"Jianzhi, if she wants to eat, can't she eat it another day? Why does she have to eat it today? Isn't this just disgusting me on purpose?"

"Okay." Nie Zheng was getting a headache from the noise. "I don't want to eat it anymore. Aunt Wang, just throw the bullfrog away."

"Master..."

Mother Wang still refused to give up. She was extremely pessimistic about Qiao Xing and couldn't bear to see Nie Zheng suffer any injustice.

"Throw it away."

Chong Jianzhi said this lightly, as if he felt that Wang Ma was making a big deal out of nothing. He didn't even look at Nie Zheng. Naturally, he didn't see the hurt that flashed across Nie Zheng's eyes.

Seeing Chong Jianzhi was on his side, Qiao Xing smiled triumphantly.

Aunt Wang walked into the kitchen silently and threw the bag of fresh bullfrogs into the trash can.

The bullfrogs were gone, and the table was filled with seafood. The meal was tasteless. Nie Zheng went upstairs to review her homework after eating only a few bites.

Almost an hour later, when Nie Zheng finished a set of test papers, Wang Ma suddenly knocked on the door and came in. She was wearing headphones, but she turned her head back because of a spicy aroma and found Wang Ma standing behind her with a plate in her hand.

"Xiao Zheng, you didn't eat anything at night, so I made something delicious for you."

Nie Zheng took a look and found that it was the bullfrog that Qiao Xing had ordered to be thrown away in the afternoon. She was surprised and delighted: "Bullfrog? Wasn't it thrown away?"

"I just can't stand her expression. She said to throw it away, so she threw it away? This bullfrog is very fresh. I watched me slaughter and peel it right after I saw it. Come and try it."

Looking at the plate of steaming spicy bullfrog, and then at Wang Ma's loving face looking at her, Nie Zheng was deeply moved.

She pulled Wang Ma to sit down, and Wang Ma opened a can of beer after a long absence. The two of them looked more like a mother and daughter at that time. Many years later, Nie Zheng felt so warm when she thought of this moment.

"Xiao Zheng, you are just too obedient and sensible. Sometimes I feel distressed when I look at you." Mother Wang sighed, "Unlike my bastard son, who caused trouble everywhere as soon as he entered college and never gave me peace of mind."

Too sensible and too obedient.

She didn't know how many times she had heard such words, but living with Chong Jianzhi, who was always moody, she didn't know if she would completely lose the only family affection she had if she was not careful.

Feeling melancholy, Nie Zheng put down her chopsticks and Qiao Xing pushed the door open.

Subconsciously, Nie Zheng put the plate of bullfrogs behind her. After doing this, she felt a little annoyed, not understanding why she had to compromise like this. Was it because she was afraid of Chong Jianzhi that she had to be afraid of his girlfriend as well?

"What can I do for you?" Nie Zheng said with a tense expression, trying to make herself look more serious and not so easy to bully. "Can you knock on the door next time you enter my room?"

"You have such a bad temper?"

"So? What do you think I should be like?" Nie Zheng waved her hand at Wang Ma, "Wang Ma, you should go first and get some rest."

Mother Wang winked at Nie Zheng: "Xiao Zheng, are you okay?"

"Don't worry."

As soon as Wang Ma left, Qiao Xing's face changed: "Nie Zheng, don't always treat me like an enemy. I'm your brother's girlfriend and your future sister-in-law. It's hard for your brother to do this to me."

"You think too much."

"Forget it, I won't argue with you." Qiao Xing smiled magnanimously, "I heard from Jianzhi that you've been learning about incense recently? Please help me make a sachet."

Nie Zheng raised her eyes and said, "Wait until after I take the college entrance examination. I don't have time now."

"I've talked to your brother about this. I originally wanted him to tell you, but he's in a meeting right now, so I'll just come and tell you first."

Nie Zheng was reluctant, but she didn't want to trouble herself at least, so she softened her tone and said, "I'll do it for you in the next few days."

