{"id":5418,"date":"2023-04-27T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2023-04-27T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:31:57","slug":"spare-tire-is-gone-chapter-88-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/spare-tire-is-gone-chapter-88-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare Tire is Gone &#8211; Chapter 88.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was the \u201cseed\u201d, the origin of everything.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong closed the door under Jiang Zhaoyan&#8217;s gaze and then raised his hand to take off his cap, still with his backpack on his shoulder. He then walked to the opposite side of Jiang Zhaoyan, pulled the chair to sit down, and looked at Jiang Zhaoyan, but didn\u2019t speak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan also looked at Qi Cong carefully from top to bottom, and then fixed his eyes on Qi Cong\u2019s face. Finally settling on Qi Cong\u2019s expression, he frowned even more. \u201cYou\u2019ve changed too much.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong still didn\u2019t speak. His hand was loosely resting on the backpack but not touching the dagger inside.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He looked at Jiang Zhaoyan, but didn\u2019t really look at Jiang Zhaoyan. He wondered if the &#8220;seed&#8221; was gone. would the Taskmaster also disappear completely, and whether everyone around him would no longer be harmed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If so\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQi Cong, I didn\u2019t mean to threaten you. I just wanted to tell you something in person so you wouldn&#8217;t regret it later.&#8221; Jiang Zhaoyan took the initiative to pour a glass of water for Qi Cong. Probably because he had never spoken so softly, his tone sounded a little stiff. \u201cS<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ince your accident, you have been avoiding contact with me and the people around you have been preventing me from meeting with you. I can probably tell what they have told you, so I\u2019m not going to argue too much. I just want to clear one thing. I never intentionally tried to use and exploit you. A good number of things only came to my attention when the news broke.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan took out the document package from behind him and pulled out a card from it and pushed it in front of Qi Cong. \u201cThat Jiang Zhaoxuang asked you for money and for you to open a card for him, I never knew about it. This is two million. It should be enough for you to pay back your credit card debt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong glanced at the card on the table but didn\u2019t pick it up, nor did he speak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan waited for two seconds, frowned, and then pulled out another document from the bag and put it in front of Qi Cong. \u201cAlso, as I promised you before, these are your shares in Yanhuang. I didn\u2019t give them to you before because Yanhuang was expanding too fast and I needed a large share percentage to stabilize our position, but now that Yanhuang is gone&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He frowned again as if he was suppressing his emotions and continued, \u201cThis is the money left after I sold Yanhuang. This 30% is your money. Take it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the point of view of a bystander, the Taskmaster pitting Qi Cong\u2019s family and feeding its resources to Yanhunag for three years was only worth 30%?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong fingers rubbed on the backpack\u2019s surface as he finally opened his mouth and asked, \u201cYou wanted to see me just for this?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing Qi Cong finally speak, Jiang Zhaoyan\u2019s posture relaxed, but his tone was no longer so pretentious and mild as he replied, \u201c&#8221;Of course I didn\u2019t come to look for you just for this. This is just by the way. As I said before, the main reason I came to see you at this time is because I don\u2019t want you to regret it later. Qi Cong, your memory is now stuck before you and I met, right? &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong didn\u2019t answer and Jiang Zhaoyan didn&#8217;t wait for his answer as he continued, \u201cAll your knowledge of me comes from what others have told you. Haven&#8217;t you ever thought that they might be lying to you?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong expressionlessly replied, \u201cMy parents and Shen Jia wouldn&#8217;t lie to me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;But Gu Xun would.&#8221; Jiang Zhaoyan took out several more documents and pushed them all in front of Qi Cong. Then looked at Qi Cong like he was a fool that was deceived by everyone and said, \u201cGu Xun has a deep background. Since the establishment of Yanhuang, even at the very beginning he used various means to suppress the company\u2019s development. After you lost your memories and forgot me, he no longer restrained himself. The reason Yanhuang collapsed so quickly is because he helped behind the scenes. Also I suspect that Sanmu\u2019s bankruptcy was also part of his handiwork.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong raised his eyes abruptly, stared at Jiang Zhaoyan and asked, &#8220;Gu Xun\u2019s handiwork?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan looked at Qi Cong&#8217;s subdued expression and motioned to the documents. &#8220;I know you are hostile to me and don&#8217;t believe what I say, so I brought evidence. There are the documents on the table, you can take a look.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong suppressed his emotions little by little as he looked at the documents on the table. Finally releasing his grip on his backpack, he opened the document on the top.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This document was the Sanmu Corporation\u2019s contract with a foreign company during its important period of transformation. The data showed that Sanmu wanted to complete its final transformation through cooperation with this foreign company, but in the end this cooperation didn\u2019t happen and Sanmu\u2019s preliminary investment was wasted, making it suffer heavy losses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan explained from the side. &#8220;I investigated this company and it\u2019s run by Gu Xun\u2019s cousin. Before it approached Sanmu with this contract, it never cooperated with domestic companies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the information was complete, and the evidence that Gu Xun\u2019s cousin was the person in charge of this company was also very solid. In other words, Gu Xun really came into contact with Sanmu through the hands of his relatives.