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Chapter 149: Chapter 149: Send Lu Qianrou to Jail! (1)
Chen An said, Li Muchen did not have someone send her the dress.
That means, this red strap dress was not sent by Li Muchen, but someone deliberately used his name, wanting her to wear this dress at tonight’s gathering.
Why would they want her to wear this red dress?
Because once Third Brother falls ill, he will unconsciously attack anyone wearing a red dress, and clearly, that person knew this and intended to use it.
Thus, the person designing all this intended to use Third Brother’s hands in his ill state tonight, to kill her.
Although only Lu Jingyan and Lu Siyan vividly remember the incident of Lu Ziye being kidnapped by human traffickers years ago, the eldest brother also said that after Third Brother returned to the Lu Family for treatment, Jiang Ting had warned everyone not to let Lu Ziye be alone in the dark, and especially not to let him see a red dress during an episode.
That means, everyone in the Lu Family knows about it.
But Lu Sheng’s intuition tells her that the person who secretly devised such a vicious plan, who wanted Third Brother to suffer and wanted her dead, could only be Lu Qianrou.
—But where is the evidence?
If she wanted to expose Lu Qianrou, she needed evidence.
Lu Sheng leaned against the wall in the corridor outside Lu Ziye’s room, closed her eyes, and let her mind blank, recalling the series of events that happened tonight.
First, she received the red dress and wore it out, then the living room’s chandelier exploded causing a short circuit, followed by Fourth Brother getting injured by the chandelier shards and bleeding.
Then, for some reason, Third Brother went back to his room before the chandelier explosion, followed by him being unknowingly locked in the room during the blackout which triggered his illness, and then he saw her in the red dress and wanted to kill her.
If the ultimate goal of this person was to have her dead, Fourth Brother’s injury might be incidental or accidental.
However, either way, Third Brother’s episode is the most crucial part.
If there was no blackout causing darkness at home, Third Brother would not have had an episode. If he was not locked alone in his room during the blackout, he would not have had an episode. If she had not worn a red dress, Third Brother in his episode would not have thought to kill her.
So [sending the red dress] + [chandelier explosion] + [Third Brother returning to his room] + [room being locked] are the four most important factors of tonight’s event.
But who sent the red dress is beyond investigation.
The maid who knocked on the door to deliver the clothes had said that it was a courier from a rush delivery service who had brought the gift box.
Although Lu Qianrou is malicious, she isn’t foolish. She would know who sent the dress after asking, and she wouldn’t leave herself vulnerable by sending the dress herself.
How the chandelier exploded is also unverifiable.
While she was taking Fourth Brother back to the room for treatment, the servants cleaned up all the shattered chandelier pieces and debris in the living room to prevent others from getting hurt.
Why Third Brother went upstairs back to his room before the power outage, because he was still unconscious, it’s also impossible to find out.
Now, the only point left to investigate is after Third Brother returned to his room, who locked his door from the outside.
It is possible that someone deliberately locked the door from outside.
If it was Third Brother who had locked himself in earlier, being terrified of being locked alone, his first reaction upon realizing the power outage would definitely be to try to open the door to come out.
It’s because the door was locked that he couldn’t come out, and he desperately began punching and kicking, eventually forcibly kicking the door open.
Don’t mention that the lock might have coincidentally malfunctioned; there can’t be that many coincidences.
And if someone had locked him in the room just as the power went out, that person must have been on the third floor at that moment.
Who wasn’t on the first floor when the power initially went out?
Lu Sheng recalled, she came out of her room with a flashlight as soon as the power went out. She saw it, everyone who attended tonight’s gathering was in the living room.
Including Lu Qianrou.
Lu Qianrou was there too, right beside Yao Xuantong.
But if it wasn’t Lu Qianrou who locked the door, who else could it be?
Lu Sheng slightly furrowed her brows, suddenly recalling a detail out of the blue.
When the light exploded and the living room went dark, the eldest brother shouted for Mrs. Wang to bring the emergency light, but she did not hear Mrs. Wang’s response.
Later finding Fourth Brother injured, the eldest brother was still calling out to Mrs. Wang, demanding, "Where’s the light! Why hasn’t it been brought over?" Only then did Mrs. Wang hurriedly appear, carrying the light. 𝓃𝓸𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
Because of the gathering, all the servants of the Lu family were arranged to work on the first floor.
If Mrs. Wang had been on the first floor at that time, she couldn’t have failed to respond immediately, nor could she have taken so long to bring the light.
Thinking of this, Lu Sheng took a deep breath and the next second, she got up and headed straight to the first floor.
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Servants’ room.
Wang Guiqin carefully hid the remote control for the small bomb in the deepest part of her wardrobe and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She hadn’t expected Miss Qianrou’s meticulously planned scheme tonight to only succeed halfway. Although it succeeded in triggering the Third Young Master’s illness, it failed to kill Lu Sheng.
But that didn’t matter, as long as she had fulfilled what Miss Qianrou asked her to do, securing the 500,000 payment for herself.
Wang Guiqin wasn’t worried about the matter being traced back to her.
The person who delivered the dress to Lu Sheng was from an express service, and she had directly thrown away the small bomb in the chandelier when cleaning up the remnants. There were no surveillance cameras outside the Third Young Master’s door, so there was no evidence left that she had locked the door.
If someone suspected her later, she would staunchly deny knowing anything. Without evidence, who could do anything to her?
Thinking that she finally had money for her son to study abroad, Wang Guiqin couldn’t help but swell with emotions.
As a mother, she had finally enabled her son to receive a top-notch education!
Once her son made something of himself, she wouldn’t have to work as a servant, haughty before wealthy families.
However, before she could even enjoy her excitement, Wang Guiqin heard the doorknob suddenly make a noise, causing her to shiver involuntarily and instinctively ask, "Who is it?"
Just now, to hide the remote, she had reversed the lock, so Wang Guiqin was not too panicked at the moment.
But the next second, she saw her room’s door lock moving, and then with a snap, the entire lock was actually broken from the outside!
The handle in the room clattered to the floor.
Wang Guiqin was stunned, inhaling sharply as her eyes widened more than a cow’s.
What, what is this ghost? Yet before she could react, she saw Lu Sheng open the door and walk in.
Accompanying her was a small black cat with shiny black fur and dark green eyes.
"...Miss Lu Sheng?"
Wang Guiqin stammered, never imagining someone could directly break the door lock, especially such a frail and slender girl.
She instinctively took two steps back, about to speak, when she was suddenly grabbed harshly by the very cold-faced Lu Sheng.
This is probably what they call fierce with few words.
Lu Sheng’s face was expressionless and she didn’t utter a word to the woman in front of her. One hand covered Wang Guiqin’s mouth, while the other hand seized her right wrist.
With just a bit of force.
"Ugh----!!!!!"
The moment her wrist was twisted and broken, Wang Guiqin wanted to scream, but with her mouth covered, she couldn’t make a sound.
Her vision darkened, and the pain almost knocked her out cold!
