Jiang Nuan heard the sound and looked at the woman cowering in the corner, her brow furrowed slightly.
"Zhang Jinglu, do you need something?" She knew the Zhang family had gone bankrupt due to President Zhang's affairs.
Their initial malicious intentions made such an outcome only natural.
Zhang Jinglu lowered her head and walked before Jiang Nuan, glaring at her with hatred, "Because of you, my family is ruined, and my boyfriend left me. Jiang Nuan, you must return everything you took from my family."
Zhang Jinglu roared agitatedly, her clenched fists wishing to pummel Jiang Nuan. Her bared teeth and contorted face showed extreme anger.
Jiang Nuan looked at her, her face haggard and unrecognizable, devoid of its former arrogance.
"Your family went bankrupt, and your boyfriend left you. Why are you blaming me?
Shouldn't you pay for your own ambitions? When you extended your wicked hands towards my grandfather, did you never consider this day would come?"
Misfortune often stems from one's own actions.
"Your Zhang family, from the moment you approached my grandfather, intended to seize everything from his company. My grandfather was a sentimental man, but I am not."
Zhang Jinglu opened her mouth but found no words.
What Jiang Nuan said was the truth. In the soft morning light, her face looked unusually gaunt.
Having lost everything overnight, she had fallen from a high-and-mighty princess to a beggar. She couldn't accept it.
She was overwhelmed with grief and wanted to reclaim everything, but she knew she could do nothing but yell at Jiang Nuan.
Powerless and friendless, everyone avoided her. Relatives turned a blind eye.
Her parents blamed her and her grandfather for not living a steady life.
The entire Zhang family was destined to become a laughingstock for a lifetime.
Her father would constantly nag her whenever he saw her, causing her immense pain.
"Jiang Nuan, did you know our intentions all along, but you just didn't stop us from making mistakes?" Zhang Jinglu shrieked.
Jiang Nuan did not deny it. "That's right. All the shareholders in the company worked diligently, serving the company day and night. They understood that a company is built by a team, not by a single person. As for you and your grandfather, apart from your boundless ambition, what else do you possess? Besides embezzling company funds, what contributions have you ever made to the company?"
"I haven't been to the company recently because I wanted you to let your guard down. With me away, you could do as you pleased, even bully other secretaries.
Zhang Jinglu, therefore, your current predicament seems entirely deserved, doesn't it?"
Zhang Jinglu looked at Jiang Nuan's exquisitely beautiful, calm, and indifferent face, her anger surging. "Jiang Nuan, I'll kill you."
Zhang Jinglu's eyes flashed with ferocity as she revealed a dagger hidden in her sleeve and lunged at Jiang Nuan.
Jiang Nuan had been prepared. Seeing the dagger coming, she swiftly dodged. Then, she heard someone shout, "Jiang Nuan, be careful!"
Immediately, she saw a woman rush towards her.
Jiang Nuan's gaze turned chilling. She caught a glimpse of Zhang Jinglu's dagger about to strike and quickly kicked out.
Zhang Jinglu was sent flying more than a meter away.
"Ah!" she screamed, curling up on the ground, unable to get up.
Jiang Siyu turned sharply and saw Zhang Jinglu collapsed not far away. She hadn't managed to stab Jiang Nuan?
What an idiot!
Jiang Nuan also looked confused at Jiang Siyu's sudden appearance, "Miss Jiang, why are you here?"
And bravely rushing out to take a stab for her, was she feverish?
Jiang Siyu offered an awkward smile and asked, "Nuannuan, are you alright?"
Jiang Nuan replied with a distant demeanor, "I'm fine. Thank you just now!"
After all, she had taken a stab for her, so a thank you was in order.
Jiang Nuan took out her phone to call the police.
Seeing this, Zhang Jinglu endured the pain and scrambled up to stop Jiang Nuan.
Tears streaming down her face, she knelt before Jiang Nuan, begging, "CEO Jiang, please spare me. I was just acting on impulse, I didn't mean to kill you. From now on, I'll be good and keep my head down. I won't bother you again."
Jiang Nuan put down her phone and looked at her coldly, "Zhang Jinglu, you are still young, and I am willing to give you one chance. If there is a next time, I will personally send you to prison, and you will rot in jail."
"Alright! I won't dare again. I'll leave now, I'll leave this place and never return." Zhang Jinglu said tearfully.
She was still very young, and if she went to jail, she would lose everything.
She was just too angry about losing everything.
She also knew she deserved it. From the beginning, her grandfather had invested with the intention of swallowing Jian Da Group.
Her grandfather always said that to do business, one needed ambition to achieve what they desired.
Her grandfather had always doted on her, but his methods of teaching were flawed.
Her grandfather constantly fed her empty promises, suggesting that many things could be obtained without effort, which led to her painful life.
Zhang Jinglu stood up and staggered away.
Jiang Siyu looked at Jiang Nuan's leniency with surprise. If it were her, she would spare no effort to send someone who tried to kill her to prison.
"Nuannuan, she tried to kill you, why did you let her go?" Jiang Siyu asked, puzzled.
Jiang Nuan cast a faint glance at her. "I haven't let her go. For someone who has lived a life of wealth since childhood, from now on is the real hell. Some things cannot be resolved solely in prison. This society is where her hell begins."
Jiang Siyu: "..." So this was the Jiang Nuan she knew.
Indeed, having nothing and being unable to do anything was the most painful.
Simply being locked in prison, with two meals provided daily, was a relaxed and comfortable life, only lacking freedom.
The thought sent a chill down Jiang Siyu's spine.
"Nuannuan, can we talk?" Jiang Siyu still didn't want to give up, her voice friendly.
Mu Jiuchen was too difficult to handle, the most challenging person she had ever encountered – cold, domineering, ruthless, and uninteresting. Looking at the equally cold Jiang Nuan, it was baffling how they became a couple.
Jiang Nuan repeated her earlier statement, "Work matters are handled by Mu Jiuchen. I cannot control his affairs. There is no need to cause unhappiness between us as a couple for your sake. He is going to the company today, you should go to the company to find him."
After speaking, Jiang Nuan turned to go inside.
"Jiang Nuan." Jiang Siyu quickly blocked her path, looking down at her.
"I came to see you, is that not giving you face?" She really didn't know what else to do.
No matter how nicely she reasoned, Jiang Nuan refused to help.
She had to strike at Jiang Nuan's pain, a method she had tried on other women, but she wasn't sure if it would work on Jiang Nuan.
Jiang Nuan took a small step back. The perfume she wore was rather strong. "CEO Jiang, you don't need to give me face. Your face is not useful to me here."
"Jiang Nuan, you don't understand the business world? Do you think rejecting me like this is good for your husband? Your husband needs..."
"My husband doesn't need to cooperate with people like you. Get out!"
Jiang Nuan became enraged and lunged at Jiang Siyu.