Chapter 1347: I Only Want You (45)
While drinking, he told him, “Beicheng, Mo Li’s pregnant.
“It isn’t my child.
“Do you think, if I had cherished her earlier, things wouldn’t have ended up like this?
“I regret it so badly.
“Beicheng, there’s no point in living anymore.”
“…”
Gu Beicheng remarked as he watched him, “It’s not like you to be putting yourself through such torment. In this world, not everybody gets to be with the one they love.”
“Oh right… I forgot. You didn’t get to be with your G.o.dsister either. But why can’t I be one of those who can be with the person they love? It’s all my fault… I’m a jerk…”
“Just treat your current wife well and live well with her. Isn’t that good too?”
Ye Xiaotian looked at him. “Beicheng, you haven’t experienced the feeling of getting something and then losing it. It’s worse than never getting a shot with the person you love.”
Gu Beicheng was indifferent. “No matter whether you lost someone you had or that you never got to be with the person at all, isn’t the result the same? Xiaotian, don’t think that someone who left you will still turn back for you. Even if you’re dead, nothing will change in Mo Li’s life. At the most, when she has nothing to do, she might think of having spent an unhappy time with a man like you. So you should take things easy. It’s only when you lead a good life that, when the two of you meet again one day, you’ll be able to give each other your blessing. That’ll be the best ending.”
Ye Xiaotian looked at him blankly. He had to admit, Gu Beicheng’s words had gone straight to his heart.
On this night, Ye Xiaotian did not go home but stayed at the Gu residence after drinking too much.
After settling him down, Gu Beicheng went upstairs again.
“He’s gone?”
“No, he drank too much. He’s staying over at the guest room.” Gu Beicheng placed his son, who had finished eating, in the baby cot. Covering him with a blanket, he was satisfied that it would warm him enough as the heat in the room was enough.
He took off his coat, opened the covers, and lay down on the bed. “Xiaotian said that Mo Li’s pregnant and that his mother’s pa.s.sed away. He’s very upset.”
“From how I see it, he deserves it,” Lin Mingxi couldn’t help but say. “Back then, he divorced me and got back together with Mo Li. I was thinking back then that at least this pair of lovers had a good ending. To think that such a big reversal would take place. Mo Li must be living a good life now with a man that treats her so well.”
“Don’t say that, he regrets it very much too.” Gu Beicheng went on slowly, “But if it were me, things wouldn’t have ended up like this. Sometimes, our character really determines our fate. It makes sense in a way. If, in principle, it was Mother’s fault, I wouldn’t let her have her way.”
After hearing his words, Lin Mingxi said with a smile as she rested her head on his shoulder, “I feel that this is the happiest time of my life. I have my husband, child, and family. Although we’ve been through tough times, I think that life hasn’t let me down. Beicheng, thank you for letting me be your wife.”
Gu Beicheng held onto her hand. “Thank you for letting me stay by your side as well.”
The couple exchanged looks and broke into smiles.
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It had been quite a long time, and An Xiaoning had still yet to open the investigation for the second case. Seeing how there was still no progress after quite some time, Pan Zhenghui called her to try to find out when she would begin investigating the case.
An Xiaoning simply replied, “Why are you anxious about this? It’s a case that happened so long ago, would it matter if it takes a bit more time?”
“I can wait, but the main point is that the victim’s family can’t. Xiaoning, you won’t be able to imagine what kind of life the family of the victim, Jiang Guoguo, is living now.”
“I know. I’ve read the case file already. But no matter how much of a rush they are in, it still has to wait until I’m ready to start investigating it formally. I haven’t even fully understood where to begin with it.”
“I get this, I do, so I just want to ask you about when you will be able to start investigating it.”
“Probably within these next few days.”
“Alright, then, I’ll wait for you to come to the station.”
After hanging up the call, An Xiaoning rested her hands behind her head and lay on the sofa, a scene appearing in her head.
It was of a pretty and innocent-looking female university student who was brutally murdered in her dormitory in school. The murderer used a rope to tie the victim, who was asleep, to the metal ends of the bed. Her eyes were first stabbed by a sharp weapon, then her stomach was cut open.
These were not enough. After this was done, the perpetrator splashed hydrofluoric acid on the victim. By splas.h.i.+ng such a strong acid on her, even her bones would have melted into liquid form.
As one can imagine, the victim had suffered such horrible torment before dying.
It was not an understatement to say that she had died due to immense pain.
Despite it being such a brutal murder, and under the circ.u.mstance where there was concrete evidence to convict the perpetrator, the murderer was actually able to escape from the law ’til today.
It was clearer to An Xiaoning than to anyone else that there was no complete fairness in society.
Fourteen years had pa.s.sed since the murder.
Even when there had been concrete evidence to convict the murderer, they had failed to do so back then. This gave her little confidence that she would be able to change things now.
Which was why she had yet to start the formal investigation of this case all this while.
Even then, it did not mean that she was not thinking about the case.
She crawled out from her covers and, after was.h.i.+ng up, she opened the door of her wardrobe and chose a red feathered coat with black leggings, along with a pair of snow boots. Slinging her bag over her shoulder, she then went downstairs.
After eating breakfast, she went back to the university campus where the murder had taken place back then.
As the case back then had created a sensation in the whole nation and had not been cracked for so many years, the dormitory where the murder had taken place was not allowing students to stay there anymore. It had been locked up all these years and had not even been used as a storage place.
Her sudden arrival was surprising to the princ.i.p.al and other leaders of the university. They had thought that something had happened in their school, but when they heard that she wanted to visit the dormitory where the murder had taken place, they suddenly understood something.
“An Xiaoning, are you going to re-investigate this case now?”
“I do have such plans. Princ.i.p.al, don’t you want this cold case to be resolved and the reputation of your university in A City to improve?”
“Ms. An, of course, I wish for that. This incident created an all-time low record for our student enrollment back then. Previously I saw how Ms. An cracked a more than 20-year-old case. I was just thinking, if Ms. An were to come and investigate this case, there will be hopes for it be cracked.”
An Xiaoning made a gesture for them to lead the way. “Then let’s cut straight to the chase. You can show me the dormitory.”
The princ.i.p.al got the chief to get the keys, and they went over together once the chief came back with it.
The school had built a new dormitory building while the dormitory where the murder had taken place appeared old and shabby.
They went up the staircase from the first to the third floor.
At last, they landed before the door of room 317.
The lock had not been opened for a long time and was extremely difficult to unlock. Even after a long time, they were still unable to unlock it. The princ.i.p.al could only remark generously, “Smash the lock and replace it with a new one.”
When the door was finally opened, the princ.i.p.al led them inside and put on the air as the leader of the school. “Ms. An, look. This is the bed where the crime took place.”