Jia followed Li Dong as he headed out of Jiang Zhen's villa. They stopped as they saw Jiang Zhen happily sipping on his wine.

"How is she?"

"She will be good if she doesn't see any of our faces."

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"Heh."

Li Dong smiled. "I never thought that Jiang Zhen would want such a woman with baggage."

He raised his brow. "Baggage that I can end at any time."

Jia heard everything in silence without letting out any trace of her anger spill out.

She inwardly smiled.

It's alright. The more you bastards cross my line, the heavier you are going to suffer. So talk as much as shit as you want. I am gonna make you pay for every disgusting word you uttered from your filthy mouths.

Jiang Zhen let out a sigh. "You know, I am actually so excited for her baby. I really wanna see the ex-Mafia King's baby and hold him in front of him. I wonder what his reaction would be? It would be so interesting, right? Too bad that I will have to wait for five more months. Otherwise, I would have already started to give him a slow, painful death."

Li Dong sneered. "And what about the other family members? Are you letting them go?"

"What? Of course not? They are my servants now. It will be so fun to give them orders now. Actually, Grandpa needs a good attendant. Hua is becoming more and more useless. Hmm...How about I choose one of the lovely ladies to serve him?" His eyes twinkled in delight. "Perhaps Aunt Yubi? Or Old Madam? I am sure. Grandpa would be thrilled to unite with his sister-in-law~"

He looked back at Jia, who was standing with an unfazed expression in her eyes. The mask covered her nose and mouth, but it didn't stop from him knowing that she was a fierce and dangerous women.

Jiang Zhen despised such women. Women were supposed to be weak and exploitable like his wife.

But she was Mingshen's girlfriend. He needed the Yangs support and Li Dong out of the picture.

Guess he chose a crazy woman just like him, he thought.

Jia noticed his gaze and stared right back at him with her squinted eyes. He felt as if she was saying, 'Don't fucking stare at me like that.'

Jia smiled within her mask. She knew he would hate it to be challenged like that. But she wasn't afraid because he knew that she was from the Yangs side.

The Yangs were supposed to be his partners, not servants. The Yangs, and in effect, Jia didn't work FOR him, so he couldn't boss her around. If he wanted Mingshen's support, he couldn't lay a finger on his people.

Li Dong pouted. "Do whatever you want with the Jiangs. But when are you going to hand me my precious subject!? I want to reunite with him too, you know! That bastard Yang Mingshen stole him from me. I want Lu Bojing back! You don't need him anyway."

Jia stared at him.

Mingshen 'stole' his assistant?

She remembered Lu Bojing getting strangely scared of Li Dong when they met.

Jiang Zhen waved his hand. "You can take him whenever you want. I don't give a fuck about him."

Li Dong beamed. "Awesome! Then I will come back tomorrow to take my subject away! Yay! I am so excited!"

On the other side, Jia was quietly studying the layout of this villa as much as she could. She was lucky to get to know where Lihua was kept. But she needed to know all entrances and exits if she wanted to plan her rescue.

Suddenly, she was distracted when something bumped on her leg. She looked down and saw a little boy, holding a fluffy teddy bear in his hands.

Jia blinked.

A child?

Jiang Zhen coldly said, "Ru, get back in your room. Didn't I say not dilly dally around without my permission?"

Ruru jolted and lowered his head. His eyes got teary with his scolding, and he clutched the bear in his hand.

Jia was stunned.

Is he his son!?

Li Dong was disgusted. "Why do kids cry so much? His face is already filled with tears and snot. You need to toughen up your son, Jiang Zhen. Heh. It doesn't feel like he is your son at all."

Jiang Zhen banged his fist on the table. "Watch your words, Li Dong. That could cost you your life."

Li Dong shrugged. He looked at Jia and waved his hand. "You. Take him away from our sight quickly. I cannot stand tears."

Jiang Zhen dangerously smiled. "You have some nerve to order regarding my son in my house."

Li Dong chuckled. "Do you really want everybody to see a crybaby Jiang Ru? If he is gonna be your heir, people wouldn't like it so much."

Jia let them argue on their own and quickly took Ruru away from them. She took him in the bathroom and wiped his eyes and nose.

Jia stared at him and smiled.

He is so cute.

She could hardly believe that this adorable boy was that bastard's child.

She patted his head. "Don't cry. I know it's hard, but if you didn't make any mistake, and if people are unnecessarily mean to you, you shouldn't cry because then they will bully you."

Ruru blinked his watery eyes.

"You don't want to look weak, right?"

Ruru lowered his head and slowly nodded.

"Good boy."

Ruru peeked at her and got reminded of Lihua for some reason. He raised his chubby hand and tugged at her mask.

Jia widened her eyes. "I cannot remove it."

Ruru's shoulders drooped in sadness. Her mouth twitched.

"O-only for a second, okay?"

Jia removed her mask, and Ruru quickly pecked on her cheek. Then he pecked the teddy bear's nose on her cheek too and ran away.

She rapidly blinked.. She quickly put back her mask on, and after a long time, her lips had curled into a genuine smile.