Chapter 72
Everything turned out to be not as I had only one-sidedly understood!
Fu Qingyan glanced coldly at the lying Shen Huaixi, turned around and left the Shen family without saying a word.
"Help me check something..."
After making a phone call to ask someone to look up the past events, Fu Qingyan immediately asked his assistant to buy a plane ticket and flew to the island where they had gone on their graduation trip.
Inside the Shen residence, Shen Huaixi, whose hands and feet were cold, and Aunt Liu looked at each other from a distance.
The two of them didn't dare to say a single extra word and could only carefully observe Wen Ningshu's expression.
But Wen Ningshu acted as if nothing had happened. She didn't seem to think it was a big deal. She didn't even ask any questions. She just leisurely put on her sunglasses, picked up her handbag elegantly and went out.
In the back seat of the car, the smile on Wen Ningshu's face gradually disappeared, and her eyes became solemn.
Aunt Liu was her nanny who had been with her for more than 20 years.
Shen Huaixi is the son he has raised for twenty years.
Before Su Xingyao left home, he had never even thought of doubting these two people.
The last time she accidentally saw Aunt Liu caring so much about Shen Huaixi, she could barely convince herself that Aunt Liu had taken care of Shen Huaixi for twenty years and had a deep affection for him and raised him as her own son.
But this time, she really couldn't ignore the abnormality of the two people.
Although there is no evidence at present, her intuition tells her that Shen Huaixi had obviously lied to Fu Qingyan before.
Aunt Liu suddenly lost her memory and was deliberately pretending to know nothing to cover up for him.
Wen Ningshu, who was completely unable to calm down, went straight to Shen Liangyu.
"Do you feel that Liu Xiaohua and Shen Huaixi are too close?"
It was the first time in so many years that Shen Liangyu heard Wen Ningshu call Aunt Liu's name directly, and he was a little unresponsive for a while.
"She has been taking care of him all the time, isn't it normal for them to be close?"
Shen Liangyu said it casually, not taking the matter to heart at all.
Wen Ningshu frowned and told Shen Liangyu what happened today.
But Shen Liangyu still felt that there was no problem.
"These may also be what Su Xingyao told Huaixi later. It can't prove anything."
Seeing Shen Liangyu's firm trust in Shen Huaixi, Wen Ningshu shook her head.
"But why did Liu Xiaohua say that she forgot? How could she have forgotten Xingyao, who she was taking care of at the time..."
Wen Ningshu really had no way to convince herself.
Maybe it's all a coincidence.
However, Aunt Liu's abnormal behavior made her unable to help but suspect that she and Shen Huaixi had secretly colluded with each other.
One came to deceive them, and the other went to deceive Fu Qingyan.
Seeing that Wen Ningshu looked very bad, Shen Liangyu finally took the matter seriously.
"So what do you mean?"
"What a coincidence..."
Wen Ningshu recalled the scene at that time and continued, "Xingyao's hospital called and Shen Huaixi shouted that he had a psychological trauma and wanted to be transferred back to China."
When the hospital called, she rushed over to see Su Xingyao as soon as possible.
But Shen Huaixi looked like he was terrified. He kept talking nonsense and looked very bad. He held the couple back and wouldn't let them leave.
Because of the language barrier at that time, she didn't know how serious Su Xingyao's injuries were.
The nurse who called didn't explain clearly and just asked the family to go over and settle the bill.
So at that time they asked Aunt Liu, who had come abroad with Mo Ming, to go and check out the situation.
"Aunt Liu came back and told us that Xingyao was not acclimatized, but it was not a big problem."
Wen Ningshu shook her head in disbelief, "But Shen Huaixi concealed this matter and turned around to tell Fu Qingyan that Su Xingyao hid herself out of guilt."
It's all so ridiculous.
It was so ridiculous that she even doubted the real reason why Su Xingyao was admitted to the hospital.
Wen Ningshu now regrets it immensely.
Why didn't I go there in person?
Why was he so partial to Shen Huaixi? He said he wanted to return to China for treatment and left without even asking Su Xingyao a single question...
Wen Ningshu closed her eyes and felt a severe headache.
