Chapter 144 He still cares, as expected.
As soon as Wen Jiu finished speaking, the tall figure walking forward suddenly stopped.
"What does this have to do with the case?"
Wen Jiu didn't answer him, but asked, "Why did you go to the crime scene that day?"
The boy's eyes were red-rimmed, but his lips remained tightly pressed together.
“Li Xingzhou, this case is difficult to handle. If you know anything, you must tell us. Right now, anything related to Zhiyi could become key evidence for us,” Sun Jin said.
Hearing this, the boy finally spoke up: "I didn't go to deliver something. I went because I heard from Zhiyi's friend that she was taken to a bar by Song Yang and his group."
"And then? What did you discover?"
After Wen Jiu asked that question, the boy sitting on the sofa couldn't help but tremble.
His eyes were red and bleeding: "If only we could find something."
"What's the meaning?"
*
The boy almost saw the girl hiding in the closet with her mouth covered.
As he turned to walk towards the door after seeing that no one was in the private room, the last piece of clothing on the girl in the closet was also torn away.
Tears streamed down the girl's beautiful face, and the last glimmer of hope in her eyes vanished.
*
As Wen Jiu left Li Xingzhou's house, her heart ached terribly.
She tried to stay calm and not let her personal emotions get involved, but this time it was a little hard to control.
She swallowed twice, picked up her phone and called Captain Liu, wanting him to check the wardrobe Li Xingzhou had mentioned to see if there was any usable evidence inside.
Sun Jin looked at the person who had just hung up the phone: "Why do you look so pale? Have you been too tired lately?"
Wen Jiu shook her head, wanting to say she was fine, but then everything went black for a moment.
She gripped the stair railing, paused for a few seconds until her vision cleared, and said, "I'm fine."
“It’s nothing,” Sun Jin noticed the girl’s stagger and supported her hand. “It’s almost time to get off work, go home and rest.”
"I'm on duty today."
Upon hearing this, Sun Jin replied without hesitation: "I'm free today, I'll take your shift."
"No need, I..." Wen Jiu was stopped by the woman's serious gaze before she could finish speaking.
"Xiao Jiu, we still have a lot of things to do. If you keep working yourself to exhaustion, what will happen to the case? What will happen to Zhiyi?"
Wen Jiu was momentarily stunned by the question.
Sun Jin made the decision for her: "After you clock out at the office later, go home and rest as soon as possible. Getting your health back is more important than anything else, understand?"
"Um."
*
At night, snow began to fall again.
Wen Jiu had just come out of the procuratorate when she saw the car not far away, and the bitterness in her heart intensified.
After returning from Li Xingzhou's place, all I could think about was him crying and saying: "If I had been more careful, would Yiyi have been safe?"
She looked at him, as if she were thinking of the time when she was beaten by Wen Chengyu, and Zhou Yanchuan, who was not at home, came back and saw her covered in injuries and felt guilty.
Li Xingzhou and Zhiyi are very similar to them back then, except that Wen Jiu clenched her hands, unable to suppress her heartache.
Both children were ruined because of this.
She walked toward the black car.
I opened the car door, but didn't see the person I expected.
Perhaps noticing her stunned gaze, Lu Nian, in the driver's seat, explained, "Our CEO Zhou had something come up and asked me to come and pick you up first."
Wen Jiu didn't say a word and bent down to sit inside.
Lu Nian looked at the person who had already sat in the back seat, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Before he arrived, President Zhou said that if she didn't want to get in the car, she could just come back with him. He didn't expect her to get in so easily.
Wen Jiu was so tired that she fell asleep in a corner shortly after getting on the bus.
Snow was blown into his collar by the cold wind as Zhou Yanchuan stood outside the car smoking.
He received a call from Lu Nian half an hour ago, saying that Miss Wen had fallen asleep in the car and asking him what to do.
He drove over as soon as the meeting ended.
I don't know how tired I am usually, but I can fall asleep in the car in such a short time.
And the last time I picked her up at home, my first thought was how much thinner she had become.
He seemed to be unable to wait any longer, and he couldn't take it slow either.
*
When Wen Jiu woke up, she found that the car had already stopped.
With her eyes half-open, she vaguely sensed that something had changed about the person in the driver's seat.
But without looking closely: "Have we arrived?"
"Um."
Hearing the voice, she paused slightly: "Zhou Yanchuan?"
Perhaps because she had just woken up, the girl's voice still carried a lingering sleepiness, just like when she used to whine sweetly, with a soft, sweet ending.
The hands resting on the steering wheel clenched tightly, a silent restraint on their faces.
He refrained from replying and instead said, "Go upstairs now that you're awake."
"What?"
"Go upstairs and pack your things, or you can leave them as is. Just bring Xiao Huang down with you, and you and Xiao Huang will come with me to Yujing."
Wen Jiu's heart skipped a beat; her brain, which had finally started functioning again, seemed to stop working once more.
Xiao Huang is one thing, but why does she have to come along too?
She asked instinctively, "Why?"
Why do you think so?
Wen Jiu didn't know.
All she could think of right now was that he had reason to hate her, and he did indeed harbor resentment towards her.
Her long eyelashes fluttered gently as she hesitantly and uncertainly raised her eyes to meet his dark and deep gaze in the mirror.
From the sharp words exchanged at their first meeting, to the cold gazes that fell upon her each time, and Qin You.
She felt that he resented her for her decisiveness back then.
But what is the reason for this now?
As if guessing what she was thinking, the person in front slowly spoke, his tone indifferent: "Don't think too much about it, it has nothing to do with you. The doctor said that Xiao Huang is worried about stress in a new environment after recovering from a serious illness, so he must be accompanied by someone he knows."
Wen Jiu clenched her fingertips, feeling a pang of bitterness in her heart, perhaps because of the first half of his sentence.
She didn't answer, but after a long while, she asked again, "What about Qin You? What if she knew we were living together..."
Zhou Yanchuan's eyelashes twitched slightly; he was still concerned, as expected.
Just like Qiao Qingxue in high school, Wen Jiu would not allow a third party to exist between them. Just like when she called him a bastard, it would be unfair to that person if he changed partners before his heart was completely at peace.
Moreover, since there's a third person among them, it's certain that the two of them can never go back to how things were.
Having been through so much with her, how could I possibly find anyone else?
One fall is enough.
That's why he always believed that there was nothing between her and He Shixu.
Even if it's nothing, he still cares, he cares that there's someone like this by her side.
Zhou Yanchuan said, "The agreement is that she will cooperate with me, and I will give her resources."
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