Chapter 213
By the time Zhong Ling finally rushed over like a madman, the car had even been seized and surrounded by a cordon set up by the police.
Zhong Ling stumbled through the crowded crowd and squeezed in like a madman, crying as he did so.
He now looked mad and ferocious, his face was pale and he was so scared that not a trace of blood was left on him. Because of excessive running, his chest felt extremely stuffy and painful, and there seemed to be a gas in his throat and a faint smell of blood in his mouth.
His fingers were clenched so tightly that he couldn't open them, and his eyes were trembling with fear.
A policeman beside him tried to stop him, but Zhong Ling grabbed the policeman's arm with his backhand, gasping for breath, his chest heaving and shaking violently, "I, I'm her family member, I'm her boyfriend, is she okay?"
"You, you saved her, didn't you? You saved her, didn't you? Thank you, thank you! Let me see her, let me go over and see her."
The policeman who was caught by him paused in his attempt to stop him, then slowly let go of the man, shook his head and said apologetically, "Sir, calm down. I'm sorry, the lady had already stopped breathing when we rescued her."
When the car was about to fall, someone called the police. Some enthusiastic people wanted to save the man but they couldn't because the position was too dangerous. The front of the car was clinging to the guardrail, and most of the car body was hanging under the bridge. The man in the car climbed out by himself and was finally taken to the hospital by the ambulance. They don't know much about what happened next.
However, there was another girl in the car, whose body was pinned by the seat and unable to move. When the car finally fell into the river, the police rushed over, but it was too late. How could a young girl who was injured and almost in a coma survive after being submerged in the water for more than ten minutes?
The moment he heard the policeman shaking his head, Zhong Ling felt a buzzing in his ears. He could no longer hear the voices of anyone around him, and his mind went blank and chaotic.
He even felt that his heart was about to stop. Every breath he took felt heavy in his chest, as if he was cut by shards of glass. He felt that he was almost unable to breathe. The feeling of suffocation seemed to make his whole body be completely engulfed by the surging waves, and an excruciating pain arose in his throat.
Finally, he heard someone calling him. The voice became louder and louder, gradually waking him up. His face turned pale, his legs went weak, and he staggered away from the crowd around him and stumbled inside.
then--
He saw the body covered with white cloth.
Zhong Ling's tears suddenly burst out and fell uncontrollably. He wanted to breathe, wanted to shout, but his whole body seemed to be frozen and he couldn't move at all.
There was a crowd of onlookers all around, pointing and talking about the damaged area in the middle. In the distance, one could even hear the sound of a frightened child crying.
Zhong Ling stumbled and fell beside the young woman's body. She was covered with a white cloth, and the ground was stained with water. Through the edge of the gap, he saw that her fingers were slightly white, and there were light red bloodstains on the off-white skirt.
She still had the white canvas bag on her shoulder, with the ugly frog puppet pendant hanging on it. It was stained red by blood and then changed color after being soaked in river water. It now looked a faint blood red and wet, appearing a little weird and spooky.
Zhong Ling smelled a strong smell of blood.
He knelt on the ground in despair, and with trembling fingers he reached out and touched the ugly frog ornament, and then held the cold hand. When he lifted the white cloth, he saw a pale face stained with water droplets and lifeless.
At that moment, all the scenes around him seemed to be weirdly distorted in his eyes. His eyes could not contain anything else but the woman lying there quietly.
His chest ached so much that he felt as if he couldn't even feel the pain. All that was left was coldness and numbness. He was so cold that his body was stiff and tears gathered in his eye sockets. He found himself in such extreme sorrow that he couldn't even cry out.
"Yanyan, Yanyan..."
"I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. Can you please get up? Can you please get up and I will take you home?"
"Let's make peace and stop quarreling, okay? Did you scare me on purpose? Did you do this to scare me on purpose?"
He was crying and laughing, but tears couldn't help falling from the corners of his eyes. He held her fingers and gently brought them to his lips and kissed them.
