Chapter 199 Killing the Cuckoo (14)
Chapter 199 Killing the Cuckoo (14)
When Fang Yihe saw him like this, she quickly hugged him: "Tingyi, this is not important!"
"How can it not be important?" Li Tingyi said angrily, "I will not admit to something I didn't do, and I will absolutely not take the blame for her!"
"I believe you!" Fang Yihe said.
Li Tingyi paused: "Really?"
Fang Yi nodded and gently patted his back, her gesture conveying a strong sense of reassurance: "I was wrong before. I shouldn't have doubted you. If you had done it, you wouldn't have denied it, and you wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to find evidence... I believe you didn't do it. Let's put this behind us and not investigate any further, okay?"
Li Tingyi's emotions gradually calmed down under his comforting words. After hearing Fang Yihe's last words, he frowned: "Why not continue the investigation?"
“Gao Li has wiped away all traces, proving that she has counter-surveillance awareness. You are now obsessing over this matter, putting aside your work and disrupting your life to investigate and find out the result. You have fallen into Gao Li’s trap. As long as you don’t care and as long as I believe in you, her scheme will not succeed.”
Li Tingyi's rationality slowly returned: "You're right, there may be no results if we continue the investigation, but the fact that I'm going crazy because of this is something Gao Li definitely wants to see."
He cannot let this wretched woman have her way.
At this point, Li Tingyi seemed to remember something and asked Fang Yihe, "Why did Gao Li frame me? Did she discover our relationship?"
Fang Yi frowned: "It's not clear yet. I need to observe her for a while."
"It must be!" Li Tingyi said bitterly. "I didn't expect that she, who looks stupid, is so good at pretending. She's already starting to take revenge on us. You should divorce her right away."
To avoid things escalating and her revealing their relationship.
He can't afford to lose this person.
Fang Yihe did not answer immediately.
Li Tingyi stared intently at him: "What are you hesitating about?"
Seeing that he was showing signs of being suspicious again, Fang Yihe immediately said, "I just feel that we can't get a divorce so hastily. We need to find out what she knows, whether she has any evidence, and what her purpose is in doing so. If we bring up divorce rashly, I'm worried that she will be provoked and do something that is detrimental to us."
After hearing his words, Li Tingyi indeed fell into deep thought: "That makes sense. Go back and carefully sound her out. If you can get a peaceful divorce, that would be best. If not—"
A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes: "If things really come to a head, she might not come out on top."
Fang Yi nodded: "Okay."
After calming Li Tingyi down, Fang Yihe breathed a sigh of relief without showing any emotion.
It's not entirely true that I believe in Li Tingyi.
Now that things have come to this, he maintains a neutral stance on this highly suspicious matter, saying that he believes Li Tingyi only in order to prevent him from continuing to investigate the so-called truth.
Last night, when Fang Yi saw the stun guns at his house, and the wounds on Li Tingyi's body caused by the stun guns, he was overwhelmed with mixed feelings. Whether it was the truth or not was no longer important to him.
He loved Li Tingyi, and Li Tingyi loved him too; that was enough.
However, Fang Yihe still harbored some doubts about his wife's side, and planned to subtly inquire with her to see if he could find out anything.
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According to the locator, Yan Zhen knew that Fang Yihe did not go to the research institute early in the morning, but picked up Li Tingyi and went to the police station. Afterwards, he went back to the Li family home with Li Tingyi and stayed there for a day.
Given Li Tingyi's personality, the fact that he didn't immediately confront her after leaving the police station and expose her true colors suggests that the evidence he gathered was probably unfounded.
However, judging from the fact that Fang Yi stayed at his house all day without moving, it seems that the two have made up, even though the evidence is not conclusive.
Fang Yihe chose to believe Li Tingyi?
Then he will inevitably start to doubt himself.
It seems I'll have to put in some effort to dispel his doubts.
In the evening, the small red dot on the locator showed that Fang Yihe had left the Li family and was driving home.
Yan Zhen estimated the time Fang Yihe would arrive, then took out all the clothes, shoes, and toys that the original owner had bought for her unborn daughter, laid them out in the living room, and silently shed tears as she packed them into a box.
This was the heartbreaking scene that Fang Yihe saw when she entered.
He remembered the already formed infant corpse, his heart clenched, and without even changing his shoes, he strode into the living room: "Xiao Li."
Yan Zhen turned around, tears still visible in the corners of her eyes. She quickly wiped them away, stood up, and forced a smile: "Why are you back so early today? Have things been resolved at the research institute?"
"It's resolved." Fang Yihe's gaze fell on the half-packed baby supplies, her heart aching with sorrow.
Although he didn't like Gao Li, the child was indeed his.
Like most men who are about to become fathers, he eagerly awaited the birth of his child from the moment Gao Li became pregnant, wanting to give her lots and lots of tender love.
“You…” Fang Yihe stepped forward and took a plush toy from Yan Zhen’s hand. “I’ll do it.”
"It's okay, I want to pack it myself." Yan Zhen sighed, sat back down on the carpet, and carefully folded the items one by one, placing them neatly into the box.
Fang Yi sat silently to the side until she finished packing and sealed the boxes with transparent tape. Only then did he ask, "What do you want to do with these things?"
Yan Zhen said, "I'm giving these things away. A pregnant woman asked for help online. Her child's father had passed away due to illness, and she wanted to give birth to her posthumous child. However, she is not financially well-off and it is not easy for her to raise the child alone. I wanted to help her and explained to her about our daughter's accident. She didn't mind. I will send these things to her tomorrow."
Fang Yi's heart softened a little.
Putting aside sexual orientation, in his eyes Gao Li was a very kind woman. Having experienced hardships herself, she wanted to hold an umbrella for those who were also suffering, even if it was only to let them draw a little warmth from it.
How could such a kind and gentle woman possibly kill her own daughter just to frame Li Tingyi?
"Xiao Li," Fang Yi patted her shoulder, "it's all in the past. Once you've recovered, we'll have children again."
Yan Zhen scoffed inwardly. If she could get rid of the first child without anyone noticing, she wouldn't give the second one a chance to become a fertilized egg.
There's no need to pass on those scheming, inferior genes to harm others.
Although she thought that way, she nodded obediently and said, "Mm."
The two chatted for a while, and Yan Zhen brought up something: "A miscarriage at an advanced age is quite harmful to my body. The doctor said I need to rest for at least a year before I can consider having another child. Staying at home for a year is not a good idea, so I want to go out and find a job."
Only through economic independence can she escape her current situation of being dependent on others.
Fang Yi frowned and said, "The family doesn't lack the money you earn. If you feel bored, go out and travel around."
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