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Interrogation room.
Shen Ru was silent for a long time.
"If I tell everything," she finally spoke, "can I get a reduced sentence?"
Lin Yaoping said, "We can strive for a lighter or mitigated punishment."
Shen Ru, who was very nervous, repeatedly drank water.
"The Hooked Cymbidium flower in the medicine was added by me, but the person I intended to poison was Liu Wenhua, not Mr. Er." Shen Ru began to choke up after only a few words, whether from regret or fear, "Mr. Er said that if Liu Wenhua was gone, he would marry me. That was the first time he promised to marry me, and I lost my mind."
"Where did the Hooked Cymbidium flower come from?"
"I bought it at a Chinese herbal medicine shop." Shen Ru wiped her tears. "Mr. Qin had warned me before, saying that Hooked Cymbidium and Honeysuckle were similar, but Hooked Cymbidium is toxic. He told me to differentiate well between these two medicines, to prevent the doctor from grabbing the wrong one without recognizing it."
