The man's palm had been pierced with a bloody hole, likely by a dagger that had pierced through it and then been pressed down by Tang Shu. The chapped flesh was oozing bright red blood, a gruesome and mangled mess.

What are you doing?!

Liu Xiaoyun finally couldn't take it anymore.

She angrily pushed Tang Shu away, tears streaming down her face. "Tang Shu! I know I've wronged Ye Yun, but that doesn't mean you can bully the people around me without any conditions!"

"Xie Jiaming's hand was pierced by a knife while apprehending a robber. He is a hero who protects the people! You shouldn't come here to humiliate him, how could you humiliate him!"

This time, it was Tang Shu's turn to be stunned.

Tang Shu stared blankly at Xie Jiaming's mangled hands, stunned for two seconds, before looking at Liu Xiaoyun, who was glaring at her with tears in her eyes.

The resentment in her eyes was genuine.

Xie Jiaming's face turned ashen, and he trembled as he extended his hand to Tang Shu.

Perhaps due to the intense pain, his pale lips were pressed into a straight line, and his voice trembled as he said, "Tang Shu... if you want to see, you can just look. I'm not the one who advises Ye Xue. I've never had a mole on my hand, not since I was a child. People who know me know that. I even have photos of myself at home. If you can't, you can go get checked."

After brushing away the blood on my hand, I could not see any trace of the mole in the visible areas.

But what if it's covered up by a wound?

Or perhaps he deliberately injured himself to take the opportunity to remove the mole?

Xie Jiaming continued, "I admit that I did some things wrong, and I admit that I may be two-faced, but in the matter of Ye Yun... I did not lie."

He choked up a little at the end.

I don't know if it's from excitement or pain.

Liu Xiaoyun shielded him, wiped away her tears, and comforted him, "Brother Jiaming, I'm sorry, I can't let you bear these things for me anymore."

After she finished speaking, she straightened up, took a deep breath, and looked stubbornly at Ye Yun.

"Ye Yun, I'll go with you. We'll go find the principal right now, and I'll explain everything about taking your student status and give it all back to you! Also, I want you to apologize to Xie Jiaming!"

She doesn't want anything anymore.

She was willing to risk everything.

She could bear the moral condemnation alone, painfully enduring every night overwhelmed by guilt and feeling like she was suffocating.

But she couldn't bear to watch those around her suffer for her!

"Feel sorry."

Tang Shu spoke up.

It was her mistake not to see the mole on Xie Jiaming's hand.

Judging from Xie Jiaming's demeanor, he didn't seem to be lying, and Liu Xiaoyun was even willing to stand up for Xie Jiaming and make what happened back then public.

Liu Xiaoyun and Xie Jiaming were so close that she knew best whether he had a mole on his hand.

"I apologize for this. It has nothing to do with Ye Yun. I acted on my own initiative." After saying this, Tang Shu took Ye Yun's hand and walked outside.

Ye Yun glanced at Liu Xiaoyun from behind.

The setting sun shone through the window onto Liu Xiaoyun's face, which was covered in tears, reflecting the fragmented and crystalline light of the setting sun, creating an indescribable sense of desolation.

She was quickly pulled out by Tang Shu.

The evening wind blew in, carrying a chill, and cleared their minds a little.

On the way back to the company, Tang Shu silently blew on her hair, seemingly lost in thought. Several times she almost stepped off the curb, but Ye Yun pulled her back in time each time.

"No, no..."

Tang Shu kept muttering to herself, as if she had fallen into a maze, her persistent expression showing her desperate attempt to find the answer.

Just as she was about to fall off the curb again, Ye Yun pulled her back.

"Tang Shu, look at me."

Tang Shu was forced to look directly at her face, her eyes filled with a hint of confusion.

The failure to find evidence that Xie Jiaming had murdered Ye Yun dashed her ambitions and left her feeling utterly defeated. At this moment, she was like a lost puppy, staring longingly at Ye Yun.

Her lips trembled incessantly, as if she were saying something, but Ye Yun had to lean closer to hear her clearly.

"No, this isn't right..."

She kept repeating this sentence, and Ye Yun couldn't help but worry. She held her hand and said, "Tang Shu, I know you want to help me, but we can't rush things."

Tang Shu suddenly grasped her hand.

She was incredibly strong, gripping Ye Yun's hand tightly, her gaze exceptionally earnest: "Ye Yun, do you know? I'll never forget the scene of Xie Jiaming processing dog meat! The puppy's blood splattered on his face, and he was still laughing, raising a knife and chopping the puppy into pieces!"

The kitchen was quite dark at the time.

She stood at the Xie family's gate and saw the scene through the window, completely stunned.

Originally, she wanted to ask for the puppy because she also liked the puppy that would jump into her arms. Just then, her uncle was going to visit the Xie family, so she ran over with him.

As soon as she entered the Xie family's gate, she saw a cruel scene through the window.

The kitchen was dimly lit, but the puppy's blood was so glaring, splattering on Xie Jiaming's face and glasses, reflecting his dark, upturned lips, making him look like a demon crawling out of hell to wreak havoc on earth.

She was terrified that night.

Xie Jiaming was also terrified.

He learned from his family that she had come with them. Xie Jiaming saw her through the window and was so frightened that he dropped the kitchen knife he was holding.

To outsiders, he has always been a gentle, polite, and kind young man.

But she witnessed the bloodthirsty scene. Xie Jiaming dropped the kitchen knife and rushed to her without even changing his blood-stained clothes.

Xie Jiaming begged her not to tell anyone else about this. He was afraid that people would know he had a cruel gene in his bones, afraid that people would know he was a beast in human form, and even more afraid that this matter would reach Liu Xiaoyun's ears and cause her to distance herself from him!

She forgot how she reacted at the time.

She was not yet twenty years old at the time. She only remembers vomiting uncontrollably and then fainting.

She was sick for three days after she got back.

Xie Jiaming had come to see her, but her uncle, who knew the truth, turned him away.

Fortunately, they had already graduated by then, and with her uncle's arrangement, she went abroad and never crossed paths with Xie Jiaming again.

After that, the two occasionally bumped into each other at parties, and she would deliberately avoid him.

Over time, Xie Jiaming probably realized that she didn't intend to spread the news, so he stopped bothering her, and their relationship returned to that of ordinary classmates.

"Something's not right, something's not right. He's so protective of Liu Xiaoyun, how could he not help her..."

Tang Shu shook her head again.

"Hand, injured hand, mole..."

Tang Shu was still murmuring, and seeing her almost possessed state, Ye Yun couldn't help but worry, "Tang..."

"Ye Yun!"

Before Ye Yun could finish her persuasion, Tang Shu suddenly grabbed her shoulder, stared seriously into her eyes, and said, "Ye Yun, listen to me. Don't do anything. I'll take care of everything. I will definitely find out the truth about this matter!"

Ye Yun: "..."

"Where did you all go!"

Suddenly a voice came from afar.