Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

  Jing Yichen’s held a voice recorder in his hands, and it was the style which he was very familiar with – the special voice recorder of Family Jing.

  Seeing that he looked a bit weird, Shangguan Ning asked, “What is it?”


  “It is from Jing Yiran.” Jing Yichen sounded very cold. The gentleness from his face was gone.

  Shangguan Ning was very surprised. She looked at the delivery box and found that there was no sender’s information available.

  Jing Yichen pressed the play button of the recorder and the voices of a man and a woman could be heard.

  “What do you want me to do? To kill them both?”


  “No, just the woman. The man must stay alive and he mustn’t be hurt.”


  “That is not easy. They are in the same car and if anything happens to the car, the people inside can’t escape from being hurt. Your price isn’t high enough to make the accident look unsuspicious. You better poison that woman with a pill. That’ll save you a lot of trouble.”


  “That won’t work. People would find out that she has been poisoned and I will not be able to get away with it. Car accidents are the best method. I can give you more money if you want. The woman doesn’t need to die, but at least cripple her. No harm should be done to the man, or I won’t pay you a penny.”


  “That won’t work. I don’t do anything without payment. You little girl, are just too young to trick an experienced gangster like me. I need some incentive to do what I am going to do.”


  “How much do you want?”


  “No money needed. Sleep with me for two days and no money is needed. Sounds reasonable?”


  The voice recorder stopped here. It didn’t seem to be the end, but had ended anyway.

  Although the voice had slightly changed, yet Jing Yichen could still tell who the people in conversation were. But the contents of the dialogue made him frown.

  He turned to look at Shangguan Ning beside him. She had turned white like a piece of paper and her eyes were red as if she were trying to hold back her emotions with great effort.

  “What is wrong, Ning?”


  Jing Yichen immediately took her into his arms and held her soft but freezing hands in his own.

  His warmth calmed down Shangguan Ning’s agitated heart after a while. She spoke through clenched teeth, “Shangguan Rouxue is the woman who is speaking in the recorder.”


  Jing Yichen nodded and said, “I know!”


  He even knew that the male’s voice belonged to Black Wind, whom he was trying to find desperately.

  Although they sounded much younger than they did now, yet Jing Yichen, could easily figure it out.

  “The woman she put out the kill order for, was me.”


  Shangguan Ning shivered. She was not frightened. She was simply furious.

  Jing Yichen kept her in his arms and patted her back softly. “It is okay, Ning. All is in the past, and that woman has nothing now. Things will get worse for her, I promise.”


  He sounded determined, which comforted Shangguan Ning’s agonizing heart. She opened her mouth and recounted the incident from the past in a slightly hoarse voice.

  “I got to know Xie Zhuojun when I was young, but we didn’t know each other well. We only greeted each other courteously whenever we ran into each other. We got to know each other better when we attended the same university in the neighboring city. During holidays, he drove me back to A City. He would dropped me home before going back to his own. He was the most popular guy in the campus whilst I was just an ordinary girl. Many people thought that I was his girlfriend when they saw me in the car. But as a matter of fact, we barely talked. He just gave me a lift home when I couldn’t get tickets to go home.”


  “Xie Zhuojun had a high standard regarding girls, so he didn’t fall for me. He barely spoke with me either. But he was a gentleman so he treated everyone nicely. Whenever he talked with me on those few occasions, he was friendly. Therefore, more and more people started to suspect our relationship, including Shangguan Rouxue, who seemed to have the deepest misconception about us.”


  “She told me enough times that my boyfriend was very nice to me etc. I never liked her, so I only told her once that there was nothing going on between Xie Zhuojun and me. I ignored her when she asked me again. I was too young to think much back then and didn’t expect that Shangguan Rouxue had already fallen for Xie Zhuojun. As far as I knew, they had never met each other.”


  “While Xie Zhuojun and I attended the same university, Shangguan Rouxue was attending a better university because of her grades. During the holidays, she attended different supplementary courses so whenever Xie Zhuojun gave me a lift home, she wasn’t there. That was why I thought that they didn’t know each other. But as a matter of fact, Shangguan Rouxue had gotten to know Xie Zhuojun long time ago and she thought that Xie Zhuojun liked me. That was why she planned a car accident to kill me.”


  “I was badly frightened by the car accident. I didn’t dare to travel by car for a long time. But at the time of the accident, I had only got some scratches and was able to get off the bed within a few days. But Xie Zhuojun, whom she loved so deeply, fell into a coma and became a vegetative man. I always thought that it was truly a car accident. I never expected that it was purposefully done by someone. She is so vicious. She had barely reached the age of 20 and she already wanted to kill me. I am lucky to still be alive after spending decades with her under the same roof.”


  “Hehe, if Xie Zhuojun ever gets to know that Shangguan Rouxue had planned the car accident, I wonder if he would kill the woman whom he has loved for so long. He has a clot in the brain and needs to go through a very risky operation. All of this is because of Shangguan Rouxue. If their family ever hears this conversation, I am sure that they will get so ‘excited’ that they will faint.”


  She had been sitting in the back seat that day, because she didn’t want to sit next to Xie Zhuojun to avoid gossip. When the car crashed because of the failed brakes, she managed to survive because of this reason.

  Had she liked Xie Zhuojun at that time, she would have been sitting on the passenger seat and turned up like Xie Zhuojun post the accident.

  Lucky that she hadn’t like Xie Zhuojun.

  Shangguan Ning’s phone rang as she was immersed in her past.

  She picked it up and found that it was from a stranger.

  Jing Yichen who was still holding her in arms, said coldly, “Ning, pick it up and turn on the speaker. It is Jing Yiran! He has sent you a huge present and wants the reward now.”


  Shangguan Ning picked up the phone and turned on the speaker.

  “Beauty, have you got my present? Like it? Sigh, I have just got too many messy recordings here and it takes me hours to decipher them and to learn the secrets!”


  “Where is Black Wind?” Jing Yichen asked with a cold voice before Shangguan Ning could say anything.