Chapter 14: Necklace

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

An Zhiyan threw the car keys to the lackey. “I’m not going to go. Give him back the car keys.”

The lackey was stunned. “Um…”

An Zhiyan smiled. “Thank him for me as well. I didn’t embarrass him. Also, I’ll only take half of the reward. The other half is to thank him for borrowing the car.”

An Zhiyan left without turning back.

When Qi Shen heard his lackey’s report, he raised his eyebrows with interest. “An Zhiyan is quite special.”

He looked at Huang San behind him. “I didn’t expect to see Huo Zui driving again after so many years. He actually raced in my club.”

Huang San only smiled. “Thank you for lending him the car, Young Master Qi.”

Qi Shen didn’t mind at all. He waved his hand and told Huang San not to stand on ceremony with him. With Huo Zui’s status, a car was nothing.

Huang San said politely, “Master asked me to come over and tell you that he is thankful for your hospitality. He still has some matters to attend to, so he won’t accompany you for now. We’ll continue in the future when there’s an opportunity.”

Qi Shen nodded with a smile. With Huo Zui’s status, if he wanted to leave, he wouldn’t be able to stop him.

Huang San was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something and turned around. “Oh right, Young Master Qi, it’s better if you don’t pay too much attention to Miss An.”

The smile on Qi Shen’s face disappeared. Huang San’s words were more like a warning than a simple suggestion.

It seemed that Huo Zui valued An Zhiyan more than he had imagined.

On the way home, An Zhiyan received a text message saying that 200,000 yuan had been deposited in her bank account. Qi Shen did not withhold the other half of the bonus.

Although she did not like to owe people favors, she did not mind having the money. She was afraid that Qi Shen would not be interested in this 100,000 yuan at all.

When she returned home, the table was piled with steaming hot dishes.

An Zhiyan’s nervous mood for the whole day also strangely relaxed. Seeing Jiang Xinlan constantly putting food into her bowl, An Zhiyan felt happy for the first time.

In her previous life, she had been sent to an uninhabited island for assassination training. In order to become a perfect assassin, she had experienced unbearable pain and suffering.

She had never thought that one day, she would have a normal life. She even had such a gentle mother.

When An Zhiyan raised her head, she realized that the necklace on Jiang Xinlan’s neck was gone.

An Zhiyan looked at her mother’s slender neck with confusion in her eyes.

Jiang Xinlan noticed her gaze. She put down her chopsticks and answered hesitantly, “About the necklace… I accidentally lost it today.”

She pretended to laugh again. “By the way, I have already collected the tuition fees for your school. I will give you the tuition fees later.”

After dinner, Jiang Xinlan handed An Zhiyan a thick wad of cash, totaling 50,000 yuan.

An Zhiyan took the money and didn’t say anything else. However, she caught a glimpse of her mother quickly stuffing a note into her pocket. Judging from the shape of the note, it was probably something like a receipt.

In the evening, An Zhiyan and her mother sat on the sofa and watched TV together. An Zhiyan took the note from her mother’s pocket when she wasn’t looking.

When she returned to her room, she looked at the note carefully.

Sure enough, her mother pawned the necklace and exchanged it for 50,000 yuan.

The next day, An Zhiyan checked the pawnshops nearby. She used the money in her card to redeem the necklace.

She was about to go home, but she felt that someone was watching her from a place close by.

She turned around and saw a few people pretending to be chatting not far away.

With a slight change in expression, she continued walking home.

While her mother was out at work, she put the necklace back into her jewelry box.

The necklace that her mother had kept by her side for all these years would surely mean a lot to her.