"I had asked him for help before, never expecting him to latch onto me like this, constantly extorting money. If it weren't for my old affection, maybe I wouldn't have been robbed by him."
Zhang Ting's voice broke as she spoke, "Because of this, my husband even beat me, severing my ties with him."
Seeing Li Tong's disbelief, she defended herself again.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask my neighbors, they surely all remember."
Li Tong wrote down a note and proceeded to the next question.
"Then, as for Niu Xiaozhuang's surgery leading to death, how do you explain that?" Li Tong's gaze was piercing as he stared straight at Zhang Ting.
Zhang Ting's face stiffened, but she quickly thought of a way out.