After shopping, Zhengzheng wanted ice cream, so the mother and son went to the nearby Pizza Hut, ordering ice cream, cake, and a snack platter.
While waiting for the food, Jian Si was texting Nan Zhan, telling him she was at the Pizza Hut next to the trade center.
"Mom, do you recognize that grandma over there?" Zhengzheng looked at a spot diagonally opposite, "She has already looked this way six tis."
Jian Si followed his gaze and saw a woman in her fifties, dressed very decently, but she didn’t recognize her.
Zhengzheng said, "She must be looking for you."
"Oh? How can you tell?"
"First of all, from her dressing, she shouldn’t fancy a place like Pizza Hut which is ant for general public; secondly, she didn’t even bother to look at the nu. When the server asked what she’d like, she just pointed this way, obviously saying ’the sa as them’." Zhengzheng said, "Could she be your rival in love?"
Jian Si rolled her eyes: "Your dad really appeals to all ages, huh?"
"I think it’s not strange that our father and son have such charm."
While they were talking, the server began serving their order: two vanilla ice creams, a piece of Black Forest cake, two fruit juices, and a snack platter. anwhile, the sa foods were served in front of that woman. Jian Si glanced over; they were indeed exactly the sa as theirs.
Soon, the woman walked over.
Jian Si had anticipated she would co and calmly put down her fork and knife.
As soon as the woman opened her mouth, her tone was less courteous, more interrogative: "Are you Jian Si?"
"Yes, and you are?" Jian Si still managed a polite smile.
The woman said, "I am Gao Ruobing’s mother, Zhang Wenfang."
Jian Si was taken aback; Gao Ruobing’s mother approaching her probably ant trouble.
"Hello, what can I do for you?"
Zhang Wenfang, seeing her indifferent deanor, imdiately felt an upsurge of anger. Didn’t she have the slightest sense of guilt upon seeing her? Her skin must be thick indeed.
"I assu you are aware of my purpose for coming."
Jian Si found it amusing, "I’m sorry, I’m not interested in your purpose. If possible, I don’t want to hear about it either."
"Jian Si, you really are shaless, stealing soone else’s fiancé and you still have the nerve to speak so righteously," Zhang Wenfang pointed her finger at her, raising her voice unintentionally, "Don’t you know our Bingbing is Nan Zhan’s fiancée? They were going to get married, but you ddled in between and even produced a son, for all I know, this so-called son of yours might just be from so random man."
Zhang Wenfang insulted her; Jian Si could tolerate that, but ntioning Zhengzheng was too much.
"Lady Zhang, please get two things straight. First, this so-called fiancée of your daughter is just an oral agreent between both sets of parents, the parties themselves don’t even know. What era are we in that soone still believes in parental matchmaking? Second, questioning my son’s origin is questioning Nan Zhan’s intelligence. I think with his IQ of 140, he and Lady Zhang are not on the sa level. He does not mind; what confidence does Lady Zhang have?"
"You..." Zhang Wenfang was montarily speechless, quickly reverting to her shrewish nature, "Stealing soone else’s fiancé and still here arguing your case, how shaless can you be? Look at yourself, dressed in Taobao street stall goods, eating this low-class junk food, and wow, look at the bag you’re carrying, if thrown in the street, no one would pick it up. How can you, a commoner, compare with our Bingbing who is a pampered young lady."
"Lady Zhang, it’s fine to insult , but are you insulting everyone in the restaurant as well?"
Zhang Wenfang glanced around the restaurant, indeed every person at each table was looking at her with peculiar gazes, so murmured, "If she’s so superior, why co here to eat at all, isn’t she afraid of being poisoned?"
Jian Si’s retort indeed drew a lot of resentnt towards Zhang Wenfang. Seeing everyone discussing her, she got so upset that she snatched up a juice from the table and splashed it towards Jian Si, shouting, "You vixen, bitch, ho wrecker breaking up other’s marriages."
As Zhang Wenfang grabbed the cup, Zhengzheng quickly kicked down a chair next to them, which fell right onto Zhang Wenfang, causing her hand to swerve, and the juice ended up splashing onto the table next to them.
This table was occupied by two young girls dressed fashionably, who had been listening to the entire conversion between Zhang Wenfang and Jian Si. Out of nowhere, they got splashed with the drink and imdiately stood up, pointing at Zhang Wenfang and started cursing fiercely.
"Are you blind? What’s a high-society old woman like you swaggering in our commoner restaurant for? Your daughter must be ugly and la that’s why no man wants her."
The other imdiately followed, "With such a poor-quality mother, I see the daughter is just the sa, the beam is crooked so the column is aslant, what era is this, still believing in verbal matrimonial promises, truly laughable, sister."
