To Defeat Scum, You Must Start Early, My Lady - Chapter 689

Chapter 689: Side Story 102: Anyone Can See Mu Cidian’s Humility and Embarrassment (Grand Finale, Fifth Update)

“Xin Zaozao, what are you really afraid of!” Song Lifei’s voice was loud as he was truly anxious about their relationship.

Why should lovers torture each other like this?

What on earth was Xin Zaozao thinking?

“I’m afraid he will bring disaster to me. Since I met him, I’ve never been happy!” Xin Zaozao suddenly burst out, yelling at Song Lifei.

“Have you not been happy, or not dared to be happy!” Song Lifei’s voice was still loud, “Xin Zaozao, I’ll tell you what you’re afraid of! You are afraid that all your pretended strength, your pretended dignity and your pretended self-sufficiency will suddenly collapse after admitting you like Mu Cidian! You’re afraid you will become dependent on him, you’re afraid that someone will dominate your life. You’re afraid to hand your life over to another person! It’s self-sustaining to put it nicely, but it’s actually selfish! You selfishly shut yourself off in your own world, hurting the person who loves you, who loves you very much, wounded all over!”

“Enough, Song Lifei!” Xin Zaozao didn’t want to hear any more.

“Can’t bear to listen any more, can you?!” Song Lifei said coldly, “Because I touched your sore point, you can’t bear to listen anymore.”

“I just don’t want to hear your nonsense.”

“Xin Zaozao, be brave. If you miss someone, you miss him. Don’t regret it later. Don’t cry like a fool when Mu Cidian really turns away!” As Song Lifei spoke, his voice choked, “Don’t miss the man who truly loves you.”

Xin Zaozao’s eyes were also red with tears.

Her throat hurt, the kind of pain you get when you want to cry but force yourself not to.

“One last thing,” Song Lifei steadied his emotions, “That day on the yacht when you leaned close to me without hesitation to save Wanwan, ignoring Mu Cidian’s feelings, it would hurt any man. It would be unbearable for any man to see. Mu Cidian is not ungrateful, but he has endured everything. As a man, I can tell you very clearly, no matter what the reason is, the taste of it is worse than killing him! If you really love him, explain it to him properly, at least let him know, you care about him.”

Xin Zaozao listened to Song Lifei’s words.

She suddenly remembered the words Mu Cidian said last night, “Aren’t you very proactive with Song Lifei?”

She bit her lip, biting it tightly.

“Oh, one more thing,” Song Lifei seemed to think of something else, he said, “As a love rival speaking up for this man, it’s not because the love rival has a righteous worldview, although I admit I do have a principled worldview. It’s because the love rival can see clearly, just how deeply that person loves!”

After he finished.

Song Lifei hung up the phone.

As for work matters.

And updates on work.

If Xin Zaozao wasn’t in the mood to listen, he wasn’t in the mood to talk.

He felt that at this moment, the most important thing wasn’t work, but how Xin Zaozao would take the initiative to reconcile with Mu Cidian and start over.

Xin Zaozao hung up the phone, her emotions were not stable.

She did not ask about the work matters that Song Lifei just mentioned. She admitted that she didn’t want to deal with any work matters at the moment. She admitted that her mind was filled with thoughts of Mu Cidian, all about Mu Cidian, heartbroken, heartbroken, and still heartbroken…

Had Mu Cidian ever been happy?

She had never considered this question.

All she knew was, she was unhappy. She knew that Mu Cidian had brought her too much pain. She was not happy.

She bit her lip tightly, the tears in her eyes kept spinning.

The nanny was holding Wanwan next to her, looking at Xin Zaozao’s appearance, she didn’t say anything more.

She initially wanted to persuade her a few more times, but it seemed that the lady wasn’t as indifferent as she showed.

She thought.

As for matters of the heart, it was best left to them to sort out themselves.

No matter how much others said, what use was it!

…

At night.

Mu Cidian returns.

Mu Cidian had gathered a lot of evidence, a lot of evidence to prove his innocence.

Including, forcing Lei Qiang and his wife to lie.

