At the amusent park.
"I don’t know how the cotton candy got on her dress. It’s definitely not from my shoe," Aang said, frustrated and agitated. "What if the one who hit Anhe planted it there to fra ?"
"That’s bullshit!" Yibo lashed out. "When did anybody see near a cotton candy shop?"
"Yeah s-sa!" Jinping anxiously chid in. "I don’t even like cotton candy."
"Doesn’t an you cannot take it with you to fra ," Aang sneered.
"That’s not true!" He inhaled sharply.
Jia received a ssage from Huojin where he left a short but powerful piece of information. Her eyes slightly widened, and she contemplated deeply.
She then looked at everybody and said, "Wait outside. I want to talk to Aang alone for a mont."
The group was glad to leave. Even though they weren’t officially released by her, the cast of suspicion was away from them, at least for so ti.
Apart from Lihua and the gang, the rest of the group had left.
Aang gritted his teeth. "I am not going to budge to your pressure just because I am alone."
"I don’t have any such intentions," Jia replied. "But I believed it would be wiser to talk to you alone considering the information I just got."
"What information?"
"That you have a motive for hurting Anhe. Did you ever share a physical relationship with her?"
Aang didn’t react, but his clenched jaw pulling inward expressed his grave discomfort.
"That’s obnoxious. Whoever has said that is just shitting you."
Jia stared at him in silence. "I know what you are thinking, Aang. If you have broken her phone and feel that there is no more evidence of the sex tapes against you and so you don’t have to admit your physical relationship with her, then you are wrong. Certainly, a person like Anhe who has such important videos on her phone would keep a backup for sure. Nobody will be that stupid to just keep one copy."
Xinyue was amused.
He is trying very hard to act calm but the backup part has riled him up.
"So here is what I think," Jia shared her thoughts. "You probably were just looking for so casual fun with her. But you didn’t expect her to be recording the acts. So if you didn’t want to land yourself in the grave trouble over a false rape accusation, then your hands were tied by her."
After a period of a brief silence, Aang admitted. "Fine. I will admit that that bitch set up."
"Tell from the beginning."
Aang combed his fingers through his hair, breathing in trembling breaths filled with rage.
"My Dad is a big ti civil engineer. He has many good contacts with builders and property agents. Anhe liked my background when we t during the first year. She jokingly told that she could use my Dad’s connections through in getting her own house soday. I joked back that I could use her father’s connections to get admission for my higher studies. We hit it off pretty well and soon we were in bed with each other. No commitnt. No strings attached."
He tilted his head, an angry chuckle escaping his lips. "At least that’s what I thought until she showed recordings of our sex!"
Aang breathed hard, thinking back to that day.
’I can always say that you forced to get in the bed with you,’ Anhe smiled as she turned off the video.
’The hell, Anhe? You wanted it as much as I did!’
’But who will believe you? I never showed myself really enjoying the sex. Anybody who will see the video will think how I am suffering. I don’t mind if we end the sex, but you cannot leave my side.’
’Do you like or sothing? Because this is a shitty way-’
’Not really. But I don’t want you to leave and you won’t because if Dad sees these videos then...’ she kissed his cheek, ’he will ruin all your future prospects. You won’t have any either because you will be in jail haha.’
Aang could still feel his blood boiling as if it was just yesterday.
"That bitch was so careful in not expressing her pleasure or how would it qualify as rape if she was enjoying it herself?"
"You wanted to end it."
"Of course, I did. It was only supposed to be a couple of tis. Also..." his cheeks were tinted red with humiliation, "I wasn’t blind to notice that Anhe acted odd during sex as if I was...so terrible at it. I didn’t see a point in embarrassing myself further so I wanted to stop it. But who knew she was plotting such a sche?
She wanted to keep hanging out with her even if it wasn’t for sex. I didn’t mind being her friend. But instead of being a decent person asking for a friendship, she threw the videos on my face. I was shell-shocked and disgusted by her at the sa ti."
Clenching his fingers into a fist, he continued. "It has been hell since then. The fake laughs, the forced hanging out, the torture to see her smiling when she is threatening to ruin my future...It is nauseous to just breathe the sa air as her."
’Aang, let’s take a picture together!’
’Let’s all go to karaoke. Aang will foot the bill haha.’
’Let’s dance together Aang~’
’Aang will drop ho since we are such good friends~’
Jia remained silent for a mont. With the world so tilted in won’s favor over issues like sexual harassnt and abuse, it could have been next to impossible to prove his innocence in case Anhe ever leaked the videos as evidence against him.
She did empathize with him.
"Are there any other pictures or videos about you?"
Aang looked away and didn’t respond for a long ti.
"No."
Jia sensed sothing unnerving about his furtive gaze as if there was still sothing that he was keeping from her.
She let that feeling be for now and went ahead. "She had your videos that she could use to falsely incriminate you. You all went into the horror house today and when you saw her alone, did you think you could use the situation to your advantage?
"I didn’t do anything to her."
"Then explain the cotton candy."
"I already did. Either Yibo or Jinping did it, most probably Yibo because we were in the sa queue? He might have gotten the idea to fra ."
He folded his arms, snickering. "And to add I exited the last, but Yibo wasn’t outside with Jinping. It was a few minutes later that he returned. He said he was in the washroom. Now think about it, Inspector. What if he was in the washroom to get rid of any cotton candy packet he would have bought? And obviously he washed his hands to clean the sticky residue."
"You are laying out Yibo as the perpetrator for but does he have any motive?"
He sneered. "You will know that only when you talk to him, right? Who knows if he has his own secrets like ? I won’t be surprised if he has. Anhe isn’t really the nicest person out there. She is a cocky bitch who only knows how to use her father’s power in her favor.
The whole college doesn’t even want to pass by her shadow. If you still think that I am the perpetrator, then give a more solid proof rather than just relying on the cotton candy traces. Or Anhe would have definitely seen who smashed her head, right? Ask her if I was really the man behind it."
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"Ugh..."
The nurse checking the monitors gasped as she saw Anhe moving. "Dr. Yang!"
She rushed out to bring Mingshen in the ICU, who didn’t waste any ti coming in. With his hands in his pockets, he tilted his head, waiting for her to regain consciousness.
She started to ventilate hard as if she was having a nightmare and woke with a sudden gasp, shaking and trembling.
"Good evening."
Confused and disoriented, Anhe stared at him, sweating from her temples. "Wh-Where am I...?"
"Hospital. Do you know who you are?"
"...Geng...Geng Anhe."
"How old are you?"
"Twenty..."
"Do you rember where you were today?"
"At the amusent park."
"Did you see the man who hit you?"
"H-Hit ?"
"My bad. Not hit but smashed your head on the wall."
Anhe took a long ti to respond, trying to rember and process everything. In the end, she took the na, tears spilling out of her eyes.
"Jinping! Jinping was with ! He attacked from the back!"
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