RES Chapter 77

Ji Feining no longer hesitated. He readily put several pieces of evidence in front of Chi Qiu.

Ji Yanchen couldn’t wait to go up and read it out for Chi Qiu but Ji Feining frowned and stopped him: “Let him read it himself.”

“How can Chi, Chi Qiu see?” Ji Yanchen was baffled and stammered.¹Just in case you all forget, Ji Yanchen thought he was the only one knew Chi Qiu isn’t blind

Ji Feining glared at him, not wanting to play the secrecy game with the two of them anymore. He relentlessly pushed Ji Yanchen aside and said in a deep voice: “Yanchen, be quiet.”

Ji Yanchen had to give up.

Ji Feining’s gaze fell back on Chi Qiu; he saw Chi Qiu looking at what was in front of him, hesitating to move. Ji Feining did not rush him, instead he took a seat on the sofa to the side.

In the gorgeously decorated living room, except for the warm overhead light, the rest of the things were all cold; Ji Feining’s attitude, Ji Yanchen’s speechlessness, including Chi Qiu’s heart that began to break again after the wound scabbed over.

The three of them just confronted each other in silence for ten minutes, and Chi Qiu finally reached out and picked up one of the documents.

He hadn’t read any text in front of others for too long, so he read it slowly, so slowly that he looked at every word, every sentence, every photo, carefully.

Ji Feining said: “Things are just as you see. Chi Xia’s boyfriend Jin Chengjun was funded by someone two years ago. And at the same time, he suddenly began to pursue Chi Xia.”

“…”

When the truth was laid out in front of Chi Qiu, without waiting for Chi Qiu’s reaction, Ji Feining decisively pushed another piece of information forward and directed Chi Qiu to pick it up.

Chi Qiu resisted, but had to bite the bullet and read it.

“Actually, Chi Xia liked Jin Chengjun when she was in college, but Jin Chengjun didn’t confess to her until graduation. And Chi Xia, because of Aunt Chi’s relationship, had been in contact with Lu Yinliang.”

Ji Feining said a lot in one breath, he picked up the cup of water on the coffee table and took a sip before continuing: “Chi Xia and Jin Chengjun relationship was more than friends, so when Jin Chengjun plucked up the courage to take the initiative to pursue her, Chi Xia almost immediately agreed.”

Chi Qiu gulped nervously and listened quietly.

Ji Feining raised his eyes and moved skillfully, pulling out a photo and placing it in front of Chi Qiu: “According to my investigation, during their private dating, all the expenses, Jin Chengjun can claim reimbursement from one person. This person’s name is Fang He and his information is here. I checked, he used to work under Lu Fengshen. After resigning and returning to China, he stayed in Xingxi City for a few months and now lives in another province.”

Hearing Lu Fengshen’s name, Chi Qiu’s hand holding the information paused: “It’s uncle…”

“No.” But soon, Ji Feining broke a trace of ‘fluke’ in his heart, cruelly unveiled the truth, “Originally, I have investigated Lu Fengshen for this matter. But something happened to Jin Chengjun. Under my pressure, he told me about another person, this person is very interesting. As far as I know, he is a private detective.”

Generally speaking, the anti-reconnaissance ability of a private investigator should be very strong, including his confidentiality to clients, which should be hundred percent. But probably because of bad luck, Lin Ye, a private detective, made a mistake on Jin Chengjun’s side.

Although it was only a 0.1% mistake, this alone was enough for Ji Feining to grasp the truth of the whole incident.

“Although Jin Chengjun is a poor student from the mountain who has not seen much of the world, and his family is not well off, but he is not stupid. After he blindly eloped with Chi Xia, he felt more and more that something was wrong and started looking for Lin Ye, whom he had met once. He hopes to figure out what happened, with the aim of finding a way to persuade Chi Xia to go home and stop putting unnecessary pressure on him. He remembers what Lin Ye looked like, so he secretly took the money you gave to Chi Xia and went to great lengths to find Lin Ye.”

