Sweet Chief Secretary

“Tianci!” Zhou Jiamin called him in a weak voice which was immensely hoarse as if it had been rubbed on the sandpaper. Tears trickled down her cheeks. It was so great that she was still alive.

Li Tianci held Zhou Jiamin’s head in his arms, lowering his head to kiss her on the forehead vigorously. Zhou Jiamin could feel that his lips were trembling.

“Why did you commit suicide? I’ve told you so many times that things will work out.” Li Tianci held Zhou Jiamin in his arms tightly, using all his strength.

In fact, he was also scared in his mind. But things had come to this point, and they had to keep going on. So, if they gave up at this time, they would really have no choice but to die.

He did so much to live better, not to die.

Zhou Jiamin looked up at him, and her heart jolted violently. Actually, she really had no idea why things had come to this point. She never wanted to commit suicide.

The door was pushed open from the outside, and Xiao Man walked in, who also looked very haggard. Seeing that Zhou Jiamin was awake, she was stunned first and then came up to her quickly, saying in a choked voice with sobs, “President Zhou, you are finally awake. How could you take things so hard? I was almost scared to death.”

“It is my fault. I left your room when I saw that you were asleep. If I had stayed there, I could have prevented you from committing suicide.” She said with a look of self-accusation and guilt, and her tears kept trickling down her face.

Zhou Jiamin’s mind was at a loss now when thinking of the thing at that time, and she was not clear about when Xiao Man left. While she felt that she was not asleep at that time, and she did not hear the door close.

Something was wrong. It was very wrong. While she just couldn’t figure it out at this moment.

“What’s wrong with you? I asked you to take care of President Zhou, while you couldn’t even do such a small thing well. If you are not up to this job, I’ll hire someone else.” Li Tianci said angrily.

Zhou Jiamin must not have an accident at this critical time. Otherwise, Zeng Mina, her stepdaughter, would inherit her property naturally after she died since she had no children.

Zeng Mina was in a vegetative state now, so it could be said that Madame Zeng would inherit her property. They had been working so hard for so long. How could Li Tianci be willing to give away everything to that woman?

“Sorry, President Li. I was wrong.” Xiao Man was so scared that she was trembling with fear, keeping apologizing on the side.

“Tianci, it’s not Xiao Man’s fault.” Xiao Man was still devoted to her, and Zhou Jiamin was used to her working for her, so she was not willing to dismiss her because of such a trivial thing.

“You go out first. And I will not forgive you easily for the second time if it happens again.” Li Tianci called Xing over after he asked Xiao Man to leave in a loud voice. He asked Xing to protect Zhou Jiamin, and then he went to do other things relievedly.

Zhou Jiamin was a celebrity, after all. So, it was impossible to keep a secret about her suicide. Xing found a familiar doctor to stitch Zhou Jiamin’s wound at home after coming to Zhou Jiamin.

Xing accompanied Zhou Jiamin for a few days in a row. Knowing that she had dropped the ball, Xiao Man did not dare to appear in front of them.

This day, after lunch, Zhou Jiamin had a sleep. Because of her excessive loss of blood, she always felt weak all over and wanted to sleep very much. Fortunately, she had not got auditory hallucinations again these two days. Otherwise, the wound would have healed more slowly with the lack of sleep.

She felt very strange in her mind. She had not taken any medicine since she woke up yesterday, while she didn’t get auditory hallucinations again. And it was getting worse when she took medicine before. Zhou Jiamin began to suspect that something was wrong with the medicine which the doctor had prescribed for her.

It happened that Li Tianci came to visit her, so Zhou Jiamin asked him to open her bag and then took out the small white bottle with pills in it from her bag. Li Tianci thought that she was going to take medicine, so he even took the cup over with water in it.

“I won’t take medicine. I just think it’s weird.”

She told Li Tianci what she thought was weird. He frowned tightly, asking seriously, “Did the doctor in the hospital prescribe this medicine for you?”

“Yes. He could not have given me the fake medicine.” Zhou Jiamin had no grudges against the doctor.

“I’ll have the medicine taken away by someone for testing right now.”

Li Tianci’s brows were furrowed more tightly. He looked at the white bottle in his hand with cold eyes and then made a phone call. Then Xing came in immediately, taking the bottle away.

“Is there anything else you find strange or suspect? Tell me all about it.” It was of great importance, so Li Tianci attached much importance to it.

Zhou Jiamin thought for a while and then told him about her first hallucination which she always felt was weird. Xiao Man said it was her dream, while she felt it was too real. Zhou Jiamin thought that if she hadn’t passed out suddenly last time, she would have jumped down from the upstairs.

“When I got up the next day, I asked Xiao Man about the situation. Because when I got a hallucination at that time, I talked to her. But Xiao Man said I went to bed after I talked to her for a while. I think it’s very strange because I don’t remember anything about what I said to her or the fact that I went to bed. The only thing I can remember is that Zeng Ziqiang stood on the balcony and talked to me, telling me to jump off.”

“You almost killed yourself as well the first time you had a hallucination?” Li Tianci’s face turned deadly pale. He held Zhou Jiamin’s shoulders with his hands vigorously.

“I suddenly fainted then.” Zhou Jiamin frowned and said. She did not care about it at that time. But after considering that so many things had happened these days, the more she thought about it, the weirder she found it was.

Li Tianci didn’t say anything else then, but he didn’t appear anymore all the afternoon. When Zhou Jiamin woke up the next day, she just saw Li Tianci sitting on the bed, with a few pieces of A4 paper in his hands to have a look. He looked very sulky and cold all over.

