Chapter 61: Only Trust Jiang Sheng

On the way to the night banquet.

Ning Qiutang and Ning Xiaoyao both received a call.

It was from Jiang Sheng and Lu Feisheng.

The siblings lowered their voices and answered.

Jiang Sheng’s voice was chilling as he asked, “Where are you?”

“I just left your house.”

Ning Qiutang was about to say she was at home but quickly swallowed her words.

“I’m at the library studying. Jiang Sheng is about to take the college entrance exam, how can you be so carefree and play around like this? I need to study hard.”

The library was the furthest from the night banquet, taking more than two hours to get back, enough time to make up a lie.

“If I go to the library and don’t see you, guess what will happen?” Jiang Sheng was clearly driving, and it was unclear if he was filled with rage.

Ning Qiutang remained silent, then calmly said, “If you want to retaliate against me, you’ll have to wait in line. I’m not free now.”

Then she hung up decisively.

Forget about him, let’s deal with the matter at hand first.

Yu Moli suddenly said, “That was Jiang Sheng’s voice.”

“You know him?” Ning Qiutang was a bit surprised. Not to mention that the Jiang family had no connection with the Yu family, but the reclusive Miss Yu wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet Jiang Sheng.

Yu Moli explained, “Yes, four years ago I was arrested and taken to Qingmu Sanatorium. It was also because of Jiang Sheng that I was not bullied.”

“Speaking of which, I haven’t properly thanked him.”

Ning Qiutang didn’t doubt her words, but she found it strange. Jiang Sheng didn’t seem like a good person, nor would he be a do-gooder. If he didn’t step on her when he passed by, it was already a great favor.

“Why did he help you?” Asking questions when there were problems was what good students would do.

Yu Moli thought for a moment before saying, “I think… it’s because he felt like he finally had a living person.”

“What do you mean?”

Ning Qiutang thought about what Jiang Sheng had confessed to her. If Yu Moli was considered a living person, then what was her status?

Yu Moli grabbed her clothes, pulling her close and whispering in her ear, “I’ve always had a secret, one I can’t tell.”

“At first, I wasn’t blind, but I saw something I shouldn’t have, and I became blind.”

“Miss Ning, no matter how absurd and bizarre this world is, you have to believe that someone loves you, and loves you very, very much. I’ve been waiting for you, truly.”

“The Buddhist beads on Jiang Sheng’s wrist…”

“Those beads must be worn at all times, don’t take them off. There are seven beads in total, if they all break… we’ll all die.”

Ning Qiutang’s eyes widened in shock as she looked at her. These words… were too strange.

Yu Moli blinked, tightly holding her hand, her expression full of determination and no regrets, “I’ll probably become mute soon too. You can doubt anyone this time, but don’t doubt Jiang Sheng.”

“Watch out!” A car accident suddenly occurred.

Before Ning Qiutang could react, she instinctively protected Yu Moli.

The car braked sharply, and they slammed into the seats.

Ning Qiutang felt dizzy.

After a minute of dizziness, she leaned against the seat, feeling confused.

Yu Moli hurriedly said, “I’m fine, are you okay?”

Ning Xiaoyao climbed up, “I’m fine.”

Ning Qiutang felt something being quickly erased from her mind. She panicked and quickly took out a pen from her bag, trying to write on her arm, but the pen was perfectly fine yet couldn’t write.

She was forgetting more and more.

With a heavy heart, she stabbed the pen tip into her skin, enduring the pain and writing down four words.

[Believe Jiang Sheng]

The next second, everything she had just heard disappeared from her mind. She felt pain in her arm, looked at her bloody hand and the few words, her vision blurred with tears.

“Why…trust Jiang Sheng?”

“Why?”

Yu Moli asked nervously, “Miss Ning, what’s wrong? Who is Jiang Sheng?”

Ning Qiutang felt something was wrong. No, no, she grabbed Yu Moli’s hand, tears streaming down her face, “You don’t know him?”

“No, I don’t. Why would I know him?”

Yu Moli helped her up, touching the blood on her hand, “This…you’re injured, let’s go to the hospital!”

Ning Qiutang’s mind was like mush. Something was wrong. Her brain felt empty. What had she forgotten!

“No need to go to the night banquet first.”

She hadn’t forgotten her lie to Jiang Sheng, so every second counted.

Yu Moli was worried about her condition, and the fact that she couldn’t see made her even more afraid. “Are you really okay? There’s so much blood on your hand.”

“It’s fine. I’ll just take care of it.” Ning Qiutang wouldn’t normally trust Jiang Sheng. After all, what happened in her past life was still fresh in her mind. But now, the words on her arm told her she had to believe him.

It was an intuition that rose from her heart, a primal instinct.

Uncle Wang immediately said, “Sorry, Miss, someone deliberately bumped into you.”

“Don’t get entangled with them. Let’s go to the night banquet.”

Ning Qiutang quickly dealt with the marks on her arm and pulled her sleeve down to cover them.

She didn’t seem worried about the scars remaining and being difficult to remove.

She wanted them to be permanent.

Finally, they arrived at the night banquet.

Ning Qiutang supported Yu Moli inside.

Lu Feisheng was playing cards with Lin Zhiyuan. A younger brother came over and said that Ning Xiaoyao had arrived with people.

Lin Zhiyuan sneered, “Jiang Sheng has been getting close to the Ning family recently. If he brings Jiang Taiziye here, are you going to be carried out tonight?”

“I’m afraid he won’t come.” Lu Feisheng had dyed yellow hair, but he didn’t look like a typical gangster. Instead, he was handsome and charming, a very unconventional kind of young master.

Hearing the footsteps, he raised his head arrogantly, but when he saw the girl beside Ning Qiutang, his eyes couldn’t look away.

“Xiao Moli.”

“Brother Lu, I came to find you.” Yu Moli smiled innocently at the sound of his voice. Even though her eyes were empty, they seemed to sparkle like stars.

Lu Feisheng quickly rushed over and snatched Xiao Moli away from them, “How did you come out with them? It’s so dangerous.”

“Ning Qiutang, you’re crazy! Don’t you know Xiao Moli is not well?”

He was furious. This woman was cunning. She brought Xiao Moli here to manipulate him.

No wonder Jiang Sheng didn’t like her.

Ning Xiaoyao immediately shouted, “Hurry up and return my family heirloom.”

Ning Qiutang stopped her brother from speaking. She calmly looked at the other party, “You’re bullying the weak?”

“Xiaoyao is a fool. You throw out a hook, and even without bait, he’ll bite. You snatch whatever you want, even people’s family heirlooms. Isn’t that right?”

“I know there’s no right or wrong for you. It all depends on whether you’re happy or not. Are you happy to see Xiao Moli today? Return the things to us.”

“You wouldn’t want Xiao Moli to see your shameless and rogue behavior, would you?”

Yu Moli grabbed Lu Feisheng’s clothes and said, “Brother Lu, return their things. Otherwise, I’ll be angry.”

Lu Feisheng was both angry and helpless. Looking at Xiao Moli, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time, he was flustered. “But I’ll lose. Forget it. As long as I can see you, it doesn’t matter if I lose.”