Chapter 288 - Blowing the Lid off Our Cohabitation (1/2)
An Ru felt like she barely knew Mei Jing at all, at least not this version of Mei Jing. During her previous interaction with Mei Jing, An Ru found Mei Jing to be naive and childish. However, there was nothing remotely childish or naive about the woman before her eyes right then. Before her was an ice queen who radiated coldness from head to toe.
“Here’s the thing. I’m a petty-minded sort of person.” Ah Sha smiled, though her eyes were icy and glacial. “You and I are pretty much strangers. And yet you never even hesitated in doing something that cruel to me, despite the fact that I’m just a stranger to you.”
“Before, I thought you were just confused, and maybe a little bit deluded. I never expected you to be a complete maniac!” Those were the same words that Wan Qingsi had used when An Ru first returned.
An Ru gave Ah Sha a death stare. “You’ve taken Qingsi from me. Yeah, I hired a few thugs to rape you. So what?” An Ru said smugly. “You might’ve escaped this time, but you won’t be so lucky next time.”
An Ru hadn’t once stopped to consider how Ah Sha had escaped from the clutches of those thugs completely unharmed. The fact that Ah Sha had just magically appeared on top of her balcony seemed to have escaped An Ru as well.
“That’s too bad, then!” Ah Sha slowly approached An Ru. “You don’t have the chance to do anything anymore.”
All of a sudden, An Ru found herself paralyzed. “You… What the hell have you done to me?”
Ah Sha took out a tiny, red pill and shoved it into An Ru’s mouth. “You’ll know soon enough.”
An Ru stared at Ah Sha, panicking. Then, she felt the pill dissolving in her mouth.
Ah Sha rubbed her hands together a few times and then went back outside to the balcony. She did a backflip and allowed herself to fall off the ledge. As she fell, Ah Sha waved at An Ru. “See you tomorrow! If you can still walk out the door, that is…” Ah Sha’s voice echoed into the night.
Chieftain Mo Lin once said that the cruelest thing a poisoner could do was to keep their victims fully conscious after poisoning them; that way, the victim would be left to experience every horrifying second as the poison took over their body. Such a process would suffice to drive a person out of their mind. That night, this kind hellish and excruciating process was exactly what An Ru was put through.
Ah Sha dragged Wan Qingsi out of bed bright and early next morning.
“The police will come to arrest me later! Xunxun, you must protect me, okay?” She said.
Wan Qingsi watched her in amusement. “What on earth did you do to that foolish woman?”
“You’ll know in a bit.”
Indeed, their doorbell rang just when they were finishing breakfast.
Wan Qingsi opened the door. Two police officers, one male and the other female, stood at the door.
“Mr. Wan, I’m sorry to disturb you so early in the morning,” the female officer said courteously. “We have some very important questions to ask one of your celebrities, Mei Jing. Can you tell us where we can find her?” #
Wan Qingsi invited the two officers inside. Moments later, the two officers saw Mei Jing sauntering out of the kitchen.
The male officer blushed, and then quickly cleared his throat when his felt Wan Qingsi’s cold gaze on him. “Miss Mei Jing,” the male officer said, “we need to ask you a few questions.”
“Sure. Please, have a seat!” Ah Sha took a seat on the couch. Wan Qingsi walked over and sat down beside her.
The female officer frowned and looked at Ah Sha with both envy and contempt.
Ah Sha ignored the female officer’s stare and turned her attention to the male officer instead. “How can I help you, officer?”
“Do you know An Ru?”
“Well, I wouldn’t say that I know her,” Ah Sha said, shaking her head. “We only met twice.”
“And you’d been in an argument with her during the filming yesterday?”
“Yeah. She tripped me up on purpose!” Ah Sha said with a hurt look on her face, rubbing herself deliberately against Wan Qingsi’s side. “Please end your contract with her later, okay? I don’t want to see that woman ever again!”
Wan Qingsi played along and nodded his head like an old pervert. “Fine. I’ll fire her immediately.” Once he was done talking, he even slid his hand up Ah Sha’s thigh for good measure.
A longing look formed on the male officer’s face. The female officer’s gaze on Ah Sha became even more frosty; the woman might as well have a speech bubble drawn beside her head with three words: You shameless b*tch.
The female officer sprang to her feet. “Miss Mei Jing. Last night, you visited An Ru’s house and harmed her physically. Now, we lawfully request that you come down with us to the police station to aid in our investigation.”
Wan Qingsi glowered. “Who said she went to An Ru’s house last night? She was with me the whole night.”
“Mr. Wan, please do not attempt to cover for the suspect. We will conduct a thorough investigation after this and show you the evidence implicating Miss Mei Jing of the crime.” Unlike with Ah Sha, the female officer had used a far gentler tone when she was speaking to Wan Qingsi.
Upon hearing that she was about to be brought away, tears welled up in Ah Sha’s eyes. She threw herself into Wan Qingsi’s arms.
“But I was with you the whole night. We were doing… doing… that,” Ah Sha said. “She’s accusing me of a crime that I didn’t commit!”
The male officer blushed once again. Everyone knew what Ah Sha’s “that” referred to.
Frowning, the female officer stepped forward and reached for Ah Sha’s arm. Wan Qingsi slapped the officer’s hand away. “Without proof, nobody is taking her anywhere,” Wan Qingsi growled.
“It isn’t difficult at all to obtain proof,” said the male officer. “Just follow us to the building’s control room and we’ll examine last night’s surveillance footage. That way, we’ll know for sure whether Miss Mei Jing left the building last night.”
Ah Sha shared a look with Wan Qingsi, and then she smiled. “Okay. Let’s go.”
The two officers were utterly flummoxed after the security guard had replayed the surveillance footage from the night before.
“Are you sure the surveillance cameras have no blind spots?” Asked the female officer persistently.
Having been made aware that this inquiry involved Wan Qingsi, the manager of the building’s security team had decided to personally attend to the police officers. The manager seemed rather offended by the female officer’s insinuation. “Of course there aren’t any blind spots. Our apartments are among the best in the city.”
They had gone through the surveillance footages of the building’s main entrance, car park, elevators as well as all of the building’s exits; none of them showed any signs of Mei Jing leaving the building last night. The footage of the main entrance showed Mei Jing entering the building yesterday evening, alone. She had never taken a single step out of the building since. All the footages came with timestamps. Half an hour after Mei Jing had entered the building, they saw Wan Qingsi rushing into the elevator.