Tan Linyuan corrected her, "I said 'possibly'."
"If there were nothing else, Shen Suhai wouldn't have selflessly taken on all of the Nan family's debts. So this is just a speculation."
After Tan Linyuan finished speaking, his gaze lightly swept across her face.
Nan Yu lowered her head, recalling her past with her parents and trying to think if there were any details she had overlooked.
The more she thought, the more disappointed she became.
It seemed that the already chaotic mystery had now absorbed even more clues, turning into an unsolvable mess of threads.
She fell silent, completely unaware that a passionate yet restrained gaze was fixed right above her head.
Tan Linyuan looked at her for a few seconds and then calmly said, "However, it's not entirely without clues."
Only then did Nan Yu look up at him.
Tan Linyuan said, "A few days ago, a cat went missing from the building where your parents jumped. The owner suspected the cat might have run onto the rooftop and asked to check the surveillance."
Nan Yu clenched her fists tightly. "And then?"
"Then the owner casually checked the previous historical surveillance. Every day's surveillance was intact, except for the day your parents had the accident. The surveillance video of the rooftop was deleted."
Nan Yu's expression stiffened. "Deleted... What does that mean?"
Back then, since the Nan family announced their bankruptcy first and the Nan couple's suicide came later, everyone preconceived this accident as a suicide.
Even the police who handled the case at that time told Nan Yu that her parents had committed suicide.
"Man - made," Tan Linyuan uttered two words. "Maybe someone wanted to cover up the truth of that day and forcibly disguise a homicide as a suicide."
His voice was calm, and after it echoed in the car, there was still a faint after - sound.
Nan Yu felt that his words were like a ray of light finally shining through the fog she had been walking in.
She stared blankly for a moment, not blinking, as if trying to digest this strange yet long - awaited word - not suicide, but homicide.
That meant her parents hadn't abandoned her.
Nan Yu closed her eyes and took a long, deep breath. She felt her eyelids getting hot, and there was liquid rolling in her eyes.
There was a lump in her throat, but she still didn't make a sound.
She opened her eyes again and for the first time, sincerely thanked Tan Linyuan from the bottom of her heart. "Thank you, Tan Linyuan."
Tan Linyuan's expression remained calm. "What are you thanking me for?"
Nan Yu knew he didn't care, but she still insisted, "Thank you for telling me that my parents might have been murdered, not committed suicide."
"I said 'possibly'," Tan Linyuan corrected her expressionlessly. "You should pay attention to the accuracy of your words."
Nan Yu nodded indifferently. "Okay, even if it's a one - in - a - thousand 'possibility', I still think it's good news."
Good in what way?
Perhaps it was that in her chaotic and confused life, she finally had a reason to live with all her might.
She wanted to know the cause of her parents' deaths.
Tan Linyuan paused slightly. Looking at the moisture in her eyes, he pulled a tissue from the center console and handed it to her.
Nan Yu took it, and when her fingers touched his palm, he felt that her fingers were cold.
"How did it feel to find out your fiancé was having an affair today?" Tan Linyuan brought up another topic, brushing over the previous atmosphere.
"Not much of a feeling," Nan Yu shook her head and answered honestly. "It would be more appropriate to say it was expected."
"Relieved?" Tan Linyuan said with a half - smile. "Because you found out that he, like you, had an affair before marriage, so you feel less guilty?"
In response, Nan Yu rolled her eyes at him.
Remembering Shen Suhai's words just now, she joked, "Men are naturally playful. I didn't even let him touch me. It's normal for him to cheat outside."
"Well, anyway, you've also been cheating outside," Tan Linyuan said knowingly and nodded understandingly. "You two don't owe each other."
Nan Yu wasn't polite either. "Second Uncle should also be glad that his sins are at least a bit lighter."
When it came to bickering with Tan Linyuan, she always pressed forward step by step, trying her best not to be at a disadvantage.
"Why didn't you let Shen Yanche touch you?" There was no extra emotion in Tan Linyuan's words. His voice was as calm as a daily chat.
After all, they had been so intimate with each other many times. Nan Yu didn't feel embarrassed about this question. "I don't know. Anyway, I'm just... a bit repulsed."
She still remembered that night when Shen Yanche wanted to kiss her, and her body was as stiff as frozen meat just taken out of the freezer.
"Maybe it's because I really have no feelings for him," Nan Yu summarized her view. "Moreover, I'm a bit of a clean - freak when it comes to relationships."
She didn't just find out about his affair today. She had known about it even before their engagement when she saw that lipstick.
At that time, she just felt numb, but now she felt sad.
It was Tan Linyuan who had reminded her of this.
Tan Linyuan stared at her and asked her a crucial question. "That means, Miss Nan has only slept with me."
He suddenly changed the topic, and Nan Yu was caught off guard. Her expression became a bit unnatural, and her lie was full of loopholes. "Who said that? I had several casual partners before you."
"Then why haven't I heard you mention them?" He asked casually, the corner of his lips slightly curving. "How could you be so determined to cut them all off?"
"Because you're well - endowed and good in bed. Okay?" Nan Yu blushed and defended herself. "Besides, a single and stable relationship is cleaner and healthier."
Tan Linyuan was too lazy to expose her lie. On the night they first met, she was so inexperienced and innocent...
But at the same time, he couldn't help but admit in his heart that fortunately, she was drunk enough not to notice his nervousness and helplessness.
That time was also his first transgression in life.
Not only did he cross the line, but he also became addicted.
...
After dropping Nan Yu off at her home and watching her enter the apartment, the faint smile in Tan Linyuan's eyes gradually turned deep.
At this moment, his phone lit up, with a message notification floating on the screen.
The sender of the message was "Nightingale".
Tan Linyuan unconsciously squinted his eyes. After glancing at the content on the screen, a hidden killing intent flashed through his eyes, but it disappeared in an instant.
He turned off the screen.
In this game of chess, he had just started to make his move, but he could already foresee the future changes and bloodshed.
Especially since he knew very well that the most uncontrollable variable in this chess game was the person in the center of the chessboard - Nan Yu.
He knew better than anyone else how he should live his life peacefully: abide by his rules, be a living Buddha without desires and with a compassionate heart.
From then on, live a lonely, quiet, yet brilliant life.
But when the person on the chessboard reappeared in front of him, he had to admit that he hadn't completely shed his mortal desires to truly become a heartless and desireless god.
He decided to fight.