"I don’t care what her name is now. Since she made my life so difficult, I won't let it go easily!" Bai Rongrong said with anger.
"Miss Bai, we could try this..." Ye Ziwen leaned in and whispered something to Bai Rongrong.
Bai Rongrong's lips curled into a smile at what Ye Ziwen had suggested.
Meanwhile, Sheng Qing’s time of release arrived.
"Pai-ya, congratulations! You're about to leave," Zhang Lu said, pretending to be close, as she held Sheng Qing’s hand and blinked her watery eyes, seemingly genuine in her well-wishes.
But heaven only knew what was going through Zhang Lu's mind at the moment.
"Aren't you Lu? After these days of getting to know each other, I can see that you’re a good girl. Don’t worry, someone as kind-hearted as you won’t stay here for long," Sheng Qing said with a firm resolve in her words.
Zhang Lu was overjoyed at Sheng Qing’s words, knowing all the acting she had done paid off. As long as this Sheng Qing cared about her a little after release, she would definitely help her.
Since Sheng Qing had already expressed that sentiment, it meant she had fallen into their trap. "Pai-ya, I know you’ve been kind to me. But now that I'm here, my mind is clear—nothing else matters except waiting for the sentence to end and finding a good man to marry."
Sheng Qing liked her more with each word. Her thoughts grew stronger as well, "In your absence, take care of yourself."
"I understand, Pai-ya," Zhang Lu continued her innocent eyes and nodded.
While they spoke, two guards approached. "Sheng Qing!"
"Yes!" They maintained their standard posture and voice.
As Sheng Qing walked behind the guard, she finished with formalities and signed documents before receiving her clothes from them. "Be a good person when you leave; don't come back."
"Thank you, sir," Sheng Qing bowed deeply as the prison gates opened in front of her.
The sky was cloudless, an unusually fine day. But the sunlight was too bright for her to see the outside world clearly.
Behind this iron gate and wall lay fifteen years of her life, while before it were fifteen years of freedom she longed for, and a son whom she had missed for fifteen years!
She hadn’t been able to be by her son Lu Qichen’s side earlier. She couldn’t interfere with his private life then. But now that she was returning, she would not tolerate any demons or devils disrupting his life.
Xia An?
No matter what name this scheming woman uses from now on, she won't stay peacefully in her son's life anymore!
However, since no one knew of her imprisonment when she went in, everyone at the Lu family probably thought she was dead. Re-entering Jing Yuan would take some effort.
Otherwise, even her own son Lu Qichen might not recognize his mother.