Chapter 65 Was the Accident Really an Accident?

Shen Wenzhong looked at Lu Yanchuan cautiously, as if afraid of making him angry.

Unlike when he could sometimes act like a father in front of Shen Li, Shen Wenzhong always kept a low profile in front of Lu Yanchuan.

After his business failed, he received a lot of financial assistance from Lu Yanchuan.

He knew that Lu Yanchuan looked down on him, but he dared not act rashly in front of Lu Yanchuan and had always been quite careful.

Instead, they strictly disciplined Shen Li, demanding that she be a virtuous wife and mother, that she please Lu Yanchuan, and that she please the Lu family, and so on.

Such an attitude naturally made Lu Yanchuan and the Lu family aware of it, which is why they looked down on Shen Li.

Shen Li herself knew this, but she couldn't say it. The one who shamelessly begged for money in front of others was indeed her own father.

Even if the rule of children paying for their fathers' debts no longer exists, you can't expect others to respect you if they don't require you to repay their fathers' debts.

"Yanchuan, don't be angry," Shen Wenzhong said with a smile. "I didn't think things through enough today."

"You're quite inconsiderate," Lu Yanchuan said with a half-smile, adding, "You've always been quite inconsiderate."

Shen Wenzhong's smile was somewhat dry. "It was my oversight. I only thought about how it was her birthday today, and I didn't realize that it was also the anniversary of her mother's death."

“I was really sad when her mother had that accident. I didn’t dare to think about it too much because it made me feel bad. So over time, I became neglectful. After all, you have to look forward and keep living your life.”

Shen Wenzhong's words were quite earnest.

Lu Yanchuan scoffed, "When have you ever stopped living your life? Her mother has only been dead for a short time and your new wife is already so pregnant."

Shen Wenzhong's expression froze upon hearing this.

Lu Yanchuan still had that ambiguous smile, "You don't think I'm too young to know anything, do you? I may have been young back then, but I can look it up now."

"There's no such thing as a perfectly clean butt," Lu Yanchuan said bluntly.

He even added with a half-smile, "To be honest, it's been so long that many things are harder to investigate now. Otherwise, given the timing of the incident and the large insurance payout..."

"It will fill the hole in the Shen family's coffers and prevent your concubine's child from being born outside and becoming an illegitimate child before entering the family."

"Considering the whole story, it certainly makes one wonder whether that accident was truly an accident or not, don't you think?"

If Shen Wenzhong's expression had merely stiffened before, upon hearing this, his face turned completely black.

It looked ugly in waves.

Even her usual cautious attitude towards Lu Yanchuan was starting to falter.

His voice turned serious. "President Lu! You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want! What you're saying is practically smearing me! What evidence do you have?"

"Evidence?" Lu Yanchuan glanced at him. "This isn't a courtroom, and I'm not a judge. What evidence do you need? If I feel something's off about you, then you're the one who's off to me."

“If I condemn you in my heart, then you are guilty in my eyes, and I don’t need to explain myself to anyone.”

Lu Yanchuan's words were utterly merciless.

However, he never showed any mercy to Shen Wenzhong. In the past, every time Shen Wenzhong came to ask for money, he would shamelessly beg like a beggar.

Lu Yanchuan was annoyed by him, so to prevent him from going to Shen Li again, he usually gave it to him anyway.

But he has a sharp tongue and never holds back on saying the most hurtful things, showing no mercy whatsoever.

Shen Wenzhong acted so unfairly today. If Shen Li were here, Lu Yanchuan might have given him some face and restrained his words, but Shen Li left first.

Lu Yanchuan was already annoyed, so naturally he was even less likely to give Shen Wenzhong any face.

Shen Wenzhong was so angry he was trembling. It was Zheng Lixuan who tried to smooth things over with a pale face, her smile also appearing very strained.

"Yanchuan, let's not talk about these unhappy things, let's eat first?"

Lu Yanchuan glanced at them, then at the dishes on the table, and smirked, "Shen Li isn't here, what do you guys have to eat? You can eat by yourselves."

After saying that, Lu Yanchuan opened the restaurant door and left. When he got to the living room, he found that the two gift boxes were gone, as was the cake.

Lu Yanchuan raised an eyebrow, a look of satisfaction appearing in his eyes.

As Lu Yanchuan left the Shen family, he did not notice a pale figure standing in the shadows at the corner of the stairs after he left the restaurant.

Shen Li was carrying two gift bags containing gift boxes and a small birthday cake. Her face was pale and her body was trembling slightly.

But in her clear eyes, there was no fear or panic, but rather... rage, an overwhelming rage that almost swallowed her whole.

Shen Li had already left the Shen residence with the 'Mountain Eagle' that He Xun had given her.

But I couldn't help but think of the Lindemann piece that Lu Yanchuan had brought.

Another voice seemed to appear in her mind, telling her: Lu Yanchuan has already taken it, and given that man's temper, there's absolutely no way he'll take it away again. Leaving it here is clearly just letting Zheng Lixuan benefit.

Thinking about this, Shen Li felt that it was better not to waste it.

So they turned back, and since they already had the gift box from Lu Yanchuan, they might as well take the birthday cake too.

Since they've already accepted the gifts, Lu Yanchuan might as well leave together, saving himself the trouble of dealing with them here.

So they walked towards the restaurant and overheard the conversation that had taken place inside earlier.

Before this, Shen Li had never even considered this possibility; her mother's death and the accident back then could have another cause.

You can't blame her for being naive. She was only eight years old at the time and experienced a major upheaval. For a long time afterward, she was even in a state of aphasia, unable to speak.

They stopped speaking altogether, let alone pondering such dark and profound questions at such a young age.

Moreover, no one wants to think of their loved ones in the worst possible light.

In Shen Li's eyes, Shen Wenzhong was at most an incompetent father and a husband who didn't cherish their past relationship.

But when it comes to connecting it with something like planning a murder for insurance money, Shen Li really hadn't thought of it that way.

Thinking about it now sends chills down my spine.

She even wanted to rush in and confront Shen Wenzhong immediately, but she calmed down; almost twenty years had passed.

As Lu Yanchuan said earlier, there is no evidence.

Alerting Shen Wenzhong and his group rashly would only scare them away.

Before leaving, Shen Li walked to the restaurant entrance, wanting to hear what Shen Wenzhong and Zheng Lixuan would say after she and Lu Yanchuan left.

But the restaurant was deathly silent.

After a long while, Shen Li heard Zheng Lixuan ask, "Wenzhong, what should we do now?"

Shen Li stood outside the door, her fingers clenched tightly! Like Zheng Lixuan, she was waiting for Shen Wenzhong's answer.