Jiang Ci sobbed and said scornfully： “You asked for it. I told you not to provoke Mr. Xi a long time ago, but you deliberately got involved and became black and blue all over your body. You were tortured for three years in vain.”

I pursed my lips and hedged. I didn’t want to mention this topic again. Instead I asked him： “Do you remember my case of robbery three years ago?”

“They haven’t found the robber, and the police station wound up the case hastily.”

Jiang Ci handed me the apple that had been peeled. I took it over and bit it. Then, I heard him saying as if he were suddenly enlightened： “You know who the robber is?”

I nodded and sneered： “I have always known it, but I was just saving face for Xi Jingnan, and didn’t want to fuss about with a dead person.”

Jiang Ci frowned： “Are you referring to Chen Sixuan?”

“Doesn’t Xi Jingnan love Chen Sixuan a lot? I want to see whether he wants to protect his old flame or see the truth!”

“Mo Tao, you look so horrible now!”

I patted my face, stared at him and asked： “Really?”

“Like an avenging minor actress in TV dramas.”

“Do you want to say that minor actresses are bound to be cannon fodder?”

Jiang Ci lifted his eyebrows, and reminded me of an eternal truth： “All leading actresses have plot armors, have you seen any minor actress with a happy ending?”

What was wrong with being a minor actress? I wouldn’t be cannon fodder.

Even if I was, I would drag Xi Jingnan into water first!

I took out my cellphone and sent the recordings I had saved for years to Jiang Ci. I reminded him： “You know some people in the police station. Transfer this evidence calmly and don’t lead Xi Jingnan to investigate me!”

“You are the victim, what if he investigates you?”

Jiang Ci dismissed it, and I shook my head： “It’s not the same. There are some differences between knowing the truth from others and knowing it from me.”

At least, he would feel guiltier.

Jiang Ci guessed my mind and said： “I know what is on your mind, you want to make him believe that you’ve been wronged for three years in vain and then he would pity you out of kindness? You want to make him sympathize with your forbearance for three years?”

I stared at him and said： “Stop talking nonsense!”

Jiang Ci sighed, got up and left while saying： “I have an operation this afternoon, so I can’t chat with you now. I’ll handle everything for you soon.”

I thanked him gratefully, and before long, I received a phone call from Hu Yang. He asked me curiously： “Did the method work yesterday ?”

I couldn’t help rolling my eyes and reminded him： “Look at how gossipy you are! You must have forgotten that I am your woman!”

Hu Yang became sober and said： “Pooh! We should have broken up!”

I said perfunctorily： “I’ll hang up first. I have things to attend to.”

The minute I hung up on Hu Yang, I received another phone call. He asked me in a loud and clear voice： “Do you want to unravel the truth?”

“Yes, Cousin Xichen.”

I got to know Ye Xichen in America. My mother’s parents introduced me to him. They wanted to give me someone to lean on when I was in America.

However, up till now, I had not been clear about Ye Xichen’s identity.

While Ye Xichen was the only one who knew that Xi Jingnan had double personality besides me. Since he knew a lot about psychology, I had asked him a lot about the condition of Xi Jingnan, without learning anything. None of us knew why double personality would explode in a healthy man.

One side of him was freaking normal,

but had no feeling towards me.

The other side, however, was quite extreme, loving me so much.

The side that loved me barely existed.

It was just such little hope that made me persist for three years.

Ye Xichen said faintly： “Tao, I am happy that you are no longer wronged and no longer bear that much. I wish you can find out the truth and give yourself an answer. If you are really tired someday, go to America and find me.”

This promise was invaluable.

I consented： “OK.”

In the afternoon, I received a phone call from the police station. They informed me that I would be summoned for interrogation. I pretended to be confused and asked： “What’s the matter?”

“There are new evidences about the robbery case which you were involved in.”

I put on an exquisite black lace dress, took a taxi and stopped at the door of the police station. I staggered inside wearing sunglasses.

As soon as I entered the corridor, I saw Xi Jingnan. He looked at me with an indifferent face. I took off the sunglasses and walked up to him with lame feet.

I had intended to say a few words sarcastically, but he suddenly seized my arms and pulled me into a room next door which looked like a warehouse inside.

He pressed me against the door with his tough body, and his cool breath fell beside my ears heavily, hitting on my heart that had long fallen into pieces.

I hooked his neck with my hands, and my lips lightly rubbed the corner of lips of Xi Jingnan. I asked in a low voice： “Officer Xi, what do you want to do?”

“Why didn’t you tell the truth about the robbery case three years ago now that you knew it? There is your oral confession in the police station, you clearly mentioned that you didn’t know the robber, then what about your dialogue with Chen Sixuan?”

It seemed that Xi Jingnan had listened to the recording.

I rubbed the back of his neck lightly with my finger tips, and smiled in a coquettish and careless way： “As for the robbery case, why didn’t you think about the reason she was on the spot when I fled away and fell to the sea with Chen Sixuan? Besides, when the policemen interrogated me, Chen Sixuan had passed away, why would I lay it bare again? Let alone you were so wrathful and would only be anxious to peel my skin and suck the blood in my bones. Would you believe in what I said?”

Xi Jingnan’s pupils shrank and turned as dark as ink. I couldn’t see the color on his face clearly, so I had to approach him with my own body, rubbed it against him lightly, exhaled around his ears and said： “My legs were broken by her with a club, if I hadn’t caught you, I would be the one lying in the gravestone! However calculating Chen Sixuan was, she would never have expected that I was the one nearer to you!”

“Shut up!”

It was as if I had subverted the holiness and purity of Chen Sixuan in Xi Jingnan’s mind. He parted his lips and bit mine. They smelt of fish. He suddenly let go of me, and before I could respond, he lowered his head again and bit.

I opened my lips, his fingers pulled down the zip on my dress, which fell on the ground. My whole breasts bumped into him...