Chapter 301 - Someone Saw Her (1/2)
Chapter 301: Someone Saw Her
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Huo Jialan’s face was now deathly pale She nodded slowly and said, her voice groeaker with every syllable, “…On the night of my mother’s death, my… my mother suddenly called o downstairs to see her”
“What happened after that?”
“It was the ht, and I was asleep Her phone call woke me up She sounded very weak, so I rushed downstairs to see as going on”
“Wait a ht?” Gu Nianzhi asked “But you previously said that you found your mother’s lifeless body on her bed in the early hours of thethat you went to your mother’s rooether in an expression of pain and closed her eyes There was a sob in her voice when she said, “Yes, I went to her rooht before”
Bai Jinyi’s heart raced as a chill ran down her spine She could hear her heart ha in her ears
She had not expected Luo Xinxue to have had the strength to call her daughter that night!
So she had been playing dead before that!
Gu Nianzhi watched Bai Jinyi from the corner of her eye as she questioned Huo Jialan
Every change in Bai Jinyi’s expression, no ht, did not escape Gu Nianzhi’s hawk-like eyes
Gu Nianzhi nodded to herself She knew that she was on the right track
10 years had passed, and there was virtually no direct evidence left The best they could do noas to try and find first-hand witnesses
Huo Jialan had been the first to discover Luo Xinxue’s lifeless body, which meant she was either the murderer, or the person most familiar with the scene of the crime
Gu Nianzhi was fully aware of that, and had su went—kill two birds with one stone
She calht before”
Huo Jialan pressed her lips together She looked at Bai Jinyi, over in the dock, as she said slowly, “That night, o to her roo on the floor…”
The tears finally overflowed from her eyes
10 years had passed, but her heart had never ceased aching She had lived inon the floor? Why was she on the floor? Did you see anyone else in the room?” Gu Nianzhi pressed her for more answers
“…There was no one else in the roo on the floor When I entered the room, she was already unconscious The phone receiver had fallen off the bedside table, and the room had been turned inside out There were letters scattered on the floor” Huo Jialan wiped her tears away “I carried my mother to her bed She looked like she was asleep I shook her and she opened her eyes to look at me, but immediately went back to sleep”
“Your o to her roo to you?” Gu Nianzhi asked skeptically Luo Xinxue’s behavior did not ht Maybe she was already too weak to speak by then If I had known that , I would have done everything in ht and ask her what she wanted to tell me…” Huo Jialan covered her face as she wept “I really had no idea that would be the last time I would ever see my mother alive”
Gu Nianzhi quietly waited for Huo Jialan to stop crying before asking her next question “So what you’re saying is that your ht before her death?”
Huo Jialan nodded “Yes, I believe someone broke into my mother’s rooe and trashed her own rooht up the possibility of s er believe it was e” Gu Nianzhi spread her hands quizzically “How is it possible for a thief to sneak into the Huo Residence, considering the Huo faain, Huo Jialan—as the situation back then, really?”
Huo Jialan’s eyes flickered uncertainly After a while, she said slowly: “…You’re right There’s no way a thief would be able to sneak into the house, not with my family’s status and security measures But what if it wasn’t an outsider? What if it was someone within the Huo family, or so for Huo Jialan to say this