Ming Fangsu's explanation made sense to her so Zhang Jei agreed but before leaving the room, she asked nanny Song to prepare the bath for Ming Fangsu.
"See you in the morning, sister-in-law." Miang Fangsu smiled slightly and Zhang Jei got up from the bed to leave the room. Nanny Song collected her torn clothes on the floor to keep them away and left the room along with Zhang Jei.
Once they left, the smile on Ming Fangsu's face disappeared as if till now she was wearing a mask of acting normal. The moment she heard Zhang Jei talking about calling the doctor and then punishing the culprit, the only thing crossed her mind was her father.
Ming Fangsu knew it would kill her father from the inside, who loved her more than anything and had only one dream in life to keep his daughter as a princess, away from all the worries and problems in the world. Knowing this would only break the man. She couldn't tell her father and neither did she had the courage to face him with a fake smile on her face every day while she herself was dying inside.
For her, it was impossible to live with the humiliation she got and she could never punish the culprit as she wanted to hide it. She had to see Zhang Wei every day and act as nothing happened, which was impossible for her.
To get away from everything, she thought of only one solution, and that is to go away from everything forever.
Sauntering, she went towards the wardrobe to get the bathrobe to cover herself and then went to her study table to get the paper cutter from the drawer.
Sitting in the bathtub, with water covering her till her shoulders, she kept looking at the ceiling for a while. All the memories from her childhood days were passing in front of her eyes as many as she could remember. Not thinking twice, she cut her wrist as the words left her mouth, "I am sorry, father."
A painful smile painted on her lips, as she closed her eyes while tears rolled down from them. The blood from her wrist continued changing the color of the water to the red. Ming Fangsu, the girl loved and cherished by everyone, her soul left the world in silence.
Zhang siblings were sitting quietly for a while as both couldn't say anything when they once again remembered the hurting memories from that day.
"Now I feel, you should have punished me for my sin at that time, elder sister." Zhang Wei said, his eyes moist and voice heavy.
"What do you think, I didn't think about it. When I saw Ming Fangsu lying lifelessly in that bathtub, the first thought that came to my mind was to come to you and kill you the very moment."
"Why didn't you do it then? Why did you hide the truth and protected me?"
Zhang Jei left out a soft chuckle. "Protecting you, huh? Do you really think I did it to protect you? My love for my brother is not that blind that I will turn a blind eye towards the heinous crime committed by him. I did it to protect my father-in-law and to fulfill the promise made by me to Ming Fangsu before she died. I did it as the earnest wish of the dead person."
"Promise?" Zhang Wei asked surprisingly.
"Her last wish was to not let her father know about it as it will just result in the biggest disaster. Later I thought of breaking that promise and to tell my father-in-law what had happened so he could punish you, but seeing him devastated I couldn't do it. As Ming Fangsu said, he would have taken his life and I saw him losing his will to live once he lost his daughter."
"Before leaving this world, she had thought about all this instead of the pain I gave her," said Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei nodded. "Hmm, but the heartless person like you can't understand it. I didn't break off a relationship with you even after knowing it, just because I had no reason to tell others why I hated you and instead of repenting on your mistakes, you continued blaming Lu Jinhai. Whatever you say, you can't change the fact that you are the one who killed her and it was no one else's fault."
The tears rolled down from his eyes. "I know, I was wrong to blame Lu Jinhai for it but I needed someone to vent it out and I made more mistakes."
"At least now you can see the reality. I am here to warn you, not involve my son in this and if you try to harm Lu Qiang, I won't sit still. At the time of Lu Jinhai I was late, but this time I won't."
"I don't have any plan to hurt him and I never had one."
"Always remember, Lu Qiang is the reason that so many things and people are in peace and the day you will hurt him, it will just bring a disaster. He kept it a secret as I begged him for the sake of my father-in-law and for him, the life of one old man was important than the false accusation that his father got for all those years. The reason he never came to you must be that he had thought about you worse than a lowlife, knowing how righteous Lu Qiang is."
"You can trust me that I don't have any bad intentions towards him. My all attention is towards Ming Rusheng and trust me I won't let him take a wrong path."
"I don't know if I can trust you but I am sure about whom I can't trust. Xi Cheng, stay away from him. You know it better than anyone else that he is no less than a poisonous snake."
"Hmm!"
"I shall leave now as it was enough suffocating sharing the same as air as you." Saying Zhang Jei stood up from the sofa and Zhang Wei couldn't stop her or say anything to her hurting words, he had no right to.
Once his sister left, Zhang Wei sat with his head lowered, having regrets about so many mistakes that he committed one after another. He could still remember clearly the day when he saw Ming Fangsu's dead body and how much it shocked him as if the sky had fallen on his head and how much he regretted it.
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