In fact, Lei Qian was not killed by him, but he could have saved her, but he didn’t.

At that time, he and Lei Qian both fell into the sea. They were both beaten by the sudden waves, and there was no way to resist. If it weren’t for Ji Baijian, who had placed great swimmers under the yacht to save him, he would have sunk into the sea too.

But when he was saved, he saw Lei Qian struggling in the sea.

Perhaps it was the last instinct for survival, or the fear when faced with death. Lei Qian also tried to surface from the sea, screaming for Mu Cidian to save her, save her, saying she realized her mistake and begged him to rescue her…

He chose to be indifferent.

Indifferently watching her gradually being engulfed by the sea, and then watching as her body was fished out from the sea. Bit by bit, her face, which resembled Xin Zaozao’s so much, got disfigured.

He couldn’t let Lei Qian leave with that face. It belonged only to Xin Zaozao.

And his vengeful actions naturally aroused the suspicion of the police.

Lei Qiang and his wife insisted that it was Mu Cidian who had trapped them when they first heard of Lei Qian’s death.

Of course, Lei Qiang’s hand wasn’t really cut off by Yin Qin. It was just a scare tactic aimed at Lei Qian. When it came to actually breaking the law, they would not do it.

Now, Mu Cidian and Yin Qin had found evidence of Lei Qiang’s extraordinary crime in Lei’s Village, using that evidence to trade for Mu Cidian’s innocence.

After all, if Lei Qiang and his wife don’t pursue further, the police can’t investigate further either. Eventually, it will be classified as an accidental death.

Lei Qiang did not agree. With only one daughter, who he treasured from childhood, he would not give up so easily. But Lei Qiang’s wife didn’t want to lose her husband after losing her daughter, so she agreed to Mu Cidian’s exchange offer, and tried hard to persuade Lei Qiang.

The negotiations are still ongoing.

The result, is still unknown.

He sat on the sofa for a while.

Due to the lawsuit, he was quite troubled.

He adjusted his emotions and gently opened the door to Xin Zaozao’s room.

Inside the room, Xin Zaozao and Wanwan were asleep.

Wanwan was still sucking on Xin Zaozao’s milk.

He went over and gently took the milk from Wanwan’s mouth, held her and put her beside Xin Zaozao.

He covered Wanwan with a blanket and walked into the bathroom.

He left his clothes in the bedroom and his phone as well.

So, when the phone rang, Xin Zaozao heard it.

She was afraid of waking Wanwan, so she immediately picked up Mu Cidian’s phone and silenced it.

The reason she woke up at the sound of the phone was not because of the noise. It was because she had been awake since Mu Cidian opened the door and she had pretended to be asleep because she didn’t want to face him.

She stared at the incoming call on her phone.

While looking at Yin Qin’s name and hesitating whether or not to answer the call for Mu Cidian, the call got cut off.

After being disconnected, it rang through again.

Xin Zaozao swiftly pressed the answer button.

“Mu Cidian.” Yin Qin’s voice came through from the other end, “Just now Lei Qiang…”

“This is Xin Zaozao.” Xin Zaozao cut him off, “He’s in the shower right now.”

“Oh.” Yin Qin responded.

“I’ll have him call you back later.”

“Aren’t you curious about why I am calling Mu Cidian so late?” Yin Qin asked.

“Not in the least.”

“Xin Zaozao, is your heart made of stone?” Yin Qin suddenly asked.

Xin Zaozao’s expression slightly changed.

“I heard from Song Zhizhi that after you woke up, you didn’t even ask about Mu Cidian’s condition. Weren’t you worried that he might have been washed away by the sea too?”

“Isn’t he alive and well though?”

“Yes, he’s surviving. If Ji Baijian weren’t so meticulous in handling things, Mu Cidian would’ve been fish food by now.”

“Yin Qin, it’s very late, I need to sleep.”

“You can still sleep? I haven’t been able to sleep the past few days because of everything happening to Mu Cidian, but do you even care? Are you even human?” Yin Qin flared up.

Xin Zaozao’s mood wasn’t great either.

