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Capítulo 50: The confession (2)

"She was being so mean to me because I was unable to bond with Yun. Not that I planned to because I wanted out. But then she started insulting me so much and talking shit to me…" tears poured out of her eyes as if even reliving that experience brought pain to her.

"She knows how to get under your skin. I had never felt so mentally drained before meeting that shitty woman like her! I knew about the plan but I was so angry that…" she gnashed her teeth with hatred, "I could stop myself from throwing that damn inhaler away!"

She sneered as she faced Jia. "After coincidentally meeting Wu Yue and her grandmother, I then understood why her grandma had to resign from the school. She was just born toxic! She makes life a living hell for anybody who comes in contact with her!"

The gush of heated emotions rushed throughout the theater akin to a dam breaking down.

Dai Meihui stared at the kneeling Dai Fengge and asked with a voice struggling to come out, "When…when did you learn of my plan…?"

With dull eyes and a numbness gripping his body, he replied mechanically. "Three days after Mom made the movie plan. Did Yun…tell you about it because it was supposed to be a secret."

"...Yes. Yun didn't know but I knew that I wouldn't be going. I realized what Mom was planning."

"You asked him to tell me that he wanted the last row seats anyhow, right?"

She pressed her quivering lips. "Yes…I told him not to reveal my name."

He faintly smiled. "I see…In the middle of the night, I saw you tiptoeing out of the house with your phone. I wasn't feeling sleepy. I felt odd and when I followed you outside, I heard you whispering to someone on the phone. I heard you had booked tickets for that person to sit beside Mom for her to trigger her allergy. Suddenly I realized…why Yun was so stubborn."

He inhaled a breath that felt painful and biting. "I was shocked…I couldn't believe that you were plotting Mom's murder. I wanted to confront you but strangely, I didn't. You were going to call me when it would be time for the grandma to kill her to make me step out. When I heard that…I thought that I c-could use your plan to get rid of Mom…Ever since I saw Chun a few weeks ago with her family, a strange fire and anger was burning inside me. The bitterness flooded inside me all over again and I…I just wanted her out of my life…"

He clasped the watch on his wrist, caressing the broken glass. "I was so thrilled to feel that I will finally get my freedom back. That I won't have to tolerate her obsession. But when I was holding her mouth shut, I saw her eyes…"

Dai Fengge shook his head slowly, closing his misty eyes. "I saw the betrayal in them. Her own son was killing her…I couldn't believe when she breathed her last. I felt so…so horrible. What have I done…? She was overbearing, but she was still my mother. I attacked Miss. Ma that day to let out my frustrations. To escape from reality. Just to m-make myself believe that Miss. Ma killed her, not me…I didn't want to be the killer…" he broke down, hugging his wrist to his chest and stroking the watch that was her birthday gift to him.

Jia asked in a quiet voice, "During the interrogation, all the things you and Miss. Yin said-"

"Were a lie," he admitted, "The love for Mom, the shock of her death, everything was an act so that we don't get caught."

"Yun didn't see you attacking Mrs. Dai?"

"When I realized Mom was waking up…I quickly stuffed Yun to Xiaoling's side and whispered to her to keep his attention away from me. He didn't see me doing anything."

"Why did you attack Miss. Ma in the park?"

He broke down. "I don't know…what took over me. I couldn't sleep the nights after that day. I felt miserable. I saw Mom ha-haunting my dreams, looking at me with her…accusing and disappointed gaze. I couldn't think straight. I j-just wanted to take my anger out on somebody. I was selfish in trying to harm Miss. Ma wh-when I…" he choked, "I am equally responsible…I am sorry…"

He stared at Dai Meihui and asked listlessly, "Why…after eight years of our marriage, why did you want to kill Mom now?"

Dai Meihui shared with him an equally defeated look. "It was a struggle, Fengge…every single day. Do you understand how it is to live like you are watched under a microscope every day? That's how your mother was. Questioning me everytime, poking me everytime, making me feel like I am worthless, the sarcasm, the contempt…I felt suffocating. I had become…suicidal at one point, Fengge."

His eyes slowly widened.

"I was cooking one day and looking at the knife, I suddenly had an urge to cut my wrist and just…What was the point? But thank God that I snapped out of it. My son needs me, that's what I thought. How can I leave him alone? What will happen to Yun if I am gone? I felt stupid. And your mother saw me doing that stupidity."

Desolation filled her gaze as she said, "Do you know what she had to say to me seeing me almost cut my wrist?

