CHAPTER 418: CHAPTER 419: SHI MEI BECAME A MURDERER

This was a profoundly desperate feeling, as if someone was literally choking his throat, leaving him unable to utter a single word.

Shi Lingyan suddenly began to realize that this place didn’t seem like hell ought to be.

It could be said to be heaven, but not quite.

He didn’t feel any pain, but neither did he feel a shred of joy.

During his time here, all he had felt was emptiness and boredom.

He had a strange intuition; he might not be dead yet, he might still be alive.

This realization left Shi Lingyan somewhat at a loss.

He exerted all his strength to scream, to respond, but he couldn’t move at all.

He was very desperate.

Shi Lingyan had tried many ways, and just when he was about to give up, he heard his grandmother’s voice, Yun Du’s voice, and... a voice that didn’t belong to Shi Mei, yet they called this person Shi Mei, Miss Shi.

Shi Lingyan listened intently to their conversation.

He heard their dissatisfaction with the Shi Family, as well as his grandmother’s fury and hatred, but what moved him the most was the phrase: "Some people never grow up, there always has to be a way to make them grow up."

This phrase was always on the lips of Tang Wu’s father, Tang Huai Zhang, who was also his superior officer in the military.

His most vivid memory of Tang Huai Zhang was when he had just enlisted and Commander Tang, dressed in a starched military uniform and wearing a formidable, upright cap, sternly told the fresh recruits below, "With me, there are no children, no elders. Some people should not expect to weaken their responsibilities by citing their inexperience or young age! Some people never grow up, but I always have a way to make them grow up properly!"

Tang Wu would occasionally utter this phrase too, and now, the woman they referred to as ’Shi Mei,’ who had a voice very similar to ’Senior Sister,’ had also spoken these words.

Was this a coincidence?

No, it couldn’t be a coincidence.

Shi Lingyan wanted to go out, break out and stop her, to properly question her, ask her who she really was!

But no matter how much he struggled and screamed, he couldn’t break out.

Shi Lingyan rarely felt so frustrated, but at this moment, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

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The Shi Family had reached a dead end.

They had never expected to be so unlucky!

Shi Yunchang had gotten an investment of 10 million from Baiyue Media, and they had poured it all into a newly discovered business opportunity.

But in just under two months, not only had they lost everything, but due to the workers’ collective protests and absconding, they needed to pay a high penalty fee to their partners.

These penalty fees, accumulated from several parties, amounted to as high as 40 to 50 million!

In their desperation, they sought a bank loan, but due to their previous credit issues, they could only secure 30 million.

The remaining nearly 20 million, after Shi Xuebai had unsuccessfully sought to borrow and being pressed by creditors, had no choice but to turn to a loan shark.

They had originally hoped to scrape up some money from Shi Mei to cover this gap, but unfortunately, just at this time, Shi Lingyan and Shi Mei both had a car accident.

This essentially cut off their means of survival!

Nowadays, the loan sharks had come several times to collect interest; initially, they could still cover a bit and begged for a few days of grace.

They had hoped that everything would be fine once Shi Mei woke up, but unexpectedly, Shi Mei had become a murderer, under custody for investigation!

No matter how urgent their need, they dared not get involved with a murderer!