freenovelworld Chapter 81: Is there more to the story behind Father Li's death?
Chapter 81: Is there more to the story behind Father Li's death?
Seeking out Zhou Tiexiong was indeed a wise move.
only...
Li Xi still felt sorry for Xie Zheng, "Losing a kidney will have a huge impact on your health. Lowered immunity, weakened detoxification ability, and increased susceptibility to urinary tract infections..."
"And if you want to have a child, there are big risks involved!"
Xie Zheng was aware of all this, of course, and she said, "...Let me think about it some more."
"Let's not talk about that anymore. Let's talk about your ideas for starting a talent agency. I'll see if your company has potential. If it does, I'll invest in you."
"After I retire from the entertainment industry, I'll be your behind-the-scenes assistant."
Upon hearing this, Li Xi was overjoyed and quickly and earnestly told Xie Zheng about her ideas for opening a brokerage company.
Xie Zheng listened more and more attentively.
After Li Xi left, Xie Zheng couldn't help but call her asset management broker to inquire about her assets.
Upon learning that the man owned assets worth one billion, Xie Zheng said, "Prepare three hundred million for me; I'll need it in three months..."
*
Xie Zheng's villa wasn't far from the wedding dress shop where Xue Ni worked. It was exactly nine o'clock when we left Xie Zheng's house.
Li Xi called Xue Ni and learned that she had finished work and was about to leave, so she said, "I'm coming to see you. You're off tomorrow, right? Come stay at my place tonight?"
"Okay, come on over, let's go eat hot pot!"
Xue Ni rubbed her rumbling stomach and complained to Li Xi, "I went to the photography studio today to do a magazine makeup for a celebrity. She didn't eat, and I was too embarrassed to eat either."
"I only ate one piece of chocolate, and I'm starving."
Xue Ni is quite well-known in the makeup industry, and she is often contacted by minor celebrities and print models for makeup services.
Some minor celebrities have bad tempers. If she's working hard while Xue Ni is eating in a corner, she'll get upset.
When Xue Ni first entered the industry, she suffered losses in this area, so when she went out to do makeup for celebrities, she would always bring two pieces of candy to relieve her hunger.
"Okay, I'll come."
Li Xi booked a ride-hailing service and headed straight to the wedding dress shop.
The wedding dress shop is closed.
When Li Xi arrived, Xue Ni was standing at the entrance of the wedding dress shop waiting for her.
Xue Ni was wearing a brown duffle coat, a cream-colored wool skirt, and black leather shoes, and she was shivering from the cold.
Upon seeing Li Xi, Xue Ni quickly ran over and grabbed Li Xi's warm hand. "You're so warm!"
Li Xi directly tucked Xue Ni's hands into her down jacket, making her stick to her cashmere undershirt.
Is it warm?
"Xi Xi, you're such a good friend!" Xue Ni patted Li Xi's down jacket a few times, but couldn't bear to let her get cold, so she quickly withdrew her hand and put it in her own pocket to warm it up.
"Let's take the subway to your house."
"I remember there's a food street behind your apartment building, and there's a really good hot pot restaurant there. I got paid yesterday, so I'm treating you!"
"Okay."
The subway is quite quiet right now.
Xue Ni and Li Xi found a place to sit down, and as soon as they sat down, Xue Ni bent down and started punching Li Xi's short legs.
Thinking of something, Xue Ni said, "I ran into Xie Jiaoyue at the photography studio today."
Li Xi wasn't surprised. "She often takes photos for magazines, so it's not surprising that we bumped into each other."
"She's really impressive now."
Xue Ni took out her phone, showed Li Xi a secretly taken photo, and said, "Look, there are five bodyguards around her, one, two, three, four...!"
Xue Ni couldn't help but roll her eyes, "Even when goddess Xie Zheng attends an event, she doesn't bring as many people as she does."
Li Xi counted them carefully, and there were indeed five.
"But she should bring more bodyguards, otherwise she'll be surrounded by paparazzi wherever she goes." Xue Ni asked Li Xi with a smile, "You should have heard about Qin Xiu and Xie Jiaoyue's mother, right?"
