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Chapter 1044 - 734 Offering Wine in Accompaniment (Seeking Monthly Votes!)

Chapter 1044: 734 Offering Wine in Accompaniment (Seeking Monthly Votes!)

Online reports were overwhelmingly widespread, and Fang Qing couldn’t possibly have been unaware.

The Fang Family might have been able to suppress the scandal of Fang Ai’s affair by force, but Ding He’s email, which was tantamount to mutual destruction, should have completely disrupted their arrangements.

Ding He didn’t know how many people he had sent it to, and it included quite a few wealthy and powerful clients.

Destroying evidence of the body and traces of the crime—such matters were far more explosive than vulgar gossip.

Even with the Fang Family’s great influence, they couldn’t cover the sky with one hand.

"You’ve already heard about Ding He killing his wife, right?"

Jiang Chen broke the silence.

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

Fang Qing countered instead of answering.

Jiang Chen picked up a small glass and took a sip.

Maotai, as the national liquor, was highly sought after by the elite, but he indeed found it somewhat hard to swallow.

For baijiu, he preferred those with a light fragrance, easier on the throat.

"If I said it has nothing to do with me, would you believe me?"

"If you say so, I’ll believe you," Fang Qing responded swiftly, without pausing to think, this kind of unreserved trust indeed moving.

But as much as she dared to trust, did Jiang Chen dare to say?

You should only say three parts of what you think, not lay bare your whole heart.

This was a truth everyone understood.

In this inscrutable society, to live a better life, one must learn to hold back and exercise restraint.

Facing this girl who had grown up with him since childhood, Jiang Chen truly couldn’t bring himself to utter deceitful words.

Jiang Chen, who could have stoutly denied everything, took a moment to choose his words while holding his drink.

"... This matter, it should have nothing directly to do with me."

"What do you mean ’it should have nothing,’ and what do you mean by ’nothing directly’?"

Jiang Chen candidly explained, "I merely had someone follow Fang Ai, and then captured the video of her having an affair with the chauffeur. Yes, I recorded that video, but I didn’t expect, Ding He would be driven to murder."

Life isn’t a movie or TV show, there’s no script set in advance.

Nor can anyone fully control human nature.

When plotting against Fang Ai, he truly hadn’t anticipated things would develop along the current trajectory.

Recording the video was just coincidental, a spur-of-the-moment decision, Jiang Chen had intended to observe the Fang Family’s subsequent measures before acting accordingly, but who could have predicted that Ding He would go to such extremes.

Not only might the Fang Family have been taken by surprise.

He hadn’t expected it either.

But it seemed understandable.

Even the most patient person has a bottom line, just like a spring that can be compressed over and over, but once it reaches its limit and there’s no more room for compression, it will rebound from the bottom.

"It was Fang Ai herself who was behaving improperly; that shouldn’t make me despicable, right?"

Jiang Chen preempted with his statement.

"Did I say you were despicable?"

"..."

Jiang Chen fell silent.

Fang Qing was very calm, perhaps when she called him over, she already had an answer in her mind; the only difference lay in the extent of his involvement in the matter.

"Fang Ai was really killed by Ding He?"

She asked straight to the point, unblinkingly staring at the fellow she grew up with.

"What else could it be?"

Jiang Chen’s expression became incredulous, "You don’t think it was me, do you? Do you think I’m that ruthless? You know full well, when I was a kid, I used to hide far away whenever my mom killed a chicken."

Childhood is one thing, but people change.

Fang Qing understood that today, she could no longer view this man with the same eyes as before.

She picked up her glass and took a sip.

A man must be looked at anew if you haven’t seen him for three days.

Before, during her visit to East Sea, this girl had been tricked into getting drunk.

Could it be that she learned from the setback, deliberately working to improve her alcohol tolerance afterward?

"Don’t just drink, eat some food."

Jiang Chen, inwardly reflecting, reminded her.

Fang Qing, as if she hadn’t heard, asked succinctly and directly, "Where is Ding He now?"

"I don’t know."

Jiang Chen replied swiftly.

"I really don’t know."

Facing Fang Qing’s gaze, his expression was utterly sincere.

"Actually, I may not know much more than you do. The video of Fang Ai’s affair was indeed recorded by someone I sent, but what happened afterward, why Ding He lost his reason, I have no idea."

"You recorded someone’s wife cheating." Fang Qing said, "And you ask why they lost their reason?"

Jiang Chen had no reply.

"I told you before, that Fang Ai has a huge backing, aren’t you afraid of bringing disaster upon yourself?"

Jiang Chen felt reassured, fundamentally, this girl cared about him, his compliance from childhood had not been in vain.

"The upright need not fear a crooked shadow. I didn’t kill the person, everyone knows that Ding He is the murderer, he admitted it himself."

"It’s true that Ding He is the murderer, but what about the truth? If there wasn’t the catalyst of the video, none of this would have happened. According to this logic, you are the real culprit."

Jiang Chen laughed, "That’s not the right way to argue, is it? You’re a lawyer, do you think a judge in court would accept your reasoning? I saw an injustice and exposed the misconduct of a married woman, is that illegal now?"

Fang Qing didn’t have the leisure to argue with him, "With such a big matter, why didn’t you discuss it with me in advance?"

Jiang Chen nonchalantly continued to eat.

"Discuss what with you?"

"This isn’t a matter for just you alone."

"What does it have to do with you?" Jiang Chen questioned.

"If it’s unrelated to me, then why were you so anxious to urge me to go back?"

Fang Qing spoke like a string of pearls, "If the power behind Fang Ai starts investigating, do you think they won’t trace it back to me? I was just about to heal from a minor injury on my forehead, but now..."

This girl, her thoughts were indeed too clear, it seemed the injury really wasn’t much of an issue.