That was her own son, but she had ignored him so easily at the time, really thinking that he was just suffering from common acclimatization...
Even after Su Xingyao came back, she didn't ask any more questions.
Thinking back to what happened back then, Wen Ningshu found it hard to forgive herself.
As a mother, wasn't she too irresponsible to Su Xingyao...
When I took him back, I secretly swore to make amends to this child...
But in the end, why did it turn out like this?
Thinking of this, Wen Ningshu had a terrible headache and couldn't breathe.
Shen Liangyu saw that she was not in good condition and immediately called the doctor.
Wen Ningshu hasn't had an attack of illness in many years.
After giving birth, she suffered from severe postpartum depression.
So during those three years when her biological son was by her side, even after her postpartum depression was cured, she was not as close to him as a normal mother.
The child may have also sensed her emotions and was always cautious in front of her, even having to look at her expression before asking for a hug.
But for such a child who longed for maternal love so much, the first thing he learned at such a young age was how to please her in various ways.
Save the delicious food for your mother, and save your favorite toys for your mother.
Other children would cry and make a fuss at every turn, but he would always smile sweetly in front of his mother. Even if he fell down and tears were welling up in his eyes, he would never cry.
He would even comfort his mother, saying, "Mom, I'm fine. It doesn't hurt."
Then one day, this well-behaved child suddenly got lost on a rainy night...
After that, no one called her "Mom" in front of him anymore.
As a result, Wen Ningshu's illness became more serious. She often suffered from headaches and couldn't sleep well all night.
As soon as she closed her eyes, her child's voice would ring in her ears. She felt guilty almost every day for her cold violence against her child and regretted why she didn't take good care of her child...
Living in the shadow of her child's disappearance and self-blame, she even thought about committing suicide at one point.
However, just when she was most desperate, Shen Huaixi came to his house.
She remembered it very clearly. That day was Su Xingyao’s fourth birthday after she went missing.
Liu Xiaohua suggested that she go to the temple to pray for the child.
She drew a very good fortune that day, and the monk who interpreted it for her said that her wish would come true.
Then on the way back, she picked up Shen Huaixi, an orphan, not far from home.
The other person looked at her with wet eyes in the heavy rain, pulled her clothes again and again, and called her mother carefully.
Mom, mom...
At that moment, Wen Ningshu seemed to see the child who once loved her wholeheartedly and longed to be hugged by her...
So she held the orphan in her arms in the heavy rain.
Shen Huaixi and Su Xingyao had very similar personalities and behaviors when they were young. Apart from their appearance, everything else made her feel like she had really found her child again…
In the thirteen years that followed, she gave all her love and compassion to the other person.
The regrets and self-blame that he had been avoiding and not daring to face seemed to be healed through his interactions with his adopted son.
Especially when Su Xingyao was found unexpectedly later, Wen Ningshu even felt that it was because of the karma of adopting the child.
She felt that Shen Huaixi was the little angel who came to save her, so she couldn't let him down.
But now...
Wen Ningshu finally discovered that everything was not what she thought.
Wen Ningshu, who was ill, looked pale. She held Shen Liangyu's hand and insisted on telling him her guess.
“Go and get Xingyao back… I think Shen Huaixi… has been secretly bullying Xingyao.”
Wen Ningshu's sickly appearance made Shen Liangyu panic.
He helped her lie down on the sofa and comforted her, "It's nothing, Huaixi is just more sensitive and wants to get more of our attention, don't think too much."
Obviously, Shen Liangyu did not listen to his wife's words.
Seeing his attitude, Wen Ningshu wanted to shake her head to deny it.
But her body was already very uncomfortable, and she could only cry silently without saying a word.
*
Fu Qingyan soon arrived at the villa where the fire broke out.
Once upon a time, he thought he would never return to this place that almost ruined his life.
He always felt that he would never be able to reconcile with this painful memory.
However, times have changed, and now he has set foot on this land again.
Looking forward, in six years, everything here has changed.
The villa that was burned by the fire before was demolished and rebuilt at some point.
A new owner moved in and tall roses climbed up the walls.