Li Xi touched her nose, trying to hide her guilt, and said, "Mm."
"I never would have guessed that Qin Xiu, who claims to be a gentleman, is actually a womanizer! Your adoptive mother must be in her fifties, and he can still have sex with women who are over twenty years older than him."
"I also heard a rumor that he's having an affair with his agent."
Li Xi nodded, "It's not just one affair, it's several."
Otherwise, that agent wouldn't have been so angry on the phone that day. After learning about Qin Xiu and Zhang Xiang's affair, she immediately went to the hospital for an HIV test.
This shows just how messy the relationship between Qin Xiu and his agent is.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"It's a good thing you distanced yourself from the Xie family early on, otherwise, even your reputation would have been damaged."
Li Xi thought to himself, "This is nothing."
There's more juicy gossip to come from the Xie family.
"Wait!" Li Xi suddenly reached out his left hand and grabbed Xue Ni's wrist. "Let me see your phone."
Xue Ni was startled.
"what happened?"
Xue Ni unlocked her phone, and Xie Jiaoyue's photo appeared on the screen.
Li Xi took the phone, viewed the entire photo, and finally focused her gaze on the bodyguard in a suit walking to Xie Jiaoyue's left.
Pointing at the man's face, Li Xi asked Xue Ni, "Look at this man, isn't there a scar under his left eye?"
Xue Ni leaned closer to take a look.
Her phone camera had decent resolution, but the photos were taken secretly from a distance.
At first glance, it seems clear, but when zoomed in on the faces of the people around in the shot, it becomes somewhat blurry.
But Xue Ni still noticed the scar under the other person's eyes.
"There is a scar, but it doesn't look like a burn; it looks more like..."
"The glass is scratched," Li Xi said.
"How do you know so much about this?" Xue Ni pointed at the bodyguard, looking at Li Xi with suspicion. "You know him?"
Li Xi pursed her red lips and remained silent for a long time.
"Xi Xi?" Xue Ni asked, a little worried. "What's wrong?"
Li Xi leaned back in his chair, somewhat absentmindedly saying, "I think this person is somewhat like the truck driver who killed my father back then."
"When that person was taken to the hospital, a shard of windshield glass was embedded below their left eye..."
Actually, Li Xi was also there on the day her father died in the car accident, but she wasn't in the car.
That year, Xie Jiaoyue was learning piano, and that day was the day she would represent the Children's Palace on stage.
Xie Mingzong and Zhang Xiang went on a business trip, while Xie Xingyun accompanied Xie Jiaoyue to a performance.
It happened to be Saturday, around 6 p.m.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Li Xi usually stays at a daycare center and then takes the bus home in the evening.
It was such a coincidence.
While Li Xi was waiting at a traffic light at an intersection, he witnessed an out-of-control truck rush out from the left-hand straight lane and crash into a black car that was heading in their direction.
The people sitting in the car at that time were Xie Xingyun and his sister.
Xie Xingyun sat in the passenger seat, and Xie Jiaoyue sat behind her brother. If the truck crashed into them, they would be the first to be hit.
Li Chang'an, a veteran, immediately anticipated the situation and turned the vehicle around when he realized something was wrong...
A car traveling in a straight line spun half a circle clockwise, ultimately bearing the brunt of the truck's violent impact from the driver's side...
In that car accident, Xie Xingyun suffered severe external injuries, with his flesh shattered by broken glass.
Xie Jiaoyue, who was sitting in the back, did not have any obvious external injuries, but she suffered a mild concussion.
Her father, however, was crushed inside the truck bed by the cab and immediately lost consciousness...
The scene immediately descended into chaos.
When Li Xi recognized the license plate number as belonging to her father's work vehicle, her legs went weak with fear.
Pedestrians helped her lift her father and the truck driver off the road, where they lay in the middle of the road waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
Li Xi's mind was filled with images of her father's body convulsing in pain, and she didn't have a deep impression of the driver who caused the accident.
The only thing I remember is that there was a piece of broken glass stuck under the other person's eye.
Oh.
He has six fingers on his left hand.