"Okay, I admit defeat, okay? I know I was wrong, and I promise you that I will never bully you again. Yanyan, open your eyes and look at me, okay?"
He reached out again and carefully used his sleeve to wipe the water droplets on her cheek. Seeing the accidental scratch on her forehead, tears dripped onto her face again.
"You are so old, how can you still play in the water? You will get sick if your clothes get wet. Can I take you home? Let's go home and change clothes. Your clothes are still hanging there, and I haven't touched them..."
"Please, Yanyan, get up!"
"As long as you get up, I can do anything."
"Yan Yan, can you please get up and look at me?"
"I beg you, please, don't leave me!"
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Zhong Ling begged, cried, and sobbed, tears streaming down his face. In the end, his eyes hurt and his head was aching.
But no matter how he begged, the person lying on the ground never moved. She was dead, really dead. Zhong Ling seemed to realize the reality at this moment.
Her body grew colder and colder, until it slowly became stiff, and her face turned as pale as paper, gradually filled with a chilling aura of death. In the face of death, any calls and pleas were useless, and seemed so powerless and pale.
His Yanyan was really dead. She had lost her former lively appearance and lay quietly in his arms. She would neither cry nor laugh, and would never call him Boss Zhong in that gentle voice again.
When Zhong Ling realized this fact, he felt as if his chest was hollowed out by something. There was a lot of noise all around him, but he could not feel anything.
He held the person in his arms and took off his suit. As if he was afraid that she would catch a cold, he carefully wrapped her in it. He held the unconscious person in his arms with such despair that it seemed as if all the life had been drained out of him.
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He Mian learned about Yanyan's car accident that afternoon. In fact, he had felt something was wrong after Zhong Ling ran away from the wedding.
I called Yanyan, but no one answered.
He Mian gradually began to feel uneasy.
Later, when he heard the news that Yanyan had died in a car accident, there was a sudden "buzzing" sound in his head, as if he had been hit hard by a club. An explosive pain spread throughout his head, causing He Mian's expression to twist in pain.
He stood up suddenly, but all he saw was darkness.
He nearly lost his balance and staggered forward a step. He finally stood up by holding onto a table.
How could that be?
How could a car accident happen out of the blue?
He must have been deceived. Someone must have deceived him.
Clearly, he had sent her home yesterday, the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday. He would prepare some snacks for her in the car. She refused, but when she was hungry she couldn't help but eat a few bites, and then thanked him. How could such a gentle and lively girl get into a car accident?
A layer of mist unconsciously welled up in He Mian's eyes.
When he found the location, he was stopped outside by a group of people. Outside the isolation room where he was told that a preliminary autopsy was being conducted, Zhong Ling sat in a metal chair in the corridor in a daze, his back leaning against the cold wall, his shoulders slumped weakly, and he looked like a walking corpse.
He heard the footsteps but didn't turn around to look at him. He Mian looked at him, and seeing his dying appearance, his eyes suddenly became fierce.
He rushed over and grabbed the man's collar, ignoring the obstruction and gazes of everyone around him, and shouted at him angrily, "What happened? Why did you get into a car accident? Why did Yanyan get into a car accident when she was fine?"
His tears flowed uncontrollably. He couldn't even imagine how desperate and scared she was at the moment before her death. She was really trying hard to live. She had told him the day before that her self-taught exam was about to begin. She said that after she finished the exam, she wanted to visit the nearby university.
She said she had never been to college and envied those students who could go to college. She also asked him what college was like. She said that when she got her diploma, she could find a decent job and sit in an office instead of being ordered around by customers all day. When she said this, she had an expectant smile on her face.
But now, why was she lying in that cold autopsy room? How did she die? How did she become like this?
He Mian could no longer bear it. Hatred and despair burst out at the same time. He raised his fist and punched Zhong Ling hard. His expression was distorted and he was almost crazy. "Why, why didn't you die? Why? You snatched her away from me and abandoned her casually. Didn't you say you liked her very much? Is this how you treated her? On the day you got married, she died in a car accident!"
