Yan Xia suddenly understood something.
Her gaze shifted between Lu Qianzhou and Fang Jiangyi, and she suddenly realized, "So the car in your car accident was fake. The two of you joined hands to create the false appearance of a feud just to put on a show for outsiders."
Their acting was so convincing that even she had believed it.
But it was precisely because of this that they could achieve their intended goal.
Fang Jiangyi nodded, admitting it.
Across Yan Xia and Shangguan Yao in the middle, he said to Lu Qianzhou, "I won our bet."
Although Yan Xia didn't know what the bet he was talking about was, she had an intuition that it wasn't something good.
Counting it up, all the relevant people had arrived. Hearing Fang Jiangyi's words, Shangguan Yao finally got the answer to the question he had been unable to figure out. He finally knew why Fang Jiangyi didn't allow anyone to visit him and there was no news about him, and he finally knew why Lu Qianzhou suddenly lost his composure and attacked him.
It turned out that everything had been pre - calculated by them.
Although the matter of Lu Qianzhou attempting to harm Fang Jiangyi could be overlooked, the other crimes he had committed before were definite and undeniable.
Suddenly, his face darkened. He walked towards Lu Qianzhou, took out the handcuffs he had prepared for a long time from his waist, and with an irresistible authority, he grabbed Lu Qianzhou's arm, cuffed one end of the handcuff to his hand, and the other end to his own.
He looked into Lu Qianzhou's eyes and said straightforwardly, "I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. It's a pity that you haven't made it feel fresh to me."
Doing so many criminal things for a so - called revenge. In his opinion, it was not smart at all, but extremely stupid.
Lu Qianzhou had been looking at Yan Xia. There was a moment of struggle in his eyes, but in the end, he chose to submit.
It was only because the words "No matter how long your sentence is, I'll wait for you to come out" flashed through his mind.
Shangguan Yao was about to take Lu Qianzhou away to face the charges.
Yan Xia's gaze followed them closely. When Shangguan Yao led Lu Qianzhou past her, she suddenly reached out and grabbed the corner of Lu Qianzhou's clothes. It was such a humble gesture, as if she was trying to hold him back.
Sensing her movement, Lu Qianzhou turned to look at her.
He didn't know what was going on in Yan Xia's mind at that moment. He only saw that her small face was flushed, her eye sockets were also red, and there were tears in her eyes, but they never fell. She just looked at him with her watery eyes, as if she had a thousand words to say but couldn't utter a single one.
He had been waiting for her to speak, to say what she wanted to say.
But all she did was keep calling his name, "Lu Qianzhou..."
It seemed that he was the only one left for her. She couldn't even bear a temporary separation. Could he please not leave her alone?
"Yan Xia." Shangguan Yao's cold voice came into her ears. He was reminding her. "It's time for him to go with me. Go and get your wound bandaged obediently. There are still some things that need your help. We'll still summon you."
Yan Xia lowered her head, closed her eyes, and tears rolled down from her eyelashes to the ground. She took a few deep breaths and then looked up again.
"I'll keep my promise. I've done what I promised you. But Shangguan Yao, please don't deceive me."
She looked at Lu Qianzhou lovingly several times.
"Admit your guilt if you're guilty, but never admit it if you're innocent." Yan Xia slowly let go of his clothes. "I'll investigate the rest of the things for you. Now, go to where you should go and accept the punishment of the law."
After saying these words, she turned aside and didn't look at him anymore.
Lu Qianzhou said nothing and just followed Shangguan Yao away. Their figures gradually faded into the distance. After getting into the police car, they gradually disappeared from sight.
Yan Xia originally wanted to hold back, but in the end, she couldn't. When she looked back, those police cars had already roared away.
She couldn't suppress her grief. Although she knew it was only a temporary separation, it still felt like a farewell between life and death. She couldn't help crying and sobbing softly.
Fang Jiangyi had been standing beside her, watching her every move. At that moment, his heart seemed to be blocked by something. When she reluctantly grabbed Lu Qianzhou's clothes and shed tears for him,
he already understood Yan Xia's choice.
He had finally lost to Lu Qianzhou, and he had lost completely.
Mechanically, he took off his coat and wrapped it around Yan Xia. "Let's go. Go and get your wound bandaged. You need a good sleep."
Yan Xia's hands and feet were numb from the cold. She kept shedding tears and was finally taken to the hospital by Fang Jiangyi to get her wound bandaged.
The dream that night was extremely long. She dreamed of Lu Qianzhou. She dreamed that he had come back. But she was so tired that she couldn't move. Her whole body was extremely exhausted. It felt as if someone was choking her neck, and she couldn't breathe at all.
She was too tired. Her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't open them no matter what.
As soon as she opened her mouth, seawater rushed into her mouth and nose. She was suffocating, just like when she jumped into the sea during the explosion.
With great difficulty, she opened her eyes and saw Lu Qianzhou floating in the sea. His hair and clothes were all soaked and loose. He closed his eyes as if he had lost consciousness, and the bright sunlight shone through the seawater onto his face.
So she desperately flapped her limbs and swam towards him. Finally, she swam to his side. She held his face and called his name, trying to wake him up.
Finally, he opened his eyes, but in that instant, his face turned into Cheng Hua's face.
Yan Xia shuddered and woke up from the dream. Her face was wet. She touched the pillow, and even the pillow was soaked with her tears.
There was a thick bandage on her hand. She lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
Her heart felt empty, as if she had lost something extremely important.
She came to the stairway and saw Fang Jiangyi sitting in the living room downstairs.
Fang Jiangyi had prepared breakfast for her. Seeing that she was awake, he called her downstairs to have breakfast.
At the same time, Fang Jiangyi handed her the phone in his hand. "Just last night, after Lu Qianzhou was taken away by the police, the mastermind behind the scenes emerged."
Hearing the words "mastermind behind the scenes", Yan Xia was shocked.
She immediately picked up the phone and saw that all the hot searches were full of explosive news.
Lu Huairen was found dead in a nightclub last night. The forensic doctor identified it as death from an overdose of drugs. The identification result was accidental death, ruling out the possibility of murder.
And the new leader who was about to take over the entire Lu family's industry... was Lu Huaili, the third master of the Lu family.
Yan Xia's expression froze on her face.
"Third Master Lu?" She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried. More than anything, she felt unbelievable. "Wasn't he on good terms with Lu Qianzhou and regarded him as his own son? Moreover, he had been on bad terms with Lu Huairen for many years. How could the people below him possibly submit to him if he took over?"
Fang Jiangyi's eyes were deep. "I've long said that if there really comes such a day, the one who takes over is the mastermind behind the scenes. Lu Qianzhou never saw through Third Master Lu's tricks. Obviously, he had been used by him all along."
Yan Xia felt a chill run through her body. The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed.
"As for whether the people below will submit to him, it depends on whether he has planned this for a long time. Since he has reached this position, he must have been well - prepared."