Chapter 148
Chapter 148
While things were progressing smoothly on Jiang Li’s end, back in Huaguo, Dai Chunli was facing a crisis of her own.
Dai Chunli hid inside her home, craning her neck to peer out the window.
Downstairs in the old residential compound, two uniformed police officers were conducting a door-to-door investigation.
When Dai Chunli had entered the compound earlier, she had overheard two elderly women gossiping at the entrance.
Supposedly, the Neighbors’ child, Xiaobao, had been comatose in the hospital for over a month after falling down the stairs.
Xiaobao had originally been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
However, in the last few days, Xiaobao had occasionally regained consciousness for a few minutes at a time, and his condition was gradually improving.
The more Xiaobao’s health improved, the more Dai Chunli worried.
No matter how one looked at it, the fact that she had kicked Xiaobao down the stairs was an indisputable reality.
Dai Chunli had thought that after finally outliving Jiang Weisen, her good life was about to begin.
But now, it looked like she might be facing prison time.
Anxious, Dai Chunli paced back and forth in the Living Room.
On second thought, the police hadn’t knocked directly on her door yet, which meant Xiaobao hadn’t reported her.
Furthermore, Xiaobao had suffered a brain injury; whether his current testimony would even be considered valid was still undecided.
Therefore, Dai Chunli couldn’t afford to lose her cool.
After much deliberation, Dai Chunli decided to get her hands on the property deed first.
Once she completed the transfer of ownership, she would head back to the countryside to lie low for a while.
No sooner said than done, Dai Chunli immediately began searching the house for the deed.
However, after rummaging through numerous spots in the house, she saw no sign of it.
“That bastard! Even in death, he kept the deed hidden away!”
Looking at the mess she had made of the room, Dai Chunli’s shoulders shook with rage.
She grabbed a withered green plant sitting next to the television and slammed it onto the floor in a fit of pique.
With a loud thud, the ceramic pot shattered.
From the bottom of the small planter, a tiny key fell onto the floor.
Dai Chunli noticed the dirt-covered key, and her Eyes instantly flared with pleasant surprise.
“A key…” Dai Chunli picked up the golden key. “What does this open?”
Staring at the small key, her eyeballs shifted as a thought occurred to her.
She went to the study where Jiang Weisen used to spend most of his time and pulled out the safe she’d never been able to open from his private storage cabinet.
Dai Chunli had seen this stainless steel safe many times before.
Back before Jiang Weisen had been corrupted, Dai Chunli had asked him about it several times, but Jiang Weisen had always brushed her off with excuses.
Once, when Dai Chunli suggested she wanted to open it and take a look, Jiang Weisen had even flown into a towering rage, throwing a massive tantrum.
Given that, there was a high probability the property deed was hidden inside the safe!
Dai Chunli picked up the heavy safe and carried it into the brightly lit Living Room.
She placed the box on the coffee table, took the golden key, inserted it into the Lock, and gave it a turn.
To her surprise, the Lock on the safe released with a click-it actually opened!
Outside the front door, the sound of the police climbing up to the fourth floor drifted in.
The police were currently investigating the apartment next door.
Dai Chunli suppressed the panic in her chest, telling herself to stay calm.
She quickly pulled the safe open, intending to find the property deed.
But as the box opened and Dai Chunli finished rummaging through its contents, her expression grew increasingly ugly.
There was no property deed in this safe.
It was clearly a large box of his ex-wife’s belongings!
There was Jiang Weisen’s ex-wife’s peach-wood comb, a Wedding Photo of Jiang Weisen and his ex-wife, and a stack of letters Jiang Weisen had written to his deceased ex-wife every year on her birthday, filled with longing…
Aside from those, at the very bottom of the box, there was a backed-up copy of an inheritance agreement.
Upon seeing the words “inheritance agreement,” Dai Chunli’s dull Eyes suddenly lit up.
Even though she hadn’t found the property deed, finding an inheritance agreement was also a stroke of good luck.
This would save her the trouble of missing necessary documentation when the time came to transfer the property title.