"Zhong Ling, you deserve to die. Why don't you just die? It would be so great if you died! You took her away but refused to cherish her. Zhong Ling, do you know that she would cry too? Why did you bully her that day? Do you know that she cried so hard and was so sad the day you and Ruan Xiaoxiao tried on your wedding dresses?"
"You clearly know that she is a very insecure person, why, why do you still treat her like this?"
He Mian's emotions had completely collapsed. He felt that he was going crazy. Just yesterday, she had smiled at him. Her attitude towards him was slowly improving. She said that if they couldn't be lovers, they could still be friends.
But now, everything is gone.
He desperately needed to vent, and when he punched the other person hard in the face, the staff in the room behind him finally heard the noise in the corridor. A group of people rushed out, held his shoulders, and separated the two men completely.
There was a trace of blood at the corner of Zhong Ling's mouth. He did not resist even after being beaten severely. He seemed to be unconscious as he just leaned against the wall quietly, looking at the door quietly.
He Mian beside him let out a painful and suppressed cry.
In fact, he deserved to die, he was not much better than Zhong Ling, wasn't he also a jerk in the beginning? He thought he was superior, treated feelings carelessly, and hurt other people's feelings in his self-righteousness, and only regretted it later.
But why? Why did it end like this?
If he had known this would be the outcome, he would never have come to this wedding. He would have stayed with her for the rest of his life, even if it was just as a friend, as long as she was alive, as long as she could open her eyes and smile at him again.
I don't know how much time had passed, but there was a knock on the window. It was the doctor who had finished the examination. The preliminary assessment was that it was a Grade 1 major casualty accident.
The deceased died of drowning and suffocation after falling into a coma. There were varying degrees of congestion and damage in the lungs and brain. He must have fallen into a coma before drowning, and should not have suffered much pain when he died.
This result may be the only comfort for the family, that the deceased may not have suffered so much when he died.
In addition, the police's forensic results have also come out. After inspecting the car, no dashcam was found. The camera on the bridge only captured the scene of the car suddenly losing control and flipping over. The situation inside the car was not very clear.
They questioned the young man surnamed Hu who was being treated in the hospital. The man has woken up. According to his statement, the two had a quarrel and the car eventually went out of control. He himself had a partial disability in his left leg, so he could not control the car for a while, which led to the rollover.
This situation is actually very difficult to identify. There is no direct evidence to prove what happened that day. The man was also seriously injured in the car accident and was also a victim. However, he was luckier and climbed out of the driver's seat early.
In addition, the hospital diagnosed that the man did have a disability in his left leg, and this could not be false.
On the day of the car accident, he came to pick up the deceased to get married. According to the deceased's immediate family, they came to pick up their daughter to get married in their hometown, but they did not expect such a thing to happen.
After the appraisal, Zhong Ling did not hand over Yanyan's body to the Wen couple. The couple did not know whether they felt guilty or guilty, but they returned to their hometown with the original group of people on the third day after Yanyan's death. They did not intend to pursue the man's criminal responsibility. In the end, it was because of money, because the man's parents gave them another 200,000 yuan.
Yanyan's funeral was held by Zhong Ling alone. She didn't have many friends here. The only people she knew were girls from the club and Sister Zhou who was undergoing chemotherapy in the hospital. She was still undergoing treatment for her illness, but her health was gradually improving.
When she heard the news, Sister Zhou cried even harder than her biological parents. She simply couldn't believe that the girl who lent her money for her medical treatment was gone.
Zhong Ling arranged the funeral for her. The weather was not very good that day. The weather in October was gradually getting cooler. It drizzled and it felt cold on people's faces.
After the pastor finished reading the prayer, Zhong Ling walked forward and placed a pure white rose with a hint of green at the stem in front of the tombstone.
He was wearing a black suit. The rain wet his hair and made his face look particularly pale.
He lowered his head, and with his lips that were so cold that they seemed almost bloodless, he gently placed a kiss on the silver ring on his left ring finger.
On the third day after the funeral, Zhong Ling went to the hospital, and afterwards, news spread in Lingcheng that Zhong Ling had committed murder.
