CHAPTER 209: CHAPTER 209 ORIGINAL SIN 18

In order to quickly find a suitable place to live, Shuangshuang decided to look for an agent, but she had to find a large, reputable agency. Small ones with just a shopfront are basically scams.

Reliable agencies are indeed fast. Shuangshuang went in the morning, and by noon, she’d found a place she was happy with.

A newly built community, filled with high-rise buildings over twenty stories tall, something even in a big city like S City is rare these days.

What satisfied Shuangshuang the most was that most of the residents were self-employed or white-collar workers, always busy and rushing about, with absolutely no time to gather and chat to strengthen neighborhood ties, just what Shuangshuang wanted.

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Although the apartment suited her, the rent was naturally not cheap. A thirty-square-meter one-bedroom, one-bathroom small unit, and the rent was a full eight hundred bucks! Plus, the agency fee was hefty too, four hundred bucks! It was painful!

Spending twelve hundred suddenly, Shuangshuang, who initially considered herself a little rich lady, immediately felt like a pauper! Fortunately, after the agent left, the landlord stayed behind to tell Shuangshuang about another way to pay the rent.

If Shuangshuang paid quarterly, the rent would be reduced to seven hundred and fifty per month, half-yearly would be seven hundred, and the best deal was one year, only six hundred per month, and the landlord would even wipe out the two hundred-zero balance, only collecting seven thousand.

After thinking for a long time, Shuangshuang gritted her teeth and paid a year’s rent to the landlord. No matter what, S City is bustling, and bustling means more opportunities to earn money. Moreover, to make it easy to take her mom to the hospital, Shuangshuang decided to stay in S City.

Seeing off the landlord with a big smile, after locking the door, Shuangshuang counted her remaining finances, now a quarter less, and felt a pang of heartache. She still had to pay for her mom’s treatment. Money was really tight, so Shuangshuang decided she had to make money! Right now!

But before making money, Shuangshuang had to first take her mom, Feng Jinyan, to see a doctor. Beforehand, Shuangshuang had already gathered all sorts of information and made an appointment with the most authoritative expert in neurology, requiring great effort to do so.

But the result left Shuangshuang unsure whether to be happy or worried, and beyond that, increasingly shocked and angry! According to the expert, her mother, Feng Jinyan, hadn’t gone crazy from postpartum depression naturally, but because of taking too much medication that damaged her nerves, causing the madness and cognitive decline!

This expert told Shuangshuang that it’s unknown what kind of medication had caused this since it has been too long. In fact, if Shuangshuang had come two years later to seek treatment for Feng Jinyan, even the fact that Feng Jinyan had gone mad because of medication would become indiscernible!

The only good news is that the damage caused by this medication is not irreversible. With proper care, over time, the medication’s effects on Feng Jinyan would diminish until Feng Jinyan fully recovers!

But the downside is that this process cannot be sped up, nor can medication alleviate it. It’s up to Feng Jinyan’s own body to slowly metabolize it!

Shuangshuang, dazed and confused, took Feng Jinyan home, thoughts filled with questions about who harmed her mom! Shuangshuang initially thought Feng Jinyan had gone crazy on her own and wandered off by herself.

Now thinking back, since Feng Jinyan was driven mad by someone, her disappearance was likely not simple, going on a trip only to wander into the mountains where she got lost! How could there be such a coincidence!

This clearly attempted to have the mad Feng Jinyan die in the mountains! It was only because Feng Jinyan was lucky, and Shuangshuang’s father, Yun He, found her, though she lived a life no better than hell, but at least she wasn’t dead!

Who on earth wanted Feng Jinyan dead? Shuangshuang first ruled out Feng Jinyan’s parents. Although they thought Shuangshuang had original sin and never looked at her favorably, they truly cared for their daughter.

Another suspect was Feng Jinyan’s original husband, Liu Cheng. Shuangshuang was very suspicious of this person because Feng Jinyan went missing while out with him for a trip, but there were many people on the trip at the time, and Feng Jinyan was accompanied by a nurse specially assigned to care for her.

Besides, Liu Cheng ran his own company, the company wasn’t small, so there shouldn’t be a motive to kill his wife for property, especially since Feng Jinyan’s parents were doing well, wouldn’t it be too urgent to harm Feng Jinyan so early?

Moreover, when Feng Jinyan got lost, Liu Cheng was with many people the whole time, with no time alone, and Feng Jinyan was also always with many people, the only time she was with fewer people was when she went to the toilet.

Because it was to the toilet, only the carer and Feng Jinyan went out together, and the toilet in the mountain village was different from the city’s, often built outside the courtyard, then as the carer was not careful, Feng Jinyan got lost.

After losing Feng Jinyan, the carer ran away that day, and when Feng Jinyan’s parents and Liu Cheng searched everywhere and couldn’t find her, they thought of settling accounts with that nurse, but the nurse, along with her family, had disappeared without a trace.

In her previous life, Shuangshuang always thought this nurse fled because of a sense of guilt for losing Feng Jinyan and fear of taking responsibility.

But now, Shuangshuang thinks it’s very likely this nurse was instructed by someone to intentionally lose her mom, Feng Jinyan, but who exactly instructed this nurse?

Liu Cheng? Again, no evidence, no motive. Liu Cheng was capable; after all, he managed to run a company himself. Back then, he was deeply in love with Feng Jinyan, they had just started a family, and he was devoted to Feng Jinyan.

Even during Feng Jinyan’s long disappearance, Liu Cheng lived a clean life, without any ambiguous relations, and after finding Feng Jinyan, Liu Cheng was exceptionally good to her, not only overlooking her past but also never speaking harshly to Shuangshuang, Feng Jinyan and another man’s child. No matter how you look at it, there is no motive, impossible it was him!

Apart from these two familiar faces, Shuangshuang really couldn’t think of anyone else who would harm Feng Jinyan like this. Mainly because, in her previous life, Shuangshuang was a rejected person in front of Feng Jinyan’s relatives, no one would talk to her about what’s going on in their own family.

And naturally, Feng Jinyan was even less likely to share her past with Shuangshuang, fearing it might trigger sensitive emotions in Shuangshuang. Every time with Shuangshuang, Feng Jinyan went to great lengths to avoid topics that would touch Shuangshuang’s sensitive heart.

Because of this, Shuangshuang always felt being with Feng Jinyan and her daughter exhausting. She thought Feng Jinyan would also feel tired, triggered by Liu Cheng and Feng Jinyan’s child, even suspecting her mother might hate her for being the daughter with original sin!