Jiang Ning moved swiftly, her actions crisp and decisive, without the slightest delay or prior indication.
Not only were the netizens in the live stream caught off guard, even Liu Minxia, the one getting hit, didn’t see it coming.
It was only when the Flat-bottomed Pan made contact with her body, inflicting pain, that Liu Minxia instinctively let out a wretched scream, "Ah!"
"What are you doing?!" Cen Yufang glared at Jiang Ning, her expression one of utter shock.
She clearly couldn’t understand how Jiang Ning, who had been fine just moments before, suddenly became violent without saying a word.
Liu Minxia, who was hit out of the blue, felt extremely angry, lamenting how she had just thought Jiang Ning was a good person!
Liu Minxia let out an angry roar, spreading her arms wide like an infuriated crab, moving in to retaliate.
At her age, she never expected to be hit by a youngster; she wouldn’t be a Liu if she didn’t scratch Jiang Ning’s pretty face today!
Liu Minxia’s eyes were almost bursting with rage, bulging like bronze bells.
But as she moved forward, her hands hadn’t even touched Jiang Ning when a pair of large hands suddenly stretched out from the side, accompanied by a professional binding rope.
Before Liu Mingxia’s hands could touch Jiang Ning, they were intercepted by Qi Xingzhou, who forcefully gripped her arms, twisting her wrists behind her back in a standard police arrest maneuver.
Then, the professional binding rope was securely fastened around Liu Minxia’s wrists, instantly restricting the movement of her hands.
Having bound an entire fraud team the previous time, such acts of tying people up were all too familiar for Qi Xingzhou.
In just a few seconds, Liu Minxia’s hands were restrained, and she lost her freedom.
All these sudden changes happened in a flash.
The equipment in Jiang Ning’s live stream was still running, capturing the whole scene, leaving the netizens in the stream unable to react:
[Pfft! Did Jiang Ning just make her move?]
[Damn, that scared the hell out of me.]
[Hahaha, the Flat-bottomed Pan makes such frequent appearances! How many times have we seen it now? Is Jiang Ning carrying that crossbody bag again today?]
[Definitely! When Jiang Ning went out for fun before, she liked to carry that bag too!]
[Where did Jiang Ning buy that Flat-bottomed Pan, which brand is it? It looks really good for self-defense, I wanna buy one too.]
[I thought Qi Xingzhou just standing on the side not saying anything was already cool enough, but I didn’t expect his movements to be so neat. Could he also be a martial artist? They are really a good match, no wonder they are a couple.]
[I don’t know why, but I feel like Qi Xingzhou has changed a lot. I always thought he was tall and handsome, a cool and silent guy. But the moment he appeared on camera just now, those stern brows and eyes, there was suddenly a dazzling beauty to it, I can’t say what’s changed, but compared to before, he really does seem different.]
[!!! That’s right! It’s not just me feeling this way! The moment he showed up on camera, that look, that aura, was absolutely killer!]
[Feels like Qi Xingzhou’s existence is a blessing from heaven for all those who adore faces and hands. When Jiang Ning runs out of material to stream, she can just focus the camera on Qi Xingzhou, and she’ll definitely attract a bunch of fangirls.]
[...The conversation is veering off topic, guys. Is now really the time to be pondering this?]
On screen, everyone was openly lusting over Qi Xingzhou’s allure from that fleeting glimpse.
Outside the screen, after Qi Xingzhou had tied up Liu Minxia, Cen Yufang, who was standing by, had a shocked expression on her face. It was as if she finally realized that Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou had come today not to sincerely buy a child but to sabotage the operation. As she backed away, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket and hurriedly made a call to her confidant.
With the situation at hand, it was clear that Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were spies!
She had to find someone to capture the two of them immediately!
Today’s incident must not be leaked to the public at any cost!
"Quick, quick, quick, something has happened here, call Ah Bin and tell him to come over!"
As soon as the call connected, Cen Yufang anxiously blurted out with an extremely urgent tone, speaking so fast that the approaching Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou didn’t have time to stop her.
Seeing Cen Yufang’s call for reinforcements, Jiang Ning’s eyes flashed, and he feigned an attempt to stop her.
After making the call, Cen Yufang looked back at Jiang Ning, and her previously frantic demeanor gained a bit of confidence.
However, considering that Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou knew too much, Cen Yufang was still afraid they would expose everything if they managed to get away.
She hid behind the office desk, engaging with Jiang Ning while feigning calm and asked, "You don’t truly want to buy a child, so who sent you? Are you media journalists or undercover volunteers?"
Jiang Ning replied with a slightly surprised tone, "You know us?"
Cen Yufang wasn’t foolish. Looking at how young Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were, she said, "If you are journalists, then you should know there are things which you can report and things you cannot. Haven’t the seniors at your company taught you there are some things you can’t just expose randomly? In the end, it will only bring trouble to yourselves."
"If you’re volunteers, then there’s even less need to take this risk," she continued.
"In the past, there have been volunteers who came to our hospital. I’ve been doing this for many years and have encountered several groups of journalists and undercover volunteers; not once did they manage to get past us."
"Before, there were volunteers who gathered evidence and reported us to the Commission for Discipline Inspection, but in the end, wasn’t everything suppressed?"
"Young people, I advise you not to be too impulsive," Cen Yufang pressed, while trying to intimidate and tempt them, "As for today’s matter, as long as you do not spread it, you can state any terms you want."
Cen Yufang said all this, mainly aiming to temporarily appease Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou.
Right now in this office, there were only a few of them, and at the moment, Liu Minxia was being restrained by Qi Xingzhou!
The current situation was clearly disadvantageous to her.
Whether Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were media journalists or undercover volunteers, since they had come prepared, besides the mobile phone just handed to the nurse, they must have other recording electronic devices on them!
Cen Yufang didn’t want to let Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou escape.
She needed to calm them down, then deal with them slowly once her accomplices arrived.
Cen Yufang had a good plan, but what she didn’t expect was that the recording device on Jiang Ning was not a simple recorder; it was a live streaming device.
Every move in the office was now under the watch of millions of netizens.
[Huh?? Is she trying to buy off Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou? Was our Jiang Jiang the type to lack money when she could just recently take out four hundred thousand yuan without even blinking?!]