On the day the news came out, not only was the entire Lingcheng shocked, the entire internet was also completely blown up. After all, murder was no small matter. Some people started searching for who Zhong Ling was and what his background was, to be so lawless and dare to kill people openly.
As a result, all the entries they searched were about the family background of this Mr. Zhong. Judging from his background alone, this man could be considered one of the most prominent upper-class people in Lingcheng.
Born at the top of the pyramid, the wealthy man graduated from a prestigious Ivy League school abroad at a young age, majoring in financial management. While in school, he began to use his own resources and advantages to start a business.
While other rich second-generations of the same age were still enjoying themselves by eating, drinking, and having fun, he had already become a wealthy heir by virtue of his own advantages and abilities.
The Zhong family is absolutely all-powerful in Lingcheng. They have countless family groups and their industries cover all aspects, including real estate, medicine and biology, and scientific research and development.
This is no longer just an ordinary wealthy family, this is truly the upper class at the top of the pyramid.
Zhong Ling is not only a man with a superior family background, but also a hardworking and outstanding man. But now, such an outstanding man who is a model of a highly educated elite has actually broken the law and killed someone himself.
So, what kind of deep hatred could make this wealthy prince, who has everything, commit crimes and kill people?
Later, a local netizen did some in-depth research and found out about the prince's girlfriend, as well as some reliable private information. It was said that the prince was forced by his family to marry an ex-girlfriend, but the prince already had a girlfriend, and her family background was not good.
The girl's parents were a typical patriarchal family. They accepted a betrothal gift of 200,000 yuan from a man's family in their hometown and forced the girl to marry a lame hooligan.
While raping the girl, the gangster got into an argument with her, which led to her death in a car accident.
On September 20th in Lingcheng, the day of the car accident, the man could have helped the girl, but perhaps because he was too scared, he climbed out of the car alone and didn't care about the girl's life or death.
The matter was later settled privately by the two families, and the man paid NT$200,000 to the girl's parents, and the matter was over. As for Zhong Ling, he was the girl's boyfriend after she escaped and fell in love freely.
After this netizen published the news he had dug up, people on the Internet were outraged. They said the girl's parents were inhumane and that their preference for boys over girls was so disgusting that they destroyed a girl's life. In the end, they gave the girl 200,000 yuan to settle the matter.
As biological parents, they didn't even care about their daughter as much as the girl's boyfriend. The reputation of Wen's parents was completely ruined. Even the locals started talking about them. Some went so far as to throw stones at his house in the middle of the night. Once, Wen's father was hit on the head by a stone. The Wen family members cursed in the house but did not dare to open the door. Who could have thought that this matter would cause such a big commotion?
However, things soon took a huge turn. The murderer Zhong Ling surrendered himself to the police and reported a crime to the relevant departments under his real name before surrendering.
The informant was Zhong Ling, and the person being reported was his ex-girlfriend. He reported her for crimes including incitement to murder, intentional injury, bribing witnesses, and various other crimes.
The evidence is complete, including all the call records, the bribed witnesses, and the 3 million hush money paid to the Wen family. And no one knows how he got it.
The recruitment statements of Wen's family members were witnessed by a lawyer throughout the process, and were fully recorded by video. In addition, there were also the overseas phone calls of his ex-girlfriend and the statements of the six people.
All the evidence was laid out before him, and the prince of the Zhong family obviously knew something about the law. The entire process was recorded by a lawyer, some written evidence was broadcast over the Internet, and at the end there was a monologue by Zhong Ling.
In the recording, Zhong Ling spoke calmly and emotionally as he explained the reasons for his murder and the truth behind his girlfriend's death.
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This was not the first time that his girlfriend had been violated and hurt. Before this, his girlfriend had already suffered a life-threatening incident, but he had concealed that incident.
Perhaps it was because of his weakness and his willingness to keep things quiet last time that the other party thought he was weak and could be bullied, and this time in the car accident, he just went straight to the point of taking her life.
