Shang Yan gripped Yu Sheng's arm tightly and said, "Yu Sheng, be strong. This is not a dream. Xiao Cheng is dead. He's dead!"
Yu Sheng broke free from Shang Yan, looked at him with grief, and stubbornly said, "He's not dead! He's alive."
Shang Yan dragged her to Xiao Cheng's corpse, pointed at him, and asked, "If he were alive, then who would he be?"
Yu Sheng couldn't bear to look at Xiao Cheng's corpse. She cried out in a panic, "This is a dream! It's all fake! Xiao Cheng is alive and well in the real world!"
Shang Yan knew that Yu Sheng couldn't accept Xiao Cheng's death, so he said it was a dream. He also wanted to cooperate and say that this was a dream, that Xiao Cheng had only died in the dream and was living well in reality, so that she wouldn't be sad or upset. But he couldn't do that, because doing so would make her live in a delusion.
He deliberately looked at her with a disappointed expression, "You'd rather believe all of this is fake than avenge Xiao Cheng, is that it? In that case, I'll avenge Xiao Cheng."
Yu Sheng grabbed Shang Yan, who was about to leave, and stared at him, asking, "What do you mean? What revenge are you taking for Xiao Cheng?"
Shang Yan looked at Yu Sheng and said, "Do you remember how you and Xiao Cheng got into the car accident?"
With tears in her eyes, Yu Sheng said, "Of course I remember. I was crossing the road with Xiao Cheng when a car suddenly rushed out from the right."
"What kind of car?" Shang Yan pressed.
"A red sports car, but I don't know exactly what kind of car it is."
Where is the car owner?
"You escaped, why are you suddenly asking these questions?" Yu Sheng asked, puzzled.
"Because... I know who the car owner is."
Yu Sheng stared at Shang Yan in disbelief, her voice trembling as she asked, "You...know who it is? How...how did you know?"
Shang Yan took out his phone, tapped a few times, and handed it to Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng took the video with trembling hands.
The video showed a man and a woman. She didn't recognize the man, but the woman looked somewhat familiar to her. She thought she resembled Sister Hong from the Mask Club, but was much younger than Sister Hong. She looked at Shang Yan and asked, "Is this woman Sister Hong?"
Shang Yan nodded: "Sister Hong from ten years ago."
Who is the man?
"I'll tell you after you finish watching the video."
Yu Sheng didn't ask any more questions and pressed play.
The man stuffed a few RMB bills into Sister Hong's clothes. Sister Hong took them out, smiled, and asked the man, "Old Zhang, have you struck it rich lately? You're so generous."
Old Zhang, with a smug look on his face, said, "I did indeed make a windfall."
Sister Hong asked curiously, "How was it sent?"
Old Zhang didn't say anything at first, but he couldn't resist Sister Hong's coaxing and finally said, "A rich young master hit someone and ran away. I happened to see it, so I went to his parents and asked them for 1 million yuan as hush money."
"1 million?"
Hongjie was quite shocked by the amount. 1 million is not a small sum even now, let alone ten years ago. "Did they give it to me?"
Old Zhang said smugly, "They gave it to me very readily."
Sister Hong asked suspiciously, "Which young master comes from such a wealthy family?"
Old Zhang chuckled: "I can't say that. You're paid to do something wrong."
This video, which was only a minute or two long, was like a huge rock thrown into Yu Sheng's heart.
It turns out that there was an eyewitness to Xiao Cheng's car accident years ago. She was both incredulous and excited, and anxiously asked Shang Yan, "Who is this man?"
After hesitating for a moment, Shang Yan said, "Zhang Xiangdong!"
"Zhang Xiangdong?"
Yu Sheng felt like she'd heard the name somewhere before. She pondered for a moment, then suddenly it came to her mind. She looked at Shang Yan with a surprised expression: "Could he be Qiao Moya's biological father?"
Shang Yan nodded. "I talked to Sister Hong. She said that after Zhang Xiangdong took that million, he became addicted to gambling and quickly gambled it all away. The night before he went to see her, he said he was going to ask that family for hush money again, and then... he died!"
"You mean he was killed by that family?" Yu Sheng blurted out without thinking, then said, "No, he drowned while saving Gu Ye."
Shang Yan asked in confusion, "Did he drown while saving Gu Ye?"
“Yes.” Yu Sheng nodded. “Because Zhang Xiangdong died saving Gu Ye, he wanted to make it up to her after recognizing Qiao Moya as his daughter.”
Shang Yan originally had no clue who that rich young master was.
After all, ten years have passed since I last thought about this.
But Yu Sheng's words reminded her of Gu Ye.
But ten years ago, Gu Ye was only fourteen years old. Could he have done something like killing someone?
After considering that Gu also had a split personality, Shang Yan realized that such a possibility was not out of the question.
Seeing Shang Yan's scheming expression, Yu Sheng asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Want to know who the hit-and-run driver was ten years ago?
"Of course I want to!"
"Then stay strong, and together we'll find the murderer from back then!"
When Shang Yan spoke his last words, he was holding Yu Sheng's hand.
The determination for revenge shattered Yu Sheng's despair and despondency.
Gu Ye was initially worried about Yu Sheng, fearing she would become despondent. However, seeing that her emotions were more stable than he had imagined, he breathed a sigh of relief, assuming that she was putting on a brave face for the sake of the baby in her womb.
...
Three days later, it was Xiao Cheng's funeral.
Yu Sheng did not bury his ashes in the cemetery. She did not want him to be confined to that small cemetery. The world is so big, and she wanted him to follow the river to see it.
So she scattered his ashes into the river.
She wasn't worried because there hadn't been any news from Shang Yan.
After all, she'd waited ten years, so a day or two wouldn't make a difference.
After Xiao Cheng's funeral, she went to see Wu Xiaohong.
Wu Xiaohong heard about Xiao Cheng's death.
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