Sheâd just discovered this skill herself; by the same logic, getting into a room with its main door shut tight would be no differentâas long as there was a crack where she could shove the Talisman Diagram through, she could slip in without a sound, without a trace.
However, even though sheâd arrived in D State, she absolutely could not expose herself yet, and she couldnât go see Jiang Shiheng right away, because only last night sheâd taken Sun Hanâs call in Capital Cityâhow could she possibly show up in D State first thing the next morning?
So she decided to disguise herself first, then go investigate how exactly she had come back.
She also wanted to hear how Lu Shuangshuang was being seen in the public eye now.
But once she heard it, it practically infuriated her to death.
Turns out public opinion was still completely in Lu Shuangshuangâs hands!
The Jiang Family, and her greatâgrandfatherâwerenât they being way too softâhearted?
No matter how much they needed connections, no matter how they couldnât just fall out with someone, couldnât just rip the mask off in publicâshe understood all that. But what time was it now?
They were already stomping all over their faces, and they were still supposed to endure it?
Was the Jiang Family really this spineless?
Well, she was not!
The spineless Chiang Xiao had already been bullied to that extent in her last life. In this life, she was going to live according to her own temper!
And what was her temper like?
Her temper was: an eye for an eye!
If someone splashed a bucket of dirty water on her, sheâd just shove their head straight into the cesspit!
So, Lu Shuangshuang, Old Master Luâjust you wait!
This time, of course Chiang Xiao came alone. Besides herself, there was no way she could have brought Ding Haijing and the others along.
But how to hide this from Ding Haijing was a big problem.
Guan Tiezhu and Luo Yongsheng didnât really try to control her; they just did their jobs properly, protecting her and sticking close by. If she came up with an excuse, it was still easy enough to slip one past them.
But someone like Ding Haijing was not so easy to fool.
So, after thinking it over and over last night, Chiang Xiao could only deploy a heavyweight shieldâshe had Jiang Yingqiong send a car over to pick her up.
She told Ding Haijing she was going to stay a few days at the Chief Alliance Officer Familyâs place.
Going to Li Hanzhongâs, she definitely couldnât bring anyone, and besides, only there would Ding Haijing feel at easeâthat was the one place he could afford not to keep her under constant watch.
Even so, last night Ding Haijing still repeatedly confirmed that the one driving over to pick her up was indeed that Xiao Li heâd met before at the Chief Alliance Officerâs side.
That was at Chiang Xiaoâs request tooâsheâd specifically asked Xiao Li to come get her in person.
Only that way could she dispel Ding Haijingâs suspicions and get him to let her go.
Chiang Xiao felt a bit tragic about it. Who hired bodyguards and ended up like this? It felt like she was being controlled within an inch of her life.
But regardless, sheâd managed to get out.
Once she arrived at the Alliance Officerâs place, she found an excuse to slip away. She told the Chief Alliance Officer that she needed to go into seclusion for a few days to draw, that she was going to hold an exhibition, and that she had only come by to drop off some tea.
Now that she was already in D State, Ding Haijing surely wouldnât suspect anything, right?
Itâs not like heâd go to the Chief Alliance Officerâs place to ask, and the Chief Alliance Officer wouldnât send someone specifically to ask Ding Haijing whether sheâd gone back.
So that was how she shook off her bodyguards.
Her current outfit looked quite oldâfashioned: she wore a pair of very loose darkâblue homespun long pants, cloth shoes on her feet, and on top a similarly baggy, earthâyellow shirt. Sheâd deliberately mussed up her long hair, braided it into a single plait, and tied it with one of those super tacky red woolâwrapped rubber bands.