"Sir, what about this video?" Liang Zuo glanced at the two items that could be regarded as solid evidence and asked Yan Zhen. "What should we do with it?"
They had spent three hundred million to buy this incriminating evidence. Should they hand it over to the police and let Yuan Ya'er be punished by law, or should they simply destroy it and act as if nothing had happened?
From Liang Zuo's perspective, this was a rather straightforward choice.
No one could tolerate a murderer staying close to them, right?
However, a pained and conflicted look appeared on Yan Zhen's face.
On the one hand, in the past four years, Yuan Ya'er had accompanied him and helped him get out of the shadow. His feelings for her were real.
On the other hand, discovering her vicious true nature and realizing that he might have fallen into her well - laid trap four years ago filled him with extreme anger and disbelief.
The even more cruel truth was that she could calmly get rid of Ji Xinyue, her former close friend. So the car accident that his uncle and grandma had been in must be related to her.
Maybe the real targets of that car accident were his uncle and Xiaoxi. Otherwise, why would she suddenly ask him to invite Xiaoxi to their wedding?!
His heart was screaming at him: Such a vicious woman doesn't deserve to be your wife. You must divorce her immediately, hand over the video to the police, and let her go to prison!
But immediately, his rational mind advised him: If you divorce her now, it means your marriage is as much of a failure as your father's! You've become the very person you hate the most! You're not qualified to have a complete family and complete love!
It was so painful, really so painful.
"I don't know, Liang Zuo." He couldn't help but cry painfully.
"I don't know what to do. I'm really in so much pain. Why is everyone forcing me to make choices..."
When he was a child, he had to choose between his mom and dad when they divorced. When he grew up, he had to choose whether to take the position of the heir of the Yan Corporation. And four years ago, after his fiancée was defiled, the Yuan family and his grandfather also forced him to make a choice.
Every time he had chosen seriously according to his own heart.
But the facts had told him that every choice he made was wrong!
Now, he was scared. He didn't dare to make a choice anymore.
Seeing Yan Zhen in such a state, Liang Zuo sighed softly in his heart and came up with an idea for him:
"Sir, instead of sitting here speculating, why not go and ask Miss Yuan Xi in person? It's not too late to make a decision after that."
After a pause, Liang Zuo added, "I think Miss Yuan Xi might be waiting for you to go and clarify things with her."
There were no coincidences in this world.
Why was he told about the inside story of what happened four years ago just the day after the wedding?
Why couldn't this layer of the veil be lifted before the wedding?
Maybe this was Yuan Xi's revenge.
Yan Zhen suddenly woke up. Right, why didn't he go and ask Xiaoxi for clarification?
"Liang Zuo, hurry up and help me find out where Xiaoxi is now!"
...
In the West City District.
After deploying people at all the intersections in all directions, Wei Shu said to Xu Zixi, "Miss Xu, everything is set up. We can take action at any time."
On the computer screen in front of Xu Zixi, the information - collection software she had designed clearly showed the words "White Crane", but the search result column read "null".
After learning the identity of the other party, Xu Zixi immediately started investigating relevant information. Unfortunately, the other party was indeed a hacker on a par with her in terms of ability. There was almost no information about him on the Internet. His appearance, origin, age, and gender were all unknown. It was likely that he had cleaned up this information in advance.
But none of this mattered. The best opportunity had presented itself, and she wasn't going to let it slip away easily.
Xu Zixi exited the program, turned off the computer, and glanced at her watch. She realized that it was already dinner time.
Inevitably, she thought of the people in the hospital. Her expression softened, and she said, "Take me back to the hospital first. We'll come back later. You all stay vigilant. Don't let my fish get away."
A Qiang replied, "Yes, Miss Xu!"
When Xu Zixi returned to the hospital and pushed open the door, she saw a familiar figure sitting beside Yan Yincheng's hospital bed, peeling an apple. There were already two servings of dinner on the table.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Yan Yincheng looked up and turned in her direction, smiling. "Speak of the devil, and the devil appears. Zixi, you're back."
Yin Shulan happened to finish peeling the last bit of the apple skin. She looked at Xu Zixi with a gentle smile and held up the apple in her hand. "Good girl, this is for you. Come on."
"I'm so lucky. As soon as I enter the door, Auntie Yin is peeling fruit for me." Xu Zixi also smiled. After washing her hands, she took the fruit from Yin Shulan and took a bite.
The rich and sweet juice immediately filled her mouth.
"It's so sweet! Thank you, Auntie Yin."
"Really?" Yin Shulan heaved a sigh of relief. "A Cheng just insisted that the fruit was sour and refused to eat it after just one bite. He's so picky."
Xu Zixi's almond eyes curved into crescent moons. She leaned close to Yin Shulan and whispered, "Auntie Yin, let me tell you a little secret. Brother Cheng is just in need of discipline. Last time when we went to watch a movie, he drank two cups of cola and ate two buckets of popcorn all by himself! Can you imagine that?"
Cola and popcorn? Yin Shulan looked extremely surprised. She glanced at her son sitting on the hospital bed and imagined the scene. She couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Yan Yincheng had good hearing and naturally heard every word of their "whisper". He felt a bit embarrassed and said, "I don't think those junk foods like cola and popcorn are delicious. I just didn't want to waste them."
"Sure, sure. If they're so unpalatable, then we won't buy them next time we go to the movies." Xu Zixi said.
Yan Yincheng's focus was completely off - track. "When are we going to watch a movie again? Is there a cinema where only the two of us can be together without anyone else disturbing us?"
What two people together?! How could he say such strange things in front of his mother?! Xu Zixi blushed and glared at him fiercely. She said crossly, "You still want to watch movies when you're not fully recovered? You're really thinking far ahead! You'd better stay in bed and recuperate obediently!"
Suddenly, he said, "Zixi, come here."
Xu Zixi was suspicious. She walked towards him with the half - bitten fruit in her hand. Before she knew it, he grabbed her hand. He lowered his head slightly, and a big chunk of the apple she had just bitten into was missing.
"Um." He chewed and swallowed it. Then he looked at Yin Shulan strangely and said, "Mom, are you being partial? The fruit you peeled for Zixi is sweet, while the one for me is sour."
Xu Zixi was both amused and exasperated. She scolded with a laugh, "I think you're really sick!"
Yan Yincheng looked innocent. "If you don't believe me, try the one I bit into."