He regretted it now. He regretted why he had chosen to endure and mediate because of a tiny obstacle, which led to him not being able to even touch her when she died.
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As soon as this news was released, it immediately caused an uproar on the Internet. Netizens were completely furious. To be honest, after learning that the prince of the Zhong family committed the crime to avenge his girlfriend, their impression of him was not so bad. After all, he could do this for his girlfriend. Although it was a crime, it could be regarded as a man of loyalty and righteousness. At least he was more reliable than the Wen family who took money and got away with it.
But they didn't expect that things would take such a turn. While they lamented the darkness behind it, they also felt pity for the girl who had already died. If it weren't for the prince of the Zhong family who tried his best to uncover the truth, would no one even know that she was dead, and the culprit would not be punished at all?
As soon as the incident happened, after the relevant departments received the report and evidence, the police quickly came to arrest Ruan Xiaoxiao, who had just woken up, was in pajamas, and knew nothing about anything. However, the sight of more than a dozen police officers coming to the door together still scared the Ruan family until they produced the search warrant, the real-name report and the evidence on the Internet.
Ruan Xiaoxiao's emotions completely broke down. She knelt down and cried and admitted her mistakes. She held her mother's arms tightly and refused to let go. She cried until tears and snot flowed out, and begged the police to let her go.
There were even reporters who camped outside the Nguyen family villa in advance and clearly captured a 20-second video of her collapse and crying.
After the video was exposed, it was clicked and reposted more than 300 million times, and soon someone dug out Ruan Xiaoxiao's family background.
Born into a scholarly family, her parents were professors at a well-known university. Ruan Xiaoxiao was the only daughter in the family and had been spoiled since childhood. Other things were fine, but the key was that her uncle was the deputy director of a supervisory bureau in Lingcheng and was currently being promoted. But now, because of the significant impact of the Ruan Xiaoxiao incident and under public pressure, even her uncle was greatly affected and was temporarily suspended from his post and prohibited from using his authority to participate in Ruan Xiaoxiao's case of incitement to murder.
Many netizens also found Ruan Xiaoxiao's social media accounts and saw the girl in the photos wearing clothes from famous brands, carrying bags worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, and a mobile phone case that is worth an average person's monthly salary. There were also photos of her driving luxury cars and partying with friends abroad.
Judging from her appearance, she is a sweet, delicate and beautiful girl, with white pearl earrings shining brightly in the sunlight.
The girl was holding a ffer from a foreign school in her hand. Her nails were painted with light pink nail polish, and the rhinestones sparkled in the sunlight. Her fingers were slender, white and smooth, and there was a foreign text edited by her below.
What it means when translated is that I finally got a FFE admission into a prestigious university, and I'm going to study abroad with my boyfriend, majoring in law. Please pray for me.
There are also countless daily photos, most of which are life photos of going out to play and checking in with friends. Every corner that is casually displayed is luxurious and exquisite that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
In contrast, Zhong Ling's social media account had all the previous stuff related to other people cleared out, leaving only some shares about his girlfriend, and at the top was only a black and white photo, a photo of a tombstone, with only three simple words on the side: fiancée.
A black-and-white photo of a girl can be vaguely seen on the tombstone. Someone flipped the page and found a frontal photo of the girl, which looked like a candid photo of the prince.
In the photo, the girl is wearing a light blue floral dress and carrying a cheap canvas bag with an ugly frog hanging on the bag. She is standing quietly under the street light waiting for the bus. The light shines down from her head, and the girl seems to be somewhat out of tune with the surrounding scenery.
Her eyebrows and eyes are gentle and clean, her cheeks are fair, she doesn't wear too much makeup, and her long hair is softly draped behind her head. Just by looking at her outline, you can tell that she is a very beautiful girl.
But looking at the date of birth on the tombstone, she was not even 20 years old this year, her birthday was at the end of October. According to this age, she should still be studying in college, but because of a car accident, her life ended.
The instigator of all this is the girl who broke the law knowingly.
