Chapter 670 - 700: The Car Accident of That Year
Chapter 670: Chapter 700: The Car Accident of That Year
"Lanlan is a good woman, but the one I love is you, Xiao Nian." Lu Jiuan reached out, pulled Lin Nian onto his lap, and gave her a kiss. Then he said, "Meng Lanlan’s Lu Jiuan is about to die. From now on, I’ll be your Lu Jiuan, and yours alone."
The two of them fell into a passionate kiss, clinging desperately to one another.
Not long after, the police in North City received a piece of news: a fire, supposedly caused by an accident, had destroyed a private residence. Seven people were dead.
Among them were the fugitives, Lu Jiuan and Lin Nian.
When Qin Jiao heard Shen Yi come home and tell her this news, she froze for a moment.
’Lin Nian died... just like that?’
"Jiao Jiao, what’s wrong?"
"I just didn’t expect Lin Nian to die just like that." Qin Jiao found it a bit surprising. In truth, the crimes Lin Nian had committed weren’t severe enough for the death penalty. At most, she would have been sentenced to ten-odd years. With good behavior, she might have even gotten out early.
’How could she be dead?’
Shen Yi said, "Don’t think about it anymore. As long as they don’t come back to stir up trouble, it’s for the best."
"Mm. In that case, does this mean the verdict for the kidnapping case will be coming down soon?"
"Yes. Shen Feng’s verdict will be delivered in a little while. Also, Jiao Jiao, I discovered something."
"What is it?"
Shen Yi took out a few sheets of paper—the criminal profiles he had sketched at the police station when the kidnappers were caught.
"Jiao Jiao, look at these men."
Qin Jiao took the papers and looked them over. These were the three men who had kidnapped her and Xiao Shi. They had already been captured, and as it turned out, the police investigation revealed they were also wanted for murder!
At the time, Qin Jiao had thought the men looked a bit familiar. Now, they looked even more so.
"I feel like I’ve seen them somewhere before..."
"The gas station. Jiao Jiao, do you remember when we were on our way to get a divorce? We passed a gas station and stopped to refuel. The car these men were driving was right next to ours. But we were both in a bad mood and arguing at the time, so we didn’t pay any attention."
"And later, the moment our accident happened... I remember it was their car that hit us..."
Qin Jiao’s head snapped toward Shen Yi. "In our past life, we definitely never offended these men. Does this mean... the car crash in our last life also had something to do with Lu Jiuan?"
Before, it had just been a suspicion. After all, the list of people they had conflicts with wasn’t very long; you could count them on one hand.
But now that they’d made the connection through these men, everything made sense.
In their last life, Lu Jiuan had been hostile toward the Shen Family and must have wanted to make some underhanded moves. Perhaps he hadn’t intended to kill Shen Yi and Qin Jiao, but just wanted to give them a warning.
But who could have guessed that the crash would send them both twenty years into the past?
Qin Jiao’s gaze turned cold as she said, "Letting Lu Jiuan die like this is letting him off easy."
"He was no saint. With him and Lin Nian together, they were truly partners in crime."
"Shen Yi, I have a bad feeling about this. You know people in the South—find someone reliable and trustworthy and have them investigate this privately."
’Are those two really dead?’
Shen Yi nodded. "Okay, I’ll have someone look into it."
Faced with such an unstable element that could potentially harm his family, Shen Yi would be sure to nip the threat in the bud.
Now that it was just the two of them and they had finished dealing with most of their pressing matters, Qin Jiao finally told Shen Yi about the space.
"The space has shrunk back to almost the same size it was when I first discovered it."
In the blink of an eye, Qin Jiao brought Shen Yi into the space with her.