Chapter 1385 - I Only Want You (1/2)
The two exchanged glances, and the younger woman said, “Do you know how I got in here?”
“How?”
“My mother and my husband got me in here.” The woman’s eyes were brimming with tears. “My biological mother, not my mother-in-law. My biological mother!”
It was only later on that Jing Chu found out that this young lady was called Qiao An. She was 27 years old and had been in prison for three years already. She had two more years of her sentence to go.
The older lady was called Xiong Mingming and was 38 years old. She made all of them call her Sister Xiong. As her crime of embezzling funds was more serious, she had been in here for 12 years already and had three more years ’til her sentence was to end.
No matter what kind of person it was, everyone became the same kind of person after they entered prison.
As the days passed, Pei Yi completely died inside Jing Chu’s heart.
She did not have a single hope toward him lingering inside her anymore.
And she did not wish to have any ties with him at all in the future.
From the moment he had given up on her, she had done the same to him as well.
From the moment he had given up on her, it meant that he no longer wanted her.
From then onwards, she was free.
All she wanted was to be herself.
She wanted to live a different life.
One in which she could depend on no one but herself.
As the time that the four spent grew increasingly longer, they began to develop a deeper understanding of each other. To Jing Chu, this was a blessing amidst the misery of being in jail.
She was able to chat with the rest every day and even learned how to knit from Qiao An.
The knitting set was sent by Xiong Mingming’s family, so she took time out to knit quietly whenever she had nothing to do.
Even Qiao An, who was originally in the most weary state, gradually walked out of her pain and awaited the day she got out of prison with the others.
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Two years was enough for one to put their mind at ease and thoroughly change a person as well.
When Jing Chu entered prison, it was around the middle of April, and it was in May when she was sentenced. Back then, she had not even passed her 21st birthday. On the day she was released from prison, the weather was also extremely humid.
As she came out carrying her things, she raised her head and looked up at the sky, a grin forming on her calm face.
She was finally free.
A car started to pull over in front of her slowly. Fat Lass’s head popped out from the car window, and she waved at her.
“Sister Jing Chu…”
She looked toward the direction where the sun was in, and Tang Zhijing drove the car right in front of her and pulled over.
During these two years, other than Tang Zhijing and Fat Lass, who was later released from prison, nobody else came.
Her hair was kept rather long, and her hair was as black as kelp. She looked beautiful.
As she had not been out in the sun too frequently, her skin was so white that it was rather shocking.
Tang Zhijing got down from the car and looked at her, grinning lightly. “Let me take you somewhere. Get on.”
“A utopia?”
“You’ll know when we get there.”
She sat at the back row of the car while he placed her luggage inside the car boot for her.
The car drove off very soon.
There was air-conditioning in the car, so it wasn’t humid inside at all.
She turned to ask Fat Lass, “How are you doing?”
“Good. I’m working as a maid at Mr. Tang’s house. Sister Jing Chu, because you asked Mr. Tang to take me in back then, I was able to get a job. Otherwise, I really wouldn’t have known where to go when I came out of prison.”
“This is because of how benevolent our Mr. Tang is.”
Tang Zhijing, who was driving, chuckled as he replied, “Good that you know.”
He gazed at her from the rear-view mirror, noticing that she was different from how she was two years ago.