That was why Chi Qiu’s money seemed to be thrown into a bottomless pit.

Chi Xia and Jin Chengjun each had their own uses.

Unfortunately, even if Jin Chengjun found out about Lin Ye, there was no way to get any words out of the old fox Lin Ye’s mouth. In the end, he ended up being fooled by the other side.

In desperation, Jin Chengjun could only grit his teeth and continue to listen to Chi Xia’s words to start a business. But unexpectedly, Chi Xia herself found that something was wrong and privately turned to Ji Feining for help.

If someone else helped Chi Xia to check this today, they might not be able to learn anything from Lin Ye. The only unlucky thing was that the person who came to look into this matter was Ji Feining, whose strength was more powerful than the current Lu Ming.

“In order to avoid alerting the snake, I didn’t make it very obvious.” Ji Feining frowned. Next, he was going to say a very bad thing.

He looked towards Chi Qiu for a moment and said word by word: “Lin Ye and Fang He, all of them are Lu Ming’s people, working for Lu Ming. Among them, Lin Ye not only investigated Jin Chengjun and Chi Xia, he also helped Lu Ming investigate you.”

Chi Qiu raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of astonishment.

“Investigate…me?” The information in front of Chi Qiu’s eyes became blurred. He shook his head in disbelief, “Why investigate me?”

“The Lu family’s property is too much, and you…” Ji Feining put a picture of Chi Qiu’s grandfather in front of Chi Qiu, “You and your grandfather look very similar.”

As soon as Chi Xia eloped, Lu Ming instantly took Chi Qiu and appeared in front of Elder Lu to confirm the next marriage relationship. Then, even if Chi Xia later regretted and came back to marry Lu Yinliang, everything would be of no avail.

Because Lu Ming knew perfectly well that Elder Lu would be biased towards Chi Qiu, so biased that it was a complete mess.

Ji Feining also told Chi Qiu in this way: “Elder Lu had an affection for your grandfather, but due to the pressure of the world at the time, and the fact that your grandfather did not like men at all, he could only hide his feelings and call your unknowing grandfather as a brother. This is also the original reason why he once funded the Chi family many times, and now insists on this marriage contract.”

Hearing this, unlike the dumbfounded Chi Qiu, Ji Yanchen spoke indignantly, “Lu Ming, this bastard, actually used this. He’s not afraid of the lightning striking from heaven!”

“Pang——”

There was real thunder outside.

Ji Yanchen hurriedly closed his mouth, for fear that Lu Ming would really be struck by lightning.

Ji Feining really had a headache because of his childish younger brother. After he finished speaking and pierced the knife, he began to add: “For a family like the Lu family, it is an inevitable process to compete for family property. The family was cold to Lu Ming and his mother, so in fact, Lu Ming doing this, some part of it is reasonable.”

From the point of view of business interests, Ji Feining felt that Lu Ming was very thoughtful and had made plans at every step. But from the point of view of the Chi family, the marriage between Lu Ming and Chi Qiu would be difficult to maintain.

After all, Chi Qiu was not a person who would step on his sister to walk forward. If he could do it, he wouldn’t have to pretend to be blind and live his life in such a muddle.

The time passed extraordinarily long, as if a century had ended.

Ji Feining asked Chi Qiu, “Is there anything else you want to ask?”

Ji Yanchen thought that Ji Feining was rigid and didn’t know how to consider other people’s feelings, so he bumped Ji Feining’s arm secretly, lowering his voice as he said, “Brother, can’t you speak with some emotion? Who can bear this? You give Chi Qiu a little time to digest, don’t ask in such a hurry.”

“Shut up.”

“…”

Ji Feining’s mouth was lecturing Ji Yanchen, but he didn’t ask any more questions: “I’ll ask someone to clean up a bedroom. Chi Qiu, take a rest first, you look tired.”

