Lin Nian had been holding on to a sliver of hope, but when the police officer told her she had to come with them for an investigation, her vision went black, and she nearly fainted.

Due to the intense emotional turmoil, the dragging pain in her abdomen suddenly worsened. Lin Nian clutched her stomach and slowly squatted down.

Qin Jiao immediately saw the bloodstain on Lin Nian’s white pants. She shouted at once, "Quick, get her to a hospital!"

Chen Feng had been staring sullenly at Qin Jiao. He felt that Qin Jiao and Shen Yi were too close. They clearly weren’t dating, so why was there this indescribable intimacy between them?

Chen Feng only snapped out of it when Lin Nian collapsed on the ground, crying out in pain. That’s when he saw the blood on her pants.

He was a bit stunned.

Just then, school teachers rushed over. Together with the police, they scrambled to get Lin Nian outside.

At that moment, the national college entrance exam was about to begin. The teachers told the other students to stop gawking and get into the examination hall as quickly as possible.

Qin Jiao and Shen Yi took a few steps before looking back to see Lin Nian struggling fiercely. "Let me go! Don’t grab me! I’m not going to the hospital! I want to take the exam! I have to take the exam!"

She screamed herself hoarse, her face deathly pale, and she was bleeding freely.

Chen Feng hesitated for a moment, then called over his mother, Li Xiaomei, who was waiting at the school gate. He asked her to stay with Lin Nian, then turned and walked into the classroom.

In that era, the national college entrance exam was important to everyone.

Of course, Chen Feng wasn’t going to give up the exam for Lin Nian.

Lin Nian watched Chen Feng’s retreating back as he left without a second glance. Her heart ached terribly, but the pain in her abdomen was no less intense. She almost passed out.

Li Xiaomei was getting annoyed. She wanted to stay and wait for her son. So she said to the nearby police officer and teacher, "Hurry up and get her to the hospital. It’ll be bad if someone dies."

After saying that, she remained standing at the school gate, not moving a single step.

When Lin Nian heard this, she was dumbfounded. ’The usually gentle Aunt Li is actually this indifferent toward me?’

The last thing Qin Jiao saw before entering the classroom was Li Xiaomei and Shen Zhengfeng still standing at the gate like all the other parents, waiting as their children took the exam, while Lin Nian, bleeding from a suspected miscarriage, was sent to the hospital first.

Of course, once it was confirmed that she was okay, she would then have to go to the police station for questioning.

Once the exam began, Qin Jiao immediately pushed all thoughts of Lin Nian and the reborn Shen Yi to the back of her mind. In this era, for someone of her ordinary background to truly carve out a new path, she really had to rely on the national college entrance exam.

Going into business was also an option, but business was something of a dark art. For example, the same venture could have completely different outcomes depending on who ran it.

She still had to do business, and money had to be made, but Qin Jiao also needed to constantly improve and enrich herself. Only by becoming strong, inside and out, could she be considered truly powerful. Only then could she properly protect her parents and Xiao Shi and ensure her whole family could live a prosperous life.

The exam time passed quickly. Since it was a two-day test, Qin Jiao went straight home after the first day, put everything else aside, and rested early. The next day, she set out with Shen Yi to take the exam again.

It was only after the second day of exams finished and the third-year high school students began their break that Qin Jiao learned that Lin Xiaohua and her husband had both been arrested. The several children they had previously abducted had also been rescued.

However, one of the children’s parents couldn’t be found; he was said to have been abducted from another province.

Along with an accomplice, the three of them were sentenced to ten, eight, and three years in prison, respectively.