Part 3
After she left, Meng Jingdong handed a file to Lu Chengyang. It contained evidence of Lu Chengyang’s third brother-in-law, Zhang Chun, gambling, embezzling company assets, and contacting a middleman to buy a hitman for murder.
“I’ve been sick and always troubling you to do things for me.”
“You don’t need to be polite. It’s just a small effort.”
Lu Chengyang tightly held the documents, his face ashen. Zhang Chun had practically married into the Lu family, eating and living at the Lu’s, acting arrogantly at the Lu Corporation, and in the end, he wanted to murder his daughter and scheme for his property. The Lu family hadn’t raised a relative; they had raised an ungrateful wolf. He wondered with incomparable chills if his third sister, Lu Qin, knew about this.
“What do you plan to do?”
Lu Chengyang scoffed: “What else can I do? Of course, hand the evidence to the police.”
When the car accident happened, Meng Jingdong and Lu Tian were in the car. Lu Chengyang wasn’t a party involved, so the evidence naturally had to be handed over to the police by Meng Jingdong. As long as the Lu family didn’t protect Zhang Chun, this matter was undoubtedly attempted murder.
“When is Zhang Chun returning to the country?” Lu Chengyang called his assistant to ask.
The assistant checked and told him he would return in three days.
“Notify the police to arrest him at the airport in three days,” Lu Chengyang said decisively.
Police arresting someone at the airport wasn’t big news. Lu Tian didn’t know what had happened at all. Before she even saw the news, she received a notification from Meng Jingdong saying the alert was lifted and she could enter, exit, and live normally.
“Who exactly wanted to harm me?”
It took a long time for Meng Jingdong to reply: “Sorry, this matter was caused by me.”
“Eh, really? That’s great!” Lu Tian blurted out.
Meng Jingdong: “…Be careful at school. Call me anytime if there are any problems.”
Lu Tian thanked him but reserved her own opinion on Meng Jingdong’s explanation. Knowing that Meng Jingdong had his assistant pick her up to go to the hospital that day, if they wanted to kill him, why didn’t they confirm his schedule first? Why did they have to choose the moment she was in the car to act?
However, Meng Jingdong used the excuse that the case was under investigation and he couldn’t tell her the details. She wasn’t in a hurry; she would know sooner or later anyway.
The news of Zhang Chun’s arrest reached the Lu family, and the Lu family instantly exploded. They all suspected the police had arrested the wrong person. What bad things could Zhang Chun do? The two Lu elders wanted to contact someone immediately to ask about the specific situation. They didn’t believe Zhang Chun would do anything bad. He was clearly such an honest person; how could he do illegal things?
Lu Qin’s face was pale as she stopped her parents’ actions. She was a pure beauty to the extreme. If Lu Tian saw her, she would definitely recognize her; this Teacher Lu had once called her up to answer a question in class.
“Qinqin, do you know what’s going on?” Old Madam Lu was both confused and distressed. She still didn’t quite believe Zhang Chun would do bad things. Lu Qin and Zhang Chun had been married for many years and had a good relationship, except for not having children. But Zhang Chun was devoted to her daughter, so they wouldn’t have any complaints. But suddenly hearing that Zhang Chun was suspected of murder, the old lady really couldn’t accept it.
Lu Qin covered her face and didn’t speak, shaking her head continuously. Finally, she whispered, “Mom, I want to divorce him.”
“This… what on earth is going on?”
Old Madam Lu looked at Old Master Lu helplessly. He remained silent for a long time before sighing deeply: “Divorce if you want to divorce. Dad will support you.”
Lu Qin didn’t feel happy hearing this. She lay there crying even harder. Old Madam Lu patted her back, comforting her with heartache.
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Soon, Lu Tian saw the follow-up report on this matter online. The suspect, Zhang X, confessed to the crime of intentional homicide. Zhang X? She immediately checked the Lu family members’ information online. The Lu family’s third daughter’s husband was surnamed Zhang, named Zhang Chun. There was also news circulating online that the third daughter wanted a divorce.
She took a screenshot of the report and sent it to Meng Jingdong’s assistant, Song Ci, asking what this person’s name was. Song Ci thought she knew the details of the case and quickly replied that his name was Zhang Chun.
How strange. In the original novel, a person who was about to die soon actually started prison life ahead of time. Was this the butterfly effect? Probably not. Her appearance would change some small things, but major events shouldn’t be uncertain to change, especially for people she had never met.
In the original novel, the Lu family was a later-stage map. Many people in the Lu family were mentioned in passing. Lu Chengyang, who had already died, was barely mentioned. However, there was a segment where the female lead spoke with the third sister, Lu Qin. They talked about Lu Qin’s husband, Zhang Chun, who died of food poisoning.
Assuming Zhang Chun had murderous intent towards Lu Chengyang, and both Lu Chengyang and the original owner were killed by him in the original story, then his bedmate would likely notice the abnormality. Was Zhang Chun’s food poisoning an accident?
“The more I think about it, the scarier it gets…” This feeling was like paper characters suddenly coming to life, making moves in corners she couldn’t see, potentially breaking out of control at any time and place.
“Lu Tian, what are you muttering about?” Jiang Feifei asked.
Lu Tian came back to her senses, smiled at her, and said, “Nothing, I just watched a horror movie.”
“Ah, then don’t tell me about it! I’m scared!” Jiang Feifei was most afraid of watching horror movies, and even more afraid of others describing scenes from horror movies to her.
Lu Tian was actually quite scared too, but on second thought, this was just her guess. Whether Zhang Chun’s death was an accident or man-made was unclear, but she had profoundly realized that the Lu family was definitely a dragon’s pool and tiger’s den (a dangerous place).
Peng Yangyang came back after class and heard their discussion, depressedly saying, “I hate hearing the word ‘movie’ the most right now!”
“Don’t you like making movies the most? Why would you hate hearing about movies?” Both Lu Tian and Jiang Feifei were curious. Peng Yangyang’s ambition to be a director was well known in their dorm!
“Didn’t I tell you guys I was going to shoot a movie? But now I’ve been stood up.” She said full of resentment.
“Then you can shoot it yourself!” Jiang Feifei said nonchalantly.
Peng Yangyang sighed: “I want to shoot it myself, but I don’t have enough money!”
Her father was a director. Following in her father’s footsteps, she had wanted to be a director since she was a child. However, the condition given by her family was that she had to shoot a decent work by herself before she could give up taking over the family business and do what she liked.
Lu Tian immediately became energetic: “What movie are you going to shoot?”
Since it couldn’t be shot anyway, it didn’t matter if she showed it to her roommates. Peng Yangyang recklessly gave the script to Lu Tian to read casually. This was a work she had carefully prepared for a long time and cherished very much.
Peng Yangyang’s script was written quite well and had investment potential. But Lu Tian was still hesitating whether to invest. Perhaps this move would result in losing everything or gaining a little fame, but since she wanted to take this step, she had to try.
“What is your funding gap?”
“More than two million.”
“Can you let me see your proposal?”
Peng Yangyang was delighted. How could she forget there was a tycoon right beside her?!
She hurriedly handed over the proposal for Lu Tian to browse casually. This was a low-budget movie, and the planning team was all new to the road, but at least they were professionals and relatively reliable. The original plot naturally wouldn’t talk about the future of this movie, but she could create a future for this movie now.
“Yangyang, let’s discuss it with the others.” She wanted to invest in this movie and start walking the path she had always wanted to walk.
Peng Yangyang was overjoyed and hurriedly contacted the main creative staff of the movie to meet the new sugar daddy (investor).
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