'What the hell are you doing! I don't care what problems you have but don't let my Fengge deal with this nuisance! Do you even understand what other people will think? They will think that Fengge was abusive or that I might not be treating you well and that's why she…Snap out of it and don't be stupid! My son treats you so well and this is how you want to repay him for his love?'"

Dai Fengge felt as if somebody shook the earth beneath him.

She mockingly laughed. "You heard it right, Fengge. Instead of talking to me and figuring out what was wrong, instead of trying to understand the pain I have been bottling all this time, the only thing she was worried about was getting you and her in trouble after my death. I didn't decide to take this step because she was overbearing but because she had truly become my enemy."

Jia asked after a pause, "What do you mean?"

"The day of my attempted suicide and after the bitter words spoken by her, I have had it. I told her that I would talk to Fengge about us living separately from her because my patience had run out. I also told her that I knew how Fengge is. He most definitely won't agree to this separation. But I will still talk to him. If he doesn't agree, then the only way left out for me would be divorce. I will take Yun with me and leave."

"What was Mr. Dai's decision?"

"It never got to that point because my decision had rattled her. She never thought that I would really think of getting a divorce and leaving with Yun. She told me not to act hastily. She apologized for being rude and to keep the matter between us. She even said that things will go the way I want from now on."

She gave a weak smile. "I couldn't believe that she agreed so easily to relinquish her control over our lives. But she acted well-behaved with me from then on and I thought the situation had really changed for the better. I will finally…live the life how I wanted to. But it was all a deception. That joy lasted only until I learned how she brought Yin Xiaoling into your life. She wasn't supporting his affair. She was the one who made him cheat."

With shaky breaths and a sniffling voice, she spoke, "She laughed at me when I had confronted her. She said that I deserved this after threatening her. She said that…no matter what, Fengge and Yun will always live with her and she would never let me take away any of them. If I tried to, then she would simply bring another replacement who would never go against her and I will never get to see Yun again…

I-I don't know how but even if I had filed for divorce, she had plans to throw me in the bad light as a bad wife and mother. She would have made sure that I would never get Yun's custody. I wanted to get out of their lives and take Yun away but she had closed all my ways."

She clenched her fists, fury ablaze her eyes. "It was then that she had crossed all her limits. Not only was she making Yun's and my life miserable, but she was stopping me to do anything about that too. She wanted to be in control no matter what. It was then I decided that she…has to die."

The harsh truth fell on Ma Wenyan's ears, and he asked Ma Zhilan with a voice still searching for her innocence, "Why did you help her, Mom? Please tell me that you didn't…"

"I did," Ma Zhilan accepted her guilt fearlessly. "I helped Meihui with her plan."

"Why…? You just met her once! Yes, she helped us find Juan but that didn't mean that you should feel so indebted to…!"

Jia sensed Ma Zhilan's difficulty in explaining her reason, so she took the cue.

"That wasn't the first time they had met, Mr. Ma. They had seen each other several times before. It was during the incident of losing Juan that they came together and formed the murder exchange plan."


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Capítulo 51: The confession (3)

Ma Wenyan struggled to find the right words. "Murder…exchange? Seriously, I am not getting what you are saying at all Miss. Song. There is no sense to this! Mom would never be a part of this bizzare deal!"

Jia gave Ma Zhilan a quiet look. "She would if she equally resented a person in her family like Mrs. Meihui resented her mother-in-law. That would be your daughter-in-law, correct?"

Ma Yanyu jerked her head towards her mother-in-law, eyes wide aghast. "You…you wanted me killed…?"

"This cannot be the truth, right Mom?" Ma Wenyan let out a nervous chuckle, wanting to disbelieve these conspiracies.

Ma Zhilan shivered with chilliness as if she tip-toed on a frozen lake of ice. Even though she didn't give any visible reaction, her son and daughter-in-law did as a sharp gasp was heard from their side.

"You say it doesn't make sense, Mr. Ma. But it actually does when you know that Miss. Ma killed Mrs. Dai. She kept her part of the exchange and so did Mrs. Meihui. Or at least she tried to."

Ma Yanyu felt hair standing on the back of her neck. "Sh-she tried to kill me…?" Her voice escaped almost as a whisper. "But I am unharmed…"

Jia gave a slight but grave nod. "She couldn't harm you, Mrs. Ma because she came to know that you are pregnant."

"My pregnancy…?"

"The reason she came to Dongdan yesterday was not to stop her husband from attacking Miss. Ma. It was to kill Mrs. Ma Yanyu. It wasn't a coincidence for her to meet Mrs. Dai Meihui on her way to work. She was following her, looking for a chance to hurt her.

