Sharing Dreams with My Bestie’s Cousin
Chapter 204 - 204 The Secrets of Those Years

Chapter 204: The Secrets of Those Years Chapter 204: The Secrets of Those Years Just hearing those words, Chong Wanyin shivered all over.

She didn’t doubt the truth of Mu Yanzhou’s words for a second.

Because she believed that Mu Yanzhou, now insane, was capable of doing it.

At that moment, she could only take a gamble, she didn’t want to experience the same abuse Wen Yinxi had suffered.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk…” Chong Wanyin was ultimately scared, she stammered, “The secret from that year was, was, I collaborated with Shang Mingshu to drive Han… Han Xiangying… to death…”

She hated Wen Yinxi and vowed to marry better and become a more noble woman than Wen Yinxi.

She meticulously chose Shang Jizhou.

Only with Han Xiangying dead could she smoothly ascend to become the madam of the Shang family.

But that murder wasn’t solely her idea, it was because Shang Mingshu had long admired Han Xiangying, he too desperately wanted Han Xiangying, and she wanted to secure her position as the Shang family’s madam, so they conspired together and ultimately drove Han Xiangying to death.

This was a secret Chong Wanyin would never have revealed until her death.

Besides her and Shang Mingshu, absolutely no one else knew.

But somehow, one night, her secret was uncovered by Wen Yinxi, and even more shockingly, Wen Yinxi knew it so clearly, Chong Wanyin still couldn’t figure out how Wen Yinxi had come to know her secret, because she believed Shang Mingshu would never reveal it!

Chong Wanyin lived in constant anxiety and finally resolved to murder, fueled by new hatred and old grudges against Wen Yinxi.

At this moment, after hearing the so-called secret from Chong Wanyin, Mu Yanzhou suddenly laughed, but that laugh was more terrifying than any coldness.

The wheels of fate were so similar.

The mothers of Shang Hexing and Wen Zhi both died at the hands of Chong Wanyin, just because of her one faulty decision, she directly destroyed two families.

Mu Yanzhou closed his eyes and sighed, releasing his hand at that moment, and with it, the knife also fell.

Chong Wanyin’s voice grew weaker, “Yanzhou, you said you would spare me, I will turn myself in, I promise you, I definitely will turn myself in…”

Though she said this, once she was truly safe, Chong Wanyin naturally wouldn’t turn herself in.

She would find every means possible to flee the country.

Prison was never an option for her.

But now, she had to make that promise, because she was afraid that Mu Yanzhou might kill her in a fit of rage, and she could not die.

Mu Yanzhou pressed the car window button, revealing Zhan Feng’s incredibly complex face outside.

Mu Yanzhou asked, “Did you hear everything?”

Zhan Feng furrowed his brows, then nodded, “Heard it all.”

Looks can be deceiving, the lady of the Shang family seems like a merciful saint, yet harbors a heart of a venomous scorpion.

She drove Shang Hexing’s mother to death.

And killed the wife of Mr. Mu.

Chong Wanyin had no idea that there had been someone eavesdropping outside the car, she suddenly became nervous, but quickly steadied her mind.

She couldn’t panic.

As long as she could return home today, she had a way to flee the country where no one could find her.

Mu Yanzhou asked again, “Did you record it?”

Zhan Feng remembered the message Mr. Mu had sent just earlier, instructing him to come over, turn on his smartphone’s recorder, and record every single word Chong Wanyin said inside the car from the outside.

He heard it all.

And recorded it all.

Chong Wanyin’s crimes were all here with him.

Mu Yanzhou sighed in satisfaction and instructed Zhan Feng, “Take the recording on the phone back to the city, find Shang Hexing, and hand it to him.”

Zhan Feng hesitated, “And what about you, Mr. Mu?”

Mu Yanzhou said, “I still have a few questions to ask her. Once I have the answers, I will personally take her to prison.”

Zhan Feng nodded, “Then I’ll leave first.”

Mu Yanzhou nodded.

After watching Zhan Feng leave, Mu Yanzhou rolled up both car windows.

Leaning against the car door and barely breathing, Chong Wanyin had finally relaxed because Mu Yanzhou had said he would personally take her to prison.

This meant that he would not kill her.

She felt relieved.

Seeing Mu Yanzhou raising all the car windows, she suddenly became alert, and asked weakly, “Yanzhou, I’ve already told you everything you wanted to know. What else do you want to know?”

Mu Yanzhou stood up and bent over to the driver’s seat.

Chong Wanyin thought he was about to drive her to the police station, but she felt an unsettling dread, as if something was about to happen.

Amid her unease, the sound of the engine starting echoed through the car.

Chong Wanyin’s heart suspended entirely.

At that moment, she heard Mu Yanzhou’s voice from the front, “Hong Wanying, I had initially left you a few more days to gasp for life, but Zhizhi disobediently insisted on avenging her mother, bringing forward your retribution.”

Chong Wanyin’s heart skipped a beat, “Yanzhou, what are you doing?”

Mu Yanzhou, his eyes fixed on the cliff ahead, gripped the steering wheel tightly, “Do you know how I felt the day I found Yinxi’s body? Do you know why I understood the truth but hesitated to act against you?”

The moment he discovered Wen Yinxi’s body, Mu Yanzhou could hardly utter a complete sentence; his large frame seemed as if it had suddenly broken, and he knelt on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

From that day on, Mu Yanzhou’s health declined further, but he knew he could not die so soon, nor could he seek revenge immediately. He had to pretend ignorance, marry Wen Yiwan, and send his daughter to a safer place, then drag his ruined, weary body to plan for his daughter’s future.

He needed to leave her enough wealth so that after his departure, his daughter’s life would be carefree.

“You said Zhizhi resembles me, and you were right, she’s so much like me, even her personality.”

When he said this, a gentle smile condensed in Mu Yanzhou’s eyes, “I never let her know that I intended to avenge Yinxi personally, yet she also insisted on avenging her mother herself. You see, Zhizhi is really so much like me.”

Over the past year, Mu Yanzhou had been like a walking corpse.

His heart had died along with seeing Wen Yinxi’s body that day.

The motivation that sustained him to keep breathing was planning his daughter’s future and personally avenging his wife. As his illness worsened, he even needed to rely on a cane to walk.

He had persisted for so long, and now the time had finally come.

“Mu Yanzhou, you are insane! Mu Yanzhou!” Experiencing a brush with death and facing imminent death again, the fear in Chong Wanyin’s heart was amplified tens of thousands of times.

She was scared.

She was truly scared.

Mu Yanzhou said, “Rather than personally killing you and having my daughter carry the stigma of her father being a murderer, it’s best that we both ‘accidentally perish’ together.”

Chong Wanyin’s eyes filled with despair, “No, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…”

And Mu Yanzhou was so calm.

Shortly after he spoke those words, the car sped forward at its fastest pace…

Zhan Feng, on his way down the mountain in his car, felt an intense unease, sensing that something bad might happen.

He decided to turn back and check.

Just as he was about to turn the steering wheel, a loud crash echoed from the other end of the forest. Zhan Feng looked up to see a car rolling down from the mountain top.

“President Mu—”

…

Inside the ambulance, Wen Zhi who had been unconscious for a long time, as if sensing something, suddenly woke up.

She opened her eyes and shouted, “Daddy!”