In August, a thundershower had swept over.
Rain fell thinly against the window, blurring everything in sight.
Jian Ci was sitting on the sofa in an elegant dress at this time, holding her chin with one hand and playing with a laptop.
Seeing this, the employees waiting at the door couldn't help but whisper amongst themselves.
"What on earth is the situation with the young lady? The absence of the groom at this engagement banquet is major news — there's been a ruckus outside. How can she still be in the mood to play with her laptop?"
"She isn't bereft of reaction, she simply doesn't know what to do!"
"That's true. How could someone who spent eighteen years in Yuncheng's countryside recovering from an illness handle a situation like this?"
...
At this moment, a woman wearing a similar dress hurried in from outside.
"Jian Ci, it's chaotic outside! Young Master Qin isn't answering his phone and is not replying to any messages. What are we going to do next?"
Without looking up, Jian Ci leaned back on the sofa, casually stretched her long legs onto the coffee table, and continued tapping the laptop. She responded indifferently, "Let it cool."
The woman was taken aback but eventually sighed in resignation.
Looking at the person in front of her, she couldn't help but realise how bewitchingly beautiful Jian Ci was today.
Her simple white dress highlighted her slender waist, and the way her eyes carried a reckless and brisk appearance added a natural elegance and laziness to her character. These conflicting feelings surprisingly formed a unique temperament on her.
Like a rose with thorns, irresistibly enchanting.
The woman sighed at this time, saying, "I know you don't want to enter into this engagement, but the old man has been pushing you to the brink of death. I think you'd better relent."
Speaking of this matter, Chen Ling, a fellow disciple and senior sister to Jian Zi, was also distressed.
Jian Zi's grandfather, not sure if it's due to old age or becoming childish, not only refused to let Jian Zi treat his sudden physical problem but also tricked her into coming back, saying that he would only agree to treatment after fulfilling his childhood premarital promise.
God knows how tense Jian Zi's face was at that time.
She was worried that Jian Zi would directly do it herself and put him to unconsciousness for treatment.
After all, their little junior sister Jian Zi really did not have a good temper.
Fortunately, she held back in the end and unprecedentedly agreed to the engagement request.
I guess she agreed due to the fact that the old man had nurtured her with all his heart over the years.
After all, back in the day, to have her guardianship, the old man used company shares in exchange, which led him to take Jian Zi to settle down in Yun City.
That's how Jian Zi got into the master's door and mastered medical skills.
Unfortunately, no matter how excellent the medical skills are, it's of no use if the patient doesn't cooperate.
Jian Zi kept silent, so Chen Ling had to continue to speak up: "Or you’d better intervene and help find a solution, if this engagement banquet is messed up, the old man with his stubborn temper will not let you treat him. By that time, if the condition is delayed, the anxious person is still you."
She knew that the old man has always been Jian Zi's biggest Achilles heel.
As long as it is mentioned, she will surely back off.
Sure enough, Jian Zi, who was originally like a bystander, paused her movement, her eyes narrowed dangerously.
Then, on a pitch-black screen, he quickly typed out a string of codes that Chen Ling couldn't understand at all.
Not long after, Qin Jiang's location was pinpointed.
But the location was a bit... strange.
Kyoto Hotel.
Chen Ling was a little puzzled, "What is he doing in a hotel?"
Jian Ci raised an eyebrow, decisively hacked into the hotel's system again, looked around in it, and found a surveillance video.
The video jumped out in an instant.
"What is this?"
Chen Ling leaned in to take a closer look, curiously.
She was taken aback instantly!
Wasn't that her fiance, Qin Jiang, who should have shown up?
Wait!
This...
Why is Jian Ci’s half-sister Jian An also there?
"Holy shit! This jerk is clearly playing you! He promised solemnly this morning to help you complete this fake engagement and deceive your grandpa, but then he turns around and enjoys himself with your half-sister?"
Looking at the video of the two hugging and cuddling in the elevator, they were in such a hurry that it was...
Eye-blinding.
"Damn it! This pair of dog men and women, watch me squeeze their heads!" Said Chen Ling, rolling up her sleeves, ready to throw punches at any time.
However, Jian Ci calmly held her back, saying, "No need, the priority now is to complete the engagement banquet."
Qin Jiang was no longer necessary to track down, but the engagement banquet had to continue; otherwise, it would be hard to explain to the old man.
But Chen Ling was still immersed in anger, venting, "With him gone, how can we proceed?"
Jian Ci offhandedly suggested, "Then let the second or the third man of the Qin family substitute.”
Chen Ling was shocked, "Can that work?"
It wasn't like buying and selling goods where you can find substitutes.
This was her fiancé!
Isn't that a bit too casual?
Jian Ci glanced at her and asked, "Do you have a better solution?"
Chen Ling choked.
It seemed like… she didn't.
"What about Qin Jiang? Just let him go like that?" Chen Ling was still thinking about that scumbag. She didn't believe that her little junior sister would have such a good temper.
As expected, Jian Ci looked at the final freeze-frame image on the screen, a dangerous curve forming at the corner of her mouth, "He thinks he can trick me? He has high hopes."
Dare to play her?
There must be a penalty for it.
Chen Ling looked at the smile on her younger sister's face and knew then, that Qin Jiang was doomed.
"Knock, knock, knock-"
Altogether abruptly, a knock on the door derailed the conversation within the room.
Jian Ci turned her head and saw an additional man at the entrance.
He was wearing a high-end black suit. The warm light from the outside spotlighted his emotionless face, with distinct features and a deep countenance.
Specifically, the teardrop mole at the corner of his eyes added an even more tantalizingly forbidden allure.
However, such a man, endowed with a bone-deep regality, radiated an eternal chill from his body, giving off a frosty and terrifying aura from head to toe.
And key was, he was disabled.
Seeing him seated in a wheelchair, Jian Ci's gaze involuntarily drifted to his legs.
"Who are you?" enquired Chen Ling, who was interrupted.
The man's attendant, noticing the atmosphere was a bit off, said: "I'm sorry, it seems we've got the wrong place."
With that, he began to withdraw, pushing the person in the wheelchair.
Just as he was about to act, the man sitting in the wheelchair suddenly stopped him. His deep, icy eyes fell back onto Jian Ci's face, carrying a hint of underlying turbulence, "It's you."
The subordinates, who did not understand, found this even more baffling.
What was happening?
Did Fifth Master know this woman?
Not only was he puzzled, even Jian Ci raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who are you?"
The man's gaze deepened.
Chen Ling, standing beside her, quietly reminded, "He should be Qin Family's Fifth Master, Qin Shi Zheng."
Jian Ci, whose eyes were previously careless, immediately focused and her gaze returned to Qin Shi Zheng.
The Fifth Uncle of the Qin Family?
"Unless I'm mistaken, we haven’t met before." After Jian Ci finished speaking, her eyes twinkled, and she even gave him a charming smile, "But, are you interested in getting engaged with me?"
After these words were said, a thunderbolt flashed outside the window.
"Boom——"
The room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
The other two people in the room were completely petrified.
Chen Ling was shocked because she never thought her junior sister disciple would be so bold to actually look for a substitute on the spot. To make matters even stranger, she chose the uncle of the Qin family's eldest son. Was she trying to become the Fifth Aunt?
At this moment, she really wanted to ask Jian Ci, Are you really sober?
