1052: 738 transactions 1052: 738 transactions “Just wait downstairs for a bit, we’ll be right down.”
“Okay.”
Mao Dun sat in the car waiting, while Tong Dan and Fang Qing entered the compound.
“By the way, your car is still at my place.”
Tong Dan had been driving the CEO’s car during that ti.
“Do you still expect to drive it back to Sha City?
You keep it for now, lest my parents see it and start getting wild ideas.”
A car worth over a million, in a city like Sha City, was indeed enough to turn heads.
“You could just say it’s a gift from Jiang Chen, their old folks have always treated Jiang Chen like their own son, would they really have anything to say?”
“It’s not the sa thing.”
Before, Fang Qing might have had no qualms about it, given the relationship between the two families and Jiang Chen’s ability to afford it, accepting a car seed trivial, but now there was undoubtedly a subtle change in her state of mind.
So things, once they’ve happened, are destined to leave a mark, impossible to remain calm.
Fang Qing took out the keys and unlocked the door, “You keep the car for now, wait until I figure out what to do next, then I’ll get it from you.”
“Alright then.”
Once inside the apartnt, Tong Dan couldn’t help but ask, “There’s sothing I want to ask you.”
“Do you know of Jiang Chen’s and Ding He’s brother-in-law, the one we heard about at the party from that woman, Fang Jun?”
Fang Qing turned around.
“You don’t know?”
Tong Dan imdiately said, “Just now at the courthouse, before you ca out, that Fang Jun greeted Jiang Chen.
He even called him Boss Jiang.
You don’t even know what kind of business Jiang Chen is into now?”
“What business is he into?”
“He owns the Apang Palace!”
Tong Dan emphasized strongly.
“Apang Palace?”
“Haven’t you heard?
That famous luxury restaurant, no, to be precise, it’s not just a restaurant, it’s a very large operation, probably among the top nationwide.
It completely threw for a loop; how can Jiang Chen, a recent graduate, be doing so well?”
This was beyond rely being “impressive.”
It was almost mythic!
“I’ve never heard him ntion it.”
Fang Qing wasn’t lying; that guy had indeed never revealed anything to her, and of course, she hadn’t pried either.
Yet, upon hearing this news, she didn’t seem too surprised.
Though she did not know the specifics of what the boy-next-door was up to these days, his capabilities had already been hinted at through one incident after another.
“He even kept it from you?”
Tong Dan remarked reflectively, “Fang Qing, I’m starting to feel like I don’t even know Jiang Chen anymore.
He’s achieved so much, yet he hasn’t breathed a word to us.
How deep must his sches be?”
Fang Qing disagreed, “Does a belt full of gold and silver not clink as one walks?”
“I didn’t an that.”
While Fang Qing packed her suitcase, Tong Dan whispered, “Haven’t you ever felt that the murder of Ding He’s wife is too strange?”
“What are you trying to say?”
“They’d been married for so long without any issues, but right after offending you, it just…”
Tong Dan paused, unsure why she had suddenly used the word “offend.”
“Do you suspect that Jiang Chen is behind all this?”
Tong Dan imdiately shook her head, “That’s not what I an.”
Despite her quick denial, her expression betrayed her true feelings.
“So tell , how did he manage it?”
Fang Qing, fully aware of the whole picture, asked nonchalantly, “The court’s account from Ding He earlier was very clear.
If it were really related to Jiang Chen, do you think he’d cover for him?”
Tong Dan was certainly no fool, but not being foolish didn’t an she could see everything with utter clarity.
She was no immortal, lacking the divine power of Fiery Eyes.
Fang Qing’s points made sense; to anyone, this looked like a dostic tragedy caused by marital discord.
Yet sohow, she couldn’t shake the feeling that sothing was off, even if she couldn’t quite put her finger on it.
“…You’re right, but it still feels too coincidental to .”
“Is it because Jiang Chen has risen so high now that your view of him has changed?”
Tong Dan was taken aback.
Indeed.
Had it not been for Fang Jun’s calling him “Boss Jiang,” she would have never entertained these doubtful musings.
Could it be prejudice born out of a reversal in status?
“Regardless of whether he’s involved or not, it doesn’t matter anymore.
The case is closed.”
Tong Dan wasn’t one to tornt herself with questions when confounded, she chose to stop thinking about them.
“Well, that’s good.
From now on, nobody will dare to ss with us.”
Watching her good friend smile again, Fang Qing closed her suitcase.
The case was officially closed, but the undercurrents beneath, were likely not to subside.
This was why she had chosen to leave the Capital City.
If Tong Dan could sense sothing amiss, then it ant outsiders could too.
She could suppress Tong Dan’s doubts because they were based on instinct rather than concrete evidence.
For so, however, instinct was enough.
“Let’s go.”
Fang Qing pulled her suitcase along.
Staying in the Capital City had no aning for her anymore; on the contrary, it could even beco a burden.
Downstairs.
Out of the compound.
Mao Dun got out of the car and offered to carry the luggage, his attitude toward the two won had always been good, but now it was visibly warr.
“That Jiang Chen guy, he used to mooch als at Fang Qing’s place all the ti…”
Tong Dan spoke purposely, showing off a bit.
People are like that, with a bit of vanity, knowing such an impressive friend, who wouldn’t want to talk about it?
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