Chapter 56 The Revenged Prosecutor
The elevator floor display quickly reached the seventh floor.
Chen Fangli remained silent until Wang Zhao exited the elevator, and the elevator doors closed behind her.
After watching the elevator doors slowly close, he took a step back and leaned against the elevator wall, his hand half-covering his face. After a moment, his expression returned to normal, once again exhibiting that indifferent appearance.
He truly had a handsome face, and this appearance was Wang Zhao’s favorite in the past.
On the other side, Wang Zhao stood at the door for a while after exiting the elevator before entering the house. Yang Shu was sitting in the living room with the baby, and Li Zhenguan was preparing dinner in the kitchen. Whenever she came home, Li Zhenguan would personally cook.
She took the child from Yang Shu’s hands and gently touched Wang Wen’s soft cheek before quietly asking, “Was he well-behaved during the day?”
Yang Shu’s schedule was completely in line with Wang Wen’s, which could be said to be day and night reversal. He basically couldn’t sleep for a few hours at night and would take a nap in the room during the day.
“The baby was very well-behaved today and didn’t cry much.”
Of course, Wang Zhao wouldn’t believe such words. Wang Wen was not a quiet one. When Wang Zhao took a day off on weekends to take care of the child a few times, it could be said that this fellow was a little rascal. When he was awake, he had to be held, otherwise, he would wail loudly. Even Zhang Ke said that this child was not like her at all when she was young, he was a noisy one, a boy, how could he be so restless.
Not only was he unlike Wang Zhao, he didn’t even inherit a bit of Li Zhenguan’s temperament. Zhang Ke liked to call this little guy a little devil the most.
Li Zhenguan came out of the kitchen, somewhat surprised that she was home from work so punctually today. Although the unit didn’t usually work overtime, Wang Zhao would always return home half an hour late, finishing the work at hand and doing some work in advance for the next day. Moreover, she was also studying, wanting to continue to take higher-level exams.
Wang Zhao took off her coat and sat on the sofa, teasing Wang Wen for a while. The other party stretched out his hands and grabbed in the air. Now just over four months old, his eyes were very bright. At this point, it could finally be seen from his features that he somewhat resembled Wang Zhao, just those eyes were like hers.
“How was your meeting today? Did it go smoothly?” Wang Zhao put down the child in her arms and handed him back to Yang Shu. She walked towards the kitchen, ready to help, while asking Li Zhenguan.
She knew that Li Zhenguan had work today and needed to attend an international conference. He had been preparing for some time. This conference involved environmental protection, so Li Zhenguan needed to understand some relevant knowledge to avoid getting stuck due to unfamiliarity with professional terms at that time.
“Very smooth.” A smile appeared on Li Zhenguan’s face. “Because I performed well this time, I have already received another job. In half a month, there will be a financial conference at the exhibition center. Some foreign guests will come at that time, and I can go as a translator.”
This task was simpler than simultaneous interpretation, and the remuneration was generous, so he agreed.
Wang Zhao nodded, indicating that she understood. However, when serving the dishes, she hesitated for a moment but still asked, “Has the upstairs neighbor’s renovation been completed?”
Li Zhenguan stayed at home longer than her, so he should be more aware of it than her.
Li Zhenguan thought for a moment, “It should be done. I haven’t heard any noise during the day recently. However, it will probably take some time before they move in. It has just been renovated, and it will take at least half a year in between.”
Then, after saying that, he looked at the person beside him with some confusion, “What’s wrong? Is there a problem with the neighbor?”
It seemed that meeting Chen Fangli in the elevator today was a coincidence, or perhaps he came to check on the house.
Wang Zhao hesitated for a moment, looking into Li Zhenguan’s bright eyes, and her head began to ache slightly.
At this moment, she wasn’t quite sure how to bring it up. Considering that he shouldn’t appear here in the short term, Wang Zhao ultimately didn’t mention that she had encountered Chen Fangli in the elevator.
For Li Zhenguan, the current life was as happy as it could be, so blissful that he felt as if everything was like a dream, and the calm lake surface was just waiting for a small stone to create ripples.
However, he still felt a bit uneasy in his heart. He had received a gift from fate but had not paid the price that should have been paid.
As long as there was a premonition in the heart about anything, it seemed that it would become a reality in the next second. This premonition would later be called an omen.
As usual, Li Zhenguan had no plans to go out that day, so he stayed at home and took on a translation job. Yang Shu was outside with the child, but suddenly Wang Wen burst into tears, startling Li Zhenguan, who walked out of the room.
Yang Shu was carrying the little one, walking back and forth in the hall, cooing softly and singing little tunes.
Li Zhenguan asked, “Why did he suddenly start crying?”
Yang Shu didn’t know either.
“He was fine just now. He drank milk an hour ago, and it shouldn’t be time for him to be hungry,” he explained. “I just checked, and he doesn’t need a diaper change either.”
