"You didn't hear wrong, she really said Ma Ge?"

"Absolutely right."

Jiang Qiqi knew I had been looking for Ma Ge all along, but she didn't know the danger Ma Ge was in. I didn't want this young girl to get involved, so I casually took out the bank card from my bag.

"There's a hundred thousand in the card, enough for your education and living expenses. Leave here, go now, don't come back..."

Jiang Qiqi was somewhat stunned, asking in confusion:

"What's wrong, sis? What happened?"

"Don't worry about this matter anymore, don't mention it to anyone. Leave quickly..."

The young girl was frightened, tears in her eyes, she turned and ran, but after a few steps, she turned back.

Kang Xiaozhi had already surrounded us with his men.

"No one is going to leave."

Sure enough, Jiang Qiqi's habit of eavesdropping got her into trouble. She thought her eavesdropping without any evidence was safe, but it was all captured by the new cameras installed by Hua Jie.

Those ruthless thugs, devoid of humanity, showed no mercy towards a young girl.

They kept pressuring her to reveal what she heard and what she told me.

Jiang Qiqi was quite clever, from my behavior just now, she understood the danger Ma Ge was in.

No matter how heavy-handed the thugs were, she stubbornly refused to utter the words "Ma Ge".

"I heard Hua Jie say there was nothing unusual... I definitely kept an eye on the person... I didn't hear anything else..."

As for what she told me, Jiang Qiqi and I tacitly agreed on the same lie.

We recounted the advice I gave her last time we met, added to it the story of the hundred thousand yuan bank card, making everything seem so real.

"I advised her to quit this line of work, she's still young, can go back to school, start afresh, have a new life... I gave her the card to go back to school."

Upon hearing our consistent testimonies, Hua Jie ordered the men to stop, giving Jiang Qiqi a way out.

However, by this time, Jiang Qiqi had been beaten beyond recognition, lying limp on the ground like a pile of mud.

"Young girl, don't bring the habit of eavesdropping from your hometown to the city, it will be the death of you. I won't pursue this matter further, take care of yourself."

Jiang Qiqi, already in a daze, struggled to squeeze out a few words:

"Thank you, Hua Jie."