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When Chen Xia came out of the police station after giving her statement, it was already dark.
Fang Yuze, Qin Xuran, Yu Tian, and Mao Lili had been waiting at the door. When they saw her come out, they immediately went to greet her.
"Xiaxia, are you alright?" Yu Tian asked with concern, her eyes full of worry.
Chen Xia shook her head: "It's nothing, it was just a statement. The police officers were very professional, and the matter has been explained clearly."
Qin Xuran breathed a sigh of relief: "When we saw Shen Shuyue stabbing you with a knife, Lao Fang and I were so scared that we ran out as fast as we could."
I didn't expect you to be so skilled! You kicked her flying with one kick! That was so cool!
Chen Xia shrugged, her tone relaxed: "I learned a little self-defense when I was at the orphanage, I didn't expect it to actually come in handy today."
Yu Tian took Chen Xia's arm: "It's good that you're alright. Let's go get something to eat to calm our nerves. Today was really exciting."
"Hey, do you guys think that woman is crazy? Holding a dagger and trying to stab someone in broad daylight, that's terrifying."
Fang Yuze nodded: "She's sick. Xia said she has HIV, holy crap..."
"I remember who she is now! She was the body double in that Gu Group CEO body double incident!"
Upon hearing this, the other two turned to look at Chen Xia with gossipy expressions. Chen Xia nodded: "It really is her. We came from the same orphanage."
Later, because of differing opinions, I blocked her and stopped contacting her. She came to see me today, saying that if I had gone to a bar with her, everything would have been different…”
Mao Lili's thoughts wandered: "Could it be that she thought that if you hadn't blocked her, she would have dragged you to a bar..."
She's so vicious, Xiaxia! Blocking her was absolutely brilliant!
Chen Xia nodded: "Now that you mention it, it's true."
After she started dating that CEO Gu, she felt that growing up in an orphanage was a very shameful thing.
That day, I mentioned an elder at the orphanage who had been very kind to her, and she got so angry that she yelled at me.
I was furious, so I told her that since she felt ashamed of the people and things at the orphanage, she shouldn't call me anymore, and I didn't consider her a friend. Then I blocked her.
The four of them comforted Chen Xia, and Yu Tian patted her on the shoulder: "Xiaxia, don't take it to heart. This kind of person is not worth your trouble."
Mao Lili chimed in, "That's right, that's right. There's no need to worry about irrelevant people. Let's go have a nice meal to celebrate that you're safe and sound!"
Chen Xia smiled and said, "Lili is right. I'm hungry too. Let's go. It's my treat today!"
The five of them chatted and laughed, and then found a hot pot restaurant nearby.
Considering everyone's tastes, Chen Xia ordered a four-compartment hot pot, catering to both those who like spicy food and those who don't.
They usually eat meat at the company, so when asked if any of the four of them had any dietary restrictions, Chen Xia ordered a lot of meat dishes.
Finally, as a finishing touch, I ordered a vegetable platter, and also two servings of crispy pork and fennel fried dough sticks.
The dipping sauce was mixed at the condiment station by the two men, who made several trips and brought over a number of side dishes.
Mao Lili asked the waiter for beef cubes, and after the waiter left, she whispered to Chen Xia and Yu Tian.
"They charge such an expensive condiment fee, and the beef cubes at the condiment station have been replaced with minced chicken. Every time I come to eat hot pot, I have to ask the waiter for beef cubes. It's so annoying!"
Chen Xia nodded twice. Indeed, Laojiao (a hotpot chain) is getting stingier and stingier these days. It's fine if they don't have it, but the key is that they have it if you want it, and they don't if you don't.
Chen Xia always drinks her fill of tomato soup with chopped celery and beef chunks.
Mao Lili and Yu Tian had clearly done their research, replicating many of the new ways to eat it that they found online.
Everyone sat together, eating and chatting. Qin Xuran, while eating hot pot, exclaimed, "Xia, that kick you made today was so cool! If I were a girl, I would definitely fall in love with you!"
"What if it were a boy? Would he fall in love with her?"
Qin Xuran was speechless, and Fang Yuze answered for him: "If it were a boy, he would probably feel ashamed of himself."
To be honest, if I were in Xia's situation today, I might not have been able to escape as quickly as she did.
Mao Lili put down her chopsticks: "If this scene were in an idol drama, there should be a handsome young man who would step forward at the crucial moment and take the knife for Xiaxia."
Then Xiaxia hugged him, moved to tears, and finally fell in love with him...
Chen Xia felt disgusted by her words: "This kind of old-fashioned plot of repaying a life-saving debt with one's body is still used in idol dramas."
"I don't need a handsome guy to save me; I can take him down myself."
Yu Tian asked curiously, "Judging from your reaction, have you been practicing?"
Chen Xia smiled and put a piece of beef into her bowl: "When I was a kid, I learned a few moves from Grandpa Li, the gatekeeper of the orphanage. Back then, who didn't dream of being a martial arts hero?"
I heard from people that Grandpa Li had practiced martial arts at Shaolin Temple when he was young, and I thought he must be a master like the Sweeper Monk.
