Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“I didn’t.”
Xing Yuanhang puffed a sigh, and he seemed to be in low spirits.
“Yuechun, I’m the one at fault. I told you all these simply because you’re my wife and nobody could replace the relationship between us all these years. I’ve never thought about divorcing either… I’m being forced into it. I don’t know what to do. She refused to back down, you refused to back down as well… I feel that we couldn’t go back to being the same anymore…”
“Hurhurhurhur…”
Tan Yuechun broke into laughter.
That laughter, however, was filled with sadness and desperation.
Her dignified and elegant face had the unique wisdom of women of her age.
“Xing Yuanhang, I’ve also been young once. My eyes were also once clear like water… I used to be youthful and passionate… That was the most beautiful time in my life. At that time, you held my hand and told me that you would grow old with me. No matter how many beautiful sceneries there would be as we walked along the path of life, you told me that you wouldn’t betray our love and that you wouldn’t like any other woman… I believed you.”
Xing Yuanhang closed his eyes and kept quiet.
Tan Yuechun showed a bitter smile. “I thought that you only lusted after her because she’s young yet you’re telling me that you fell in love with her…”
She found it difficult to open her mouth for a moment and she lifted her hand to point at the ward.
“Is she more beautiful than me when I was young? No. Is she as hardworking as me when I was young? No. Is she as capable as me when I was young? Absolutely not. Besides being born later than me by about 20 years, what else does she have? Xing Yuanhang, I never knew that you’re such a shallow person.”
“…”
“I thought that the woman that you like would at least have something that could put me down and let me admit defeat willingly… However, besides being much younger than me, she has nothing. But, you still took a liking to her and couldn’t pull yourself out of it. Because of her, you want to abandon your wife and children; you want to abandon our marriage of 20 years.”
“Yuechun…”
“You wanted a divorce right?” Tan Yuechun couldn’t hold back her tears anymore. “I agree to it.”
“Yuechun…?” He didn’t expect that she would agree so readily that his eyes went slightly wide-opened. “Let’s not talk about this first. I’m fine with going ahead with your suggestion to talk about this after Lunar New Year.”
“There’s no need to talk anymore!” Tan Yuechun stared at him without blinking. With all of them looking on, she removed the ring she had on her finger and threw it right at his face before she let out a sneer. “Just accompany your little vixen and get well soon. I’ll bring my children with me and live well. I’ll see how you two, a pair of adulterers will end up in life!”
Youngest aunt was a decisive and strong woman.
She was like that all along.
She would rather break than bend.
The moment she blurted such words, Xiang Wan knew that her youngest aunt’s marriage would be gone like the wind.
She could even foresee what kind of ‘ending’ Xing Yuanhang would have. Maybe he would welcome a short period of happiness after losing Tan Yuechun. The young and delicious female body and the admiration of young women could easily be obtained by visiting night spots. But besides that, there would only be emptiness. For he had lost the woman who had accompanied him from his youth where they had spent their most beautiful years of life together.
He and his young lover would not obtain happiness.
The moment he realized that he was wrong, it was already too late for regrets.
Xing Yuanhang squinted his eyes; he seemed that he couldn’t bear to end like this as well.
“Yuechun, don’t be so agitated. We can talk it over nicely…”
Every time Tan Yuechun was on this topic, she would get hysterical about it, which frustrated Xing Yuanhang much. But at this moment her tears, her helplessness and her angry words made let his heart soft… as well as entering into a brief moment of trance.
Twenty years.
The 20 years that they had spent together seemed to be right before him.
“Yuechun.” He wanted to hold her.
Tan Yuechun sniffled her nose and backed away from him. She then hugged Xiang Wan’s mom. “Sis, let me go to your place tonight. I want to sleep together with you…”
The words ‘Sis’ was said with a grieved tone. Xiang Wan’s mom also teared up and hugged her sister back tightly.
“Sure, we’ll go back now. Let’s go pick up Tiantan and Feifei first…”
“Mm.” Tan Yuechun’s head was on her shoulder as she sobbed uncontrollably and quietly.
Tan Xichun and Fang Yuanyuan were comforting Tan Yuechun. Eldest uncle-in-law gave Xing Yuanhang a glare but he didn’t say a word.
Xing Yuanhang’s younger sister and brother-in-law were at a loss as they stood there, feeling really awkward.
Xiang Wan had been looking on this whole time and she finally said something.
“Mom, you go back with youngest aunt and eldest aunt…”
Tan Yuechun just suffered a blow now that her marriage had failed. It was as though the head of the Tan Family had collapsed. Hence, they couldn’t refuse Xiang Wan’s calm and imperative tone.
“What about you?” Xiang Wan’s mom asked.
“Me?” Xiang Wan sneered while turning to Xing Yuanhang. “I need to stay behind to cooperate with Captain Qi to understand more about the case”
Moreover, she was the one who took the video. She was, therefore, the eye witness as well.
They needed to find out more about what happened from Zhou Yun, the girl whom Xing Yuanhang described as ‘young, innocent and had eyes clear like water’.
…
Youngest aunt felt like she had gotten closure as she had vented how she had felt all these while.
The Tan Family then left the hospital.
Half an hour later, the clinical results of the girl came out.
As expected, methcathinone was detected in Zhou Yun’s body. The results were very similar to the ‘zombie’ drug in previous cases. As Xing Yuanhang was the victim, he was taken to the Criminal Investigation Unit for further questioning.
Zhou Yun regained consciousness.
She was appalled to know what she had done when she was being shown the video.
She admitted that she was enraged, so enraged that she seemed to have lost her senses and she could only hear humming at her ears. Her heart was drumming away erratically and she felt especially agitated, excited, blood was rushing through her and seemed to fall into a trance… As to what she had done subsequently, she couldn’t remember at all. She didn’t even know that she had consumed the drug.
Qi Canghai asked her a few questions.
What did she eat?
Who did she come into contact with?
Was there anything unusual before the incident?
She replied that she didn’t sense anything abnormal nor was there anything unusual that happened.
Xiang Wan looked at the young love rival of youngest aunt and asked a question. “Why did you think of looking up Xing Yuanhang?”
Zhou Yun did not know about Xiang Wan’s identity but had thought that she was the police. “We contact each other every day,” said Zhou Yun truthfully, “when he replied to my message really late today, I called him. At first, he told me that he invited relatives over for Reunion Dinner, so he couldn’t talk and hang up on me. I got angry. You know, pregnant women get agitated and flare up easily. I couldn’t take it lying down and looked him up…”
That sounded reasonable.
Xiang Wan nodded her head. “How did you know where he lives?”
“Of course I know. I’ve been there before.”
“You’ve been there?” Gosh, she was so bold?
Zhou Yun wore a proud smirk on her face. “There was once I told him I wanted to take a look at his house. I wanted to see the kind of environment he was staying, and he took me there…”
“He agreed so readily?” Xiang Wan didn’t believe her.
“He turned me down at first, but he’s a man, I just need to pester him and he agreed.”
“Do you know his wife?” Xiang Wan asked another question which was actually a deviation from the case.
However, Zhou Yun actually seemed excited to answer this ‘deviation’.
She seemed to like to talk about her love affair which was not acceptable in ethical standards. It was not easy to find someone that she knew she would at least be heard. Hence, she sounded relaxed and she was even smiling. “I’ve looked her up on the Internet before and I saw a picture of her. She’s really capable and beautiful. She didn’t look like a woman in her forties. In fact, I actually envied her…”