Some people couldn't help but sigh, no wonder even the prince of the Zhong family couldn't help but be moved, she was indeed a very beautiful girl. Maybe she was born with a face as beautiful as white moonlight, so she left the world early and went to heaven.
In the final court hearing, Zhong Ling confessed to the crime of intentional homicide. Because Zhong's family obtained the forgiveness of the victim's family in advance and hired a professional lawyer to defend him, and because the criminal had a good attitude towards admitting his guilt, voluntarily surrendered and actively cooperated with the investigation, and provided complete evidence to report his ex-girlfriend's crime, he was finally sentenced to five years in prison.
As for most of Ruan Xiaoxiao's evidence, because the evidence is complete and there is a recording in the restaurant that can directly prove that the criminal did actively participate in and murder the victim's life, instigated and bribed others to commit crimes twice, and ultimately led to the direct or indirect death of the victim, he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
When Ruan Xiaoxiao in the court heard the judge's verdict, she couldn't help but burst into tears. She really didn't expect that Zhong Ling was completely crazy.
Didn't he already promised to send her abroad? Wasn't that the matter over? Why, why did he put the blame for Wen Nanyan's death on her?
It was clearly her family's fault! What did it have to do with her? She just gave them some money and told them to bring Wen Nanyan back. Who knew this would happen?
She didn't want to go to jail, she really didn't want to go to jail! She was only 26 years old, and her life would be ruined if she went to jail. She didn't want her life to be ruined like this.
She cried for help to her parents in the gallery behind her. Her parents were also crying. She told them that she really just wanted to teach the other party a little lesson at the beginning. From beginning to end, she never thought of killing anyone, let alone killing Wen Nanyan.
She really didn't know what was going on? Why did she have to pay such a tragic price for her unintentional act?
But the evidence and facts were right in front of her. Every piece of evidence was complete. Even the words she said impulsively in the restaurant were recorded by Zhong Ling. And he somehow found the middlemen who had received the money. The evidence nailed her firmly.
Finally, he was escorted to prison by two police officers.
The same thing happened to Zhong Ling behind him. Before entering the prison, he touched his empty ring finger. The only thing he didn't expect was that the ring was taken off. What a pity. But it didn't matter. When he got out, he would put it on again and it would be the same.
In fact, part of the evidence this time was obtained by He Mian, which was about the Wen family receiving the 3 million yuan hush money. The family favored boys over girls and did not feel too sad about their dead daughter, but attached great importance to their son.
He Mian hired someone to take the boy away. The Wen family had no choice but to pay the hush money and testify in court that someone had indeed given them a large sum of money and forced them to take their daughter home.
Finally, the middleman was found and a confession was prepared with the help of a lawyer.
To be honest, He Mian outside the court did not expect that Zhong Ling would be so impulsive in the end and directly kill the man. He did not know whether Zhong Ling did this with some self-destructive tendency. Maybe he was really a little crazy.
After the case was over, He Mian released the boy, but the Wen couple did not let him go. They hired someone to break one of Wen's father's legs and did not bother to care about what happened next.
Finally, He Mian established a charity foundation in Nan Yan's name, which provides a large sum of money every year to help poor girls who have no money to go to school and some abandoned girls in orphanages.
He visited many poor mountainous areas and backward villages, and funding those girls' education may have become the only obsession that could sustain him throughout his life.
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Five years later, after being released from prison, Zhong Ling did not go anywhere, neither to the Zhong family nor to the house he once lived in. On the day he was released from prison, he took his belongings and the ring to the cemetery, laid a bunch of dewy white roses in front of the tombstone, and left Lingcheng quietly.
It was not until half a month later that someone who had followed the prince's social media account suddenly discovered that the social account, which had been lifeless and silent, had suddenly updated a photo. In front of the endless sea, a young man lowered his head and tenderly kissed the ring on his ring finger.
There was also a small, exquisite light blue glass bottle hanging around his neck, which was filled with grayish white powder, which was his girlfriend's ashes.
There is only a simple sentence in the copy.
My dear, I'm taking you to the beach to watch the stars.
There has been no update since then.
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