I felt like I had stepped in shit the moment I walked out the door.
Someone had stolen an idea I had come up with myself, and worse, they had even fooled me with it.
When I had tricked Qingyuan and Jin Wujie before, there had been nothing particularly brilliant about my setup. I had simply exploited human nature and habitual thinking.
But I had never expected to fall into that same habitual thinking myself.
When we saw that Du Yunting had been in a car accident, our first reaction was to gloat. That was human nature-kicking an enemy when he was down.
Once we started gloating, we immediately slipped into habitual thinking. We never even considered whether Du Yunting had staged it.
Even when he was attacked again on the night of his car accident, we had still just gloated.
And the trick Du Yunting had used to fool us was to exploit that gloating.
"An innocent taxi driver and a high school student were killed in that crash that night."
I stared coldly at Du Yunting and said angrily, "You used innocent people's lives as playthings in your scheme."
Du Yunting sighed. "It's unfortunate, but that wasn't part of my plan. I hired that driver with cancer to crash into my car, but he turned out to be a coward. He drank a lot while carrying out the plan to work up his courage and accidentally got too drunk."
"He wasn't supposed to hit me that hard, either. He nearly killed me."
"It was an accident outside the plan. You can't blame me. I didn't tell him to hit anyone else."
After hearing what Du Yunting said, Song Xiaotian and I didn't know what to say.
He had hired the man who crashed into him himself.
And we