At Shi Jin's instruction, the prison guard came in to remove Xu Chuan's handcuffs and poured two glasses of water. Shi
Jin held the glass of water without saying a word, quietly waiting for Xu Chuan to calm down.
Xu Chuan touched the photo on the table with a trembling hand, and looked at Jian Jinwen who was still a child in the photo. After a long while, he spoke: "Jinwen looked like this when he was a child... When I met him, his health was already very poor. It turns out that he was still so healthy... It's great, it's great." Shi Jin
took a sip of water and still didn't say anything.
The room became quiet. Xu Chuan stared at the photo for a long time before he finally regained his composure. He carefully covered the photo with his hand, looked at Shi Jin, and asked, "What do you want to know?" Shi Jin
put down the water cup, met his eyes that were free of all emotions, and said, "I want to know who was the mastermind who ordered you to buy the werewolf. Don't tell me it was Xu Tianhua, I don't believe it."
Xu Chuan's eyes flashed, and he lowered his head to avoid looking at him, and said, "I can't tell you this."
He actually wanted to fool him.
"This is what I want to know most." Shi Jin did not give in at all. He took out another photo from his pocket and turned it upside down on the table. He said, "Xu Chuan, I guess my father definitely didn't tell you that Mr. Jian was very obese during adolescence due to treatment, just like me during adolescence."
Xu Chuan raised his head again and looked at the photo in Shi Jin's hand. He looked incredulous and tried to calm down, and said, "No, you must be lying to me, obviously..." Shi Jin
saw his reaction and understood. Sure enough, people like Shi Xingrui would never tell others. He was afraid to avoid such embarrassing things for a while because the person he liked was too ugly.
Xu Chuan didn't know more than he thought.
He changed his mind and interrupted Xu Chuan, becoming aggressive again: "Mingming what? It's obviously my dad who went too far, and I, the perfect copy, am too disgusting. I despicablely possessed Mr. Jian's appearance, and then destroyed it without cherishing it? Xu Chuan, you hate me very much, hate me for destroying the perfect image of your sweetheart in your mind, but you are wrong, when your sweetheart was my age, he was actually a fat guy who was not very good-looking. Also, I hope you understand one thing, I didn't make myself fat by giving up on myself, but my dad made me fat on purpose. Guess why my dad made me fat?"
"Shut up!" Xu Chuan was shocked and wanted to refute his words, but looking at the photo he was holding in his hand, he realized that what he said was probably true.
"Xu Chuan, you know, in this room, you have no right to tell me to shut up." Shi Jin responded coldly, without any mercy.
Xu Chuan froze, and after a while, a look of despair gradually appeared on his face. He lowered his head and said painfully: "Why didn't he tell me this? Am I not his friend... Why didn't he tell me..." But he completely avoided the fact that Shi Jin was deliberately fattened, as if he couldn't accept it.
Shi Jin wanted him to collapse. He pointed at the photo in his hand and said, "Because Mr. Jian is different from you. He never uses his own suffering as a bargaining chip to get warmth from others. Xu Chuan, tell me what I want to know, and I will tell you what you want to know. Give me the answer, or I will leave immediately." Xu Chuan
moved his eyes to look at the photo in his hand again, and a struggling look appeared on his face. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he looked up at Shi Jin and said, "I want to see the photo in your hand." "
Give me the answer first." Shi Jin did not compromise.
Xu Chuan looked at him, as if he could not accept that he used this face to show such a cold and cruel expression to himself. He took a deep breath and tilted his head. His Adam's apple moved, and he replied, "It's not Xu Tianhua." Shi
Jin stared at him without moving his eyes.
"It's...your eldest brother's mother, Xu Jie." After Xu Chuan finished speaking, he looked up at Shi Jin and said, "Don't be too surprised. I know you rely on your brothers, but people who want to harm you..." He got stuck halfway through his words, because Shi Jin's face did not show the surprise he expected, but instead had an expression of "as expected".
Shi Jin did have a sense of understanding in his heart, "As expected" and "It seems that this is the only way", as well as a sense of relief that the plot was finally settled. He met Xu Chuan's gaze, pulled the corner of his mouth meaninglessly, and said, "Why do you have that expression? Do you think I would come to talk to you without enough information? Go on, I want to know all the truth of that year."
Xu Chuan seemed to be hit. He looked at Shi Jin carefully and said, "You've changed so much. The last time we met, you were just a fool who only knew how to follow your brother stupidly. You couldn't tell friend from foe. You were so stupid."
This Xu Chuan is indeed a lawyer, and his mouth is really poisonous.
