Chapter 302: The Disabled Tycoon’s Ex-Wife Refuses to Be a Scapegoat (Final)

“Who are you… why do you have Tao Xinzhu’s phone? Where is he?”

“You’ll know who we are soon enough, and you’ll see him soon too.”

With that, the other party hung up. Just then, the door of the hospital room suddenly opened, and two men in police uniforms walked in. After flashing their police badges, they got straight to the point.

“You’re Jiang Ruantian, right?”

Jiang Ruantian looked at them, the unease in her heart magnified completely, and she kept backing away, her breathing almost stopping.

“It’s me. What do you want?”

“You’re under suspicion of murder; come with us.”

Jiang Ruantian’s legs went weak. She never expected she would be discovered in just one day.

How could this happen?

How could she have been exposed?

As she left, reporters pulled out cameras to take stealthy photos. Originally, they were there to catch footage of Jiang Ruantian’s grief after losing a loved one, but instead, they captured her being taken away by the police.

Rumors spread like wildfire in an instant.

When they finally arrived at the destination, Jiang Ruantian kept repeating one thing.

“You have no right to do this. I want to see my lawyer. I must see my lawyer first!”

But when they laid all the evidence out in front of her, Jiang Ruantian was left speechless.

From the initial purchase of explosives to the subsequent destruction of evidence, everything was laid out clearly before her as if every move she made was under the police’s watchful eyes.

“How could this be… what about Tao Xinzhu? No, this isn’t my intention. I was threatened! I was threatened by Tao Xinzhu and Jiang Han. One threatened me while the other egged me on. Have you investigated thoroughly? I’m not the mastermind!”

Just then, a familiar voice came from behind.

“Don’t worry, Tao Xinzhu and Jiang Han won’t escape either. You all can catch up once you’re inside.”

Upon hearing this voice, Jiang Ruantian felt as if struck by lightning. She turned around to see Jiang Lai, her eyes wide with panic and terror. In an instant, all her confidence turned into endless chaos.

“You, you’re not dead?!”

“Seeing me alive, are you disappointed?”

At this moment, Jiang Ruantian’s mind was still quick. Ignoring everything, she pointed at Jiang Lai’s nose and began to accuse her.

“It was her, it was her framing me, wasn’t it? She was behind it all, and since she’s clearly not dead, how can this be considered murder?”

Jiang Lai chuckled; she was quick-witted at the critical moment, but it was too late.

“You can save that for when you’re in court with the judge. Oh, by the way, mom and dad wanted to come and see you, but I was afraid they’d fall ill from anger, so I didn’t let them come. Sorry for not fulfilling your wish; not only am I alive, but so are mom and dad. But you’re finished.”

Jiang Ruantian collapsed onto the ground, her eyes bloodshot.

She never imagined things would develop to this point. Clearly, nothing unexpected supposed to happen. Clearly, she watched Jiang Lai board the sabotaged boat with her own eyes. Clearly, her name wasn’t on the rescue list. So how was Jiang Lai standing intact right in front of her now?

Is this a dream?

When will this nightmare end?

When the nightmare became a reality, only then did Jiang Ruantian begin to cry with regret.

On the day she was brought to court, she covered her face and cried in despair and agony, looking at Father Jiang and Jiang’s mother sitting below. She knelt on the ground and pleaded.

“Dad, mom, I was bewitched, I listened to Tao Xinzhu’s nonsense. I just wanted all your love, I just didn’t like Jiang Lai. As for what happened to you both, it wasn’t intentional, Jiang Han and Tao Xinzhu harmed you both…”

Father Jiang and Jiang’s mother were already dead inside, their faces cold and indifferent. At this point, if they softened, it would have been insane.

Finally, the verdict was pronounced: Jiang Ruantian was charged with murder, resulting in one death and two injuries, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Because she wasn’t the mastermind, Tao Xinzhu, being the mastermind, was sentenced to death, while the accomplice Jiang Han was sentenced to seventeen years.

The courtroom was filled with cries.

Jiang Ruantian rushed up, trying to tear at Tao Xinzhu’s face, crying out and shouting.

“If it weren’t for you, how could I have ended up like this!! It’s all your fault, all your fault!! You deserve to die!!”

But it was too late to say anything now.

During her imprisonment, Jiang Lai came for a final look at Jiang Ruantian.

Life inside was evidently hard to endure. Once known for her sweet appearance, Jiang Ruantian now had short hair, her face haggard, her eyes dim as if aged by twenty years.

But upon seeing Jiang Lai, she still got agitated, screaming and shouting. After all she had experienced, she held no remorse in her heart, and what awaited her for the rest of her life was only endless resentment and anger. The only thing she couldn’t accept was why she had failed. If given another chance, she would still choose to kill Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai waited for her to calm down before speaking.

“Cherish this opportunity. No one else will come to see you for the rest of your life.”

Jiang Ruantian stared at Jiang Lai with reddened eyes.

“Why, why…”

Jiang Lai was generous, willing to let her spend the rest of her life in clarity.

“Because I knew all along what you planned to do to me. You can’t expect me not to prepare for myself, like arranging another boat to rescue me, or gathering more evidence to put you away.”

Jiang Ruantian’s eyes were filled with hatred towards Jiang Lai.

Even after Jiang Lai left and she returned to that cramped, dark room, Jiang Ruantian kept thinking about how wonderful it would be if she had succeeded, how wonderful it would be if Jiang Lai had truly died.

Why wasn’t it her who died?

Why was she here now?

How long is a lifetime, really?

Does her life even have a purpose to continue?

——

“Aren’t you afraid she’ll commit suicide?”

“The task is done, and if she dies, so be it. What does it have to do with me?”

Driving along the Jiang River, Jiang Lai felt the wind in her face, her heart at peace.

Mo Zhoujing’s leg was completely crippled, his injury and infection confining him to a wheelchair as per his wish.

The heart-wrenching pain had been tasted many times, and every time Jiang Lai heard of it, she would laugh out loud.

As for the business, after these events, Father Jiang didn’t hesitate to hand the Jiang Group over to Jiang Lai, then set off on a world tour with Jiang’s mother.

In the decades that followed, the Jiang Group fully emerged, becoming one of the world’s strongest companies, managing nearly two hundred thousand employees. Not long after, Jiang Lai was ranked first on the World’s Female Forbes List and third on the World’s Forbes List.

Bai Qiao and Lu Yao both received Best Actor and Best Actress awards the same year, stepping onto the world stage as megastars, with limitless potential.

In the end, Jiang Lai was unable to make Lu Yao willingly devote himself.

At a celebration party when Lu Yao stood at the pinnacle of the entertainment world, he, slightly drunk, told Jiang Lai,

“You and I will never be from the same world. A worker falling in love with a capitalist is just fucking debasing oneself. I’ve already debased myself, but I don’t want to fall deeper. President Jiang, you are the most perfect person in this world; you would love anyone, including me.”

Forty years later, Jiang Lai died of illness, and in the same year, international actor Lu Yao died in a car accident.

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