In just one day, two men had criticized her for Mu Cidian’s sake.

“Do you know what Mu Cidian is going through right now?” Yin Qin, disregardful of Xin Zaozao’s feelings, asked irritably.

“I don’t know. And I don’t want to.”

“No, you must know.” Yin Qin firmly addressed through the phone, “Mu Cidian, because of murder charges, might be sentenced to the death penalty!”

Xin Zaozao’s grip on her phone tightened.

“Shocked?” Yin Qin’s eyebrows raised.

Xin Zaozao, stiff with tension, couldn’t utter a word.

“Years ago, Mu Cidian killed for you, and now, he’s repeating history. If it weren’t for your sudden act of mercy back then, Mu Cidian would’ve been sentenced to death already. Should I be thanking you for letting him live these few extra years?” Yin Qin spoke with a hint of sarcasm.

“What does Lei Qian’s death have to do with Mu Cidian?” Xin Zaozao countered, unable to conceal her heightened emotions.

“True. It shouldn’t have mattered. Lei Qian wanted to die, so be it. But Mu Cidian, loving you too much, couldn’t even leave a corpse alone. After Lei Qian died, Mu Cidian slashed her face. The police suspected her death to be premeditated murder. As Mu Cidian was the only one with her when she died, they think he killed her.”

“That’s impossible!” Xin Zaozao denied.

“It isn’t impossible! Mu Cidian would do anything for you! What’s so hard about killing a Lei Qian?”

The grip in Xin Zaozao’s chest tightened.

“It’s alright. We’re still searching for evidence. Evidence to prove Mu Cidian’s innocence. If we can’t exonerate him, he dies, he dies. It probably won’t make him too sad, as long as you’re alive, as long as you’re well, he’s content. He holds no regard for his own life or death! We’re done here.” Yin Qin apparently didn’t want to discuss further, “It is indeed late. I won’t keep you any longer.”

Then, the call ended.

Xin Zaozao held her phone, rooted to the spot.

Yin Qin’s words echoed relentlessly in her mind.

Claiming that Mu Cidian could be sentenced to death.

How could that be possible?!

Lei Qian wanted to die – why should Mu Cidian be dragged into her grave?!

She remained frozen, her body rigid.

Mu Cidian stepped out of the shower.

When he did, he saw Xin Zaozao holding his phone, entirely motionless.

He walked over.

Xin Zaozao snapped out of it.

As she regained awareness, a flicker of emotion passed through her eyes, “Yin Qin just called. I didn’t want it to wake up Wanwan, so I answered.”

“Hmm.” Mu Cidian subtly nodded.

He took his phone from Xin Zaozao’s hands.

Words rose to Xin Zaozao’s lips, only to be forced back down again.

Mu Cidian walked out onto the balcony with his phone, closing the sliding glass door behind him.

He returned Yin Qin’s call.

When it connected, Yin Qin remarked, “That was a quick shower.”

“Hmm.”

“I called to tell you that Lei Qiang agreed. If he hadn’t, I’d have had to resort to harsh measures. By now, our evidence should suffice. You visiting the police department tomorrow should settle this issue conclusively. Ji Baijian has also been informed, and barring any unexpected circumstances, your name should be cleared by tomorrow.”

“Thank you.”

“No need for formalities,” Yin Qin responded, “As long as you’re not acting suicidal again.”

Last time, it was for the purpose of atoning for his sins to Xin Zaozao.

Now…

This time, his gaze flickered toward the room through the glass door.

He could not bear to lose them.

Even if, she did not reciprocate his feelings.

He spoke, “It’s getting late…”

“Mu Cidian.” Yin Qin suddenly called his name, “I just had a brief chat with Xin Zaozao. I made out your situation to be dire, simply to cause her alarm. I always thought she was too heartless towards you, prompting me to deceive her intentionally. If you think it’s working, keep it up. If not, ignore it. That’s as far as I can help you.”

Laughter slipped from Mu Cidian’s lips, laced with a hint of self-deprecation.

Everyone could see the pitiful and embarrassing state of his relationship with Xin Zaozao.