Sure enough, no sooner had the car stopped than Lu Jing had already unbuckled his seatbelt, ready to open the door and get out.
But suddenly, a man’s voice interrupted:
"Junior sister, wait a moment."
"Senior, is something wrong?" she asked.
The man gazed sharply into the rearview mirror and slowly said,
"That car has been following us, do you recognize it?"
"Eh? A car is following us?"
Lu Jing was genuinely surprised and quickly turned to look.
Indeed, about ten meters away, a black Volkswagen was parked.
Lu Jing hadn’t paid much attention, but she tended to trust her senior’s words.
Had that black Volkswagen already been there when she caught a cab in the morning and when she just left the hospital?
"I don’t recognize it."
The man squinted his eyes and said,
"You stay in the car, I’ll go take a look."
Hearing this, Lu Jing naturally disagreed,
"That’s not okay, what if there’s danger?"
The man just smiled and said,
"Even if it’s dangerous, they wouldn’t dare do anything to me in broad daylight, in full view of everyone."
Otherwise, would they be trying to provoke the police?
So, typically, they’d wait for an opportunity when one is alone.
The man had already opened the door to get out, and Lu Jing called out in a hurry,
She didn’t get the chance to say what she wanted to stop him with; he had already walked towards the back.
All Lu Jing could do now was to sit in the car and wait.
Of course, her eyes were fixed on the rear the entire time.
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During this extremely tense moment, Lu Jing had already imagined the worst scenario in her mind.
But then, the senior was back,
"Junior sister, are you dating someone?"
How did the topic suddenly jump to that?
Lu Jing hesitated for a few seconds before she finally realized and nodded,
A flurry of something quickly darted through the man’s eyes, but ultimately, he suppressed it.
"Then it’s fine, they’re people arranged by your man."
Lu Jing’s mouth fell open involuntarily, so when did Jiang Ye arrange this? How come she knew nothing about it?
No, she had to go and ask.
With a ’click’, the car door opened.
"Junior sister, what are you going to do?"
"I want to ask them."
The man didn’t say much else,
"Then I’ll accompany you over."
Lu Jing didn’t feel there was any need to avoid suspicion; after all, there really was nothing between the two of them.
If there really was something to avoid suspicion about, that would mean there was something secretive.
Lu Jing walked step by step toward the black Volkswagen and knocked on the window once she got there.
The next instant, the window rolled down to reveal two silly, grinning faces:
"Good day, Young Madam!" they said in unison.
Lu Jing furrowed her brows,
"Arranged by Jiang Ye?" she asked.
"When did he arrange this?"
"Young Madam, it’s been several days already."
She hadn’t noticed at all?
Then the encounters this morning and when she left the hospital probably had nothing to do with them.
Lu Jing was not foolish, and she instantly understood.
If Jiang Ye could silently arrange someone to follow her, then he must have sensed some danger already.
"Did you see anything this morning?" she asked, cutting straight to the chase.
Their expression turned serious, and they nodded at Lu Jing with a certain solemnity.
"Young Madam, after you came out from the fire station this morning, someone started following you."
But they probably didn’t expect that the mantis stalking the cicada would itself be stalked by the oriole!