Way back to Our Past

5. The Car Accident

Translator: Snowball

After dinner, Wang Zicheng was about to meet his new girlfriend, but as Jiang Zhendong was still nagging Qu Wan, he couldn’t leave for the moment.

“Mayor Jiang, it’s very kind of you to think highly of my assistant, but she has got some plan tonight, so I’m afraid she has to leave right now.” Wang Zicheng walked over with an enigmatic smile on his face.

Jiang Zhendong was experienced and he immediately figured out that Wang Zicheng was mocking at him. He was aware that this young man must have misunderstood that he was hitting on Qu Wan.

With a bitter smile, he moved away from Qu Wan and turned to Wang Zicheng. “Mr. Wang, come to me if there’s anything I can do for you in the future.”

Before, Wang Zicheng would spring up with joy at the news that the mayor would like to give the green light to his business.

However, at the thought that this old goat was willing to help him merely because he had ulterior motives for the sunglasses-wearing woman, Wang Zicheng felt sick as if he had just eaten a fly.

After answering in response to Jiang Zhendong’s words coldly, he pushed Qu Wan into the car in haste and urged the driver to drive them away asap.

Watching them leave, Jiang Zhendong revealed a faint smile on his face. From the way Wang Zicheng reacted, he had a feeling that this young man liked his daughter.

After she had come back to this city, Qu Wan still stayed with her uncle.

As Wang Zicheng was eager to meet his sweetie pie, he decided to drop Qu Wan off near her uncle’s neighborhood. However, when he saw it was a dark alley in front of them, he couldn’t bear to let her walk back alone.

Qu Jianguo and his family lived in a run-down neighborhood. As there were no street lamps on the rough road to the community, it was inconvenient to walk back in the dark.

After hesitating for a moment, Wang Zicheng asked the driver to pull the car into the alley and send Qu Wan to the downstairs of her uncle’s apartment.

As soon as Qu Wan got out of the car, Wang Zicheng immediately asked the driver to make a turn. “Hurry up!” he yelled.

At his urging, the driver began to sweat on his forehead and he kept on pushing hard on the gas pedal.

“Bang!” The moment they just drove out of the alley, their car crashed into another one, which was about to enter the alley.

As the airbag popped in time, the driver didn’t get injured. He immediately turned his head and found in horror that Wang Zicheng, who was not wearing his seat belt, had bumped against the back of the front seat, unconscious with blood all over his face.

Seized with panic, the driver hopped out of the car in an instant to check his injuries. Wang Zicheng was the only son of the president of the company, so he was clear that he couldn’t afford it if anything bad happened to his young master.

“Mr. Wang… Mr. Wang… Are you okay?”

In the other car, Ling Mubai’s also hit his head against the windshield, but thankfully, the injury wasn’t serious. After wiping the blood off his face, he pushed open the door and got out of the car.

Wang Zicheng’s driver was still shouting for help. “Help! Is anybody there? Come to save Mr. Wang…”

When Ling Mubai walked over, he instantly recognized the man who had been pulled out by the driver from the car.

The driver shivered the moment he sensed someone looking at them coldly. In the dim moonlight, he identified it was Ling Mubai in front of him.

“Mr. Ling…” After freezing for a few seconds, he began to beg Ling Mubai, as if he had clutched the straw. “Mr. Ling, I’m begging you. Please save my young master…”

Ling Mubai frowned when he found both cars wrecked. Rolling his sleeves, he moved Wang Zicheng out of the alley with the driver and hailed a taxi, heading for the hospital.

As one of the local powers, Ling Mubai had gotten the news the moment the Wang family made a move to dabble in this city’s business.

However, he never expected that they would have sent Wang Zicheng, the ignorant playboy, to take the lead in developing the market.

“It seems Wang Zicheng has been drained by women, or he wouldn’t have blacked out so easily!” Ling Mubai thought with a disdainful look on his face.

They arrived at the hospital soon. Waiting outside the Emergency Room, the driver was so regretful for driving too fast that he slapped himself heavily.

When Ling Mubai was about to leave, his cell phone suddenly rang with Jiang Xinyue’s number flashing on the screen.

“Hello?”

“Mubai, where are you?”

“I’m in the hospital.”

Jiang Xinyue got flustered at once. “Hospital? Mubai, are you sick?” she asked anxiously.

“I’m okay. I brought someone else here.”

“Now I feel much relieved. Mubai, I was worried sick just now!”

“I’ve got something else to attend to, gotta hang up. Bye!” Ling Mubai’s voice was gentle but resolute. Before Jiang Xinyue could say anything, he had gotten off the phone.

In the Jiang’s house…

After putting her cell phone away, Jiang Xinyue felt restless, so she immediately got changed and was about to go to the hospital.

Qin Surong had a facial mask on when she saw her daughter rushing out in haste. “Xinyue, where are you going at this time of night?”

“Mubai is in hospital. I don’t know what happened, so I’m going to have a look.”

“What’s wrong with Mubai?” Qin Surong grew tense as well.

“He didn’t say anything, so I’m even more worried.” When Jiang Xinyue reached the door, she suddenly stopped as if she recalled something. “Mom, Qu Wan is back.”

“What did she come back for?” Qin Surong’s heart skipped a beat.

“I ran into her in a shopping mall today. She dressed in a plain way, so I guess she lives on a shoestring,” Jiang Xinyue answered with a frown, still unable to figure out the purpose of Qu Wan’s return to the city.

“Don’t worry. It has been three years since she and Mubai divorced. What’s more, you’ll soon be engaged to Mubai. So even though she came back, she can do nothing to you,” Qin Surong said, trying to comfort her daughter. “I know Qu Wan well. She is narrow-minded, so she must have hated Mubai to the extreme after their divorce, and I’m sure she won’t come to Mubai again. Trust me! She can’t pose any threat to you.”

When they were chatting, Jiang Xinyue saw Jiang Zhendong’s car pulling into the gate of their villa.

“Dad’s back.” Seeing Jiang Xinyue rise to her feet to greet his father, Qin Surong walked out of the room following her.

Looking at them, Jiang Zhendong stroked Jiang Xinyue’s head while teasing her, “How come you’re so considerate today that you even came out to meet me?”

“Dad!” Jiang Xinyue complained in a pettishly charming manner.

“You smell like wine! Did you just get back from the dinner party?” Qin Surong asked, taking the briefcase from Jiang Zhendong.

“Hm! I had a few drinks.” Jiang Zhendong nodded.

“I’m going to make some tea to sober you up.” Qin Surong left the briefcase in the living room and hurried into the kitchen. A moment later, she stepped out with a cup of tea.

Jiang Zhendong picked up the teacup and took a sip, gesturing them to sit down. “I saw Wanwan just now.”