Chapter 106: She Won’t Suicide for Love
Shen Muxin's room was at the end of the corridor, with a window facing the garden. She could vaguely see the people coming and going on the road outside the villa and the patrol members of the supernatural team.
Jiang Ran opened the window and was greeted by the warm winter sunshine.
After lunch, Shen Yao invited her to stay and rest, and without waiting for Shen Lang to speak, she told Zheng Li to take her to Shen Muxin's room.
Since they came here for this purpose, Jiang Ran naturally would not refuse and followed Zheng Li back to Shen Muxin's room obediently.
When the woman took the key from her husband, she tacitly agreed to accept her husband's entrustment and protect the Jiang family's secrets for him.
But the news Jiang Ranran received was that she committed suicide after her husband died unexpectedly.
Did the Shen family hide the truth? Or did Shen Muxin have other plans?
Remembering the red marks he found in the room last time, Jiang Ran squatted down and opened the curtains.
The dark mark did not change, but it was impossible to confirm with the naked eye that it was a bloodstain. If it was a bloodstain, the only person Jiang Ran could think of was Shen Muxin.
This is Shen Muxin's boudoir, maybe... it's also the place where she died.
There were footsteps approaching in the corridor. Jiang Ran let go of the curtains as if nothing had happened and stood up slowly.
The visitor knocked on the door and pushed it open: "Jiang Ran, here are your favorite strawberries."
Shen Yang said as he placed the washed strawberries on the table.
"These are the first batch of greenhouse strawberries grown at the Crop Experimental Base. I tried them and they're quite sweet."
"Thank you, cousin." Jiang Ran maintained his outward politeness and took a bite of the strawberry. "Mmm, very sweet."
Shen Yang did not respond, and his gaze on her slowly changed from initial scrutiny to relief.
"I remember you liked strawberries. It seems I was right." He murmured, leaning on the table to look at her. "Tell me, why did you come back this time under the pretext of cooking for me?"
Unexpectedly, he would ask so bluntly. Jiang Ran took a bite of the strawberry and tilted her head to look at him: "Cousin, you also know that I have my own purpose, right?"
In the corridor, Chen Bai, who was helping to keep watch, sighed in his heart: I can only say that these two are really brother and sister, one dares to ask, and the other dares to answer.
Shen Yang glanced at her: "You also said that I am your brother, how could I not know?"
Jiang Ran: "..." This guy is really taking advantage of others.
"Let me guess, you're looking for something, right?"
“…”
"You don't think that the things left by your uncle are in our Shen family, do you?"
"What did my father leave behind?" Jiang Ran asked in surprise, "Is it related to the virus?"
Not knowing whether she really didn't know or was just pretending, Shen Yang frowned: "If you don't know, what are you doing here?"
Too lazy to think about whether he had deceived the person in front of him, Jiang Ran pursed his lips and said the truth: "I came to find out the truth about my mother's death."
Hearing this answer, Shen Yang in the room and Shen Bai in the corridor changed their expressions slightly.
Shen Yang stared at Jiang Ran for a long time and whispered, "Your mother committed suicide for love. Didn't grandpa tell you that?"
"Suicide for love?" Jiang Ran sneered, "Chen Yang, do you believe this excuse? Don't you know what kind of person my mother is?"
When I was young, I didn’t know what love was. I thought that people live in this world just for love, so I foolishly believed what Shen Lang said.
But if you think about it carefully, everyone lives because there are always things more important than love, things more worth pursuing - such as promises, such as the future...
Shen Muxin loves Jiang Yize very much, so she will not easily give up the promise between her and Jiang Yize.
She promised Jiang Yize that she would keep the secret of the vaccine for him and protect her young and naive daughter.
"My mother would never commit suicide." Staring into Shen Yang's eyes without blinking, Jiang Ranran said firmly, "You deceived me - Shen Yang. I have the right to know the truth about my mother's death."
The girl stared at him with eyes burning with anger, as if she could see through all his thoughts.
For the first time, the man, who was used to disguising himself with various masks, hastily avoided the sight.
After a long silence, he sighed deeply and said, "My aunt did commit suicide. Whether you believe it or not, this is the fact."
"Impossible! She..."
"Jiang Ran, stop being so self-righteous!" Shen Yang sternly rebuked the girl's sudden question. He closed his eyes and looked at her coldly, "If you're here because of this matter, I'm sorry, the Shen family doesn't have any clues to offer. Oh, no, I should say, you can't get any clues - because the murderer you imagined doesn't exist at all."
…
Jiang Ran was driven out of the Shen family by Shen Yang's orders.
Although the housekeeper spoke politely and invited her to come down and play next time before closing the door, she knew that there would not be a next time.
"That guy is really weird." Jiang Ran muttered, not knowing what she had said had touched the man's explosive point, and looked back at the villa again, "Next time I'll ask Si Xu to take me over the wall. It's a pity that I didn't have time to find any clues this time..."
Thinking about the structure of the room and Shen Yang's words, Jiang Ran gradually slowed down his pace.
Shen Yang said that Shen Muxin committed suicide, and his words were very convincing, but he did not answer her question.
Did Shen Muxin commit suicide for love?
Suicide for love and suicide... are essentially very different.
Shen Muxin committed suicide, but she didn't die for love. There was only one possibility: she had no other options and could only choose the most advantageous way to end her life.
"In order to keep the secret..."
Jiang Ran looked back at the villa again and walked slowly towards the laboratory building.
…
On the terrace of the Shen family villa, Shen Bai handed a cigarette to his brother.
The man, who had quit smoking for many years, glanced at the cigarette in front of him, picked it up, put it in his mouth, and reminded in a rude tone: "Light."
Shen Bai took out a lighter and threw it to him.
When he had almost finished smoking a cigarette, Shen Bai said, "Ranran is smart. One day she will know the truth."
Shen Yang leaned on the railing, looked up at the clear sky, and said vaguely: "Let her check it herself."
"Brother." Looking at his brother's face that looked similar to his own, Chen Bai hesitated for a moment and said, "That incident was an accident. You don't have to blame yourself for so many years."
"Accident?" Shen Yang laughed muffledly, full of sarcasm and ridicule. "Grandpa can comfort himself that it was an accident, but I can't—I know, Xiaobai, you know too, that it wasn't an accident at all."
Chen Bai pulled the corner of his mouth bitterly, but did not deny his brother's words.
…
Shen Muxin's death was indeed not an accident. Everyone in the Shen family knew about it except Shen Yao, but they did not say anything and naturally accepted the old man's theory of suicide for love.
The same goes for him.
No longer go to Jiangning, no longer meet with my sister, no longer go to the room where Shen Muxin lived, no longer look at the wall that was stained with blood and then repainted... I kept telling myself that Shen Muxin's death was just an accident.
However, every time he woke up in the middle of the night, the cold sweat soaking through his pajamas reminded him that it was not an accident.
They killed Shen Muxin, pushing her to the brink of death bit by bit. After her death, they even made up beautiful lies to deceive an ignorant child.
(End of this chapter)
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