Chapter 3: 3. Chapter 3: Confronting the Fiancé

Chapter 3: Confronting the Fiancé

The statement was taken quickly, and the police even offered to help Jiang Ning apply for a commendation for bravery.

As she was preparing to leave, Jiang Ning heard a police officer calling Wang Qiang's wife.

Upon hearing from the officer that Wang Qiang had slashed a policeman in the street, Wang Qiang's wife said resentfully, "I have already filed for divorce; I have nothing to do with him! He has abused me for over twenty years. Whenever he sees me talking to a man, he accuses me of cheating and drags me home to beat me! He even threatened to kill me! For a piece of scum like him, you should just shoot him dead!"

...

As Jiang Ning walked out of the police station, the phone that had been resting quietly in her pocket suddenly vibrated.

She pulled it out and saw the name "Mu Mingxuan" on the screen.

Jiang Ning's expression instantly turned cold. Mu Mingxuan—the culprit responsible for making her lie in a hospital bed for an entire month!

As for his other identity, the mere thought of it made Jiang Ning feel nauseous.

Years ago, when the wives of the Huo and Mu families were pregnant at the same time, a betrothal was arranged before the children were even born.

After Huo Miao's identity as a fake heiress was exposed, Mu Mingxuan had treated Jiang Ning—the true heiress who had returned to the Huo family halfway through—with utter contempt. He repeatedly insisted that he and Huo Miao were truly in love, telling Jiang Ning to get lost and stop interfering with them.

But the truth was, Jiang Ning looked down on him just as much—a useless parasite who had grown up relying entirely on his family's status.

For some reason, he possessed an inexplicable confidence, convinced that Jiang Ning was merely a "toad dreaming of eating swan meat." He would frequently act like a clown, jumping in front of her just to assert his presence.

Her slender, fair fingers swiped across the screen, connecting the call.

Before Jiang Ning could even speak, Mu Mingxuan's furious voice erupted from the phone. "Jiang Ning! Have you lost your mind? I heard you just beat up Miaomiao at the villa and pushed her into the pool! How can you be so vicious? Miaomiao can't swim; pushing her into the water is attempted murder!"

Jiang Ning: "..."

Mu Mingxuan continued to roar like an angry dinosaur, "I'm telling you, even if you kill Miaomiao, I won't give you a second glance!"

Jiang Ning held the phone a little further away and asked earnestly, "Are you mentally ill? If you are, please go see a doctor immediately, okay? Did Huo Miao fail to mention that I didn't just kick her into the water, but I also kicked her dear parents and brother in along with her? I never target her alone; I clearly target her entire family. As for murder... is the 'murder' you're talking about a one-point-four-meter pool that can instantly drown four adults?"

Mu Mingxuan choked on his words.

He was away on a business trip today, so he hadn't attended the Huo family gathering.

Just now, Huo Miao had suddenly called him crying, saying that Jiang Ning had appeared at the party, beaten her, and pushed her into the swimming pool. She claimed that if someone hadn't fished her out, she would have nearly drowned... Despite being treated this way, Huo Miao had expressed no resentment toward Jiang Ning; instead, she felt extremely self-reproachful, wondering if she should leave the Huo family so that Jiang Ning would finally calm down.

Hearing this, Mu Mingxuan had been consumed by rage, prompting him to call and interrogate Jiang Ning.

He never expected that Jiang Ning hadn't just kicked Huo Miao into the water, but had kicked the rest of the Huo family in as well!

*As expected of someone raised in the countryside—so crude and uneducated in her actions,* he thought.

Mu Mingxuan spoke up, "Uncle Huo and Auntie Chen must have had the worst luck in eight lifetimes to have given birth to you."

Jiang Ning's eyes darkened, and her tone turned icy. "Mu Mingxuan, where are you right now?"

"I'm on a business trip in Q City," Mu Mingxuan said indignantly. "Otherwise, why do you think I didn't attend the gathering today? If I had been there, I would never have let you touch a single hair on Miaomiao's head!"

"Fine," Jiang Ning nodded. "I've noted what you just said. And regarding how you caused my hospitalization before—just you wait. The next time we meet, if I don't beat you into a caterpillar, my surname isn't Jiang."