She kept pestering him, insisting on becoming his apprentice and learning martial arts from him. He said he only knew a little bit of boxing and kicking, and was not a martial arts master.
Later, he couldn't resist my pestering anymore, so he taught me some basic skills.
When I first started practicing, I was incredibly excited. I thought that after practicing, I could be like the martial arts heroes in TV shows, leaping across rooftops and possessing unparalleled martial arts skills.
Later, when I grew up, I realized that those heroes who could fly across rooftops on TV were all suspended by wires.
Yu Tian stood up and raised her glass: "Come on, let's drink instead of alcohol and toast to Xiaxia's wit and courage today. Xiaxia, I wish you all the best in the future, and may you become rich and powerful!"
Everyone stood up, raised their glasses, and clinked them together.
Chen Xia smiled and said, "Thank you all for your concern and care. I also wish you all the best and that you become rich and powerful..."
After dinner, everyone went their separate ways, some rushing to catch the subway, others taking the bus back to their rented apartments.
Chen Xia lived closest to the company, and she strolled leisurely down the street, treating it as a post-meal digestion.
Meanwhile, Shen Shuyue was crying her eyes out at the police station. At first, she pretended to be crazy and kept saying that it was because Chen Xia blocked her and wouldn't go to the bar with her that she became the victim.
When the police asked her how she knew, she said she dreamed about it.
The police were so angry that they scolded her several times. She got scared and learned her lesson, so she stopped talking nonsense and started answering their questions directly.
During this process, when the police asked her where the dagger came from, she casually replied, "The dagger belongs to Gu Yan. We were arguing, and he couldn't win the argument, so he got impatient and picked up the dagger on the table and threw it at me."
After I dodged, I stabbed him with the dagger, and then I came looking for Chen Xia with the dagger. So this dagger isn't mine, it belongs to Gu Yan.
The police officer looked speechless: "You stabbed Gu Yan? Are you sure it was with a dagger? Where was he injured? In the abdomen? How is he? Which hospital is he being treated at?"
You don't know? He was unconscious when you came out? You checked and he was still breathing? When did this happen? I'm asking you, when did he get injured and fall unconscious?
Although the police were skeptical of her words, they still called Gu Yan to verify the situation, maintaining a responsible attitude.
When the police dialed the number, the phone rang in Shen Shuyue's pocket. The police panicked and tried to contact Gu Yan's parents, who were not in the country. They finally reached them, but the parents didn't believe the police at all. Gu's father even told the police to contact him to collect the body after Gu Yan died, and not to contact him as long as he was still alive.
Feeling increasingly uncertain, the police, with Shen Shuyue's directions, drove to the villa she had mentioned.
Pushing open the villa door, everyone was stunned. Gu Yan was lying face down on the living room floor, with a long trail of blood behind him.
It was clear he was trying to crawl outside to call for help, but he had lost too much blood...
Shen Shuyue broke down and screamed, trying to run away, but was pinned down by two policemen.
Good heavens, her original charge was attempted assault, but now it has been upgraded to intentional homicide.
...
Chen Xia's life returned to normal. During the day, she worked diligently as a corporate slave, and at night she did part-time stock trading and painting, trying her best to earn and save money.
"Breaking news! Look at your phones! Gu Yan, the former president of Gu Corporation, was stabbed to death by his stand-in girlfriend, Shen Shuyue."
A week later, Chen Xia, having worked hard all morning, stretched and went to the break room to make some tea or coffee. She'd just taken a sip when a colleague dropped a bombshell, nearly choking her on the coffee.
He coughed about ten times before catching his breath and quickly went over to her: "Where are you? Where are you?"
His colleague pointed to the local news he had just seen: "Look at this. According to reliable sources, Gu Yan, the former president of Gu's Group, was stabbed by his girlfriend, Shen Shuyue, a week ago and died from excessive blood loss."
And this: "According to sources, Gu Yan died because Shen Shuyue accidentally injured him with a dagger during an argument."
Fearing for her life, Shen took Gu Yan's phone and fled the villa. Gu Yan, suffering from excessive blood loss from his wounds, fell into a coma and was found dead by the police.
Even more surreal is the claim that "it is said that Shen Shuyue herself told the police about stabbing Gu Yan to death, because she thought Gu Yan was only injured."
Everyone gathered together and discussed the matter, but they all tacitly avoided mentioning that Shen Shuyue had gone crazy and come to cause trouble for Chen Xia.
Chen Xia never expected that Shen Shuyue would be so stupid as to stab Gu Yan and take his phone, but she was happy to see her stupidity happen.
Shen Shuyue is stupid, but Gu Yan and Ye Lan are purely evil. They rely on their families' money and don't care about human life. Now that the knife is in their own hands, they finally know the pain.
The system checked and found that even with the blocking treatment, Gu Yan and the other two still couldn't avoid it and got infected with HIV.
Ye Lan's parents' immediate reaction was to send her abroad, give her a sum of money, and leave her to fend for herself in America.
Gu Yan's parents did the opposite; they ran away and went off to do their own thing, keeping far away from their unfortunate son.
