Night Fire Lingering

"Zhou Qi?"

Wen Muzhi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked around at Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi saw through her thoughts and said, "President Gu didn't come. He asked me to take care of his wife in his place."

In short, it directly points out Gu Yanci's stance—Gu Yanci is Wen Yan's backer, and he sent Zhou Qi to support Wen Yan!

"I need to see a doctor now, please excuse me, Assistant Zhou." Wen Muzhi held his injured hand, his words carrying a hidden meaning. "Ultimately, the reason my hand is so badly injured is because of Yan Yan."

"Oh?" Wen Yan tilted her head and smiled, asking, "Do you have any evidence?"

Wan Ying was ultimately worried about her daughter, and when she caught up with her, she heard these words.

"Wen Yan, you're the one who hurt Mu Zhi back then, you've admitted it yourself, do you still want to deny it now?" Wan Ying sneered, "Don't forget, you wrote a letter of repentance back then!"

Wen Yan was only sixteen at the time, and her mental state was unstable. She believed she had unintentionally seriously injured Wen Muzhi. The sight of Wen Muzhi's blood-soaked hands stung her eyes, his painful cries pierced her ears, and she could hear Wan Ying's reproaches and Wen Muzhi's 'pleading' voices all around her. Finally, at Wen Muzhi's request, she wrote a letter of repentance, admitting that she had hurt Wen Muzhi and expressing remorse for the incident. Unexpectedly, just a few days later, Wan Ying sent her to a mental hospital for treatment, citing her still unstable mental state and the possibility that she might harm others.

Looking back now, Wen Yan only regrets how foolish she was back then!

“Mrs. Wen, if you want to discuss these matters, I need to make a call to President Gu.” Zhou Qi’s smile concealed a dagger, a silent threat.

"Wan Ying, shut up! This happened so many years ago, why bring it up again!" Wen Yonghai said immediately, seeing Gu Yanci's protective attitude towards Wen Yan.

Zhou Qi wanted to say something, but Wen Yan gave him a look, telling him to shut up first.

"Since you want to settle accounts, let's settle them today." Wen Yan looked at Wen Muzhi, "Does your hand still hurt? Why don't we invite the doctor to the ward to listen together?"

Wen Muzhi took a shallow breath, not daring to call more people rashly.

"Aunt Wan, are you sure that so-called confession is effective?" Wen Yan asked Wan Ying.

"What do you mean? You wrote this yourself, you confessed to it yourself! My daughter's injuries are still right here!"

“At that time, you sent me to a mental hospital on the grounds that my mental state was unstable. How can the words, deeds and writings of a mentally unstable person be counted? They are not recognized by law.”

Wen Yan's words caused Wan Ying and Wen Muzhi's expressions to change drastically.

“Yan Yan, you were clear-headed at the time, you know that, our whole family knows that,” Wen Muzhi said immediately. “Don’t think that you’re the only one who understands the law. Even if someone is mentally ill, only things done during a confirmed mental episode are invalid. When they are in a good mental state, they need to bear the corresponding responsibility.”

Wen Muzhi looked at Zhou Qi, who was blocking her way: "Assistant Zhou, as Ci Ge's favorite, you should know these things, am I right?"

"I only understand commercial law; I don't understand what you're talking about," Zhou Qi lied through his teeth, offering no comment whatsoever.

The best course of action is to remain silent—he is completely on Wen Yan's side!

Wen Muzhi was so angry he almost couldn't catch his breath.

Wen Yan nodded, indicating her agreement with Wen Muzhi's explanation of the law, and then asked Wan Ying, "Aunt Wan, do you think I was mentally sound at the time?"

"What was wrong with you back then? If you were abnormal, would you maliciously hurt someone?" Wan Ying pointed at Wen Yan's nose, extremely angry.

Zhou Qi understood Wen Yan's thoughts and logic. He stepped forward, raised an eyebrow, and questioned, "Mrs. Wen, so you mean that back then you knew our wife was mentally sound, yet you deliberately sent her, who was underage, to a mental hospital? Does your action constitute a crime? I'm not sure. I'll consult with Mr. Gu's private lawyer when I get back."

"I don't!"

Wan Ying subconsciously denied it, but then realized that her words contradicted Wen Muzhi's, which was simply a self-contradiction!

Wen Muzhi's expression changed drastically, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Wen Yan is here today to settle accounts!

Wen Junming sat on the bed without saying a word, his lips tightly pressed together, his face extremely ugly.

Six years ago, Wen Junming was only eleven or twelve years old and studying at an international high school. He lived at school most of the time and was unaware of these things. Now, seeing Wen Yan tear open all the ugliness in the house and lay it all out for everyone to see, he found it hard to accept.

This family, his parents and sister, was far worse and more filthy than he had imagined!

“It was a coincidence that I was kidnapped by Zheng Wenguang this time, right downstairs from the hospital.” Wen Yan pointed to the ground. “I rarely went out recently, so how did Zheng Wenguang know that I was going to the hospital? And it was such a coincidence that he had prepared all the tools for the kidnapping and explosives to kill Gu Yanci as well.”

After Wen Yan finished speaking, she looked at Wen Muzhi.

"Wen Yan, you wouldn't be trying to frame me, would you?" Wen Muzhi reacted quickly. "That day was because of Junming..."

She subconsciously shifted the blame to Wen Junming, saying that it was because Wen Junming had an accident that she called Wen Yan to the hospital.

However, halfway through her sentence, she remembered that Wen Yan had already stabbed her in the back with the reason why Wen Junming was hospitalized. If she brought up this reason again, it would seem as if she had deliberately planned it!

Wen Yan sounded a little thirsty and had just licked her lips when a glass of water with a straw was brought to her lips.

Looking over, I saw it was Zhou, the assistant who had been on the right track.

Assistant Zhou said, "President Gu instructed me to prepare this for you."

Wen Yan: "..." There's a reason why Zhou Qi can earn a million-dollar annual salary!

When Wen Muzhi saw this scene, her eyelids twitched, and she felt as if an invisible slap had landed on her face.

The ward was silent, and several pairs of eyes were watching Wen Yan drink water.

This small hospital room seemed to become Wen Yan's courtroom, and Wen Muzhi was the criminal being tried.

After a while, Wen Yan continued, "After I was tied up, Zheng Wenguang said something—'Wen Muzhi is right, you are very cunning'—Wen Muzhi is right?"

"Wen Yan, you're slandering me!" No matter what Wen Yan says now, Wen Muzhi will deny it to the death.

Almost at the same time, Wen Junming asked, "Why did you say that, Mr. Zheng?"

“Wen Muzhi, if I were slandering you, you should be wondering right now when Zheng Wenguang said those words, and why, just like Junming is reacting. Not like you are now—” Wen Yan paused, then gave a very precise adjective, “annoyed, ashamed, enraged!”

Wen Junming was practically Wen Yan's invisible helper, and Wen Muzhi's eyes were filled with fierceness and ruthlessness when he looked at Wen Junming.

Wen Muzhi didn't understand why things were like this. She hadn't been directly involved from beginning to end, so how could Wen Yan have guessed it? And everyone was even siding with Wen Yan!