Chapter 1068 - 1039: Now the Logic Makes Sense
This scene was very sad. Qian was trying to figure out how to align everyone’s emotions for a collective confrontation when she saw her sister-in-law asking tearfully.
"You really weren’t aware?"
"I really don’t know anything!"
"All things considered, you benefited, right? She’s so much younger than you!"
"Can you stop disgusting me! Obviously, I was the one taken advantage of. Don’t you know me after all these years? Am I the kind of man who would chase every skirt regardless of charm or stink? Would I stoop so low to betray my marriage and drag the whole family down for my own folly?!"
"Heh, that’s not necessarily true. I remember someone complaining that I was painting an old cucumber green, calling me old, just a few days ago."
"When did I say that?!"
"When I was buying a scarf, I picked a pink one and you mocked me."
"What does that have anything to do with this! Wasn’t I just teasing you? I’m wronged to death, fine, just cut me down." The brother crashed his head onto the table, his tone of grievance akin to a maiden wronged.
... For some reason, Qian suddenly felt like laughing.
"You really weren’t aware? You remember nothing? It wasn’t a conscious betrayal of the family?" the sister-in-law asked again.
"I really wasn’t aware! Really! If you don’t believe me, ask Qian, she hypnotized me and I still couldn’t remember!" The brother replied smoothly, exposing his usual family status.
"How could you act unconsciously? Did you subconsciously think she was young and pretty and just went along with it? Normally when you’re drunk, no matter how I push you, there’s no response!"
The sister-in-law’s earlier graciousness was forcibly maintained, but these questions were sincere.
"Who knows what happened. I truly have no recollection! When I woke up, I just remembered a pain in my foot, a big cut on it, and nothing else felt anything!"
The brother was inexplicably angry, becoming a father unknowingly, with a bellyful of rage wishing to tear those who set him up into pieces; he had no argument seeing his wife so upset, only blaming himself for being careless that day, giving that vile woman a chance.
As they spoke one after the other, Xiaoqiang and his wife originally wanted to leave the couple some space to communicate, but upon hearing those sentences, they both paused.
Qian stayed for a psychological reason from a professional standpoint. Little sister-in-law’s earlier remark gave her an epiphany.
Xiaoqiang stayed purely based on his animal-like sixth sense.
Something’s wrong, something doesn’t add up!
"Sister-in-law, can you repeat what you just said?" Xiaoqiang asked.
"Which sentence do you mean?" The sister-in-law wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"You just said, when brother is drunk... he doesn’t respond?!"
Yu Minglang, by instinct, felt that this sentence was off.
Qian slapped her forehead, "Damn it, I forgot about this part!"
This is the biggest point of suspicion!
She exchanged a glance with Yu Minglang, seeing the gleam of excitement in each other’s eyes.
Yes, the dissonance is right here!
Qian blushed slightly, cleared her throat, and asked nonchalantly, "Brother, uh, can I ask you how many minutes per time?"
The brother was petrified, while the sister-in-law responded right away, "How could it be only a few minutes? Your brother isn’t sick or anything."
As a doctor, she spoke in a diagnostic tone, making the brother a bit awkward, ahem.
"That surely couldn’t have been with my brother. Brother, congratulations, your innocence is upheld."
The term ’drunken debauchery’ only applies to men who haven’t completely drunk themselves. Once a man is fully drunk, reaching moderate alcohol poisoning, there’s no response at all. Even if someone drugged them, it’s impossible for just a few minutes to be enough under the sister-in-law’s implication. How could a drug make it so short? This was directly asked by Qian, although everyone didn’t hear it because Feng Manman mumbled at the end, saying she didn’t mind the brother’s incompetence and how could it not be true love when it was only for money.
Then the only explanation is—
"Brother really didn’t touch her."
Xiaoqiang voiced this exciting news.
"But then there’s the bedsheet—and the used items in the trash can..." The brother’s voice grew smaller as he felt the scorching fury from his wife, the shears on the ground exuding a sinister aura...
"I just found it odd until I heard the sister-in-law say it, then it all made sense."
"Excluding drunkenness, if drugs were used, it’s impossible for Feng Manman to complain about lack of performance. Therefore, the only possibility is that the woman didn’t engage with brother; someone else did."
"But didn’t you say that Feng Manman’s words were also true?" The brother naturally hoped that what Qian said was accurate, but some things were truly hard to articulate.
"What she said was indeed true, but who said they only drugged you?"
Yu Minglang added, "The people behind her likely drugged Feng Manman as well."
In this way, the logic fits.
Everything Feng Manman said to Qian was true.
But that night, it was indeed not the brother. The brother passed out, and being unconscious, he simply couldn’t react. Seeing that, those people couldn’t make it work, so they dragged the brother away, which is why his foot was injured—it accidentally happened during the dragging. Being chubby does have its advantages, leaving evidence in times like this.
During the hypnosis, Qian couldn’t explain the foot injury, and now finally, the clues aligned.
Yu Minglang also confirmed Qian’s reasoning.
Even though both he and Qian used completely different logic to analyze the situation, the conclusions were the same.
"Their people behind the scenes drugged Feng Manman as well, and then dragged the unresponsive brother away, so someone else substituted brother to complete the act, determined to ensure Feng Manman got pregnant and to create a scene for us."
Yu Minglang’s explanation brought the brother relief but also confusion.
"Why go through all this trouble, wouldn’t it be the same to have her be with someone else? Why drug her too?"
The sister-in-law glanced at the brother, who hurried to explain, "I’m not worried about that evil woman; whatever happens to her is her own fault. I’m just puzzled about their purpose in doing this."
"If they can get hold of parents’ phone numbers, it shows they’ve thoroughly analyzed our family. Hence, they must know there’s a super psychologist in our family, or excluding Qian’s side, they fear I might harshly interrogate Feng Manman, so the best way to proceed is to make sure Feng Manman herself believes she is pregnant."
Yu Minglang’s explanation made perfect sense.
The brother had an opportunity to clear his name, but instead of being happy, his brow knit tighter, sharing the same expression with his wife.
The thought behind this was truly terrifying.
Someone had grasped all their family details clearly, poised to strike at any moment; what is their ultimate goal?
Is it to crush the brother’s business, or to disgrace the entire Yu Family, ultimately targeting the current family head, Mr. Yu?
"If the child isn’t the brother’s, the other side wouldn’t allow the child to be born, because once born, a paternity test can be done. They would probably create a miscarriage event midway or use it to create a scandal to extort the brother while blackening our family’s name." Qian made a reasonable analysis.
"We must find out the mastermind behind this." Yu Minglang wouldn’t allow anyone to cause trouble on their home turf like this.