novelraw Chapter 164 Wang Li proposes breaking up with Fan Yaqing
Chapter 164 Wang Li proposes breaking up with Fan Yaqing
"N-nothing's wrong, I just... I just don't like her anymore! My mom... she doesn't approve either, so maybe we should just break up!"
Zhang Minghai dared not say that he had witnessed the murder scene, as he would be punished for failing to report it, but he still felt uneasy.
Wang Li could sense his fear. If Fan Yaqing hadn't done something that terrified him, why would he be acting like this? What could have scared a grown man like this?
"Then you should have just told her you wanted to break up, instead of making her sad and looking for you everywhere." Wang Li still felt this guy wasn't manly.
Zhang Minghai: What am I supposed to say? I'm afraid that if she finds out I saw her kill someone, she'll kill me too!
"Oh, this is my fault. I was sick for a long time, and before I was fully recovered, I was transferred to another job without telling her. Anyway, when we were dating, I never took advantage of her. On the contrary, I bought her things and ate her meals, spending several hundred yuan on her."
He backed down on the matter, as long as he didn't have any more contact with that woman.
"She is a proud person. When she was dating me, she took a fancy to Zheng Yunqing from my compound. Compared to me, his family has a higher status, and he is more handsome and capable!"
I think it won't be long before she gives up on me, even if I don't say I'm breaking up with her. If you don't believe me, ask Zheng Yunqing. He never lies.
I was too stubborn back then, and I hurt my parents' feelings. I regret it; I shouldn't have put my family aside for my love.
"Brother, let me give you a piece of advice: if your family is strongly against your marriage, you should listen to them! After all, it's extremely rare to see parents who would betray their own son!"
Tong Anfu: I've met him, he's my biological father!
Zhang Minghai deeply regretted not seeing through Fan Yaqing's scheming nature. She almost severed ties with her family because of him, leaving him all alone at work now.
"Did she send you to find me? I don't owe her anything!"
"She went to the countryside. I originally wanted to marry her and have her stay in the city, but she was very hesitant those days and hadn't agreed yet. Her sister-in-law secretly signed her up, so she had no choice but to go to the countryside!"
"She went to the countryside! Her sister-in-law signed her up? Haha, you actually believe that? Have you checked if it's really as she says?"
Zhang Minghai had come to his senses and knew that Fan Yaqing was a woman who told a lot of lies. He really didn't know if he had been out of his mind to completely believe her.
"Sorry to bother you, I'll investigate!" Wang Li no longer trusted Fan Yaqing, so he decided to go back and check the details, which were crucial to him.
Upon returning to Yan City, he went to the local street office near the steel plant and used his position to investigate Fan Yaqing's rural assignment.
"Why are they investigating Fan Yaqing again? That girl really knows how to cause trouble!" The neighborhood aunties started complaining.
"What, is someone investigating her? Do you know where they're from?" Wang Li asked.
"It's not like someone's investigating her. One group is from the municipal government, and another group is from the military. Now you, the police, are investigating her again. Did she do something wrong?" The old lady was also very gossipy.
"Those two old folks from the Wu family would cause a scene every now and then, claiming that their son was killed by that girl, they'd make a huge fuss. Wasn't she sent to the countryside precisely to escape the Wu family's harassment?"
"Auntie, you're saying the Wu family suspects she killed Wu Zhigang?"
Wang Li's heart skipped a beat. He was the one who received her when she came to report the crime that day, and then soon after, Wu Zhigang's body was found.
It's true that Wu Zhigang drowned, and it's ruled a suicide. Recalling Zhang Minghai's terrified expression, a terrible thought arose in his mind: Could it be that Fan Yaqing killed him?!
"Well, I don't know the specifics, but the two families had a really ugly falling out. Ever since she went to the countryside, the Wu family elders haven't been causing trouble at the Fan family's house anymore," the old woman said.
"Auntie, I'd like to ask, was it Fan Yaqing's sister-in-law who registered her for the rural assignment?" Wang Li asked again.
"How could that be! Here, the person registering must bring their household registration booklet. Only the child's biological parents can register them for rural service! Siblings can't register on their behalf!"
I know Fan Yaqing. She brought her cousin with her when she came to register. The two of them said that the siblings could look after each other and registered together.
Look, these are the registration forms they filled out together and put their fingerprints on. There are two copies, and the other one has been submitted! They were even assigned to the same place, Qingshi County in Liaoning Province.
"That girl is really something! The Tong family has already fled to another province to avoid them, but she still insists on going after them, even plotting to exploit their dying family line! I think their own family is almost extinct!"
The affair between the Tong and Fan families was no secret in the area, and everyone looked down on the Fan family's actions. They forced a perfectly good family to sell their jobs and move to the countryside—could there be anything more despicable?
Wang Li returned to his unit dejectedly. He stopped looking for Chen Liying. A while ago, her boyfriend's two older sisters had assaulted Fan Yaqing, which had even involved the police. It seemed the harassment allegations against Xu He were true; he had only believed one side of the story and even blamed the two sisters for being so violent.
He had already decided to break up with Fan Yaqing. As for whether she was the murderer, that was just his guess. He couldn't reopen a closed case based on guesswork.
After much deliberation, he wrote a letter to Fan Yaqing, telling her that he had investigated her experiences in the countryside and in Yan City, and that he felt the two of them had significant differences in their thinking on how to handle problems, making them unsuitable for a relationship. He proposed breaking up with her, and that they should no longer have any contact.
Fan Yaqing was furious when she received the letter! Wang Li had actually investigated her, and what had he found out? Her biggest fear was that Wu Zhigang's affair would be exposed!
That's impossible. If this had been exposed, she would have been investigated long ago. A lowly police officer, breaking up with me is no big deal. Did she think I cared about her that much?!
She's now obsessed with getting Li Chengsong, but she hasn't expected that even after sending ten or eight letters, there's still no response from him!
He must have received it, right? If he had, how could a passionate young man not be moved by her enthusiastic praise?
Li Chengsong: I'm not feeling emotional, but my stomach is a bit churning, I feel like throwing up!
Fan Yaqing asked her cousin to spread rumors in the village, but Fan Jianli didn't do anything at all; he was a good-for-nothing! So she had to spread the rumors among the villagers intentionally or unintentionally, targeting those who had conflicts with the Tong family and those who were particularly jealous of them.
The rumor spread quickly, and within a few days everyone knew about it, but few people actually believed it, and no one discussed it privately.
The Tong family girls are hardworking and generous, not arrogant or spoiled at all, and most of the villagers like them very much. Besides, they saw some people get beaten up for their foul mouths, so they wouldn't spread unfounded rumors and ruin the girls' reputations!