Chapter 346: Chapter 344: We’re Done For, They’re Coming for the Two of Them

"You don’t know?!" Brother Zheng suddenly roared. "Still covering for them, even now! Just confess already!"

"If I come clean, will you let me go?" Lu Xian said.

"You think you can get away with this if you don’t talk?" Brother Zheng said.

"I can’t get away either way," Lu Xian stated. "So I’ll talk when I feel like it, and I won’t when I don’t."

Furious, Brother Zheng slammed the pen in his hand onto the table and fell silent.

"Is Brother Zheng okay?" Chu Xingrou said. "He shouldn’t get so worked up."

Su Miaoyi and the others said nothing. They didn’t know what to say, and they were a little worried too.

Lu Xian had been in this line of work for many years and had dealt with countless criminals. He was intimately familiar with their whole routine, with all their interrogation tactics.

And he knew Zhuang Yanzheng and Brother Zheng very well, too.

If he was determined not to talk, it would be genuinely difficult for them to get anything out of him.

The flicker of guilt sparked by Zhuang Yanzheng’s cigarette and Brother Zheng’s questioning had been just enough to get one answer out of him.

’This is going to be tough.’

"How’s your daughter? Has she recovered?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Lu Xian looked at him. Thinking of his daughter, a genuine smile finally touched his eyes. "She’s recovered. My mother is doing very well now, too. So... even if I die, even if I go to hell, I have no regrets."

Zhuang Yanzheng had only met his wife and daughter once.

Back when Lu Xian was in Jinghai, his wife, daughter, and mother were all living in another city.

Lu Xian had been transferred to Jinghai from that same city.

His wife, daughter, and mother rarely visited him; he would go back to see them whenever he had time.

The year Lu Xian was exposed, by the time they notified the local police department to check on his family, they were already gone.

Judging by the state of their home, they had left in a hurry. They hadn’t taken a single thing with them.

They had asked him about it before. Lu Xian had been in Jinghai for a long time; why hadn’t he moved his family over? Why did they continue to live apart?

Perhaps even then, Lu Xian had anticipated it. He was worried that if he was exposed one day, his family would be captured.

"And your wife? Is she doing well, too?" Zhuang Yanzheng said.

The smile in Lu Xian’s eyes instantly froze.

Zhuang Yanzheng watched him.

"It’s none of your business," Lu Xian said.

"What happened to your wife?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked. "I remember she was a high school teacher. Did she know you were involved in this?"

Lu Xian leaned back, head bowed. "She jumped into the sea."

Brother Zheng’s brow furrowed, and his lips twitched.

"After I was exposed, I had my family taken away. Forcibly," Lu Xian said. "She didn’t know what was happening, but she knew that if we were on the run, it had to be something bad. After we met up, she just kept asking me. She’s too smart; there was no hiding it. That’s why I never dared bring them to Jinghai. I was afraid she would find out."

"I couldn’t hide it, so I had to tell her the truth. After she knew, she would hit me, curse me, and then just give me the silent treatment. I truly never imagined... that she would take our daughter and jump into the sea when I wasn’t looking."

"A bystander saved my daughter just in time, but my wife... they never found her. They dragged the waters for a long time but never recovered the body. I found a letter she’d written to me at home. She spent two full pages cursing me, saying I wasn’t human, that I had no conscience. At the end, she told me to stop, to not go on like this. She also said... she was blind to have ended up with me, that she would never be with a person like me, and that someone like me didn’t deserve to have children."

"Stop? If I’d stopped, I would have died! If I’d stopped, the money would have been gone, and my mother and my daughter would have been left to die!"

"So, who are you working for?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Lu Xian just looked at him, saying nothing.

"Or you can answer me this: back when you were still here, who in Jinghai were you working for?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Lu Xian remained silent.

"The person who approached you, who got you to run cover for them, must be pretty important in your organization," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Otherwise, why would the famous Captain Lu deign to work with a bunch of small-timers?"

Lu Xian didn’t speak.

"Or you could just tell us who the head of your organization is," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"And what if I don’t?"

"You know the drill. If you don’t talk, we’ll be seeing each other every single day until you’re ready to," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "You’re the one who hates me; I, on the other hand, don’t mind seeing you at all. Whether as my former captain or my current enemy. And if you’re up for hearing some unpleasant things, I have an endless supply. I can even promise you a new batch every day."

"I really don’t want to see you, nor the one outside," Lu Xian said.

"Then you’d better start talking, and fast," Brother Zheng said.

"Someone who could recruit me and build this organization to its current size must be an incredibly capable and powerful person with major backing," Lu Xian said. "Zhuang Yanzheng, who do you think that might be?"

Zhuang Yanzheng didn’t say a word.

"Who else could it be in Jinghai?" Lu Xian said, staring him in the eyes. "Hengding Zhuanghe Group and the Jingshen Group, of course."

A flash of rage crossed Zhuang Yanzheng’s eyes.

Hearing the names of those two conglomerates, Su Miaoyi was speechless. "..."

’It’s over,’ she thought. ’He’s going after both of our families.’

Lu Zhishen and Chu Xingrou both turned to look at her.

Su Miaoyi sighed. The first thing that came to her mind was her connection as Shen Jun’s niece; the name "Su Miaoyi" felt utterly irrelevant. "We probably won’t be seeing each other for the next few days."

Chu Xingrou and Lu Zhishen both patted her on the shoulder in a gesture of support.

Brother Zheng was stunned for a moment before roaring, "That’s bullshit!"

"I’m telling the truth," Lu Xian said. "What? Can’t accept it? You have to, whether you like it or not. On the surface, they’re glamorous tycoons, donating money, building roads, great philanthropists. But they know exactly what kind of dirty business they’re into behind the scenes. Zhuang Yihao, Shen Jun... everything I did, I did on their orders."

"Nonsense!" Brother Zheng shouted. "Zhuang Yanzheng is a cop himself! Why would his father go to you instead of his own son? You’re saying they trust you more than their own flesh and blood?!"

"But the fact is, they came to me. Maybe he wanted to preserve his son’s clean reputation," Lu Xian said. "Otherwise, how was it Zhuang Yanzheng who suddenly showed up with a team and exposed me? Why not someone else? How do you know Zhuang Yihao wasn’t just using me to pave the way for his son? How do you know Zhuang Yihao didn’t promise me a safe escape in exchange for my cooperation?"

"And he told you to nearly beat his son to death, too?!" Brother Zheng yelled.

Zhuang Yanzheng had been in a coma for a long time; the doctors said he was lucky to have survived. He had come incredibly close to death.

"But he didn’t die, did he? It was just a ploy to gain your trust. And see? You all fell for it," Lu Xian said.

"Bullshit!" Brother Zheng yelled again.

"Didn’t you say you despise people like us? That you wanted to rely on yourself and would never use ’our’ money?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked. "Is the money from Hengding Zhuanghe Group suddenly not ’my’ money? Is that acceptable to you now? Your story is a mess, full of contradictions. Do you really think you can drag me down with you just by throwing around wild accusations?"

"The people backing me are them," Lu Xian said with a smirk. "Why should you care if my story adds up? From start to finish, they were the ones giving the orders. If you don’t believe me, feel free to go and check."

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