"State your purpose! Otherwise, I'll kill you today!" Jiang Jingxiu had no intention of letting her go.
"I... I was just taking it for someone else... I really didn't know it was you, my uncle... If I had known, I wouldn't have dared, even if it meant death." Jiang Mi's tears fell, hoping he would pity her as he had before.
"I beg you to let me off this time!" Jiang Mi clutched his arm, her eyes filled with supplication.
Jiang Jingxiu sneered, "I'm giving you a chance to tell the truth! Since you're unwilling to speak, you'll never get what you want!"
It would be a miracle if he believed her!
The woman beside him couldn't stand it and leaned in, "Young Master Jiang, call the police. This is theft."
"Your suggestion is good. Theft could easily land you ten years. After all, you stole a valuable item! Worth hundreds of millions!"
Jiang Jingxiu let go of Jiang Mi, but his next action sent a chill down her spine. She couldn't let him call the police. If she were caught, Mian Mian would truly be left to die!
Seeing the man dial the number, Jiang Mi rushed forward, snatched his phone, and smashed it excitedly. "You can't call the police!"
She fell to her knees before him with a thud, tightly gripping the robe he was wearing. "Uncle, I beg you, I'll do anything you want, just don't call the police!"
"Tell the truth! Otherwise, you'll be locked up forever!" Jiang Jingxiu stared expressionlessly at the woman kneeling at his feet. What puzzled him was that he was actually reacting to her!
Jiang Jingxiu's face darkened completely. This feeling came quickly and intensely, making him want to grab her and torment her.
"I... I just wanted to steal your seed, to have a child of the Jiang family... I'm not reconciled. I've been in the Jiang family for over ten years, enduring hardships for Jiang Tian. I just want what I deserve!" Jiang Mi's mind raced, and she found the most suitable lie.
The Jiang family had adopted her years ago to shield Jiang Tian from misfortune.
Jiang Tian, the cherished daughter of the Jiang family, had been frail since childhood and was diagnosed by doctors to not live past eighteen. However, Jiang Tian was the only daughter, the apple of everyone's eye in the Jiang family. Thus, the family, believing a fortune teller, sought someone with an identical birth chart to hers to ward off calamity.
After the life exchange, her fate and Jiang Tian's were swapped. Miraculously, Jiang Tian's health improved, while she began falling ill. She was constantly sick for over a decade, on the brink of death many times. At eighteen, her mission was complete, and she was to be cast aside.
The Jiang family mercilessly expelled her, the sacrificial substitute. At that time, Jiang Mi was plagued by illness. It was only because of her strong constitution that her health eventually recovered after giving birth to Mian Mian.
The wrongs the Jiang family had inflicted upon her... could never be repaid in this lifetime!
During those ten years, only Jiang Jingxiu treated her like a human being, insisting that the Jiang family send her to school and even enrolling her in extracurricular classes.
"You want money!" Jiang Jingxiu's expression remained cold. He suddenly recalled the frail little girl from back then. He knew about Jiang Tian's calamity shielding, and he hadn't stopped it. He had been trying his best to compensate her.
Had she not climbed into his bed and caused the death of his fiancée, he might not have abandoned her, considering what the Jiang family owed her.
"Yes." Jiang Mi, seeing that he had finally believed her, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Jiang Mi, have you forgotten what you did back then! If you hadn't climbed into my bed, Yaqi wouldn't have been hit by a car and died! She lost her life, and you still have the audacity to demand money!"