At such a critical moment, she couldn't dodge, so her only option was to try that move.
Acting faster than thinking, Qiao Jing leaped up, rolled over to the hood of the car, gathered her strength, and forcefully held herself on the hood until the car came to a stop, then she rolled off and landed on the ground.
Although she suffered a few cuts, fortunately, there was nothing more serious.
"Oh my God!" Lu Zijiao was so frightened that his soul nearly left his body, and he hurriedly pushed open the car door and got out.
Zhan Qipei also got out of the car and walked over.
"Are you, are you alright?" Lu Zijiao asked, swallowing his saliva.
Qiao Jing, supporting herself on the lamp post, got up from the ground and glanced past Lu Zijiao toward Zhan Qipei.
"It's you."
"Ahem—" Lu Zijiao cleared his throat, looking toward Zhan Qipei, "Young Master Zhan, she's indeed Qiao Jing, the one you're supposed to marry today."
Lu Zijiao misunderstood, thinking Qiao Jing's "It's you" referred to that. In fact, Qiao Jing had never met the person she was to marry, and her "It's you" was merely referring to the person she had saved in the cornfield a few days ago.
It's Zhan Qipei?!
Qiao Jing looked at Zhan Qipei with surprise. After a pause of two seconds, she looked at the car that had crashed into the pillar, and immediately clenched her fists, her eyes filled with cold fury as she faced the man.
"Returning kindness with malice!"
"What did you say?" Zhan Qipei asked, puzzled.
"I said, President Zhan, if you really don't want to marry me, just say it. There's no need to send me to my death!"
Qiao Jing was truly angry. She cherished her life, and no one was going to take it away!
At that moment, Grandpa Zhang's words before his death came to her mind, admonishing her to live well.
She had contracted a severe contagious disease shortly after she was born, and her mother had died taking care of her. Later, she was abandoned by her biological father and grandparents in a snowdrift in the countryside. If not for Grandpa Zhang from the village finding her, she would probably have died in the snow.
So ever since she was sensible, she realized that her life had been wrestled from fate, and since it was so hard-fought, no one should think of taking it easily from her!
"Qiao Jing, you misunderstood, it's not what you think!" Lu Zijiao hurriedly explained. "Young Master Zhan indeed doesn't want to marry you, but he never thought of taking your life."
"Let's talk about this at the police station!" With that, Qiao Jing took out her phone, dialed 110, and called the police.
"This is Zhengnan Street, near number 353, there's an attempted murder..."
Watching Qiao Jing reporting to the police, Lu Zijiao's mouth hung open wide enough to fit a goose egg, no! An ostrich egg.
Zhan Qipei looked sternly at Qiao Jing with his deep, dark eyes. He hadn't expected Qiao Jing to actually call the police.
Just then, Su Manhan and Zhan Nanqing arrived.
"Qiao Jing, you wretched girl! You, you really dared to call the police?"
Qiao Jing put down her phone, her eyes half-narrowed as she coldly looked at Su Manhan and said, "Your son wants to run me over, and I can't fight back? Why? Just because you are from a wealthy family, you can do whatever you want? Treat a life like a game?"
Qiao Jing's words left Su Manhan and the others at a loss for words.
Zhan Nanqing came over to Zhan Qipei, and asked quietly, "Brother, you didn't really want to run her over, right?"
Lu Zijiao, who heard this, interjected, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't know the situation. How could Young Master Zhan be that kind of person! Besides, I was the one driving the car!"
Qiao Jing looked at Lu Zijiao, "You were driving the car, who instructed you?"
"No, no, Qiao Jing, you really misunderstood. Just now, a stray cat suddenly dashed across the road, and I panicked, so I sharply turned the steering wheel, and then—"
"Save those words for the police station." Qiao Jing coldly said, then ignored Lu Zijiao, raising her arm to check the injuries on her body. There were seven or eight scrapes, the shallow ones had already clotted, but the deep ones were still faintly bleeding.
Overall, it wasn't very serious.
Zhan Qipei's gaze never left Qiao Jing's body. For some reason, he always felt that the girl in front of him gave him a familiar feeling. Then, seeing Qiao Jing checking her wounds, he felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart.
"I will take you to the hospital first."
Qiao Jing looked at Zhan Qipei expressionlessly, "Do you think that because your murder attempt failed, you now want to make amends to lighten your sentence? Don't think that just because you are the president of Zhan Corporation, you can cover up the sky with one hand. I'm sorry to tell you, you hit me today. No matter how powerful you are, you can't escape the sanctions of the law!"
She, Qiao Jing, had made tremendous contributions to the nation, both in agricultural development and in the field of medicine. Now, she was even working hard to research a new variety of corn that would shock the world if successful!
Zhan Qipei's thin lips were tightly pressed, and his face looked awful. If it weren't for the possibility that the girl was overly frightened and hence emotionally volatile, he absolutely could not tolerate her repeated misunderstandings of him.
Interestingly, aside from external injuries, the girl didn't seem to have any severe issues. The impact had been so fierce at the moment, he had thought she would undoubtedly die.
He remembered that Lu Zijiao's face had turned white with fear at that time, guessing Lu Zijiao probably had the same thought as him.
Yet, the girl was almost unscathed, which was somewhat baffling.
After a brief silence, Zhan Qipei took off his suit jacket and handed it to Qiao Jing, "Put this on."
Qiao Jing glanced at her wedding dress; the torn areas were slightly exposing.
However, she would not accept any kindness from Zhan Qipei.
Qiao Jing turned her gaze to Lu Zijiao, "Give me your clothes."
"Ah? Me?" Lu Zijiao pointed at himself, then, while looking at Zhan Qipei, took off his suit and handed it to Qiao Jing.
Qiao Jing took the suit and immediately put it on.
Zhan Qipei, watching Qiao Jing wearing another man's clothes, felt an inexplicable annoyance.
At that moment, the police car arrived.
Shortly after, Qiao Jing and Zhan Qipei, among others, arrived at the police station.
Since the incident involved Zhan Qipei, the wealthiest man in the capital, it was a major issue, so Captain Zhao had to handle it personally.
Seeing Qiao Jing and Zhan Qipei sitting across from him, Captain Zhao had a terrible headache.
Initially, he thought it was just a big shot like Zhan Qipei, but then he saw a familiar face, Qiao Jing.
Qiao Jing, what a figure, a pillar of great contribution to the empire! The Zhan family's big shot almost killed this important figure; handling this case could literally make him go bald!
Qiao Jing raised her eyes to Captain Zhao, "Haven't the videos been retrieved yet?"
"They will be ready soon, please be patient. Here, have some tea, this is your favorite Pu'er, I've specially prepared it for you." Seeing Qiao Jing getting impatient, Captain Zhao immediately broke out in sweat.
This action by Captain Zhao puzzled everyone present, including Zhan Qipei.
"Captain Zhao, do you know her?" Lu Zijiao couldn't help but ask first.