Plunder-Chapter 194: Getting the Certificate Again
"Why?"
Qiao En looked suspicious.
Zhou Jin’an, however, kept it a mystery.
"Follow me to a place, and you’ll know when we get there."
Four o’clock in the afternoon.
Zhou Jin’an insisted on going out, and no one could stop him.
"There are too many people outside, why not go tomorrow?"
Qiao En tried to persuade Zhou Jin’an.
An Kexin’s drama had pushed him into the spotlight.
At this moment, leaving the hospital would surely draw widespread attention again.
Qiao En and he were both used to keeping a low profile, and were immune to excessive attention.
"No, we have to go today."
Zhou Jin’an’s attitude was unusually resolute.
Unable to persuade him, Qiao En had no choice but to go with him.
Leaving the hospital, they were like two conspicuous packages, with passers-by taking out their phones to take pictures, and the bold ones coming forward to ask for a photo with them.
"Sorry, we have very important matters to attend to right now."
Zhou Jin’an reached out to block the camera and declined all requests for photos.
He was in a hurry, holding Qiao En’s hand, pushing through the crowd, and walking quickly.
In the car.
Zhou Jin’an stared at the time and kept urging the driver, "Hurry up, please hurry."
He was usually a patient man, but he seemed particularly anxious now.
"What is the hurry all about?"
Qiao En was still clueless.
Zhou Jin’an decided to stop keeping it a mystery; he took out two red booklets from his pocket.
"En’en, let’s get a divorce."
Qiao En was stunned, and she could hardly believe her ears.
Zhou Jin’an quickly explained, "I mean, divorce your previous identity, and then we can get married again under your new identity."
It was a false alarm.
"Is it necessary to go through this again?"
Qiao En asked.
Zhou Jin’an held Qiao En’s little hand tightly.
"It is necessary, very necessary. If I had listened to you last time, I wouldn’t have caused so much trouble now. To prevent future problems, I must marry you under your current identity, Xu Yayun. En’en, will you marry me again?"
He pressed her fingers to his lips and kissed them repeatedly.
"Yes."
Qiao En nodded firmly.
An Kexin’s drama was indeed quite distressing.
But while it was distressing, it had brought their hearts closer together.
Zhou Jin’an pulled Qiao En into his embrace, and the two of them snuggled up together.
With twenty minutes left before the Civil Affairs Bureau closed, Qiao En and Zhou Jin’an finally arrived.
Zhou Jin’an had given advance notice, and the procedures went very smoothly.
Obtaining a divorce certificate, then a marriage certificate.
All within seventeen minutes.
Emerging from the Civil Affairs Bureau, each of them had an extra booklet in hand.
Once in the car, Zhou Jin’an cunningly took Qiao En’s marriage certificate again.
"It’s safer to keep this with me."
He pressed the red booklet to his chest, holding it tightly.
Qiao En was quick to act, immediately taking the divorce certificate from his hand.
"Let’s burn this one."
Suddenly, this thought popped into her head.
"Okay." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Zhou Jin’an responded enthusiastically.
The car stopped by the riverbank, and Zhou Jin’an took out a lighter and without hesitation, set the two divorce certificates on fire.
As the flames burned, those two booklets representing Qiao En’s past turned completely into ashes.
From now on, she was just Xu Yayun.
Three days later.
Qiao De was released from the detention center.
His mother went to pick him up herself.
Seeing Qiao De, she immediately ran up and hugged him tightly.
"Ah De, you’re finally out. Let mom take a good look at you, are you alright?"
She choked up, her eyes filled with pity for Qiao De.
"Alright, I’m fine. Stop crying all the time, isn’t it annoying?"
Qiao De said impatiently as he pushed her away.
"You said last time that my sister is still alive, is that true?"
"Yes, still alive."
Qiao’s mother quickly responded.
Qiao De sneered, "Good that she’s alive. As long as she’s alive, there’s still hope for me."
"Let’s go, we’ll find her now."
As he spoke, Qiao De followed his mother to Qiao En’s place.
After marrying Zhou Jin’an, Qiao En stopped going to work in Nanchen.
She and Auntie Jiang moved to live in Chu Garden, and Sister Rong also came back.
Auntie Jiang got along very well with Sister Rong.
That noon, just as Qiao En sat down to eat, the gate bell rang.
Sister Rong quickly got up to check.
Soon, she returned, "Young Madam, your foster mother and brother are here."
"What are they here for? Chase them away."
Auntie Jiang became very agitated.
Sister Rong, at a loss, looked towards Qiao En.
Qiao En pondered for a moment, then got up.
"Mom, you eat first, I’m going out for a bit."
She wanted to go out, but Auntie Jiang, worried, grabbed Qiao En.
"Yayun, after all they’ve done to you, don’t be soft-hearted again, I can’t bear to see you being bullied by them anymore."
"Mom, I know what to do, don’t worry."
She patted Auntie Jiang’s hand and resolutely left.
Outside the courtyard gate, Qiao’s mother was standing there eagerly with Qiao De.
Seeing Qiao En come out, Qiao’s mother immediately broke into a smile.
"En’en, your brother came to see you, he has been clamoring to see you since he got out."
While speaking, Qiao’s mother gestured for Qiao De to step forward.
Qiao En’s gaze faintly fell on Qiao De.
He seemed to have grown taller, but thinner.
"Sis, I’m out. Hurry and open the gate, let me and mom in."
Qiao En didn’t move, she just stood there.
"Sis, what is it?"
Seeing Qiao En remain indifferent, Qiao De’s expression changed.
She took a deep breath and finally spoke, "Ah De, thank you for coming to see me, but now, I am no longer your sister."
Qiao De, detained in prison, knew very little about the outside world.
He was unaware of the incident where An Kexin stole Qiao En’s identity.
"How could I not be your sister? We grew up together; you’ve always been my sister."
Qiao De said suspiciously.
Qiao’s mother knew the truth, and now her face turned from pale to red, her eyes dodging, not daring to look at Qiao En.
"En’en, it was all mom’s confusion for a moment, but everything mom did was for your brother. Now that he is out safely, can’t you just not hold it against mom?
She transferred Qiao En’s identity to An Kexin, and now, she was asking Qiao En to not mind it.
Qiao En laughed.
This manipulation, Qiao’s mother really was a master at it.
"Mrs. Qiao, your daughter is someone else, you shouldn’t be here."
Qiao En spoke and turned to walk back inside.
"Mom, what is going on?"
Qiao De roared.
Only then did Qiao’s mother reveal the truth about the identity transfer to Qiao De.
"Ah De, mom did all this for you. Miss Kexin said, she would arrange for you to join An Corporation and give you the position of sales director."
"Really?"
Qiao De’s hopes were raised once again.
"Absolutely true. Miss Kexin said, as soon as you’re out, you just report directly to An Corporation, she has arranged everything."
An hour later.
Qiao De appeared in front of the An Corporation building.
Although An Corporation’s building was not as imposing as Nanchen’s, it was still considered one of the top enterprises in Rong City.
After facing rejection at Nanchen, Qiao De now pinned his hopes on An Corporation.
He entered the lobby and headed straight inside, but barely had he walked a few steps when he was stopped by security.
"Get out!"
The security was rude.
Qiao De’s defiant nerves were ticked off, "Who the hell are you talking to? Do you know who I am?"
The two security guards looked at each other and, without another word to Qiao De, each grabbed an arm and dragged him out.
"Put me down, I am the new sales director."
But no one listened to Qiao De.
He had just entered the An Corporation building, and was thrown out.
Afterward, he never got the chance to approach that building again.
