Shen Ningning's first instinct, surprisingly, was to suspect Mo Lingwei.
'Could Brother have done this?'
'To make me give up Lu Shaoyuan?'
But after all the years she'd known him, she squashed the thought the instant it arose.
'It couldn't have been Mo Lingwei.'
'He might be domineering, but he would never do something like this.'
Lu Shaoyuan murmured in shock beside her, "She's dead… How can she be dead? If she is, who's going to clear my name?"
The crowd of onlookers had already started pointing and murmuring—
"Why would a perfectly fine young woman jump from the building?"
"It looks like she was murdered to me!"
"I just heard a waiter from inside say that the younger son of Mrs. Meng, the head of the merchant guild—that would be Second Young Master Lu—got drunk, forced himself on a girl, and then refused to take responsibility!"
