However, when Zheng Zhe followed Xu Jia upstairs, he sensed something was amiss.
It turned out that Xu Jia wasn't going to study; instead, he was going to meet a woman.
Zheng Zhe initially thought Xu Jia was having a puppy love, which made him quite delighted. So he hid himself, took out his phone, and prepared to take evidence to blackmail Xu Jia into getting a lower score than him in the next exam.
As a result, he captured Xu Jia and that woman soon getting into an argument.
He didn't quite understand what they were talking about. Something about divorce and being kicked out of the family.
After arguing for about ten minutes, the two suddenly started shoving each other.
Xu Jia, who was rather weak, was pushed down by that woman and rolled down the stairs. He passed out immediately.
That woman went downstairs, took a look at Xu Jia, and then made a phone call.
It seemed that the plan had to be advanced earlier than they had expected.
Then the woman left in her high - heels.
Zheng Zhe never expected so many things to happen. It wasn't until the sound of footsteps faded away that he came to his senses and rushed to check on Xu Jia.
Xu Jia was still unconscious, with a pool of blood behind his head.
Zheng Zhe was so frightened that he quickly dialed the police and emergency numbers.
Later, Xu Jia was sent to the hospital, where a brain tumor was detected. He soon passed away in the hospital.
The whole school thought he died because the rescue was unsuccessful.
Zheng Zhe also thought so at first.
Although the two didn't get along well, Zheng Zhe still felt sorry for Xu Jia.
But later, things started to go wrong.
Someone came to him and asked if it was him who called the police and if it was true that he saw someone push Xu Jia.
For some reason, he felt extremely scared.
So he immediately denied it, saying that he did call the police but didn't see anyone push Xu Jia.
At that time, Xu Jia hadn't died yet.
He thought that there were surveillance videos in the school and the police would investigate clearly. He didn't want to get himself into trouble.
After all, from what that person said, it seemed pre - meditated. He didn't want to have an "accident" either.
That person confirmed with him several times, but he insisted that he was just hiding there to smoke because he didn't want to have P.E. class and just happened to come across it.
That person didn't ask any more questions and left.
When he received the news of Xu Jia's death, he was really scared.
He heard from the class monitor who had visited Xu Jia in the hospital that Xu Jia's brother - in - law had found the best brain specialist for him, so there should be no problem.
It was then that he knew Xu Jia's brother - in - law was the president of Qi Group.
However, scared as he was, it wasn't his business to worry about. The Qi family would surely seek justice for Xu Jia.
After that, he didn't pay much attention to this matter and just went abroad to study as planned.
But abroad, when socializing in the circle, he heard some rumors.
It was said that Qi Shifeng and Xu Tingyu had a very poor relationship. The family of Qi Shifeng's mistress had taken a large share of the Xu family's fortune.
It was also said that there must be something hidden behind Xu Jia's death. After all, how could the school surveillance videos go missing without any reason?
It could be said that if someone wanted to swallow the entire Xu family, they must eliminate all the male heirs.
Some people also said that if Xu Tingyu hadn't been pregnant at that time, she might have died too.
But others said that even if these speculations were true, it was all the doing of the old master Qi.
It must have nothing to do with Qi Shifeng. The young couple actually had a good relationship.
The person who said this had some business dealings with the Qi family and said that he had attended a family dinner at the Qi family.
The relationship between the young couple was okay, and Xu Tingyu also got along well with Qi Ye and Qi Ruixi.
So there was no such thing as the Qi family trying to wipe out the entire Xu family in order to annex the Xu Group.
Otherwise, why was Zhang Qiu still alive?
...
Anyway, it was just drunk talk, so there were all kinds of opinions.
He was half - drunk at that time, but he still kept his wits about him and didn't dare to reveal that he knew Xu Jia.
But after he got home, he immediately dug out the video he had taken at that time.
He had stored it in the cloud space back then. This time, he took it out, made several copies, and hid them in different places.
He never told anyone in his family about this, but he silently started to pay attention to the Qi family.
However, soon, there was an internal struggle in his family.
Their family business wasn't very large or successful in the first place, but they still decided to split the family.
Moreover, his uncle's family took advantage of his father's illness and snatched a lot of their family's business.
Finally, his family went bankrupt, and he was forced to stay there and work part - time to support his studies.
To be honest, for someone like him who had never suffered before, it was really a living hell.
But there was also an advantage to being so busy. At least, he didn't have time to think about other things.
Later, he heard about the Qi family again when he met a high - school classmate. During a casual chat, the classmate asked if he still remembered Xu Jia.
Over the years, Xu Jia's sister, Xu Tingyu, had been investigating the truth behind Xu Jia's death.
The classmate sighed that he didn't expect the matter from that year to still be unresolved. He also sighed that Xu Jia's death was really too sudden.
Otherwise, with Xu Jia's grades, he could have surely gotten into a good university.
Then, with the Xu family's previous connections, he wouldn't have ended up being completely swallowed up like this.
The speaker was innocent, but the listener had other thoughts.
Zheng Zhe recalled all the details and made a bold guess.
That was, although Xu Jia was accidentally pushed down that year, his death wasn't an accident.
If there hadn't been this accident, he would have encountered something else after a while.
Anyway, the male heirs of the Xu family had to be eliminated.
After that, Xu Tingyu got divorced and disappeared. Zhang Qiu also stopped appearing in the public eye.
Wasn't it just the Xu family being wiped out?
Whoever benefited the most was the biggest suspect in Xu Jia's death that year.
Zheng Zhe wanted to find Xu Tingyu and exchange this information for some money.
After all, he hadn't been doing well in the UK. He always ran into problems.
He couldn't even return to Jingdu.
Even if he was stupid, he knew that someone was targeting him.
"Later, I finally found you. I saw the news and found out that you were in the UK. When I went to find you, do you know what I found?"
"Hey, I found that the assistant beside Qi Ye looked very similar to the murderer I photographed in the corridor that year."
"To be precise, the voice and figure were very similar. But since I didn't capture the person's face, it's just a guess."
"So I didn't dare to ask you to help me through the people from the Qi family. I could only turn to you."
"Later, when I returned to Jingdu, I met my uncle once. Both of us were very emotional, and that's when I learned something."
"It was the Qi family that made my family go bankrupt and trapped me in the UK so that I couldn't return."
"They knew that I must know something because the surveillance videos they took away must have captured me following Xu Jia into the laboratory building."
"But the place where I was hiding was a blind spot for the surveillance cameras, so they didn't know that I had captured that scene with my phone."
"And since I've kept my mouth shut all these years, they didn't try to kill me completely."