Chapter 164: Lu Xin admitted it?
Lu Xin didn't expect Su Mengxue to ask this. She was shocked. Did she know everything?
Her fingers, which were clutching the corner of her clothes, turned white. Her breathing, which had been steady just now, suddenly became rapid, and a layer of fine beads of sweat quickly appeared on her forehead.
She forced herself to conceal her uneasiness and asked in a cold and hard tone, "Su Mengxue, you...what do you mean by that? Could it be that you suspect I drugged and set fire to your parents?"
Su Mengxue naturally noticed Lu Xin's nervousness and her inner panic. She knew what was going on and simply stopped beating around the bush with her.
She looked straight at Lu Xin and said straight to the point, "You should know why I came to see you, right? How do you explain the sleeping pills?"
"Sleeping pills? I...I, how would I know? Maybe my parents couldn't sleep well, so they took those things."
Lu Xin was afraid that he would expose his flaws, so he looked away unconsciously, not daring to look directly into Su Mengxue's eyes.
Seeing that she was still stubborn at this time, Su Mengxue asked in a cold tone: "So this matter has nothing to do with you?"
"Of course this matter has nothing to do with me."
After Lu Xin finished speaking, his eyes trembled, and he straightened his back and added, "Su Mengxue, I know you've always disliked me and don't have a good impression of me. But my parents adopted me for so many years. They cared about me and gave me such a good life. How could I possibly harm them? What you said is really ridiculous."
Su Mengxue's eyes darkened. Lu Xin indeed had no motive to harm them, but who else could it be except her?
Just when she felt puzzled, she suddenly remembered that when she brought Zihao to see them some time ago, the two of them proposed to make a will in the future, and leave the big house they lived in to Zihao after they died to help him get married.
She didn't care too much at the time. After all, Lui Che-woo and Chow Wai-chun were not very old, and she was able to make money, and Zihao was still young.
She quickly realized that Lu Xin was also present at the time, and if there was any reason why she wanted to harm them, it was probably because of this house.
She thought about it calmly, quickly made up her mind, and then said in a serious tone: "After Mom and Dad are transferred out of the intensive care unit, the matter of excessive sleeping pills in their blood will be resolved."
"Anyway, there are only two possibilities. One is that they ate it on their own initiative, or the other is that someone poisoned the water or soup they drank. Anyone who could have trusted them, or who could have poisoned them, must be someone they know, so this is easy to investigate."
"But from what I know about them, they're very cautious people. They probably wouldn't take sleeping pills on a regular basis, and even if they did, they wouldn't overdose. Besides, how could such a coincidence happen that they took sleeping pills and the house happened to be on fire? This is clearly murder. I'm certain the fire wasn't an accident."
She paused, then added, "The reason I came to see you at this time is because you've been raised by your parents for many years. If you really did this, I hope you can turn yourself in and seek leniency from the government. If it really wasn't you, then I'm being overly concerned."
Sitting on the hospital bed, Lu Xin replied in a cold tone, "Su Mengxue, I think you wish I had done this, right? Because you've always been jealous of me being with my parents for so many years, jealous that I took away their love for you. If this was really me who did it, then you could have all their love for you."
Su Mengxue knew what Lu Xin was thinking. She was the one who was jealous and afraid all these years. In order to continue staying in the Lu family, she didn't even dare to get married and remained single for so many years.
She thought that she could use the adoption to test and stimulate her, to see if she could reveal the truth, so she said nonchalantly:
"Lü Xin, you have to understand clearly that I am their biological daughter. Even if you have been in this family longer than me, how can you, a person with no blood relationship, compare to me, their biological daughter?"
She paused deliberately at this point and said, "You're not young anymore. I really don't know how you can confidently say such childish and ridiculous things."
As she spoke, she took a few steps forward, her arms folded at her sides, and said sarcastically, "Do you think that just because your parents say a few words of love to you and raise you for a few years, a country girl like you will really treat yourself as their own child? Lu Xin, it is important for people to know themselves."
What Lu Xin couldn't accept the most was others talking about her rural background. When she heard this and saw the arrogant look in Su Mengxue's eyes, she completely broke down.
There were two balls of angry flames in her eyes. She almost jumped off the bed. She walked closer to Su Mengxue, almost poking her fingers into her eyes, and said with gritted teeth:
"Su Mengxue, don't forget, your last name is still Su, and mine is Lu. Besides, I live with them now. Even if there's a fire, I'm with them through thick and thin."
"Besides, my parents love me as much as they love you! Don't use blood as an excuse. I've been in this family for over a decade, and you've only been with them for a few years. My bond with them is much deeper than yours, their biological daughter!"
Su Mengxue sneered. "When I was first found, my parents mentioned changing my surname to me. But later, my mother said that she had experienced turbulent times, so she was always uneasy. She didn't let me have the surname Lu because she thought that if they were sent down again in the future, they would not implicate me. Although I don't have the surname Su, I still let Zihao take it."
"As for what you said about Zihao and I not living with them, it's because my workplace is too far from here, so my parents thoughtfully helped me buy a house. Lu Xin, tell me, which of these things they did for me wasn't out of love?"
Lu Xinqiang stiffened his neck and said calmly, "Su Mengxue, I won't listen to you. I only know that they let me share the same surname with them and live together out of love."
"Lu Xin, I don't know if you've ever heard the saying, 'Where there's money, there's love.' If he really loved you, why would he leave the house to Zihao?"
Lu Xin, who had just been arguing, collapsed instantly after hearing this. She stepped forward, grabbed Su Mengxue's collar, and roared at her at the top of her lungs, "Su Mengxue, I won't let you say that to me. You and I have the same status in this family. They left the house to Lu Zihao not because he didn't have a father, but because his parents felt sorry for him."
As she spoke, the look in her eyes became more and more sharp, and then she shook her head vigorously: "No, I have been in the Lu family longer than you, and my relationship with them is much better than yours."
Su Mengxue looked at her calmly and said word by word, "Lü Xin, if you really thought so, you wouldn't be so anxious. Your actions have already exposed your fear, worry, and anxiety."
Let me ask you one last question: "Were you the one who gave me the sleeping pills?"
"Su Mengxue, I told you it wasn't me. How many times do you want me to explain it?"
"Lü Xin, if you're willing to turn yourself in now, at least you'll be known as someone who corrects their mistakes, and the punishment you receive will be much less. Maybe your parents will even forgive you. If you don't turn yourself in, once your parents wake up, they'll find out it was you who did it."
"Do you think that someone who dared to attack even his adoptive parents would dare to deal with someone like you even if you were released one day?"
As soon as the words fell, Lu Xin's tense body suddenly collapsed. She looked at Su Mengxue quietly. After a long silence, she said frankly with a serious face: "Su Mengxue, I can turn myself in, but I have one condition."
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