Because I Cannot Hurt You

Zizi was stumped for a few moments, but she didn't find any fault with Shuang's words.

Zhiyuan and Xinyi agreed.

Zhiyuan said, "Shuang is right. When Mom and Dad told us, I thought the same for a second that she was really betrayed. But over the years that I know Uncle An, he didn't seem like that type of a person to fool around."

Xinyi sighed. "Yes. It just doesn't feel right to me. Even the whole story of the car accident is suspicious. That's why I feel that what Shuang said about her suicide must be true."

Zizi touched her chin.. "This is strange. One side says that she died from an accident and the other side says that it's from a suicide. What is the truth?"

"Suicide."

Yunru spoke as he took out a file.

"Last night, brother-in-law asked me to investigate Han Zongying's death. That's why I am here. It's interesting."

Jack Si tilted his head and seemed to be in deep thought. "Let me guess."

Yunru raised his brow. "Sure. Go ahead."

"Her death was first reported as a suicide, but then it was changed to an accident?"

Yunru was visibly impressed. "Yeah. That's what is interesting. To be honest, I only found the accident report first. But I found the whole story suspicious, so when I dug around a little deeper, I got the records which were deleted."

Zizi asked, "Cops keep deleted records too?"

""Cops should keep everything'' is my motto. Whether a piece of information is wrong or written accidentally and then deleted later, I have made it a practice to record everything. It wasn't a practice almost thirty years back, but I did find it."

He looked at Jack Si. "How did you guess it?"

His bluish-grey orbs twinkled. "Mostly psychology, I guess. I think Mr. Han Huizhong doesn't want anyone to know that it was a suicide because suicide signifies weakness. It's a sign of giving up and running away, and he doesn't want anybody to treat his late daughter as a weakling. I have heard about his personality. Fierce and unyielding. It must have been really painful for him to see his daughter take her own life."

There was a long silence.

Zhiyuan slightly trembled as he clenched his fist. "Indeed. Grandpa doesn't like weakness."

Even though he had qualms about what he did to Caihong, he sided with Jack Si on this. Losing his young daughter to suicide must have been heartbreaking.

Zizi's gaze dimmed too. Her heart was engulfed in sadness. Yunru squeezed her hand and smiled.

Xinyi softly asked, "What did Uncle An's friend have to say?"

Shuang then told her side of the story that Mr. Guo said.

"But he also doesn't know what exactly happened ten years later. How did Dad and Han Zongying meet again, and how did everything lead to her suicide? He doesn't have any clue either."

Xinyi pursed her lips and glanced at Zhiyuan. "Zhiyuan, Mom seemed a little distraught yesterday."

"Yeah. I noticed it too. Dad was also glaring at her for some reason."

Xinyi looked at her brother. "Yunru, in the suicide report, did you get any clue?"

"It's only written that she jumped from the terrace, and the rest of it was unreadable. Clearly, the truth was destroyed. I am amazed that I got my hands on the suicide report. Guess the cops at that time did a sloppy job after taking the bribery. There are no other investigation records for her death or who drove her to commit suicide. By the way, I came across another interesting thing about Uncle An."

Shuang narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean?"

"While I was investigating, I came to know that…"

Yunru turned to look at Zhiyuan. "Your Mom and Uncle An were actually friends."

Zhiyuan and Zizi were shocked.

"Mom?"

"Yeah. Aunt Xia Liqin. They know each other because they went to the same high school. Then she went off to a different college, and Uncle An went off to another where Aunt Han Zongying studied."

This came as a shocking twist to everyone.

Xia Liqin and An Guoting were good friends of the past.

Xinyi said, "But she doesn't act like she knows him."

"That's the question. You asked them what happened, but she didn't admit that she knew Uncle An from before. About the whole cheating thing - I think she would have not believed it either. But she was studying somewhere else, so, unfortunately, she couldn't stand up for him."

Zhiyuan pressed his brow. "But why would she behave as if she is a stranger to him? Isn't it too much of a coincidence that Mom and Aunt were sisters-in-law, and then Uncle An met her years later?"

This whole thing was getting more and more bizarre.

Zizi felt her head ache. "What should we do next? Everything is so confusing. Ughhh! Why does nobody want to come out with the truth!?"

Shuang said, "I was going to meet He Lijuan anyway. I am hundred percent sure that that bitch planned to set up Dad to make him break up. I will meet her and make her cough up the truth," she dangerously said as she cracked her knuckles.

Jack Si coughed. "I guess I will be needed to treat some injuries... Better safe than sorry."

Xinyi nodded. "I agree. Uncle An's business was flourishing at that time, and some women... start to cling onto such men for money and drive a wedge in their relationship," she grimaced.

Zhiyuan said, "Xinyi and I will try to find out about Mom and Uncle An's relationship. She was a good friend, but why is she keeping quiet about everything when Uncle An was innocent?"

Yunru agreed. "Well then I can try and investigate more on Aunt Han Zongying's suicide and see if I could get anything more on it."

Zizi exclaimed. "Me! I will help Yunru too!"

He nodded. "If we could find the officer-in-charge at that time who handled her case and presumably accepted Grandpa's bribe to erase the suicide record, then it would be of great help."

He squinted his eyes. "We could also investigate the hospital where she was taken to after her death."