The child suddenly cried and couldn’t be stopped. At first, he thought the baby had pooped, as babies at this age couldn’t control their bowel movements, but it turned out he hadn’t.
Li Zhenguan frowned slightly, ready to take the child from the other person’s arms. However, as he passed by the coffee table, he accidentally knocked over the glass on it due to his hasty movements.
The crisp sound of the glass hitting the ceramic tile floor rang in their ears, and the child’s cry also abruptly stopped.
Yang Shu was startled but could still speak normally. He held the child and took a few steps back, afraid of being injured by the shattered glass on the floor. He quickly pulled Li Zhenguan, who seemed to be in a daze and was about to pick up the broken glass.
He said, “Sir, please go back to the room first. Be careful not to get cut by the glass. I’ll clean it up properly in a moment.”
It was also a coincidence that after the sound of the shattering glass, the baby stopped crying and returned to normal, with his hand in his mouth, looking at him with a pair of bright black eyes.
Yang Shu breathed a sigh of relief.
However, for some reason, Li Zhenguan felt as if something in his heart had shattered along with it, as if he was about to lose something. He stared blankly at the broken glass on the floor.
At this moment, his phone in the room rang, and the sound traveled through the half-closed door to the ears of the two people in the living room.
It was Wang Zhao’s ringtone, specially set by Li Zhenguan. Even Yang Shu knew it was a call from the lady of the house. He couldn’t help but feel a sense of unease in his heart.
People of their age tended to believe in these things, and there always seemed to be some coincidences that made everything become superstitious.
He looked at Li Zhenguan.
After standing in place for a second or two, Li Zhenguan went back to the room to answer the phone.
However, after answering the call, Li Zhenguan’s face instantly turned pale. It took a long while before he reacted, taking out his phone to call a car first.
Time went back an hour.
Today, Wang Zhao was going out with the prosecutor. In the morning, there was an interrogation at the detention center in the district, an hour’s drive away.
After the interrogation, the two of them had just gotten out of the car and entered the procuratorate when they saw a man standing in the corridor, holding something in his hand, wrapped in a leather bag. It wasn’t very big. The man said that his wife had been sentenced to prison some time ago and came to inquire about the handling of his wife’s case.
The man’s words were barely tinged with sorrow, and his face was miserable. He looked like he had suffered a tremendous blow.
Wang Zhao’s superior was a kind-hearted middle-aged woman who let the man into the office to talk.
The man spoke normally, so Wang Zhao glanced at him and didn’t pay much attention. She walked to her seat, intending to organize the case files again. There was a meeting in the afternoon, and the prosecutor would definitely ask her about the specific details of the case.
However, as soon as she sat down at the desk, she noticed something amiss. She sniffed.
There seemed to be a slight smell of gasoline in the office, too obvious. Perhaps every bad news, before it arrived, would have some omens.
The image of that black leather bag flashed through Wang Zhao’s mind, and the words the man had said outside the office earlier echoed. She had a bad feeling and was about to stand up when she heard a scream.
The bag in the man’s hand was opened. It was a small barrel of gasoline, not very conspicuous. Now it had been opened and splashed directly onto the prosecutor. The man held a lighter in his hand, but before he could throw it, Wang Zhao’s face changed.
Although incidents of prosecutors being retaliated against were rare, they had heard of a few cases in their profession. However, the distance was too far, and they had never thought it would happen to them. Moreover, this man looked like a very kind and honest person. They never expected him to suddenly do such a thing.
The prosecutor was covered in gasoline, and the gasoline barrel was thrown on the office floor. Gasoline flowed out of it, and the entire office was filled with this slightly pungent smell.
If the lighter was thrown, it would definitely cause a fatality. Wang Zhao reacted swiftly and pushed the man out, throwing the files in her hand at the same time, hitting the lighter, which fell to the ground with a snap.
The flame of the lighter touched the gasoline on the ground and immediately ignited, spreading to the wooden furniture and a cabinet of materials in the office. The prosecutor standing in the middle was also splashed with sparks, but she had just taken off her outer clothing. Wang Zhao loudly told her to go out and call for help first.
The man’s strength was very great, no less than hers. He pushed Wang Zhao away, and she crashed into a desk. Her head hit it hard, feeling a bit dizzy. The files and materials on the nearby desk had already caught fire.
The commotion also attracted people from outside.
Wang Zhao felt relieved and was about to stand up, but she felt as if the ceiling was spinning. The face of the middle-aged man in front of her also became unclear, swaying back and forth in front of her. She wanted to stop him, but her vision went black. It seemed that something hit the top of her head, and she collapsed on the floor.
Author’s Note:
This is really going to be the end.
Thank you to the little angels who cast landmines or watered me with nutrient solution during the period from 2022-05-30 00:01:18 to 2022-06-01 22:52:43~
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Male Lead, The Black-Hearted Lotus (Female-dominant)
Short intro by Yuushi L:
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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