Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The voice recorder had been found.

And the contents inside were explosive, to say the least.

Ye Yun: “What happened? I clearly put her on the bed. How did she disappear?”

Song Cheng: “Did she wake up, realize something was wrong, and go back to her own room?”

Ye Yun: “I’ll go check.”

…

Ye Yun: “No. I’ve searched everywhere. She’s not there.”

Song Cheng: “The bathroom.”

Ye Yun: “It’s locked from the inside.”

A knock sounded at the door.

Ye Yun: “Ah Sheng, Ah Sheng, are you in there? Are you feeling unwell? Open the door and let your sister in.”

Song Cheng: “She probably passed out.”

Ye Yun: “Break the door down.”

Song Cheng: “Ah Yun, forget it! I don’t want anyone else. I only want you.”

Ye Yun: “But I’m dying! If I die, what will happen to you? What will happen to Ah Yan? In this world, the only person who would treat Ah Yan like her own child is Ah Sheng.”

Song Cheng: “But she has obviously noticed something. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have hidden herself.”

Ye Yun: “It’ll be fine. When the time comes, I’ll be the victim. Everyone will believe me. Besides, Ah Sheng won’t ignore my condition.”

…

Tsk. This couple had truly broadened my understanding of biodiversity.

Jiang Yan was looking at me again. The longer he looked, the deeper his frown became.

I cupped my face and gazed up at him. “Am I that good-looking?”

Jiang Yan lowered his eyes expressionlessly.

The one hit hardest was Ye Sheng’s mother.

Her face was pale, and she looked as if she might collapse at any second.

“How could she dare?”

Whether she dared or not, she’d done it anyway.

Jiang Yan said, “We’ve already made some progress tracing the source of the date-rape drug. Based on the current situation, it looks like the husband and wife committed the crime together. Song Cheng’s lawyer wants to see you. He hopes you’ll issue a statement of forgiveness.”

“Impossible!”

“Sure!”

One answer came from Ye Sheng’s mother. The other came from me.

Ye Sheng’s mother looked at me with heartache. “Ah Sheng, you don’t need to worry about Mom. From now on, I’ll just pretend I never had that daughter.”

Uh, I wasn’t actually that saintly.

Ye Yun was already dying, and Song Cheng came from a wealthy, powerful family. In the end, who knew how long they would actually be sentenced?

Besides, if you were going to kill someone, you had to destroy their heart first.

“Is there really no cure for Ye Yun’s illness?”

Ye Sheng’s mother shook her head.

Ye Yun had a congenital heart condition, which meant she was never destined to live a long life.

And she also had a bit of a reckless streak.

For the sake of her so-called great love, she insisted on having a child.

In the end, she barely survived giving birth to Ah Yan.

Her own body, however, was completely ruined.

Over the past six months, her heart failure had worsened. She could barely leave the hospital.

The doctors had already more or less given her a death sentence.

So, yes. She didn’t have long to live.

What a pity!

If she could live two more years, she would be able to meet her husband’s destined true love face-to-face.

Who knew what kind of grand spectacle that would be?

I was really looking forward to it.

I said to Jiang Yan, “I can issue a statement of forgiveness. I can also choose not to sue them. But the two of them have to kneel in front of me and apologize.”

Ye Sheng had borne all the infamy and been abandoned by everyone.

After Ye Yun died, she had only lived for one more year.

That year, she had been in such agony that, in the end, she resolutely ended her own life.

That husband and wife owed her an apology.

Jiang Yan nodded. Without saying much, he turned and left.

Watching his broad, steadfast back, I remembered his ending in Ye Sheng’s original story.

When everyone had condemned Ye Sheng, Jiang Yan was the only one who believed her.

But Ye Sheng had already lost the ability to be with him.

She broke up with Jiang Yan without the slightest hesitation.

A month later, Jiang Yan sacrificed his life while carrying out a dangerous mission.

Ye Sheng secretly attended his funeral.

She heard Jiang Yan’s superior say, “Jiang Yan wasn’t supposed to take part in this mission. He volunteered for it and insisted on going. His mental state had been very poor lately. He was depressed and withdrawn. It was my fault. I shouldn’t have agreed.”

Buzz.

Ye Sheng’s world came crashing down.

From then on, she became a walking corpse.