“Isn’t she enough on her own? How many people do you think she needed?”
Sang Qingshan was practically foaming at the mouth with rage.
To his surprise, Lu Qiance merely gave him a strange look before stating firmly,
“She didn’t take your things.”
Sang Qingshan exploded.
“If it wasn’t her, then who else could it have been?! You weren’t even there! How can you be so sure?!!”
Lu Qiance glanced at him calmly, his tone measured.
“Because I know my wife. At home she’s a pampered young lady who can’t even carry a basin of water. There’s no way she could have done something like this.”
Sang Qingshan opened his mouth to argue, only to freeze.
His thoughts ran in circles before, strangely enough, he realized Lu Qiance had a point.
Sang Qing had always been spoiled.
Her mother, Sang Wanrou, had doted on her since childhood, and afterward her maternal grandparents had practically worshipped her.
Even after Sang Wanrou passed away, for the sake of maintaining his reputation, he’d never let Sang Qing do any real work.
He had once planned to use Sang Qing’s breathtaking beauty to advance his own career.
Who would have thought she’d set her sights on Lu Qiance, a soldier?
All Sang Qingshan knew was that Lu Qiance was a regiment commander stationed on some island. Beyond that, he knew nothing.
He couldn’t take advantage of someone he knew nothing about.
Seeing Sang Qingshan being led around by Lu Qiance’s words, Jiang Mengmeng hurriedly interrupted.
“Maybe she brought someone with her. Director Sang just didn’t notice.”
Sang Qingshan immediately snapped out of it.
“That’s right! Exactly! That must be what happened!”
Only then did Lu Qiance finally turn his gaze toward Jiang Mengmeng.
The way he looked at her…
…wasn’t how one looked at a living person.
A chill crawled up Jiang Mengmeng’s spine, and she instinctively shrank back.
“Since you’re so good at guessing,” Lu Qiance said coldly, “why don’t you guess how many years you’ll be sentenced once you get to the Public Security Bureau?”
His icy voice made even Sang Qingshan shudder.
Only then did he remember that Lu Qiance had never explained why his men were escorting Jiang Mengmeng away.
She was his guiding light.
If she got arrested, who would he turn to for help in the future?
Thinking this, Sang Qingshan spoke again.
“Little Lu… Comrade Jiang can’t possibly be a bad person. Is there some kind of misunderstanding between you?”
Lu Qiance let out a mocking laugh.
“A misunderstanding? This woman openly molested me in broad daylight. Director Sang thinks that’s a misunderstanding?”
Sang Qingshan hadn’t expected Jiang Mengmeng to be so bold.
His mouth hung open for a long moment before he stammered,
“T-That… can’t be…”
Ignoring his reaction, Lu Qiance added,
“And that was right in front of me. Who knows what else she’s done behind my back? Maybe there are things I haven’t even seen.”
Sang Qingshan: “…”
Jiang Mengmeng: “…”
Why did those words sound so familiar?
Standing quietly nearby, Sun Dajiang sighed inwardly.
Why did you people have to provoke him?
Don’t you know our regiment commander is completely devoted to his wife?
If you insult his wife to his face and he doesn’t return the favor, then he wouldn’t be Commander Lu.
The fact that he hasn’t shaken your brains loose already is him showing mercy.
Meanwhile, after leaving the garment factory, Sang Qing headed to another street and bought a large supply of skincare products.
She’d heard that island life meant constant sun and sea winds.
She had no intention of ruining such a beautiful face.
Counting the money she’d just collected, she discovered that Sang Qingshan had embezzled a full 10,000 yuan over the years.
No wonder he’d become increasingly arrogant after her mother died.
So that was where his confidence came from.
As expected, scumbags should never be allowed to have money.
Money only made them even worse.
By taking it away, she’d actually solved a huge problem for Chu Lanhua and her daughter.
She really was a good person.
After all, husband and wife should share hardships together.
Otherwise, how could anyone see how deep their love was?
As for her…
She didn’t need to prove how loving she and Lu Qiance were.
She only needed to enjoy life.
Before marriage, she’d been the young mistress of the Sang family.
There was no reason she’d have to live a hard life after getting married.
Otherwise, what was the point?
So she could dig for wild vegetables with everyone else because they somehow tasted better?
Thinking about everything she’d just stored in her space, Sang Qing suddenly remembered something from the novel.
The heroine had once stumbled upon an enormous cache of money and supplies through sheer luck.
It had belonged to the leader of the black market and had been hidden away during a government crackdown.
Unfortunately for him, the black market boss had later been executed by firing squad.
Since he had no family, the fortune became ownerless.
Although Sang Qing had no idea how a black market boss had accumulated so much wealth and so many supplies…
They all belonged to her now.
The heroine wanted to steal her man?
Then she’d steal the heroine’s opportunity.
Let’s see who could strip the other clean first.
Walking down a quiet alley, Sang Qing hadn’t gone far before she spotted a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit lying unconscious on the ground.
She glanced around.
There wasn’t another person in sight.
Carefully, she approached him.
He looks… strangely familiar.
There wasn’t time to think about who he was.
Seeing that he was still breathing, she quickly took out a flask filled with spirit spring water from her space and gently poured it into his mouth.
The man was far too large for her to lift.
All she could do now was treat a dead horse as if it were alive.
Hopefully, the spirit spring water would save him.
Fortunately, after drinking it, the man’s complexion visibly improved.
Only then did Sang Qing finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Just as she was about to return the flask to her space, the man slowly opened his eyes.
“You…”
A slight smile curved Sang Qing’s beautiful brows.
“Comrade, you suddenly fainted just now. How are you feeling? Do you need me to call someone?”
Squatting beside him, she carefully observed his condition, unsure what to do next.
The man waved his hand before slowly supporting himself into a sitting position.
“Thank you, young comrade. My name is Zhou Zheng. I was on my way to the Hongqi Town Public Security Bureau when I suddenly passed out.”
Sang Qing stared at his graying hair in shock.
Zhou Zheng?!
No wonder he looked so familiar!
He was the new factory director transferred from another city to the Hongqi Town Garment Factory.
She knew him because, in the original story, he died on his very first day after arriving in Hongqi Town.
His body wasn’t discovered until two days later.
By then, all of his belongings and valuables had disappeared, so the case was initially treated as a homicide.
The incident even made the newspapers, with the authorities publicly asking for clues.
Only after the culprits were arrested did they discover that Zhou Zheng had actually died from natural causes.
The case caused an enormous sensation.
Because of the uproar, no new factory director was transferred over for quite some time.
And that ended up benefiting that old scoundrel, Sang Qingshan.
Not only was he promoted to Deputy Factory Director, he was also granted all the authority of the factory director.