Chapter 3480: Diva, Diva (37)
Chapter 3480: Diva, Diva (37)
If this was truly the case, then Qiao Ling’er was even more ruthless than Ning Shu had imagined. Or, perhaps she had simply killed Yue Wenlun by accident.
Regardless, Qiao Ling’er was now rid of Yue Wenlun. Since she was going to prison, it didn’t matter if the court confiscated all her personal property. She had nothing anyway, so she didn’t care what they took. Besides, her family’s financial situation was already poor.
With Yue Wenlun dead, the original host’s wish was essentially complete, and she had no more worries. Honestly, Ning Shu had been a bit afraid that Yue Wenlun would cling to her. Dealing with a lunatic like that would have been a nightmare.
If she could avoid getting her own hands dirty, she would. For a public figure like the original host, being exposed in any kind of scandal would be an absolute catastrophe.
Every action left a trace, and no matter how careful one was, there would always be clues. Ning Shu was simply unwilling to take the risk of doing it herself.
If she were just an ordinary person, it wouldn’t be so bad because there wouldn’t be so many eyes on her. But in this world, the internet and reality are inextricably linked. Being infamous online meant her real life would be affected as well, and public opinion was a terrifying weapon.
An average person could never withstand the pressure of being condemned by the entire world.
Ning Shu followed the progress of the investigation into Yue Wenlun’s death. After a few days of inquiry, the police concluded that it was a homicide. Qiao Ling’er, also known as Li Kelan, had carried out a planned and premeditated murder of Yue Wenlun.
Qiao Ling’er confessed to the crime without reservation.
The motive for the murder was that Yue Wenlun had abused, tortured, and raped her.
Everyone else was stunned.
Ning Shu, however, believed it. Yue Wenlun was certainly capable of such things. Once he hated a woman to her core, he would resort to abusing her body and tormenting her spirit.
It was as if he had decided, ‘Since you framed me for rape, I’ll actually do it. Since you said I had bad intentions toward you, I’ll fulfill those accusations. Everything you once slandered me for, I will now do to you.’
Qiao Ling’er was very cooperative in her confession. She had the air of someone following the mantra of ‘I’ll get leniency through confession, even if I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison.’
She seemed completely unafraid of going to jail, and it seemed, in her mind, the public’s opinion of her didn’t matter at all.
The rest of her life would likely be spent behind bars. In her mind, swapping the remainder of her life to escape tens of millions in debt probably felt like a winning deal.
While Qiao Ling’er was fearless, her parents were suffering immensely. They had raised a daughter who plagiarized, filmed scandalous videos, underwent plastic surgery, stole a dead person’s identity, changed her name, and was now a convicted murderer.
They couldn’t even hold their heads up in front of their neighbors.
They wondered if they had committed some terrible sin in a past life to be burdened with such a daughter in this one.
The old couple went to the prison to visit Qiao Ling’er. She was sallow and had become as thin as a rail.
Facing her parents, she didn’t know what to say.
If things hadn’t gone wrong, she would have taken care of them. She would have given them a large house and the best of everything, becoming a child they could be proud of.
But the system had abandoned her. Yue Wenlun had used a key to open the door to her rented apartment, and from that moment on, her life had become a living hell.
Yue Wenlun had hurt and humiliated her. He didn’t care for her body. Sometimes he even tied her up and used thin needles to prick her in the most private and sensitive places, targeting wherever it hurt the most.
The pain was unbearable. She had reached her breaking point and knew she had to kill him.
The system had truly been blind to call a man like that a ‘male god’ and order her to capture him, only for him to turn out to be a total pervert.
Both Qiao Ling’er and Yue Wenlun had trampled on each other’s dignity and boundaries until they reached a point where only one of them could survive.
All the darkness within them had been dragged into the light.
Yue Wenlun hated Qiao Ling’er because her slander had destroyed his career, while Qiao Ling’er hated Yue Wenlun because his abuse and humiliation had become more than she could endure.
The twisted, terrifying expression on his face while he tortured her had been haunting.
What finally pushed Qiao Ling’er to kill him was when Yue Wenlun claimed she was hiding a secret and threatened to send her to a research institute.
Yue Wenlun said he had been watching her ever since the Li Kelan plagiarism scandal. He hadn’t seen her go for plastic surgery, yet her face had changed yet again.
He suspected that Qiao Ling’er possessed something beyond human imagination or something unknown to science.
He would frequently choke her, demanding to know her secret.
Qiao Ling’er had hovered at death’s door several times. He would either squeeze her throat or hold her head underwater until she was on the verge of suffocating before pulling her back.
She had gritted her teeth and refused to speak. Even though her life was already a struggle, being sent to a research institute would be a far more horrifying fate. She would lose her life and become nothing more than a specimen on an operating table.
“Why would you do such things?”
Facing her parents’ accusations, Qiao Ling’er didn’t know what to say. Naturally, she had done it all to live a better life—to become a superstar, to be the envy of all, and to be adored by men. She wanted to be a winner in life, but she had failed in both of her lifetimes.
Her struggle seemed worthless and filled with irony.
She wondered why she couldn’t succeed. Was it simply because she didn’t have a good family background or enough money?
Qiao Ling’er felt that fate was unjust.
If she was going to be treated this way even after being reborn, she felt she shouldn’t have been given the chance at a second life at all.
“I wanted to live a good life. I wanted to be successful, but I failed. That’s all,” Qiao Ling’er told her parents.
Her parents stared at her, dumbfounded. “You committed so many wrongs, and you think it’s just ‘failure’?”
Qiao Ling’er remained silent. ‘The winner takes it all, and the loser has to fall.’ It was only because she had failed that she was in position now. History was written by the victors; if she were standing on a brilliant stage right now, the story would be told very differently.
Qiao Ling’er thought she was tough, but against the combined bullying of the other inmates, she had no way to fight back. She lived a life of being ordered around and mistreated.
She would be stuck there for the rest of her life, as she’d been sentenced to life in prison for premeditated murder.
But even if it meant spending her entire life behind bars, she felt it was worth it to kill Yue Wenlun.
Compared to being tortured by him, prison life was far more bearable.
She could endure it, even if she still hid under her covers at night to cry and complain about the unfairness of fate.
While some people faced constant storms, others lived comfortably and smoothly—like Yue Wenlun’s ex-girlfriend, Mu Shuyao. After escaping that scumbag, her career was thriving more than ever.