"Su Haiting, I'm giving you one more chance to tell the truth, or I'll immediately let everyone know what you did in my office that day!"

Ling Huanwu stared intently at Su Haiting, whose feigned pitifulness was gradually replaced by panic, and a chilling aura emanated from her lips.

She originally intended to expose what Su Haiting had done to her after the storm surge, but she didn't expect Su Haiting to preemptively try to bite her back.

Since that's the case, she doesn't need to show her any mercy just because of what happened to her!

Ling Huanwu turned to the leader next to Zhao Tingguo and explained, "Leader, I have evidence that Su Haiting instructed her subordinates to enter my office with malicious intent. Political Commissar Hao also knows about this!"

Political Commissar Hao nodded seriously, "Yes, that day I saw Comrade Su running away in a panic with her five subordinates..."

Hearing these words, Zhou Jiuzhen felt as if his heart had been ripped out, and he held Ling Huanwu's hand, his eyes filled with both heartache and anxiety. "Why didn't you tell me this sooner?"

Seeing the situation turn around, both Grandma Su and Su Haiting turned pale.

"That's because those five of them threatened me, saying that if I didn't let them bully Comrade Ling, I would have to take her place. That's why I was so scared and ran away. Waaah... I never expected you to do this, Sister Ling. I took the blame for you, and you turned around and blamed me like this!"

Ling Huanwu was amused by her words. She wasn't afraid of even having evidence and bluntly said, "You know in your heart who's turning the tables on you, so you're just trying to find a scapegoat for you?"

She turned to the leaders who were still unaware of the situation, "Comrades, you may not know how we just witnessed Comrade Su's incident. Tonight, Comrade Su actually hired an aunt to deceive one of our female comrades. That comrade was cornered on the beach by five masked men and almost..."

Ling Huanwu choked up and almost couldn't continue speaking.

Su Haiting was now completely panicked.

She never expected those five beasts to fail, and she assumed that Lin Xiaoqin wouldn't dare to make a fuss, so she never thought of hiding herself.

Now that her plan has fallen through, the fact that she tricked Lin Xiaoqin into going out has been exposed, confirming her involvement in the crimes committed by several people.

If convicted, she will be completely finished.

Su Haiting knelt down with a thud, and facing the shocked gazes of the crowd, began to kowtow in terror.

"Please don't hurt the other women! Take your anger out on me, don't make me go and deceive other women! Ah! Don't hit me..."

As Su Haiting spoke, she seemed to have been tortured, lying on the ground screaming, rolling around, and finally convulsing.

Everyone was stunned by the scene and stood there dumbfounded.

Grandma Su held the nearly insane Su Haiting, sobbing uncontrollably. She looked around at everyone, her voice choked with sobs and helplessness, "Are you trying to force her to her death? Is this how you bully us because we don't have a man in our family?"

"What did she do wrong? She was definitely driven to this by those beasts! Why are you targeting us victims instead of them? Waaah..."

Grandma Su's voice was filled with sorrow and grief, each word dripping with tears.

Many villagers felt pity upon hearing this and defended her, saying, "She's pitiful too. What can she do after experiencing something like this? Those beasts must have forced her."

"Yes, no wonder she didn't seem to be doing well those few days. Those beasts wouldn't even let her leave the house. What could she do..."

Hearing the villagers start speaking up for her, Qiao Hui, who had been waiting outside all along hoping to get justice for Lin Xiaoqin, became furious. He roared at the villagers who were speaking up for Su Haiting, "You sympathize with her? If your daughters or daughters-in-law were deceived by her and almost lost their innocence, let's see if you'd still sympathize with her then!"

The sympathetic villagers all looked grim. Seeing that the situation was turning bad again, Su Haiting let out a scream, rolled her eyes, and fainted.

Her sudden dizziness threw the scene into chaos. All of Qiao Hui's accusations were stuck in his throat, and he had nowhere to vent his anger.

Before they knew it, it was almost dawn.

Political Commissar Hao arranged accommodations for the leaders.

After listening to Chu Mei's tearful account, Zhao Tingguo originally wanted to tell Zhou Jiuzhen about his divorce from Ling Huanwu and his transfer.

During this time, several leaders were also discussing how to persuade the villagers to move away from the island to the Northwest as soon as possible.

To everyone's surprise, Zhou Jiuzhen seemed distracted the whole time he accompanied the group. After arranging their accommodations, he left with his comrades looking lost and dejected.

When Zhou Jiuzhen returned to the small wooden shed, he saw Ling Huanwu sitting on a simple wooden bed, folding his clothes.

The faint candlelight shone on her face, as if bathing her in a golden glow.

At that moment, time seemed to stand still, and his heart paused for a moment as well.

He couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be if time could stand still at this moment.

In this small wooden shed, time will stand still.

Zhou Jiuzhen gently hugged her from behind, deeply inhaling her unique fragrance, wanting to engrave everything about her into his mind.

He originally thought that the city police would arrive early tomorrow morning, and that Ling Huanwu would not leave until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.

But who would have thought that the police officers would arrive that evening with Zhao Tingguo and the others, and Ling Huanwu would probably be escorted away with them early the next morning.

Zhou Jiuzhen pulled her onto his lap and looked at her quietly.

Ling Huanwu didn't stop, gesturing with the large bitter tea seed she took out from her spatial storage against his body, "Look at you, you've lost so much weight and shrunk so much since you broke your hand, this size is too big..."

Zhou Jiuzhen gently rubbed his large nose against her small nose, his eyes reddening. "I haven't lost weight at all. Why don't you measure me..."

Ling Huanwu glared at him, then turned her head away to continue folding clothes. "I won't measure you. I'm not like you, measuring me every day..."

As she spoke, Ling Huanwu's cheeks flushed, and even her neck turned pink, like a translucent peach.

Even though Zhou Jiuzhen and she had been married for over a year, Ling Huanwu would still be as shy as she was on the first night after their wedding banquet.

She looked incredibly pink and delicate.

"I want to take the measurement again tonight. I want to see if our little baby has grown up."

Zhou Jiuzhen placed his hand on Ling Huanwu's stomach, pretending to act as usual, and insisted on taking a measuring tape to check and measure her.

Ling Huanwu was at her wit's end by his antics, so she had no choice but to slowly take off her top, just like she always did.

Afraid that she would catch a cold, Zhou Jiuzhen took a quilt and wrapped them tightly together.

Gazing into her lowered, shy eyes, his lips slowly kissed between her brows...

Early the next morning.

When Ling Huanwu opened her eyes, she found that she was still in the same state as when she fell asleep last night.

Zhou Jiuzhen held her in his arms, their lips still pressed tightly together, their breaths mingling.

Seeing that she was awake, he took advantage of the situation and kissed the back of her head.

Just then, Captain Sun knocked on the door. "Comrade Ling, it's time for us to set off..."