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?"
“你明明知道她是個很沒有安全感的人，為什麽，為什麽還要這樣對她啊？”
賀冕的情緒已經徹底崩潰，他覺得自己快要瘋了，明明昨天，她還對着他笑了一下，她對他的态度在慢慢好轉，她說做不成戀人，也可以做朋友的。
可現在，什麽都沒了啊。
他迫切的需要的發洩，在他狠狠一拳揍向對方的臉時，身後屋內的工作人員也終于聽到了走廊上的動靜，一群人沖出來按住了他的肩膀，将兩人徹底分開了。
鐘嶺的嘴角微微溢出血絲，被狠揍一頓也不反抗，整個人卻毫無知覺似的，就這麽靜靜地靠在牆壁上，安靜地望着門口的位置。
身旁的賀冕發出了痛苦又壓抑的哭聲。
其實他自己也該死，他比鐘嶺好不了多少，他最開始的不也是一個混賬嗎？自以為高高在上，對待感情漫不經心，自以為是的傷害了別人的感情，後來才知道後悔。
可是為什麽？為什麽會是這種結局？
如果早知道是這種結局，他死都不會來參加這場婚禮，他會好好的守着她，守着她一輩子，哪怕只是以一個朋友的身份，只要她能活着，只要她能睜開眼睛再對他笑。
不知道過了多久，有人敲了敲窗戶，是已經檢查完的醫生，初步鑒定，是一級重大傷亡事故。
死者是昏迷後的溺水窒息導致的死亡，肺部跟腦部都有不同程度的瘀血跟損傷，應該是溺水前就陷入昏迷了，死亡時應該沒有太多痛苦。
這結果可能是對家屬來說唯一的安慰了，死者去世的時候可能沒那麽痛苦。
另外，警方那邊的鑒定結果也出來了，汽車檢查之後，沒發現有行車記錄儀，橋上的攝像頭只拍到了汽車突然失控翻轉的畫面，汽車內部的情形不太清楚。
他們詢問過醫院正在接受之間的那個胡姓年輕男人，那個男人已經醒了，根據他的筆錄回憶，當時兩人是發生了幾句争吵，最後汽車失控，而他本身左腿有部分殘疾，所以一時間沒控制住車子，這才導致的翻車。
這種情況其實很難鑒定，沒有直接證據證明當天發生了什麽，而這個男人也在這場車禍中受了重傷，同樣是屬于受害者，只不過他當時幸運一些，提前爬出了駕駛座。
另外，經醫院診斷，那個男人确實是左腿有殘疾，這點作不了假。
而車禍當天，他是來接死者回去結婚的，據死者直系家屬說，他們是來接女兒回老家結婚的，但是沒想到會發生這種事情。
鑒定結果結束之後，鐘嶺并沒有将嫣嫣的遺體交給溫家夫婦。那對夫婦也不知道是心虛還是愧疚，嫣嫣死後的第三天就帶着原本的一群人回老家去了，沒有任何追究男方刑事責任的意思，說到底還是因為錢，因為男方的父母又給了二十萬給他們。
嫣嫣的葬禮是鐘嶺一個人辦的，她在這邊認識的朋友并不多，唯一認識的那幾個人都是會所來的女孩子，還有醫院化療的周姐，她的病還在治療中，不過身體已經在漸漸的好轉了。
得知消息的時候，周姐哭得比她的親生父母還難過，她簡直不敢相信，那個借錢給自己治病的姑娘就這麽沒了。
鐘嶺替她辦好了葬禮，那天天氣不太好，十月份的天已經漸漸轉涼了，天上下了點小雨，打在人的臉上有股寒涼。
牧師念完了禱告詞後，鐘嶺走上前去，在墓碑前放了一朵潔白無瑕的白玫瑰，根莖帶了點綠色。
他穿着一身黑色的西裝，雨水打濕了他額前的碎發，他的臉色顯得格外的蒼白。
他低着頭，冰涼到沒什麽血色的嘴唇在左手無名指上的銀色戒指輕輕印下一吻。
葬禮結束後的第三天，鐘嶺去了一趟醫院，而之後，陵城就傳出來了一則鐘嶺殺人的消息。
消息傳出的那天，不止整個陵城被驚動了，網絡上也徹底被炸開了，殺人畢竟不是小事，有人就去搜鐘嶺是誰，這人到底是什麽背景，居然這麽無法無天，敢光明正大的殺人。
結果他們搜到的詞條無一不是關于這位鐘先生的家世背景的，光看出身，這人算得上是陵城首屈一指的上層人士了。
生來就站在金字塔頂端的富豪，年紀輕輕就從國外某所常青藤名校畢業，學得是金融管理，在校期間就開始利用自身的資源跟優勢開始創業。
在同年齡的富二代們還在吃喝玩樂、縱情享樂的時候，他就已經憑借着自身的優勢跟能力成了身價不菲的繼承人。
鐘家在陵城絕對算得上是一手遮天，家族集團多不勝數，産業更是涉及各個層面，地産、醫藥生物還有科技研發等方面。