Shi Jin snorted coldly, deliberately touched the photo and said, "So that's why you tried your best to sow discord between us, hoping that I wouldn't be too close to Shi Weichong and the others? Oh, no, saying this makes it seem like you want to help me. I know very well that you have no good intentions towards a 'fake' like me."
Xu Chuan's eyes were fixed on the hand that was touching the photo, and his palm slowly clenched into a fist.
"Let me think, you seemed to have said something like this, 'It's ridiculous, really ridiculous that you two would sit together in harmony', so you let me run away because you didn't want to see me, who looks very much like Mr. Jian, sitting with Shi Weichong, who looks very much like my dad. Did this make you feel uncomfortable? Xu Chuan, you are jealous, right? Between you and my dad, Mr. Jian obviously cares more about my dad."
"He doesn't deserve it!" Xu Chuan suddenly exploded, and stood up and tried to snatch the photo from Shi Jin's hand. Shi Jin picked up the photo and leaned back, turning it over directly.
The young and fat version of Jian Jinwen caught Xu Chuan's eyes.
Xu Chuan's movements suddenly froze, and Shi Jin took the opportunity to stand up and knocked on the door of the visiting room. After the prison police came in, he said, "Cuff him again, he wants to attack me."
The prison police stepped forward and handcuffed Xu Chuan back roughly.
Xu Chuan was restrained again, his expression turned very ugly, his eyes still fixed on Shi Jin's hand holding the photo.
After Shi Jin waited for him to be handcuffed, he sat back down, stretched his hand under his eyelids, took the photo of Jian Jinwen's childhood in front of him, turned it over again, put it together with the photo of Jian Jinwen's youth, met Xu Chuan's gaze, and said: "My dad is indeed not worthy of sitting next to Mr. Jian, but similarly, you are not worthy of owning Mr. Jian's photo. Xu Chuan, think clearly, you won't get anything good if you make me angry." Xu
Chuan struggled to keep the photo, but it was useless. He could only watch Shi Jin take the photo away, and recalled the moment he just glanced at it. After a long stalemate, he finally spoke again: "Yes, I am not worthy... At first, I approached Jinwen with a contemptuous and mocking attitude. Jinwen must have noticed it, so he was reluctant to tell me too much about the past and always kept a distance from me with politeness... I am not worthy, but Shi Xingrui is obviously more damned than me. He let Jinwen down and hurt Jinwen. He deserves to live in a life of empty pursuit. Why were you born! Why did you give him spiritual satisfaction! You are the executioner who destroyed everything!"
Shi Jin looked at his malice and anger, clicked on the photos, and said, "So this is why you and Xu Jie colluded to harm me? Just because my birth satisfied Shi Xingrui's twisted pursuit? Because of my face? You have nowhere to vent your repressed emotions, so you take your anger out on an innocent child. You are really cowardly and despicable. Xu Chuan, does Mr. Jian know how perverted and vicious you are?"
Like a slap in the face, Xu Chuan's expression froze, and his high spirits quickly fell. He lowered his head and leaned back in the chair.
"I don't have time to waste so much time with you." Shi Jin spoke again, his tone cold, "Tell me what I want to know, otherwise when I return to City B this time, I will immediately go to Mr. Jian's adoptive father and Mr. Jian's grave and have a good talk with them about the good things you did in the past and now. "
No! Don't disturb them! I promised Jinwen to take care of his family!" Xu Chuan immediately raised his head, his emotions seemed to collapse again, and his expression was actually a little panicked.
Shi Jin said: "In terms of blood relationship, I should also be considered Mr. Jian's family."
Xu Chuan stopped and looked at his expression, but quickly looked away because of his appearance. After a moment of silence, he said: "Give me ten minutes, I will tell you everything. " Shi
Jin got up and left without saying a word, leaving the photos on the table as if unintentionally, and went out directly.
Xu Chuan looked at the photos on the table, which were right in front of him but he could never touch. The emotions in his eyes flickered, and finally returned to darkness.
...
Shi Jin and Gua Er chatted outside for a while. After ten minutes, he opened the door of the visiting room again, walked to sit opposite Xu Chuan, and put his arm on the two photos.
Xu Chuan's expression had returned to calm. He gestured to Shi Jin with his hand and said, "Untie this." Shi Jin
did not make it difficult for him. He got up and called the prison police in.
The situation returned to the starting point again. The two sat opposite each other, with a glass of water in front of each of them, but this time the atmosphere between the two was no longer so tense.