"Okay, thank you then. What day is it today?"

Qiao Xing casually took out her phone, turned on the screen, and casually showed it to Nie Zheng. On it was a photo of her and Chong Jianzhi, with Qiao Xing's head resting on Chong Jianzhi's shoulder. The two looked...very affectionate.

Two days later, in a cafe outside the school, Nie Zheng handed the finished sachets to Qiao Xing on time.

The other party was not interested in the sachet. To be more precise, Nie Zheng found that she was not interested in fragrance at all. When she got the sachet, she didn't even smell it and just stuffed it into her bag.

"Wait for me, I'm going to the bathroom."

Nie Zheng nodded.

Qiao Xing was still not coming out, and her phone had been vibrating several times on the table. Nie Zheng was afraid that something urgent had happened, so she took the phone and wanted to find her. Her finger accidentally swiped across the screen, and it turned out that the other party's phone didn't have a password set.

The screen remained on a chat interface.

Nie Zheng glanced at it casually and saw that someone had sent Qiao Xing a few photos of Chong Jianzhi.

The photo seems to be taken secretly in an unfamiliar neighborhood.

The photo not only shows Chong Jianzhi, but also a strange woman.

Only the back of the woman was captured in the photo. Nie Zheng couldn't see her face clearly, but she felt inexplicably... familiar.

Qiao Xing is sending people to investigate Chong Jianzhi?

Although she knew it was presumptuous, Nie Zheng couldn't help her curiosity and glanced down.

In addition to Chong Jianzhi, there were some people in the photo who shouldn’t have appeared... Nie Zheng saw a black cat.

That was the little black cat that she rescued and suddenly disappeared after Fan Minzhe had a car accident. It was her coal ball!

It was impossible to make a mistake. Nie Zheng saw a name tag with the name "Meiqiu" printed on it hanging around the black cat's neck.

How did the kitten that disappeared in the car accident appear next to Chong Jianzhi? The car accident...was indeed related to Chong Jianzhi.

But why did he take the kitten away? Didn't he dislike small animals the most?

"Nie Zheng, what are you doing?"

Her thoughts were interrupted and Nie Zheng slammed the phone on the table, feeling extremely guilty.

"…I, your phone just rang."

"Oh, it's nothing, it's not an important call."

Qiao Xing took the phone without much care, took a quick glance at it, and put it down again.

This accidental discovery made Nie Zheng start to think wildly again. She knew that there were too many things about Chong Jianzhi that she didn't understand. She didn't even... understand him as well as Qiao Xing did.

The inexplicably disappeared black cat, Fan Minzhe's car accident that didn't seem like an accident, and that strange woman...

Nie Zheng was full of confusion and wanted to ask Chong Jianzhi, but she never found a chance.

With the college entrance examination approaching, teachers and students alike are extremely nervous.

Nie Zheng was a student who was specifically mentioned by the principal for care, so the teachers naturally paid more attention to her. The chances of calling her name during class were ridiculously high. After half a day's class, she was exhausted.

During the break, the principal stipulated that all senior high school students must go out for morning exercises, but Nie Zheng couldn't sleep because of Chong Jianzhi's matter. She was so sleepy that she was about to faint, so she asked for leave from the teacher and rushed to lie on the table to get some sleep.

She fell asleep in almost an instant. Nie Zheng didn't notice it at first, but the surroundings suddenly began to vibrate violently.

Ningjiang is located in the southwest, and there are a lot of faults and seismic zones under the area, so it is not uncommon for earthquakes to occur occasionally. But this time was different. Nie Zheng was awakened by the strong shaking, and felt dizzy.

In a few seconds, the ceiling and wall paint began to fall off. Her seat was right next to the door. At the most tense moment, she hid under the desk by the wall. After the shaking became less severe, she waited for the opportunity, ran out of the classroom desperately, and escaped from the teaching building two steps at a time.

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