Chapter 653: Compromising to Protect the Ji Family's Secret

Ji Yingjie turned back around, sat down properly in her chair again, and said earnestly, "Actually, this matter is also my fault. I didn't look for you when you were young, and it was very sudden to suddenly find you and bring you back to inherit the family business when you were grown..."

"I was too impulsive a few days ago, and my tone was a bit harsh, making it hard for you to accept. Actually, you haven't had much contact with your aunt, but once you spend more time with me, you'll know how much I love you..."

Ji Yingjie suddenly played the emotional card.

At first, Wan'er was a little uncomfortable, but soon she was moved to tears.

After all, she was her aunt; although they hadn't met before, they were connected by blood, and blood is thicker than water.

Besides, she was also kind-hearted. Wan'er was well-versed in the law, but she didn't know what the human heart... could look like.

Ji Yingjie's "heartfelt" words made Wan'er forget all the lovesickness and suffering she had endured over the past few days.

The two of them hugged and cried together.

A touching scene of relatives reunited after many years of separation.

A moment ago, Jin Wan'er still looked at her like an enemy, but now she had finally become a relative.

"Aunt, don't worry, your health is fine for another fifty years. There's no need to rush the matter of the Heir; it can be cultivated slowly," Jin Wan'er comforted her.

Ji Yingjie: "I have no children. When you were young, I was closest to your mother, so the Heir of the Ji Family must be you."

Jin Wan'er wanted to say: I still have an older sister.

The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed them back.

It had been so hard to get her aunt to agree to let her go back; if she turned around and regretted it, grabbing her sister would be a disaster.

She was anxious to go home, but she didn't stop to think: if Ji Yingjie could find her and know everything about her from childhood to adulthood, how could she have forgotten Shi Youxuan?

Her hesitant expression was all taken in by Ji Yingjie.

Ji Yingjie said: "I know you don't want to be the Heir of the Ji Family, and I don't want to force you, but when the child in your belly is born, you must give one to me to be the Heir of the Ji Family."

Jin Wan'er:...

She hadn't expected her aunt to make such a request.

Originally, she had been prepared to agree, but Ji Yingjie's next requirement made her change her mind.

Ji Yingjie demanded that as soon as the child was born, she would take it away to raise.

"No." Wan'er subconsciously clutched her belly and refused flatly: "The child belongs to A Ning and me; I can't decide this alone."

"Jian Yining, he..." The aunt stopped mid-sentence.

Wan'er felt her brain go "boom" and swell up.

Her husband had come looking for her; she knew that.

But there had been no news since then. What had her aunt done to her husband?

She hurriedly grabbed her aunt's hand and pressed her: "Go on, what happened to A Ning? What happened to him..."

But no matter how she pressed, Ji Yingjie would not continue.

She only brushed it off by saying: "It's nothing, he's fine."

But she immediately changed her tune: "I don't know what he's like now. I don't care about men's affairs; the only person I care about is you."

Her aunt's attitude was very strange. Jin Wan'er did not believe that there was nothing going on here.

Her worry for her husband made her eager to return. Since her aunt wouldn't say, she would go back and see for herself.

She demanded to go home immediately, but her aunt was in no hurry and said to her: "Don't worry, I won't go back on what I promised you. I said I would send you back, so I definitely will, but there's no rush to go back. It was so hard for us to meet; stay here with your aunt for a few days and let's have a heart-to-heart."

Jin Wan'er:...

Her heart had already flown back home.

How could she have the heart to have any heart-to-heart here?

But refusing immediately would seem heartless.

Jin Wan'er had a flash of inspiration and said to her aunt: "Then let me call my husband, okay? You have my phone."

She had hinted so obviously; Jin Wan'er thought her aunt should return her phone now.

However, she did not.

"Even if I gave the phone back to you, you couldn't use it here; there's no signal," Ji Yingjie said with a smile.

Jin Wan'er:...

So she switched to repeat-mode: "Let me go back now, now, immediately, right away."

"I want to go home."

"I want to go home."

"I want to go home."

"I want to go home..."

Seeing that the time was ripe, Ji Yingjie took a document out of her bag: "Sign this, and you can leave immediately after you sign."

Wan'er: "What is this?"

She took it to look; it was a transfer agreement.

It wasn't transferring an object, but a child.

The content was roughly the same as what her aunt had just said, only more detailed.

There was even a penalty for breach of contract.

Jin Wan'er was so angry she laughed. What kind of bullshit agreement was this? It wasn't legal at all, yet it was presented so solemnly.

Out of professional habit as a lawyer, she wanted to remind her aunt that this kind of thing was illegal and invalid.

But then she thought—since it was invalid, what harm was there in signing it?

Special times call for special measures.

"Pen."

Taking the Hallucinogenic Pen handed over by her aunt, Jin Wan'er signed her name with a flourish on the bottom right corner of the last page of the agreement.

After signing, she even took the initiative to ask: "Is there an inkpad?"

Had she not been reminded, Ji Yingjie truly would have forgotten.

She had someone bring the inkpad and personally handed it to her niece.

Jin Wan'er pressed her thumbprint over her name and then said: "Can you let me leave now?"

"Of course."

Ji Yingjie had someone bring over two glasses of water; she took one herself and handed the other to her niece: "Happy cooperation! You are pregnant and not suited for drinking alcohol, so let us use water instead of wine and have a toast!"

Jin Wan'er:...

She had never heard of selling one's own child and calling it a "happy cooperation."

But since she did not want to acknowledge it, it did not matter.

Thus, she took the water, smiled as she clinked glasses with her aunt, drank it all in one gulp, and then knew nothing more.

"Send someone to take her back, and be careful not to let anyone discover you." Ji Yingjie caught her niece steadily in her arms, handed her to a servant, and gave the order.

Her face once again displayed her habitual arrogance and coldness.

The Swamp.

"Big Brother, Big Brother, the workers found this over there." Sheng Zerong ran over and handed an envelope to Sheng Hanyu.

On the envelope, a few elegant, sweeping characters were written with a brush—"To be opened personally by Sheng Hanyu."

He took it and opened it.

There were only a few lines on the letter paper: Jin Wan'er has already been sent home, Jian Yining is not here, you must leave immediately and are forbidden from coming here again in the future, otherwise bear the consequences yourself!

Additionally, two photos of Jin Wan'er and a photo of Jian Yining were enclosed.

There was a timestamp in the bottom right corner of the photos, showing they were all taken within these two days.

Sheng Hanyu announced: "Stop work, everyone rest where you are."

The roaring sounds emitted by the various vehicles ceased.

He did not immediately have people withdraw, but instead asked his third younger brother: "Where was the letter found? Did anyone see the person who delivered it?"

Sheng Zerong shook his head: "The letter was clipped to a reed; I don't know who the person who delivered it was, and no one saw them."

He told his third younger brother to drive immediately to a place with a signal and call home to ask if the person had returned.

Sheng Zerong agreed and was just about to leave when someone suddenly shouted: "Hey, there's a signal!"

There was actually a signal in this area?

Now there was no need to drive to a far-off place to make a call.

Sheng Hanyu dialed Shi Youxuan's phone and received a definitive answer: "Jin Wan'er has indeed been sent back, but she is still unconscious."

"Big Brother, are we withdrawing?"

Sheng Hanyu shook his head: "Do not withdraw, we still haven't found where A Ning is, we cannot withdraw!"