"The people who want to harm you are Xu Jie... and me. "Xu Chuan spoke, raised his hand to hold the water cup in front of him, and said calmly without looking at Shi Jin, "You said you wanted to know all the truth of the past. Okay, I'll tell you everything. I just hope that after listening to it, you won't use these trivial things of mine to disturb Jinwen's sleep." Shi Jin
replied, "Okay, I promise you."
Xu Chuan looked at him, then lowered his head and drank a sip of water, and said, "I believe you, you are different from everyone in the Shi family... I knew it a long time ago."
…
Just as Shi Jin guessed, Xu Chuan approached Jian Jinwen deliberately under the arrangement of Shi Xingrui. Benefits plus curiosity, this is why Xu Chuan was willing to take this job. But Xu Chuan didn't expect that this curiosity would cost him his entire life.
Jian Jinwen is such a good person. It only took Xu Chuan a year to truly regard Jian Jinwen as a friend, and gradually learned about the entanglement between Shi Xingrui and Jian Jinwen from the side. Xu Chuan
back then was more utilitarian and conscienceless than Xu Chuan now, suppressing his desires. His family life made him eager for success, so although he sympathized with Jian Jinwen who was kept in the dark, he still chose interests and did not tell Jian Jinwen the truth. He even allowed Shi Xingrui to use his name to contact Jian Jinwen.
Sometimes, even the person himself is not aware of the changes in his feelings. When Xu Chuan realized that his feelings for Jian Jinwen had changed, Jian Jinwen was already running out of time. Probably knowing that he would not be able to hold on for much longer, Jian Jinwen suddenly took the initiative to find Xu Chuan and said something that scared Xu Chuan so much that his heart almost broke.
"He said, I know everything." Xu Chuan said this, holding the water cup tightly, and his voice finally stopped being calm. "I didn't dare to ask him what he knew, so I ran away. When I plucked up the courage to come back and talk to him the next day, the doctor said that he had passed away. You know, I went to the hospital at eight in the morning, and the doctor said that his heart stopped beating at seven in the morning, just one hour away, just one hour... I didn't see him for the last time, and I can never ask him clearly what he knew." Shi Jin
frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable.
"He must have realized that he wouldn't live long, so he came to talk to me, but I ran away." Xu Chuan took a deep breath to steady his voice, and continued, "I missed the chance to say goodbye to Jinwen, but Shi Xingrui didn't. Jinwen was obviously so sad, but he still left a farewell letter for Shi Xingrui. On what basis, what did Shi Xingrui rely on? In the letter, Jinwen hoped that Shi Xingrui could get rid of the shadow of the past and live a happy life. Does he deserve it? He doesn't even dare to admit that he likes Jinwen, he should live in pain all his life!"
"I didn't give the letter to Shi Xingrui, I burned it." Xu Chuan's expression suddenly turned cold, staring at his own cold eyes in the water cup, and said, "Not long after that, Xu Jie's parents heard from somewhere that I was doing well at the time, and they contacted my parents, hoping that I could find a better job for Xu Jie." Shi Jin's
eyes moved, his expression became serious, he knew the point was coming.
"I don't want to help, a bunch of trash who bullied my parents in the past, a bunch of trash who are living a thousand times better than my parents, why are they asking me for help now? "Xu Chuan said coldly, his thoughts completely pulled back to the past," But I still helped in the end. My dad is a soft-hearted person and I couldn't persuade him. "
Although Xu Chuan agreed to help Xu Jie find a job, he was not serious about it and just planned to find a company that was doing some work to get rid of Xu Jie. But Xu Jie sent her resume to Ruixing with a purpose and found an opportunity to talk to Shi Xingrui, saying that Xu Chuan was her brother.
Shi Xingrui had just lost Jian Jinwen not long ago and was psychologically very dependent on Xu Chuan, a friend who could reminisce about Jian Jinwen with him. When he heard that Xu Jie was Xu Chuan's sister, he immediately and generously hired Xu Jie as an assistant. Shi Jin was
stunned and a little surprised when he heard this. So Shi Xingrui knew the relationship between Xu Jie and Xu Chuan? Then Shi Xingrui was always on guard against Xu Chuan, probably because he was concerned about his relationship with Xu Jie?
"I was very angry at the time, and I knew that Xu Jie had probably long seen the potential of Ruixing and wanted to use me as a stepping stone to enter the senior management of Ruixing. I went to Shi Xingrui and told him that Xu Jie and I didn't have a good relationship, and hoped that he could fire Xu Jie or not let Xu Jie take up such an important position as an assistant. But after listening to me, he said that running a company can't be done solely based on personal interests, and Xu Jie is capable and can stay." Xu Chuan sneered, very sarcastically, "His personal interests are okay, but mine are not. Shi Xingrui is a double-standard bastard. "
Shi Jin saw his expression and guessed that this was where he became completely dissatisfied with Shi Xingrui.
