Chapter 40 The Edge of Truth

On the other side, in Shenzhen, inside a coffee shop.

Shi Wang hung up the phone with Xu Moli and returned to Xu Wen. Xu Wen raised an eyebrow at him with a gossipy look on his face: "Is your girlfriend checking up on you?"

For some reason, upon hearing this, Shi Wang, who was about to sit down, suddenly paused and hesitated for a moment before answering, "No."

"What did you want to say just now, what happened to Jiang Wanning?"

Seeing Shi's false denial, Xu Wen's expression withered. "Oh, I heard about what happened between you and Jasmine at the alumni reunion. I thought it was her who called just now, but I got all excited for nothing."

Xu Wen did not attend the alumni reunion because he had to work overtime.

In this regard, he said that as one of the few close friends of the time, he was not able to witness the love scene between him and Xu Moli with his own eyes, which was a great regret in his life.

But after saying those annoying things, he quickly got back to the point: "But you said Jiang Wanning, I haven't had much contact with her, I just vaguely heard some rumors about her."

"She was a junior schoolmate two years below us. She was known in our school for being arrogant and dangerous."

“…”

Xu Wen's words undoubtedly stirred up a huge wave of shock in Shi Wang's originally calm heart.

It was not until this moment that he finally realized that Jiang Wanning had been pretending to be by his side for nearly three years.

What followed was an inexplicable feeling of anger.

Xu Wen, on the other side, was still completely unaware of this and continued to ask curiously, "Come to think of it, Shi Wang, you were a cool and arrogant student who only thought about studying in school, why are you suddenly asking me about such a person today?"

"After all, you two don't seem to be from the same world at all. When did you ever get to know each other?"

"...Some time ago, the law firm had a case and I had some contact with her."

Shi Wang tried hard to suppress his emotions and responded to Xu Wen's words.

He didn't directly explain the true relationship between him and Jiang Wanning. After chatting with Xu Wen for a while, Xu Wen received a call from his wife and said goodbye to him: "That's nonsense. I won't talk to you anymore. My wife called me and asked me to go home for lunch."

"You and Jasmine are getting married soon, so don't forget to invite me, your old classmate!"

As he spoke, he picked up his briefcase and hurried away.

Shi Wang didn't get the information he wanted from Xu Wen, so he left the cafe.

When he returned home, it was lunchtime, but the spacious apartment was empty.

Xu Moli took Qin Huifang to the mall to shop.

Shi Wang called the two of them, and heard a clamorous noise from the other end: "Shi Wang, I thought you were going to have lunch with your classmates and not be back home."

"I'm out with my aunt and can't go back for a while. Why don't you order some takeout later?"

"……good."

I couldn't hear what was said over there.

Shi Wang hung up the phone, but the image of his good friend Xu Wen happily leaving the coffee shop appeared in his mind.

He was in a rare trance and suddenly remembered that when Jiang Wanning had not left, there was always a busy figure in his home, waiting for him to come back no matter what time it was.

But now things are different.

Shi Wang felt inexplicably irritated, and coincidentally, the leader of the law firm sent him work news.

[Xiaoshi, please compile a copy of the defendant's information for this case and send it to me later.]

Immediately following the message was a compressed package of very large capacity.

Shi Wang frowned, replied to the other party, and came to the study room which he had not entered for a long time.

Because Qin Huifang moved in some time ago, the place was already filled with her daily necessities.

Shi Wang pursed his lips, walked past those things, opened the computer that had been dusty for a long time, and logged into his WeChat.

The machine, which had not been running for a long time, froze for a moment, and then many messages that had not been synchronized before quickly popped up.

He frowned calmly, waiting for the messages to pop up quickly, but his eyes suddenly froze when he saw a message that Jiang Wanning had sent him.

The message was probably sent to him by the other party at the beginning of this month.

Jiang Wanning: [Shi Wang, I've decided to leave the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In about fifteen days, at the end of this month, I'll be heading overseas to take over a job my father has arranged. I originally wanted to leave immediately, but I've decided to tell you. Let's meet at Yunye Restaurant in fifteen days... There are some things I want to confront you face to face, so that our three-year relationship can have a decent ending.]

It was a very long message. Shi Wang calculated the time and found that it was sent to him the night before Jiang Wanning left the apartment and never came back.

But he didn't receive the message at all that night.

And what happened that night?

When some vague memories of that day emerged, Shi Wang's heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

He looked across the study at the door of the room opposite where Xu Moli was imprisoned, and his eyes narrowed dangerously.

......

Star Country at almost the same time.

Jiang Wanning made an appointment with Xie Yanchuan yesterday to visit the jade master who lives in seclusion here today.

The old man lives in a town a little far away from their city. The road is not easy to walk on and it takes some time to get there.

So Xie Yanchuan got up early and drove over to pick up Jiang Wanning.

However, he didn't expect that when he just arrived at the door of the villa and hadn't seen Jiang Wanning yet, he bumped into Jiang Wenzhou first.

"Xie Yanchuan?"

Jiang Wenzhou even rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was still asleep.

Xie Yanchuan: “…”

After a while, he spoke again: "Brother."

"No! Please don't call me that!"

Jiang Wenzhou had the good fortune to deal with Xie Yanchuan several times due to business matters. Both of them had strong personalities and had often clashed with each other. However, over time, they gradually came to appreciate each other and became almost friends.

Now, Jiang Wenzhou got goose bumps when he heard the other party's sudden hypocritical address. He seriously suspected that the other party had been possessed by some unknown entity: "Xie Yanchuan, why are you here?"

Before Xie Yanchuan could answer, Jiang Wanning had already walked out of the house and got into Xie Yanchuan's car.

The car window was halfway down, and Jiang Wanning smiled and waved at Jiang Wenzhou, who was almost petrified on the spot. "Brother, I have to go out for something. Please tell the servants at home that they don't have to cook for me at noon."

Jiang Wenzhou: "Ah?"

Xie Yanchuan also nodded at him, and then before Jiang Wenzhou could even react, the two of them had already left.

The deeply hurt "lonely old man" was left scratching his head in confusion: "Did I miss some important news?"

"How did Xie Yanchuan get to know my sister?"