Chapter 411: Chapter 411: Getting the Certificate (5) Chapter 411: Chapter 411: Getting the Certificate (5) “What’s going on?” Gu Annan’s gaze was icy as he pursed his lips tightly, glaring fiercely outside the door.

Aside from Zhao Chen, who had rushed over, there were a few security guards who had just discovered the incident.

Under the pressure, one of them recounted the situation.

At last, looking at the BOSS’s face that was so grim it could drip with water, he added, “Miss Ji was making a huge ruckus, and we were afraid of disturbing Miss Lu, so we moved to another room.”

“Take me there.” Gu Annan left a terse command and strode out with a dark face.

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Ji Jiayi stood in the corner, watching everyone warily, as if those security guards ogling her would pounce and tear her apart at any moment.

Extreme panic filled her eyes, and she would tremble if any of them so much as glanced at her a second too long.

The door was violently kicked open, and Ji Jiayi shuddered dramatically, her body pressing tightly against the wall.

“Gu Annan…” Her eyes wide open, a mix of terror and a twisted love-hate left her on the verge of tears, but she was too scared to make a sound even as tears streamed down.

The man before her looked at her with a cold, heartless gaze, devoid of even a hint of the usual pleasantries.

Ji Jiayi felt as if she didn’t know him at all.

Ever since she had risked drugging him, she had been driven out of the Ji Family and sent to her mother’s hometown, never witnessing Gu Annan’s towering rage.

Until now, as she met his eyes, the deceptive calm concealed roiling waves, more terrifying than anyone else.

She felt a primal fear; he was more terrifying than those who tormented her, and no matter how long they had known each other, he wouldn’t spare a glance for her life or her plight.

Even that wasn’t enough.

She could tell that Gu Annan seemed to think the lesson she had received wasn’t sufficient.

“I told the Ji Family I don’t want to see you in Manchester,” Gu Annan stated without any superfluous words, his voice as cold as chilled iron.

Ji Jiayi’s tears flowed ever more, unceasing.

His calm seemed to tighten the very air, the oppressive feeling making it hard to breathe.

“Why are you doing this…” Ji Jiayi sobbed, filled with resentment but even more with fear and disbelief, “I know I was wrong, but… but I didn’t succeed, there were no irreversible consequences. Brother Annan, we’ve known each other for so long, even if you never want to deal with me again, why treat me like this?”

She burst into loud sobs and flung off the sleeves wrapped tight around herself.

On her previously flawless skin, wounds of all sizes.

“They raped me, burned me with cigarette butts, tortured me relentlessly… Why are you so heartless? You wouldn’t even let me die, are you really set on destroying me? Now you won’t even let go of my brother…”

She bit her lip; if her brother hadn’t found out later, those people would have killed her.

Who knew that her brother would actually die, and she had to struggle to escape.

Her tearful outcry did not evoke any sympathy from Gu Annan; he looked down coldly, his lips parting slightly, “Take her back to wherever she came from.”

“No–”
Amidst Ji Jiayi’s heart-wrenching screams, Gu Annan had already left the room.

Walking out of the room and down the corridor, he asked, “What happened?”

Zhao Chen had begun investigating as soon as he learned of Ji Jiayi’s appearance, and he had just received the details, “Ji Jiayi and her mother have a poor relationship with those relatives, and Boss, you’re also aware of how arrogant Miss Ji used to be, so… ahem, in short, her cousin took this opportunity to involve some people from the streets… and this happened.”