After that class party, life seemed to return to calm seas and favorable winds.
Teng Yue created a group chat, adding everyone who attended the party that night, and each time Lu Sheng checked the messages, there were always 99+ of them.
Since everyone was idle during the winter holiday, they chatted about all sorts of things in the group every day, talking up a storm.
Jiang Yusheng had already been formally arrested and the case had moved onto the detailed investigation stage.
After this incident, this once seemingly virtuous and righteous university professor’s reputation in society was completely ruined, to say he was notorious would be no exaggeration.
Even if he wasn’t sentenced to death or life imprisonment, living outside might be more unbearable than staying in prison, where those who remembered him could spit on him to death, one by one.
The official announcement proved Peng Hongyuan’s innocence, and this incident involving Peng Hongyuan and Jiang Mengmeng also triggered public reflection on siding with opinions and cyber violence.
Jiang Yusheng was locked up in Jiang City Detention Center. Coincidentally, his once beloved niece Lu Qianrou was also held there.
Criminal case trials aren’t quick, and Lu Qianrou’s case had not yet formally gone to court over these few months, so she was still detained.
In a certain sense, this uncle-niece pair "met at their peaks" and both ended up in jail.
It’s worth mentioning that just a few days ago, Lu Qianrou had sent a letter from the detention center to the Lu Family.
However, this letter was not sent to Jiang Ting or Lu Jingyan, but to Lu Sheng.
When the letter was received, Jiang Ting, thinking of all the things Qianrou had done that nearly killed her two sons and Lu Sheng, almost had it burnt without a second thought, deeming it as bad luck.
It was Lu Sheng who stopped her, saying she wanted to have a look first.
Lu Sheng thought that Lu Qianrou, already fallen to the fate of being imprisoned, would have come to a realization in the detention center, regret her past, and be determined to be a better person.
However, the truth proved that some people would not change their ways even with a knife to their throat.
In the lengthy two pages of the letter, Lu Qianrou’s handwriting was clearly filled with hatred, to the point that she punctured the paper several times with the force of her pen.
Essentially, there were only three sentences — why, on what grounds, and cursing Lu Sheng to die.
Lu Qianrou probably couldn’t understand till her death why Lu Sheng, whom she had sent someone to strangle on the day she arrived in Jiang City, with the assassin even sending a photo of the body, could be alive again afterwards.
The second time she ambushed Lu Sheng and knocked her unconscious, then later went to the basement at night to suffocate her, sending the body to Chaotic Burial Mound. Yet the next day, why could Lu Sheng stand perfectly fine before her eyes.
She attributed all her current misfortunes to Lu Sheng.
She said Lu Sheng stole everything that was originally hers, stole the love and affection her mother and brothers had for her, took away all the admiration and worship she had at school and online.
She said everything she did was forced by Lu Sheng. If not for Lu Sheng, she would still be the Lu Family’s darling, a little princess cherished and protected by everyone.
She also said Jiang Ting and her brothers were blinded, deceived by Lu Sheng.
Lu Youye was so enraged by these words that he stomped his feet and cursed Lu Qianrou for being shameless.
This Lu Qianrou, even when faced with imprisonment, didn’t look for reasons within herself, only knew how to blame others.
Was it others who made her drug the watermelon juice? Was it others who made her provoke her brother with psychological issues? Was it others who made her use her third brother’s hand to murder?
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