"Who hurt you?" Su Yan wanted to know. Who had the audacity to secretly torture his wife?
"I don't know." Bai Xue shook her head.
"You don't know?" Su Yan raised a brow. Was his wife so dull as to not know who had hit her?
Everyone was closely following the progress of the Bai Xue's husband-murder case.
The court was again packed with people, both indoors and outdoors, when the trial resumed.
Unexpectedly, Su Yan appeared this time!
Moreover, he stood by Bai Xue's side.
He said he had eaten something outside before he came back. Unfortunately, that food and Bai Xue's dish were incompatible, so he fell ill because of it, not because Bai Xue had poisoned him.
He also said that he and Bai Xue were not enemies. The Su's intention to venture into the department-store industry was not to eliminate the Bai Clan, but to partner with them and become the leader in the industry.
He was very fond of his wife. His wife would absolutely never plot against him!
Someone asked, what about the poison? What was that all about?
Wasn't it said that two bottles of poison were found in Mrs. Su's room?
Mr. Su said that the poison was for killing cockroaches. The cockroaches in their house were big and mutated, and were so difficult to handle that they had to use poison.
Though the reason seemed strange, it couldn't be said for certain that it wasn't true, or that it wasn't the explanation.
The police couldn't find any other evidence proving that Bai Xue had conspired to murder Su Yan.
Additionally, as the concerned party, Su Yan said Mrs. Su would absolutely never plot to murder him.
With no motive or solid evidence, Bai Xue was released without charges.
Someone with sharp eyes spotted the injury on Bai Xue.
So it soon came out that Bai Xue had almost been forced to confess under torture. If not for Su Yan regaining consciousness in time, Bai Xue might have been sentenced to death this time.
They only have themselves to blame for their neglect in defense, leading to them being set up.
Meng Shaomei gritted her teeth at the news of Bai Xue's release, especially hearing that Su Yan unreservedly defended Bai Xue, and that they were a loving couple.
"What do we do now!" Bai Shengqi had a worried look on his face. Bai Xue was released too quickly, he had not yet gathered a firm power base. With her return, and Su Yan by her side, he was bound to give up the chairman position that he had just settled into.
"What else can you do except step down!" Meng Shaomei spat, thinking Bai Shengqi was completely useless.
"I suppose there's nothing else to do." Bai Shengqi sighed.
He was a man of self-awareness. He was no match for Bai Xue, even without taking Su Yan into consideration.
"Rou Rou really is a..." Bai Shengqi couldn't help blaming Bai Wanrou. If she hadn't left, Su Yan wouldn't have married Bai Xue, and the good son-in-law and potentially good ally would not have become an enemy.
"All you know is to blame others. Why don't you reflect on yourself!" If he hadn't been so incompetent, how could Bai Xue have replaced him!
If he hadn't been so useless and couldn't help Rou Rou, how could he have allowed Rou Rou to leave!
"Are you saying that I'm useless?" Bai Shengqi raised his voice.
Meng Shaomei wanted to say that he was indeed useless, but considering that she still depended on him for food and drink, she had to soften her tone, "No, I don't mean that, I was just speaking in the heat of the moment! You know, I'm so hopeful that you'll regain control…"
After a fair amount of coaxing, Bai Shengqi finally stopped being angry with her.
When Bai Xue was released from prison, Su Yan had to fly to the United States for work.
Lu Yiyi and Wang Ningjing welcomed her home.
Wang Ningjing set up a brazier at the door and asked Bai Xue to step over it, then used a cypress branch to brush her shoulders.
"All the bad luck is now past!"
"Oh, when did you become a witch, Xiao Jing?" Bai Xue chuckled.
"Better safe than sorry!" Bai Xue's catastrophe had terrified Wang Ningjing. She had almost run her legs ragged for Bai Xue and had earnestly pleaded with Yuan Xun.
"Indeed!" Lu Yiyi chimed in.
"As you wish, as long as I don't have to drink any talismanic water!" Bai Xue knew that this ordeal had frightened them.
"Snow, you're really clever." Lu Yiyi approached Bai Xue with a bowl of water, smiling broadly.
Bai Xue's lips twitched, "You're not serious, are you?"