Chapter 256 To be alive is a sin

In the dream, Zhu Ning moved with frightening speed. Zhu Mingyue had barely blinked when he ran into Zhu Qian's study with two bottles of vitamins.

"Second brother! Vitamins!"

He placed the medicine bottle in Zhu Qian's hand and took Zhu Mingyue from his arms.

Zhu Qian unscrewed both bottles and poured all the vitamins out onto the ground, leaving not a single one.

The pure white pills were scattered messily on the ground, and Zhu Ning, being a layman, couldn't see the problem at all.

"Second brother, what's wrong with these vitamins?" he asked, completely bewildered.

Zhu Qian frowned deeply, picked up a pill from the ground, and smelled it.

A bitter, nauseating smell instantly filled my nostrils.

"These aren't vitamins!" Zhu Qian threw the pills away, his face dark and menacing. "Mingyue, the pills in the bottle aren't vitamins; you've taken the wrong ones."

"...Huh?" Zhu Mingyue asked weakly, both frightened and bewildered, "How could I have taken the wrong medicine? These two bottles of medicine were prescribed to me by you, Second Brother."

“That’s right!” Zhu Ning testified for her, “I watched Mingyue take these two bottles of medicine from you, how could she have taken the wrong one?”

Zhu Qian looked down at the pills on the ground, wondering about the matter.

He personally prescribed every single pill for Zhu Mingyue. As long as Zhu Mingyue didn't deliberately take the wrong one, this problem would never have occurred.

"How could I have eaten the wrong thing..." He just couldn't figure it out.

"Mingyue, did you mix up the other medicines with the vitamins?" Zhu Ning suddenly said at this moment.

Zhu Mingyue shook her head: "I... I don't have any... There are only vitamins that my second brother prescribed for me in my room, no other medicine."

"That's all?" Zhu Ning was also confused. "Then where did you take the wrong medicine?"

Zhu Mingyue shook her head again: "I don't know either..."

She was in excruciating pain, and scalding tears kept streaming down her face.

"Second Brother..." She looked up at Zhu Qian beside her, reaching out her hand helplessly, "Second Brother, what exactly is going on?"

Zhu Qian kept a sullen face and ignored her for the time being.

“Let them mix…” Zhu Ning’s casual remark caught his attention. He pondered those two words over and over, and after a moment, a bold guess suddenly popped into his head.

"Mingyue, who has been in your room in the last two days?" He grabbed Zhu Mingyue's hand and questioned her coldly.

Despite the excruciating pain, Zhu Mingyue carefully recalled the events, and after a few seconds, she softly uttered a name.

"now……"

"In the past two days, only Jinzhao has entered my room."

Zhu Qian's brow twitched, and a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes: "It really was her!"

"Who is it?" Zhu Ning asked anxiously, "Is it Zhu Jinzhao?"

"Hmph," Zhu Qian gritted his teeth and sneered, "In this family, who else but her could do such a vicious thing?"

“…Zhu Jinzhao!” Zhu Ning clenched her right fist and slammed it hard on the floor with all her might, unable to bear it any longer.

"Bang!"

The finger bones collided violently with the floor, producing a chilling thud.

Zhu Qian patted his knees, stood up from the ground, and said coldly, "Zhu Ning, you take Mingyue to the hospital. I'll deal with Zhu Jinzhao."

"Okay!" Zhu Ning didn't dare to delay. He quickly picked up the nearly unconscious Zhu Mingyue from the ground and hurriedly ran outside.

Zhu Mingyue's vision was blurred by the turbulence. She tried to open her eyes wide in her dream, but she could not see anything clearly in front of her.

Wishing you a happy day!

Suddenly, a furious shout rang in her ears.

She was momentarily dazed, and suddenly she was teleported from Zhu Ning's arms back to Zhu Qian's study.

In the center of the study, Zhu Jinzhao stood in front of Zhu Qian, anxiously and aggrievedly trying to defend himself.

"Second brother, I really didn't switch Mingyue's medicine, please believe me!"

"Smack!"

Zhu Qian raised his hand and slapped Zhu Jinzhao across the face.

"Still lying!"

Zhu Jinzhao raised her hand to cover her burning cheek, her tone filled with helplessness: "I didn't lie... I really didn't lie! I didn't even go into Mingyue's room, how could I possibly have changed her medicine!"

"Heh..." Zhu Qian let out a mocking sneer, not believing a single word of Zhu Jinzhao's explanation.

"You haven't been in Mingyue's room? But Mingyue said that you're the only one who's been to her room these past two days! Don't you even think before you lie?"

Zhu Jinzhao was speechless with anger and stamped his feet in frustration: "Second Brother, I didn't lie! I really didn't go into Mingyue's room, why won't you believe me?"

"Why should I believe you?" Zhu Qian retorted.

"I..." Zhu Jinzhao was speechless for a moment, and the resentment in her heart immediately dissipated.

Zhu Qian stared at her with a sinister look in his eyes, and took two steps closer to her: "Zhu Jinzhao, put your hand on your heart and tell me, how many vicious things have you done in this family? Since Mingyue came home, how many times have you tried to harm her?!"

"Assassination?" These two words made Zhu Jinzhao laugh. She looked up at Zhu Qian, her eyes full of mockery. "She says I assassinated someone, so I assassinated someone? Can you at least produce some evidence before you convict me!"

"These two bottles of medicine are the evidence!" Zhu Qian grabbed the pills from the table and threw them at Zhu Jinzhao.

Zhu Jinzhao did not dodge at all, letting the bitter and smelly pills spill all over her head and face.

She stared at Zhu Qian's contorted face and sighed helplessly, "You can't prove these pills are mine, nor can you prove I put them in Zhu Mingyue's vitamins. You can't prove anything and yet you call it evidence? Second brother, don't you think your accusations are far-fetched?"

"..." Zhu Qian glared at her fiercely, without answering her question.

She had no strength left to explain, and could only smile bitterly as she said, "Second brother, although I'm not your biological sister, I've still spent twenty years with you day and night. You watched me grow up. Don't you have any idea whether these heinous things were done by me or not?"

Zhu Qian: "...Are you questioning me?"

Zhu Jinzhao: "I just want to know, why can a 20-year relationship just disappear like that?"

Zhu Qian: "Didn't you bring this on yourself? Do you think I don't want to believe you? But how many coincidences have you created?"

"Mingyue fell down the stairs, and you just happened to be standing at the top of the stairs; a needle was found in Mingyue's pillow, and you just happened to have passed through Mingyue's room half an hour earlier; Mingyue was isolated and bullied at school, and the students who bullied her just happened to be your friends."

"How can I believe you when you've created so many coincidences?"

"..."

I have nothing to say today, but I still feel somewhat unwilling.

"The Zhu family is rich and powerful. Is it so difficult for them to thoroughly investigate something? You don't believe me at all because I'm not related to you by blood."

After saying his last words, Zhu Jinzhao turned and left.

Zhu Qian: "Stop!"