Chapter 28

Next door is my home.

Actually, I wasn’t upset at first.

The He Family has always been like this. I never had any expectations for them from the very beginning.

Other than regretting that I should have reacted faster and dodged just now, I didn’t feel much.

A reminder popped up on my phone: the visitation I’d scheduled for 2 p.m.

I looked at myself in the mirror. The right side of my face was already swollen, with clear fingerprints on it.

I took an ice pack from the fridge and pressed it to my face.

Absentmindedly, I started fiddling with my makeup.

That’s when Fu Ziyi called.

I don’t know why, but staring at his name flashing on the screen, I suddenly felt like crying.

I sat down on the sofa, leaned my head back, and didn’t dare to answer.

I didn’t want to cry. My tears shouldn’t be shed for people like that.

At two in the afternoon, I arrived at the visitation room on time.

Sitting across from me was the murderer who killed my brother.

Shen Hang.

It was a pity that, when I was younger and less capable, he got away with it for years.

But after I became a lawyer and was strong enough, the first thing I did was send him to prison.

Life imprisonment. He’ll spend the rest of his life atoning for his crime.

Inside the visitation room, the moment Shen Hang saw that it was me, he turned to leave.

I said unhurriedly, “Don’t you want to know how your mother is doing?”

Shen Hang paused, then turned back, glaring at me with hatred.

I looked at him calmly and asked with a smile, “So even scum like you has someone you care about?”

I used to be quite interested in Shen Hang and his mother.

She had him late in life, so she spoiled him endlessly.

That’s how he grew up to be such a scumbag.

The first time Shen Hang went to prison, she worried herself sick, her hair turning gray.

When Shen Hang was released, she never said a harsh word to him. She just hugged him and cried, telling him to live well and be a good person from now on.

When she said those words, Fu Ziyi and I were standing not far away on the second floor.

Back then, I had only one thought: Live well? He deserves that?

But at the time, I was powerless, and with the He Family interfering, there was nothing I could do.

Later, when I found them again in Nancheng, they had already changed a lot.

His mother had found a job, and after work, she set up a small stall outside a school. The face she’d spent millions to maintain in her youth was long gone, replaced by weariness.

What I found out later was that less than a year after I went to Jiangcheng, Shen Hang’s father was bankrupted by a scheme.

After the bankruptcy, he insisted on divorcing Shen Hang’s mother.

Shen Hang was left with his mother. Along with him, she was saddled with a mountain of debt.

But even then, she never gave up on Shen Hang.

She transferred him to a new school in a place where no one knew them, set up a small stall, earning money for his education while paying off the debts.

They deluded themselves they could start anew.

When Shen Hang was arrested, he had only been working for two years.

I heard he’d changed a lot over the years, as if he’d grown up quickly through all those hardships.

He got into a good university, and after graduation, found a decent job.

According to his colleagues, he handed all his salary to his mother.

When I ran into them, they were just about to pay off all their debts.

But how could someone not pay the price for the wrongs they’ve committed?