Chapter 42: The Cunning Old Man

Jian Jinci carefully looked at Pei Yanzhou’s personal information, noticing his birthday, October 8th, the day of the Cold Dew.

Cold Dew…

Pei Jing’s birthday was also on Cold Dew…

Coincidence?

She tightened her grip on the document and continued to look down, looking at his habits, preferences, and tastes.

She read every word, afraid of missing a single clue or suspicious detail.

After reading, besides the birthday, she didn’t find anything in common.

So many years had passed, some things could change.

The doubts that had faded in her heart resurfaced. She was confused and helpless. She had no way to investigate Pei Yanzhou. With his power, if he didn’t want anyone to find out, no one could investigate him.

She put the document on the coffee table, her expression solemn, she ate breakfast absentmindedly, the food tasted bland in her mouth.

After breakfast, she washed the lunch box, took a picture and sent it to Pei Yanzhou. She turned off her phone, threw it on the sofa, went upstairs, and started working.

She didn’t look at her phone all morning, until almost noon, she stretched. She glanced at the time, feeling like she had just eaten breakfast, she wasn’t hungry.

She got up, made a cup of coffee, put it next to her computer, and continued to lower her head to draw.

“Miss Jian~”

She stopped her pen, she thought she heard someone calling her, but only heard one sound. She thought she was hearing things, and was about to lower her head to continue working.

“Miss Jian~”

This time it was clear, the voice was familiar, it was Pei Yanzhou’s assistant, Qin Huai. She walked to the balcony and looked out the door. Qin Huai was standing at the door with a lunch box in his hand.

The doorbell at the door was broken, which led to Qin Huai standing at the door and calling her name.

She went downstairs and opened the door, “Hello, is this…”

“Lunch.” Qin Huai handed her the lunch box, “We’ll be seeing each other often, Miss Jian, just call me Qin Huai.”

Jian Jinci looked at the lunch box in her hand, her lips pursed slightly, “This is too much trouble.”

“Thank you for the lunch, don’t send it next time.”

“This is Mr. Pei’s instructions.” Qin Huai, “Miss Jian, don’t make things difficult for me.”

She nodded slightly, handed the lunch box from this morning to Qin Huai, and went back to the living room.

She put the lunch on the coffee table and saw a sticky note on the lunch box in the paper bag. She peeled it off and looked at the clear and powerful handwriting.

【Caring for lazy cancer patients, eat well, same rules.】

Jian Jinci understood the “same rules” he wrote, which was to take a picture and send it to him after she finished eating. It felt like an old parent supervising their daughter to eat well.

She looked at her phone, which she hadn’t touched all morning, in the corner of the sofa. She walked over, just about to pick it up, the phone screen lit up. She had put it on silent, so there was no ringing.

Looking at the unfamiliar number on the screen, she picked up the phone and pressed the answer button, her tone polite but distant, “Hello, who is this?”

“You forgot after not seeing me for a dozen hours?”

A familiar voice came from the phone, even though it was through the phone, it was not difficult to hear the smile in his voice.

She was in a bad mood today, and her tone wasn’t very good, “If you change to another unfamiliar number, I still wouldn’t know.”

“Did you take some medicine?”

“No.” Her tone softened slightly, “Pei Yanzhou, stop having Qin Huai send me food.”

“No way.” Pei Yanzhou’s tone was firm, “You’re too thin, eat properly.”

“If you don’t gain some weight this month, I’ll fire Qin Huai.”

Jian Jinci: “…”

She complained resentfully, “Unconscionable capitalist.”

Cunning, domineering old man, unscrupulous boss.

Qin Huai, who was driving, sneezed. He thought to himself, it’s not cold today…

Pei Yanzhou, “Then eat properly.”

“Goodbye!” Jian Jinci hung up the phone in a huff, throwing it on the sofa, “Cunning old man, go away!”

She found that since she met Pei Yanzhou, she had more happy times and more angry times. She was starting to become a normal person. The numb, hopeless her, who didn’t have any hope for this dirty world, was slowly disappearing.

She looked at the lunch on the coffee table, sat on the carpet, took the lunch box and opened it. The aroma hit her face. She muttered to herself, “For the sake of delicious food, I won’t hold it against you.”

After lunch, she remembered what Pei Yanzhou said. She stood on the scale, and after just eating, the scale showed that she had gained a pound.

She touched her stomach and thought, at this rate, would she be fattened up like a pig?

The Jian family.

“Mom, you have to find a way to help me kill Jian Jinci and that bastard.”

“I got the news, Jian Jinci and Pei Yanzhou appeared at the bastard’s school together.”

“Once Jian Jinci gets close to Pei Yanzhou, the consequences will be unimaginable.”

Jian Ying frowned, her eyes filled with jealousy and resentment. She already had a plan to get close to Pei Yanzhou, but Jian Jinci got there first. After the party, she hadn’t even seen Pei Yanzhou’s face.

When Jian Senran took her to Jingche Group to discuss cooperation, she thought she would see Pei Yanzhou. She had already planned how to attract his attention, but it turned out to be Pei Yanzhou’s assistant who came to discuss cooperation.

The contract wasn’t signed, and she didn’t see him. Later, she learned from Su Jingxuan that Pei Yanzhou had put aside his work and went to the amusement park with Jian Jinci that day.

She was jealous to the point of madness, how could Pei Yanzhou be with a nobody like that?

Liang Jinyu was also worried, “Let me think about it, Yingying, don’t worry, Mom will make sure Jian Jinci and that bastard disappear from this world, all the Jian family’s assets will be yours.”

“Mom is the best to me.”

“You’re my biological daughter, who else would I be good to?”

Jian Ying’s eyes turned vicious, “I say, let’s start with that bastard.”

“That bastard is Jian Jinci’s weakness, as long as we have him.”

“Don’t even talk about making Jian Jinci disappear from Pei Yanzhou’s side, even if it means her death, she won’t hesitate.”

“After all, she’s carrying the life of that bastard’s mother on her shoulders.”

Liang Jinyu pondered for a moment, “So Yingying’s plan is…”

Jian Ying curled her lips, her face full of meanness and ruthlessness, “You tell me, if Jian Xu knew that Jian Jinci killed his mother, and that all these years she was nice to him out of guilt, wouldn’t he hate Jian Jinci to death?”

“The siblings who depend on each other, love and hate each other. Even if we can’t kill them, I’ll make them live the most painful lives.”

Liang Jinyu was very satisfied with Jian Ying’s plan, “Not bad, if they don’t turn against each other, we still have Plan B.”

One of the plans would work. Liang Jinyu also understood that she couldn’t rely on Jian Senran. He was ruthless, but not ruthless enough. He would still spare their lives because they were related by blood.

People change, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to climb into Jian Senran’s bed and reach her current position. So as long as Jian Jinci and the bastard were still alive, no one could guarantee that Jian Senran would leave them any inheritance when he got old.

She could instigate Jian Senran to kill someone who wasn’t related to him by blood, but she wasn’t sure if Jian Senran would listen to her and kill someone who shared his blood.