Chapter 1971

Guo Lei left, and Li Xiaofen breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Chen asked her: "Xiaofen, does this Guo Lei often come to harass you?"

Li Xiaofen shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "That guy is a famous smiling tiger in Chinatown. You see him smiling and being polite to everyone, but in his bones, he's more evil than anyone."

Ye Chen frowned and asked: "Can you be more specific?"

"This..." Li Xiaofen glanced in the direction of the storeroom, then whispered: "I'll tell you slowly when I have a chance."

As soon as she finished speaking, Claudia had already walked out. She looked at Ye Chen and said seriously: "Guo Lei was involved in telecom fraud in China. After the matter was exposed, he fled to Canada and sought refuge with my mother..."

"Guo Lei's grandfather and my grandmother were siblings, so the two families were somewhat related. Moreover, Guo Lei was the only son in his family. His mother was afraid he would be thrown into prison, so she begged my mother to take him in. Later, my mother arranged for him to work as a driver for my father..."

"Three months ago, Guo Lei and the group's second-in-command tried to persuade my father to cooperate with American gangs, but my father did not agree;"

"Two months ago, someone set fire to my family's house. Of the five people in the family, only I luckily escaped..."

"Since then, the group's second-in-command took over my father's position, and Guo Lei became his favorite subordinate..."

Ye Chen asked her: "Is there any evidence to prove that they set the fire?"

"No." Claudia said with red eyes, firmly: "Although there is no direct evidence, it must have been them."

Ye Chen asked again: "What did the police say?"

Claudia pursed her lips and whispered: "The Vancouver police said the fire was an accident, saying that rats chewed through the cables in the basement, causing a short circuit, and the fire ignited flammable materials stored in the basement. The flammable materials they mentioned were fifty gallons of gasoline. Our family had never stored gasoline in the basement before..."

Speaking of this, Claudia choked up: "Moreover, Guo Lei had made an appointment with my mother a week in advance to come to our house for dinner on the night of the fire. That day, he specifically brought two bottles of red wine and some drinks for my younger brothers. Because I never really liked him, I didn't eat at home that night. After that meal, the fire happened that very night..."

Claudia wiped away her tears and continued: "When the fire started, I went to my parents' room first. At that time, I discovered that my parents were no longer breathing. Immediately after, I went to my two younger brothers' room, and they also had no breathing or heartbeat..."

Li Xiaofen was dumbfounded and blurted out: "Then... then that means... your parents and your two younger brothers didn't die in the fire! This was clearly murder. Didn't the police investigate?"

Claudia shook her head and said: "The result announced by the police was that they died in an accident. After I escaped from the fire scene, I found a place to hide. During the days I was hiding, Guo Lei signed the cremation consent form as a family member, and then my parents and two younger brothers were cremated. This matter became impossible to verify."

Li Xiaofen subconsciously said: "You should have gone to the police to report them for murder, tell the police about these circumstances, and let the police arrest them all!"

Ye Chen said lightly at this moment: "Xiaofen, the reason Claudia is still alive is because she didn't tell the police about these circumstances."

"Yes..." Claudia nodded gently and whispered: "They thought I luckily escaped from the fire, but they didn't know that I had actually discovered that my parents and brothers were already dead when the fire happened..."

"If they knew this, they definitely wouldn't have let me live."

Li Xiaofen couldn't help but ask: "Then since you escaped, why did you come back?"

Claudia said helplessly: "What else could I do if I didn't come back? If I didn't come back, they would have guessed that I must have known something, which is why I didn't dare to come back. In that case, they would have searched for me everywhere and killed me to silence me..."

"On the contrary, I came back, which made them feel that everything they did was seamless, thinking that I definitely didn't know anything."

"Moreover, they didn't doubt my explanation either. I told them that the reason I disappeared for a period of time was because my family passed away and my face was burned, and the blow was too great, so I didn't want to see anyone. It wasn't until I slowly accepted this reality that I decided to come back."

Li Xiaofen asked again: "Then what if they are worried and want to cut the weeds and pull up the roots?"

"They won't." Claudia shook her head and said: "The deaths of my parents and brothers were already disguised by them as a major accident. Now that I'm back, in everyone's eyes, I'm just the poor wretch who was the only one to survive."

"If I were to suddenly die one day, it would seem too deliberate in the eyes of outsiders. So as long as they are sure I don't know the inside story, they won't risk killing me;"

"What's more, if I want to avenge my parents and two younger brothers, I must return to Vancouver to have a chance!"

Speaking of this, Claudia's tears broke the dam again: "It's just that when I came back, my parents and two younger brothers had already been cremated and buried hastily. As their only relative, I couldn't send them on their final journey..."