The only thing we can do now is to slowly wear him down. The longer it takes, the harder it will be to detect the evidence against Yuan Shu.
When a whale sends out distress signals and receives pheromones, it can stay in the sea for two hours and leave no trace whatsoever!
I wonder who wanted to kill someone and prepared such a thing?
Mrs. Yuan looked around and, seeing no one with an unusual expression, breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the person was unaware that Yuan Shu's death was related to her throwing away that bottle of ointment.
But it doesn't matter. So what if he knows? Haha, now that he knows, he's the one who should be worried!
I won't stand up and expose myself!
"Little sister, don't cry. Here, this is my model airplane. My dad brought it back for me from his business trip abroad. I love it."
"Here, please don't cry, okay?"
A little boy, half a head taller than Yuan Beibei, stepped forward holding a toy airplane.
"Waaah! I don't want your things, I just want my dad!"
Unexpectedly, when Yuan Beibei heard the word "Dad," she cried even louder.
The boy's mother couldn't help but turn around and scold him, "Qiqi, stop talking. Check if you have any candy in your pocket and give your little sister a couple."
"Yes, and there's chocolate..."
The boy was clearly panicked.
But I never expected that I would be so bad at expressing myself!
He took two chocolates out of his pocket and stuffed them into Yuan Beibei's hand, but Yuan Beibei still couldn't stop crying.
"Beibei, come here to Auntie. Auntie has lots of fun games on her phone!"
"Look at the bracelet on Auntie's wrist, do you like it? How about we give it to Beibei?"
"A girl who cries too much will not be pretty."
The wealthy women didn't know how to comfort people, so they could only offer their own suggestions to attract Yuan Beibei's attention.
If it were a little boy crying his eyes out here, they wouldn't bother to comfort him. But Yuan Beibei is good-looking, and she's neither annoying nor disliked.
And to be honest, Yuan Shu is well-liked in the business world, and her husband always gives her some face.
Their comforting of Yuan Beibei is also a way of currying favor with the Yuan family!
Yuan Shu is dead, but the Yuan Group still exists, and Yuan Beibei is the only heir!
If we can make an impression on her, wouldn't it be easier for the two families to cooperate in the future?
None of them were pushovers; each had their own agenda and tried every possible way to make her happy.
…………
Two hours later.
It's exactly 12 o'clock.
After Mrs. Yuan saw off the last guest, Beibei was already too sleepy to stay awake any longer and was carried back by the nanny.
Outside, hotel staff were cleaning up the candles left behind to prevent any potential safety hazards.
Mrs. Yuan was also preparing to go back to rest when she stepped out the door. A gust of cold wind blew by, raising goosebumps on her hands. She then realized that she hadn't taken her coat.
She turned back to get her coat.
The moment she stepped back into the cabin, she felt something was off about the texture under her feet. Looking down, she saw—
"ah!"
A thin layer of ice had appeared on the ground where the leather shoes were stepping!
How could ice form on such a hot day, especially on a tropical island?
The air inside the room suddenly dropped, making people shiver. Their upper and lower teeth kept clattering together, making a rattling sound that made their teeth ache.
Her movements became sluggish, and her head began to feel dizzy.
It was as if I could see Yuan Shu standing right in front of me!
His face was deathly pale, his skin was soaked and swollen beyond recognition, but his facial features could still be vaguely made out.
"Wife, why did you hurt me?"
The dead man's questioning, coupled with the cold air around them, made Mrs. Yuan swallow hard in fear.
Fake!
It's all fake!
I was just too tired, that's why I was hallucinating!
Just as she was trying to comfort herself, the temperature in the air kept dropping...
She was so cold that she curled up on the ground. The contact of her bare skin with the icy ground made her gasp.
I can't help but think of Yuan Shu's state before his death—
When he's soaking in the icy sea, does he feel the same way, feeling the chill to the bone?
"I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't do it on purpose! It was you, you forced me to do it!"
The illusion before me was getting closer and closer.
Yuan Shu pressed on, "Have I been bad to you? You weren't valued in your own family, but after you married into the Yuan family, who dares to bully you?"
“Every time you go back to your parents’ home, your parents and even your brother dote on you. I’m the one who made you live the life that everyone envies, but you turned around and stabbed me in the back!”
"No, I wanted to live a good life with you, and I know how good you are to me, so why did you have to bring that child back?"
"You could have kept the fact that he's an illegitimate child a secret. You could have just raised him abroad and given him a sum of money every month. Why did you have to bring him back?"
"They want to destroy the harmony of our family! They even want to leave the Yuan family business to them! What about Beibei? Beibei is your rightful daughter. How will she be able to hold her head high in front of others in the future?"
"Heh, you even want your assistant to publish the will? Yuan Shu, what gives you the right to say that about me? You're the heartless one!"
Mrs. Yuan screamed at the air, and in her hysteria, two lines of clear tears silently slid down her cheeks.
Yuan Shu's expression shifted, from cold questioning to a sorrowful lament, "Wife, I never intended for that child to inherit the Yuan family business. You are the one I love most, you know that—"
"I don't want to hear it! You're dead, so stop with the pretense!"
"Yuan Shu, don't think that just because your body was left behind, others will discover that I'm the murderer! Let me tell you, hahaha, that's simply impossible!"
"There are no signs of human injury on your body. After the forensic autopsy, there are only two possibilities: either you were knocked unconscious by marine life, which damaged your internal organs; or you accidentally fell into the sea and drowned!"
"I neither pushed you nor did I leave you to die. I just thought it was windy by the sea, so I went back to my room to rest. What can they do to me?"
Mrs. Yuan burst into wild laughter.
"Look, even God is helping me. After you died, the group's plan to release the will was suspended."
"Once I get back, all I have to do is bribe your lawyer with a high price to alter the will, and then everything will still belong to my daughter and me! What does that bastard have to do with it?"
"Go in peace. Beibei will inherit everything from you, and I will take good care of the old lady for you!"
"You said you were dead, but you were so troublesome. According to my original guess, you should have been torn to pieces by the whale. Wouldn't that have been better? There wouldn't have been so much trouble, right?"
"I can pin this on Jiang Zhiyi and make the Jiang family take the blame. Maybe they'll even feel guilty and make concessions in the cooperation! Then the group can make a fortune!"
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