Chapter 36: Negligence
Yin Chin threw Dai Meihui a disgusting look. "Don't bother acting, Meihui. I know all about your 'late-night stays' in the office."
"That was my work and work can get tough at times. It doesn't mean that I..." tears slid down her cheeks.
"Oh please. Mrs. Dai had even seen a man dropping you off at home in his car late at night. When did you grow so close to your office friends that they began offering you rides, Meihui?" She taunted. "Now when Mrs. Dai wanted to make you taste your own medicine, you thought to cruelly kill her because you didn't want her to expose you!"
"Kill? You are molding this accident to be a murder? Fengge was busy enjoying the movie with a woman taking advantage of the fact that I was away at office," her eyes reddened. "Isn't it enough that I have to bear my husband's infidelity that now I am being accused of his mother's accident too? As for the rides back home, the man is just my colleague. He offered them only because it got late at times and-"
"And I..." Dai Fengge intervened with his voice laced with remorse and his gaze looking distant, "I never bothered to pick up Meihui when she used to get late. I never cared for her much. Aunt Chin, you are wrong. I know...Meihui has not cheated on me."
Dai Meihui was the most taken aback by the unexpected support from his side. She wondered if she was dreaming, but she wasn't.
"Fengge, you too?" Yin Chin breathed laboriously with fury. "She is the dirty one here playing around-"
"ENOUGH!"
It wasn't Dai Meihui but Jia's voice that roared in the bureau. The officers around stiffened and stood straight.
Somebody is going to die today. Rest in peace whoever that is, they prayed.
Mingshen whistled on one side but Jia's mood was on the opposite side of the spectrum. It was evident from her warning gaze that this drama had gone beyond her tolerance limit.