Gu Yifei then repeated to the police what Meng Zihan had said to him.
He exclaimed excitedly, "Officer, I swear on my life, I would never do such a thing to her! We're friends, I just genuinely wanted to help her!"
Thinking that he had been framed by Meng Zihan, his eyes shot straight at Meng Zihan, who was cowering in the corner, his eyes filled with undisguised disgust and hatred.
Meng Zihan trembled at his gaze, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes again.
She sobbed, "You were so drunk you didn't remember anything, but you really did bully me, Yifei, how can you deny it?"
Her voice was filled with despair, "What good does it do me, a girl who hasn't even gotten married yet, to play this kind of joke on my innocence?"
Mother Gu immediately retorted.
"You're innocent? How are you innocent in your actions? Go ask around at the steel mill. Everyone knows you framed your cousin Ye Linchen, caused her to run away from home, and then lived with a man out of wedlock, getting pregnant before marriage. You can't just say you're innocent!"
She looked at the police: "Officers, you can't believe her. She's been detained twice already, she's a repeat offender. This time she's trying to frame my son again! You can check the records, I'm not just making this up!"
She didn't want to talk about these things, but Meng Zihan was shameless, so she decided to go for it.
Meng Zihan was so angry after hearing her words that she almost ground her teeth to powder.
That old hag is just as mean and vicious as she was in her past life!
She showed no sign of it in front of her, and cried even more bitterly.
“I made mistakes in these matters, but it was because I was young, naive, and didn’t know how to judge people. I was a victim too; I was deceived!”
"Brother Yifei only sympathized with me after hearing about my experiences. He was feeling down, so he thought of me and confided in me!"
"I just wanted to comfort him, but I never expected him to treat me like this..."
Gu Yifei's eyes reddened, and he slurred, "Didn't you come to me saying that eighteen years ago today, your father abandoned you, and you became an orphan, and that you were sad, so you came to me for company?"
How could you lie!
Meng Zihan vehemently denied it: "I didn't, I didn't..."
The policeman cleared his throat and interrupted the two, "The restaurant staff can testify that you left together, and when you left, Comrade Gu Yifei was indeed hugging Comrade Meng Zihan, behaving intimately."
He flipped through the notebook and gave Gu Yifei his conclusion.
"There is no direct evidence to prove that you did these things, and you were drunk and lost your memory. We suggest that you two talk privately and try to reach a settlement."
Upon hearing this, Gu's mother could no longer contain herself. She strode up to Meng Zihan and shouted, "Meng Zihan, is this your purpose? What do you really want? Money? Or a good job?"
Meng Zihan raised her tear-streaked face, her gaze passing over Gu's mother and fixed intently on Gu Yifei.
"Auntie, you've misjudged me. I don't want money, and I don't want a job."
“My reputation has been ruined like this. Brother Yifei molested me and refused to take responsibility for me. I can’t live like this anymore.”
She wiped away her tears and said, word by word, "He has to marry me, or I will refuse to reconcile. I will sue him until he goes to jail!"
Gu Yifei stared at Meng Zihan's face, which was covered in tears yet utterly resolute, and was so shocked he could barely breathe.
What followed was an overwhelming wave of regret...
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