"Xu Jie eventually became Shi Xingrui's assistant. She is indeed capable, but she is also very ambitious. She not only saw the potential of Ruixing, but also Shi Xingrui, and wanted to be the wife of the president of Ruixing." The smile on Xu Chuan's face became somewhat malicious and meaningful, and he said, "She came to me for help, saying that she wanted to replace the person in Shi Xingrui's heart and be with Shi Xingrui. I just couldn't stand Shi Xingrui's appearance of pretending to be a romantic who had done all kinds of evil things, so I helped her."
Shi Jin frowned and looked at him.
"Xu Jie found an opportunity to climb into Shi Xingrui's bed, and got pregnant during the safe period. Shi Xingrui certainly didn't want to take responsibility, but how could I not persuade him? I even brought up Jinwen, persuading him to have a new life and not to worry about Jinwen's death. Shi Xingrui was very conflicted. He also wanted to escape from the endless pain of missing you, so he listened to my advice and decided to give it a try with Xu Jie." Shi Jin
was stunned. He didn't expect that Xu Jie was not provoked by Shi Xingrui, but she schemed to get to the top, and Xu Chuan was an accomplice. No wonder among all the women of Shi Xingrui, she was the only one who didn't have any similarities with the original owner's mother, Jian Jinwen. It turned out that she was not a substitute found by Shi Xingrui at all, and Shi Xingrui at that time didn't even think of finding a substitute.
"It's interesting, isn't it? Shi Xingrui already has a woman and a child, so he no longer has the qualifications to miss Shexiang Jinwen." Xu Chuan looked at Shi Jin and smiled smugly and weirdly, and then soon, his smile slowly faded and turned gloomy, "But I didn't expect Xu Jie to be such a waste. She couldn't even deal with Shi Xingrui for a long time. Not only did she not marry Shi Xingrui during her pregnancy, but after giving birth to the child, because of some damn postpartum depression, she told her and me about the conspiracy against Shi Xingrui."
Shi Jin frowned deeply, thinking of Shi Xingrui's behavior of frantically looking for a substitute to give birth to a child after that. He guessed that the last bit of conscience in Shi Xingrui's heart disappeared with the betrayal of his friend Xu Chuan and the false new life.
"Shi Xingrui has gone completely crazy. He guessed my feelings for Jinwen and realized his betrayal of Jinwen. He was helpless and kicked Xu Jie and the children out of the place where they lived, and kicked me out of the management of Shi Xingrui." Xu Chuan's tone became calm again, with a sense of boredom. "He probably checked the situation of my family and Xu Jie's family and found that there were actually conflicts between our two families. So he made a decision that made people hate him, but he had no choice but to spend money to support Xu Jie's family. Because he knew that letting the family I disliked the most become prosperous was the biggest revenge against me. Moreover, he kept me here, letting me watch Ruixing take off step by step, but I could never participate in it again. He was arrogant and crazy, but he was indeed capable. I had no choice but to stay and work for him wholeheartedly, because I needed to control Xu Jie. She ruined my career, and I must make sure that she could never realize her dream in her life. As long as I am here, she will never be able to become the wife of the president of Ruixing!"
"You are all crazy." Shi Jin shook his head, unable to understand their thoughts.
Hearing this, Xu Chuan chuckled and said, "It's great to be crazy. Crazy people do things that hurt people the most. Look at Xu Jie. She was never recognized by Shi Xingrui until her death, and she couldn't even have any relationship with Shi Xingrui in public. It was not until after Shi Xingrui's death that she was able to show off her power as Shi Xingrui's 'original wife'. How ridiculous! Don't you think it's funny?"
Shi Jin was silent, but he had to admit that both Shi Xingrui and Xu Chuan were cruel enough.
"Not only can Xu Jie forget about becoming the wife of Ruixing's president, she also forgets about becoming Shi Xingrui's only woman and giving birth to Shi Xingrui's only child." Xu Chuan changed the subject, his voice tinged with malice again, "I've said before that Shi Xingrui has gone crazy, and crazy people are prone to doing crazy things. I found a woman whose profile looks very much like Jinwen, and what's even more exciting is that her facial features don't look like Jinwen at all, so her appearance won't tarnish Jinwen. Then I put this woman's dance performance poster on Shi Xingrui's desk." Shi Jin
was shocked, and looked at Xu Chuan in disbelief, and said, "It's you..." He had always thought that Shi Xingrui's behavior of looking for a substitute was his own initiative, but now it seems that Xu Chuan deliberately guided him.
