Chapter 119: Let Me Take a Picture for You
Liang Jinshang glanced down at the time. She had arranged to meet Nan Yi after work today, and the time was almost upon her.
Determined not to beat around the bush, she said all at once, “Shang Yucheng, I also agree that Liang Xizhou should be sent abroad for treatment. I may not be able to convince him, but I will ask Nan Yi to step in and persuade him.”
“And before he leaves the country?”
“I know what kind of assurance you want to hear.”
Sure enough, it was just a promise not to meet Liang Xizhou.
Liang Jinshang met his gaze with a faint, knowing smile. “Exactly, I need you to give me the same promise.”
Before Shang Yucheng could speak, his phone rang.
Sometimes fate played these strange tricks—Liang Jinshang hadn’t mentioned Gong Xueyuan’s name, but her name appeared on Shang Yucheng’s phone screen.
He didn’t answer until the call ended, and even then did not reach for the phone.
Liang Jinshang felt somewhat satisfied with his attitude.
Exercising her privilege as his girlfriend, she picked up his phone and started entering the password.
She used his old password, and to her surprise, it still unlocked!
Her attention shifted elsewhere. “Shang Yucheng, you actually never changed your password?”
After the last official Weibo incident, he hadn’t learned his lesson.
“Do you have anything else to post? If you want to post something personal,” he said with a cool, sarcastic tone, “I’ll take a picture for you tonight.”
Liang Jinshang nudged him sharply with her elbow.
She was indeed capable of blocking and deleting Gong Xueyuan.
Yet Shang Yucheng let her fiddle with his phone without a word.
Just as she was about to block Gong Xueyuan on WeChat, a message popped up: “Yucheng, Nian Nian is insisting on seeing you. We’re downstairs at your company now.”
His head resting on Liang Jinshang’s shoulder, Shang Yucheng naturally saw this message too.
“Are you going downstairs?” Liang Jinshang paused her typing and asked.
His tone was neutral, without any hidden meaning. “Yes.”
Liang Jinshang scoffed softly and began typing again: “I won’t see you. You should leave.”
Before she could send it, Gong Xueyuan’s next message appeared: “We’re waiting at the Starbucks downstairs at your company. Nian Nian wants some cake.”
A bad feeling stirred in Liang Jinshang’s heart. She immediately asked, “Shang Yucheng, how many Starbucks are downstairs at your company?”
“One.”
Without hesitation, she jumped off his lap and, without explaining to Shang Yucheng, rushed outside.
She had arranged to meet Nan Yi at six in the evening; it was now five fifty-five.
There was a very real possibility that Nan Yi would bump right into Gong Xueyuan!
If she had known Gong Xueyuan would haunt Shang Yucheng like this, she would never have let Nan Yi work here.
Liang Jinshang ran down to the Starbucks downstairs.
After searching around, she found no one—neither Gong Xueyuan nor Nan Yi.
She couldn’t help but release a temporary sigh of relief and took out her phone to call Nan Yi.
She dialed twice; no one answered.
At that moment, a young couple passed by.
The girl clicked her tongue in admiration. “She looks so thin and beautiful, but when she fights, she’s like a madwoman!”
The boy laughed. “My wife’s better. Although she shouts at me all the time, she’d never actually hit me.”
The girl teased, “Even if I fought you, I’d never push you into the street. Didn’t you see the driver just now? He was so scared after hitting someone his face went white. That’s just cruel.”
Liang Jinshang only half heard their words before she dashed away.
Running toward the roadside, she silently prayed: Please, don’t let it be Nan Yi! Please, not Nan Yi!
But fate was cruel.
Before she reached the street, she saw a crowd gathered, murmuring anxiously.
Pushing through, her eyes first landed on Shang Yucheng, half-kneeling on the ground.
He had gotten there first.
Cradling the injured person in his arms, his profile was cold and severe, his intimidating aura muffling the surrounding whispers.
Liang Jinshang exhaled in relief—whoever he held must not have been Nan Yi, who had been hit by a car.
But when she saw clearly that the person was Gong Nian, her heart plummeted.
How she wished it had been Gong Xueyuan struck by the car—she deserved to die!
But Gong Nian… she was innocent.
More pressing was the reality that Shang Yucheng clearly cared deeply for her.
“Where’s Nan Yi? Where’s Nan Yi?!” Liang Jinshang frantically searched, her priority now to confirm Nan Yi’s safety.
She soon spotted Nan Yi, struggling desperately in the hands of Shang Yucheng’s bodyguards.
Her slender arms were roughly lifted, and Liang Jinshang feared they might break at any moment.
She blurted out, “Let her go!”
Just then, Shang Yucheng’s driver arrived; silently, he lifted Gong Nian into the car.
Gong Xueyuan, tears streaming, was about to follow.
“Shang Yucheng!” Liang Jinshang, unsure how he would handle Nan Yi, cried in panic, “Let them go, let Nan Yi go first!”
Nan Yi’s expression was eerily the same as on her birthday—the same wild, unhinged look.
Nan Yi was having another episode!
And the reason she was relapsing was none other than seeing Gong Xueyuan, that cruel woman with a beastly heart!
As Liang Jinshang wished, Shang Yucheng stopped.
But his gaze toward Nan Yi was cold. “Take her to the police station.”
Liang Jinshang was desperate. “No!”
Before Shang Yucheng could respond, Gong Xueyuan’s sharp voice cut in: “Lock her up at the police station first! The Gong family will make her pay the highest price! Blood for blood!”
Liang Jinshang’s nails dug painfully into her palm.
See? When the knife falls on her, she feels the pain!
Without hesitation, she raised her hand and slapped Gong Xueyuan. “This is all your doing! Why didn’t you get hit by the car instead?”
Gong Xueyuan could have dodged, but she didn’t—she took the slap full on the face.
The ignorant onlookers immediately started gossiping loudly.
Most sympathized with the Gong sisters.
“Damn it! Their accomplice even hit someone!”
“There’s no law anymore. I think she should be arrested too!”
“What kind of hatred is this? The child’s barely old enough to talk. Such a tragedy!”
Amid the sympathy, Gong Xueyuan weakly covered her face. “Yucheng, let’s go. I think Nian Nian can’t hold on much longer!”
Gong Nian collapsed softly into Shang Yucheng’s arms, blood from her head soaking his suit.
From start to finish, Shang Yucheng didn’t even glance back at Liang Jinshang.
He bent down and was about to get into the car.
“Shang Yucheng…” Liang Jinshang clutched his coat in despair, “You know… you know it’s not Nan Yi’s fault…”
“Let go.” Shang Yucheng was eager to get to the hospital. No matter what Liang Jinshang said, his gaze never left Gong Nian in his arms.
Liang Jinshang knew that if she let go now, Nan Yi would be taken away.
The Gong family was ruthless; even a starving camel is bigger than a horse. Nan Yi would be destroyed there!
She refused to let go.
At last, Shang Yucheng lost his last shred of patience.
Unable to free a hand to pull her away, his voice was cold and sharp as a dagger, more cutting than any blade: “If you don’t let go, and something happens to Nian Nian, you will regret it!”