Chapter 542: Who Deserved Death?

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Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Xiang Wan: “…”

She was all ready to do her best to make her talk but her fists had landed on a pile of cotton wool?

Cui Jiaying actually told her that she was willing to talk. Xiang Wan really didn’t expect that.

“How did you know?”

“Cough, cough… You know how to make inferences, I also know how to do that…”

“…”

Xiang Wan was suddenly at a loss on how to console Cui Jiaying.

It was only an assumption that her son was no longer around. Xiang Wan didn’t want to tell Cui Jiaying directly about such a fact but was racking her brains about how to make her accept the hint of such assumption… Only when Cui Jiaying accepted this assumption, she would tell them all that she knew.

However, before she did anything, the other party told her she was willing to cooperate.

“I should have snapped out of it earlier. My son, he’s gone…” Cui Jiaying’s eyes were filled with tears, her voice sounded torn and hoarser than earlier. “I deluded myself that my son was still alive for a one-in-10,000 chance and that he needs me to save him… It seemed that only by thinking this way, I feel that I’m still alive…”

Xiang Wan kept quiet.

Cui Jiaying closed her eyes and sneered bitterly before she started to chastise her ex-husband.

“It’s all that *sshole Kong Yunhai’s fault! It’s all his fault, all his fault! Cough, cough… that my son suffered such a fate…”

Xiang Wan was really worried that Cui Jiaying would deviate from the topic. She gently patted her hand to get her attention.

“So, if you tell us everything you know, we can stop what they want to do, we can save more children from getting hurt…”

“Operation Heaven’s Wrath will not harm the good.” Cui Jiaying let out a sneer. “All the people that they want to deal with, deserved death. All of them deserved death.”

The people? Who are they? thought Xiang Wan.

The previous victims of the ‘zombie’ cases had no relation with each other. How did they locate their target so they could strike the thundering thunder on them?

Xiang Wan stared at Cui Jiaying. “Who are the people that deserved death? Where are they?”

Cui Jiaying seemed dazed for a moment.

She managed to pull out from her emotions and was transformed back to the sly woman at the cafe.

“Indeed you’re trying to… Cough, cough… trick me into talking again…”

Xiang Wan didn’t deny that. “For the sake of the children!”

The corners of Cui Jiaying’s lips turned upwards into a cold, bitter smile. “They’re not my children!”

Xiang Wan’s gaze was firm and determined. “Think about your kid. These children are as innocent as your kid…”

“No!” Cui Jiaying shook her head, her gaze seemed a little distracted. “The reason why my son suffered this fate was exactly because he had a father like Kong Yunhai. The reason why I’m suffering now was exactly because I connived his gambling acts that he couldn’t pull himself out of. Consequently, I also failed to pull myself out of such a marriage in time and witnessed how my family fallen into pieces… Both of us are at fault, I also deserve what I’m suffering now.”

“…”

Her words came as a shock to Xiang Wan.

What kind of brainwashing have they done to her?

The one behind this Operation Heaven’s Wrath… is too powerful, she thought.

As well as fearful.

To Xiang Wan, Cui Jiaying was definitely a woman who had a stronger mindset than most women she knew. She was certainly not the type to get easily brainwashed.

Xiang Wan recollected herself and asked slowly, “So, you’re trying to tell me that nobody has forced you to execute this Operation Heaven’s Wrath? You actually did this willingly?”

Cui Jiaying was stumped by her question.

It seemed like with regards to this question, it was the first time that such a thought came across her mind.

Under Xiang Wan’s pressing gaze, she shook her head. “I was being forced. I did that because I wanted to see my son again. But… those that Operation Heaven’s Wrath will be taking out are people who deserved to die. They do not deserve sympathy at all!”

The supposed people who deserved to die that she spoke of, who were they exactly?

Looking at Cui Jiaying’s expression, Xiang Wan thought of Bai Muchuan who had gone out to execute their mission and was feeling anxious inside.

