[Host, did Song Ye go investigate what happened back then?]
Tang Guo lazily leaned back on the sofa and replied, “He probably did.”
[But it’s been so many years. Can it still be found out?] What the system didn’t say was that if the truth couldn’t be found, the host really might let it go and not bother with Chen Ying.
“Some truths don’t necessarily need evidence.”
Tang Guo spoke calmly. “With how unstable Chen Ying is now, just a little bluff might be enough to get the truth out.”
As for how Song Ye was going about uncovering the truth from back then, she didn’t know. What she was interested in now was whether, after seeing how much Tang County had changed, and seeing that Song Ye was far more outstanding than in the previous life, Chen Ying still had the mindset to live a good life.
As for that Xie Shijun, he seemed like a very smart man, totally unlike the typical soldiers who tended to be straightforward.
That day in the private room, Xie Shijun must have noticed something. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have so quickly bought a house in the city and brought Chen Ying over with him.
Afterward, Xie Shijun even came over alone to apologize. The way he looked at her Ah Ye had also changed a bit, which showed he must have found out something.
That day, Song Ye didn’t return until evening. From his expression, it seemed like he had learned something. As he lay in bed, he held Tang Guo tightly in his arms, and the look in his eyes seemed to carry a sense of relief.
“Although I don’t know exactly when Chen Ying started to hate me, Guo Guo… I’m really grateful. Thankfully she hated me.” Song Ye murmured beside Tang Guo’s ear.
If Chen Ying hadn’t given up, hadn’t hated him, the person who jumped in to rescue him that day wouldn’t have been Tang Guo, but Chen Ying herself.
According to Chen Ying’s plan, he really would have had no choice but to marry her. A woman like Chen Ying, he could never like her. Even if they had been forced to marry, he never would have become a true husband to her.
Tang Guo now understood. Song Ye must have found out the truth.
“What did you find out?”
Song Ye held the soft person in his arms and sighed. “I really didn’t have much hope. I was just looking for people who had been there that day, but while I was talking to one of them, I unexpectedly ran into Chen Ying’s younger brother, Chen Shubao.”
“He just happened to hear me asking about it. After hesitating a bit, he told me some things we didn’t know.”
Tang Guo was curious. Chen Shubao was twenty-four this year. He didn’t do well in school and hadn’t been able to get into university. Maybe because of Tang County’s development, he felt it wasn’t necessary to study much. In a place like Tang County, even if the Chen family was lazy and careless, they were doing better than most others.
What was likable about Chen Shubao was that he especially listened to Song Ye, and greatly admired him. He wasn’t like the rest of the Chen family who liked to stir up trouble. Though he didn’t have much ability, he was good in other areas. He had a slick tongue and got along well, and within the Chen family, he had carved out a decent position for himself.
“He said the night before I fell into the water, he happened to get up in the middle of the night and saw Chen Ying going out. He was young and curious, so he secretly followed her,” Song Ye’s face darkened a little as he spoke. “He saw Chen Ying digging at the path by the river, and then covering it up with some grass.”
Because the place he lived in was an old house that used to belong to a solitary elderly person, the earliest person to pass through there each morning was always him. Chen Ying had calculated it very precisely. He really did walk that way and ended up falling into the river.
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