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Qin Jiang was carrying a cake and was about to walk down to the QinYan Group’s building, when he saw a figure walking not far away — that silhouette made him instantly lose his composure.
He was most familiar with his foster mother’s figure: she wore a thin outer jacket, carried an intricately woven vegetable basket, and sunlight poured over her back, warm and beautiful.
Qin Jiang hurried forward, quickly crossing the road to follow that figure.
He didn’t dare call her name casually, nor dared to call her “mom” again — he was afraid of scaring her away.
It had been too long — a child without a home, abandoned once and then abandoned again… Seeing the once-warm family again, his first reaction was surprisingly anxiety, timidity, and hesitation.
He had been searching for his foster parents and three sisters for a long time.
But when he really felt they were about to appear before him, Qin Jiang found it hard to take that step.
After all, when he left, the cold stares and cruel words of his foster parents made him almost afraid to come back to them.
“Qin Jiang, you’re not our biological son. Since you already have a home, don’t sponge off ours…”
“Qin Jiang, go back to the world you belong in. We’re not from the same world as you, and we can’t raise a young master like you!”
Recalling it, Qin Jiang realized that the foster parents’ seemingly cold-hearted words to drive him away were in fact the only serious words the old couple had ever spoken to him in their lives.
They hadn’t even cursed him a single time.
They only kept reminding him that he should return to that so-called upper-class society — the Qin family!
But my dearest parents, do you know that the son you pitied and doted on is treated like trash inside the Qin family?
Do you know the despair when I desperately escaped the Qin family, returned home, and found the house empty?
That was the second time he tasted being abandoned.
Very bitter, and very painful!
But he had already experienced the third time — persecuted to death by the Qin family working together.
He was terrified of being abandoned.
Now, facing that familiar silhouette, he hesitated.
While Qin Jiang was hesitating, he didn’t notice that he had followed that figure to a sparsely populated corner.
“Big sister, isn’t that Qin Jiang?”
The fifth sister, Qin Qianyun, since being thrown into the junkyard by Qin Jiang’s people, had her pride trampled and her dignity humiliated.
But she still felt she needed to see Qin Jiang again.
She didn’t want her life to have regrets.
She didn’t want her relationship with Qin Jiang to be tied into a dead knot!
She wanted to make amends to Qin Jiang, not seeking forgiveness… only hoping she could protect him within her means.
“Hmm, the silhouette looks a lot like him.”
“Why is he going to that alley alone? This place is full of shady characters…”
Just as Qin Qianyun was about to step forward, several burly men suddenly appeared in the dark alley. They blew something at Qin Jiang, skillfully slipped a burlap sack over his head, hauled him sideways and shoved him into a nearby van.
Their movements were fluid — clearly professionals at doing this.
The cake in Qin Jiang’s hands fell to the ground and was stomped to mush in the chaos.
Qin Qianyun was frantic, but she knew even more clearly that she and her eldest sister, two women, couldn’t possibly fight these well-organized crooks.
So Qin Qianyun climbed onto an unattended scooter parked by the roadside and twisted the ignition.
“Big sister, hurry and call the police!”
“I’ll follow them first.”
This time, she absolutely would not let Jiang be harmed!!
“No, I’m the eldest sister, I have to go myself.”
“Number Five, don’t be willful.”
After Qin Qianyun said that she sped off. Qin Moyun, worried, was about to get on the scooter too but was stopped by the owner. “You two stealing a vehicle in broad daylight and not even trying to hide?”
“Has the capital city evolved into this now?”
Qin Moyun missed the chance to get on, and Qin Qianyun took advantage and rode off.
Qin Moyun’s face turned ugly and she transferred $100,000 straight to the man.
Then she felt her feet nailed to the spot, phone in hand. Unease and hesitation flickered in Qin Moyun’s eyes like a breeze, her heart swaying in midair, unable to find a clear landing.
In her mind, the scene of Qin Jiang forcing her into a “choose one of two” that stripped her of dignity replayed.
That vulgar demand trampled her pride.
She had indeed been harsh with Qin Jiang, had shown indifference and even been complicit in wrongdoing, but she never intended to truly harm this brother.
Yet she saw only coldness in his eyes.
As if she had never been treated as family by him.
In that instant, Qin Moyun’s face went ashen. The hand gripping her phone began to tremble involuntarily.
She pressed 1-1-0 on the keypad, but couldn’t bring herself to hit the call button.
If she called even later, just a bit later… Qin Jiang had been gambling, so maybe those people were coming to give him trouble.
If he actually did something wrong, then society ought to give him the punishment he deserved!
If she dialed a bit later, Qin Jiang would get another lesson and learn from his mistakes!!
He’d never dare repeat it.
Besides, it’s a society under the rule of law now. Those people should only be trying to scare Qin Jiang — would they really dare to kill him?
