CHAPTER 489: CHAPTER 489: SHE CAN’T HEAR YOUR APOLOGY ANYMORE

"Don’t play dumb with me!" Yan Qianyi said sternly, "Give me back my mother’s diary!"

Mu Huaner picked up her glass and took a sip, speaking indifferently, "What diary? I don’t understand what you’re talking about."

Yan Qianyi gritted her teeth, "You know exactly what I’m talking about. When you left that day, you took the diary from my room. There’s a camera in that room. Shall I show the footage to Ah Lie or Grandpa?"

Hearing this, Mu Huaner’s hand holding the wine glass paused.

She set down the glass forcefully and turned her gaze to Yan Qianyi, "Are you threatening me with those two? They’re my family! You’re just an outsider!"

Yan Qianyi stood her ground, "Now that I’m carrying the Mu Family’s child, my child will also bear the Mu surname."

Mu Huaner fell silent.

After a moment, she asked, "Who have you told about what’s in the diary?"

Yan Qianyi faintly curled the corner of her lips.

She knew the diary must have been taken by Mu Huaner.

In fact, there was no surveillance at all.

She told the truth, "I haven’t told anyone."

She hadn’t even had the chance to read it herself.

Mu Huaner let out a sigh of relief, "No wonder you were convinced that my third brother’s death had nothing to do with your mother."

Hearing Mu Huaner say this made Yan Qianyi even more certain that her mother had recorded things about Mu Feng and Mu Chen in the diary.

Otherwise, Mu Huaner wouldn’t have reacted this way.

Mu Huaner took another sip of her drink, her expression hesitant, "Sorry, I misunderstood your mother before."

"My mother has passed away; she can’t hear your apology," Yan Qianyi said coldly. "If apologies were useful, what would we need the police for?"

Mu Huaner frowned slightly, "Then what do you want from me?"

Yan Qianyi’s gaze narrowed, "So you’re admitting to your crime?"

"What crime?" Mu Huaner countered, "I did indeed oppose you and Ah Lie being together before, because I thought it was your mother’s medical accident that killed my third brother, and even intentionally tried to bring Ah Lie and Nuannuan together, but how does that count as a crime?"

"You killed my mother."

"What?!" Mu Huaner was shocked, "Are you joking?"

"The reason my mother and I were in that car accident was that the car had been tampered with by Xu Zhiqiang at the hospital. I presume I don’t need to remind you who Xu Zhiqiang is, do I?"

A flicker of panic passed through Mu Huaner’s eyes, "How do you know it was Xu Zhiqiang?"

"The surveillance footage that was destroyed back then has been restored, and I saw it with my own eyes."

"Impossible!" Mu Huaner abruptly stood up, "Xu Zhiqiang wouldn’t do such a thing! Don’t slander him!"

"Whether or not he could do that, he definitely listened to you very well. He grew up in the Mu Family and was your lackey before he left the Mu Family. Two years ago, after my mother and I had our incident, he left the Mu Family, and you went abroad."

Mu Huaner scoffed coldly, "So you think I ordered Xu Zhiqiang to do it?"

Yan Qianyi raised an eyebrow, "Who else could it be?"

Mu Huaner paused, then picked up her glass and gulped down several sips, "It wasn’t me, anyway."

Yan Qianyi noticed that Mu Huaner’s eyes were evasive and didn’t dare to meet hers.

"I will prove it was you. Now, give me back my mother’s diary immediately!"

"Unless you fabricate something out of it to ruin the affection our family had before, I can’t give it to you for now. When I have investigated everything clearly, I’ll give it back to you."

Yan Qianyi let out a scoff and asked, "What exactly do you want to investigate?"

Mu Huaner suddenly fell silent again.

She had just read Shu Meng’s diary and suspected that her second brother had killed her third brother.

But after asking him, his explanation seemed not entirely unreasonable.

Moreover, the emotional bond between the second and third brothers was strong, and she couldn’t figure out what the second brother’s motive to murder the third one could have been.

Nevertheless, she always felt that there was something wrong.

All in all, her mind was a mess right now, and she had to figure it out!

Yan Qianyi said again, "Give me back the diary; it belongs to my mother and is not yours."

"Can’t you give me a little time? I will definitely investigate this thoroughly!" Mu Huaner insisted on not returning the diary to Yan Qianyi.

She was worried that Yan Qianyi would show the diary to Mu Yunlie and Old Master Mu.

Before the matter was cleared up, she didn’t want too many people to know about it, so it wouldn’t affect the relationships within the family.

Yan Qianyi said decisively, "No! I must reveal Mu Chen’s criminal evidence!"

"What evidence? Your mother’s diary entry can only prove it wasn’t her fault that year! It doesn’t completely prove that there’s something wrong with my second brother! With you jumping to conclusions like this, I certainly can’t return the diary to you."

Yan Qianyi’s brow darkened, "Don’t force me to take action."

At this moment, Mu Yunlie strode in.

Mu Huaner panicked, "Ah Lie, you... how did you get here?"

Yan Qianyi also looked at Mu Yunlie with surprise, not expecting him to finish his business so quickly.

Mu Yunlie gave Yan Qianyi a reassuring look and then asked Mu Huaner, "Little aunt, what exactly did you take from Qianyi?"

Mu Huaner averted her gaze without answering.

Yan Qianyi said, "It’s my mother’s diary. It records what happened on the day your father had his incident."

Hearing this, Mu Yunlie’s brow furrowed, "Bring it out!"

Mu Huaner shook her head, "Ah Lie, this is a serious matter; don’t just listen to Yan Qianyi’s unilateral story. A diary doesn’t prove anything!"

"I told you to bring it out!" Mu Yunlie said in a low voice.

He hadn’t rested well during this period, and he was very tired, lacking the patience to argue with Mu Huaner.

Mu Huaner trembled with fright.

Suddenly she remembered that Ah Lie had previously expressed his belief that third brother’s death was not due to a medical accident.

So, Yan Qianyi must have told Ah Lie a long time ago.

Just now, she was still lying to herself, saying she hadn’t told anyone!

Mu Huaner glared at Yan Qianyi, then turned and took the diary out of the liquor cabinet, handing it over to Mu Yunlie.

Mu Yunlie snatched it away and handed it back to Yan Qianyi.

Yan Qianyi quickly found the entry from that day, glanced at it, and handed it to Mu Yunlie, "Take a look, this is what I was going to show you tonight when you got back."

Mu Yunlie looked at the content in the diary. His expression did not change.

Nurse Li Ying had already talked about the situation at that time, and Yan Qianyi had discovered that Mu Chen was feigning insanity, so he had always been certain that Mu Chen had killed his father.

Having the mother-in-law’s diary was just one more piece of evidence.

Mu Yunlie glared at Mu Huaner, "Are you trying to cover up for Mu Chen?"

Mu Huaner shook her head quickly, "No, how could you think that of me, Ah Lie. I just feel that we can’t jump to conclusions before everything is clarified. He is, after all, your second uncle!"

"And I went to ask him, and he said he didn’t tell us about the live blood agent in our third brother’s body because third brother was determined to die and forbade him to speak. Making the hospital staff sign a confidentiality agreement was also for the sake of the company!"