Gu Yan was removed from his position as president by the actual head of the Gu family, namely his grandfather, Old Master Gu.
The position of president of the Gu Group was replaced by his cousin, Gu Bin, from the third branch of the family, whom he looked down upon the most.
After taking over the Gu family business, Gu Bin implemented sweeping reforms, purging all of Gu Yan's confidants.
Gu Yan's years of power crumbled overnight, turning him into a despised and utterly humiliated figure. He hated every single member of the Gu family equally and desperately wanted to make a comeback through a marriage alliance to reclaim his position as CEO.
However, upon hearing that the marriage partner was him, not only companies that were on par with the Gu family, but also small companies and families that depended on the Gu family avoided them like the plague.
Even the most materialistic families wouldn't marry an HIV-positive person, not because they love their daughter so much, but because they would avoid it at all costs.
After all, who wants to be associated with an HIV-positive person? Once involved, the entire family's reputation is ruined. Business people are very pragmatic; who would want to cooperate with such a family?
So even for the sake of face or money, they would not marry their daughter to Gu Yan. Not to mention marrying Gu Yan, even the Gu family's own descendants are now like a plague, everyone wants to stay far away from them.
Didn't you see that Gu Yan's parents have gone into hiding? His father was a playboy who only knew how to eat, drink, and have fun, so now he has even more reason not to come back.
With everyone avoiding him, Gu Yan could only hide in the villa, smashing things and cursing angrily.
His impotent rage not only failed to improve the situation, but also frightened the live-in nanny and gardener at the villa so much that they ran away without even collecting their wages.
The entire villa was left with only him and Shen Shuyue. Shen Shuyue had nowhere to go and had no choice but to endure Gu Yan's bad temper.
Over time, Shen Shuyue gave up and resigned herself to her fate. If she hadn't been implicated by Gu Yan, she wouldn't have gotten this disease.
If Gu Yan dares to lose his temper with her, she'll be even fiercer than him; if she can't beat him, she'll rush up and bite him a couple of times.
Children in orphanages grow up without parents and have to rely on themselves for many things.
Wherever there are people, there is conflict, and orphanages are no exception. In corners unseen by the caretakers, squabbles and conflicts are commonplace.
Fighting became a regular occurrence to avoid being bullied by older children. To gain a foothold in that environment and avoid being bullied, one had to learn to stand on one's own two feet.
Sometimes, being tougher can actually prevent you from suffering more injustice. It may sound cruel, but that's the reality.
Chen Xia is pretty and has a sweet tongue. Aunt Wang and the hospital director both like her and dote on her.
The gatekeeper, Uncle Li, protected her and taught her self-defense from a young age. Among children her age, even if she didn't cause trouble, no one dared to bully her.
She had no love or pampering, so she had to learn to rely on others to protect herself at a young age.
The two were like hedgehogs covered in thorns, pricking each other and drawing blood.
The resentment grew deeper and deeper, and finally, on this day, the two had a fierce argument. In the midst of the argument, Gu Yan grabbed a dagger from the desk and threw it at Chen Shuyue.
Enraged, Shen Shuyue picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground and stabbed him, the stab landing squarely on Gu Yan's abdomen.
Gu Yan fainted from the pain. Shen Shuyue initially thought she had killed him and was terrified. She only breathed a sigh of relief after checking that he was still breathing.
She had intended to wipe the fingerprints off the dagger, put it back on the table, and pretend nothing had happened.
But thinking back to the dream she had, she felt that if Chen Xia had accompanied her to the bar as he did in the dream...
Chen Xia is the one who got sick, and she and Gu Yan can continue to live happily together like in their dreams. She will marry into a wealthy family and become the mistress of the Gu family because of her son.
The more Shen Shuyue thought about it, the more she felt that Chen Xia was responsible for her miserable end. Evil arose in her heart, and she took a dagger and went to find Chen Xia, which led to what happened next.
Subconsciously, she thought that Gu Yan was injured, not stupid. If he woke up, wouldn't he call 120 for emergency medical assistance? She completely forgot that she had picked up Gu Yan's phone when she left.
This is why she dared to tell the police without fear of reprisal; after all, she had only stabbed Gu Yan, and given Gu Yan's current situation, he still needed her to take care of him in the hospital.
Unexpectedly, the villa was located in a remote area and had excellent soundproofing. In addition, after the two of them moved in, they argued constantly, and the neighbors, finding it noisy, moved to other houses.
Gu Yan lost too much blood. Even though he tried his best to crawl to the living room and open the door for help, he ultimately lost too much blood and died in a coma.
Gu Yan died, and Shen Shuyue went mad, trying to escape legal punishment by feigning insanity, but she failed and was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.
Miss Ye's life abroad was not easy. In the past, she relied on her family background and seduced the fiancés and boyfriends of other rich girls in the circle.
Now that she has contracted that disease and has been abandoned and exiled by her family, those she has hurt will naturally seek revenge.
News of her contracting a sexually transmitted disease quickly spread both inside and outside the circle. Not long after, she disappeared in America, supposedly sold to a tribe in Africa.
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