Dai Chunli held the agreement, her eyes darting across the pages as she scanned it quickly.
As the contents became clear, she let out a sudden, piercing howl and began a frantic rampage, smashing everything in the room.
A cacophony of crashing and clattering echoed through the house.
She shattered every breakable object within reach, reducing them to piles of debris.
At the same time, tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes.
“Waaaah! Jiang Weisen! You bastard, I hope you rot in hell! How could you do this to me?! Why?!”
The entire living room was turned into a chaotic mess.
Suffering a mental breakdown, Dai Chunli stomped repeatedly on an old photograph of Jiang Weisen and his ex-wife, screaming “Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!” at the top of her lungs.
Back then, Dai Chunli had gone to great lengths to marry Jiang Weisen and bring her daughter, Jiang Lianlian, into his household.
At that time, Jiang Weisen, his ex-wife, and their young daughter Jiang Li were a happy family of three. They had gone on a trip to celebrate the couple’s wedding anniversary.
Unexpectedly, while crossing the street, the family encountered a drunk driver who was drag racing.
Jiang Li’s mother was struck and sent flying, her body left lying in the street.
She had died on the spot, right in front of Jiang Weisen and Jiang Li.
For several years afterward, Jiang Weisen was devastated, sinking into a deep depression.
During that period, Dai Chunli, who had recently divorced her previous husband, moved to this old residential area in Jinghai City with her daughter, Jiang Lianlian, to rent an apartment.
It was then that Dai Chunli was introduced to the honest and simple Jiang Weisen and set her sights on him.
At the time, Dai Chunli was desperate to marry a local man to solve her daughter’s school registration issues.
She pursued Jiang Weisen relentlessly for two years, finally managing to marry into the Jiang Family under the pretext of “being able to take care of the young Jiang Li.”
She even had her biological daughter, Jiang Lianlian, change her surname to Jiang.
Although Jiang Weisen had treated her with cold indifference throughout their marriage, Dai Chunli had endured it all.
No matter how dissatisfied she was, having a household registration and a house in Jinghai City meant she finally had a home and a sense of belonging.
She had waited so long for Jiang Weisen to pass away so she could receive a substantial amount of compensation from the property’s demolition.
She never expected that this dog of a man, Jiang Weisen, had remained hopelessly devoted to his ex-wife all these years.
Not only that, but when it came to the division of the estate, Dai Chunli and Jiang Lianlian hadn’t been left a single cent!
Dai Chunli was as anxious as she was furious; she felt like her lungs were about to burst from rage.
Covered in tears and snot, she collapsed onto the floor, clutching the armrest of the sofa and sobbing hysterically.
“Jiang Weisen, I served you and your daughter for so many years! Even if there’s no glory in it, I still worked myself to the bone! How could you do this to me? Waaaah…”
“Since you’ve shown me no heart, don’t blame me for being ruthless! Waaaah…”
Dai Chunli pulled out a tissue and blew her nose loudly.
Then, she took out her phone and scrolled back to a chat log from several months ago.
The man on the other end, whose profile picture was a Skull, was the same person who told her over a month ago that he could help her contact the Ghost Face Organization for a very high price.
Dai Chunli scrolled through the chat history. Seeing the price mentioned within, her heart skipped a beat.
The cost was immense. Was it really worth it just to kill Jiang Li?
Dai Chunli looked at the inheritance agreement, a flash of sinister malice crossing her eyes.
Regardless of anything else, Dai Chunli was currently Jiang Li’s legal “mother.”
As long as Jiang Li died, she would be the first in line to inherit the estate!
Since Jiang Weisen was heartless enough to leave her nothing, Dai Chunli would have to use other means to secure the inheritance for herself.
After much deliberation, Dai Chunli sent a message to the man with the Skull avatar.
Barely two seconds after the message was sent, there was a knock on her bedroom door from the outside.
*Knock, knock, knock-*
“Unit 3, 4th floor. Is anyone home? Police.”
A woman’s voice rang out from outside the door.