Chapter 119 He did it, so if there's retribution, he'll be the one to suffer; she bears no responsibility.
Lying in bed, Sang Qian was still not sleepy. Her gaze was fixed on the ceiling, and deep inside, she felt a sense of peace and tranquility she had never experienced before.
It seemed that all the grievances buried deep in her heart for many years crumbled at Jin Changyu's words, "Because they bullied you," and vanished in his warm and comforting embrace.
Jin Changyu personally dealt with those who had hurt her in the past. The Sang Zhiming family, all outlaws, will probably all be going to jail this time.
These people would no longer appear in her life, and Sang Qian felt that the world had become clean and beautiful.
During the phone call just now, her second uncle said to her, "Changyu is a very thoughtful person, and he's so protective of you. Don't think too much about it, just live your life peacefully with him. As for your father, they have only themselves to blame. The law will decide what to do, so you don't need to feel guilty."
Sang Qian felt no guilt whatsoever about the fate of Sang Zhiming's family; all she felt was satisfaction and catharsis.
What truly stirred her emotions was the first half of her second uncle's sentence.
Sang Qian continued to stare fixedly at the ceiling, but her thoughts gradually became more and more intense...
*
On the breakfast table the next morning.
Jin Changyu looked at the woman opposite him who was staring at him in a daze, and then at her barely touched bowl and spoon. "Didn't you like today's breakfast?"
Sang Qian snapped back to reality, "No, nothing."
She avoided his eyes by pretending to lower her head and drink her porridge.
Jin Changyu looked at the absent-minded woman and was about to say something when the phone next to him rang.
He answered immediately, "Yes, go ahead."
Sang Qian didn't know who was on the other end of the phone, only that the other person spoke for a long time, because Jin Changyu didn't say much and just listened quietly, glancing at her from time to time.
After a while, he said, "I understand, I'll get back to you later."
After hanging up the phone, he looked up at Sang Qian.
“It was Lawyer Zhang on the phone. He said that after Sang Yulong found out that his parents were also locked up, he fainted several times in there. Later, he cried and begged you to see him one more time. He said that he knew he was wrong and that if you would drop the charges against him, he would kneel down and apologize to you. He also swore that he would respect you as his sister in the future and would never do anything to hurt you again.”
“And Sang Zhiming, he has also been asking to see you.”
Jin Changyu carefully observed Sang Qian's expression and asked her softly, "Do you want to see them?"
Sang Qian put down her spoon and said decisively, "I won't see you."
Sang Zhiming couldn't get any affection from her.
As for Sang Yulong, she felt even less that she had any relationship with him.
Besides, he didn't admit his mistake; rather, he realized that his backer had fallen, and even his proud identity as the "eldest grandson of the Sang family" could no longer protect him. So he panicked and tried to escape responsibility by admitting his mistake.
The tears he shed were nothing more than crocodile tears.
Seeing her like this, Jin Changyu breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, I understand."
He didn't want her to see those beasts, lest she be angered by them again, or be reminded of those bad experiences from the past and cry from sadness.
He insisted on sending Sang Zhiming's family in so that she wouldn't have to see them and be bothered by them.
Jin Changyu didn't want Sang Qian to go see him, but he went to see Sang Zhiming in her place.
*
When Sang Zhiming saw that only Jin Changyu had come to see him, he was taken aback.
"Why didn't A-Qian come?"
"Why did she come?" Jin Changyu asked him calmly.
"I'm here to tell you that Qianqian won't come to see you, and you can forget about escaping the law."
Upon hearing this, Sang Zhiming's heart sank to the bottom.
The things he and Zhang Shuli did were so secretive that they never left a trace over the years. Unless someone with connections and influence specifically dug them up, no evidence of their affair could be found.
The only people who have the ability and the reason to bring him down are Jin Changyu and Sang Qian.
"Why?"
Sang Zhiming stared at Jin Changyu with bloodshot eyes. "The Sang family is also A Qian's family. It's not enough that you sent Yu Long in, you have to send us in too. Are you trying to destroy the entire Sang family? I don't understand. We're all family. What good does it do to kill her like this?"
"A family?"
Jin Changyu's eyes darkened. "All these years when you indulged her, and even colluded with your stepwife and son to abuse her, why didn't you say you were family?"
"I……"
Recalling the past, Sang Zhiming felt guilty and couldn't offer any explanation.
"This is something you owe Qianqian."
Jin Changyu stared at him intently, his voice, seemingly devoid of emotion, chillingly cold: "All the suffering and torment she has endured over the years, I will make you beasts pay for it all. No one will escape."
Meeting Jin Changyu's terrifying gaze, Sang Zhiming felt a chill run down his spine, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.
"But, but the Sang family is A-Qian's family after all. If she attacks her own family, isn't she afraid of being gossiped about behind her back?"
Ha, trying to use moral blackmail?
Jin Changyu scoffed, "Get this straight, you're going in because you broke the law yourself, what does it have to do with anyone else?"
Sang Zhiming said urgently, "But we were brought in by her. It's one thing for others, but I'm her biological father. She killed her own father, which is an outrageous crime. She deserves to be struck by lightning. God will not forgive her..."
"I'm the one who reported you and is going to send you to jail, not her."
Jin Changyu interrupted him in a deep voice.
"Qianqian knew nothing about this and did not do anything disrespectful to you. Your actions today are your own sins, and you have no one to blame but yourself."
He looked at Sang Zhiming, whose face was turning deathly pale, and said in a calm and powerful voice, “Even if God really wants to blame us, I will stand in front of her. Your filial piety will never strike her.”
He did it, so if there's retribution, he'll be the one to suffer; she bears no responsibility.
Sang Zhiming's face was ashen, and his trembling voice held a desperate struggle, "But I am still her biological father, do you really have to be so cruel?"
Are you?
Jin Changyu stared coldly at him and questioned sharply, "When you treated Xu Manrong as your daughter, did you ever think that she was your biological daughter? Did you ever think about how she felt at the time?"
Sang Zhiming trembled. In fact, he had already regretted it in his heart. When Sang Qian's attitude towards her became more and more indifferent, he regretted mistreating her. When he saw the hypocrisy and ruthlessness under Xu Manrong's gentle and considerate exterior, and when she deliberately harmed Sang Yulong, he regretted being good to this bitch. He even wanted to strangle her.
But at this moment, facing Jin Changyu's questioning, he could only try to justify himself, "I... I was just feeling sorry for Xu Manrong because she lost her parents..."
"When you feel sorry for someone else's daughter who lost her parents, have you ever thought that your own daughter was also a child who lost her mother at the age of five? What's even more tragic is that, as her biological father, although you didn't die, you couldn't wait to start a new family in the same year that her mother passed away, and even let an outsider take her place as your daughter."
Do you know how cruel this was to her?
Jin Changyu's eyes seemed to want to kill, and he said, word by word, "This is a hundred times more cruel than making her lose both her parents."
Sang Zhiming's pupils dilated, and the color drained from his face instantly.
Regret and a deep sense of guilt welled up from his heart to his throat, so much so that he could no longer utter a single word to absolve himself of guilt.
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