Proofread by Zhou Zhijie

The angry words uttered by Ding’s father strike Ding’s ears like a thunder. Before being overwhelmed with misery, she is shocked by the following words.

“Dad, what did you say? What on earth has happened to our company?” She is astonished by the news. Before her kidnapping, the company of her family was running quite well.

Especially since she was engaged to Fang Hao, the Fang’s company has gradually begun to cooperate with the Ding’s company. How could the Ding’s company with a good development prospect suddenly go out of business?

At this time, Ding’s dad was too angry to reply to her daughter. Ding’s mother aside can’t restrain herself anymore and starts complaining.

“Recently due to the financial crisis, many companies are unable to survive, and countless companies have gone bankrupt.”

Ding Manman heard news like this a few days ago, but the company of her family shouldn’t have been impacted.

“Didn’t our company cooperate with the Fang’s Group before? Being backed by the Fang’s Group, even if the company suffered a great loss, it wouldn’t go bankrupt.”

Ding Manman can’t figure out this. The Group that Fang Hao’s father is in charge of, though unable to compete with Zhong’s Group, still has the ability to support Ding’s company.

“How dare you say this? Owing to your escape from the wedding and your affair with Zhong Shaoting, the Fang’s group has withdrawn all cooperative projects with our company. The other partners have also withdrawn their capital in order to save themselves. In such a situation, how can the company survive?”

While Mrs. Ding says so, she is unable to hold back her tears. These days, she was quite obsessed with the company’s trouble. However, the Fang Group was extremely resolute. No matter how they begged for help, they refused to lend them a hand.

All these were incurred by Ding Manman. If she hadn’t been imprisoned by Zhong Shaoting in the past days, Ding’s father would have slapped her and forced her to apologize to the Fang’s.

“It’s impossible. Fang Hao won’t do this. He won’t do this...” Ding Manman cannot help denying it. Even though Fang Hao didn’t believe her, he wouldn’t be so hardhearted in terms of their being in love for so many years.

“Hum, you dare to stay with another man, why can’t the Fangs stand by?” Ding’s father, angry at Ding’s continuous denial, says indignantly .

“Now, you must go to Fang’s home immediately to apologize to them in whatever ways you can, even kneeling down to persuade them to support our company. If you fail, don’t come back then.”

Ding’s father says resolutely. Ding’s mother aside doesn’t say anything to stop him. She even believes that this problem is supposed to be solved by Ding Manman.

They have never thought for Ding Manman. Even though she is their daughter, they do not believe her, to make the matter worse, they even blamed her because of a few words from others.

Ding Manman has been accustomed to the wat her parents treat her. Now what makes her unable to believe is the decision made by the Fang’s. Instead of thinking about it much, it’ll be better to ask Fang Hao personally at the Fang’s.

As soon as this occurs to her, Ding Manman starts to ready herself for going out. Seeing her actions, Mr. Ding turns mild. If she remains to be unrepentant, he may sever the relationship with his daughter!

At the gate of the Fang’s. Fang Hao is summoned back to the house from his own apartment by his mother’s series of continual calls.

Considering that he hasn’t been back home for a long time and his parents must be worried, he decides to go back to reassure his parents. As soon as he enters the house, he sees the last person he wants to see.

“Fang Hao, how silly of you to stand at the door! Come over and I’ll introduce someone to you. This is An Ya. Thanks to An Ya today, otherwise you may never see your mother again.”

Fang’s mother says with a smiling face, not like a person who has just gone through an accident at all. Her eyes that fix on An Ya are full of amiability.

“Why are you here?” Fang Hao stares at An Ya who is sitting beside his mother tamely, with his eyebrows frowning tightly. Since she left the bar that day, she hasn’t showed up. He thought she had abandoned her improper and troublesome thoughts. But he didn’t expect that she fails to restrain herself and turns up finally.

Before An Ya responds, Fang’s words catch his mother’s attention.

“Fang Hao, do you know An Ya?” Noticing her son’s apparently changed expressions, in addition to An Ya’s hesitant look, she roughly knows what’s the relationship like between them.

“Auntie, Fang Hao and I graduated from the same school, but we hardly know each other. We are just alumni from the same school. Fang Hao was so outstanding in the school that quite few people didn’t know him.”

An Ya says in a gentle voice. What she said not only distances her from Fang Hao in case of being suspected by Fang’s mother, but also offers some compliments to Fang Hao.

Fang Hao is actually his mother’s biggest pride. Hearing someone’s compliment, she is overjoyed and feels more satisfied with this girl.

Fang Hao doesn’t bother to expose her lies and he wants to see what tricks she is playing.

“You are alumni from the same school! That can be regarded as a kind of connection between you two. It seems that, An Ya, you are predestined to have some relationship with our family.” Mrs. Fang is grinning from ear to ear, which really puzzles Fang Hao.

Then, Fang’s mother tells him about what happened in the day. She went shopping in the mall. After shopping, she walked out of the mall, only to find that her driver had parked the car across the street. She called the driver, but his phone was dead.

Fang’s mother had no way but to walk across the street. Suddenly a car rushed out regardless of the red lights.

Being no longer young, she was unable to move quickly. In the split second she was almost hit by the car, and it was An Ya who pulled her out of danger.

Therefore, An Ya is now a life-saving benefactor in Mrs. Fang’s eyes. In addition, An’s graceful and decent behavior reveals that she is from a wealthy family, which makes Mrs. Fang more satisfied and thus she brought An home.

“Why did the driver go to the opposite side of the street?” After hearing the incident, Fang Hao also feels fearful, and a little grateful to An Ya as well. But he noticed the weird part of the incident: why did the driver go to the opposite side of the street?

“I asked him the same question. He said that he suddenly wanted to smoke and found himself running out of cigarettes. Considering that I had not finished shopping, he just drove to the convenience store on the opposite side to buy cigarettes. Rest assured, I have fired that irresponsible driver. Things like this won’t happen again.”

When mentioning the driver, Fang’s Mother grits her teeth. If it were not for An Ya who turned up in time, she might have already been in another world being separated her family now. Thus, she feels fortunate to meet An Ya and becomes more affectionate towards her.

“Anyway, I still have to thank An Ya. If you had not saved me in time, I might have lost my life. I really don’t know how to repay you.” Holding An’s hands kindly, Mrs. Fang says, with her eyes fixing on Fang Hao, conveying her intention clearly.