Chapter 2: After Losing Interest in Life, He Suddenly Fell in Love
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Zhan Qipei was both furious and restless, feeling as if he was burning!
He gnashed his teeth fiercely, summoning all his strength to resist with all his might.
“I told you not to move,” Qiao Jing struck the man on the neck with a knife hand, and the man instantly
weakened.
Since Zhan Qipei was in good physical condition, he did not immediately lose consciousness and faint after being
struck by Qiao Jing. Instead, he watched with extremely weakened eyes at the figure bustling over him.
So presumptuous, so bold, does this woman really have no idea how to spell the word ‘shame’?
Good, very good, just wait—he would make you pay a price... a lifetime's price...
His consciousness gradually faded, and he unknowingly slipped into a deep sleep.
The sun set behind the mountains, turning the remaining clouds a brilliant array of colors.
Qiao Jing sat on a small stool at the door peeling corn kernels. She planned to make corn porridge with freshly
picked corn.
Before she had even finished peeling one ear of corn, she saw a red Ferrari bumpily making its way toward her,
stopping right in front of her house.
Had the Zhan family cfor her?
Qiao Jing stood up and looked toward the stopped car. She had promised her dying grandfather that she would
marry into the Zhan family and becthe wife of the Zhan family head.
With a “clunk—" the car door opened, and two elegantly dressed women got out, one a bit older, around fifty
years old, the other just over twenty. Both bore sresemblance to each other, clearly mother and daughter.
“Are you Qiao Jing?” Su Manhan looked at Qiao Jing with disdain.
“Hm,” Qiao Jing replied indifferently.
“Just hm? Is that how you talk to your future mother-in-law?” Zhan Nanging stepped forward and shouted at Qiao
Jing.
“It doesn’t matter; | promised Grandpa, just 100 days. After 100 days, whether to divorce or not will be entirely
my choice,” Qiao Jing said.
If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have agreed to marry into the Zhan family for no reason.
Zhan Nanging rolled her eyes speechlessly. “You speak so nicely, but if it wasn’t for your grandfather's luck in
saving my grandfather's life on the battlefield, would a country girl like you be fit to marry into our Zhan family
or be fit to marry my brother?”
“Why all the needless chatter? You're here to pickup today, aren't you? Are we going or not? If not, I'm not
coming, and it will be your Zhan family who breaches the marriage, not my concern,” Qiao Jing challenged, her
eyebrows defiantly raised, her tone filled with impatience.
“You, you—" Zhan Nanging was so angry she could hardly speak.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtSu Manhan was also infuriated, but reminded by the countless admonitions from the old master before coming,
who insisted that no matter what, they had to bring Qiao Jing back to marry her son or he would jump off the
roof to prove his point.
She knew her father-in-law well; if she didn’t bring Qiao Jing back today, the old master would definitely climb to
the roof, and even if he didn’t jump, he would scare them half to death.
Thinking this, Su Manhan had no choice but to swallow her anger.
“Pack your things and hurry up and cwith me.”
“Hold on, Ill make a phone call,” Qiao Jing said as she dialed.
“Younger Brother, I'll be away for a while. Have someone from the lab cover and look after my corn, monitor
the experimental results. If this new variety of corn succeeds in testing, it will elevate our country’s agricultural
development to a new level.”
“Pfft—" Zhan Nanging burst into laughter, looking at Su Manhan, “Mom, listen to her. It’s hilarious. A country
bumpkin talking like she’s someone so grand, who does she think she is? The legendary agricultural expert,
Professor Qiao?”
“Ha! Professor Qiao, while she shares the surnQiao, she’s worlds apart from him. Speaking of which, brother
got news yesterday that Professor Qiao might very well be in this village. He chere early in the morning, but
why doesn’t he answer his phone when we call?” Su Manhan said worriedly.
Zhan Nanging looked around, “Look at this place, it's all small hills around here, it must be a bad signal.”
Hearing what Zhan Nanging said, Su Manhan guessed it must be so.
Just as Su Manhan was thinking this, Qiao Jing emerged, dragging her suitcase.
The butler stepped forward, intending to help Qiao Jing load her suitcase into the car's trunk.
“No need, it’s very heavy, you can't lift it,” Qiao Jing said.
The butler’s face darkened. What did she mean by that? Was she looking down on him? If she, a frail girl, could
carry it, why couldn't he?
“Miss Qiao, as the butler, this is my duty,” he said.
Seeing the butler insist, Qiao Jing set down the suitcase, opened the car door, and got inside.
The butler sneered in his mind, “Pfft! What a joke; let's see if he'll still give you a kind face in 100 days.”
As he thought this, the butler reached out to lift the suitcase. The next second, he and the suitcase fell into the
dirt, getting a mouthful of mud.
Damn!
Was this suitcase filled with iron lumps? It’s so heavy!
After driving for a while, Qiao Jing suddenly realized something and took out her mobile phone to send a
message to Brother Four.
“Brother Four, someone at my place got hurt. Bring a few people and get him to the hospital, and don’t let him
know it waswho saved him.”
Qiao Jing didn’t do this anonymously out of altruism but because she vividly remembered the look in the man’s
eyes when she was treating his wound—as if he wanted to devour her.
Better to avoid trouble when possible; she didn’t want any complications.
Brother Four: “OK.”
The car took over an hour to finally arrive at the Zhan family’s villa.
Purple Garden, the largest private luxury villa in Imperial City.
“This is my place, what do you think? Shocked, aren't you?” Zhan Nanging boasted to Qiao Jing.
“Oh, it’s okay,” Qiao Jing responded indifferently. It was still quite smaller compared to spalace she had
lived in before.
“Whatever! Keep pretending,” Zhan Nanging thought. To her, Qiao Jing was just a country girl who had lived in a
crumbling tiled house; her heart must be immensely shocked now.
After getting out of the car, Qiao Jing dragged her suitcase towards the villa.
“Stop, you're going in wearing that?” Zhan Nanging called out to Qiao Jing.
Qiao Jing looked down at her clothes, “What's wrong with what I'm wearing?”
“It's dirty and ugly.” After saying this, Zhan Nanging threw a handbag in front of Qiao Jing, “Change your clothes
before you cin.”
Qiao Jing couldn't be bothered with her. She dragged her suitcase and boldly walked straight into the villa.
“Hey! Are you deaf or what—you—"
“It's fine, let her wear whatever she wants. If she really leaves, it’s hard to explain it to grandpa,” Su Manhan
pulled Zhan Nanging back and said.
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“Okay, Mom.”
Not long after Qiao Jing entered the room, there was a knock at the door.
“Cin.”
Su Manhan cin and handed over the household rules, “Here are the Zhan family rules. You must memorize
them all today. If you don’t finish, you're not going to sleep.”
Qiao Jing took them roughly, scanned them quickly—over five hundred rules.
“Ridiculous.” After saying that, Qiao Jing crumpled the paper into a ball and casually threw it, precisely into the
trash can.
This scene felt like a slap in the face to both Zhan Nanging and Su Manhan.
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“What, what are you going to do? You want to hit me?”
Zhan Nanging thought since she was the young mistress of the Zhan Family, Qiao Jing, no matter how bold,
wouldn't dare to lay a hand on her.
As Zhan Nanging was thinking this, Qiao Jing raised her hand decisively and slapped her.
With a “smack” sound!