Smack—
Lu Zhe grabbed Qiao Qiao before she could make a move and sighed softly. "Let him finish."
"I hadn't told Mr. Lu the truth earlier because I wanted to confirm whether you were the person Xia asked me to find!" Xia Jie had long since prepared his explanation. Looking at Qiao Qiao, he said, "Before Xia passed away, he only had time to tell me about this place. He never got the chance to tell me Mr. Lu's name! That was why I deliberately tested you!"
"I just didn't expect Mr. Lu to act so quickly and come here directly!"
Qiao Qiao calmed down somewhat and looked at Xia Jie. "You said this was your friend's house, and Jiang Changqing told you to come here as well... Does that mean this used to be Jiang Changqing's house?"
She turned to Lu Zhe, her expression ugly. "You knew all along, didn't you?"
"Yes." Lu Zhe replied calmly.
"I should have realized it long ago. Your relationship with Jiang Changqing was unusual even back then!" Qiao Qiao shouted angrily. "You clearly knew about Jiang Changqing. Why did you refuse to tell me?"
"What would be the point of telling you?" Lu Zhe said indifferently. "So you could bring Jiang Changqing a heap of trouble? So he could die even faster?"
"You... bastard!" Qiao Qiao bit her lip so hard she nearly drew blood. "That would still be better than him dying in Japan without anyone knowing why!"
She turned to Xia Jie, her eyes reddened. "I still don't believe it! How could he have just died like that?"
"Unless you show me his body!"
Xia Jie looked at Qiao Qiao with deeply complicated feelings. He could roughly understand how she felt.
She had lost her parents in childhood and lived in