The loud noise from the living room was impossible to ignore. Two maids quickly put down the cold meals in their hands and walked out. What they saw was Yan Zhen grabbing Yuan Ya'er's hair and coldly interrogating her.
"Yuan Ya'er, tell me, where did you go and what did you do yesterday?"
Aunt Cui remembered what Yuan Ya'er had told her yesterday afternoon and hurriedly stepped forward to stop the fight.
"Master, do you have some misunderstanding about the young mistress? The young mistress yesterday..."
"I'm not asking you!" Yan Zhen's cold words silenced Aunt Cui. He looked at Yuan Ya'er and said word by word, "I want her to tell me herself."
Aunt Cui had taken care of Yan Zhen for many years and had never seen him show such a terrifying expression as if he was going to eat someone. She swallowed the rest of her words and silently pulled Aunt Meng back into the kitchen.
Yuan Ya'er had already recovered from the shock of being slapped. Instead, she more clearly felt the pain from her elbow and scalp. A strong sense of uneasiness and guilt immediately welled up in her heart.
Tears welled up in her eyes and fell. She still tried to use her tears to arouse Yan Zhen's pity.
"I went to a beauty salon in the Western District to ask if they could find a way to remove the fingerprints on my face. Because on our wedding night, you showed no interest in my face at all, making our wedding night extremely hasty. I don't blame you. I blame myself for becoming ugly and failing to please you. So I chose to solve the problem myself."
"Are you satisfied with this answer?"
Yan Zhen was full of disappointment. Not only disappointed but also angry. It was okay for her to lie, but she even tried to reverse the truth and shift all the blame onto him?
"Still trying to lie at this time? Fine, if you don't dare to say it, I'll say it for you!"
"You did go to a beauty salon yesterday, but you weren't there for beauty treatment. You met Bai He there and bought a bottle of medicine from him. Then you went to the private Sheng Ya Hospital and injected all of it into Ji Xinyue's nutrient solution with a syringe. This kind of medicine can stop her heart within three hours and kill her silently. After doing all this, you left the hospital, drove to a small river, and threw your tools of the crime into the river in an attempt to destroy the evidence. Am I right?"
What he said was so detailed that Yuan Ya'er couldn't pretend to be ignorant. Her eyes widened slightly, filled with panic.
—How did Yan Zhen know all this!
"What are you afraid of? Why weren't you afraid when you did this? Hmm? Now you're scared, scared that I'll see through your vicious true face? I didn't expect a cold-blooded and heartless snake like you to be afraid. How ridiculous!"
"Yan, Brother Yan Zhen..." Yuan Ya'er trembled her lips, trying to say something. But Yan Zhen didn't give her a chance and continued,
"Half a month ago, you also approached Bai He and asked her to help you kill my uncle in a car accident on our wedding day. I really didn't expect that the person who was about to become my wife would actually want the lives of my family members. My uncle has no grudges against you, right? Why did you want to kill him? Was it because he was investigating the truth about what happened to Yuan Xi four years ago? You saw what happened to the Ji family and you were scared, right?"
"Why were you scared?"
"Because everything that happened on the night Yuan Xi had the accident four years ago was all orchestrated by you. Yuan Ya'er, you really went to great lengths to make this thing flawless! Even I believed it was all true and believed that Yuan Xi had really betrayed me!"
"Your acting skills that night weren't that good. Thinking carefully, there were many flaws. But why did I just fall for your trick? Hehe, I can only blame myself for being stupid. But you!"
Yan Zhen's body trembled slightly with excitement. "You shouldn't have, after our engagement, sent the photos of our engagement to Yuan Xi and said such things to her!"
Yuan Xi was dead. Because of this vicious woman in front of him, Yuan Xi had completely disappeared from this world.
—I'm the wife he's always wanted.
These words were the last straw that pushed Yuan Xi to death!
He attacked Yuan Ya'er like a rabid dog.
Yuan Ya'er desperately dodged his fists and fled backward in panic, but was soon caught by him again.
"Please... spare me..."
"What do you think? Surprised? You went to great lengths to ruin Yuan Xi and marry me as my wife, thinking that I would always treat you like a gentle gentleman and always be manipulated by your tears and affected words? I'll let you see clearly today. This is my true nature!"
Yan Zhen didn't feel good inside.
In fact, he knew that a man who beats a woman is the most despicable man in the world. Doing such a thing, he was ashamed of the teachings of the Yan family.
But when he thought that she had set a trap four years ago to try to let Guan Baocheng defile Yuan Xi;
When he thought that she had said to him in such an innocent tone yesterday that she had let Yuan Xi marry Guan Baocheng for Yuan Xi's own good;
When he thought that Yuan Xi had almost successfully married Guan Baocheng and would have to live in the shadow of domestic violence for the rest of her life,
he couldn't control himself.
He wanted Yuan Ya'er to taste the suffering that Yuan Xi had endured and the fear that Yuan Xi had once felt.
Didn't she want Yuan Xi to marry a domestic abuser?
Didn't she go to great lengths to steal him from Yuan Xi?
Then he would let her see that he was just like Guan Baocheng, a scumbag who would beat women!
He laughed and cried alternately. His mind was on the verge of collapse.
Liang Zuo, who was waiting outside, gently pushed open the door. Seeing this scene, he was shocked and quickly rushed forward to hold the crazy Yan Zhen and pull him back.
"Master! Stop hitting! If you keep hitting, she'll die!"
"Liang Zuo, don't stop me. I want to avenge Xiaoxi!"
"Master!" Liang Zuo roared in Yan Zhen's ear. "Think about the old master! Think about Mr. Yan! They definitely don't want to see you become a murderer like Yuan Ya'er! Remember what Officer Wang said. Deal with problems in the right way! Have you forgotten the purpose of coming back today?"
Liang Zuo's words brought back Yan Zhen's sanity. He finally stopped his violence and regained his senses.
"Hehe." Yuan Ya'er, who was lying on the carpet covered in wounds, let out a laugh. "Murderer? Yan Zhen, do you think I wanted to become such a person?"
Big tears rolled down Yuan Ya'er's face. She pulled at her torn lips and smiled bitterly.
"Yes, that's right. I did design to break you and Yuan Xi up. I did want Yuan Xi and Yan Yincheng to die. I did want to kill Ji Xinyue. But... Yan Zhen, it's all because I love you."
"You can accuse me of being cold and heartless, accuse me of being a snake in the grass. But you can't accuse my love for you."
"Do you think I'll still believe you?" Yan Zhen broke free from Liang Zuo's restraint and sneered. "Stop lying! I won't believe a single word you say!"
"Have you never lied?!"
Yuan Ya'er's voice became a bit shrill.
"Is your heart always upright? Have you never had any dark thoughts or done anything wrong? Can you swear?"
Yuan Ya'er's words were like a knife stabbing straight into Yan Zhen's heart.
Never? No, he had. Because he was unwilling to watch his uncle be with his former lover, he had also had evil thoughts and even handed his soul to the devil, trying to drug his uncle to ruin his reputation. And just now, he had been like a madman, punching and kicking his new wife. This was the behavior of the most despicable scumbag. He had finally become the kind of person he used to look down on.
She was right. In some respects, he really didn't have the right to accuse her.