Lin Shuyue's words were like a sharp blade, breaking through the fog in Wen Ying's eyes and reminding her of the things she had always taken for granted. Now, when she thought about it, she felt that there were many unreasonable things.
"Reporter Lin, I..." Wen Ying had a million things to say, but when they came to her lips, she didn't know when to start. Besides, this wasn't the place to talk.
She took Lin Shuyue with her and walked into a room on the second floor. The room was decorated in sky blue, with Doraemon stickers on the walls and dozens of Doraemon dolls on the table. Wen Ying closed the door and said to Lin Shuyue, "This is my son's room. Zhong Jiasheng doesn't usually come here."
Wen Ying sneered at this and said to Lin Shuyue, "I'm really stupid. I always thought Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali were siblings. Since they grew up in single-parent families, it's normal for siblings to have a close relationship."
Now that she think about it, how could it be normal? It's simply because she had no siblings, so she didn't know how normal siblings should get along. But stepping outside of this family and thinking back on how Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali interacted, she realized, ah, they weren't normal.
Without talking about the distant past, just comparing her two children, she realized that, ah, it turns out that as a brother, no matter how much he loves his sister, he will not casually enter his sister's room, nor will he buy underwear for her, even if the underwear is bought together with his.
Even if they are siblings, they should avoid suspicion when they reach a certain age.
Wen Ying covered her eyes and said, "One leaf blocks the view, one leaf blocks the view."
She wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. She suddenly remembered that when she first married Zhong Jiasheng, she thought they were too close to each other. She had told Zhong Jiasheng about this many times, but he always coaxed her back. Over time, she became accustomed to the close relationship between Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali.
Lin Shuyue actually understood Wenying very well. Ever since she had been with Zhong Jiasheng, she had been living in the environment they had created. Even if she sensed something was wrong, she would soon be brainwashed by Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali.
Lin Shuyue even figured out how Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali were brainwashing Wenying. It was nothing more than the usual scumbag tactics: first, he accused his wife of having wild thoughts, then accused her of being filthy, and finally, he played the emotional card, recounting the years of mutual support between the two siblings. With all that, what ordinary person wouldn't be confused? After all, who could have guessed he was a pervert?
Lin Shuyue patted Wen Ying's shoulder: "It's okay, it's not too late that you find it out now."
Wen Ying nodded. At this point, this was all she could think of.
Ye Xueyu came down quickly. Lin Shuyue opened the door for her. She took out a pen and notebook and began to question Wen Ying.
Wen Ying recalled the moments Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali spent together: "Zhong Jiali would go out every Wednesday to a place called Bailing Club. She would usually leave around 6pm and would not be back until the early morning."
"Oh. Zhong Jiasheng always picks her up every time she comes home, sometimes staying for an hour or two." Wen Ying never considered Zhong Jiasheng to be in that circle because he acted so normal. Wen Ying never noticed any scars on Zhong Jiasheng's body, and the perfume he wore remained the same for years.
When it comes to loyalty, Wen Ying has never doubted Zhong Jiasheng.
Wen Ying recalled, and those dusty memories also awakened as she narrated.
The police officer in front of her asked when she noticed something was wrong with Zhong Jiali. Wen Ying's thoughts drifted back to ten years ago: "She should have been around fourteen years old, and I had just given birth to my eldest child."
"Or rather, it started when I got pregnant with our eldest. She would lose her temper for no reason, or suddenly become silent. When she finished junior high and entered high school, the situation worsened. She started to like staying in school, preferring to hang out outside after school rather than go home. When she came home, she was like a firecracker, ignited at the slightest touch, and it was usually me who ignited her anger."
Zhong Jiasheng and Wen Ying are the same age, and they are ten years older than Zhong Jiali. Wen Ying married Zhong Jiasheng at the age of 22, and had a son at the age of 23. In the year before that, Wen Ying and Zhong Jiali got along well.
"By the time she was in her third year of high school, this condition had worsened. She had already started self-harming. I saw with my own eyes that she used a paper cutter to cut her hands little by little. When she saw the blood coming out, she was very quiet. I felt that something was very wrong at the time. After she took a cold shower the day before the college entrance examination and missed the exam, I decided to find a psychologist for her." Wen Ying's personality was such that she couldn't bear to see a teenage girl fall so low, so even though her relationship with Zhong Jiali was very bad at that time, she still wanted to help Zhong Jiali.
But she didn't pull it out in the end.
"Did Zhong Jiasheng visit her often while she was abroad?"
"Yes, he have to go there at least twice a month." That was the beginning of Wenying's resentment towards Zhong Jiasheng, and also the beginning of her disappointment in Zhong Jiasheng.
How could she not be disappointed? Zhong Jiasheng went to France twice a month, even if she had just given birth and was feeling unwell, even if the child was sick, even if their company was just starting out, he would always be there. Unwavering.
Ye Xueyu wrote furiously, asking questions one after another. When Wen Ying heard Ye Xueyu asking about Zhong Jiali's friends, she was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "Zhong Jiali and I have grown so tired of each other in the past two years that I don't bother to care about her affairs. I don't know who she has any friends."
"It is said that Zhong Jiali has a French boyfriend named Bobby. Do you know him?"
"I know him. Bobby is a partner of our company. He also happens to live in Pengcheng." After a pause, Wen Ying continued, "I remember that Bobby and Zhong Jiasheng have been good friends for many years. It was through his connections that Zhong Jiali was able to study in France so quickly and easily."
Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu are on the same page. If nothing unexpected happens, this Bobby is most likely a friend of Zhong Jiasheng and Zhong Jiali.
After recording this question, Ye Xueyu continued to ask: "Ms. Wen, when did you move here to live?" If Ye Xueyu remembered correctly, the villa area where Wen Ying's family lived was completed around 2000.
Wen Ying remembered that this was the first house they bought after they had money, so she remembered clearly the year of purchase, renovation time, and move-in time.
"We bought this house in August 2000 and renovated it until February 2001. We moved in in May."
"What about the things you had before you moved in? Did you lose them?" After listening to Wen Ying's description, Lin Shuyue was basically certain that Zhong Jiali's XP was not innate, but was cultivated after birth. This training period was probably during the time when Zhong Jiali was in junior high school and high school.
Zhong Jiasheng prevented Wen Ying from taking Zhong Jiali to see a psychiatrist, most likely because he feared the psychiatrist would disrupt his efforts to guide her. There's also the possibility that her self-harm, like soaking herself on the eve of the college entrance exam, was all at S's behest.
If her heart is darker, and this 'S' is Zhong Jiasheng, then it is very likely that even her opposition to Wen Ying was instigated by Zhong Jiasheng.
"We couldn't bear to throw those things away, so they are all in the basement." Wen Ying said, and took the key to the basement, ready to take Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu downstairs.
No matter how far her relationship with Zhong Jiasheng would go in the future, no matter how many disagreements she had with Zhong Jiali, death was like the end of a candle, and it was meaningless for her to care about it. Moreover, no matter what Zhong Jiali's character was, she would not, and did not deserve, be treated so cruelly.
Hang Jiabai and the others held Zhong Jiasheng upstairs while Lin Shuyue and Wenying followed him to the basement. The entrance was in the stairwell next to the bathroom on the first floor. Piled up here were old family belongings, and sometimes, goods that the company hadn't shipped out yet would also be piled up in the basement.
They turned on the light in the basement. The floor was cement and the walls were whitewashed. Because there was no air circulation, there was an indescribable smell in the air.
Wen Ying pointed to a pile of things covered with dust sheets in the corner and said, "Those are the things we moved from our hometown."
Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu walked over, and Ye Xueyu lifted the dust sheet. Lin Shuyue's eyes swept over the boxes, finally stopping at a box of books. In her experience, as a teenager, whenever she felt injustice and couldn't speak to anyone, she would write it down. Sometimes it was in a diary, sometimes not, just a piece of paper or a patch of empty space on the ground.
"These textbooks belong to Zhong Jiali." Wen Ying's father is an accountant, and she graduated from a technical secondary school with a degree in finance. Her parents taught her the importance of education from a young age. That's why, after Zhong Jiali failed high school, she found remedial classes for her.
Ye Xueyu had already turned over, and Lin Shuyue also took out gloves from her pocket and put them on: "How was her academic performance when she was in school?"
"I remember she was always pretty good." Wen Ying and Zhong Jiasheng went to technical secondary school together, but in different majors. After she married into the Zhong family, Zhong Jiali's academic achievements also rose to the top. "When she failed the college entrance exam, her teacher was very sorry, saying that if she hadn't been sick and had performed normally, she would have definitely been admitted to a key university."
With Wen Ying's words, Lin Shuyue's guess was confirmed.
Next to the box of books, there was a box of miscellaneous things. Lin Shuyue flipped through it, and the smell of dust mixed with the decay of the books that had been left there for a long time hit her face.
Lin Shuyue rummaged through the box and took out a hard-cover notebook, the size of a palm, which was locked. Before Lin Shuyue could take a closer look, footsteps were heard.
"Ah Ying, the police comrade is leaving, let's see him off." Zhong Jiasheng's voice came, and Ye Xueyu and Lin Shuyue stood up quickly.
Wen Ying's face changed for a moment, then she regained her composure. The stairwell door opened, and Zhong Jiasheng appeared at the entrance.
He stood with his back to the light, making it impossible to see his expression.
"Reporter Lin, Officer Ye, this is the box. Could you please help me move it?"
Wen Ying pointed to a box, which was quite large and looked very heavy. Lin Shuyue put the small notebook in her pocket and lifted the box with Ye Xueyu, while Wen Ying lifted another smaller one.
When they arrived at the living room, Wen Ying asked Lin Shuyue and the others to put down the boxes and said some words of gratitude to Lin Shuyue. The sound of a car roared outside the villa, and soon two old people came in.
Wen Ying's expression relaxed when she saw them, and she turned upstairs: "Chaochao, Xixi, come down quickly and go back with grandma."
Her children quickly appeared at the stairs carrying their schoolbag. Wen Ying looked at Zhong Jiasheng and said, "Zhong Jiasheng, these are the gifts you've given me over the years. They're all here. I'm giving them back to you. Since you don't care about the three of us, mother and children, there's no need for us to continue living together."
"I've asked a lawyer to draft a divorce agreement. Please sign it when you get there."
Zhong Jiasheng's face looked bad from the moment Wen Ying asked Chaochao and Xixi to go to her grandmother's house. After Wen Ying said that the things in the box were gifts he bought, his face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. When he heard Wen Ying say that a divorce agreement had been drafted, his eyes changed when he looked at Wen Ying.
The good and evil value on the good and evil radar finally changed at this moment, soaring from 10% to 60%.