CHAPTER 420: CHAPTER 418: SEEKING JUSTICE

Study room.

Si Yuhuan was handling some urgent company affairs. It was almost dawn, and he hadn’t rested.

Yan Qing knocked and came in.

"Director Si, we found out that Xinxin is grabbing a nanny, but I didn’t hear clearly who it is."

The people of the Secret Gate are highly vigilant, and he also worried about getting too close and alerting them.

"Check who is absent from the Si Family Old Residence now."

Butler Chen quickly handed over the list, "Everything is normal, except Zhang Ma has disappeared since the afternoon and hasn’t reappeared."

"Zhang Ma?"

Si Yuhuan frowned, "Have you called her home?"

"I called before coming here. They said she hadn’t come home since the afternoon. I also checked the surveillance footage in the courtyard; she was last seen in the garden."

Yan Qing had a bad premonition.

"You mean the garden overgrown with roses?"

"Yes!" Butler Chen looked at Yan Qing, "Did you see her?"

Yan Qing shook his head and turned to Si Yuhuan, "I saw Xinxin in the afternoon; she said she was going to pick some for Grandpa to put by the bedside."

"Call her over."

Si Yuhuan’s voice became noticeably colder.

"No need to call, I’m already here."

Xinxin strode in.

It was five o’clock in the morning, and the morning sun was shining in, warm rays dispelling the early spring chill on everyone, but the oppressive atmosphere in the study made everyone who entered instinctively shudder.

"Director Si, do you suspect I killed Zhang Ma? Want to interrogate me, right?"

She walked calmly to the opposite of Si Yuhuan, sat down in a chair, crossed her long legs, picked up Si Yuhuan’s cigarette pack, extracted one, lit it, took a deep drag, exhaled a smoke ring with a faint smile on her face, "Do you have evidence?"

"Miss Xin, in the afternoon, I saw you in the garden..."

"So many people have been to or passed by the garden without issues. Just I went, and suddenly I’m a murderous villain? Moreover, if I kill and leave a body, I can’t split a person into nothing instantly, you think real life is like a drama with corpse vanishing fluid?"

Xinxin shot a cold glance at Yan Qing, "What reason do I have to harm Zhang Ma? Just a maid! Isn’t she overestimating herself! Who am I, needing to dirty my hands for a mere kill?"

"Isn’t Baldy here?"

Yan Qing smirked, "You wouldn’t forget your loyal subordinate, would you?"

The bloodied Baldy was dragged in.

He pointed at Xinxin, wanting to speak, but only feeble whimpers could be heard.

Xinxin’s eyes nearly bulged out as she tossed away the cigarette and rushed over, "Baldy, what happened to you?"

She gave Shang Fu a furious glare, "Did you do this?"

Shang Fu sneered at her, "Yes! Exactly! He came to the Old Residence with thieving hands, Director Si ignored it, but I, Shang Fu, cannot! He needed a lesson, and I got some info from him. Guess what I discovered?"

Xinxin’s feigned calm shattered, as if someone tore open her soul, gripping her with fear, making her tremble uncontrollably.

She took a deep breath, "Under torture, what good can you extract?"

Shang Fu smirked, "Miss Xin, haven’t you done harm behind Director Si’s back?"

"You’re slandering! I love him too much to betray him! Stop defaming me!"

Could Shang Fu have extracted from Baldy her scheme involving Housekeeper Qi against Jian Xi?

Impossible!

Baldy is her most trusted person, trained by the Secret Gate; he couldn’t have confessed so easily.

With this thought, Xinxin straightened her back, "No matter how many mistakes or misdeeds I’ve done before, now my heart and eyes are entirely on Director Si. I’ll never betray him. If you dare talk nonsense here, do you believe I’ll chop you up?"

Somehow a sharp blade emerged, nearly striking Shang Fu’s head if he hadn’t dodged swiftly.

Yan Qing felt a chill down his neck.

Luckily, he wasn’t the one confronting Xinxin, or that strike wouldn’t have been avoidable.

"Si Yuhuan, are you just going to watch them accuse me wrongly? For you, I even betrayed my godfather, how can you be so thankless!"

"Enough!"

Repeated probing.

Xinxin adamantly denied hurting Zhang Ma or harming the Si Family.

He furrowed his brows, "Xinxin, I’ll ask you just once, is Zhang Ma’s disappearance related to you?"

"No!"

Xinxin raised her chin, "Just a maid, is she that important? Si Yuhuan, your actions chill me."

In her eyes, besides Si Yuhuan, the deaths of others are irrelevant to her!

"A maid has served the Si Family for twenty years; aside from me, no one can decide her tenure, let alone her life and death."

His words were a warning.

Xinxin wanted to argue back but dared not, only gnashing her teeth as she nodded, "I understand."

It seems even if Zhang Ma is found, she can’t die by Xinxin’s hand.

Ha!

Turning a person into a living dead, she has a hundred ways.

Si Yuhuan ordered, "Since it’s unrelated to you, you will stay at Si Family Old Residence. The people from Z Group will attend to all your needs."

After speaking, he stood up and left.

Xinxin was seized by several bodyguards. She yelled, "Si Yuhuan, you’re imprisoning me!"

She was utterly furious.

Si Yuhuan’s phone rang.

He glanced at the caller display and pressed the answer key.

"Director Si, if you don’t wish to die ungracefully, why not sit down for a talk?"

On the other end, a man’s deep voice carried a hint of mockery.

Si Yuhuan coldly narrowed his deep black eyes, speaking flatly, "Don’t get ahead of yourself."

"Does Director Si have an escape plan?"

Fu Shengyuan rubbed the emperor green jade ring on his finger, his heart surged.

"Wait and see, a centipede doesn’t die easily; neither the Si Family nor the Haohan Group has reached the point where you can crush them with a finger. Don’t be smug relying on a woman’s power, Fu Shengyuan. I don’t believe your hands are clean."

Fu Shengyuan chuckled lowly, "Director Si used a woman to seize the project that should’ve been mine? How’s that different from an official freely lighting fires while forbidding the commoners from lighting lamps? Truly domineering!"

"You’re true nature is a snide tone. Acting so gentlemanly usually makes me nauseous. If there’s nothing more worthwhile to say, don’t bother with such nonsense in the future or my respect for you will drop."

Fu Shengyuan let out a laugh.

In terms of sharp tongue, he’s no match for Si Yuhuan.

"Since you refuse to accept my mediation, let’s each rely on our skills and see who triumphs."

Fu Shengyuan glanced at the silhouette entering, "Si Yuhuan, you owe Xixi something, I’ll help her reclaim it, consider that your punishment."

After hanging up, he turned back and saw Jian Xi.

"When did you arrive?"

Jian Xi came with a thank-you gift; after such a long time, a bit of gratitude is necessary, otherwise, it sounds too unkind.

"Just when you were about to defend justice for me." Her eyes sparkled as she gazed at Fu Shengyuan, seemingly seeing through to his soul.