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If you want to find good quality of wood. You can’t find it in shopping malls and office buildings and the museum has already been flooded.

But there is another place where you might be able to try your luck. 

Fengcheng is globally renowned as the largest furniture manufacturing base. The International Furniture Expo Center built from Lezhen has even become a 4A-level landmark building. Every year, the global furniture expo is held as scheduled. 

This year marks it’s 30th anniversary, and the exhibition is grander than ever. Advertisements have been flooding through various channels since half a year ago. 

Jiang Ning carefully recalled that the original scheduled date for the exhibition should have been three days before the typhoon. 

The exhibition will last for half a month, so it hasn’t ended yet. 

The Global Top Furniture Collection Expo Center, what a magnificent sight it will be? 

Jiang Ning doesn’t care much. After all, foreign furniture rarely uses wood, but it might be different for domestic antique furniture. 

She has seen the advertisements, where a large furniture company promoted that they used thousand year old rosewood to create the Zhang Qiangong Ba Step Bed. As well as a whole set of furniture in the house with starting price of nine digits. 

In recent years, Chinese people have become more culturally literate, and the trend of antique furniture has risen accordingly. 

In order to attract attention, the Expo Center used it’s connections to borrow a piece of ebony as the town’s exhibition treasure. 

It’s not just ebony; there are also many valuable woods, such as huanghuali, laoshan tan, and suanzhi, which have also been brought to the Expo Center to take the opportunity to promote furniture culture to the world. 

Jiang Ning had to make a trip, and she had to act immediately. 

The Expo Center is built in Lezhen Town, about 40 kilometers away from the city. The water flow along the way is complicated, but it is still worth visiting. 

Zheng Weili and the other two went out to collect building materials. Jiang Ning knocked on the door of 1801, “I’m going out for a walk.” 

1801 had no objection, “Be careful.” 

Carrying a bag and the motorboat on her back, she went downstairs. Coincidentally, she bumped into Su Mengyao on the 17th floor. She came up with Yu Qingqing from 1202.” 

Su Mengyao’s eyes turned red at the corners, tears welling up as she spoke, “Anning, An Jian is injured, and only you can save him. Please, please save him.” 

Jiang Ning ignored her completely, her face was expressionless as she descended the stairs. 

To her surprise, Su Mengyao grabbed onto her and wouldn’t let go. “Anning, we are alumni, you can’t just ignore someone in need.” 

Her voice was loud enough to attract the attention of neighbors on the 17th floor. 

Jiang Ning drew her knife and swung it towards her. 

Su Mengyao screamed and dodged but half of her waist length black hair was being chopped off and it falls to the ground. 

Before she could react, Jiang Ning kicked her to the ground. 

Shocked and bewildered, with tears still in her eyes. She stared at Jiang Ning as if she were an executioner. She even forgets how to cry. 

Jiang Ning stepped on her chest and didn’t let go, “If you’re tired of living and keep throwing yourself into my path, I don’t mind sending you to the King of Hell.” 

Stepping down without letting go, Jiang Ning stamped mercilessly, her gaze extremely indifferent. 

Su Mengyao felt like her ribs were about to be broken, her face turning pale from suffocation. 

Yu Qingqing stepped back two steps, “Jiang Ning, Mengyao just wanted you to help An Jian. If you don’t want to help, that’s fine, but why hurt her?” 

“She’s out of her mind. Are you out of your mind too?” 

Jiang Ning scanned her with cold eyes. “The 18th floor isn’t a hospital, and I’m not a doctor. Why didn’t you take the injured to the hospital with your motorboat? Instead, you come to me, someone who has only studied traditional Chinese medicine for a year, and barely even knows the basics, are you stupid?” 

Yu Qingqing was stunned, explaining, “But our motorboat ran out of gas, and it’s raining so heavily.” 

“In that case, you can just watch him die, why shift the blame to me?” 

Jiang Ning sneered, “You are really friends. You don’t want to take risks, and you don’t want to be to feel guilty, so you want to pass the responsibility on to me?” 

Her words left Yu Qingqing somewhat dazed. 

Jiang Ning had indeed only studied medicine for a year and mostly theoretical knowledge at that. But Su Mengyao’s confident tone, and the fact that they all seemed to share the same opinion, made her subconsciously think so too. 

Now, thinking about it, they were indeed putting Jiang Ning in a difficult position. 

“Then, can you lend us the motorboat so we can take An Jian to the hospital?” 

“If you want to play the hero, do it yourself.” Jiang Ning walked up to her, mocking, “You’ve been tricked before, and now you want to drag me down too?” 

Yu Qingqing’s face turned pale, her whole body felt like it was struck by lightning, and her eyes were extremely complicated. 

Ignoring her reactions, Jiang Ning proceeded downstairs. 

When they reached the 6th floor, Yu Qingqing suddenly caught up and said, “Stop.” 

Jiang Ning continued down the stairs. 

Yu Qingqing was indignant, “If you knew they had ill intentions, why didn’t you warn me?” 

“What relation do you have to me?” Jiang Ning retorted, “Why should I warn you?” 

“If you’re really so kindhearted, why are there so many hungry people in the group, but you only want to feed Yang Weicong? He brought a group of people to your house, you could have refused, so why didn’t you?” 

“Meal after meal, didn’t you notice, or did you want to win his favor? Now that you realize, why do you still hang out with them?” 

Just by looking at Yu Qingqing, she could tell how foolish she had been in her past life. 

Why didn’t she tell her? Because it wouldn’t have made a difference. Everyone had their own calculations. 

In her past life, she had noticed too and because he wants to gain his favor, she constrained her pride. 

Catering to him, with a few sweet words from Yang Weicong, she would be over the moon and she’s willing to give him everything. 

At that time, if a stranger suddenly appeared and said he had ulterior motives or wanted to ration food because it was the apocalypse, even if Yang Weicong hadn’t spoken yet, she would have jumped out to accuse that person of being crazy. 
 

Who doesn’t think like this when in love? 

So, why would Jiang Ning say anything? 

Besides, even if Yu Qingqing had seen through their true colors, she would still pretend to be ignorant and continue to associate with them. So, what good would it do? 

“I wouldn’t have if you had warned me earlier. I wouldn’t have brought out the food,” Yu Qingqing said, unwilling to face her own mistakes, her voice trembling with tears. “Why are you so heartless? Why didn’t you tell me earlier that Yang Weicong is just a beast?” 

As tears streamed down her face, she couldn’t control herself. 

Jiang Ning reminded her, “You better cry louder, he might be listening upstairs.” 

Yu Qingqing jumped in fright, instinctively covering her mouth. 

Look at that, still pretending to be ignorant. 

You can’t wake someone who is pretending to sleep. Jiang Ning had no responsibility or obligation. 

She boarded the motorboat and set off towards the expo center in the pouring rain. 

Considering the unknown dangers, Jiang Ning put on a life jacket and kept the diving equipment ready in the space. 

However, she was brave and drove the motorboat quite well, avoiding several whirlpools in a row. 

Calm and composed, after driving for over an hour for more than 40 kilometers, she could see the massive and artistically styled exhibition center standing in the flood from a distance. 

The water network in Fengcheng was extensive, with several rivers converging around the expo center, and the provincial highway, ring road, and overpasses nearby, making transportation convenient. 

In such places, the water currents were even more complicated. 

Jiang Ning remained vigilant. Seeing several whirlpools ahead, she immediately accelerated and rushed past them…