When I Woke Up, I Had Three Romantic Partners - Chapter 72

After Ye Jin reported the situation to the police, to prevent any accident, Si Jiamo drove off immediately to follow.

Ye Jin clicked her tongue and also drove after her. She couldn’t let anything happen to Si Jiamo, or else their plan to move the company and intentionally leave the country to develop overseas would be exposed.

She took a deep breath, feeling like she truly owed Si Jiamo, otherwise, why would she always have to clean up her messes?

“Sooner or later, I’ll make you pay me back!”

Ye Jin gritted her back teeth and accelerated her car.

The woman brought Chi Jinqing to a hotel. The hotel didn’t look particularly high-end but was subtly luxurious. Chi Jinqing was handed a set of clothes, which even included underwear.

Chi Jinqing took a look. The size was very suitable for her, which suggested it wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision; the other party had likely been planning this for a long time.

She went to the restroom, changed out of her evening gown, and put on the casual clothes the woman had given her. The clothes were unbranded, but the feel and workmanship were extraordinary, showing excellent craftsmanship.

However, Chi Jinqing found it a little strange. Why were the fabric and design similar to the mementos left by her mother?

She had seen her mother’s clothes when she was alive. The material and design were very unique, with their own distinctive style, and quite exotic. According to her father, this was because her mother liked them, so her maternal aunt personally found someone to design them.

But her father never spoke about who her maternal aunt was or what she looked like, only saying that she was very important to her mother.

So, would the person who wanted to see her be her maternal aunt?

If it was her aunt, why would she choose this method?

Chi Jinqing was very confused.

Following the woman to a private room, the woman extended her hand, signaling for her to push the door open. Chi Jinqing frowned. This feeling was terrible, making her want to give up instantly.

But the black-clad person who hadn’t left behind her made her abandon the thought. She couldn’t run away.

She took a deep breath and forcefully pushed open the heavy door.

Inside the large private room, there was only one person. She was sitting directly opposite the door, dressed entirely in black, sipping tea. The lace edge of the hat that obscured half her face made her somewhat incomprehensible.

The moment she saw Chi Jinqing, she put down her cup, seemingly looking through her at another person. After a while, she smiled with satisfaction, “You really are very much like her.”

The moment the person spoke, Chi Jinqing knew who she was: her long-unseen maternal aunt.

What exactly did she want by bringing her here?

“Sit.”

The person slightly inclined her chin, as graceful as a swan.

“What would you like to eat?”

Chi Jinqing sat down, her expression calm, “More than that, I want to know one thing: what exactly do you want from me?”

The woman sighed softly, “Because you are very disobedient. Your mother would not have wanted you to become like this.”

“What is ‘like this’? I don’t understand. What is your reason for doing this?”

Chi Jinqing countered, “How do you know what my mother thought?”

The woman said nostalgically, “If there’s anyone in this world who understood your mother best, it would only be me.”

“Stop flattering yourself. I know who you are.”

Having been provoked countless times, Chi Jinqing finally lost her patience. She might have a good temper, but she wasn’t an idiot. The other person’s repeated actions had thoroughly angered her.

She hated any form of manipulation, and the other person’s behavior was undoubtedly dancing on her landmines.

“If you couldn’t accept it back then, you shouldn’t keep harassing me again and again. The things in this world are not always reversible just because you regret them.”

“You don’t know what happened between us. You don’t know why your mother gave up. You don’t understand anything, and you don’t know how much your birth was resented. If it weren’t for you, your mother would have left with me long ago.”

The woman’s expression went from nostalgia to disgust in just three seconds.

Chi Jinqing could tell that the other person genuinely hated her.

“I don’t know your name, nor do I know what happened to my mother back then, but I can’t just listen to your side of the story.”

“So?”

The woman looked coldly at Chi Jinqing, “Stop looking at me with those eyes using a face so similar to hers. I don’t like it.”

Chi Jinqing:

One thing was certain: this person had been obsessed and gone mad in her own fabricated fantasies over the years. She likely couldn’t distinguish between reality and illusion anymore.

“You loved my mother, your sister.”

“We are not related by blood.”

The woman slowly said, “Besides, what if I did?”

“She died, and because of you all, she died, so you all have to accompany her, especially you…”

She stood up and walked to Chi Jinqing’s side. The slightly sharp dinner knife in her hand rested near Chi Jinqing’s neck, causing the latter, who was about to stand up and confront her, to freeze.

This was a lunatic; she might genuinely die. She couldn’t act rashly.

“Your face is only five-tenths similar, but it doesn’t matter. I can give you plastic surgery. Just a little more adjustment, and you can be more like her. Then, you can ‘live’ as her.”

“Your eyes are the most like hers. Don’t worry, I’ll keep them.”

Although restrained, Chi Jinqing remained calm in her rebuttal, “But I don’t want to die.”

“The best way to bring my mother back to life is to invent a time machine to prevent her death, not by trying to create a second version of her out of me. She and I are fundamentally different. No matter how much you change me to look like her, I am not her.”

“Besides, the fact that you haven’t seen me for so long, and haven’t visited my mother, proves that she wasn’t actually that important to you. You just can’t accept that she didn’t belong to you.”

“Shut up.”

