I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 106
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Edited by Azure
Chapter 106: She Wouldn’t Commit Suicide For Love
Shen Muxin's room was at the end of the corridor. With the window facing the garden, one could vaguely see the people coming and going on the road outside the villa and the patrolling members of the superhuman team.
Jiang Ran opened the window and faced the warm winter sunshine.
After lunch, Shen Yao invited her to stay and rest. Without waiting for Shen Lang to speak, she ordered Zheng Li to take Jiang Ran to Shen Muxin's room.
Since Jiang Ran came here for this purpose, she naturally would not refuse. She followed Zheng Li obediently back to Shen Muxin's room.
When that woman took the key from her husband, she tacitly agreed to accept her husband's entrustment to protect the Jiang family's secret for him.
However, the news Jiang Ranran received was that Shen Muxin committed suicide after her husband died unexpectedly.
Did the Shen family hide the truth? Or did Shen Muxin have other plans?
Remembering the red traces she found in the room last time, Jiang Ran knelt down and opened the curtains.
The dark stain hadn’t changed, but it couldn’t be determined with the naked eye that it was blood. If it was blood, the only possibility Jiang Ran could think of was Shen Muxin.
This was Shen Muxin's room, and perhaps... it was also where she died.
Footsteps were approaching in the corridor. Jiang Ran let go of the curtains as if nothing had happened and stood up slowly.
The visitor knocked on the door, pushed it open and came in. "Jiang Ran, here are your favorite strawberries," Shen Yang said, putting the rinsed strawberries on the table. "This is the first batch of greenhouse strawberries grown at the crop experimental base. I tasted them, and they’re quite sweet."
"Thank you, cousin." Jiang Ran maintained her politeness on the surface, picked up the strawberry, and took a bite. "Yeah, it's sweet."
Shen Yang didn't answer, and his gaze on her slowly changed from scrutiny to relief.
"I remember that you liked strawberries. It seems that I remember correctly," he murmured, leaning on the table and looking at her. "Tell me, why did you come back this time in the name of cooking for me?"
Jiang Ran didn't expect him to ask such a straightforward question so suddenly. She bit off the strawberry and tilted her head to look at him. "You know that I have a hidden agenda?"
In the corridor, Shen Bai, who was keeping a lookout, sighed inwardly. These two were really siblings. One dared to ask and the other dared to answer.
Shen Yang looked at her. "As you said, I’m your brother. Of course I know."
Jiang Ran, "..." This person sure knew how to push his luck.
"Let me guess. You’re looking for something, right?"
"..."
"Are you thinking that the thing left behind by my uncle is in our Shen family’s house?"
"What did my father leave behind?" Jiang Ran asked in surprise, "Is it related to the virus?"
Shen Yang frowned. He wasn’t sure whether she really didn't know or was pretending. "Since you don't know, what are you doing here?"
Jiang Ran couldn’t be bothered to think about whether she had deceived the person in front of her. She pursed her lips and said frankly, "I came to find the truth about my mother's death."
Hearing this answer, the expressions of Shen Yang in the room and Shen Bai in the corridor changed slightly.
Shen Yang stared at Jiang Ran for a long time and whispered, "Your mother committed suicide for love. Didn't Grandpa tell you that?"
"Committed suicide for love?" Jiang Ran sneered. "Shen Yang, do you believe this excuse? Don't you know what kind of person my mother was?"
When one was young and naive, one would have thought that people came to this world just to fall in love with someone, and stupidly believe Shen Lang’s words.
However, if one thought about it carefully, everyone lived on because there was something more important than love and something more worthy of pursuit –– such as commitment or the future...
Shen Muxin loved Jiang Yize very much, so all the more she wouldn’t forsake her promise to Jiang Yize easily.
She had promised to protect the secret of the vaccine in Jiang Yize's place, as well as protect her daughter who was still young and ignorant of worldly affairs.
"My mother would never commit suicide." Looking into Shen Yang's eyes without blinking, Jiang Ranran said firmly, "You deceived me –– Shen Yang, I have the right to know the truth about my mother's death."
The girl's angry eyes were fixed on Shen Yang as if she could see through all his thoughts.
For the first time, the man who was accustomed to using various masks to disguise himself hurriedly averted his eyes.
After a long silence, he let out a long sigh. "My aunt did commit suicide. Whether you believe it or not, this is the truth."
"Impossible! She..."
"Jiang Ran, stop being so self-righteous!" Shen Yang scolded, stopping the girl's sudden accusation. He closed his eyes before looking at Jiang Ran coldly. "If you’re here because of this matter, I'm sorry, the Shen family can’t provide you with any clues. Oh, no, it should be said that you won't find any clues –– because the murderer you imagined doesn’t exist at all."
……
Jiang Ran was chased out of the Shen family under Shen Yang's order.
Although the butler spoke politely and invited her to drop by next time before closing the door, she knew that there would be no next time.
"That guy is really weird," Jiang Ran muttered, not knowing what she said touched the man's sore spot. She looked back at the villa again. "Next time, I’ll ask Si Xu to take me in by climbing over the wall. It’s a pity that I haven’t had time to find any clues this time…”
Recalling the structure of the room and Shen Yang's words, Jiang Ran gradually slowed down.
Shen Yang said firmly that Shen Muxin committed suicide, but he did not answer her question.
Did Shen Muxin commit suicide for love?
There was a big difference between committing suicide for love... and committing suicide in essence.
Shen Muxin committed suicide, but she did not commit suicide for love. There was only one possibility. She was desperate and could only choose the most favorable way to end her life.
"In order to keep that secret..."
Jiang Ran looked back at the villa again and walked slowly towards the laboratory building.
……
On the terrace of the Shen family’s villa, Shen Bai handed a cigarette to his eldest brother.
The man who had quit smoking for many years glanced at the cigarette that was handed to him, grabbed it and held it in his mouth, reminding Shen Bai roguishly, "Lighter."
Shen Bai took out a lighter and threw it to him.
When he had almost finished smoking the cigarette, Shen Bai said, "Ranran is smart and will figure out the truth one day."
Shen Yang leaned on the railing, looked up at the clear sky, and said vaguely, "Let her find out by herself."
"Eldest Brother." Looking at his eldest brother's face that resembled his own, Shen Bai hesitated for a moment before saying, "That incident was an accident. You don't have to blame yourself for so many years."
"Accident?" Shen Yang chuckled, full of ridicule and sarcasm. "Grandpa can comfort himself that it was an accident, but I can't –– you and I know that it wasn’t an accident at all."
Shen Bai twitched the corners of his mouth bitterly, but did not deny what his eldest brother said.
……
Shen Muxin's death was indeed not an accident. Everyone in the Shen family knew that except Shen Yao, but they didn't say anything and naturally accepted the old man's statement that she committed suicide for love.
So did he.
Shen Yang stopped going to Jiangning, stopped meeting his sister, stopped going to the room where Shen Muxin lived, and stopped looking at the wall stained by blood and repainted... he kept telling himself that Shen Muxin's death was just an accident.
However, every time he dreamed in the middle of the night, the cold sweat soaked in his pajamas reminded him –– that it wasn’t an accident.
They drove Shen Muxin into a corner bit by bit and caused her death. After her death, they even fabricated a beautiful lie to deceive an ignorant child.