Somehow, Xiang Wan had a feeling that this matter was not so simple. Nonetheless, she knew that she couldn’t act rashly. This was because Cui Jiaying was a woman who just accepted that fact that she had lost her son and she seemed to have lost all hope. Her strong front was simply a pretence, she was actually very weak inside, so weak that she might break if Xiang Wan pressed her harder. Hence, she should calm down and not rush Cui Jiaying.

“Even if you’re in the wrong, you still have a chance in life. Why do you want to use death to pay for your mistakes? You’re a victim, the same goes for your son—Therefore, no matter how sacred this Operation Heaven’s Wrath is, it could not conceal the fact that the core of it is pure evil.”

Cui Jiaying just looked at her and kept quiet.

For the first time, she didn’t retaliate with another argument.

Xiang Wan tried to persuade her in a patient manner. “Even if these people really deserved death, their mistakes should be punished by the law…”

Cui Jiaying wanted to laugh but couldn’t help coughing at the same time. “Law, who can the law punish? Can the law punish Du Landuo or punish the ones who slandered you as and when they feel like it?”

Eh?

Du Landuo?

Xiang Wan narrowed her eyes. “You’re the one who killed Du Landuo?”

Cui Jiaying was startled for an instant.

But she regained her senses in just half a second.

What could she not admit, now that she was in such a state?

She eyeballed Xiang Wan, Cheng Zheng and Mei Xin. She seemed as if she wanted to find out about their opinions and feelings about her killing Du Landuo.

However, besides Xiang Wan’s grim-looking face, the other two were as if a part of the background. They did not show any expression—they simply kept quiet.

“Yes,” admitted Cui Jiaying, “I pushed her off the building!”

“Why?” Although Xiang Wan had held doubts with regards to Du Landuo’s supposed suicide, now that she learnt of the truth of the latter’s death, she was still shocked. “You held a grudge against her?”

“No.”

Cui Jiaying looked as though she had done nothing wrong as she glanced at Xiang Wan.

“She deserved to die.”

“…”

“Shouldn’t a vicious woman like her deserved death?” Cui Jiaying’s voice sounded serious. “When she made malicious remarks against you, insulted you, and even incited readers to slander you on the Internet, have you ever thought that she should go and die? Do you not even have a second of such thoughts?”

Xiang Wan paused to think for a moment.

“I’ve never thought about that.” She looked at Cui Jiaying seriously. “Du Landuo was annoying but she didn’t deserve death.”

“Hahahaha! Cough, cough, cough!” Cui Jiaying laughed so much that her tears almost came out. “That day you said that you’re not a saint and you don’t have a self-sacrificing spirit. But I feel that you do have that, and you’re seriously ill from it!”

Xiang Wan frowned slightly. “What is more valuable than life? What she did does not warrant her to pay with her life.”

“But have you ever thought of this?” Cui Jiaying coughed twice heavily and looked at Xiang Wan with her reddened eyes. “Precisely because there are a lot of people like her that make up the ‘malignant tumors’ in our society! When there was an avalanche, none of the snowflakes would feel that they have sinned. Yet they never thought of the fact that if there were no snowflakes to begin with, there wouldn’t be any avalanche at all. The snowflakes are therefore guilty, they are guilty!’

Such a metaphor confounded Xiang Wan.

Cui Jiaying spoke with eloquence as she argued her case, staring at them with her eyeballs big and wide.

“Xiang Gongzi, this society has changed. It’s ill because of people like her! Operation Heaven’s Wrath would clean up filth like her and restore the ‘clear blue sky’ for everyone.”

“…”

What a ‘great’ plan!

Xiang Wan showed a sarcastic smile. “Society has never changed. It’s the human heart that changed, and you are one of them. Those that you mix around with determines what you will see; what is inside your heart; what color the world is in your eyes would also change accordingly to that. Cui Jiaying, the sky is always blue. Why did you turn yourself into the snowflake that you detested so much?”

Cui Jiaying: “…”

Xiang Wan sneered when Cui Jiaying remained silent. “Let’s take it that Du Landuo deserved death, but what about Shiliu? Why did you kill her? What was the reason that she had to die?”

“Of course she deserved death!”

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