisonment! If you don't want to stay in a place where you can't even see the sun, then pay the corresponding price!!!"

Qiuqiu stood up abruptly, "You could have just raised your hand and let me go! I had no choice at the time, but you did!!"

An Qiqi quietly looked at her, "I had no choice either, but people like you will never see it."

"Huhu~!"

Qiuqiu's hair was disheveled, her chest heaving, and her eyes were fixed on An Qiqi with anger.

"Don't act like a spoiled young lady," An Qiqi picked up the fruit knife and said lightly, "Once you get inside, you'll know that no one will indulge you in the real world, and no one will sympathize with you. Often, the harder you cry, the harder those female criminals will hit you!!"

"Pa!!"

Qiuqiu grabbed the fruit knife from An Qiqi's hand and pointed at her with a crazy expression, roaring, "If I don't have it good, no one will!"

An Qiqi looked at her calmly, without saying a word!

Qiuqiu's hand trembled as she clenched the knife, her expression gradually collapsing, and she said with tears in her eyes, "I'm really not the same as you! I really had no choice at the beginning, I beg you... Qiqi... please let me go."

An Qiqi remained unmoved, looking at her, also looking at the cold, shining tip of the knife!

Father You clenched his fists tightly under the table. He wanted his daughter to use their past friendship to persuade An Qiqi, but it didn't seem to be of any use.

"There's nothing to talk about? Is that right?!"

"Okay, okay!! I'll confess to you, okay?! I'll fucking give it to you!!" Qiuqiu was forced to the point of no return. Her right hand clenched the knife, her arm clearly hesitated, but in the end, she stabbed it towards her cheek.

"Puchi!!"

The fruit knife plunged into her left cheek, and in an instant, blood flowed freely, and the flesh turned outwards!

"Daughter!!" Father You suddenly jumped up.

An Qiqi slowly turned her head, her eyes without any emotional fluctuations, and shouted, "You sit down for me! Sit down!!"