Before she managed to get a good look, Qiao Chen evaded her and hid her swollen face. "I-It's nothing. I fell and grazed my knees."
With that, she quickly changed the topic for fear that Shen Qiongzhi would probe further. "Oh right, Mom, I heard you talking about Jingwei's sentence when I came back. What's going on?"
As expected, Shen Qiongzhi's focus was shifted. She furrowed her brows and said frustratedly, "I've got no idea what Qiao Nian is doing behind our backs. The police initially said with some ambiguity that she was just bullying someone else. But now they've changed their saying and insisted that Zhao Jingwei was causing deliberate harm to someone else, and that would put her in jail for a few years."
Qiao Weimin said hypocritically, "Alright, stop saying it's Nian Nian all the time. She's just a high school girl, how could she manipulate the police? It's all Zhao Jingwei's own fault. If she hadn't hurt someone else, would she have ended up in this state?"
"It's definitely Qiao Nian's doing. Didn't Mom tell us the other day? Aunt Tang said that the Chief of Police has been dragged into the picture too, and the superiors are investigating now. This Qiao Nian is really such a jinx, anyone who knows her is affected by her bad luck!"
She clenched her jaw and cursed. "Look at us and Chen Chen's classmate. We're all in trouble only after coming into contact with her. She's just a jinx through and
through, you'd better stay away from her!"
Qiao Weimin kept in mind that he had to rely on Qiao Nian to be on good terms with Cheng Feng Corporation and told her off unhappily, "You're just an ignorant woman who hasn't seen the world, what do you know!"
"You think I don't know what you're plotting? You're thinking that she knows Chairman Yuan of Cheng Feng Corporation. But just think about it. She's lived with us for over 10 years. If she really does know a big shot like that, wouldn't we have known?"
Shen Qiongzhi hit the nail on the head. He had been so anxious and odd recently because of this.
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