"It feels good to be unattended."
After everyone left the interrogation room, as if noticing that the camera had been switched off, Mizutani Yumi suddenly relaxed, a clear look of languor appearing on her face.
Just like when a person is most relaxed, their facial muscles will naturally relax.
She glanced at Jiang Cheng and said to herself, "You can imagine being watched by one pair of eyes for more than ten years, every moment. That would drive a person crazy."
Yumi Mizutani's voice is very magnetic, and she really enjoys the atmosphere she's in right now.
Like a prisoner who has been detained for countless hours, finally freed from shackles, feeling completely relaxed.
Jiang Cheng sighed, slowly walked forward, and gazed intently into her eyes. Until he was close enough to the glass, so close that he could see the strands of hair at her temples.
From the moment everyone left, their relationship changed.
However, Shui Ting just looked at him curiously, wondering what Jiang Cheng wanted to say.
In the silence of their eye contact, Jiang Cheng spoke, "She's doing very well."
Visible to the naked eye.
The moment he uttered those words, the smile on the woman's lips across the interrogation room froze. Her cheek twitched, her eyes lowered slightly and then lifted again, asking with some confusion, "What are you talking about? Who's doing well?"
"Your daughter..."
Jiang Cheng spoke word by word.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The two stood face to face, motionless, and everything paused except for her suddenly contracting pupils.
Mizutani Yumi once thought that no one in the world would know this secret: the girl abandoned at the Lanling Sunshine Welfare Home, whose life trajectory would completely diverge from hers and never intersect with her again. She left nothing behind in this world except her crime, and would spend her remaining years and die in prison.
But then one day, a young professor came to the Northwest and told her that her daughter was doing very well.
A flood of emotions surged through Mizutani Yumi's mind in an instant. First came astonishment and shock, then transformed into an indescribable complex feeling, followed by panic. In just a few seconds, she took a step forward and rushed over, throwing herself against the thick glass!
Her eyes were bloodshot as she stared intently at him.
Without this barrier, Jiang Cheng had no doubt that she would have killed him.
In that brief and fleeting moment, he read a hint of "madness" in the woman's eyes! Utter madness!
"What do you want?" she uttered coldly.
"Don't misunderstand me, I have no intention of using your daughter, and I'm the only one who knows about this right now." Jiang Cheng didn't want to escalate the conflict with his mother-in-law, so he explained, "Her name is Luo Xiaoli now, she's studying at university in Lanjing, and we're in a relationship..."
"Lover?"
"Yes, we're just ordinary lovers. Xiao Li was adopted by my aunt when she was three years old. We grew up together and became childhood sweethearts. Even for her sake, I wouldn't tell her about this. She wouldn't be able to accept it."
Jiang Cheng looked at Shui Ting very seriously and said, his clear eyes showing no hint of lying.
The pale-faced woman looked at him with an indescribable gaze, which Jiang Cheng found very uncomfortable and strange. Then she lowered her eyes again, seemingly lost in thought for a moment.
Can I see her?
It carries a hint of pleading.
Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone from his pocket and pulled out a photo of the two of them together, as well as Xiao Li's usual solo photos.
He pressed his phone against the glass, aiming it at a mother's longing gaze.
Yumi Mizutani looked at the photos with a look of pure delight, her eyes wide with joy, as if she were afraid of missing a single detail.
This joy was multiplied on her face; the corners of her mouth curved into a wide smile, and her gaze softened instantly.
A ruthless killer transformed into a mother in the blink of an eye.
In her eyes, Luo Xiaoli had become so beautiful, she was already eighteen years old... and she was in college! She had grown into a graceful young woman, and had a wonderful life like an ordinary person. She could have the troubles of a young girl, the worries of life, the confusion of youth, and the right to love and be loved.
In the photo, she holds her phone high, taking a 45-degree angle shot of Jiang Cheng looking bewildered on the balcony. He has foam horns on his head, and colorful bubbles appear under the sunlight. The girl's happiness is written all over her face.
Yumi Mizutani looked at these images and murmured to herself.
"She looks like me."
"Luo Xiaoli is exactly like you."
"As long as she's happy."
Shui Ting reluctantly withdrew her gaze, her eyes suddenly reddening again. Just a dozen minutes ago, she was a nightmare-like demon, but now the maternal glow emanating from her was terrifyingly gentle.
"It's a pity that I'll never have the chance to see her in person. Luo Xiaoli... what a nice name, as pure as crystal."
She thought for a while, then smiled with relief. More than a decade ago, she had prepared herself to never see him again. Now, she only felt a little reluctant and regretful. She accepted it calmly.
People must bear the consequences of their choices.
It has always been this way, and it can only be this way.
"Xiao Li doesn't seem to remember you." Jiang Cheng asked the question that had been on his mind the most.
"Of course she didn't know."
"What did you do to her?"
Yumi Mizutani tilted her head, looking at him with interest. "Why should I tell you?"
"I assure you, I will absolutely not reveal any information about her background. You want Xiaoli to live a normal life, and so do I. She loves reading, novels, painting, and the university she wants to attend. She's a girl living a happy life, and I won't let anyone disturb her. I have the ability to do so, and no one has the ability to do so better than me." Jiang Cheng was very confident.
He removed the surveillance cameras and recordings, and had everyone leave, his purpose being to inform the other party.
I did not come with malicious intent; I only wanted to understand the truth of some facts.
"You must never tell her that her mother is a heinous, highly intelligent criminal. I have gone to great lengths to cover it up and to make her forget everything I did. There may be no one else in the world who knows this except you and me. If you promise to take care of her, I can tell you."
Mizutani Yumi was filled with a sense of nostalgia for the past. Through her narration, Jiang Cheng learned about what had happened more than a decade ago.
Also, why does Luo Xiaoli forget everything completely, and only when she's drawing randomly does the image of that German building appear in her subconscious?
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