"My son...where is my son?"

Huang Guilan's eyes were bloodshot and her face was deathly pale. She grabbed a passing policeman, her hands trembling as if she were being shaken.

After the police learned her identity, they took her to the morgue next door.

A moment later, heart-wrenching cries came from inside.

Yan Zhen leaned back in his chair, his face expressionless, his left hand covering his right wrist, where a warm sensation continued to emanate.

She didn't even need to look to know that the wound representing Jiang Yunong's resentment was continuing to heal.

Shortly after, Huang Guilan was helped out by two policemen.

Her legs were weak and she didn't even have the strength to stand up, but as soon as she saw Yan Zhen sitting on the rest chair, she stumbled over and raised her hand to hit her.

"You bitch! Jiang Yunong, you bitch! You killed my son, it must have been you who killed my son, right!"

The police officer quickly stopped her: "Ma'am, please calm down. She was also a victim who almost got hit..."

"I don't believe it!" Huang Guilan's face was covered in tears. She pointed at Yan Zhen and cursed, "This woman abused my son and cheated on him. She got involved with my son's friend. These two adulterers conspired to take over my son's company! My son must have been killed by her!"

As she spoke, she grabbed the policeman's arm with her other hand: "Officer, she's a murderer! Investigate further, you'll definitely find evidence that she killed my son!"

Faced with Huang Guilan's accusations, Yan Zhen sighed softly, his eyes red when he looked up.

"Mom, I know you don't like me. Your unreasonable behavior at home has already put Shen Que in a difficult position. Now that he's gone, can't you let him pass away peacefully? Can't we talk about this at home?"

"You..." Huang Guilan was so angry at the woman's outburst of lies that her vision blurred, and she clutched her chest, barely able to breathe. "Jiang Yunong, you wait! You just wait, I won't let you get away with this... Oh, right, I have evidence!"

As if remembering something, Huang Guilan quickly grabbed the policeman's arm: "Officer, I have evidence. My son suspected this slut of cheating on me, so he hired a private investigator to look into her. That private investigator must have evidence of her infidelity!"

The police are used to this kind of situation.

Losing her son in her old age, the old lady couldn't bear such a shock. She turned her grief into resentment and anger, which she vented on her daughter-in-law, who already had many complaints about her. This is all too common.

Just as he was about to say a few words to comfort Huang Guilan, Yan Zhen took the initiative to speak up: "Why don't we call the detective over? If this matter isn't clarified, my mother will always have a knot in her heart."

The police agreed and summoned the private investigator.

The detective, surnamed Wu, was shocked to learn of his employer's death.

When questioned by the police about the "results" of his investigation over the past few days, he hesitated for a moment before handing over his phone and camera memory card.

He followed Yan Zhen for five or six days and took hundreds of photos.

But after the police and Huang Guilan looked through the documents one by one, they found that Yan Zhen had been either practicing boxing at the boxing gym or going shopping these days. He also went to the library, and spent the rest of his time at the law firm.

There was absolutely no truth to Huang Guilan's claim that she "had affairs with men."

The detective truthfully stated, "Based on my investigation, Ms. Jiang did not commit adultery..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Huang Guilan interrupted him sharply. "My son saw her flirting with Chen Yuan with his own eyes, otherwise why would he ask you to investigate them! Confess honestly, were you bribed by this woman to deliberately use these photos to exonerate her!"

Detective work is a gray area; it involves spying on other people's privacy. If the person being investigated pursues the matter and files a lawsuit, the detective will be held legally responsible.

Detective Wu was already a little guilty about being summoned to the police station, and when Huang Guilan questioned him like this, he immediately became angry and said, "Are you questioning my professional competence? If I dare to say that, then I have definitely found more than just this!"

As he spoke, he took out several sheets of printed paper from his bag, which contained the WeChat chat history and phone call and text message exchanges between Yan Zhen and Chen Yuan that he had retrieved.

"This is what we found using Ms. Jiang's ID card provided by your son. Take a look for yourself!" Detective Wu said irritably. "I was going to give these things to your son today, but now that he's gone, you can look at them—pay the balance after you've finished looking."

Huang Guilan carefully examined the papers. The WeChat chat history between Yan Zhen and Chen Yuan was brief, and the content was all about Shen Que, focusing on Shen Que's hospitalization.

"How is Brother Shen doing?"

"Much better, I just took my medicine."

"I'm going over there now; I need him to sign a document."

"Okay, I'll tell him."

Call logs and text message exchanges are extremely rare, and their content is practically negligible.

Based on these facts, it's clear that Yan Zhen and Huang Guilan, who were under investigation, did not have any ambiguous relationship with Chen Yuan.

Huang Guilan refused to accept this evidence. She stared intently at Yan Zhen: "Then tell me, if you have nothing to do with Chen Yuan, why did he help you transfer my son's company and change the legal representative to you?"

Yan Zhen frowned, his expression full of helplessness: "Didn't Shen Que bring this up himself? He was worried that his injury might not heal, and it wasn't right for Chen Yuan to manage the company indefinitely, so he simply let me take over. He personally signed all the procedures for changing the legal representative... Didn't he tell you about this?"

Huang Guilan said angrily, "Lies! Shen Que only found out that the company had changed legal representatives when the business license was mailed to his home today. He was clearly tricked by you and that adulterous Chen Yuan!"

Yan Zhen's eyes were filled with sorrow: "According to you, Chen Yuan and I secretly transferred Shen Que's assets. Would I be so careless as to send something as important as the business license home and let you receive it?"

"Mom, what good does it do you to frame me for murdering my husband? Are you really that jealous of me? Shen Que is gone; do you want An'an to lose her mother too?"

Huang Guilan was rendered speechless by her sharp tongue. Her finger pointing at Yan Zhen trembled violently, her chest heaved, and her eyes bulged.

After a while, she rolled her eyes and fainted from anger.

After taking Huang Guilan to the hospital, Yan Zhen prepared to go home to be with Shen An.

She had just left the hospital when she ran into Chen Yuan, who had rushed over after receiving the news.

His face was pale. When he saw Yan Zhen, he pulled her aside and asked in a low voice, "Does Brother Shen's accident have anything to do with you?"

Yan Zhen was stunned. She stared at Chen Yuan for a few seconds, then covered her face and burst into tears at the hospital entrance.

"Chen Yuan, in your and your mother-in-law's eyes, am I already so audacious and heinous that I'm about to kill someone?"

Chen Yuan: "..."

“My mother-in-law made a scene at the police station for half a day because of this, and revealed all the things that happened in the family.”

Yan Zhen's tears streamed down her face. "To prove my innocence, I tore open my wound and showed it to them, bloody and raw. I barely managed to get through it, and now you're asking me this? Do you want me to show it to you again?"

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