The petals blocked Fu Qingyan's view inside.
It's like the truths that have been buried as time goes by.
Everything was reminding Fu Qingyan.
It's too late to find out the truth now.
Fu Qingyan stayed there for a moment, but when he left, he met a boy holding a kitten.
"Why are you at my door?"
The little boy was about seven or eight years old and looked at Fu Qingyan warily.
Looking at the child's nervous expression, Fu Qingyan realized that he was regarded as a bad guy by the other party, bent down and smiled apologetically.
“Your house is beautiful.”
As he spoke, he met the other person's gaze.
Those were a pair of extremely beautiful amber eyes.
Exactly the same as Su Xingyao.
After Fu Qingyan saw it clearly, he stood there in a daze.
The cell phone rang at this moment.
The person he was looking for called him.
"Let's meet, Mr. Fu. I have found the answer to the question you asked me to investigate."
The other party arranged the meeting at a hospital called Disro.
Compared with the hospital where he was sent after the fire, the medical conditions in this hospital are much worse.
In the small garden next to the hospital, Fu Qingyan found the person who helped him.
After the two found a bench and sat down, the other party handed a stack of information to him.
"This is the investigation report on the fire case that year."
Fu Qingyan didn't say anything, just lowered his head and looked through the pictures one by one.
Soon his eyes fell on one of the pages.
The private detective noticed what Fu Qingyan was looking at and immediately explained the situation to him.
"This is the record of the fire investigation at the time. The police here suspected that it was a human-caused electrical short circuit that eventually caused the fire."
After the other person finished speaking, he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but did not light it.
After Fu Qingyan read the above content carefully, he said to the other party in a cold voice, "Speak more carefully."
"That's what you think. But at the time, there was insufficient evidence and the matter was not too serious, so we didn't continue investigating."
The detective laughed roguely, "You know, the police on this island are a little different from those in our country."
After hearing what the other party said, Fu Qingyan did not ask any further questions.
But my heart is so cold.
Man-made?
There were only a few people in the villa at that time, who could it be?
The detective seemed to see what he was struggling with and spoke slowly, "Mr. Su was not in the villa when the fire broke out."
Fu Qingyan responded coldly, "He seems to have gone out."
The detective smiled and said, "Yes, he was out buying medicine at that time."
After saying that, the other party took out a printed screenshot and handed it to Fu Qingyan.
"The daughter of the drugstore owner thought he was handsome, so she secretly took a picture of his back and posted it on social media."
After saying this, the other party complained somewhat complacently, "It took me so much effort to find this photo."
Fu Qingyan looked at the photo with her lips tightly pursed.
After a long while, he finally spoke, "I was sick at the time... He must have gone to buy medicine for me."
The detective nodded and spoke again meaningfully.
"But he later returned to the fire scene and was injured."
Fu Qingyan's body instantly froze in place.
As if he wasn't shocked enough, the detective told him another explosive piece of news.
"The day after the fire, the police were called and found him in the grass in the back garden of the burnt villa, burnt and unconscious."
The information in his hand instantly scattered all over the floor.
Fu Qingyan looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
"What did you say...he was burned too?"
When Fu Qingyan said these words, it seemed as if he had used up all his strength.
He was so surprised that his mind went blank for several seconds.
Su Xingyao was also burned...
It was not until the next day that it was discovered...
The truths buried in the past were dug out one by one, and Fu Qingyan's internal organs seemed to be torn apart bit by bit at this moment.
The detective didn't give Fu Qingyan any time to catch his breath and continued to give him another piece of information.
That is Su Xingyao's case in our hospital.
The sunshine on the island was very bright, but Fu Qingyan was dazzled by it.
Amidst the great dizziness, he finally managed to clearly read the few lines in the medical record that described Su Xingyao's condition.
Fire smoke inhalation
Extensive burns on left shoulder and back
Glass fragments embedded in the skin and flesh
Multiple soft tissue contusions
…
Fu Qingyan's breathing suddenly became rapid.
The understated scene when Su Xingyao heard Luo Yiyuan read out Xiaoxi's case on the show kept appearing in Fu Qingyan's mind.