“You are awake!” He did not look at Zhou Jiamin, but he just knew that she had woken up, and then he helped her to sit up.

“Good morning!” Because she just woke up, her voice sounded a little hoarse and soft. It seemed to show a bit of enchantment, anyway.

But Li Tianci did not seem to notice that, and he just looked at the paper again.

She had thought that he was looking at something about his work, but when Zhou Jiamin glanced at the paper, she was astounded. Because it was not something about his work, and she saw the name, photos, and much other information of Xiao Man.

“Why are you investigating Xiao Man?” Zhou Jiamin asked Li Tianci puzzledly.

“Because I suspect her. Jiamin, do you know her relationship with Zeng Ziqiang?” Li Tianci looked at her with a serious expression.

“Yes. Her father and Zeng Ziqiang were classmates before.”

“Then do you know she is a nominal foster daughter of Zeng Ziqiang and Madame Zeng? She must have an ulterior motive for staying with you. Maybe, she wants to avenge Zeng Ziqiang.” Li Tianci clenched his fists. He narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a look of danger.

“It can’t be that. Xiao Man once saved me. Last time, we were on a business trip together, and we were robbed at night. The man was to stab me with a knife originally, but then he was pushed away by Xiao Man, and her arm was cut by the knife. I am sure that she couldn’t have done that. I am sure that she couldn’t have.” It was very hard for Zhou Jiamin to suspect Xiao Man.

Hearing Zhou Jiamin’s words, Li Tianci frowned and said, “But I still think that there’s something wrong with her. Those closely involved cannot see clearly. Don’t be fooled by some false appearances, sometimes.”

In fact, Zhou Jiamin suspected that it was Zhou Yan who asked her doctor to prescribe the fake medicine for her. It was more convincing, after all. But Li Tianci didn’t think so. He thought Xiao Man saved Zhou Jiamin at that time because Madame Zeng hadn’t been back, and she thought that Zeng Ziqiang died of natural causes.

While Madame Zeng was back now, so she would turn to Madame Zeng’s side then naturally.

“Have the ingredients of those pills been detected?” Zhou Jiamin still insisted on her own suspicion.

“The test report should be sent here in the morning.” Li Tianci looked at the information of Xiao Man intently and said.

Just after ten o’clock in the morning, Xing took the drug test report over. They looked at it carefully. There were a lot of medical terms that were very professional on it, but the drug effect was written clearly. It was a psychoactive drug that had a sedative effect on relieving anxiety.

There was nothing wrong with the pills!

Li Tianci’s face turned more and more solemn. Then he thought of something and immediately took out the paper with Xiao Man’s information on it, saying coldly, “I got it.”

“I asked someone to investigate the tracks of Xiao Man these days. Look at this.” Li Tianci pointed to what was written on the paper and said with a sullen face and cold eyes, “She was smart enough to know that we would suspect the medicine. So, after your accident, she changed the pills immediately. That’s why there is nothing wrong now with the medicine we’ve checked.”

Zhou Jiamin’s brain buzzed. She felt that her limbs were cold in an instant. “She might…” She could not go on saying then.

Li Tianci took a look at Zhou Jiamin. Then he called Xing in and asked him to install surveillance cameras at home secretly. Then he transferred Xing to another position as if nothing had happened.

Since Li Tianci did it for her sake, Zhou Jiamin did not stop him. But she spent the whole day in anxiety, recalling all the dribs and drabs of her time with Xiao Man before over and over again. But after Li Tianci aroused her suspicion in her mind, when recalling those things that she thought were not strange in the past, she felt that they were very strange now.

But she did not take medicine in front of Xiao Man anymore. Instead, after she got the pills, she always sent Xiao Man away with an excuse of pouring some water or taking some things for her. And after Xiao Man left, she changed the pills.

So, she was in good spirits these two days. Two days later, Xing sent Xiao Man away with an excuse and then took out the camera to play it.

Zhou Jiamin clenched her fists tightly with her eyes staring at the screen. Xiao Man appeared in the video, who pushed open the door of Zhou Jiamin’s room first to have a look and then closed it after finding that she was asleep. Then she opened the medicine chest and a bottle of medicine in it.

It was just the medicine Zhou Jiamin took recently. She poured out the pills in it and then poured the pills that she had prepared into it. Then she walked around the room several times, coming to the door of Zhou Jiamin’s room and knocking at the door. Then Zhou Jiamin woke up, letting her in.

“President Zhou, you should take your medicine now.” Xiao Man said.

“Well! Okay!” Zhou Jiamin sat up in the bed.

Xiao Man handed the pills which she had changed to Zhou Jiamin…

There was no need to watch the rest of the video. Zhou Jiamin completely believed that it was Xiao Man who did those disloyal things. “Unexpectedly, she really did…”

“President Zhou, there is another video that I want to show you. It is the meeting between Xiao Man and the secretary of Madame Zeng, and they have met each other more than once.” Xing was really efficient.

He had investigated clearly Xiao Man’s tracks of action within just a few days.

“What a bad girl you are, Xiao Man! How can you bite the hand that feeds you?” Zhou Jiamin’s eyes revealed the intention to kill. She thought that she was nice to Xiao Man, while Xiao Man actually had betrayed her shamefully.

She thought of the sudden disappearance of the money they had transferred overseas the other day. It might also have something to do with her.

“Jiamin, you are already clear about these things now. So, what should we do then? Xing is still waiting for your order. Just give us a clear answer.” Li Tianci turned the beads in his hand on the side, saying unhurriedly.