But she must have learned about your pregnancy, and she couldn't go through her plan. That's why when everybody was busy panicking after you fainted, Mrs. Dai was the only one who confidently assured that you were fine and only felt nauseated probably. I had felt odd about this. But later, I knew she could tell because she knew about the pregnancy."

Ma Yanyu looked pale as she recalled. "I remember…I did mention that I was pregnant on the phone. I was talking to my doctor to wh-whom I had gone for a checkup and I was shocked on learning the news...And it was soon after that we crossed paths."

"Yes. I had noticed in the park how Miss. Ma felt faltered and shocked for a moment when she suddenly heard the unexpected news of your pregnancy. I thought it was out of joy. But I realized later. She might have been wondering why you were in the park unharmed. But upon learning the news it struck her why she couldn't hurt you.

Had you not been pregnant, she would have gone through the plan, and she would also have had the perfect reason for being in Dongdan. To stop Mr. Dai from harming Miss. Zhilan. If Mr. Dai hadn't presented that opportunity, she might have already planned some other excuse of coming to Dongdan."

Ma Yanyu felt a deep sickening knot in her stomach and she stammered, wanting to confirm her doubts. "Is it…is it because I lost Juan that day that you loathe me so much?"

"It is because you were never a good mother to Juan," Ma Zhilan tightly held her stick as if the memories brought her immense pain.

"I appreciate you working so hard for the family. I am proud that you are an independent woman. But it is coming at the cost of your daughter's innocent happiness and wishes. Juan wants her mother, but you have lost yourself in the dazzling light of going far in your career so badly that you have gotten blinded to the people close to you. Everytime you keep chasing after your own accolades, but you never get the time to celebrate your daughter's little achievements."

Ma Yanyu blurted out. "That's not true!"

She narrowed her eyes, displeased about Ma Yanyu's denial.

"Do you know that she had won for her best drawing in her entire grade when she was six? It was a drawing of you, Yanyu, but it was the same mother who didn't get any time to cheer for her daughter when she received the prize. Do you know that she eagerly waits for you to return home to talk about her day with you, but that mother is still busy attending meetings even from home? Do you know that she wants you to tell her bedtime stories but you always keep sending her to my room?"

Ma Zhilan watched her daughter-in-law biting her lip and shaking with embarrassment.

"Have you ever seen the sadness in Juan's eyes when she hears that you don't have the time to attend parent-teacher conferences? Have you seen the loneliness in her smile when she takes the maid's cooked lunch everyday to school? Have you seen how she longs for your pats when she is sick with a fever? Do you even know that she wants to learn French because she has seen you talking in French to your clients? She thinks that if she learns the language, then you will be proud of her, praise her and you will finally talk to her."

Tears traced a line on the tired wrinkles on her face. "Tell me, Yanyu. Does a child really have to work so hard to earn her mother's attention?"

"It was just until I get the promotion-"

"How long have you been giving the same excuses, Yanyu!?" Ma Zhilan lashed out, her deepest grievances breaking the walls within which they were contained for a long time. "It is this project, it is that assignment, it is this deal, it is that promotion…do you even realize that you are losing out on the precious years with your daughter the more you bury yourself in your ambition?"

"I…" she choked, "I was going to make up for that…"

She chuckled sardonically. "Make up? Compensate? When? When Juan will lose her childhood? When there will be no time left to make up for it? She keeps waiting and waiting for you, and you keep turning your back to her. But it was still fine. I thought that once you earn your well-deserved promotion, you would finally shower Juan with all the love that she has been craving for. I told her to be patient. But…"

Her cold and flinty gaze felt as hard as steel as bubbles of fury crackled. "But you crossed the line the moment your irresponsibility almost cost Juan's life! You…you let go of her hand, burying yourself in messaging to your colleagues and she slipped past your sight. I had warned you a number of times that it is crowded at the subway. You have to tightly hold onto her hand. You cannot let your attention wander off her but that's exactly what happened…"

The blood-curdling incident of losing Juan still felt fresh in Ma Yanyu's mind. She could still feel the goosebumps crawling all over her skin the moment she had learned of Juan's disappearance.

Ma Zhilan clutched her chest. "Juan told me. She wanted you to buy a toy for her, but you harshly scolded her because apparently, she disturbed your work. She felt hurt and left your side. When I asked her later, she said she left because she was searching for a phone to call me. She wanted me to buy the toy with her because she made you angry. Juan…"

She looked pale and colorless, "Juan would have almost gotten kidnapped had Meihui not found her in time, Yanyu!"


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