Jiang Family
Everyone entered the room, and Fan Mingyu invited everyone to sit down. Today was a day of mourning, so everyone dressed in black, adding to the particularly gloomy atmosphere.
"That... I just heard Qi Zeyan ntion sothing about a younger sister having an accident, was it Tang Wan?" Jiang Zhaolin was completely unaware and only realized after asking that his daughter sitting next to him seed to shake violently.
"Yes, she was visiting the tomb of the eldest, and she accidentally slipped down the mountain," the elderly lady said, having just sipped her tea. The steam fogged up her glasses, and as she was wiping them, she spoke nonchalantly.
"Slipped down?" Jiang Zhaolin raised an eyebrow, "Is she okay?"
"Unconscious," the elderly lady answered, putting on her glasses and glancing at the father and daughter sitting on the loveseat.
People with a guilty conscience can interpret a thousand anings from an unintentional glance from soone else. Jiang Shuyan forced herself to appear calm and turned her head to look at Jiang Zhaolin, "Dad, brother’s plane should have landed..."
"No worries, he’s not a child. He’s already in Beijing, how could he not find his way ho?" Today was a special day, and the elder lady’s montary soft heart ant that past grievances might be forgiven.
He coughed lightly and looked at the elderly lady, "Unconscious? Injured? How could she slip down the mountain just like that? So careless."
The mountain path was not very steep; otherwise, the elderly lady at her age wouldn’t have been able to climb it at all.
Fan Mingyu handed an ice pack to Jiang Chengsi, "Put this on your face; look how swollen it is."
"Thank you."
But she completely ignored Jiang Shuyan, whose cheek was also swollen and bruised.
"I also find it strange, maybe this child was just too careless," the elder lady murmured, squinting her eyes and sipping her hot tea again.
"Not awake?" Jiang Zhaolin felt the atmosphere was off. Tang Wan was unconscious, and yet the Jiang family mbers were still here; why weren’t they worried?
Jiang Chengsi applied the ice pack to his face; the cold mixed with heat made him inhale sharply, drawing everyone’s attention to him. He just smiled, "If the younger sister wakes up, I’m afraid so people won’t be able to sit still right? Is that right, Jiang Shuyan?"
The ntion of Jiang Shuyan made her shudder, her palms and back drenched in cold sweat.
"What are you insinuating again with that tone?" Jiang Zhaolin frowned, his eyes filled with fierceness.
"Why not ask Jiang Shuyan? She went to the airport to pick soone up, but why did she still have her suitcase with her? Did sothing wrong and planning to flee?"
"I didn’t!" Jiang Shuyan defensively retorted.
"If you did nothing wrong, why did you speed up when I chased your car, asking you to stop? What were you afraid of? Actually speeding on the road. If you had really hit soone, caused an accident, I doubt even a hundred deaths could redeem you."
"If I wasn’t guilty, why would I speed up when I called you? Even if our relationship is strained, it’s not like I would assault you on the roadside. If I hadn’t driven up and forced your car to stop, you wouldn’t have planned to stop at all!"
"I didn’t!" Rembering the perilous mont of the car crash, Jiang Shuyan’s nerves tensed up instantly. The feeling of nearly dying was enough to make her lose control whenever she thought of it.
Jiang Chengsi took out his phone, played a recording.
The first sound to hit everyone’s ears was a loud crash, followed by piercing static, assaulting the eardrums, then silence before voices erged...
"...Jiang Shuyan, you went to the airport to pick soone up, and you were carrying a suitcase! Tang Wan rolling down the mountain, could it be related to you..." followed by Qi Zeyan’s voice.
"Brother, I didn’t an it, I truly didn’t do it on purpose. I was just muddled for a mont. We are siblings, when big brother left, he told you to take care of ..."
The recording stopped there as Jiang Chengsi turned off his phone, "Jiang Shuyan, tell , what do you an by you didn’t an it, what’s this sudden confusion you’re talking about? What is all this?"
"Is Tang Wan’s accident related to you?"
"Did you push her down?"
"Was it you!"
Jiang Chengsi, already a sinister figure, suddenly beca fierce with his relentless questioning. Jiang Shuyan, agitated, jumped up from the sofa and reached to snatch his phone.
"It wasn’t , I never saw her, it has nothing to do with ," her face contorted in a ferocious and frenzied expression.
"True, there are no caras on the mountain, but there are in the residential area and at the front door of our house. During the ti she had her accident, did you go out, how long were you gone, when did you return – those won’t lie!"
Jiang Shuyan’s pupils dilated sharply. She snatched his phone and smashed it on the tiled floor, the screen instantly shattered on impact.
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