That’s impossible.
With that hesitation, Qin Moyun glanced at the sky-high Yan Group building not far away, and finally hit delete on the phone’s keypad one by one.
If worse came to worst, Qin Jiang still had Young Mistress Yan Liang.
Young Mistress Yan Liang would protect him. He wouldn’t die.
But he couldn’t avoid getting a good lesson.
She considered it teaching Qin Jiang a lesson.
On the other side.
Qin Qianyun rode the scooter, chasing the van ahead, but didn’t dare follow too closely for fear of being noticed.
They drove out of the city until they reached an abandoned steelworks.
Qin Qianyun dared not follow any further because she would become too obvious.
She could only hide the scooter in the grass and watch from afar as the van drove into one of the largest abandoned factory buildings.
She saw Qin Jiang being dragged directly from the van into the factory by the group, cursing and muttering something the whole time.
They were too far apart.
Qin Qianyun couldn’t hear clearly and didn’t dare do anything to alert them.
She’d driven too fast and somehow lost her phone. Qin Qianyun thought silently: at least big sister already called the police — with their investigative speed, once they find this van they’ll arrive quickly, right?
Inside the factory.
Qin Jiang was awakened by a cup of tea splashed on him — it seemed he’d been careless, lost in the foster-mother-like silhouette and failing to notice he’d been watched.
“Who are you people?”
“Do you want money, or do you want me?”
Qin Jiang sat up calmly, not showing the panic and helplessness the kidnappers expected.
On the contrary… that composure — why was he so collected?
“Ugh! Qin Jiang, you plagiarizing dog, how dare you touch the cake of our idol, Qin Shuyun the Film Queen? We’re not kidnapping you for money! We’re doing it for… justice!!”
“Qin Jiang, if you know what’s good for you, take down your plagiarized internet short dramas, record a video apology to the whole internet, return our Film Queen a pristine artistic realm, or else…”
Qin Jiang raised an eyebrow, looking at each of the so-called burly men in front of him, a mocking curl at his lips. “Gosh, who forgot to zip their pants and let you guys out?”
“Although your brains and intestines are about the same, whatever’s in your intestines shouldn’t be put into your head.”
“Is Qin Shuyun your mother? You guys look like mongrels, alright. All of you look like your mom’s mangled face.”
“She’s disfigured, and you are uglier than disfigurement… well, at least you didn’t inherit the wrong genes!“
Once Qin Jiang opened his mouth, you could tell where he stood!
There were ten kidnappers in total: six were diehard fans of Qin Shuyun, and the other four, judging by their methods and professionalism, were clearly not first-time abductors.
So this was the lesson Qin Shuyun wanted to teach him?
Online, she claimed she wanted him ruined.
In reality… Qin Jiang knew exactly what she wanted.
She wanted him to be disfigured, then after facial damage be despised by Young Mistress Yan Liang and kicked out of the Yan family, so he could never recover.
After all, in her view, all Qin Jiang’s defiance toward the Qin family came from being overly favored in the Yan family!!
He had served Young Mistress Yan Liang so well that she was satisfied.
But what if he got disfigured as well?
Would he still have the right to mock her?
Would he still have the capital to make Young Mistress Yan Liang bow and dote on him?
Of course, Qin Shuyun didn’t know.
Qin Jiang was very capable in bed too… he could fascinate the Young Mistress completely.
Things done behind closed doors.
Even disfigured, it could still be harmonious…
Smack!
“Qin Jiang, do you have a fucking death wish?!”
“Eh, what the hell is this, tsk tsk… a ring, huh? A pink diamond — must be valuable, right? A gift for your sugar mama big sister? Pretty boy, you’re good at flattering old women, aren’t you.”
“Break the ring!!”
“Leave the pink diamond in one good piece.”
The ringleader had limited info — he only knew Qin Jiang had hitched himself to a rich woman and dared to go against the Film Queen.
That rich woman was probably just rich. How could she possibly be stunningly beautiful and in great shape?
Of course she’d be old, ugly, and fat like a pig…
And pink diamonds — valuable jewelry came with code numbers, so it’s hard to sell them.
Smash it and pry out the pink diamond made it easier to circulate underhandedly.
As he said this, he had someone grab a hammer and brought it down with a strike!!
“Wait!”
“I’ll give you any amount — put the ring down! $100 million, don’t touch it!!”
Qin Jiang was bound hand and foot, forced to half-kneel and pinned. His physical weakness had not yet recovered.
He tried to solve it with his “cash power.”
But these kidnappers didn’t believe a pretty boy could pull that kind of money out.
They didn’t hesitate.
Not only did they slap Qin Jiang, they brought the hammer down — the ring warped and twisted, and the pink diamond fell out…
!!!!!!
“You… are the ones with a death wish…”
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