Chapter 24
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Street-Side Café.
Lu Zhe probably didn’t expect Qin Ruolin to force a meeting with him using such tactics, so when he arrived, he carried a distinct air of anger.
“I can understand your desire to find your friend, but the way you’re going about it is entirely wrong!” Lu Zhe frowned, his tone admonishing.
“Then tell me what the right way is! Should I just wait for the police to solve the case? It’s been so long! If she’s waiting for someone to rescue her, how desperate must she feel?” Qin Ruolin’s emotions spiraled out of control as she shouted at Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe’s expression darkened, and he rubbed his temples.
“I can understand how you feel…”
“You can’t understand!” Qin Ruolin interrupted him sharply.
Lu Zhe fell silent, staring at Qin Ruolin without saying another word.
“If I hadn’t reported Xixi’s disappearance, no one would have. You wouldn’t even have opened a case! She has no parents, she has nothing! She only has me! If I don’t care about her, she’ll really… disappear forever.” Qin Ruolin’s eyes reddened, yet she stubbornly clenched her fists.
I knew she must be feeling terrible right now.
Her body was trembling.
“Linlin, please, don’t act rashly…” I could only beg Qin Ruolin not to do anything reckless. Please, just forget about me and live your life well.
But Qin Ruolin seemed resolute in her decision to find me.
“Don’t agree with her, Lu Zhe, don’t agree!” I cried out, pleading with Lu Zhe not to give in.
Lu Zhe remained silent for a long time before finally speaking. “I’m sorry. I don’t know you, and I don’t know Cheng Xi… But from what I’ve gathered from Fu Mingyu and his friends, Cheng Xi isn’t exactly a good person. In fact, they described her as malicious…”
“That’s bullshit!” Qin Ruolin yelled in fury. “Those people are all demons, bastards! What right do they have to say Xixi is bad? What qualifications do they have? From beginning to end, it’s them who’ve been hurting Xixi! That Fu Mingyu—he’s nothing but a rapist! Aren’t you a policeman? Go arrest him! Do it!”
Qin Ruolin, overwhelmed with emotion, pushed Lu Zhe, shouting for him to go arrest Fu Mingyu.
Caught off guard, Lu Zhe seemed unsure of how to handle her emotional outburst.
As Qin Ruolin cried, I cried with her. She frantically pushed Lu Zhe, while I, equally distraught, tried to hold her.
But I couldn’t hold her, and she couldn’t save me.
“Lu Zhe… you’re a policeman. Don’t believe the so-called truth just because it’s what the majority says. Xixi isn’t like that… I’ll prove it to you.” After venting her emotions, Qin Ruolin suddenly fell silent.
Her quietness was more terrifying than her outburst.
“What are you planning to do?” Lu Zhe asked.
“Tomorrow night, I’ll wear a red dress and walk around End of Street Alley. If one day isn’t enough, I’ll do it for two days, three days… Eventually, I’ll lure that lunatic out.” Qin Ruolin clenched her fists tightly, her breaths trembling.
“What kind of friend… is worth risking your life for?” Lu Zhe muttered irritably, lighting a cigarette in the smoking area.
Qin Ruolin let out a weak smile. “Do you want to understand Cheng Xi? Come with me… I’ll show you what Cheng Xi is really like.”
Lu Zhe said nothing and followed Qin Ruolin.
I followed too, closely behind them.
“Cheng Xi was a brilliant student, always top of the class,” Qin Ruolin said as she drove to Hengyuan Residential Area.
It was the place where I was born and raised.
Qin Ruolin knew where the spare key to my house was. This had been our sanctuary back when we were students.
“Cheng Xi was very beautiful, always the school belle.” Qin Ruolin took a key from a shoe, unlocked the door, and entered.
In the hallway hung a photo—a portrait of me taken during a ballet performance. It was stunning.
In the photo, I was wearing a white dance costume, resembling a swan spreading its wings. I was eighteen that year.
“She really is beautiful,” Lu Zhe remarked, nodding as he looked at the photo.
“After her parents died in a car accident, the family business collapsed, leaving a huge debt. Technically, Cheng Xi didn’t need to repay it, but she still used all the compensation money from her parents’ deaths to pay it off, not keeping a single cent for herself.”
Qin Ruolin took a box from a drawer. “When we started university, she gave me her yearly scholarship, and we used it together to donate to orphanage children. She said… children without parents are too lonely.”
“Bang!” Suddenly, the door burst open.
A Xing stood in the doorway, breathing heavily, his eyes bloodshot.
I stood at the entrance, staring at A Xing in shock. Wasn’t he taken away by the Li family?
No… How did he have the key to my house?
Qin Ruolin was equally shocked, staring at A Xing. “Who… who are you?”
Instinctively, Lu Zhe stepped forward, pinning A Xing against the wall. “What are you doing here?”
“Xixi… Xixi,” he called out in a trembling, hoarse voice.
Lu Zhe frowned and released him.
A Xing turned and ran, motioning for Qin Ruolin and Lu Zhe to follow.
Panic-stricken, I tried to stop Qin Ruolin. “Linlin, don’t trust him! He’s a murderer. Don’t go, don’t go!”
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