Ji Yanchen followed: “Yes, yes, you take a rest first, it’s not too late to take care of this tomorrow.” Even if Chi Qiu wanted to go to Lu Ming tomorrow to settle accounts, Ji Yanchen could roll up his sleeves and go together.

However, while the two were worried that Chi Qiu would have an emotional breakdown, Chi Qiu stood up.

He didn’t take a single copy of the information on the coffee table.

“Ning ge, Yanchen, thank you.” His tone was surprisingly flat, and the tears in his eyes dried up, like a lake that was frozen and covered with frost. He said: “I want to go home.”

A few minutes later, Chi Qiu got into Ji Yanchen’s car in despair.

He didn’t say a word and didn’t even shed a single tear. It was so quiet that it was scary.

If not for his open eyes, Ji Yanchen almost thought he had fallen asleep. Because Chi Qiu’s hands had been very cold, Ji Yanchen slightly turned on the car heating and carefully called out to him: “Chi Qiu?”

No one in the back seat answered.

Ji Yanchen was so worried, he held the steering wheel and drove the car to a stop, preparing to turn around: “Don’t go back tonight, you stay at my house, ba. You look like this…How will you get in? Although Chi Xia does not know the exact truth yet, but she is not stupid.”

Chi Qiu still didn’t answer.

“Chi Qiu? Say something to me. Me, is it too late for me to help you scold Lu Ming?” Ji Yanchen turned sideways and looked at him, at a loss for words. “I’m really worried about you. I can do whatever you want, don’t be silent, ah.”

Chi Qiu’s reaction was slow, as if he was dumb.

He did not react, but simply accepted the ‘truth’ that others told him.

After a while, Chi Qiu’s phone slipped out of his pocket and fell on the back seat of the car. With the sound of the rainstorm pouring down, his phone kept vibrating. Chi Qiu sat lost in thought, the dead ashes between his heart rustling down.

He didn’t know what he was thinking about and completely missed his phone. It was only when Ji Yanchen reminded him several times that he faintly came back to his senses.

The screen showed several missed calls from Lu Ming, as well as a voice message from Lu Ming: [Why didn’t you answer the phone? Xiao Yan said you’ve arrived home, are you already asleep?]

Immediately afterwards, he sent another voice: [Today it is raining heavily and it’s cold. Don’t open the window, good night. ]

Chi Qiu held the phone, his eyes wandered and fell with an empty expression. Lu Ming’s voice message was played quietly in the car, which was extremely embarrassing. Chi Qiu’s gaze flickered slightly, there was that little reaction.

Suddenly, his face turned blue as his hands clenched the phone tightly. The body that had only been calm for a short time, trembled again after hearing Lu Ming’s greeting.

Chi Qiu opened his mouth and tried to say a word, but his heart was numb and stunned, breaking all his language skills.

He was like being in a deep alley with no gaps, he could see the light but couldn’t chase it.

Ji Yanchen, in order to comfort him, took away Chi Qiu’s cell phone to stop him from listening to it anymore. But Ji Yanchen was silly, always saying the wrong thing: “Chi Qiu, in fact, my brother’s investigation can only show that Lu Ming involvement in the matter of Chi Xia elopement. But he treats you…you, didn’t you have a relationship before? And he is now so good to you, maybe he genuinely likes you. We can’t think of things in a bad way as much as possible, you calm down first, okay?”

When these words were spoken, Ji Yanchen himself was having doubts. But now he only wanted to comfort Chi Qiu. It didn’t matter what he was allowed to say, as long as Chi Qiu didn’t feel sad.

As soon as his words fell, Chi Qiu took a deep breath, and a nausea came back from his stomach.

The light was never his.

Chi Qiu covered his mouth, his throat seemed to be filled with acid water, so heavy that it was difficult to move. He whimpered out in pain, his voice hoarse and desperate: “It’s all a lie to me…”

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  Just in case you all forget, Ji Yanchen thought he was the only one knew Chi Qiu isn’t blind