"Ruochen! You are misunderstanding; I truly had no such intentions!" Yang Jiangming never thought that Han Ruochen would be so daring. She not only jumped in the sea to save her life, but she was also lucky enough to swim out and be saved by the people from the military. When he thought about how the matter of his getting arrested from the pub and taken to the police station was going to spread in the school by tomorrow morning, his intestines turned green with regret.
He naturally didn't regret trying to kill Han Ruochen; what he regretted was not killing her after properly planning. It gave this bitch an opportunity to bite him in the back!
If he were given a second chance, then he would definitely not let this woman off!
Though he was furious, Yang Jianming still continued to coax Han Ruochen with a soft voice from behind the bars, "I am speaking the truth. We have been together for so long; how can I ask my cousin to attack you? Just trust me. I don't know who or what told you such things, but there is no need for you to believe them. They are clearly trying to cause a rift between us and nothing else!"
Han Ruochen, however, ignored the man who was screaming at her. She continued to tell the police officer her side of the story, "Boss Deng told me that Yang Jianming and the adopted daughter of my family have long gotten together. They have been together for more than three years, and there is enough evidence to prove that. Yang Jianming and Han Ziyan wear a couple necklace—with their miniature pictures inside them."
With a handkerchief, she wiped her tears and continued to speak, "It's really too much. It's bad enough that the Yang family had taken five thousand yuan as a betrothal gift from my father; now that they had changed their minds, they wanted to snatch my job and give it to Han Ziyan. I cannot understand just what I have done to suffer in such a manner. The job is mine, and I have worked hard for it. What gives Yang Jianming the right to snatch it for my adoptive sister? Even if he changed his mind and wanted to marry her, he could have chosen a much more respectful way."
"Why did he try to kill me?"
The police officer looked at Han Ruochen's injuries and then glanced at Yang Jianming with a hint of contempt in his eyes. To think that this man was a teacher.
Yang Jianming noticed the look in the eyes of the police officer and immediately countered, "She is lying, officer. I will never do such a thing—"
"Officer, if you don't believe it, then you can take the half-heart-shaped necklace from his neck and you will find a picture inside it but it's not mine."
"It's my adopted sister's!"
Since Han Ruochen had gotten an opportunity, she was not going to waste it. Even if she could not drag down Han Ziyan for the time being, she was going to drag down Yang Jianming, since he wanted to snatch her job, and then she was going to make him lose his own too!
When the officer heard her words, he turned to look at his subordiante who nodded and went to snatch the necklace that was around Yang Jianming's neck.
"No, wait, officers. You cannot do this; this is a grave dig at my personal life." When Yang Jianming saw the police officer walking toward him, he turned frightened. He now regretted wearing the necklace around his neck all the time, but with Han Ziyan coquettishly asking him to wear it all the time, he couldn't refuse it. He never thought that wearing this pendant would one day become the cause of his demise, and why did Brother Deng tell Han Ruochen such a thing?
Of course, Brother Deng would never tell Han Ruochen about Yang Jianming and Han Ziyan's affair. This was something that Han Ruochen later learnt in her past life. Back then, she was unaware of their affairs, but now she was no longer the same naive Han Ruochen!
Han Ruochen coldly watched as Yang Jianming tried his best to keep the pendant with him. Her eyes never left the old and rustic chain that had a small, half-heart-shaped pendant attached to it; she would never forget it, even in her worst nightmare. After all, every nightmare of hers was connected to this pendant; she could never forget the day when Han Ziyan came to show off in front of her and showed her this pendant, which was the evidence of Yang Jianming's betrayal and her sufferings being man-made.
Soon, the police officer snatched the pendant from Yang Jianming and brought it to the head officer of the station.
The director took the pendant and glanced at the picture inside it. It was just as Huo Ruochen said; the pendant held the picture of another woman. He showed the picture to Huo Ruochen and questioned, "Is this your adopted sister?"
Huo Ruochen looked at the picture, and a flash of hatred glinted in her eyes, but she hid it under the shadows and nodded at the director. She said to the director, "She is indeed my adopted sister, Han Ziyan."
After she finished speaking, her eyes turned red with grief. She lowered her head and trembled as if she had been hit hard by the realization of Boss Deng's words being true. She said sobbingly, "Yang Jianming! I gave you all my youth; it wouldn't be wrong to say that I am the reason that you got the job of math teacher at the commune. How could you betray me for Ziyan like this? Even if you stopped having feelings for me, you could have told me the truth. Why did you try to ruin my reputation like this?"
As if suddenly agitated, Huo Ruochen got to her feet and rushed to the cell where Yang Jiangming was locked up and slapped him through the gaps of the bars. "You bastard! How dare you play me like this? Tell me, where did I let you down?"