1212 I Want to Make You Stay 90 (2/2)
She subconsciously got the shivers upon recalling the scenario last night. She grabbed his shirt and said worriedly, ”You are to bring me along everywhere you go from now on.”
”Okay.”
”You can't leave me alone, not even for a minute.”
”Okay.”
”You'll have to accompany me, even if I'm going to the washroom.”
”Okay.”
Feeling much more secure after hearing his answers, Fang Erlan asked, ”What happened to the man who stabbed me?”
”He's dead.”
”Did you ask him why he wanted to kill me, then?”
Xiao Chenyang moved her hand away and stood up to grab a document from the table, on which there was a colored photograph. He explained, ”He said that this woman instigated him to kill you. Do you… know her? The information shows that she's from the same village as you.”
Fang Erlan squinted to take a look and said, ”She does look very familiar…”
”Her name is Fang Ruzhen.”
”Fang Ruzhen?” A sudden memory from her past popped up in her head. She took a closer look at the photo, after which she turned as pale as a sheet and was at a sudden loss for words.
”Erlan, what's the matter?”
Tears welled up in Fang Erlan's eyes, and her vision began to get blurry. ”Ruzhen… Fang Ruzhen…”
Noticing that she was behaving unusually, Xiao Chenyang asked, ”Do you really know her?”
Fang Erlan nodded with tears in her eyes and said, ”I do, but she's been missing for more than a decade. Why would she… suddenly want to kill me… I don't have a feud with her.”
”Are you sure that you didn't have any conflict with her that made her bear a grudge against you?”
After going through her memories carefully, Fang Erlan answered, ”No, we're childhood friends and we used to play together when we were children. Later on, her mother killed her father cruelly and Ruzhen went missing afterward. Her grandparents, uncle, and aunt tried to search for her everywhere but did not manage to find her even after a long time. I never saw her again ever since.”
After some thought, Xiao Chenyang said, ”It'd be impossible for her to try and kill you without any reason. Perhaps you did offend her but you're just unaware of it. But you haven't seen each other for so many years. Children probably wouldn't bear grudges for so long. It doesn't make any sense at all.”
”Are you sure that she was the one who had instigated the man to do it?”
”Yes, there's a voice recording. Listen to it.” Xiao Chenyang replayed the voice recording and said, ”I've already verified that the voice belongs to her. I've also found her address and contact number. Would you like to contact her and ask her about it yourself?”
”Yes. Give it to me, I'll call her now to ask her just why she wanted to kill me,” Fang Erlan urged agitatedly.
”Okay, don't get too worked up and impatient.” He then dialed Fang Ruzhen's mobile number.
After a melodious dial tone, a woman answered coldly, ”Hello, who's speaking?”
”Are you Ms. Fang Ruzhen?” Xiao Chenyang asked.
”Yes. You are?”
”I'm Ms. Fang Erlan's bodyguard. She has something to say to you,” Xiao Chenyang answered before handing the phone to Fang Erlan.
Fang Erlan held the mobile phone with trembling hands and asked straightaway, ”Ruzhen, it really is you. Why did you do that?”
”Why… did I do what?” Fang Ruzhen had yet to recover from the shock of receiving a sudden call from her. She was completely caught off guard and was at a momentary loss for an answer.