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Chapter 48: It Wasn’t Me

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As Jing Yunzhao retold the story, Lu Jia looked horrified and stared at Jing Yunzhao as if she was a freak. 

It was shocking that she could remember every single detail about their encounter - a memory like hers was terrifying. 

"I don't believe you! Why would my son stop you on the road when he does not know you? You must have been doing something inappropriate for him to stop you, and instead of listening to him, you beat them up!" Lu Jia's aunt said aggressively. 

Her son would be doomed if what Jing Yunzhao said was true, but she wasn't going to believe what Jing Yunzhao said anyway. She knew her son well after all. 

"I understand now why your son plotted to frame me. Perhaps he learned this kind of maliciousness from you; it's true that a crooked stick will have a crooked shadow!" Jing Yunzhao said bluntly to Lu Jia's aunt.

"You jinx!" Lu Jia's aunt lunged at Jing Yunzhao but missed when Jing Yunzhao sidestepped and went crashing to the floor instead. 

"As you can see, officer, it is not impossible for the perpetrator to end up injured," said Jing Yunzhao calmly, "Also, although I am young, there is no way that I will take the blame for something that I didn't do. I did not ask for trouble, and my fingerprints were not on the murder weapon. It is illogical for you to put the blame on me based on one-sided allegations." 

She might be outnumbered but she would not yield, especially since there was no conclusive evidence to suggest that she was the perpetrator. 

Jing Yunzhao stared at Lu Jia and her gang sharply, her eyes filled with determination.

"She is right! Do you think you will win by sheer weight of numbers? One of you is still in the hospital, and I am sure he will tell the truth when he wakes up!" Gan Songbo added angrily. 

It was too hard to tell who was right or wrong no matter how they argued. 

The accident took place at a remote place with no CCTV surveillance, and as such further investigation was needed before the truth could be unveiled. 

Pending the investigation, none of them accepted defeat and all they could do was stare at each other indignantly all night. 

The next morning, they received a call from the hospital saying that the operation was over. 

"In a vegetative state because of excessive bleeding?" The lady who answered the call repeated in shock while looking at the others, then said into the phone quietly, "they are still investigating, the girl won't admit to anything and insisted those were not her fingerprints on the murder weapon…" 

Knowing that the lady was saying bad things about her, Jing Yunzhao couldn't be bothered to listen. 

The fact that the boy was now in a vegetative state brightened up Lu Jia and her other cousins' faces, although they did not get to rejoice over the news for long. 

One of the officers received a call and turned to look at Jing Yunzhao and the rest with a serious expression after the call ended. 

"One of our officers who went to the scene to investigate has found something. One of the residents from the apartment facing the alley happened to witness the entire incident," the officer paused briefly, then continued, "I know you are all still young, but this case is serious and my advice is to turn yourselves in while you still can. Soon it will be too late even if you want to turn yourselves in…" 

Jing Yunzhao smiled coldly while the faces of Lu Jia and her gang started to turn pale again. 

 The officer had been observing everyone's expressions and could guess what really happened by now. 

They were all too young and inexperienced to be good at hiding the truth when something as serious as this had happened. 

"It wasn't me!" One of the boys who had been silent all the while suddenly shouted in panic. "It was an accident! It - it was him who did it accidentally, it had nothing to do with us…" 


Chapter 49: The Truth Unveiled

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The boy who spoke was Lu Jia's youngest cousin. Being only seventeen, it was understandable that he was the most frightened. 

After being mentally tortured for a whole night, his eyes were dull with dark circles around them. His body was trembling slightly, and his shirt that he was rubbing out of nervousness was wrinkled. 

Jing Yunzhao felt sorry for him. He had been keeping his head down the whole night and his neck must be sore by now. 

"We really didn't mean it," the boy started crying as he spoke to the woman standing beside him, "Jia Jia was in a bad mood so we thought of taking her to karaoke to cheer her up. We bumped into Jing Yunzhao on our way there. She was alone, so we thought we could teach her a lesson and took her into an alley, but we were no match for Jing Yunzhao. My eldest cousin got so angry that he picked up a rock and threw it, but Jing Yunzhao dodged it and the rock hit one of us." 

The boy began to sob. After suppressing his feelings for one whole night, his anxiousness was now overwhelming. 

"Yes, that was what happened," said the other boy, whose eyes were red and glassy. 

"That's nonsense! It was Jing Yunzhao who did it!" The boy who threw the rock leaped up from his chair, lunged towards his youngest cousin, and punched his face. 

The youngest cousin's nose started bleeding and he fainted out of fear. 

The police officers quickly restrained the eldest cousin. 

"It wasn't me! You have to believe me, Mother, it was all because of Jing Yunzhao! It was because of her! Tell them, Jia Jia, tell them that I had nothing to do with it!" The boy screamed hysterically, his eyes crazed. 

Lu Jia had never been in such a situation before, but she knew the second her cousins confessed, they were doomed. They, including her, were all doomed.

"Cousin did not do it on purpose… All we wanted to do was to teach Jing Yunzhao a lesson, it only happened because Jing Yunzhao dodged it," Lu Jia wailed, tears running down her cheeks. 

"Shut up, Lu Jia, you're a liar! They were talking nonsense and so are you!" Although he was being held back by the police officers, Lu Jia's eldest cousin managed to stretch his leg far enough to kick her. 

Her eldest cousin wasn't the only one who was mad at Lu Jia. All three of Lu Jis's aunts who were also at the police station heard their conversation and glared at Lu Jia resentfully. 

Lu Jia's father was the only male for their generation in the family, and strangely, all the daughters of the Lu Family happened to give birth to boys after they got married, and Lu Jia's father was the only one to have a daughter. 

While they found it a pity that Lu Jia's father didn't have a son, Lu Jia as the only girl for her generation in the family had always been pampered. Who would have thought that the little girl that they all doted on would have brought the family such trouble! 

Meanwhile, the parents of the injured boy who arrived at the police station heard everything and started crying, asking Lu Jia : "What have we done to deserve this, Jia Jia?" 

Jing Yunzhao heaved a sigh. Did she feel sorry for them? The answer was no. 

In fact, she was calmer than ever. Some people might look pitiful during hard times, but when they were worked up, they could turn into vicious beasts that turned on others. 

The police officers sighed too. 

While it was true that a resident saw them on the day of the accident, all the witness saw was Lu Jia's gang picking a fight. No one saw what happened after they went into the dark alley, and no one expected anything serious to happen since they were just a bunch of teenagers. 

At any rate, the truth had been unveiled. 


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