"Your cousin committed suicide by jumping off a building!"

My mother's words felt like a heavy blow to my head, leaving me feeling dizzy and cold.

"Mom, what are you saying?"

How could my cousin commit suicide? He has such a strong will to live. I must have misheard.

Mom sighed and repeated it again.

"...It happened two hours ago. She jumped from the roof of the apartment building. The police and forensic doctors came, and the body was taken away. Your father rushed there overnight..."

I shook my head hard and pinched my face. It hurt, so I was sure I wasn't having a nightmare.

My cousin is really dead.

How could he commit suicide?

He's afraid of going to jail, so how could he not be afraid of dying?

He promised me that afternoon that he would confess everything to Fu Yanshen, and that it was impossible for him to end his own life in the night.

There must be something fishy going on here!

I rushed to my cousin's house that night. My father, aunt, uncle, and other relatives were there. My aunt was leaning against the sofa, covering her nose with a handkerchief, sobbing uncontrollably.

The uncles and elders were discussing why their cousin jumped off the building, and each of them looked worried.

Dad said that my cousin's body is currently being kept in the police station's morgue. Because it was an unnatural death, the forensic doctor will conduct an autopsy to determine the true cause of death.

They just came back from the police station.

My cousin definitely didn't commit suicide.

I thought to myself with certainty.

Could it be that Shi Xia killed him to silence him?

She instructed Fu Ren to tamper with my brakes last time, which almost killed me. She is vicious and has a motive for committing the crime.

My cousin is dead. She conspired with him to frame me and commit economic crimes, but now there's no way to prove it.

But how could she be so vicious!

“Your sister-in-law is upstairs, go and comfort her.” My second aunt came downstairs, saw me, and said to me while wiping away tears.

"Um."

I responded and dragged my heavy steps up to the second floor of the villa.

My cousin died. What will happen to my cousin's wife, son, and unborn baby?

Although he was a scoundrel and embezzled company funds, he didn't deserve to die.

As soon as I entered the bedroom, I saw the wedding photo hanging above the headboard of the European-style king-size bed. My cousin was dressed in a suit and his wife was in a white dress. The two of them looked like a perfect match.

My cousin said in the afternoon that they were each other's first love.

Under the vintage crystal chandelier, my cousin's slender body was adorned with a large, round belly, resembling a thin bamboo pole with a basketball stuck in the middle.

It looks like they're working so hard.

She was holding the handle of a garment steamer, ironing her cousin's suit.

"This suit was just delivered from the store the day before yesterday, and he hasn't worn it yet... I'll iron it so he can wear it on his way to work..."

When my cousin-in-law saw me, she spoke calmly, but as she spoke, her voice became hoarse and tears streamed down her face.

The thought that she still didn't know about her cousin's affair brought tears to my eyes.

A woman was pregnant, her husband cheated on her and embezzled public funds, and now he has died under mysterious circumstances. I feel sorry for her and sympathize with her plight.

"Sister-in-law, let me do it. You sit down and rest."

"Qiaoqiao, I can't be idle right now... I'll break down if I'm idle... I don't want to affect the baby in my belly... I also have high blood pressure, I'll be lucky if I can deliver smoothly."

She wiped away her tears and regained her composure.

Looking at her belly, I felt even more saddened, heartbroken for this child who had lost her father before anything even happened.

But the image of their happy family of four celebrating their baby's full moon in my past life is still etched in my mind.

If Shi Xia really did kill my cousin, then did I do something wrong again?

It felt like a huge rock was pressing on my chest, making it hard to breathe.

While waiting for my cousin's autopsy results, I stayed at his house with his wife and son, Cola. The little guy doesn't know that his father is already in another world.

The police investigation and autopsy report came out and completely shocked me—

He committed suicide by jumping off a building; homicide has been ruled out.

How is that possible?

I do not accept this result!

"According to the investigation, the deceased Lu Ming embezzled more than 100 million yuan of company funds. We reasonably suspect that he committed suicide out of fear of punishment due to financial problems."

"Furthermore, the autopsy results ruled out any suspicion of homicide, and his death was consistent with a fall from a height."

At the police station, the officer in charge of my cousin's case explained it to me.

"No, he told me before he died that he would confess to the company's senior management about embezzling public funds and that he would sell his property to pay it back. He couldn't possibly commit suicide over something like this."

"A mere hundred million? I can help him plug the loopholes," I said confidently. "Also, have you found out who his accomplices were in embezzling public funds?"

"Ms. Sheng, do you have any other leads?" The police officer asked, picking up his notebook.

I told them everything about Lu Ming and Shi Xia's affair and their conspiracy to embezzle public funds, and asked them to keep it a secret from my cousin's wife.

Soon, Shi Xia was summoned to the police station.

Fu Yanshen accompanied her!

The Maybach stopped in the yard. The man, dressed in a well-tailored bespoke suit with a black trench coat draped over his shoulders, stepped out of the car, exuding a sharp and commanding presence.

Upon learning of his arrival, the bureau chief personally came out to greet him, bowing and scraping, shaking his hand and offering him cigarettes.

Fu Yanshen nodded politely, his expression indifferent and aloof.

A moment later, Shi Xia came down from the other side and walked to his side, looking timid and shrinking back.

Seeing her feign weakness and play the innocent victim again, and remembering her unrestrained behavior and arrogant provocation towards me, my fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

"Don't be afraid."

Fu Yanshen then gently comforted her.

He witnessed Shi Xia cheating on her cousin, yet he's still so gentle with her? Doesn't he feel uncomfortable at all?

Or did he believe the twisted logic Shi Xia used to confess her feelings to him that day, and that he and she were in sync?

Thinking about it like that, I felt a tightness and suffocation in my chest.

Fu Yanshen walked over with Shi Xia at this moment. A few steps away, he saw me by the pillar in the porch and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Beneath his thick eyebrows, his deep black eyes were like a pair of sharp, piercing arrows, shooting straight at me.

It looked like they were going to kill me.

I caught my breath.

He stared at me, his eyes revealing disgust and impatience.

I froze on the spot, not understanding what he meant.

At this moment, Fu Yanshen said to the two police officers in a slightly polite manner:

"She has a heart condition and cannot be stimulated. Please be gentle in your words when you ask her questions."

"Mr. Fu, please rest assured that we always respect every citizen in our dealings with others."

He nodded as he listened to the police officer's words and watched Shi Xia enter the interrogation room.

As he turned back, the man strode toward me, his aura intimidating.

He walked up to me, grabbed my wrist, and pulled me away.

The grip was so strong that it hurt my wrist. "Fu Yanshen, let go of me, it hurts!"

I shook it forcefully.

He didn't loosen his grip at all, looking furious.

The man opened the car door and roughly shoved me inside.

I stumbled into the leather seat, hitting my head on the armrest. Plus, I hadn't eaten much in the past few days, so the impact made me dizzy.