Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Every morning, Ying Qiao would first take Jiang Chi to his tutoring class, then take the other two little brats to the company, spend the whole day in meetings and handling official business, and after work, he would pick Jiang Chi up from the tutoring class, go to the restaurant for dinner, and then go home.
Things proceeded smoothly until Thursday, and tomorrow was the day Jiang Lan had promised to return.
Ying Qiao had almost finished arranging his work. He checked his WeChat again, but there was still no news. So he made an internal call and asked his assistant to arrange a private plane to Yunnan.
After hanging up, he stood up, looked at Suan Ni and Jiao Tu who were curled up on the sofa and fast asleep, picked them up one in each arm, and said, “Let’s go pick up Jiang Chi and get ready for dinner.”
Suan Ni’s ears perked up immediately at the mention of dinner. He rubbed his eyes with his paws and asked sleepily, “What are we having today?”
Ying Qiao flicked his forehead lightly with his finger and laughed, “It’s Jiang Chi’s turn to choose a restaurant today. Let’s pick him up first.”
Suan Ni covered his forehead and muttered, “Anyway, Jiang Chi will let me choose.”
Ying Qiao drove to the tutoring center to pick up Jiang Chi.
After parking the car downstairs, Suan Ni and Jiao Tu waited in the car while Ying Qiao took the elevator upstairs to pick up the person.
Just as he reached the elevator, he bumped into Teacher Ruan, who was coming downstairs.
Both of them were taken aback.
“Ms. Ruan had to leave early today? Is Jiang Chi still in the classroom?”
“Did Jiang Chi leave his things in class? Why is Mr. Ying back again?”
After they both finished speaking in unison, their expressions were somewhat stunned.
Teacher Ruan laughed and said, “Mr. Ying, are you joking with me? Didn’t you pick Jiang Chi up half an hour early today? You said that Jiang Chi’s fifth brother was back from his business trip and that you wanted to go out for dinner together tonight.”
Ying Qiao’s expression was unpleasant: “Are you sure it’s ‘me’ who came to pick you up? I just got off work, and Jiang Chi’s Fifth Brother hasn’t come back yet either.”
Ms. Ruan’s smile stiffened slightly, and she raised her voice with some dissatisfaction: “Mr. Ying, this joke is going a bit too far. It is indeed you who personally came to pick up Jiang Chi; our classrooms are equipped with surveillance cameras.”
She thought Ying Qiao had just gone too far with his joke, but Ying Qiao’s expression became even more serious. He then said briefly and forcefully, “That’s not me. I need to check the classroom and building surveillance footage.”
He then called the security guards over to discuss retrieving the surveillance footage.
Ms. Ruan was also a little flustered when she saw this, but she quickly calmed down. It was indeed Ying Qiao who came to pick her up. She personally handed Jiang Chi over to Ying Qiao.
She looked at Ying Qiao with a strange gaze, secretly wondering if Ying Qiao had a mental illness.
She secretly felt for her phone in her bag, wanting to call the police first, then hesitated, worried that it would have a negative impact on Jiang Chi. In the end, she held back for the time being and cooperated with Ying Qiao to retrieve the surveillance footage.
If Ying Qiao continued to cause trouble after watching the surveillance footage, she would have no choice but to call the police.
Upon hearing that a child had gone missing, the building security guards were very cooperative and quickly retrieved the surveillance footage according to the time period provided by Teacher Ruan. Teacher Ruan also made a copy of the classroom surveillance footage and showed it to Ying Qiao on her phone.
Both the classroom surveillance and the building entrance surveillance clearly show that it was indeed “Ying Qiao” who picked up Jiang Chi.
The security guard and Teacher Ruan both had strange expressions.
Ying Qiao ignored them, asked them to make a copy of the video for him, and then left in a hurry.
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Meanwhile, Jiang Chi was trapped in the passenger seat of a car and unable to move.
As he walked out of the building and saw the unfamiliar car, he realized something was wrong. He first tried to probe with a few words without making a sound, and soon discovered that although the person in front of him looked exactly like Ying Qiao, he was not Ying Qiao.
He remained silent, using the excuse of needing to use the restroom to leave and seek help. Unexpectedly, the other party discovered his intentions, forcibly abducted him into their car, and thus the current situation unfolded.
The person in the driver’s seat had now reverted to their original appearance.
—A large head sat atop a thin body, and the dull gray robe he wore looked empty and gloomy.
Jiang Chi glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, but noticed that a pair of eyes were vaguely hidden in the gaps in the other man’s hair on his side, looking at him with ill intent.
“Don’t you recognize me?” Tianwu didn’t move his head, but looked at him and muttered to himself, “Look, I’ve mixed things up again. It’s been so many years, it’s normal that you don’t remember me.”
The eyes on his profile narrowed maliciously as Tianwu continued speaking to himself, “Back then, it was thanks to me that you were able to take human form.”
Jiang Chi only half understood what he was saying, but he lowered his eyes and memorized every word he heard.
Seeing that he didn’t answer, Tianwu’s expression turned somewhat angry. He turned his head and stared at Jiang Chi with his somewhat distorted face: “Aren’t you even a little bit curious? Who are you? Who are your parents?”
Jiang Chi’s eyes flickered, his lips pressed tightly together. After a long while, although he knew the other party might be lying to him, he still couldn’t help but ask, “Do you know who my parents are?”
Tianwu gave him a mocking look and scoffed, “So you’re willing to speak now?”
His expression was contemptuous, clearly not taking Jiang Chi seriously. He then said maliciously, “You were originally just a formless mass of resentment. It was only by using a secret technique to stuff you into the body of a dead infant that you took on human form. Where would you get parents?”
“If you were to ask about the parents of that dead baby, I would have even less of a chance to know. I watched them throw the baby on the roadside and walk away. Why would I care what two human ants were called? Besides…” He paused deliberately, his grin widening, “You don’t only have one pair of such cheap parents.”
Each time, he would stuff resentment into the body of a dead infant, watch it take human form, become an ignorant baby, and then send it to a “carefully” chosen family, watching it suffer, grow up, be hated and rejected because of its alien status, and finally die in resentment and pain, returning to a ball of resentment, while becoming even stronger.
He had handled this cycle countless times without ever making a mistake.
This was the last time he was unable to do so due to other matters. It was Suan Yu who handled the matter, but he never expected that Taotie would intercept him and keep the person under his nose.
If he hadn’t been prepared, getting Jiang Chi out of Taotie and Yinglong’s sights wouldn’t have been easy.
Tianwu glanced at Jiang Chi and saw that his eyes were wide open, his lips were pressed into a straight line, and his fair face was full of anger. He smiled with pleasure: “You’re angry already?”
He shook his head and said meaningfully, “That’s far from enough.”
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