Chapter 29
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Fu Mingyu didn’t go home. Instead, he went to Hongtong Alley and Old Street Alley.
I didn’t know what he was trying to do. I just followed him step by step, aimlessly.
Perhaps I was too eager to see his expression when he learned the truth.
Would it be regret, relief, or his first instinct to protect Bai Yuan?
“Fu Mingyu, did you ever have even a sliver of feeling for me? What were you thinking when you were bullying me? Was it hatred on one hand and endless taking on the other?” I stood behind Fu Mingyu, asking him over and over.
Knowing full well he couldn’t hear me, I still stubbornly sought an answer, a resolution.
“Brother Fu… We really haven’t found any trace of Cheng Xi. The police said it’s true that we called her over on the 13th and 14th, and we’ve been honest about that. But the police also said that surveillance shows Cheng Xi was there on the 15th too. She went to Old Street Alley alone. I’ve seen the footage; Cheng Xi did go there, alone.”
One of Fu Mingyu’s close friends came, bringing the investigation results.
I sneered as I looked at the two of them. Did they really not know? Or was this just an act? On the day I went missing, I heard their laughter and banter through the earpiece.
I clearly heard them say, “Even a psychopath wouldn’t be interested in someone like Cheng Xi.”
“That day on the 15th… What was she doing there alone?” Fu Mingyu’s expression darkened as he looked around. “Did the surveillance capture her leaving?”
“The police identified a cleaner. During the time Cheng Xi went missing, only a cleaner was seen leaving, dragging a large trash bin. Cheng Xi wasn’t seen…” The friend’s voice faltered as he continued.
Then he hesitated before asking softly, “Brother Mingyu… Do you think something really happened to Cheng Xi?”
Fu Mingyu’s face turned pale, and he seemed to panic. “Don’t talk nonsense. She’s not dead.”
He took a step back, leaning against the wall.
I stood there watching him, feeling a sense of desolation.
“Brother Mingyu, I’m just saying… Cheng Xi was the kind of woman who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. She could push Sister Bai Yuan down the stairs and poison her cake with rat poison. It’s better now that she’s gone; it’s quieter this way.”
Fu Mingyu’s group of friends never liked me, and I’d always known that. They all adored Bai Yuan.
The truth was, I understood. Bai Yuan might have the ability to make them believe in her, but the real reason they didn’t respect me, mocked me, bullied me, and even humiliated me, was because Fu Mingyu allowed it.
Because Fu Mingyu hated me, they naturally hated me too.
Fu Mingyu frowned, looking at the man with a dark, chilling expression.
That man—I remembered his name—was Zhao Jie. He had tried to assault me violently in the Fu family’s back garden. He didn’t succeed because I smashed his head and he fled in a panic.
Later, Zhao Jie threatened me, telling me not to talk about what happened. He said that even if I did, no one would believe me.
To ensure that no one would believe me, he started spreading rumors, slandering me among Fu Mingyu’s circle of friends, tarnishing me. His goal was to make sure that if I ever revealed the truth, it would be dismissed as just another one of my fabricated scandals.
And that was exactly what happened.
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Zhao Jie was a distant relative of Fu Mingyu, and he was there when I first arrived at the Fu family at eighteen.
At the time, his mother wasn’t happy and said to Fu Mingyu’s mother, “Sister-in-law, if you really need another child, our Xiao Jie is a good choice too. If you want a daughter, I have one too. Why take in an outsider instead of caring for your own kids?”
Back then, I hid behind Fu Mingyu, terrified because my parents had just passed away. There was no one I could trust, and I was scared.
“Don’t worry. Ignore them. They’re all crazy,” Fu Mingyu said, holding my wrist as he led me upstairs to a room.
“From now on, this is your home.”
I looked at Fu Mingyu silently. In that moment, my reliance on him and my feelings for him reached their peak.
But everything shattered and ended when he discovered the love letter I had written to him.
All these years, I still haven’t figured out why Fu Mingyu reacted so strongly back then, so full of disgust.
It was just the innocent affection of a young girl. Why did it make him loathe me for so many years?
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