Chapter 421: Chapter 421: Slapping the Face Hard
 

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Setting another trap for me to fall into?

I pulled out a chair, sat down gracefully, poured myself a glass of orange juice, and took a gentle sip.

“I’m not afraid. I’ve acted honorably, sat upright—I’ve done nothing dirty, I’ve been true to my own conscience.”

“Really?”

Jiang Jiaying sneered.

“I recall you being blind, not brain-damaged, so you shouldn’t have amnesia, right?”

“You’re right, I was blind for a while, but as to how I became blind—I believe you know better than anyone, don’t you?”

As I asked this, Jiang Jiaying’s face immediately took on an unnatural tint, her fingers tapping lightly on the table to alleviate her internal tension.

One hand fidgeted with the button on her collar as she squinted at me,

“What nonsense are you spouting? What does your eye injury have to do with me?”

Her voice was a bit hoarse, deliberately lowered, then she nervously stole a glance at the media reporters nearby, as if afraid of being caught on camera.

She unconsciously leaned a few inches closer to me.

This lack of confidence and somewhat panicky response seemed to confirm she was indeed the instigator behind the scenes.

“Last time, when Uncle Lin and I were launching the new logistics park, you brought a bunch of lunatics to throw trash at me, causing serious injury to my eye… and you actually say it wasn’t you? Isn’t that ridiculous?”

Jiang Jiaying took a deep breath, tapping the table again,

“Do you have any evidence?”

“I’m gathering it!”

I said only four words, leaving the rest for her to ponder deeply.

Jiang Jiaying’s complexion wasn’t looking good, but her lips moved without producing another word.

She stared at me intently for a few seconds, then poured herself a glass of red wine and gulped it down.

“Without evidence, it’s just slander… However, fine, since you’ve said as much, you suspect me of harming your eyes, so you hired someone to kidnap me to vent your spite, right?”

“Kidnap?”

I played along with her proactively.

This seemed to hit right on Jiang Jiaying’s excitement button.

Her voice raised,

“Yes, kidnap! You kidnapped me to force my fiancé to perform surgery on you, isn’t that despicable?”

“Really?”

“Or not? You woman, you think you can deceive everyone and hide it? I’m telling you, the eyes of the netizens are sharp, all your misdeeds can be traced.”

“Have you been kidnapped?”

I drank my orange juice calmly, smiling at her.

Jiang Jiaying seemed not to have expected my question, pausing for a moment before loudly saying,

“What do you mean by that? I returned covered in scars, the whole city knows I was kidnapped. Haven’t you been online to see? All those news reports, can they be false?”

Jiang Jiaying spoke very loudly, thinking that the louder her voice, the more it would overpower me.

But I knew she was just bluffing.

And at that moment, a figure in a suit with a leather collar strode over and sat down close to Jiang Jiaying.

He leaned back in his chair, smoking a cigarette, his playful gaze on me.

Though he remained silent, the aura he exuded was a bullying pressure directed at me.

Luckily, my mental fortitude is quite strong, too.

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“The news online, wasn’t it all provided by you? I’m quite curious, if you were really kidnapped, why didn’t you go to the police?”

Jiang Jiaying was stunned for a long time.

After a long while, she looked toward Ding Yinuo as if seeking support.

After a long while, seeing that Ding Yinuo didn’t speak, she finally said to me,

“I’ve been released, what’s the point of reporting to the police? Besides, it’s my business, none of your concern. Why should I tell you.”

“Oh, you didn’t report to the police. Is there a possibility that you weren’t kidnapped at all, that you are fabricating rumors, that all you wanted was to smear my name by any means necessary?”

No sooner had I spoken these words than they caused a sensation around us, with all the reporters crowding around.

“Miss Song, was this kidnapping case fabricated?”

“Ah, there is virtue in being honest! Miss Jiang, you’d better tell the truth. Otherwise, your reputation for lying will spread, which could affect the Ding Family’s credibility. After all, the Ding Family is in business, winning with integrity. With this move of yours, you’ve destroyed someone else’s foundation!”

Jiang Jiaying was hit on a sore spot, and she sat up agitatedly, “What nonsense are you talking about? I didn’t spread rumors, I was kidnapped.”

“Song Xiaoyun, don’t think you can turn the tables. The disgraceful things you’ve done are well known by now! You are the kind of woman who spreads rumors and lies, full of nonsense.”

Jiang Jiaying was already somewhat irrational.

“Oh, let’s have a look at the truth then! Actually, I didn’t want to expose your past, but you’ve really gone too far.”

In the banquet hall, there was a giant electronic screen, which had been playing advertisements.

At this moment, the screen suddenly changed.

It showed a relatively comfortable living room, with a sofa and a carpet.

The woman on camera had her hands tied, sitting helplessly on the sofa, occasionally walking around, sometimes looking outside.

It appeared that her freedom was restricted.

However, since she was supposedly restricted, she could still sleep on the sofa, watch TV, and there were various snacks and books on the table.

After being confined all day, it becomes dark and a man enters, undoing the ropes on her wrists.

Although there was no sound in the surveillance footage.

But it was visible that the man had opened the door wide, signaling that she could leave.

Yet she didn’t want to go and just lay down on the sofa, refusing to get up.

After remaining rigid for over an hour, the man tossed a phone to her and then left.

Although the woman was initially restrained, the door was open later, and she could have left freely, but she didn’t.

Instead, she lay on the sofa, eating sunflower seeds, watching TV…

Afterward, the man came several times to bring her food.

She just spent her days lounging on the sofa, living a life where she was waited on hand and foot.

Several days later, she suddenly got up, pushed over the vase on the table, then smeared herself with dirt, and even cut her clothes and the skin on her neck with pieces of the broken vase to create marks of injury.

After doing all of this, she then left without any panic.

Because the woman’s face was clearly captured in the surveillance, it was indeed Jiang Jiaying herself.

She probably never dreamed that the kidnapper would record all of this and send it to me.

“Hey, this isn’t a kidnapping, it’s more like a vacation, right? So fake, made us run here for nothing, we really thought we had encountered bad guys from Northern Myanmar, but it turns out this was all self-directed?”

“Exactly, this was a waste of public resources! What a disaster!”

The heated discussions among the people ruthlessly pierced through Jiang Jiaying’s lies, sparing no feelings.

Jiang Jiaying’s smile froze on her face…

However, next, she didn’t collapse and leave. Instead, in front of everyone, she announced a piece of news that shocked me.