The sharp dinner knife in the woman’s hand cut Chi Jinqing’s neck skin. Blood ran down the blade, past her collarbone, and into her clothes.

“What do you know? You people who stole her away, yet couldn’t take good care of her, are not worthy of mentioning her to me.”

Chi Jinqing: “If you truly could have taken good care of her, you wouldn’t be talking to me like this here.”

“You are just trying to vent your incompetence on us. You are just looking for an excuse to make us suffer for all of it.”

The woman pressed the knife in her hand harder, the blade digging deeper into the flesh. She gritted her teeth, “You are provoking me.”

Chi Jinqing held her neck stiffly, “So what?”

“You wanted to turn me into my mother, didn’t you? Then try it. See if I won’t make everything you’ve done meaningless.”

During their argument, the police, who had secretly arrived, infiltrated the hotel, and taken control of everything, kicked open the door: “Stop, hands on your head, squat down!”

The police officers, all holding guns, rushed in, making the woman, who had everything carefully planned, stop her movement.

The woman scoffed, “Those pieces of trash, they can’t even kill one person.”

Chi Jinqing had known the woman’s intentions long ago. She didn’t believe these people would easily let them go, so she had secretly used her phone in her bag to dial her emergency contact before leaving. Everything that happened afterward was merely going with the flow.

“Drop the weapon!”

The police were also afraid of truly hurting Chi Jinqing. After all, she was a recent hot topic. To think the new Movie Queen was being held hostage—what a mess!

If she were to get hurt here, they would likely be overwhelmed by public outcry.

The woman looked at Chi Jinqing and grabbed her, but then someone, seemingly out of nowhere, rushed forward, forcibly pulled away the hand holding the knife, and with the other hand, pushed Chi Jinqing aside. Then, the person tackled the woman, and they started wrestling.

Si Jiamo glared at the woman with bloodshot eyes. It was this person! She had been causing trouble all along! This culprit!

“An Beiqing, how dare you lay a hand on Ah Jin!”

The enraged Si Jiamo wished she could kill the woman right there and then. An Beiqing also smiled, her eyes turning red when she saw Si Jiamo.

If it weren’t for her, she would have quietly taken Chi Jinqing away long ago. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have had to wait until now, dragging it out until Chi Jinqing was discovered by so many people.

“You should die.”

“You should die!”

The two spoke in unison, fiercely gripping each other’s throats. Neither held back, and eventually, the police had to intervene and pull them apart.

Si Jiamo was gasping for breath, and there were bloody scratches on her neck left by An Beiqing’s nails; they looked painful.

Chi Jinqing hadn’t expected Si Jiamo to be there, or even rush up to fight the woman. Only then did she step forward, her gaze sweeping over Si Jiamo’s neck, making sure there were no fatal injuries to put her at ease.

“Rushing forward like that is very dangerous, don’t you know?”

Chi Jinqing said, “You’re a Movie Queen, after all. If your face is ruined, how will you appear on screen in the future?”

She was angry. The emergency contact she had called for help was the one she gave. But what she didn’t realize was that she was using a backup phone, and the emergency contact on that phone had never been changed—it was still Si Jiamo.

Therefore, Si Jiamo, who was already following, had recorded the entire conversation and then driven after her.

After the police had secured the other people, she found an opportunity from the back and pounced, terrified that the woman would continue to harm Chi Jinqing.

“I just…”

Si Jiamo didn’t know how to explain. She was just afraid that something would happen to Chi Jinqing, and for a moment, she forgot about herself.

Chi Jinqing looked away, “I know what you want to say, but even so, I won’t forgive you.”

“Thank you very much for today.”

Xiao He was also rescued by Ye Jin’s people. She rushed over and started crying when she saw the wound on Chi Jinqing’s neck. She had been terrified then, thinking they were truly going to die, without even a chance to call the police.

Fortunately, Ye Jin’s people helped, or else she might have perished here too.

“Sister Chi, I’m sorry, I almost got you hurt.”

Xiao He apologized profusely. If it hadn’t been for Si Jiamo and Ye Jin today, she wouldn’t have been able to help Chi Jinqing even when she was being threatened.

Chi Jinqing knew that An Beiqing wouldn’t have spared Xiao He. She hadn’t thought much of it then, but now she realized that these people didn’t care about anything and acted extremely boldly.

They almost all died here.

Seeing Xiao He unharmed made her happier than her own safety.

“It’s good that you’re okay.”

Chi Jinqing let out a long sigh. Her eyes fell on Ye Jin, and she nodded at her in thanks.

She knew who arranged this, but she didn’t want to speak to the person directly now.

Ye Jin also nodded in acknowledgment, though her gaze was focused on the wound on Si Jiamo’s neck. She sent someone to buy some medicine to apply for both of them.

Meanwhile, An Beiqing had been arrested. As the ringleader, she had been harassed by Si Jiamo and Ye Jin’s full-scale counterattack, which left her utterly frustrated. This led her to think of Chi Jinqing again, and that was how she exposed this vulnerability.

She had waited too long and was now impatient, which was why she lost so miserably.

Watching Si Jiamo’s gaze on Chi Jinqing, and then looking at Chi Jinqing’s face, which was five-tenths similar to Chi’s mother’s, An Beiqing bit her lip with hatred, “You are mine, and only mine!”