So many adored Huangfu Jue, and her image wasn’t tarnished by the scandal—wasn’t this exactly what she wanted?
With a relaxed expression, Gan Yuan advanced with measured steps.
"You... What are you doing?"
The female clerk stepped back in fear. The news had said it all: this woman had connections to the criminal underworld and even attempted to assassinate the President. She... she couldn’t be...
Gan Yuan glanced at the clerk’s pale face, snatched the cotton swabs and gauze from the counter, and turned to leave.
After all, she was now playing the role of the bad woman. If the other party wouldn’t sell her the medicine, she would just take it.
"You... you... stop..."
The clerk watched her steal the items and wanted to stop her but lacked the courage. She immediately pressed the alarm bell on the counter.
Security came from the other side, and she pointed right at Gan Yuan.
"Someone’s stealing medicine..."
The security guard gave chase. Upon seeing Gan Yuan stepping down the stairs, he cried out.
Gan Yuan turned to gaze at him, and recognizing it was her, the security guard’s heart tightened, and his bluster noticeably deflated.
Not far off, police on patrol heard the noise and immediately picked up speed to rush over.
"She... she’s robbing the place!"
The female clerk shakily pointed towards Gan Yuan, who was already on the edge of the road.
The two policemen quickly drew their guns, aiming at her from a distance.
"You in the black shirt, stop right now, put your hands up, or we will..."
Before the policeman could finish his sentence, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet had already hit his hand holding the gun.
Screams erupted all around, and the other officer immediately helped the injured colleague to take cover behind a billboard.
A car drive up fast and screeched to a halt in front of Gan Yuan.
From inside the rear door, a familiar male voice emerged.
Seeing the officer get shot, Gan Yuan was also taken aback. She glanced at Jessica, who was in the passenger seat, gun raised, ready to fire. Gan Yuan grabbed Jessica’s gun to prevent further harm, then slid onto the back seat and slammed the door shut.
The driver floored the accelerator, and the car sped away into the fast lane, quickly leaving the drugstore behind.
Sirens sounded all around as people rushed to treat the wounded officer.
Soon after, reporters caught wind of the incident and began to report on it.
"...Yes, it was her, I’m absolutely sure," the female clerk said tremblingly, her fingers still shaking, "She came into the pharmacy, grabbed some items, and... how could I possibly sell medicine to someone like that? I told her no, and then she... she just took the items and left... Her accomplice also injured a police officer..."
While the report was still ongoing, the pharmacy’s door was pushed open again. Will, accompanied by several men in black, stormed into the pharmacy.
"Are you sure that was Miss Gan?!"
"If you don’t believe me, you can check the surveillance footage. I know it was her... this woman robbed my pharmacy," the female clerk sobbed.
"And then? Where did she go?" Will cut off her crying, impatient.
"She got in a car and left," interjected the security guard, "I recognize it, it was a fancy Mercedes SUV. The shooter wasn’t her, it was another woman sitting in the passenger seat, blonde, very attractive..."
Will grabbed the security guard and dragged him over to a corner of the pharmacy, then pulled out a photo of Jessica from his pocket.