Yan Zhen joined the firm.

She came frequently during this period, and the receptionist recognized her. Whenever she saw her, she would smile and say, "Attorney Fu is in a meeting. You'll have to wait a while today."

Yan Zhen nodded, pushed open the door to Fu Yao's office, and sat down to wait.

Half an hour later, the locator in the bag suddenly lit up.

Yan Zhen took it out and saw that the indicator light, which showed that the locator had reconnected to the signal, flashed. She immediately perked up and said, "Here we come."

She got up and walked out of the office, pushed open the fire escape door of the firm building, and looked out the window of the stairwell. From this angle, she could see the parking lot downstairs.

Sure enough, Hu Dawei's car was spotted among the crowd—today was the day he was released from administrative detention.

Given his vengeful nature, he would never let this humiliation go unpunished, and he would definitely come to find Fu Yao as soon as he was released.

She was right.

Hu Dawei sat in the car, his hands gripping the steering wheel, staring intently at the entrance of the firm. Even from a distance, you could feel the oppressive atmosphere emanating from him, and the resentment almost overflowing from his eyes.

The fish bit.

Yan Zhen glanced at her watch. Now she was just waiting for another fish to take the bait so she could catch them all in one fell swoop.

The moment the thought crossed her mind, her phone rang, and the caller ID showed Shen Que.

Yan Zhen slid down to answer the call.

"Where are you?"

Even with his best efforts to restrain himself, Shen Que's trembling voice still betrayed a hint of anger.

Yan Zhen pretended not to notice: "At my friend's company, is there something wrong?"

"Yes, send me the location, and we'll talk in person."

Yan Zhen paused for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll let you meet my friend while I'm at it, so you won't be so suspicious all the time."

She gave the location of the firm, then went to the restroom, broke the GPS tracker, and flushed it down the toilet.

After finishing all this, she returned to her office, just as Fu Yao came in after finishing his meeting.

"I'm here," Fu Yao said. "I'm a bit busy today, so you might have to wait a while. I'll treat you to seafood after I get off work."

"It's alright, you go ahead with your work," Yan Zhen said, rubbing his arms. "Is the air conditioning in your office too high? I feel so cold."

"Cold?" Fu Yao asked in surprise. "I didn't turn on the air conditioner. Do you have a cold?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Zhen sneezed dramatically.

Fu Yao gave her a "I knew it" look and took a coat from the cabinet behind her and handed it to her: "Mine, you can wear this first. My colleague has some cold medicine, I'll go ask her for two packets."

After drinking the cold medicine, Yan Zhen waited for twenty minutes before Shen Que called again.

"I'm here, get down."

"Row."

Yan Zhen got up, used the office window as a mirror, tidied her hair and coat, and made sure that her back view looked eight or nine parts similar to Fu Yao before going downstairs.

Shen Que was downstairs, and when he saw Yan Zhen appear, his eyes almost blazed with fury.

Yan Zhen walked up to him and said casually, "Speak, what do you want?"

Shen Que quietly reached into his pocket and touched the folding knife. His eyes were red, and his expression was both ferocious and restrained: "Jiang Yunong, I have a question for you, and you must answer me honestly, or you will bear the consequences!"

Yan Zhen took in his subtle movements: "Okay, go ahead."

"Did you sleep with Chen Yuan?"

"No."

"You fucking lied!" Shen Que was trembling all over.

He was clearer-headed than ever before, and he knew what he was doing. All he had to do was pull out his folding knife and slit the woman's throat, and she would be finished, and so would he.

“I’m not lying. Chen Yuan is your brother and a good person. He wouldn’t do anything to betray you.”

Shen Que reacted as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, his hand holding the folding knife trembling uncontrollably: "He wouldn't do anything to betray me? He transferred my company to your name, and you call that not betraying me? You two scoundrels, I'll kill you..."

"Shen Que, I'll say it again, Chen Yuan did not wrong you." Yan Zhen reacted quickly, pressing down on his hand the moment he drew his folding knife, and forcefully locking the unfurled knife in his palm.

From a distance, it looked as if she was holding Shen Que's hand, and the two were talking intimately.

Not far away, Hu Dawei's eyes reddened at the sight.

Fu Yao! Fu Yao!!!

This bitch has changed men one after another, but she never even glances at him!

Anger and shame lingered in his heart. He started the car and drove towards her location, gradually accelerating.

Since her eyes are on the top of her head, he might as well make sure she can never open them again!

"He did this to stop you from going astray! Otherwise, given our current situation, it would either be me killing you or you killing me. He didn't want to see you end up like that, so he..."

"Go to hell!" Shen Que interrupted Yan Zhen viciously. "Stop making excuses for that adulterer. Today it's either you or me. I will never let you go! Even if I die, I will drag you down with me!"

Yan Zhen lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling.

When she looked up again, she revealed the same arrogant, all-encompassing, mocking expression that Shen Que was familiar with.

Hearing the roar of engines approaching from behind, Yan Zhen sneered, "Is that so?"

She loosened her grip on Shen Que's hand: "Then go die."

After she finished speaking, she leaned back as if he had pushed her away, and staggered back several steps.

The next moment, a car sped by at 200 miles per hour, grazed Yan Zhen's body, and crashed directly into Shen Que.

Shen Que's pupils contracted sharply.

"boom--"

"boom--"

Two loud crashes rang out in succession. The car struck Shen Que, and before it could brake, it crashed head-on into the firm building.

Upstairs, Fu Yao, who was in a meeting, was startled by the loud noise and shuddered.

Everyone in the office dropped what they were doing and rushed to the window, craning their necks to look down.

Upon seeing the situation downstairs, Fu Yao suddenly covered her mouth.

-

At the police station, after Yan Zhen finished giving his statement, he and Fu Yao sat on the rest chairs, both of them looking dazed.

Yan Zhen is faking it.

Shen Que has just died, and in order to avoid trouble as much as possible, she needs to play the role of a woman who has just lost her husband and is still unable to recover from the shock of this fact.

Fu Yao was terrified.

Although Hu Dawei is seriously injured and unconscious and is still in the hospital, the police investigated the traces at the scene, retrieved the surveillance footage from downstairs in the law firm, and combined it with Yan Zhen's statement to basically reconstruct what happened.

This was a case of manslaughter—Hu Dawei originally went for Fu Yao, but by mistake, he mistook Jiang Yunong, who was wearing Fu Yao's coat, for his target and tried to run her over with his car.

Shen Que pushed Jiang Yunong away as the car rushed towards them, saving her life, but he himself was smashed to pieces and died on the spot.

Fu Yao never imagined that such a bloody and heinous event would almost happen to her.

Both remained silent. Just then, a man staggered in from outside the police station. When he spoke, his voice was so hoarse it sounded like he was about to cry blood.

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