Chapter 390: Will Definitely Give an Explanation
Lin Feng's heart sank. He asked hurriedly, "What's wrong? What happened to Chuyue?"
Jian Qiuyan couldn't hold it in any longer and started sobbing.
Seeing she was unable to speak, Lin Feng simply picked up the phone from the floor. "Hello? Who is this? What happened to Chuyue?"
"We're officers from the Imperial Capital Police Station. Ms. Lin Chuyue has been confirmed deceased. Her body is at our station now. You need to come and identify it."
Lin Feng clutched the phone. The big man's face was now deathly pale, his mouth opening and closing without a sound. "No, that's impossible."
"Qiuyan, don't cry. This must be a prank! Our Chuyue has already gone abroad. How could she have died in the country?"
"Someone must be trying to trick us. That's it, a scam! It must be a scam!"
Jian Qiuyan finally regained some strength. She gripped Lin Feng tightly. "Our Chuyue... she's really going to be okay, right?"
"She will be." Lin Feng held her close, as if comforting her, and perhaps himself as well. "Nothing could have happened to her."
"Who did you say something happened to?" Lin Chuxing asked as she walked in.
"It's nothing..." Lin Feng said, instinctively trying to hide it.
"I heard everything. You said something happened to Lin Chuyue, didn't you?"
In truth, Lin Chuxing hadn't heard the name at all, but seeing their state, she knew it couldn't be anyone other than Lin Chuyue.
Her interest was suddenly piqued. "Judging by your faces, did something *really* happen to Lin Chuyue?"
"Chuyue is your sister, after all..." Lin Feng disliked her attitude. Already in a terrible mood, his tone grew heavier.
Lin Chuxing bristled at once. "Of course I know she's my sister. So if something happened to her, don't I, her older sister, have a right to know?"
"Tell me what happened! Otherwise... I'll just find out myself. It won't be hard!"
She was the future Lady of the House of the Xiao Family. So many people were trying to curry favor with her.
There were plenty of people in the Xiao Family willing to do her bidding!
"Chuyue is fine. We just got a scam call."
Lin Chuxing frowned slightly. "A scam call? What did the scam call say?"
"It said Chuyue passed away. It's definitely fake. She's abroad right now, how could anything happen to her!"
Lin Chuxing was startled to hear the words "passed away."
But a moment later, she grew excited.
'If Lin Chuyue is really dead, then I'll be the Lin Family's only daughter!'
'No one will dare try to steal Xiao Ye from me then, and everything the Lin Family has will be mine, too!'
"Maybe it's not a scam! Give me the phone, let me see!"
Ignoring Lin Feng, Lin Chuxing snatched the phone directly from his hand. She looked at it. "Hey, isn't this number from the police station? You can't fake something like that."
Hearing this, Jian Qiuyan's face was once again awash with tears.
Lin Feng snapped in a low voice, "Chuxing!"
"What? I'm just telling the truth. Besides, I'm worried about my sister, too. Something this serious, of course we have to confirm it."
"It would be best if nothing happened to her. But if something did, are you just going to abandon her body?"
With that, Lin Chuxing dialed the number.
A connection was made quickly. "Hello, this is the Imperial Capital Police Station headquarters."
Lin Chuxing hung up immediately, her voice filled with unconcealed excitement. "Did you hear that? It's really the police station. It's probably not a scam."
"To be safe, let's go to the police station and see if something really happened to Lin Chuyue!"
Although Lin Feng hated Lin Chuxing's attitude, she was telling the truth.
They really did need to go and confirm it.
It was better to be safe than sorry.
Lin Chuxing went back to her room and changed into a red outfit. Such wonderful news was, of course, a cause for celebration!
When Jian Qiuyan saw her, her heart ached terribly. 'How did our eldest daughter turn out like this!'
But she couldn't bring herself to say a word of blame, because they were the ones who had failed to protect her back then.
She hadn't been with them for over twenty years. No matter how unbearable she had become, they had no right to blame her.
To give birth but not to raise was a sin.
"Chuxing, you..." Lin Feng wasn't thinking about all that. "How can you wear something like that!"
"Dad, don't you get it? I'm dressed like this to ward off bad luck! Who knows, it might even bring Lin Chuyue back from the dead!"
Jian Qiuyan gripped Lin Feng's hand and leaned weakly into his embrace. "Brother Feng, don't say any more. Let's just go."
The group soon arrived at the Imperial Capital Police Station headquarters.
The moment she stepped inside, Lin Chuxing shouted, "We're Lin Chuyue's family! Where's the body?"
The police officers looked at her cheerful appearance, completely bewildered.
'Shouldn't they be devastated that a family member died? Why does she look like she's celebrating good news?'
Lin Feng hurried forward to face the officer. "Lin Chuyue is fine, right? That call wasn't really from you, was it!"
The officer looked at his expression and thought to himself, 'Now, this is the proper reaction.'
He paused for a moment before speaking in a somber tone, "Sir, I'm very sorry, but Ms. Lin Chuyue was indeed... murdered."
"We are currently pursuing the killer. Rest assured, we will give you justice."
"The body is in the morgue. Please come with me."
Jian Qiuyan collapsed directly onto the floor. "No, this isn't real! That's not Chuyue at all!"
The officer rushed to help her up. "Ma'am, we've done a DNA comparison. We've confirmed it is Ms. Lin Chuyue. Please, accept our condolences."
"The most important thing right now is to handle the deceased's affairs."
Lin Chuxing hadn't expected it. Lin Chuyue was actually dead!
"What are you standing around for? Hurry up and take us to see the body!"
'I have to see with my own eyes what she looks like dead!'
'Serves her right for stealing my things! Serves her right for seducing my man! She deserved it!'
Lin Feng pulled Jian Qiuyan up and forced himself to follow.
「The Morgue.」
The white sheet was pulled back.
A charred corpse lay there, its height and build barely discernible.
"That's not Chuyue!" Jian Qiuyan couldn't accept it. "That's not her! It must be fake!"
With that, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Even Lin Chuxing hadn't expected Lin Chuyue's corpse to be in such a ghastly state. 'I should really take out my phone and tell Xiao Ye to come have a look.'
'The thought of ever having been with a woman like this would surely sicken Xiao Ye, right?'
Lin Feng held himself together, his eyes red-rimmed. "Chuyue... I'm sorry!"
'Ever since we returned, all our attention has been focused on Lin Chuxing; we even stayed in the Capital City just to be with her.'
'Our original plan was to go back and spend time with Lin Chuyue after Lin Chuxing married Xiao Ye.'
'Even though Lin Chuxing was lost when she was little, we never spent any time with Lin Chuyue either.'
'But we never thought... she would actually die!'
At that moment, Lin Feng was consumed by regret. "Chuyue, Dad is so sorry!"
Jian Qiuyan came to, dazed, and began to weep uncontrollably. "Chuyue, Mom is sorry, too!"
"If we had known something would happen to you, we never would have let you go!"