Thinking of something, Han Zhiruo looked at Luo Chen and said, "Do you have time? I have something I want to talk to you about."
"Huh?" Luo Chen was still wondering how Wang Gang and Ye Lin got together when he heard this and looked over in confusion.
Luo Luo also looked over, wondering what Han Zhiruo wanted to see Luo Chen about.
"It's a very important matter," Han Zhiruo said, because it was very important to her. She wanted to know if Luo Chen would tell her his true feelings.
"I'm fine, it's just..."
Luo Chen looked at Luo Luo. For some reason, Luo Luo kept staring at him today, as if afraid that he would slip away at any moment.
Han Zhiruo looked in that direction and asked, puzzled, "What's going on?"
"Ask her." Luo Chen pursed his lips.
"Zhiruo, if you need to find my brother, then go ahead. You don't need to worry about me," Luoluo replied.
Hearing this, Han Zhiruo was even more confused. She glanced at Luo Luo, then at Luo Chen, not understanding what kind of riddle the two siblings were playing.
Luo Chen was stunned. He thought Luo Luo would ask why, or at least come along, but this was it?
Having received Luo Luo's affirmation, Han Zhiruo and Luo Chen arrived at the stairwell, a quiet place suitable for conversation, and with few people passing by.
"What do you want to ask?" Luo Chen asked first.
Han Zhiruo looked at Luo Chen with complicated emotions, remained silent for a while, and then slowly said, "Tomorrow is my sister's birthday banquet, you should know that, right?"
"I know, what's wrong?" Luo Chen nodded.
"Do you know that my father is going to announce my sister's engagement at his birthday party?"
"This... I'm not quite sure." Luo Chen pretended not to know, looking at Han Zhiruo with a puzzled expression.
"Yeah……"
Han Zhiruo gave a wry smile and said, "My father hopes that my sister will get engaged to Ye Lin. Not many people know about this yet. He plans to announce it on the day of her birthday banquet. You haven't known my sister for long, and you only met her when you were young because of that incident. You probably don't know why she cried so much back then."
"I really don't know," Luo Chen shook his head.
[Before the story began, I really didn't know the situation, nor did I know that Han Zhiqing was the female lead. I was thinking, why is this girl so prone to crying? No one is bullying her, and she doesn't like to talk to people. She just sits quietly under the tree, lost in thought. If she hadn't called Han Zhiruo over for help that day, we might never have met.]
Hearing Luo Chen's response, Han Zhiruo understood that Luo Chen still had a deep impression of her sister.
It's just that they don't seem to understand the situation.
Han Zhiruo walked to the window and looked at the sky outside. The sky was very blue, the clouds were very white, and the sunlight was warm, making her feel a sense of warmth.
“My sister and I don’t talk much, perhaps because I’m not her biological sister. When we were little, my sister didn’t receive any love and was even beaten and scolded by our father. Even with my mother’s care, the problems couldn’t be solved. I always heard that my sister was able to survive because her mother sacrificed herself to protect her. My sister has always blamed herself for this and has never dared to defy my father.”
"Therefore, whenever my father was unhappy, he would take it out on my sister. I tried to stop him, but he beat her even more. That's why my sister always cries. She doesn't like to talk to people because she's afraid they'll see her injuries. So she often sits alone under a tree, quietly lost in thought. If it weren't for you, my sister probably wouldn't be here by now."
Han Zhiruo turned around and looked at Luo Chen; her eyes were already red.
“When I was a child, I had no way to stop all of this. My mother was almost implicated as well. Only my sister bore all of this. No one helped her. She was very helpless and lonely. Only crying made her strong. Because of this, I have always hated my father. After I grew up, I ignored the Han family and went straight to the Supervisory Bureau to become a junior police officer, and I still am now.”
"Although my sister has never really talked to me much, I've always considered her my own sister."
Han Zhiruo couldn't help but wipe away her tears, her eyes blurry with tears, a sight that evoked pity.
"Luo Chen, do you have a solution? My sister has always listened to my father. Because of what happened to our mother, she has never gone against his wishes. I really don't want my sister to get engaged to Ye Lin. So, do you have a solution?"
Luo Chen remained silent and sighed.
He turned to look out the window, where a white cloud drifted by, slowly moving into the distance.
[In the main text of the book, the author arranged for Han Zhiqing to have the most pitiful background among the female leads, with Fang Xue being slightly better off. The purpose was to make it easier for the protagonist to win their hearts. After learning about the plot, I also cursed the author for daring to write such a story.]
[Unfortunately, my villainous simp persona isn't much better than theirs, although my fate wasn't as tragic.]
Han Zhiruo listened quietly to Luo Chen's thoughts. As she listened to these strange words, she gradually realized that this world did not seem to be real. Female protagonists and the like only appeared in TV dramas and novels.
So, this is a world within a book?
Luo Chen turned his head and met Han Zhiruo's eyes.
[There is a solution, of course. That incident was a conspiracy. A careful investigation into the case of the Sun family's tragic deaths back then will reveal clues. Besides, Sun Ruoyu's death wasn't Han Zhiqing's fault; ultimately, it was Han Yan's problem. It's just that Han Yan dumped the blame on Han Zhiqing.]
[I remember Sun Ruoyu had a younger sister who wasn't implicated back then. She seems to live in a poor area of Xicheng District now. She knows the whole story and is considered the only surviving witness from that time.]
"I'm sorry, I can't help you. I really don't know much about this."
Luo Chen couldn't reveal the plot, so he could only say this against his will.
Hearing everything, Han Zhiruo suppressed her trembling and controlled her emotions. She was already sad, but now she was filled with anger.
Back then, the Sun family was considered a pseudo-first-class family, with a considerable reputation in Ningcheng. Compared to the current four major families, the four major families were on par with the Sun family at that time. However, no one expected that the Sun family, with such strength, would encounter such an accident, with members of the Sun family dying one by one, and the deaths being untraceable.
With nothing to be done, they had no choice but to put it aside for the time being, since they had no clues and couldn't find any leads at all.
However, she originally wanted to try to get an answer from Luo Chen, but instead she heard this.
Han Zhiruo's emotions were fluctuating wildly; if she hadn't been constantly restraining herself, she probably would have already exploded.
She now desperately wants to know what exactly happened to the Sun family back then, how her sister's mother ended up sacrificing herself, and how the reasons for it all seem to have a lot to do with her father.
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