299 What was the purpose?
As Jun popped that question, everybody glanced at him with a doubtful look except Jinhai who had realized where he was getting with this.
Jianyu asked, “I don’t understand, Jun. Mao Yong is behind this.”
Jun bent on his knee and watched Mao Yong with an acute stare. “That’s what we are made to believe so that we stop with finding the culprit right here. But somebody else is expertly pulling the strings. Right, Mao Yong?”
Mao Yong stiffened.
Jian tilted his head. “How do you know this, Jun?”
“I just…know. I just had a feeling. If Mao Yong really wanted to harm Bro Zixin, then he wouldn’t want to be caught naturally. But we easily found the driver, and he easily pointed at Mao Yong. He cannot be so foolish that he would let the driver know his identity so that once we catch him, we can easily capture Mao Yong.”
Nian touched his chin. “This does make sense. We didn’t even break a sweat while catching them, and it all looks too easy now that I think about it.”
Jianyu shook hard. “But who would else have any reason to hurt Zixin? Who can it be that can plot such a vicious trap?”
Jinhai narrowed his eyes. “That’s what Mao Yong will say.”
“I…I don’t know what you are talking about. It-it’s all my doing.”
Jun smiled that didn’t reach his eyes. “You should know that Underworld people have very limited patience. Somebody did tell you to nod your head to the accusation. Just tell me who that was and what he offered you?”
Nian yawned. “You remember our no-nonsense policy, right?”
Mao Yong shuddered. Sweat trickled down the sides of his ears, and he weighed the odds in his mind.
Jun snarled. “Give me a name.”
With the final warning that definately meant his doom if he didn’t answer his question, Mao Yong blurted out. “I don’t know who he is!”
Jianyu widened his eyes.
That means there is really somebody else…
He clutched hair and pulled them until his scalp slightly bled. “Zixin is in the hospital, and you say you don’t know who bribed you to do this!? Are you shitting me!?”
He shook his head furiously, trying to make everyone believe him. “It’s the truth! I don’t know who that person is. I just know that he…has my sister with him.”
“What?” Jian narrowed his eyes. “Has as in kidnapped?”
“…Yes. I got pictures of Jingyi trapped somewhere. Her eyes were blindfolded, and she was tied on a chair at some dark place. If I want them to give her to me safe and sound, then I would have to take the blame of Chen Zixin’s accident when the time would come. Once that person sees me punished, he assured that he will release her without any harm. If I tried to be smart and inform the cops about it, I will never see Jingyi again.”
He anxiously said, “Look, I-I am only doing this to protect Jingyi! I cannot see her in danger. I…I admit that I was indeed angry at Chen Zixin for betraying Jingyi. But I wouldn’t go so far as to kill him.”
Silence.
“I just want Jingyi back at any cost. Once this matter settles down, he will automatically release Jingyi.”
Jun asked, “You never met him?”
“I didn’t. I just got the pictures and the message of what I had to do with a warning of not to investigate in Jingyi’s disappearance or…” he bit his lip harder.
They left Mao Yong inside the room and came out.
Jinhai declared. “I will take care of finding Mao Jingyi.”
Jianyu clenched his jaw. “Once…just once I catch that person who is playing this game with Zixin…I will wring his neck with my own hands!”
The twins sneered. “Of course, we will join in too.”
Jinhai glanced at Jun and said, “I want to talk to you. Come with me.”
The twins looked at them with interest. “Hey hey what is this all about? Why so secrecy?”
Jinhai gave them a cold look. “Get going onto find Mao Jingyi.”
“…”
“Didn’t you say that you will take care of her?” They demanded.
“That meant you.”
“…”
Inside the main area where Jinhai always carried out his Underworld work, he stared at Jun and quietly asked, “What had happened to Zixin in the past?”
Jun’s eyelids trembled. “He never regained his memories. At least…not until the day I died.”
Silence.
Thinking of Jianyu and Serena, Jinhai felt a tinge of ache in his heart. They were hoping for Zixin to regain his memories but instead, he hadn’t even after ten years had passed by in Jun’s past life. As a parent himself, he could understand how heartbreaking it must have felt.
Jinhai then narrowed his eyes. “Did this culprit use Feng Wuhan in the past?”
“Yes,” the nerves on Jun’s forehead twitched with anger, “that’s why I locked him up in the base so that he doesn’t get to attack Bro. But even so…”
He studied the flash of guilt in his eyes. “It’s not your fault. You did what you could. Anything more than that wasn’t in your hands.”
Jun stiffened. But just like Ai, his father’s reassurance gave some comfort to his heart.
Jinhai asked, “When was Zixin attacked again? We need to be prepared to prevent any further-“
“Again? No. Bro wasn’t attacked again. Just like what is happening now, he slowly recovered. Physically. He had no memories but with everyone’s help, he slowly got closer to his family.”
Jinhai blinked. “Then how about his life in general?”
“Nothing really. He gradually started to handle the business again and carried on with his life. He never got married. That’s all.”
Jinhai tilted his head. His keen eyes seemed to be thoughtful. “Then isn’t it strange?”
He blinked. “What is strange?”
“I don’t understand the purpose of this accident. Did that culprit want to kill Zixin out of hatred? But he survived. Even though he lost his memories, he was still alive. If whoever is responsible really wanted to end Zixin’s life, then why wasn’t there another attack on him? Or ruined his life in some other way? Throughout the ten years after that accident, the culprit did nothing else to hurt Zixin. So, I don’t understand what was the whole point of this accident if everything later was so peaceful?”