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Chapter 117 - 117: Surrounded!
Chapter 117 - 117: Surrounded!
Chapter 117: Surrounded!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Brother Ah Zhi…”
Chen Kexin groaned in pain from her hospital bed, opened her eyes and called out softly to Lu Zhi.
Old Madam Lu hurriedly went after Lu Zhi and grabbed his arm. “Ah Zhi, Kexin is awake! Come and see her!”
Lu Zhi removed his grandmother’s hand expressionlessly. “Grandma, I’ve already made it clear. From now on, Kexin is stripped of all family privileges.”
Without these privileges, Chen Kexin was no different from the servants at Lu residence.
Why should he go and see her?
Old Madam Lu was stunned when she heard this. “Are you really that heartless?”
“If you think that I’m heartless, so be it.”
Lu Zhi walked off after he finished speaking.
Seeing Lu Zhi and Jiang Yining leave so resolutely, Old Madam Lu stomped her feet in anger and cursed. She then walked back to Chen Kexin’s bedside and called out to her softly.
Chen Kexin struggled for a while before she slowly opened her eyes.
Old Madam Lu looked at her like she was a special gem and said, “Kexin, you’re finally awake. Why did you do such a stupid thing? If you don’t want to be married off to the Xu family, 1’11 help you find a way out. You didn’t have to take your own life!”
Chen Kexin wept silently.
She had set her hopes on the old madam once but she had been let down.
The old madam also wished to marry her off to the Xu family so she would stop pestering Lu Zhi.
I low could she accept that?
So, after she finished speaking with the old madam, she jumped off the building as an ultimatum.
Judging from the old madam’s reaction now, she had probably won.
Chen Kexin was silent for a moment before she said, “Grandma, where’s Brother All Zhi? I thought 1 heard his voice just now.”
“You’re still thinking about him at a time like this? He doesn’t care about you at all!” Old Madam Lu couldn’t stop sobbing when she recalled Lu Zhi’s actions.
Chen Qinglian fed Chen Kexin some food before she went to comfort Old Madam Lu. “Old Madam, don’t be sad. Our Kexin was born lowly and is not worthy of Young Master. We’ll accept that.”
“Are you trying to upset me further by saying that?” Old Madam Lu asked.
Chen Qinglian lowered her eyes and revealed an aggrieved look.
Chen Kexin added sadly, “Grandma, I think my mom is right. I’m not worthy of Brother All Zhi, so stop worrying about me.”
“Kexin…”
“Grandma, I would like to have some fruits. Can you get someone to clean some for me?” Chen Kexin interrupted her.
Old Madam Lu quickly stood up and said, “I’ll go and clean some for you.”
“Old Madam, 1 can’t let you do that. Let me…”
“You stay here with Kexin.” Old Madam Lu urged her to sit and brought some strawberries into the bathroom to clean them.
Chen Kexin waited for the old madam to leave before she looked at her mother and asked, “Was Brother Ah Zhi here just now?”
“Yes.”
“What did he say?” Chen Kexin’s eyes sparkled with hope.
“He compromised and won’t marry you off to the Xu family anymore.” Before her daughter got too excited, Chen Qinglian immediately threw a wet blanket on her. “But he also proposed an alternative punishment. Kexin, you will no longer be treated like a young miss at the Lu residence, but a servant. This… It has been approved by the old master and the old madam and announced to the entire household.”
Lu Zhi was ruthless.
He didn’t give them any chance to take advantage of the situation and called the old master and told him what happened.
With the old master’s support, the old madam naturally couldn’t say anything.
She could only agree with Kexin’s alternative punishment.
Chen Qinglian’s eyes were filled with hatred when she thought about how Jiang Yining was the cause of all this.
Chen Kexin’s heart shattered when she heard this. She bit her lower lip really hard, almost to the point of bleeding. “Mom, I really want to kill that woman. I want to tear her into pieces and make her disappear!”
“I know… 1 know…” Chen Qinglian wiped away the tears from her daughter’s eyes and said, “Kexin, don’t worry. I’ve already heard news that Ah Zhi took down a casino owned by the Tao family to protect Jiang Yining. The Tao family won’t let this go. Let’s stir some sh*t and make them fight. And then, we push all the blame onto Jiang Yining and reap the benefits.”
“Will that work?” Chen Kexin asked.
“Yes, don’t worry. This time… She won’t be able to escape!”
Chen Qinglian was very confident.
Chen Kexin nodded.
“Kexin, I’ve cleaned these strawberries for you.”
Old Madam Lu walked out of the bathroom with some strawberries.
The mother and daughter stopped talking immediately with a tacit understanding. They didn’t want Old Madam Lu to know anything about their plan.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yining and Lu Zhi were in their car on the way home.
En route, Lu Zhi asked, “Where were you today?”
“School.”
Jiang Yining felt that something was amiss, so she asked, “Why?”
“Nothing.” Lu Zhi replied casually. “I called your school and they said that you weren’t there.”
Jiang Yining blinked guiltily as her lie was exposed. “Maybe the teachers didn’t see me. I was there.”
“Oh? Is that so?”
Lu Zhi chuckled; his eyes filled with doubt.
Jiang Yining averted her eyes and racked her brains to find an excuse to gloss the matter over.
However, at this moment, several cars driving from the opposite direction suddenly surrounded them and honked loudly.
The honking sounds were deafening.
Lu Zhi’s face darkened. “Qi Feng, shake them off.”
“Yes, Sir.”
Qi Feng stepped on the accelerator and slipped between two cars.
He then sped down the road at lightning speed.
The road they were on was relatively remote, with little traffic so it was clear.
Their opponents had chosen this place to ambush them probably because of its remoteness.
“What’s happening?” Jiang Yining asked as she held on to her seatbelt.
“They are probably sent by the Tao family.”
When Lu Zhi saw the maple leaf logo on the cars, he thought about the information he had gathered and concluded that Tao Siyuan had gotten wind of his involvement in taking down He Ming’s casino. He had come to take revenge.
More than a dozen cars chased after them, extremely determined to get them.
Qi Feng narrowly avoided a car that tried to hit them and focused on the road ahead.
However, the gap between the two parties were narrowing.
Jiang Yining said, “We can’t go on like this. They’ll catch up to us sooner or later.”
Moreover, their opponents came in more than a dozen cars and they would easily outlast them.
They could always intercept them when they ran out of gas.
Lu Zhi unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the back seat to the front seat. “I’ll drive.”
“Okay.”
Qi Feng handed the steering wheel to Lu Zhi without any hesitation.
A maneuver like that while driving at such a high speed was very dangerous!
One careless move and all three of them could die!
But Lu Zhi and Qi Feng changed seats flawlessly. Nothing happened to their car while they successfully switched seats!
“Sit tight.”
Lu Zhi instructed with a stern expression.
Qi Feng and Jiang Yining leaned into their seats.
Lu Zhi did a handbrake turn and spun the car around 180 degrees.
The sound of screeching tires reverberated through the sky!
The cars chasing them followed suit but the drivers’ skills were no match for Lu Zhi’s.
One of the cars quickly rammed into another one driving from the opposite direction.
Bang!
With a loud crash, the two cars collided head-on.
A few other cars also lost control and crashed into the guard rail and could no longer be started.
When the last car in the chase saw this, it quickly stabilized and continued to chase after Lu Zhi..