Chapter 182 Cutting open the dusty past
Through Duan Xi's eyes, Meng Anran was 100% sure that the person who drugged Qin Mu was not sent by Duan Xi.
If it wasn't Duan Xi, who else could it be?
Meng Anran lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then suddenly his eyes froze and he pulled the corners of his lips in contempt.
Damn it, I was tricked by Lu Yi and Lu Qingcheng!
Duan Xi glanced around and suddenly laughed, "Meng Anran, you made such a big fuss just to seek justice for a man?"
Meng Anran waved her hand casually, and the black-clad men surrounding Duan Xi instantly retreated and stepped aside. She took a few steps forward, but instead of answering Duan Xi's question, she asked, "I've always been curious. Are you targeting the Lu family? Do you hate them, or do you hate someone in the Lu family?"
Duan Xi seemed to recall some of the past. The smile on his lips disappeared, and his eyes were filled with hatred. "It has nothing to do with you."
Meng Anran shrugged innocently, "It really has nothing to do with me. It's just that before I came to see you today, Duan Jingyao found out that your brother committed suicide for love thirty years ago, so I just gossiped a little."
When Duan Xi mentioned his brother, anger rose in his eyes and he gritted his teeth and said, "All of this is caused by Lu Zhong!"
Meng Anran listened to Duan Xi's accusations, her fingertips gently stroking the rim of the red wine glass.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the broken glass windows, casting mottled light and shadows on her delicate profile.
"Thirty years ago, Lu Zhong raped your sister-in-law, causing her to drown herself." Her voice was soft, yet sharp as a knife. "Your brother committed suicide for love, your mother hanged herself, and your father, overcome with grief, became a drunkard and harmed himself."
Duan Xi's pupils suddenly contracted, and the wine glass in her hand shattered with a "snap". Red wine oozed out from between her fingers like blood. "You investigated me?"
"Your brother Duan Ming and your sister-in-law Lin Wan were a perfect match." Meng Anran's voice was filled with regret. "It's a pity that they were ruined by Lu Zhong."
Duan Xi glanced sideways at the darkening dusk outside the window, and suddenly laughed softly, his laughter filled with thirty years of pain.
"I was sixteen that year, and my brother brought his fiancée home for dinner." Her fingers unconsciously rubbed the wine glass, her knuckles turning white. "Sister Lin Wan was wearing a simple blue dress and brought me some osmanthus cake. When she smiled, there was a small teardrop mole at the corner of her eye."
In the empty, abandoned office, her voice was like a rusty knife, slowly cutting through the dusty past.
"Lu Zhong went crazy the first time he saw Sister Lin Wan in the department store. He sent people to follow her, look up her address, and finally, he brought them straight into our house." Duan Xi's pupils contracted violently, and her eyes gradually turned red. "I hid in the closet and heard Sister Lin Wan's cries and my brother's pleading... The rain was so heavy that day that it drowned out all other sounds."
The red wine swayed in the glass, reflecting her distorted face.
"Three days later, they found Sister Lin Wan in the moat. She was wearing that torn blue dress, and the teardrop moles at the corners of her eyes were swollen and white." Duan Xi suddenly laughed nervously, "My brother sat holding her body all night, and the next day he jumped down after her."
She dug her fingers into her palms tightly, and blood dripped through her fingers onto the table.
"My mother hung their wedding photo in the living room and sat in front of it every day in a daze. Until one morning..." Duan Xi's voice suddenly became as light as a feather and as thin as a silver needle, "I saw her cloth shoes swaying gently in the morning breeze."
"Thirty years." She raised her head and drank the wine in the glass, which smashed into countless pieces on the ground. "Every day I live, I wait to see the Lu family pay for their blood debt with blood."
Meng Anran stood at the intersection of light and shadow, looking at this woman who was hollowed out by hatred.
Duan Xi slowly raised his bloodshot eyes and pulled a bleak smile from the corner of his mouth: "Tell me, how can I not hate?"
Her original family was so happy and harmonious, but it was Lu Zhong who destroyed her family!
After listening to Duan Xi's accusation, Meng Anran's eyes moved slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.
She tapped the table lightly, her tone calm: "So, this is your reason for substituting a cat for a prince and turning the Lu family upside down?"
Duan Xi sneered, "Lu Zhong destroyed my family. He relied on his power and influence to throw five million at me and thought he could wipe out all his sins. That's not enough! I will make his family miserable and bankrupt. I will destroy everything he has!"
Meng Anran didn't comment, but nodded thoughtfully: "I see."
She stood up and looked down at Duan Xi, her tone suddenly turning cold: "But have you ever thought that your revenge will not only harm the Lu family, but also my mother - Su Wanman."
Duan Xi sneered: "She just lost a daughter, but I lost my entire family!"
Meng Anran's eyes suddenly turned cold, but... Duan Xi was already heading towards destruction and didn't need her to add fuel to the fire.
She stood up, glared down at Duan Xi for a moment, and turned to leave, but then stopped and said calmly, "By the way, I already know who did this to Qin Mu. President Duan, we'll settle our accounts another day."
Duan Xi stared at her back, clenched his fingers, and dug his nails deep into his palms.
Meng Anran walked out of the abandoned building. The night wind blew through her hair. She narrowed her eyes slightly, took out her cell phone and made a call.
"Lu Yi, we should talk."
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then Lu Yi's deep laughter came: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
Meng Anran hung up the phone, tapped the edge of the phone lightly with her fingertips, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.
The car sped through the night, and the neon lights outside the window cast changing light and shadows on her face.
"Lu Yi, you still like to play the game of borrowing a knife to kill someone." A sneer appeared on the corner of her lips.
Deng Lin was just a cover. The medicine in Qin Mu's cup was just ordinary cold medicine or sleeping pills, which reacted with alcohol to make Qin Mu feel dizzy and uncomfortable.
The medicine that actually caused Qin Mu to have a fever was applied on Lu Qingcheng.
She remembered Qin Mu mentioned it, and she smelled a strange fragrance when she was half asleep. She thought it was just the effect of the perfume on Lu Qingcheng after taking Chinese medicine, so she didn't investigate further after catching Deng Lin.
Looking back now, that strange fragrance was the real drug.
Lu Qingcheng had just returned to China that day and had been under surveillance abroad, so it was impossible for her to buy the drugs.
When Deng Lin was caught, Duan Jingyao's eyes were clear and calm, and it was not his doing.
The only people who appeared in the Yandu Hotel that day and had a direct relationship with Lu Qingcheng and had access to Lu Qingcheng were Lu Heng and Lu Yi.
Lu Heng has always disdained to use such vulgar means. After eliminating all the suspects, the only suspect left is Lu Yi.
While talking about cooperation and alliance, Meng Anran almost forgot that Lu Yi had many tricks up his sleeve and was never a gentleman who kept his word.
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