Why had Qiu Jingru turned off her phone? What exactly had happened?
Had her battery simply died, had she lost her phone, or... had something happened to her?
Could Zhou Yi have acted first? Had he sent people to detain Qiu Jingru ahead of him, intending to force her to confess to their affair?
The more Xie Chenglin thought about it, the more worried and agitated he became. Just then, his phone rang.
"Come home right away. I have something to tell you." His wife's icy voice came through the phone.
"I'm busy right now. Whatever it is, it can wait until tonight," Xie Chenglin replied just as coldly.
"No need to be busy. I've already taken care of what you wanted to do. Hurry home. Mom's here too." Zhuang Yuqian's heavily sarcastic words jolted Xie Chenglin, and he instinctively connected them to Qiu Jingru's unreachable phone.
He was about to question her, but she had already hung up.
Full of questions, Xie Chenglin returned home to find Zhuang Yuqian and his mother drinking tea beside the coffee table, looking perfectly amicable.
"I can't reach Qiu Jingru. Is that your doing?" Xie Chenglin demanded, his expression dark.
He was no fool. After analyzing the situation and considering the possibilities, he had already made Zhuang Yuqian his prime suspect.
"Speak to Yuqian properly." Dai Yinxiang glared at her son. It was the first time in her life that she had sided with her daughter-in-law to scold him, even if it was only an act.
Xie Chenglin froze for a moment, then seemed to realize something. Suppressing his anger, he walked over and sat down, glaring at his composed wife.
He really must have been blind back then, mistaking her for an innocent, harmless little flower. He had never imagined she was