Having said that, she hung up before Mu Mingxuan could react.

With a flick of her finger, she added Mu Mingxuan to her blocked list.

With that parasite's contact information gone, Jiang Ning felt as if the very air had become fresher.

Deciding to go all the way, she proceeded to block the contact information of the entire Huo family as well.

The Huo family was large. It was unclear if Father and Mother Huo had focused solely on one type of "sport" in their youth, but they had fathered three sons before Jiang Ning. Not even two years after Jiang Ning was swapped at birth, they had another set of twins.

However, a rotten bamboo produces no good shoots; in Jiang Ning's eyes, none of these sons were any good.

The eldest brother, Huo Li, was a business elite, but the moment he returned home, it was as if he had left his brain in his office. He ignored his biological sister entirely while showing immense concern for the imposter, Huo Miao. Every time he went on a business trip, he only bought gifts for Huo Miao, and he frequently believed Huo Miao's one-sided accounts, coldly warning Jiang Ning not to bully her.

The second brother, Huo Ziheng, who had been kicked into the water to soak this afternoon, was also a devotee of "Huo Miao-ism."

As for the third brother, Huo Minghui, while his personality was relatively mild and he didn't reject Jiang Ning as harshly as the others, if forced to choose between Jiang Ning and Huo Miao, he was absolutely the type to choose Huo Miao.

As for the remaining twins, the fourth and fifth sons, there was no need to mention them.

These two high schoolers had long since been brainwashed by Huo Miao's manipulation. They had zero respect for their biological sister and frequently told Jiang Ning to get out of the Huo house.

Previously, out of consideration for blood ties, she had swallowed every grievance, no matter how great, when facing these people.

In the future, if these people still had the audacity to mock her, she would beat one if one came, and beat a pair if two came!

The new skill Jiang Ning had unlocked upon her discharge: Smashing Scumbags!

However, Jiang Ning had not forgotten the existence of the system within her.

Looking at her remaining three days of life, Jiang Ning poked at the system in her mind. "After completing the task just now, there was a 'Merit Value' in addition to the life points. What is that?"

[Host, I am here.]

[The full name of this system is the "Act of Kindness System." As the name implies, it promotes positive energy and builds a beautiful, harmonious society.]

[If the Host had not appeared today, according to the original trajectory, after Wang Qiang had been in a standoff with the police for three or four hours, he would have succumbed to physical exhaustion. Realizing he couldn't escape, he would have heartlessly slashed the hostage's neck and been shot dead on the spot by the police. The hostage would have also died in the ambulance due to excessive blood loss from severe injuries.]

[The Host's appearance changed the outcome of this event, saving two lives and altering the fates of other members of the hostage's family. Therefore, the total Merit Value is +3.]

What Jiang Ning was more concerned about was: "What is the use of Merit Value?"

[Merit Value can also be called "Luck." Those with high Merit Value are destined to have profound blessings and a smooth life. Since the Host is currently suffering from a terminal illness, you can use Merit Value to nourish and heal your body.]

[Once the Host's level increases, you can also use Merit Value to exchange for desired items in the System Mall.]

As the system finished speaking, a screen displaying her personal information suddenly appeared before Jiang Ning.

Host: Jiang Ning Kindness Level: 0 [1/10]

Jiang Ning, having played games before, understood roughly: "I completed one task. I need to catch criminals ten times to complete ten tasks before I level up, right?"

[Correct.]

Jiang Ning sharpened her resolve. "Are there any tasks available right now?"

[There are!] Seeing how proactive her host was, the system immediately pulled up the task page for her.

[As of now, there are over three million fugitives in the New Country. The tasks I am pulling up now are all relatively close to you—within the same district, city, or province.]

[If a situation arises where a criminal suddenly commits a crime or is near you, similar to this afternoon, I will immediately issue a relevant new task.]

Where light cannot reach, shadows exist, and the malice breeding in those shadows grows unchecked.

Even in a place like the New Country, with its complete legal system and good public security, there would still be those who take risks for personal greed, endangering society.