"Alter ego? Wh-what nonsense are you spouting, Liu Jun?" Cai Lingyun averted his gaze.
Jun grabbed his hair and forced him to look at him. "I don't have ti to waste. Start talking or with every lie, I will start punching your ugly face."
"Liu Jun! Isn't it enough that you fucking ruined my life like this!? Why should I answer your questions?"
Jun chuckled sinisterly. "Because I am telling you to. I am not giving you a choice."
"Shut up! Of course it's a lie! I don't even know how you got to that conclusion!"
This ti, it was Ai who said, "Does Guiying smoke?"
Cai Lingyun's stance imdiately softened upon hearing her talk to him. "What? Guiying and smoking? That's impossible. She hates smoking."
"Yet I saw her smoking one day in Dream High."
That startled him. His eyeballs turned left and right, and he turned fidgety.
Jun then asked, "Fine. If you don't know about her condition, then you can definitely answer one question, right? Did you ever physically assault your sister?"
He felt a sharp, ominous tingling pass through his spine. Especially in front of Ai, his heart beat even faster in trepidation.
"W-what…" Jun's question turned him fully sober. He nervously laughed. "Just because you want to defa , you cannot spin lies like this! Guiying is my sister. I will never hurt her-"
Jun threw a surprise punch on his cheek, almost crushing his cheekbone. "I warned you I won't tolerate lies."
Tears pooled in his eyes with the intensity of the punch. He quickly looked at Ai and stamred. "D-Did Guiying tell you anything? Ai, I don't know what's wrong with her. But she is lying! You know , right? I love Guiying. I raised her since we lost our parents…How can I bear to be violent with her?"
Ai narrowed her eyes. "So you an to say that the police report against you and Guiying's neighbors seeing all the commotion is also a lie?"
The panic across his face was evident. "T-that wasn't a commotion at all. I just visited Guiying, and we just had a small argunt…" he felt his forehead getting covered in sweat. "I was unfairly arrested! I might have just raised my voice a bit, b-but I never hit her!"
"Is that so?" Jun smiled. "I guess you won't understand normal language. But I have ways to deal with stubborn trash like you. The Liu family has a special place to make you open your mouth. We have lots of tools to help you with that."
Cai Lingyun didn't have to be spoon fed the aning. With how rich and influential Jun was, there were surely lots of goons and n under his orders to torture him.
"Liu Jun…you are going too f-far…You cannot drag an innocent person like -"
"A man having a police complaint against him regarding beating his sister is not innocent," Jun cut him off. "In fact, he is a monster. So I am asking you for the last ti. Don't test my patience after that. Did you beat Cai Guiying?"
He felt his voice stuck in his throat. In front of Ai and the woman he loved, how could he admit to his true nature?
"I…"
Under Ai's accusing scrutiny, Cai Lingyun suffered even more ntal damage.
"Did you or did you not beat Guiying?"
He finally confessed, albeit trying to give a half-hearted truth. "L-look, Ai…you can see how I am living. All because of Liu Jun! I was kicked out of my house because I didn't have rent to pay…" his voice stamred, "I am in a miserable state, so I just…asked so help from Guiying."
Jun sneered.
By help, he ans financial help.
"But she refused!" His gaze and voice beca more distraught. "I am in a tough situation, and Guiying is my sister…I expected she would help , b-but she straightaway rejected . We just had an argunt over that…a-and in anger, I just slapped her."
Ai stared at him silently, her gaze more unforgiving than before. "JUST slapped her?"
He panicked. "I-I regret my actions, Ai! Really! It was all because of my stress…" he began to laugh, "you understand, right? I an just look at this place. It's so filthy and disgusting. It was just in a spur of the mont-"
"Spur of the mont or have you done this before?" Ai sharply demanded an answer.
He stiffened. "B-before?"
"Have you been beating Guiying before too?"
When Ai learned of the police complaint against Cai Lingyun, it was then she slowly began to believe that the cause behind Guiying's condition might be none other than her brother herself. If she suffered extre anguish that she couldn't share it with anybody else, then it must definitely be related to Cai Lingyun sohow because he was her only family. And the most difficult situation for anybody to admit was their complicated family matters.
"Tell ," Ai's stance grew even icier as she peered into his guilty gaze. "Have you been doing this for a long ti? Is it because of you that she developed an alter ego?"
Cai Lingyun furiously shook his head. His face paled, and he felt difficulty in swallowing. "No, no…Ai, we…we all three have spent such a long ti together…I-I am not that kind of a man to hit a woman. What happened with Guiying was just one ti…"
Jun slapped him hard. "One ti…According to the report, it wasn't just one slap. You pulled her hair too. She hurt her ankle when she tried to fight you."
He gnashed his jaw. "SHUT UP! You stay out of this Liu Jun! I am talking to Ai! Don't you fucking interfere!"
That earned him another hard punch in his gut, making him cough blood.
Ai clenched her fists because she could watch the guilt in his eyes that beca more and more evident. "Cai Lingyun…"
Thinking about all the years she spent with Guiying, but she never got the wind of the state she lived in…Ai felt as if her heart was being squeezed hard without any rcy.
"Why…why would you do that to Guiying?"
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