Chapter 126: Chapter 126: A Good Play Chapter 126: Chapter 126: A Good Play “Miss, if you don’t value your life, I still value mine!”

The taxi driver simply refused.

Qiao En was desperate, “I’ll pay more, isn’t that enough?”

She scanned the payment QR code and immediately transferred five hundred yuan to the driver, “Please, help me catch up to her.”

The driver sighed heavily.

For the money, he did as Qiao En asked.

But the motorcycle seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

Driving Qiao En around Rong City for half a loop, the taxi driver still couldn’t spot the motorcycle.

Later, when the taxi ran out of gas and the driver refused to continue, Qiao En finally gave up.

Time just went by day by day.

Su Nian appeared for a moment and then vanished without a trace.

Qiao En called that strange number many times later, but each time she was reminded that the phone was turned off.

On the 7th of July, Qixi Festival, the day Qiao En and Ding Hao were to hold their wedding.

The night before, Zhou Jin’an left on a business trip.

“Director Zhou, do we really have to go to Los Angeles now? Hasn’t that project not even started yet?”

Cheng Lu was puzzled.

After returning to Nanchen, Zhou Jin’an worked even more frantically, with one meeting after another during the day, and either working overtime or working overtime after work.

He turned himself into a workaholic.

The CEO of Nanchen led by example in working hard, and the employees were consequently forced to follow suit.

As Zhou Jin’an’s assistant, Cheng Lu had to work just as hard. Over time, he started feeling overwhelmed.

“How else can we start the project if we don’t go?”

Zhou Jin’an was reviewing documents and spoke coldly.

Cheng Lu understood that Zhou Jin’an was using his grief as motivation.

Qiao En was about to marry someone else, and his eagerness for the business trip was just to avoid her wedding.

“Director Zhou, are we really not going to Secretary Qiao’s wedding?”

Cheng Lu boldly asked again.

They had worked together after all, and a wedding was a major life event. It seemed inappropriate to not attend.

Zhou Jin’an gave him a stern look, “If you want to go, you go.”

Cheng Lu was stunned.

He was awkwardly embarrassed on the spot.

He wanted to go, but could he?

On the morning of the wedding, Cheng Lu sent Qiao En 9999 yuan via WeChat, wishing her happiness for a long, long time.

He had originally planned to send a gift of money on behalf of Zhou Jin’an as well, but fearing he might be meddling excessively, he also feared getting scolded.

“Secretary Qiao, wish you happiness. I can’t come to give my blessings personally because of work arrangements.”

Cheng Lu composed the message and sent it.

But quickly, he retracted it.

“I’m on a business trip to Los Angeles with Director Zhou, so I can’t come to give my blessings personally, but you must be happy.”

This time, he included Zhou Jin’an in the message.

Qiao En neither accepted the transfer nor replied to the message.

Despite the marriage being fake, Ding Hao chose to make a big deal out of it.

Qiao En cooperated to the point of exhaustion.

She didn’t have many friends, had little contact with her former classmates, and even fewer knew she was getting married.

Qiao En did not [respond to] Cheng Lu’s message.

Of course, besides Cheng Lu, Chen Yin also sent Qiao En her blessings.

In the hotel, Qiao En was getting her makeup done, her expression very solemn.

Today was not only her wedding day with Ding Hao, but she also had an important task to handle.

However, she couldn’t let anyone know about this task.

“Enya, Mom is giving this to you.”

While the makeup artist was styling Qiao En’s hair, Qiao En’s mother slipped off a silver bracelet from her wrist and placed it in Qiao En’s hand.

“Mom, I don’t want this, you keep it.”

Qiao En was somewhat surprised.

The bracelet belonged to her family, not valuable, but Qiao’s mother always wore it on her wrist.

When Qiao En got married, she couldn’t muster the slightest bit of a dowry, and her mother’s heart ached.

“En ya, don’t think it’s too little, Mom can’t help it, I can’t give you anything.”

Qiao’s mother’s eyes reddened again.

“Raising me was hard enough, I don’t need these things as long as you and dad are healthy.”

Qiao En felt a sour distress inside.

No matter how much her parents favored others, they had the grace of raising her, and she should be grateful.

Her father couldn’t attend Qiao En’s wedding due to health reasons.

Qiao De was still angry, and he didn’t show up either.

This wedding, staged like a show, left Qiao En feeling like an orphan.

It’s the custom in Rong City for the bride to ride alone in the bridal car to the groom’s home, to pay respects to his parents before the couple heads together to the wedding venue.

Qiao’s mother saw Qiao En off in the bridal car.

The sorrow on her face was swept away, replaced with joy.

Everyone’s face was brimming with smiles, everyone’s except for Qiao En’s.

As she entered the car, the brightly decorated bridal car drove off.

Qiao En pulled out her cellphone and messaged Detective Wu.

“I’ve set off, proceeding with the plan.”

“Received.”

The reply came quickly from the other side, and Qiao En then deleted the chat.

She was concocting a grand play, both the director and the actor were her.

In her pocket, she already had a completely new set of identity information.

And now, all she had to do was disappear in a way that no one would notice.

“Miss Qiao, should we go this way?”

The driver of the bridal car had been taken care of by Detective Wu.

Qiao En nodded, “Yes.”

Halfway through the journey, the car slowly deviated from the convoy and then turned into another alley without surveillance cameras.

Qiao En got out of the car, and a black van was already waiting for her.

The bridal car drove off, continuing on the predetermined route.

The van that Qiao En boarded, though, took off in another direction.

According to the original plan, the bridal car would have a brake failure on the road and then crash into the sea from a bridge they had to cross.

No one would discover whether Qiao En was in the car or not.

Once the car plunged into the sea, the body might not even be recovered.

Thus, with this strategy of escaping by a trick, her success was all but assured.

She lowered the van window slightly, and the breeze of freedom rushed through the opening.

Qiao En half-closed her eyes, beginning to fantasize about her free life ahead.

Detective Wu had helped her buy a small house with a yard in a certain small town, where she planned to raise a dog, a cat, and plant lots of sunflowers in the garden.

When the child in her belly was born, she wanted to take her to see the clear blue sky and play in the streams.

To be with that child as she grows up, and then to watch herself age slowly.

Letting all of Rong City’s past become history.

“Miss Qiao, the car’s engine seems to have a problem; I’ll check it out.”

When the van reached halfway up the hill, the driver suddenly stopped the car.

Without much thought, Qiao En responded, “Okay.”

The driver opened the hood and bent over with tools, tinkering.

Qiao En, not giving it much thought, just leaned back in her seat, enjoying the cool breeze.

At ten thirty-eight, the bridal car she was supposed to be on was probably on the bridge by now, wasn’t it?

This thought only flickered through Qiao En’s mind for an instant.

Suddenly, a force from behind the van surged forward.

The vehicle heedlessly plunged forward.

In a moment of panic, Qiao En tried to pull the door, but it seemed to be locked, and she couldn’t open it no matter how hard she tried.

She beat at the windows, but it was no use.

The vehicle rolled down the hill, tumbling uncontrollably…