Chapter 101
Chapter 101 – The Blond Man (黄毛男人)
Su Chu pouted her lips, her eyes filled with resentment. However, after seeing Jing Yunzhao’s cool attitude, her youthful heart was once again captivated and she stuck herself onto Jing Yunzhao again. Their behavior was as if they were true blood sisters.
There wasn’t a lot of people at this food stall, so the food arrived quickly and they soon began their meal. Jing Yunzhao’s seating location was a little special, with just a glance upwards, she could easily observe the situation at the entrance of the small neighbourhood.
After waiting for an entire thirty minutes, Jing Yunzhao still did not see a trace of Qiao Hongye’s shadow. She even thought that she had misjudged the situation.
Just then a man who was smoking a cigarette appeared, a sudden jolt of pain flashed through her mind, as if a memory had broken through the surface of her mind. She jolted up in a flash.
(T/N: ok it makes no sense to me why suddenly remembering something will cause a headache but imma roll with it)
“What’s wrong?” Su Chu raised her head in suspicion and looked at her. Seeing Jing Yunzhao’s scary complexion made her heart thump before she hurriedly got up to support her. “Biao-jie, your face is really pale. Are you feeling unwell?”
It wasn’t just that her face was pale, her gaze looked as if it was capable of killing. The usually meek Su Chu naturally became afraid of Jing Yunzhao’s countenance.
Jing Yunzhao opened her parched mouth, “I saw someone familiar.”
“Someone familiar? A friend?” Gan Jinchen, who didn’t think much about it, asked.
Jing Yunzhao’s lip corners extended into a smile that carried a hint of cruelty and spoke to the two, “Jinchen, Chu Chu, both of you please wait for me for a while. Something came up but I’ll come back soon.”
“No! With your state right now I don’t feel reassured, I’ll go with you. Aren’t you going to meet a friend? With two of us following you, we won’t let you lose face.” Gan Jinchen responded.
(E/N: What the author means is that Jing Yunzhao would not lose face (be shamed) even if the both of them tagged along)
Jing Yunzhao was stunned, seeing their looks of concern, her heart also relaxed slightly. She thought about it and answered, “That … alright.”
She remembered, in her past life, who the little hooligan who escaped today was.
Cao Xing.
In her previous life, Cao Xing had escaped. Even though she remembered the other party’s facial features, but she was also afraid that she would not remember it clearly as Cao Xing’s face was too common and was easily forgotten. Furthermore, because she didn’t know how to explain her circumstances to the cops, even if she called them, the other hooligans were not caught. On the contrary, she had to quit school and return home, beginning her life as someone who earned money for the Qiao family.
Cao Xing had not appeared in front of her for a very long period of time. At the moment when she killed Qiao Weimin in her past life, however, Qiao Hongye and a man had broken down the door and entered.
Qiao Hongye kept repeating over and over that she was a vixen who seduced her stepfather. On the other side, she told the man to quickly save her father. At that time, the other party’s body had blocked her vision, she actually did not witness the moment when Qiao Weimin breathed his last breath.
After killing someone in self-defense, she was unusually absent-minded and had let these two people determine that this was a murder. The man that appeared then was indeed Cao Xing. At that time, his appearance was neat and tidy. Wearing a suit, his hair thick and black, she was completely unable to link him with the hooligan from years ago.
However, even though they were separated by a considerable distance just now, but she could tell that it was him from his silhouette. Once again looking at that mop of blonde hair, the two figures simultaneously joined together in that one moment.
If she were to name who she had hated the most in her previous life, other than Qiao Hongye, there was also this Cao Xing. On one hand, it was because at that time she did not understand why a stranger wanted to harm her. He clearly knew that she had killed someone in self-defense but he still wanted to defend Qiao Weimin as a witness in court.
On the other hand, it was because there were still many things she was completely unable to comprehend during her few years in prison.
During that time, because she had suffered a lot under Qiao Weimin’s sexual harassment, she had bought a dagger and kept it by her bedside table to defend herself. If something happened, she could also use it to scare Qiao Weimin, so at that moment she did not really want to kill someone. Just that because Qiao Weimin thought that she would absolutely not be able to do it (kill someone), being forced between a rock and a hard place, she stabbed directly into his heart.
However, her strength in her past and present were different. At that time, she had been suffering from malnutrition for many years, her body always felt weak. There was no possible way that she could take a life with just one attack. Especially after she had taken action, Qiao Weimin was obviously still alive. Unexpectedly, when Cao Xing tried to save the man, Qiao Weimin died.
This situation made her suspicious for very long, but her will to live then had already dissipated. When she was thinking, she always thought that she was dreaming, always muddleheaded. She still had not resolved her doubts even when she died.