No wonder Su Xingyao said he had experienced a fire...
No wonder he knew so accurately that Xiaoxi had been injured...
Every word on the medical record was like a sharp needle, pricking Fu Qingyan so much that he didn't dare to read it a second time.
Su Xingyao was not hiding as Shen Huaixi said, nor was she suffering from acclimatization as Aunt Liu said.
He was actually injured more seriously than anyone else in the fire!
Why? Why...
Fu Qingyan's lips turned pale and he held the medical record tightly in both hands.
"When did he come back...how did he get hurt?"
Seeing Fu Qingyan's expression, the detective didn't dare to provoke him any further. He sighed and stood up.
“Perhaps he is the only one who knows the truth.”
After his body stiffened for a moment, Fu Qingyan lowered his eyes weakly, like a puppet with its strings pulled.
As to why Su Xingyao went back, I already had the answer in my mind, right?
Seeing that Fu Qingyan was in such a bad state, the detective hesitated for a moment and comforted him, "Mr. Fu, I have also contacted two nurses who have taken care of him. Perhaps... you can find out something else about Mr. Su from them."
As soon as the detective finished speaking, the two nurses he contacted arrived.
Fu Qingyan raised his head, forced the corners of his mouth and nodded at them.
At first, the two were a little embarrassed, but under the guidance of the detective, they quickly told Fu Qingyan from memory about Su Xingyao's previous treatment here.
"He was seriously injured and was in a coma for a long time."
"But he is so strong. I have never heard him cry out in pain."
"Yes, I was a novice at the time, and I wasn't very skilled in changing his dressing, but he comforted me instead."
"He is a very gentle person. I have worked for so many years and rarely meet such patients."
"It's a pity that his burns were so severe...I think he'll be scarred forever."
The nurses' descriptions, one after another, were like loud slaps in Fu Qingyan's face.
Listening to the two nurses' descriptions in silence, he gently raised his burned left hand.
Because I have experienced burns, I know how painful it is when changing the dressing on the wound.
But back then, Su Xingyao was injured more seriously than him.
One can imagine how much pain he endured at that time...
Seeing that Fu Qingyan was in a bad mood, the detective interrupted the two nurses at the right time.
He coughed lightly, changed the subject and asked tactfully, "Do you remember anything else? For example, did this gentleman do anything that impressed you while he was being treated here?"
After hearing what the detective said, the two nurses tried to recall.
"I just remember that he was very handsome and gentle..."
After one of the nurses finished speaking, the one next to her suddenly took out her cell phone.
She glanced at the phone in her hand, put it back into her pocket, and then smiled awkwardly.
"I forgot I had changed my phone."
She sorted out her thoughts and then continued slowly, "But when he first woke up, he borrowed my phone as soon as he could."
Upon hearing this, Fu Qingyan's eyes suddenly widened and his body suddenly leaned forward as if he was out of control.
After trying hard to control his emotions that were about to explode, he stared at the other person and asked in a hoarse and urgent voice.
"Why did he borrow the phone?"
The nurse obviously did not expect Fu Qingyan's reaction so big, and she quickly patted her chest and shook her head.
"I...I'm not sure either."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Fu Qingyan and saw that his eyes were red, as if he was unwilling to accept the answer. She thought hard before continuing.
"He might... have called his family or friends. I can't remember."
The detective spoke at the right moment, "Could you please think about it again?"
The nurse nodded, finally remembered something, and told Fu Qingyan excitedly.
"I remember now. He seemed to have been calling someone, but the call never seemed to go through."
Recalling the other party's lonely expression at that time, the nurse's tone also became low, "Because he borrowed my phone for several days in a row, I looked at the call records and it was the same number, and the other party never answered the call..."
"Maybe he realized that the call wouldn't go through, so he never borrowed my phone again."
After saying that, the nurse couldn't help but complain, "But I can't understand why, when he was so seriously injured, none of his family or friends came to visit him for such a long time..."
Fu Qingyan's body felt like it had been crushed by a huge wheel, and every inch of his skin was in unspeakable pain.