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong loosened his grip on the document, a little dazed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He didn\u2019t know about this. What was Gu Xun trying to do by meddling with Sanmu business?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQi Cong, Gu Xun isn\u2019t as good as you think. He has been lying to you. Don\u2019t be naive, with his kind of family, how could he really honestly and faithfully wait for you to love him back for so many years? What he feels for you isn\u2019t love at all, it\u2019s just a perverted possessiveness.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan seemed to have held himself back for too long and finally had a chance to vent, so he spoke more and more harshly as he helped Qi Cong open the next document and pushed it in front of him. \u201c &#8220;In order to get you, he can do any vile and dirty thing you can think of or can\u2019t even imagine. After you fell ill three years ago, he frequently contacted you behind my back after I explicitly told him that your condition was no longer suitable for further stimulation, and he still wanted to take you to compulsory memory recovery therapy. You became so afraid of him, that you started to avoid him. After not being able to see you, he found a way to kidnap you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong returned to his senses as he looked at Jiang Zhaoyan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan nodded hard at the document in front of Qi Cong. \u201cHe was borrowing someone else&#8217;s identity to trick me into going to the hotel run by his family under the pretext of business. He locked me up there and used me as blackmail to force you to go there. You went, and then he locked you up too. He also tried to take you away and hurt me. The wound on your back was made by Gu Xun in that kidnapping incident. You blocked that knife for me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan continued after a pause. His tone slowed down and his expression softened, and he spoke, \u201cIf you hadn&#8217;t been hurt, he wouldn&#8217;t have let us go at all. It was after that time that he probably became afraid and finally stopped appearing in front of you. I wanted to call the police, but you stopped me, saying you didn&#8217;t want to make enemies for me when my career was just starting. Qi Cong, take a good look at these. Whether I am really as bad as they say, and whether Gu Xun is really helping you or not, take a good look!\u00a0 Gu Xun is clearly trying to destroy me and your parents so that you would have no support. He is forcing you to go to him and beg him! &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong bowed his head and looked at a picture of Gu Xun standing outside the hospital door looking in. In the photo Gu Xun&#8217;s expression was tense and a little crazy, his eyes red.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His heartstrings trembled and he wanted to reach out and take this photo, but Jiang Zhaoyan suddenly covered this document and went to open the remaining ones.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;There are also these. I knew Gu Xun wouldn\u2019t rest, so I sold Yuanhuang in time. But he is still making small moves constantly. First he is using various methods to set me up, trying to lure me into a trap to swindle the remaining chips in my hand, and then began to suppress and block all resources I still could get. Not only that, my brother, parents, cousins, all the people involved with me, he is looking for a way to get them involved in a lawsuit. First, Zhaoxiang&#8217;s credit card fraud, followed by Jiang Tian&#8217;s embezzlement as well as my parents&#8217; illegal loans. Page by page, he was trying to force my Jiang family to die!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking angrily, Jiang Zhaoyan suddenly slapped the documents hard on the table and got up across the table to face Qi Cong saying, \u201cQi Cong, this is what Gu Xun is really like. He is a madman and a pervert! Don&#8217;t be fooled by him again. You are now in the entertainment industry and that is his own territory so in the future you can only be at his mercy. When he gets tired of you later, what do you think he will do to you, with his nature?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The messy documents scattered on the table blocked most of Gu Xun\u2019s photo, while the renaming small part was pressed under Jiang Zhaoyan\u2019s palm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qi Cong retracted his hand that wanted to reach for the photo and raised his eyes to meet Jiang Zhaoyan\u2019s gaze. His tone was cold and heavy as he asked, \u201cAre you finished?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan came into contact with Qi Cong\u2019s cold and aggressive eyes, choked angrily and slowly straightened up. &#8220;You&#8230;. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIs this your purpose? To rattle my relationship with Gu Xun? To make me pressure Gu Xun, mess with him so he would stop targeting you and your family?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhaoyan realized that something was wrong and his expression changed a little, finally focusing on anger and coldness. \u201cQi Cong, after all I&#8217;ve said to you and laid out so much evidence, you really didn&#8217;t-&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;But,&#8221; Qi Cong interrupted Jiang Zhaoyan\u2019s words. After Jiang Zhaoyan got up, he reached out and picked up from the table full of documents, the photo of Gu Xun. He then carefully wiped the place pressed by Jiang Zhaoyan just now and finally met his gaze as he spoke. \u201cIf you hadn&#8217;t tried to attack Gu Xun with a dinner knife, how could Gu Xun grab your hand and accidentally cut me when I jumped to protect you?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Edited by: Antiope1<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Support translation:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=25191841\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"51\" class=\"wp-image-338 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/become_a_patron_button.png?resize=217%2C51\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 217px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 217\/51;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/lajnaa\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kofi3-3.png?resize=185%2C47\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is kofi3-3.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"47\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 185px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 185\/47;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the \u201cseed\u201d, the origin of everything. 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