"...What do you mean?" Zhu Xingye was still pretending to be stupid.
Zhu Qian, however, had no patience to continue playing along with his act.
“Brother, stop pretending.” He said bluntly, “A-Ning and I arrived in Germany at 5:30 this afternoon. After getting off the plane, we went straight to Charite Hospital without even having a sip of water, but there wasn’t a single patient named Zhu Jinzhao in the hospital! Lin Yu didn’t participate in any research on sudden myocarditis, nor did he receive you in Germany!”
“You’re not even in Germany, and Chaochao isn’t sick. You’re lying to us.”
All the lies were exposed to the light of day with Zhu Qian's words.
Zhu Xingye's eyes turned cold, but he remained silent.
Zhu Qian: "Brother, we're family! Family should be honest with each other! Where did Chaochao go? Why are you hiding her?!"
Zhu Ning: "If Mingyue hadn't reminded us, and let my second brother and I sneak off to Germany for a visit, we'd probably still be in the dark."
"You are Chaochao's elder brother, and also the elder brother of the entire Zhu family. Can't you talk to us properly about what's going on? Why do you have to lie and deceive us?"
“…Mingyue.” Zhu Xingye ignored their reproaches and only noticed the two words “Mingyue” that flashed by.
"So, you two suddenly came to Germany not because you really wanted to see Chaochao, but because you were encouraged by Mingyue to test whether I was lying. Is that right?"
"Big brother, is that the point?" Zhu Qian rolled his eyes impatiently. "Besides, Mingyue didn't instigate us; she just gave us a heads-up! If she hadn't been smart enough to notice your flaw, we'd all be fools continuing to be deceived by you!"
"Hmph..." Zhu Xingye sneered and didn't respond to him.
He urged impatiently, "Brother, tell us the truth right now! We need to see Chaochao immediately!"
“Yes! We want to see Chaochao!” Zhu Ning echoed.
"...You won't see her." Zhu Xingye casually tossed out these words and immediately hung up the phone.
After that, no matter how many times Zhu Ning and Zhu Qian called him, he wouldn't answer a single one.
"Old Wu!"
He straightened his clothes, slowly got up from the chair, and called over Old Wu, who was guarding the villa entrance.
"President Zhu." The boss stood respectfully behind him.
He surveyed the garden before him expressionlessly and said softly, "Go get the car. I need to go back to the Zhu family."
Boss: "Yes!"
...
Shi Jing waited all day and finally received news from Zhu Mingyue.
—Shi Jing, my second and third brothers already know that Zhu Xingye is lying.
Shi Jing looked at the sentence on his phone and suddenly stood up from the sofa, startling Jiang Jingwen.
"Are you crazy?!" Jiang Jingwen snapped angrily.
Shi Jing didn't have time to pay attention to her. He held up his phone and said to the two people in the room, "Zhu Mingyue sent a message saying that Zhu Ning and Zhu Qian already know that Zhu Xingye is lying."
"What?!"
Li Weiwan and Jiang Jingwen also stood up.
"You found out Zhu Xingye was lying, and then what?" Jiang Jingwen asked anxiously.
Shi Jing sent her question to Zhu Mingyue, who replied instantly.
—Then Zhu Xingye left the two of them in Germany.
"Huh?" Li Weiwan didn't understand what she meant. "What do you mean by being abandoned in Germany by Zhu Xingye?"
Zhu Mingyue then sent an explanation.
They called Zhu Xingye as soon as they left the hospital, exposing his lies over the phone. But to their surprise, Zhu Xingye remained unfazed, ignoring them completely and hanging up on them. Now, standing on a street in Germany, they can no longer contact Zhu Xingye.
“Can’t get in touch with him…” Shi Jing narrowed his eyes, his gaze wary.
—Does Zhu Xingye know that it was you who encouraged your second and third brothers to go to Germany?
Zhu Mingyue: I think I know. I just asked, and my second brother mentioned my name when he was arguing with him.
“Then Zhu Xingye must know.” Li Weiwan’s eyes darkened, and she instantly tensed up.
"Shi Jing, tell Zhu Mingyue to be prepared at any time. Zhu Xingye will definitely come back to the Zhu family to find her!"
Shi Jing responded with an "okay," and then relayed Li Weiwan's words to Zhu Mingyue.
Jiang Jingwen: "Brother Li, when do you think Zhu Xingye will choose to come back to find Mingyue?"
Li Weiwan, her face grim, spoke at the same time as Shi Jing: "Now!"
"So fast?" Jiang Jingwen's face turned pale instantly.
Shi Jing: "Zhu Qian and Zhu Ning are still in Germany. Even if they buy the earliest tickets and rush back, it will be ten hours before they arrive. If Zhu Xingye wants to settle scores with Zhu Mingyue, now is the perfect time!"
"For ten hours, as long as no one causes trouble, he can basically succeed in whatever he wants to do."
"Let's pack up, we're heading out too." Li Weiwan picked up her baseball cap from the sofa and put it on. "Although the hotel isn't far from the Zhu family's place, it's not convenient for us to run there from our room if Zhu Mingyue needs anything."
"Let's disguise ourselves and lie in ambush near the Zhu family first. That way, if there's any trouble inside, we can rush in immediately."
Shi Jing: "Okay!"
The three of them disguised themselves simply and sneaked into the residential area where the Zhu family villa was located before Zhu Xingye returned.
The residential area was quite upscale, with few outsiders besides the residents. To avoid attracting attention, the three of them went to the activity center to dance with a group of elderly women.
An hour later, Zhu Mingyue sent another message to Shi Jing.
—I heard a car parking downstairs; Zhu Xingye should be home by now.
"Let's go." Shi Jing called Li Weiwan and Jiang Jingwen over and replied as they walked towards the Zhu family villa.
—We're nearby, so please be careful.
Zhu Mingyue: It really is Zhu Xingye who's back. I heard him calling me.
Shi Jing: Hide the gun. If necessary, you don't need to talk to him. Just shoot him in the head.
...
Zhu Mingyue didn't reply to him. It's likely that Zhu Xingye had already found her.
Shi Jing put away his phone and said to the two people beside him, "Zhu Xingye has found Zhu Mingyue. Let's go and stake out the Zhu family's neighborhood now."
Li Weiwan: "Okay!"
It was already nine o'clock at night, and the sky was completely dark. The three of them were all dressed in black, and as they walked timidly along the wall, they were not easily spotted.
There were surveillance cameras at the entrance of the Zhu family's house, so they didn't dare get too close. They could only hide in the rose bushes outside the yard and listen intently to the sounds coming from inside the villa.
But perhaps the villa is too soundproof, because the three of them haven't heard any sounds yet.
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