Chapter 79
The final straw that broke the camel’s back was the rumour about Nie Shijun from her old hometown that reached Chen Jin’s ears. When she was in high school, a girl killed herself because of her. The person sharing the rumour had made it sound highly plausible, that Nie Shijun had encouraged the girl, incited her to kill herself, and then had withdrawn from her.
Chen Jin had finally found the reason, the reason compelling him to take action. Nie Shijun had already made it clear that she intended to enmesh herself in Feng Yuexi’s life for her entire lifetime! What would happen if her love turned to hatred and she made threats against Feng Yuexi’s life? This was highly likely. A lifetime was so long, it would be better to deal with this problem at some stage!
Otherwise, this would become the blemish in his life. He could have had a perfect family. A beautiful and fashionable wife who respected and adored him. Then, they would have had two outstanding children, just as outstanding as he was . . .
“Why a butterfly?” Fang Qing asked.
Behind the dark glass separating them from the interrogation room, Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao also waited for his response.
Chen Jin fell silent for a heartbeat before replying, “Because . . . I like it.”
When did it start? From his youth, when he had seen a butterfly fluttering freely in the mountains? Chen Jin could no longer remember clearly. He only knew that he was fascinated by the butterfly’s pitch-black, merciless compound eyes. He always felt that the depths of those pitch-black eyes hid a secret which no one could know about, a secret belonging to another world.
So, that day, he also saw a butterfly, in his monstrous and multicoloured dream. He saw a youth, standing, wielding a knife, a butterfly landing on his shoulder. That scene was so familiar, and he always felt that he had seen it before. Was it in a past life, or a sign from heaven?
When he awoke, he was struck by a sudden realisation. He was almost crazily excited about his intelligence and creativity.