On the way back, Daisa kept pestering Zhou Yaru, asking for details about how Fang Ruiyang and Huang Zhenzhen got together.
"Tell me, did you and Yuan Xi witness their confession? Did they hug? Kiss? Who said 'I like you' first? I bet it was Zhenzhen, right?"
What happened on the terrace contained too much information. Zhou Yaru dared not reveal too much. She just prevaricated, "Wow, you're so accurate. It was really Zhenzhen who confessed first. They didn't kiss, just hugged each other!"
As she spoke, she cast a pleading look at Xu Zixi, hoping she could come to her rescue.
"I knew it was Zhenzhen who said it first. Cui Jiandong looks honest, but he's just a silent one. If it weren't for Zhenzhen's bravery, he probably wouldn't have been able to say it," Daisa said proudly beside her.
After saying that, she sighed, "It's so nice. I hope Cui Jiandong will treat her well in the future and not let her suffer anymore."
Zhou Yaru let out a couple of dry laughs and murmured to herself, looking at the car roof, "Honest my ass. He even anonymously posted and stole others' works. If it weren't for his bit of conscience in taking the blame for Huang Zhenzhen, his conscience would have been completely gone. She would have definitely rushed up and punched him in the face just now to test the results of her self - defense practice during this period."
At this moment, Xu Zixi had no mood to talk about others' gossip. She sat silently on one side, tightly holding her phone in her hand, lost in thought while looking at the street scenery outside the car window.
In her mind, the scene she had seen of Yan Yincheng punching Fang Ruiyang reappeared.
Huang Zhenzhen's words still echoed in her ears.
— To reject me, A Dong not only said he liked you but also said he wished he had never saved me and that it was me who made him lose the chance to participate in the competition and the position of manager. Even without Mr. Yan, I think I might have slapped A Dong at that time.
So that was why he had punched someone. She still remembered that on the night when Fang Ruiyang saved Huang Zhenzhen, when she pulled him to watch the sunrise, she had told him about Huang Zhenzhen's experience and expressed her views on this matter.
Although he had thought she was meddling at that time, he had later helped Huang Zhenzhen send her ex - boyfriend to prison.
And when Fang Ruiyang said those words at that time, he was not only trampling on Huang Zhenzhen's true feelings but also the kindness she had shown that night.
That was the reason why he was so angry that he even resorted to violence.
He had wanted to explain just now, but she hadn't given him a chance.
It was just because she no longer trusted him, so she had stubbornly thought he was being unreasonable.
But tonight, both Zhou Yaru and Huang Zhenzhen had told her that he was a trustworthy and good person. Of course, she knew he had a kind heart. Otherwise, she wouldn't have opened her heart to him, confided the shadow of her previous life's death, and told him her real name.
Her sight fell on the phone in her palm. On the lit screen was a familiar phone number. On many nights, she had received calls from him, telling her that he couldn't come home for dinner.
Miss Xu had always been a person who clearly distinguished between kindness and hatred and liked to reason. She had wrongly blamed him, and she admitted it. Logically, she should apologize to him.
But her finger hesitated over the call button.
If she made this call, what she had said to him in the company today about asking him to stay away would be invalid again.
But she had spoken so firmly just now. Would he still choose to stay? What about their bet? And... the household register of the original owner was still in his hands.
Closing her eyes, she finally turned off the phone screen, turned it over, and placed it face - down on her lap, not daring to look at it anymore.
Forget it. Just let it be. It's good to let the misunderstanding continue like this. Then he won't always come and bother her, and she can calm down completely.
Let's wait until this project is completed.
Since Daisa lived in the opposite direction, Hu Yuankang first sent Daisa home, and then drove the car towards the west of the city. As Zhou Yaru's home was in the same direction as Hu Yuankang's, Xu Zixi was the second to arrive at her residence.
"Brother Hu, I'll leave Yaru to you. Please protect her safety," Xu Zixi said, patting Hu Yuankang on the shoulder in the driver's seat.
Hu Yuankang readily agreed, "Hey, Miss, don't worry. I guarantee I'll send her home safely!"
Xu Zixi waved goodbye to Zhou Yaru and then turned around and walked into the apartment building.
In a room in another building across the way, Wei Shu said to the man sitting on the sofa, "Third Master, Miss Yuan has returned home safely."
Yan Yincheng said, "Okay."
After saying this word, he said coldly into the phone, "Go on."
"Ji Xinyue only contacted Guan Baocheng once in these four years, which was the one we found out about a few days ago. There doesn't seem to be much connection between her and Guan Baocheng.
However, we found out that four years ago, as a classmate who had been with Miss Yuan Xi since childhood, she was invited to attend Miss Yuan Xi's eighteenth birthday party. But there were also other classmates of Miss Yuan Xi at the party that day, so this is not a very valuable clue."
"Birthday party?" Yan Yincheng frowned. "Where was this birthday party held?"
"At a bar called Night Elf. It was booked in the name of Young Master Yan Zhen. So there were only Miss Yuan Xi and her classmates in the bar that night. Young Master Yan Zhen didn't show up."
"What's the distance between the hotel and the bar?" Yan Yincheng asked.
A Qiang replied, "They're just next to each other, and it's also very close to the club where you were having a party with your friends."
"What's the more valuable clue?" Yan Yincheng asked.
"Since we didn't find any useful information about Miss Ji, we started investigating from the reporter of 'Light Daily' who took the indecent photo of Miss Yuan Xi four years ago and published the press release. We found that the reporter had once worked in a entertainment company under the Ji family for publicity, but only for a short time. He had left that entertainment company three months before the incident."
"But after we retrieved his call records on the day of the incident four years ago, we found that Miss Ji called that reporter twice, once on the night of the incident and once after the incident. The last call was ten minutes before Miss Yuan Xi was photographed."
Up to this point, the truth was gradually becoming clear.
Ji Xinyue and Yuan Ya'er were good friends. They had joined hands to set a trap. On the day of Yuan Xi's eighteenth birthday party, they somehow used some shady means to deceive Yuan Xi to the hotel where the incident happened, trying to let Guan Baocheng defile her, and arranged for a reporter to take pictures of her afterwards and release them, completely ruining her reputation.
However, there were still some questions that no one could answer.