"I was the one who led Lu Zhiyuan over there, and I personally put the knife into his hand."

Jin Shu frankly recounted the entire incident to me: "I told him I must save Yuan Yaxin, and if he objected, then he could kill me! He naturally refused and even advised me to stop shielding Yuan Yaxin."

"He really thought I came here to discuss something with him. He's so naive!" Jin Shu sneered, with a hint of pride in his eyes.

I felt a chill in my heart. "If you wanted to rescue Yuan Yaxin, you didn't need to ask Lu Zhiyuan for permission. You tricked him into going there so you could leave his fingerprints on the knife."

Jin Shu's eyes showed admiration: "You are smart, much smarter than Lu Zhiyuan."

I shook my head. "It's not that Lu Zhiyuan couldn't guess that you had other intentions. He's just confused by the situation and would rather believe that you wouldn't do anything so cruel!"

But Lu Zhiyuan lost the bet and fell into the conspiracy set by Jin Shu.

My words made Jin Shu's smile stop.

She lowered her eyes slightly, put her hand on the wound on her abdomen, and said sarcastically, "In your opinion, it is indeed insane."

"When Lu Zhiyuan realized he couldn't persuade me, he turned and was about to leave. I put the knife in his hand, and then he stabbed me with the cake knife himself..."

"You are crazy!" I couldn't understand her sick behavior. Even if she was trying to frame someone, she was too cruel to herself.

I saw the scene with my own eyes. Jin Shu's knife caused a lot of bleeding. She was not soft-hearted at all to herself.

"You planned all this to put the blame on Lu Zhiyuan, even disregarding your own life. What exactly are you trying to achieve?"

"Just to rescue Yuan Yaxin."

Jin Shu sneered, a hint of deep affection in his eyes: "As long as I can rescue her, I will risk my life. If I don't do this, I will not be able to face Yuan Zhenglin when I die."

A flash of inspiration came to my mind.

Yuan Zhenglin? Yuan Yaxin's brother.

Did Jin Shu do all this just to repay Yuan Zhenglin for saving his life?

I don't understand, even though Yuan Zhenglin once saved her life.

She was grateful, but was she also willing to risk her life to protect Yuan Yaxin?

I looked at Jin Shu, and she was actually crying as she spoke, mumbling, "Zheng Lin, I have done my best for you..."

Such an intimate name gave me a sudden chill.

My intuition tells me that the relationship between Jin Shu and Yuan Zhenglin is definitely more than just a life-saving relationship.

I probed Jin Shu: "Yuan Zhenglin should be very important to you, right?"

Jin Shu looked at me with tearful eyes, and the smile on his lips was full of regret.

"Zhenglin and I were once a couple. We fell in love at first sight when he saved me."

Indeed, no wonder Jin Shu indulges Yuan Yaxin so much.

In her opinion, Yuan Yaxin is her lover's only blood relative, so she naturally has to protect this only sister for Yuan Zhenglin.

Jin Shu murmured, "I promised him that I would take good care of Yaxin for him, but I failed to keep an eye on her and she slipped away back to the capital."

I frowned in confusion and said doubtfully, "If you wanted to take Yuan Yaxin away, with your power, there's no need to plan all this, no need to sacrifice yourself. The only explanation is that you don't know where Yuan Yaxin is either."

Jin Shu did not deny it, and her tone was helpless.

"When I rushed back to Beijing from abroad, I had already lost contact with Yaxin."