這已經不是一般的豪門家世，這真的已經是金字塔頂端的上層人士了。
而鐘嶺這個人，不僅是一個家世背景優越，同時也是一個很努力的優秀男人，但現在，這麽一個高知精英模範的優秀男人，居然知法犯法，親自動手殺人了。
所以，到底是有什麽樣的深仇大恨，才會讓這個什麽都不缺的豪門太子爺，不惜去犯罪也要去殺人？
後來就有某同城網友去深扒了，扒到了這位太子爺的女朋友身上，還扒到一些真實可靠的私密消息，據說是太子爺被家族逼着跟某位前女友聯姻，但太子爺本身已經有一個女朋友了，并且女朋友的出身不太好。
女孩的父母是一對典型的重男輕女的家庭，收了本地老家那邊某個男方家的二十萬彩禮，強迫女孩嫁給一個瘸了腿的流氓。
而那個流氓在強迫女孩的過程中，跟女孩起了争執，導致女孩在車禍中去世了。
陵城九月二十號那天，也就是車禍當天，那個男人原本可以拉女孩一把的，但不知道是不是因為太害怕了，自己一個人爬出車後，就沒管那女孩的死活。
而這事之後也被兩家人私了了，男方又賠付了二十萬給女孩的父母，事情就這麽不了了之了，至于鐘嶺，他是女孩逃出來後自由戀愛的男朋友。
這名網友将自己深挖到的消息發布之後，網上的人一時群情激憤，那女孩的父母不當人，重男輕女太惡心了，生生毀了一個女孩的性命，最後給二十萬就把這事完結了。
身為親生父母，甚至還不如女孩的男朋友在意自己的女兒，溫家父母的名聲徹底爛了臭了，甚至本地人都開始議論，有過分的甚至在半夜往他家碰石頭，溫父某次還被石頭砸破了腦袋，溫家人在屋裏罵罵咧咧的，但也不敢開門，誰能想到這事會鬧出這麽大的動靜呢？
不過很快，事情又迎來了一個巨大反轉，殺人兇手鐘嶺去警方那邊自首了，自首前還向有關部門實名舉報了一條犯罪消息。
舉報人是鐘嶺，被舉報的人是他的那位前女友，舉報對方教唆殺人罪，故意傷害罪，收買證人罪以及各種罪證加在一起。
證據齊全，所有的通話記錄，被收買的中間證人，以及支付給溫家人的那三百萬封口費，還有不知道他是怎麽拿到的——
關于溫家人的招錄口供，全程由律師在旁為證，攝像記錄完整，另外還有之前前女友的境外電話，跟那六個人的口供。
所有的證據擺在面前，那位鐘家的太子爺顯然也是懂點法律的，全程錄像都有律師在場記錄，一些書面證據通過網絡傳播出去，最後是鐘嶺的一段獨白。
錄音裏的鐘嶺聲音平靜，情緒穩定地講述了自己殺人的原因，還有女朋友死亡的真相。
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女朋友不是第一次遭受侵犯跟傷害了，在這之前，他的女朋友就已經遭受過一次人生危害，不過那次事件被他隐瞞下來了。
大概是因為上一次他的軟弱跟息事寧人，所以導致對方以為他軟弱可欺，而這一次的車禍事件，就直接下狠手要了她的命。
他現在很後悔，後悔當初為什麽要因為一點點小小的阻礙就選擇了隐忍調解，導致她死的時候，他連想觸碰她一下都碰不到。
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這則消息一經發布，立馬在網絡上引起了一陣軒然大波，網絡上的網友們徹底炸開鍋了，說實話，原本在得知這位鐘家太子爺是為女朋友複仇犯罪之後，他們對他的觀感就沒那麽差，畢竟能為了女朋友做到這個份上，雖然是犯罪，但也算得上是有情有義了，起碼比拿錢了事的溫家人靠譜。
但他們沒有想到，原來事情還有這一層反轉，他們感嘆背後黑暗的同時，也為那個已經死去的女孩感到可憐，如果不是因為這位鐘家的太子爺竭力揭露真相，是不是她連死了都沒人知道，而罪魁禍首也根本得不到懲罰？
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 promise 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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