Why can’t you ever see through it?
“Good, that’s exactly what I want.” Xia Feiqing nodded, his eyes were cold, “You want me to go to jail, then just wait!”
Zhao Lanlan took her visa and ID out of the Xia house and stood on the street, looking at the crowds of people coming and going, the whole thing shaking a little.
Mrs. Summer says he’s not like that …
And how she wished that he wasn’t like that. But she still couldn’t forget the past. If she was fooled by him again, she would be a complete fool.
“Son, what’s going on?” Mrs. Xia stood at the window, looking at the disoriented figure on the opposite side of the main road, “Lan Lan came back with great difficulty, why didn’t you stop her, instead of telling her to just leave? She is a pregnant woman, look at the way she is now lost in thought, in case something … happens, I dare not imagine.”
Xia Feiqing also stood there, looking at her. Hearing those last words from Mrs. Xia, his brows followed and furrowed. In the end, he turned around and grabbed the car keys and ran outside.
“Hey, you haven’t even changed your clothes!”
Mrs. Xia’s cries were directly thrown out of his mind.
Zhao Lanlan got into the cab.
***
After reporting the address, she looked out the window somewhat vacantly. This time to Hong Kong, will be rooted over there, perhaps never come back. Here a tree and a tree, in the future, will not see again …
Not to mention, people.
So, a separation could be a farewell.
“Miss, there’s a car behind us that seems to have been following us. It’s been following us all the way since you got on the bus.” The driver suddenly called out to her, jerking her thoughts back, “Is it your friend?”
I don’t blame the driver for noticing this, only the fact that the person behind him was following too obviously.
A BMW that could have easily passed the cab, but the other guy kept an absolutely even pace, just like him, and never moved forward much.
He stops, he stops. He walks, and the BMW follows.
Zhao Lanlan turned back to look, and when she saw the familiar car, and the silhouette in the driver’s seat, her entire body shook. The lines of sight of each other, separated by two layers of thick glass, locked up. His eyes were that deep, that complex, causing her heart to tighten, full of sourness coalescing in her heart in an instant, inexplicably almost forcing out her tears.
Why is he here?
Why did you follow her all the way?
“Want to get off? You guys seem to know each other.” The driver asked.
“No need.” She drew her eyes back, fighting back the tightness in her eyes, and shook her head, “We don’t know each other.”
The driver looked at her reddened eyes through the rearview mirror, guessed a point or two in his heart, and did not stop.
The car, driving all the way forward. Zhao Lanlan always held back and didn’t go back. Until she reached the downstairs of the neighborhood, she finished paying and came out of the car, only then did she turn around and look behind her.
But …
But there was no longer any sign of the car.
He … didn t follow himself here? Maybe he was actually just going somewhere else.
“I just paid attention, and after my car entered the neighborhood, he stopped following. Went off in the other direction.” The driver spoke up, clearing up her confusion.
“Yes?” Zhao Lanlan murmured, looking in the direction of the doorway for a long time before drawing her eyes back and re-entering the building.
In the next two days, Zhao Lanlan had already quit her job as well and said goodbye to all her friends.
Now that the belly is tapering, no more vomiting. Sleeping more and eating more. However, she was still as thin and mentally unproductive as ever. For the sake of the baby, she always tried very hard to make herself eat more.
Early in the morning, went to the grocery store to buy groceries.
People came and went, and she carried her shopping bag through a group of grandparents who had come to buy groceries. As she walked to the seafood section, her foot was unsteady and she slipped, almost falling to the ground.
A grandmother held her arm in alarm, “Girl, you’re pregnant here, walk carefully. Why don’t you come out with your family too?”
Zhao Lanlan’s nose turned sour, she stood firmly and said, “I have no family.”
“…” the other was stunned for a split second, then her eyes turned sympathetic, “That’s weirdly pathetic.”
But it’s not?
Her family, even Hope, turned out to be the end of this.
Of course she was stupid enough to think that he was good to Hope, giving her a job and buying her clothes. Even when Hope said she hated him and hated him, she never took it to heart.
Wasn’t it, then, that he was already planning it?
As she was rambling on about her thoughts, her cell phone suddenly rang. She took it out to see that it was a string of unfamiliar landline numbers.
“Is that Ms. Cho?”
“Hello, I’m Zhao Lanlan.” Zhao Lanlan replied as she used her free other hand to hunt down and pick up potatoes. Now that she didn’t even have a job, she had to be a bit more frugal than before. I’ll find another job in Hong Kong later, but I’m afraid it’s impossible to find a suitable job now that I’m pregnant with a baby.
As her mind rambled on about many future events, she heard the other side speak, “This is the XX Public Security Bureau, regarding your sister’s case, we have made new progress, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the suspect you mentioned, Mr. Xia Feiqing.”
Zhao Lanlan was stunned for a split second, “No relationship?”
Afraid she’d heard wrong, she put down the potatoes and walked to a quiet corner.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, there had been a nanny in the house before to take care of the deceased. On the day the deceased committed suicide, the nanny happened to be stuck with personal matters, so she didn’t show up. Afterward we looked for the nanny to investigate, the other party said that for so long Xia Feiqing never gave the deceased any drugs. We searched both of Mr. Xia’s residences and there were no traces of drugs.”
“What about those bruises on Hope’s wrists and ankles? And the wrists and twine in the house. Aren’t those all physical evidence of abuse?”
“You’re right, Mr. Hsia did have the deceased tied up in his house.”
Zhao Lanlan’s heart, which had just lifted, fell to the bottom of the lake again because of these words. So, he still did …
She leaned helplessly against the wall, staring out at a point, “So, still charging him with abuse?”
“No, what he did was not considered abuse. On the contrary, Mr. Xia did that solely for her benefit.”
Zhao Lanlan was a little hard of hearing, “I don’t understand what that means.”
“As a matter of fact, the reason why Mr. Xia tied up the deceased was just to help her get clean. The deceased was very manic when her drug addiction kicked in, so in order to avoid her hurting someone, so Mr. Xia could only use this method. This is something that the surrounding neighbors know, saying that at the very beginning the deceased often brought many young people to the house to have a rave, so noisy that the whole neighborhood heard. Also not infrequently see some young people confused and delirious out of it. So, we presume that the deceased was already in contact with drugs at that time.”
“But that’s no way to be sure that Xia Feiqing isn’t the one who let Hope touch the drugs.”