"What's wrong with me? If Shi Xingrui's feelings for Jinwen were firm enough, he wouldn't be tempted at all." Xu Chuan responded coldly, and suddenly lowered his head to avoid his sight, and said, "But Shi Xingrui is more rational than I thought. He didn't rashly look for that woman, but began to investigate the woman's situation. He didn't meet her by chance until he was fully prepared, and then he made a deal with her. He wanted that woman to have a child, and it must be a son. I have to admit that I will never be as crazy as him. I just want him to fall into the pursuit of illusions, but he is perverted and wants to create a child exactly like Jinwen. But how is this possible? I quietly Watching him go crazy, watching him find one woman after another, watching Xu Jie jump up and down, but just because of the interests, she could only bite her teeth and accept it. After the pleasure of revenge, there was only emptiness in her heart. "
Xu Chuan's tone lowered: "A few years later, Shi Xingrui suddenly stopped his madness, and I thought it was about right. Four women and four children were enough to drive Xu Jie crazy, and I was a little tired... If everything stopped here, it would be great. Shi Xingrui would raise five children like casting a net, and I would help him choose a child other than Shi Weichong to be the heir of Ruixing, and drive Xu Jie completely crazy... But your mother showed up." Shi Jin
couldn't help but squeeze the water cup tightly.
"She looks so much like Jinwen, her appearance, temperament, even the way she speaks, even her gentle and kind nature, all are very much like Jinwen." Xu Chuan raised his hands to cover his face, his voice became dangerous, "Shi Xingrui seems to have found a new life, his whole face is radiant, I just look at him and I know he is very happy. He wants to marry your mother, he even doesn't care about the children anymore, he is looking forward to a new life."
"What did you do?" Shi Jin couldn't help asking.
"What did I do... I didn't do anything. It was Xu Jie who did something." Xu Chuan suddenly raised his head and looked at Shi Jin, laughing sarcastically and happily. "Xu Jie finally realized that she could never be better than a dead person, and soon she would not be better than a perfect substitute. She is already old. Facing the flower-like Yun Jin, she is simply jealous. She watched Shi Xingrui praise Yun Jin to the sky and watched Yun Jin give birth to you. She hoped that Shi Xingrui would abandon Yun Jin and you like he abandoned other women, but she was disappointed. Yun Jin is different, and you, child, are also different." Shi
Jin's heartbeat gradually accelerated. He realized that there must be something important that he had overlooked, and asked again: "What did she do!"
"Innocent and kind people are most vulnerable." Xu Chuan lowered his voice, his face twisted with excitement. "Your mother was protected too well by Shi Xingrui, and was also deceived too badly by Shi Xingrui. As long as a corner of the fairy tale kingdom is broken, all the remaining beauty will collapse and be destroyed. Xu Jie herself suffered from postpartum depression, so she knew best what women after giving birth were afraid of. She had someone poke a hole in your mother's dream of love, and then with a bang, everything collapsed. The innocent princess, who couldn't stand the reality, chose to end her life. End your own life."
Shi Jin felt dizzy after hearing this, and he felt as if a fire had ignited in his heart, burning him to the point of losing all reason. He could not help but go over and grab Xu Chuan's collar, angrily saying: "Do you still have any humanity? Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. Just because of your selfish desires, so many innocent people have been dragged into the water. My mother was less than 20 years old at the time, and you actually forced her to death! You bunch of damn perverts!"
Xiao Si panicked and comforted him hurriedly: "Jin Jin, calm down, calm down."
"Shi Jin!" Gua Er also rushed in from outside the door immediately, glanced at Xu Chuan coldly, hugged Shi Jin from behind, dragged him out of the visiting room, and closed the door of the visiting room forcefully.
Shi Jin's overheated brain quickly calmed down after leaving the visiting room. He raised his hand to press his forehead, took a long breath and said, "Sorry, I lost my mind." Although he had prepared himself mentally and guessed that he would not hear anything pleasant today, after knowing that Yun Jin's death was not simple, he still couldn't help but put himself in the picture and felt angry for the harm suffered by those innocent people. It
was too despairing. Why couldn't kind people have a good ending?
"No need to apologize." Gua Er looked at his miserable appearance, frowned, stretched out his hand to ruffle his hair, and said: "Those perverts who did something wrong should apologize and pay the price."
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