Page 124

Zhao Huizhen and Shen Ting'an looked little better. Shen Ting'an's suit and tie were askew, his shirt was rumpled, and Zhao Huizhen's hair was disheveled. Her chest heaved with anger. One glance was enough to tell what had just happened.

Shen Jiayan froze. This was the first time he had seen Zhao Huizhen so angry. In his memory, she had always been lenient with them. No matter what the children did wrong, even when Shen Ting'an was furious with them, she stayed calm and talked him down. She had never lost her temper with them.

She rarely even scolded them, let alone struck anyone. She must have been so angry that she no longer cared about maintaining her usual ladylike composure.

Zhao Huizhen saw them too. Regaining her composure, she smiled at them and hurriedly smoothed her disheveled hair. In an instant, she was once again the cool, elegant lady. Then she looked down at the two people on the floor. She saw it clearly now: neither of them understood what they had done wrong. There was no point saying more.

Her red lips parted. "There's nothing left to discuss. Talking to people like this is a waste of breath. Jingyao, hire a lawyer. Hire the best one and follow the legal process. I want them to spend the rest of their lives in prison. Better yet, I want them to die there!"

She wanted them to spend the rest of their lives repenting behind bars!

The woman panicked completely. Weeping, she knelt before Zhao Huizhen. "We know we were wrong. We really do. Please don't send us to prison. My husband is in poor health. He has so many chronic illnesses that medicine is all that's keeping him alive. Sending him to prison would be no different from killing