During the time he was in the hospital, he did receive calls from the same unfamiliar foreign number for several consecutive days.
But at that time he was blaming Su Xingyao and didn't answer the call at all.
Thinking of the many phone calls the nurse had just mentioned, Fu Qingyan used all his strength to barely support his shaky body.
It turned out that Su Xingyao was not indifferent to him.
After suffering such a serious injury, the first thing he did when he woke up was to call himself!
My heart felt like it was being bitten violently by millions of ants.
The truth that I have been trying to find out for some time turns out to be so cruel.
The nurse's last words echoed in Fu Qingyan's ears over and over again.
When I had no basis to resent Su Xingyao, despised him, and misunderstood him for ignoring me.
He endured all the pain alone, and no one cared about him at all during the whole process...
Even so, he never complained. Instead, he tried his best to call me the moment he woke up.
How did Su Xingyao feel when faced with those calls that couldn't be connected?
After finally returning to China and contacting myself, I found that I was treated coldly by him unilaterally. How much tolerance and courage did it take to try to explain to myself...
Fu Qingyan felt that he was such a jerk.
What right did he have to blame Su Xingyao? What right did he have to resent him for six whole years...
Su Xingyao has always treated herself and this friendship with the most sincere attitude.
And the person who betrayed this friendship from the beginning to the end was me...
After returning to China, Fu Qingyan was like a walking corpse.
He once mocked Qin Mingchuan for being crazy and looking for Su Xingyao, which was too ridiculous.
But now, he did the same thing as the other party.
The person who was once held high on a deity, regardless of cost and image, frantically searched the world for Su Xingyao's whereabouts.
But no matter how much he wanted to meet the other party, apologize, make amends, and redeem himself...
But they couldn't contact each other at all.
Even if you find the other party's contact information, no one will ever answer the phone.
The moonlight shines into the living room through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Fu Qingyan took handfuls of sleeping pills, but still couldn't sleep all night.
Whenever he closed his eyes, all he could think of was the scene where Su Xingyao had been eagerly looking for him to explain before her wound had healed, but was rejected again and again.
The amber eyes that once always smiled and sparkled, after countless hurts, no longer have the brilliance they had when they first looked at me.
He must be in pain.
The wound hurts, but the heart hurts even more.
The other party can believe in himself unswervingly when the whole world is against him.
But in the end, I was unwilling to give him even a little trust...
But even though he was so ruthless, he still tried hard many times to try to save their friendship.
But these attempts all turned into sharp thorns in the end, leaving him with wounds all over his body...
Fu Qingyan was drunk with bloodshot eyes, and his heart felt like it was being cut by a blunt knife.
He had always been a noble man, but he had never been so lonely and embarrassed.
He leaned back on the sofa and picked up the photo that he had torn in half.
Fu Qingyan stretched out his hands carefully, trying to repair it.
"Xingyao..."
"Xingyao, I'm sorry..."
*
In the study room of the Lu family villa.
The special assistant handed all the collected information to Lu Jiuxu.
"Mr. Lu, three groups of people have retrieved Mr. Su's medical records from that period of time."
Looking at the description in the case from that year, Lu Jiuxu's eyes became terribly cold when he finally understood how Su Xingyao got the scar on her butterfly bone.
Seeing that Lu Jiuxu didn't say anything, the special assistant continued to report in a low voice, "Someone tried to buy out these cases and destroy them."
"who?"
The man spat out a word coldly, and the air pressure dropped so low that the air around him seemed to drop several degrees in an instant.
"Shen Huaixi."
Just as the special assistant finished speaking, a message popped up on Lu Jiuxu’s WeChat.
Su Maomao: Mr. Lu, are you free to go see the pandas with me?
This information was like a powerful balm.
The special assistant discovered that the man, who was originally very irritable, suddenly became gentle when he lowered his head to reply to the message.
"I understand. You can go back first."
After sending the special assistant away, Lu Jiuxu returned to the bedroom and changed his clothes.
When he came out, Su Xingyao, wearing a simple white T-shirt, was already waiting for him downstairs.
The other person was looking up at him, his amber eyes sparkling.
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