Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 663 Dawn (69)

“She’s not cooperating with your investigation. I thought she had a way to deal with it, and I was worried that saying something would only ruin things for her… Besides, she has never liked me interfering with her decisions, so I didn’t dare to make a decision on my own.”

At this moment, Yan Zhen finally showed some of the anxiety a thirteen-year-old child feels facing a huge change in her family. She asked Officer Zhang with concern, "Uncle Zhang, will my mother be sentenced to death?"

Officer Zhang: "..."

Not long after, Yan Zhen and Officer Zhang came out of the office.

Jing Chen was waiting outside. When he saw Yan Zhen, he immediately stood up and said, "Zhenzhen."

Yan Zhen handed him the schoolbag and turned to say goodbye to Officer Zhang.

Before they could finish saying goodbye, Officer Zhang's apprentice, a young policeman surnamed Lin, rushed over: "Master, we got a call from the detention center. Chu Huian attempted suicide and has been taken to the hospital."

Officer Zhang's expression changed, and he immediately turned his head to look at Yan Zhen.

Yan Zhen and Jing Chen rode in a police car to the hospital, and on the way, they only heard a vague part of what Chu Huian had done about her suicide attempt.

To prevent inmates from committing suicide, the walls of the detention center are made of thick, flame-retardant leather with impact-resistant padding, and there are various other suicide prevention measures.

However, Chu Huian harbored suicidal thoughts. While washing up, she broke off the edge of the plastic basin, hid it in her waistband, and deliberately fought with the other inmates in her cell, which led to her being locked in a "small dark room" by the guards.

When the guards noticed something was wrong with her from the surveillance footage and rushed into the small dark room, Chu Huian not only cut her wrists with that sharp-edged piece of plastic, but also swallowed the plastic piece.

Due to excessive blood loss and swallowing a foreign object, she was rushed out of the detention center and taken to the hospital for emergency surgery.

When Yan Zhen arrived at the hospital, Chu Huian had already finished her surgery and was receiving an IV drip in her ward.

With Officer Zhang present, and Chu Huian requesting to see Yan Zhen, Yan Zhen was able to enter the ward to visit Chu Huian.

Chu Huian was still relatively conscious. The moment she saw Yan Zhen, her eyes immediately locked onto him.

Yan Zhen wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that Chu Huian looked at her with a hint of gritted teeth.

After receiving two IV drips, Chu Huian asked to use the restroom.

The policewoman in charge of watching over Chu Huian came over to help her to the toilet, but Chu Huian's legs went weak when she got out of bed and she almost fell.

Yan Zhen quickly reached out and helped her up.

The policewoman and the officer each helped Chu Huian into the restroom. Chu Huian, who was sitting on the toilet, was sweating profusely from the pain of her surgical incision and could not even sit steadily without someone helping her.

Moreover, because she was being watched by the policewoman, an outsider, she couldn't pull her out no matter what.

She groaned and cried for a while, and the policewoman had no choice but to leave the toilet. However, the toilet door could not be closed, so Yan Zhen helped Chu Huian to the toilet.

Yan Zhen watched all this silently. She had a premonition that Chu Huian, who valued her life so much, was trying to see her by threatening suicide and engaging in these supposedly secretive little actions.

She had something to say to herself.

As expected, the policewoman left the restroom and stood outside the open door, keeping a close eye on them. Using Yan Zhen's body as cover, Chu Huian asked in a voice so low that only the two of them could hear, "Was your father's death your doing?"

Yan Zhen looked completely bewildered: "Mom, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"It was you who did this." Chu Huian said with certainty, "Before Yan Yi tried to kill me, I never thought of taking his life. Why did his suicide note specifically name me as the murderer if he died? It must have been you who gave him a hint, just like you hinted to me that Yan Yi wanted to kill me... You provoked him to kill me, and then angered me to retaliate and kill him!"

Yan Zhen raised an eyebrow slightly.

Chu Huian actually figured it out.

Too late.

Chu Huian didn't miss Yan Zhen's subtle change in expression. Almost immediately, she confirmed her suspicions. The hand that Yan Zhen was supporting grabbed Yan Zhen's arm, and her voice became sharp: "Murderer! You are the murderer!"

Yan Zhen pretended to be startled and tried to break free from Chu Huian in a flustered manner, but his expression, with his back to the policewoman and facing Chu Huian, was full of mockery.

Hearing the policewoman outside the restroom shout "What are you doing?" and her footsteps rushing in, Yan Zhen clearly mouthed to Chu Huian, "So what?"

Chu Huian was like a hydrogen balloon that had been exposed to an open flame. Her emotions, which were already tense due to pain and high pressure, exploded instantly. She grabbed a plastic water ladle from the toilet bucket and swung it violently at Yan Zhen's head.

Yan Zhen neither dodged nor avoided the blow, taking it squarely, and then let go and fell to the ground.

Chu Huian lunged forward and grabbed her neck tightly, her face contorted in a grotesque grimace: "Murderer! You killed Yan Yi!"

Yan Zhen did not struggle, but watched helplessly as the furious Chu Huian was pulled away by the policewoman and another policeman who rushed in, her hands were tied behind her back and she was pressed to the ground. She struggled and screamed wildly, her bloodshot eyes staring at Yan Zhen with a venomous look that seemed to want to tear a piece of her flesh off.

Chu Huian was dragged out of the restroom. She not only showed strong aggressive intent towards Yan Zhen and the policewoman, but also pointed at Yan Zhen and kept shouting that she was the murderer and that she killed Yan Yi...

Finally, the policewoman called a doctor, who administered a sedative to her, ending the farce.

Yan Zhen was hit on the forehead and suffered a bloody gash, which was treated at the hospital.

Jing Chen sat with her on a hospital bench. Officer Zhang, who had received the news, rushed over. He saw that Yan Zhen's forehead was wrapped in gauze, her face was pale, and there were bruises on her neck. She looked frightened and couldn't recover. He frowned and asked, "Xiao Yan, are you alright?"

Yan Zhen shuddered, looked up at Officer Zhang, and her eyes instantly reddened.

"Uncle Zhang, could you apply for a mental evaluation for my mother? She used to have a bad temper, but she wasn't like this... How did she become like this?"

Officer Zhang nodded: "Okay, I will submit the application to the Municipal Bureau."

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Two weeks later, Chu Huian's mental health assessment report came out. After multiple examinations and assessments, she was found to have a severe mental disorder.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Yan Yi's murder case concluded and was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution.

The court quickly delivered its verdict: Cheng Xue was sentenced to nine years in prison for intentional homicide, and Chu Huian was sentenced to seven years in prison for instigating homicide, taking into account her severe mental disorder.

With everything settled, Yan Zhen cremated Yan Yi's body, and his ashes were buried in the cemetery.

In front of Yan Yi's tombstone, Yan Zhen lit a copy of Chu Huian's judgment and burned it for him, page by page.

As the last piece of paper burned, the ashes curled up and drifted into the air.

Yan Zhen took off his sunglasses, gazed at the smiling portrait of Yan Yi on the tombstone, and reached out to wipe away a speck of ash that had drifted onto the portrait.

"Don't rush on your way to the underworld. Wait for Chu Huian. If she's lucky enough not to die in prison, I'll send her down to keep you company when she gets out," Yan Zhen said in a low voice. "You two trash, the best ending for you is to love and kill each other for all eternity, with neither of you letting the other go."