Chapter 253 You Forced Me
Tang Shi instantly felt nervous and guilty, and gripped the teacup in her hand tightly.
Almost no one could remain calm and rational under Qi Chenyan's aura and pressure, let alone Tang Shi, who was the instigator of this incident.
But aloud, she naturally wanted to deny it: "Brother Shen Yan, I... I really don't know what you're talking about..."
"Tang Shi, you should understand one thing: if it weren't for our teacher relationship, we wouldn't be having this conversation here, but in a police station interrogation room."
“I’m only giving you one chance. If you continue to try to confuse the issue, then all our conversations from now on will have to take place at the police station, and you will have no chance to regret it.”
As Qi Chenyan's seemingly calm yet overwhelmingly threatening aura grew, Tang Shi's face grew increasingly grim, and she nearly crushed the teacup in her hand due to extreme suffocation and tension.
Qi Chenyan glanced at his watch. "I'll give you three minutes. If you haven't made up your mind by then, we'll have to find another place and continue negotiating."
"But I think that's a place you're unwilling and dare not go, Tang Shi. Stop having any unrealistic wishful thinking. You've already been exposed."
Tang Shi gritted her teeth, and before she could even speak, tears streamed down her face. She was truly pitiful.
“The perfume is mine. I must have accidentally dropped it when I hitched a ride with my sister-in-law that day. I looked for it but couldn’t find it. But I really didn’t know that the musk in the perfume would harm my sister-in-law…”
Before Tang Shi could finish speaking, Qi Chenyan interrupted her directly: "When did I ever say that the perfume contained musk? And when did I ever say that Lili was harmed because of this perfume?"
Throughout the entire conversation, Qi Chenyan kept asking whether the perfume was Tang Shi's; he simply asked her to admit whether it was or wasn't.
However, from beginning to end, they never said what was in the perfume or what impact it had on Yu Li.
He reasoned that if Tang Shi was truly harboring malicious intentions towards Yu Li, given her guilty conscience, nervousness, and clouded judgment, then she must know the exact ingredients in the perfume.
If the perfume was accidentally dropped, Tang Shi wouldn't have known that it could harm someone.
Unfortunately, the result of the test was quite obvious: Tang Shi not only knew the truth, but she was also very aware of how harmful this perfume would be to pregnant women.
Tang Shi finally realized that everything Qi Chenyan had said was just a prelude, a test, to lure her out of the perfume's ingredients.
"I... I just happened to glance at the ingredient list, and it's common knowledge that musk is bad for pregnant women, so it's not surprising that I know that..."
While Tang poetry was still trying to make a last-ditch effort to defend itself.
With a clatter, Qi Chenyan slammed the teacup down on the table.
The heavy sound it emitted was like a warning hammer, striking Tang Shi's heart.
"Really? So you mean you bought this perfume yourself?"
Tang Shi nodded subconsciously, and Qi Chenyan then asked, "When did you buy it? How much did it cost? Show me the purchase record."
"I...I forgot, it was only around a thousand yuan, not that expensive. I have too many perfumes, I can't remember them all right now..."
Qi Chenyan didn't give her a chance to be careless: "People can forget things, but online shopping records don't. If it's offline, there must be a credit card record or a cash purchase record."
“If it’s online, then every income and expense is even clearer and more transparent.”
The man's slender fingertips tapped the table with seemingly light and gentle force, yet it felt like a heavy blow, causing Tang Shi to instinctively shrink her neck.
"Take it out, just one sentence, I don't like to say it a third time."
Tang Shi trembled, her voice trembling with tears: "I...I really forgot, Brother Chen Yan, please don't do this..."
Qi Chenyan lost his last bit of patience.
He turned the teacup upside down, stood up, and slowly straightened the wrinkles on his cuffs.
“The car is already outside. We can go to the police station now and file a case immediately. We don’t need to waste any more time here.”
Seeing that Qi Chenyan showed no regard for their past relationship and was actually going to call the police, Tang Shi panicked completely.
She lunged forward, trying to grab Qi Chenyan's hand, but he turned away indifferently.
"Brother Chen Yan, you can't do this to me! If you really call the police, and I end up in the police station, I'd rather die!"
As she spoke, Tang Shi pulled open the sliding door. This tea room was on the second floor, and the outside faced the balcony.
Tang Shi cried as she climbed onto the balcony railing. "If you force me, I'll jump off right now and let everyone see how you're driving me to my death!"
Qi Chenyan frowned and coldly ordered, "Tang Shi, get down. As an adult, all you do when faced with a problem is try to kill yourself. Have you forgotten all the manners you've learned over the past thirty years?"
"You forced me to do this! I really didn't do it, Brother Chen Yan, why won't you believe me? Is our childhood friendship now less important to you than your wife?"
Qi Chenyan did not want to argue with Tang poetry over such a meaningless matter.
"Tang Shi, come down."
As Qi Chenyan took a step forward, Tang Shi, in her emotional state, slipped and fell backward.
Although it's only the second floor, if someone were to fall directly down like that, they would likely break an arm or leg, or even be disfigured.
Tang Shi screamed in fright, desperately trying to grab something, but only managed to grasp at thin air.
Fortunately, at the last moment, Qi Chenyan grabbed her arm, which stopped her from falling.
"Brother Chen Yan, I don't want to die yet! Quick, pull me up!"
Qi Chenyan naturally knew that Tang Shi didn't dare to really die; he was just feeling guilty and scared, and wanted to cover up the truth in this way.
If the other party wasn't the teacher's only daughter, Qi Chenyan truly wouldn't care whether she lived or died.
When Tang Shi was rescued, she immediately closed her eyes and fainted.
*
Upon learning of Tang Shi's accident, Tang Zhongyi put aside his work and rushed to the hospital.
"Chen Yan, what happened? How could Shi Shi almost fall off the tea room out of nowhere?"
Because the teahouse was located opposite the government building, when Tang Shi was involved in the incident, someone filmed the incident, and his subordinates immediately reported it to Tang Zhongyi, which is why he rushed over immediately.
Upon seeing her father, Tang Shi immediately threw herself into his arms and cried.
"Dad, I thought I'd never see you again, sob sob..."
Tang Shi cried pitifully, but even in front of the teacher, Qi Chenyan still didn't give her any face.
"Tang Shi attempted to murder my wife and my unborn child."
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