Chapter 697: Chapter 697: Misunderstanding—It Might Be a Crime of Passion
Tang Li saw the photo of Lai Shengxia’s injury and had already returned to school.
In the dormitory, Wu Xuehan and Yu Sui were also watching the news, leaning close to the laptop and sighing.
In Tang Li’s plan, under the dual psychological pressures of "being hunted" and "being sued," Ethan, adopting a mindset of dragging everyone down with him if he’s going down, was very likely to make his deal with Lai Shengxia public or to go to the police station to confess everything in search of protection.
When one faces the threat of death every day, their requirements for survival drop lower and lower, until eventually, just being alive feels like a blessing.
Where one lives then becomes less critical.
Ethan, armed with a knife and going to the Tianyi headquarters to stab Lai Shengxia, resembled how Ethan once slept with a transgender prostitute; the situation seemed to unfold within Tang Li’s expectations, but there was a certain deviation.
Nevertheless, this deviation was not necessarily a bad thing for her.
Tang Li could not muster any sympathy for someone like Lai Shengxia.
If in this life she again trusted Ethan and foolishly followed him abroad as she had in her previous life, her end would only be more tragic than Lai Shengxia’s.
Several media outlets followed up with reports on the stabbing of Lai Shengxia.
Lai Shengxia was now out of danger and currently in the Capital First Hospital.
In the evening, Tang Li saw an interview video online.
Reporters besieged the hospital entrance, where Lai Wenyan and his wife Ouyang Qian emerged.
Ouyang Qian looked haggard, wearing sunglasses; in this moment, she was no longer the pampered chairwoman of Tianyi, but simply a mother who almost lost her daughter. As for Lai Wenyan, his thin lips tightly pressed, his complexion was no better than Ouyang Qian’s.
Assistant bodyguards had already stopped the wave of reporters pressing forward.
Faced with the reporters’ incessant questioning, Lai Wenyan finally spoke out: "The nature of this incident is extremely malicious, and it is already intentional murder. We will absolutely not be lenient with the perpetrator!"
Having been a councilman for so many years, Lai Wenyan’s presence was enough to intimidate.
For a while, the intensity of the news was stirred up once more.
Some reporters also went to interview the security guards of Tianyi’s underground parking garage.
Due to the company’s gag order, employees of Tianyi avoided reporters, and the security guards who had been working that day were no longer at the company; evidently, Tianyi Group had no intention of responding to the incident.
After repeated visits by reporters, an eyewitness was finally found.
He was selling fruit outside the Tianyi headquarters.
According to the fruit vendor’s description, at around nine in the morning, an argument was heard in Tianyi’s underground parking garage. By the time he looked up, the young woman was already down on the ground, the security noticed something amiss and rushed over, and the tall man with the knife, because of his impaired leg, was not able to run far and was subdued by security.
"It’s probably a crime of passion," the fruit vendor concluded solemnly.
This conclusion was quickly accepted by the onlookers.
Hence, online, rumors of a rich girl abandoning a poor boy and being avenged began circulating.
When Lai Wenyan saw the revenge narrative in the news, he was fuming.
Before he could call this irresponsible media outlet, the police publicly revealed the detailed identity of the assailant online.
Just a few days ago, the incident of a foreign con artist at the Art College became a hot topic, and many internet platforms still had photos and exposed information of Ethan. Now the con artist had gone and stabbed someone, and the victim was a well-known heiress, which caused the public opinion online to surge once again.
Meanwhile, Ethan confessed to the police the whole story behind his arrival in S country.