Chapter 966: Hunted Down All the Way

“I’m telling you, I was forced into it. Do you believe me?”

Under Jia Tao’s threat, Zhang Jing still answered.

Her boyfriend’s furious voice came from the other end. “Forced?! Hahahaha!”

“My ex-girlfriend said she didn’t know why this happened.”

“And now my current girlfriend says she was forced?”

“You two best friends sure have one excuse after another, each more ridiculous than the last!!!!”

Zhang Jing spoke urgently. “I really was forced! If you don’t believe me, then fine!!!!”

Her tone had turned hard, too.

On the other end of the phone, his voice was frantic with pain.

“What good is believing you? What good is not believing you?”

“Even if you really were forced, after something like this, do you think we could still be together?”

Zhang Jing fell silent for a moment, then said, “I don’t mind.”

Her boyfriend shouted, “But I do!!!!”

“Let’s break up, Zhang Jing.”

His voice stopped there, and the call ended.

It seemed to foreshadow a clean, final break between them.

Inside the conference room.

Zhang Jing’s boyfriend knelt on the ground in anguish.

Tears streamed down his face, pattering onto the floor and forming little circles.

“Why? Why does this kind of thing always happen to me?!”

……

At Alice Apartment, where Zhang Jing was.

After the person on the other end hung up, Zhang Jing buried her face in the pillow again.

Watching her, Jia Tao found it rather boring.

“Seriously, why did your boyfriend break up with you so quickly?”

“That’s not how I thought this would go!”

Jia Tao had seen this sort of thing plenty of times before. When the boyfriend wasn’t around, they would send him a video call or a recording.

Usually, the boyfriend would fly into a rage and come over to settle the score with them.

Only after settling the score would he get around to breaking up with his girlfriend.

But this guy had actually dumped her right there on the phone?

That was a first.

“Boring. This is so boring.”

Jia Tao had been planning to wait for her boyfriend to show up, then capture him and put on an NTR show right in front of him.

Unfortunately, that wish wasn’t going to come true.

“Ah, what a bore…”

Jia Tao was completely naked as he sat on the edge of the bed, staring up at the ceiling. A deep sense of loneliness hung over him.

Zhang Jing, who had buried her face in the pillow, lifted her head. Her voice was a little shrill.

“Are you satisfied now?”

Jia Tao replied, “Satisfied, but not satisfied.”

“My boyfriend has already broken up with me. You’re still not satisfied?”

“I’ve now suffered everything my best friend went through back then.”

“So you’re taking revenge for her, right?”

“Making me suffer the same way she did?”

Zhang Jing understood everything now.

These three people had come after her in exactly the same way. What were the odds of that happening by chance?

And then there was the reason they had threatened her into this.

It all made sense.

They were taking revenge on her, making her experience the same pain as her best friend!

Still, whoever had come to avenge her best friend was underestimating her.

This ordeal had been awful, sure.

But it was nowhere near the state of total physical and emotional collapse her best friend had been in.

Her distress came from her boyfriend breaking up with her.

Of course, she didn’t actually have much affection for him.

She simply liked taking things from other people. What she stole always tasted sweetest.

All in all, the breakup had affected her, but not by much.

As for being forced by the man in front of her…

That mattered even less to her.

She wasn’t like many women. She didn’t care, as long as she hadn’t caught a disease.

She was very open-minded about that sort of thing.

“Who are you to my best friend? Her older brother? Younger brother? A relative? Or a friend? Maybe someone who had a crush on her?”

Now that Zhang Jing had made peace with it, the whole matter didn’t seem like such a big deal anymore.

So she wanted to know exactly who the man in front of her was to her best friend.

“What are you talking about? You keep going on about your best friend and revenge. I don’t understand a word of it.”

Jia Tao looked completely puzzled.

Zhang Jing’s fairly pretty face froze for a moment. “Hm? Did I get it wrong?”

Jia Tao said, “Tell me about it. What best friend? What revenge?”

At this point, Zhang Jing didn’t care anymore.

She told them how she had schemed to ruin her best friend’s innocence and steal her boyfriend.

Jia Tao and Ah Wei were left gaping in shock.

As for the middle-aged man with his face painted white, he was just as usual, like a fool, like a wooden doll.

After turning the matter over in his mind, Jia Tao suddenly understood. “No wonder. No wonder.”

“So you thought I was the one taking revenge for your best friend.”

Ah Wei chimed in, “That’s vicious! You even screwed over your own best friend. You really do have to watch out for your best friend as much as you do fires and thieves!”

Zhang Jing answered Jia Tao without a care. “Yeah. It was pretty similar to the scheme I used against my best friend, so I thought you were taking revenge for her.”

Jia Tao was speechless. This was nothing but a blind cat stumbling onto a dead rat.

Ah Wei asked, “So how is your best friend doing?”

Zhang Jing replied, “I just got the news today. Her depression got too severe, and she jumped to her death.”

She was calm, completely indifferent.

Ah Wei asked, “You don’t feel anything at all? No guilt?”

Zhang Jing shook her head.

Jia Tao slapped his thigh. “Now that’s interesting! You’re a fascinating woman!”

Zhang Jing turned her head and looked at Jia Tao. She could tell that among the three, the man with glasses in front of her was the leader.

She asked him, “What are you going to do to me now?”

Jia Tao answered frankly, “I was going to have my way with you and then kill you, but I think you’re interesting, so I don’t want to kill you anymore.”

Zhang Jing was stunned by his words.

Kill her?

Was he serious?

Was it a joke, or did he mean it?

Zhang Jing suddenly realized that Jia Tao and the other two really did seem a little off, not quite like ordinary people.

Since they weren’t taking revenge for her best friend, yet they had broken into her home and done that to her…

Then they might really be capable of assaulting her and killing her afterward.

A flicker of fear crossed her mind, but it quickly vanished.

“Then I guess I should thank you for not killing me. How about this, to repay you, I’ll keep you company for the remaining few days?”

Bold enough to act because of her skill, Zhang Jing even took the initiative.

Jia Tao thought the woman in front of him was genuinely interesting, fascinating.

She was completely different from all the others he had met before.

So he told Ah Wei and the middle-aged man to go back to his place. He wanted to be alone with Zhang Jing.

In the live stream room, in the chat section.

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Oh wow, this Paid Assassination is a bust!]

I am the Hero: [Yeah, yeah, Zhang Jing actually managed to get away with it. She’s so lucky. Good people don’t live long, but calamities last a thousand years.]

The main camera in the live stream room turned toward Zhang Yao again.

Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man chased Lawyer Chen Sanshui all the way down.

These two wouldn’t spare him the way Jia Tao had spared Zhang Jing.

Unless Chen Sanshui was a woman.

While fleeing, Chen Sanshui also pulled out his phone and called the police.