Zhang Wenfang was stifled by the two girls arguing back and forth, and could only glare at Jian Si hatefully, uttering, "This won’t end here for our Gao Family."
Only after Zhang Wenfang left did Jian Si breathe a sigh of relief, then looking at Zhengzheng who was gnawing on chicken wings, "Thank you, Kudo Shinyichi."
"You’re welco, you treat to a al, I avenge for you, that’s proper courtesy."
Jian Si hurriedly apologized to the girls at the next table too, since the situation arose because of her. The two girls didn’t take it to heart, even encouraged her to boldly pursue her love and not be swayed by sinister people.
After finishing his ice cream, Zhengzheng asked, "Why hasn’t dad arrived yet?"
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Nan Zhan left the police station, checked his phone, and he was just in ti to join them for lunch.
In the car, he turned on the radio, which was broadcasting an overly sweet love song, the likes of "I love you, you love , you’re my little kitty, I am your baby," the kind of song that usually makes his skin crawl so much that he’d imdiately turn off the radio, but today he found it more and more appealing as he listened.
You’re my little kitty, I am your baby.
He thought about it and then stopped at a red light, took out his phone, and changed Jian Si’s na in his contacts to "Little Kitty."
Very fitting for her temperant.
Just as he was about to call his little kitty, an incoming call took over the screen.
"Lawyer Nan, the person nad Kui that you’re looking for, soone saw him at the bus station in Aus City. He has co to Aus City."
Nan Zhan’s expression turned solemn: "Where is he now?"
"He’s very cautious and has lost his trace, but he should still be in Aus City."
Nan Zhan put down the phone, staring at the gradually darkening screen.
Indeed, Kui has co to Aus City again.
He believes that over the past few years, he must have returned before, only always cautiously. Of course, such occasions must be rare because of a guilty conscience. So, this ti, why would he risk returning when he knows soone suspects him? What is his purpose in coming back?
A vague thought gradually ford in his mind...
Beep beep!
The green light had been on for a long ti, and there were already vehicles lining up behind, their horns blaring loudly.
Nan Zhan ca to his senses, put down his phone, and slowly started the car.
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Jian Si glanced at her phone, it was almost midnight, and Nan Zhan still hadn’t shown up.
She figured it must be because he hadn’t finished dealing with police business, so she didn’t call to rush him.
"So boring." Jian Si nibbled on her straw, staring out the window.
"Bored? Just call him already." Zhengzheng sighed, "Won are so sentintal."
Jian Si stuffed a piece of potato wedge into his mouth: "Eat more, talk less."
Zhengzheng shrugged his shoulders.
Jian Si continued to stare blankly across the street, until a taxi slowly pulled up along the curb, and a person got out of the car.
Jian Si watched as the person gradually approached, growing larger in her field of vision.
Suddenly, she threw down the cup in her hand and said to Zhengzheng, "Wait for here, and don’t go anywhere, I’ll be right back."
No sooner had her words fallen than she was already running outside.
Zhengzheng looked out the window and then in the direction she had run off, finally picking up the phone on the table: "Hello, aren’t you taking your phone?"
Jian Si pushed open the door, looked left and right, and ran after the person she had just seen.
Yes, she couldn’t be wrong, it was him, even though he deliberately wore a hat and grew a beard, but that face was branded in her mind like a hot iron, even if turned to ashes, she could recognize him.
The reckless driver who killed her parents and ruined her family, it was him, it must be him.
Jian Si followed the silhouette of that person all the way into a nearby budget hotel. This area, being close to the bus station, was filled with small hotels; apparently, he was staying here.
As soon as she entered the lobby, Jian Si rushed to the reception desk and politely asked, "Hello, have you seen my dad? He has a beard and wears a hat, walked so fast, didn’t even wait for ."
The receptionist pointed to the second elevator nearby: "He took that elevator up."
"Thank you."
Jian Si waited in front of the elevator for a while, noticed the elevator stopped on the fourth floor, and then pressed the elevator button.
Jian Si sat in the elevator, her heart thumping wildly from excitent. Great, after eight years, she had finally found the culprit who destroyed her family.
The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, Jian Si hurriedly walked out.
But there were about twenty rooms on the fourth floor, all doors were closed, and she did not know which room he was in.
At this mont, alone and unsupported, she absolutely couldn’t startle the snake by hitting the grass.
Jian Si quickly felt her pocket, and then patted her pants pocket.
Oh no, she was too excited when she saw him and had left her phone on the table.
Fearing that leaving would an losing track of the man, Jian Si was thinking of a plan when the elevator pinged open.
She quickly hid around a corner.
A woman dressed in a black skirt appeared in sight.
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