Chapter 757

"What is there to ask about something that already has a clear outcome?" Zhang Tezhu grumbled.

Guo Nan rolled her eyes, "You can shut up now."

"I'll be heading off first; I have some messes to clean up." Zhang Tezhu glanced at his phone; there were a few messages he hadn't had time to deal with while in the hospital room earlier.

"Fine."

——

Song Ziqi found a doctor she was familiar with to ask about Shu Xia's condition.

She didn't ask directly, but instead changed her phrasing to fish for information.

Piecing things together, along with her own guesses, she learned the general situation.

Shu Xia was injured, though it wasn't certain if it was a car accident.

It was because Shu Xia had been injected with drugs that she had fallen into a long coma.

So...

Who had injected Shu Xia with drugs?

What type of drug was injected?

Song Ziqi pondered over and over, a premonition lingering in her heart that as long as she found out what Shu Xia had experienced tonight, she would have a chance to get Brother Mu Ting back by her side.

Suddenly, she thought of Mu Ting's father; she had heard that Mu Ting's father had already returned to Jing City.

She had met him twice.

Perhaps she needed to take this step.

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Inside the massive villa, it was a scene of chaos.

Cigarette butts had already filled the ashtray.

Several wine bottles were also empty.

A jumble of messy odors swirled together throughout the house.

The servants who usually worked in the villa were nowhere to be seen now.

They had clocked out three hours early.

In a bathroom upstairs, Hua Qian lay in the bathtub, scrubbing her skin incessantly, as if there were some disgusting filth on it.

Once she felt she had cleaned herself thoroughly, she walked downstairs.

Seeing the scene on the first floor, it was as if someone had grabbed her by the throat.

Qiao Guanqing raised his head and looked over.

The long-married couple stood facing each other.

In the past, they had been mutually supportive and respectful; no matter the storms outside, the two of them had always appeared loving and affectionate at home.

But now, it seemed the masks they wore at all times had shattered.

Neither could forget the scene that had occurred an hour ago.

Hua Qian had never hated someone as she did now, a true, tangible hatred.

"Husband, I am the one who is the complete victim, aren't I?" As soon as the words left Hua Qian's mouth, her face was already covered in tears.

She was, after all, a triple-crown Best Actress from back in the day.

She could be flawless at any moment.

It was just that she hated Qiao Guanqing's hypocrisy; at the critical moment, he had actually been able to compromise with Qiao Muting for his own sake and then push her out.

"You hate me? If you hadn't picked the wrong person today and let Qiao Muting easily seize the evidence, how would we have ended up in this state? I saw you enjoying it just now; no matter how I touched you these past two years, you never had much feeling—you should be laughing in secret." Qiao Guanqing sneered, his words reckless with drunken spite.

Hua Qian was dumbfounded, "Have you lost your mind? This whole thing was your instruction from start to finish. I did as you ordered, and the person I found was also approved by you! Even tonight's incident, you were the one who pushed me out; I am the victim! And yet you still want to humiliate me!"

"I haven't been without women all these years, and you haven't been without men. I've even seen videos more explosive than tonight's, so what are you pretending for?" Emboldened by the alcohol, Qiao Guanqing tore away the last shred of decency.