“Mr. Xia, please come back and cooperate with our investigation. Your ex-wife’s sister just died by suicide, and we suspect that you abused her before her death, which led to her mental breakdown.”
“You said … Zhao Yuanyuan committed suicide?” Xia Feiqing was confused for a long time.
“That’s right. Slit her wrists last night and her remains were found in the bathroom of your place today.”
Xia Feiqing pressed her brows together with a headache and chagrin. She had actually committed suicide! Drug rehabilitation was just around the corner, but why was that stupid girl so devoid of perseverance?
And …
Where’s Lanlan?
“What about Lan Lan?” Xia Feiqing suddenly dared not imagine, “That’s my ex-wife! She already knows?”
“Of course. She was the one who found the remains, and she was also the one who made the case that you had chosen to kill yourself in order to get back at her for mistreating the deceased so that she couldn’t take it anymore.”
Xia Feiqing somewhat can not believe what he heard, “You said … she suspected that I retaliated against her? I abused the dead?”
“That’s right. So please come back and assist in the investigation.”
“All these words, she said them herself?” Xia Feiqing still didn’t believe it.
“Yes. Please come back immediately!”
Xia Feiqing directly hung up his cell phone.
Damn!
Out of all this, she had already convicted him without a single phone call, without even intending to listen to him for an explanation.
The original …
She didn’t really have any trust in him at all!
Heart, not without pain. But the thought that she wouldn’t be able to bear such a blow made it impossible to care about that anymore.
He’s solely responsible for anything that happens to Zhao Yuanyuan.
Taking a deep breath, he picked up his cell phone to call her, but after the phone rang a few times, it was hung up by her without hesitation. He was stunned and immediately turned to dialing home.
“Mom, has Lanlan been back yet?”
“Lanlan? No. She came to me early in the morning and took the key to the house over there and went out, saying you were redecorating and she went over to take a look. What’s wrong? That hurried tone of yours.”
“It’s nothing. Mom, if Lanlan comes back, you remember to call me. I’m hanging up now!”
After hanging up the phone, Xia Feiqing called to book another flight. Pei Yajun came out of the meeting place, “Boss, there’s a meeting.”
“Record the meeting for me, I have to go back now.”
Pei Yajun looked at his ugly face and asked, “Is something wrong?”
“I don’t have time to explain so much to you right now. Anyway, I’ll leave my luggage to you and I’ll see you back tomorrow.”
Xia Feiqing took a big step to the street and stopped the car. Pei Yajun couldn’t help but wonder as he watched the hastily disappearing figure. What could be so urgent? There wasn’t even time to get the luggage.
Zhao Lanlan stayed in bed and sat there all day.
The cell phone, constantly ringing. It was Xia Feiqing who called. It kept calling until the phone automatically shut off after it ran out of battery.
She sat woodenly in the corner, until the sky outside the window all darkened, she did not move a bit. In the dark space, her huddled figure looked so lonely, as if … the whole world was left with her alone in its existence …
Yeah, she’s not the only one left now, is she?
Even Hope … is gone …
It was she who was too stupid to believe Xia Feiqing’s words! She’s the one who got Hope killed!
Thinking of that man, thinking of these days, tears, all at once, filled her eyes again, and she couldn’t even be bothered to lift her hand to wipe them away.
The doorbell, just then, rang abruptly.
She didn’t move. It was as if the whole world was shielded from her, and she could see nothing, hear nothing.
The door, once again, was slammed.
“Lan Lan!” Xia Feiqing’s voice sounded outside the door at first.
Originally senseless, she jolted. Tearful eyes, jawed open, stared at the closed door with vigilance.
It was as if outside the door stood a bloodthirsty beast, ready to burst the door open, pounce in, drink her blood and eat her flesh.
“No! You go! Don’t you come in here!”
She screamed harshly, her face colorless. Getting up from the bed, the whole thing was a little unsteady from sitting for so long, and all of a sudden she slipped and fell to the floor.
***
It was at this time, outside the door, that the sound of keys rang out. She looked up in fear, the old door was pushed open, his tall figure cloaked in the light outside the house stood fixed in the doorway. The color of his face was cold and heavy, and his lines were rigid. He was grasping the door key in his hand.
That’s the same key Hope was holding.
She instantly reddened her eyes and looked at the figure with hatred, wanting to say something, but, her voice was so coarse and gruff that it was as if it was blocked by cotton, and she couldn’t say a single unbearable word.
“Lan Lan!” Seeing her entire body paralyzed on the ground, Xia Feiqing’s heart tightened, dropping the door key and rushing over. Reaching out to help her up. She was like a badly injured and frightened bird, “Don’t touch me! You go away!”
Originally powerless, she popped up all at once because of his touch. Her body took a few sharp steps backward and shrank right back onto the bed.
The resistance and revulsion that covered her eyes shook him so hard that even his breathing became much heavier, “Lanlan, come here.”
Zhao Lanlan shook her head haphazardly, and her tears followed and crashed to the ground, “You devil … Xia Feiqing, I hate you! From beginning to end, I shouldn’t have believed you!”
This time …
It hurts more than last time.
I thought that in the gradual healing of the wound, did not expect, not only was he again torn, and even by his merciless stabbing deeper and much heavier …
She thought that if she didn’t have a child, maybe …
She would really be helpless and choose to end up like Hope.
“Shouldn’t have trusted me?” Xia Feiqing chewed on those four words shyly and looked at her somberly, “Do you think you ever trusted me?”
“I beg you … to get out of here!” She couldn’t hear him at all, only drowning within her own sorrowful emotions, “Xia Feiqing, please don’t appear in front of me. I’m afraid … I won’t be able to resist killing you!”
That spark of hatred almost burned through his heart.
He leaned over and yanked her hand in one fell swoop, grabbing her right off the bed. With a sideways glance, he grabbed a fruit knife from a low table, and he shoved it into her hand with force, his eyes staring fiercely at her, gritting his teeth, and with a single word: “Hate me so much that you want to kill me? Come on, Lanlan, I’d like to see if you can do it!”
His face was grim, and he was close enough to make her feel scared.
Her hands were shaking as she gripped the fruit knife.
“Come on, why don’t you do it!” Xia Feiqing forced himself to look at her closely. Her hatred drove all his heartache to the extreme.
Biting her lip, she raised her other hand and slapped him hard across the face.
“Xia Feiqing, you asshole!” She didn’t leave any residual force at all with this slap, shaking her hands as she slapped down, and that one time, she left a clear five-finger print on his face. His entire face went numb, but he didn’t grunt out a single sound, and didn’t even deviate his face a bit. He just stared at her tearful face, “If you hate me so much, why don’t you do it? Come on, don’t just slap!”