Life and Death Insurance – CH 066

Chapter 66

Xiang Tian smiled and said, “Zhengzhong, you’ll find the whole story hard to believe if I explain it. As you said before, you ran into a real troublemaker; it’s truly unfair.”

“Stop beating around the bush; what exactly happened?”

“Remember that photo of you and Yu Xiaowan? Have you ever considered that a photo of a single man and woman together can easily be mistaken for a couple?”

This answer made Ling Zhengzhong’s mouth drop open immediately.

“Cheng Jing wouldn’t assume I’m the heartless man who abandoned her sister just because of that photo, would she?”

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“Yes.”

“But there are so many photos of men and women together…”

“That’s why I said you’re unlucky!”

That sounded a bit overbearing, didn’t it?

Ling Zhengzhong frowned and said, “Yu Xiaowan dragged me into the photo. How could I refuse a girl’s request? So I took the picture. But why did she want to take a picture with me? Was she trying to frame me? That doesn’t make sense; I don’t even know her…”

“Yu Xiaowan certainly wouldn’t harm you. She just used you as a prop. Because her relationship with Lin Hui was in crisis at the time, she probably wanted to get his attention, so she deliberately pretended to be intimate with you. Didn’t you see her eyes were looking in another direction? Lin Hui should be standing there in that direction.”

“How could you spot the oddity in that photo at a glance?”

“Didn’t you find it strange? Yu Xiaowan asked you to take the picture, but she seemed distracted. That doesn’t make sense.”

After hearing Xiang Tian’s words, Ling Zhengzhong thought about it and realized there was some truth to it. However, with his thick-skinned nature, how could he notice such a small detail?

“Yu Xiaowan’s former colleagues also confirmed that she really likes red items, like handbags, underwear, and decorative flowers—lots of red. Doesn’t that match the red underwear she mailed to you a while ago?”

“That must have been Cheng Jing’s doing! That woman is a pervert; she actually sent her sister’s worn underwear. No normal person would do that!”

Seeing his somewhat angry lover, Xiang Tian quickly and gently patted the back of his hand, hoping to calm him down.

“Cheng Jing and Yu Xiaowan are biological sisters. Because their parents divorced early in their lives, they have different surnames. Although they rarely contact their family, their sisterly relationship is very good. Cheng Jing’s personality is much stronger and more resilient than Yu Xiaowan’s, even quite extreme. I spoke with her in her hospital room and learned that she broke into your room just to find something that belonged to her sister. Of course, she couldn’t find it, so in a fit of anger, she smashed everything in her rage. The doctor also confirmed that she has some kind of hysteria and occasionally experiences out-of-control states. This may be related to her family background and unsuccessful romantic experiences. But regardless, Cheng Jing is a somewhat psychologically twisted woman.”

“More than psychologically twisted, she’s downright insane and incredibly stupid. No one would make a judgment based on a single photograph, let alone commit murder.”

“Actually, it isn’t just about the photograph. I learned from Cheng Jing that Yu Xiaowan didn’t initially want an abortion. It was Cheng Jing who forced her to do it because she couldn’t tolerate the existence of a broken family. Cheng Jing should bear most of the responsibility for Yu Xiaowan’s death. Perhaps knowing her sister’s extreme temperament and impulsive actions, Yu Xiaowan never revealed who her boyfriend was until her dying moments, when she finally said that the man had worked with her, but unfortunately, she only managed to utter the ‘Lin’ in his name…”

“Lin?”

“It’s Lin, not Ling. Unfortunately, Cheng Jing, already in a state of madness, didn’t notice this crucial point. All she was thinking about at the time was how to get revenge. Later, she saw your photo together at Yu Xiaowan’s house, so she naturally assumed you were the murderer of her sister.”

“That’s not right. There must be Lin Hui’s things in Yu Xiaowan’s house, right? Did Yu Xiaowan throw away everything related to them because of the breakup?”

“It wasn’t Yu Xiaowan who threw them away. Lin Hui took everything that belonged to him after Yu Xiaowan left, including all the photos in the album, leaving only the photo of you two together… I guess he was worried that his past relationship would be exposed, making things difficult for him in front of his wife’s family. A misheard surname and a photo naturally misled Cheng Jing. Coincidentally, your relationship with Shen Meimei happened right after Yu Xiaowan resigned, so Cheng Jing naturally assumed you were fickle and abandoned Yu Xiaowan for Shen Meimei. That’s why she wanted to kill Shen Meimei.”

“So how did you notice something was wrong with Cheng Jing?”

“The first time I saw her, I felt her gaze towards you was off. At the time, I thought it was because she admired you, and I didn’t think anything of it. But the second time, I happened to see her after Lin Qiaoya knocked off her glasses. Without the glasses, her appearance was somewhat similar to Yu Xiaowan’s. And she acted so calmly and composedly. I always felt it was hard to imagine a woman being able to leave so calmly after being insulted and beaten for no reason. Either she was truly magnanimous, or she was doing it on purpose. I naturally chose the latter.”