After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved-Chapter 401: Look How Happy She Is

What a vicious plan!

After Aunt Chen finished speaking, almost everyone present could hardly believe it.

If this plan is true...

Using a child with a mental disability who can’t speak to commit murder. Pretending to be close and caring to make others drop their guard, while secretly drugging the other party with the intent to kill.

What kind of vicious mind, how heavy the scheming and calculation, would it take to do such things?

Shi Erya was already shocked enough when she saw Lu Sheng almost get stabbed tonight.

She never expected Aunt Chen would suddenly stand up and accuse her, saying that all these things were done by her, that it was all her carefully arranged plan.

"Aunt Chen, what exactly are you saying? How could I possibly do such a thing!"

Shi Erya was anxious and desperately explained, "Dad, big brother and sister-in-law, and Shengsheng, I really didn’t do such a thing, you have to believe me."

"Believe you?" Lin Fangling obviously believed Aunt Chen.

She countered, "Then let me ask you, Shi Erya, is this incense something you use yourself, and did you ask Aunt Chen to light it and send it to Lu Sheng’s room?"

This point, Shi Erya couldn’t refute.

She took a deep breath, "This incense is indeed what I usually use myself, and I did have Aunt Chen light it and send it over to Shengsheng."

"But I definitely didn’t ask her to drug Shengsheng, I can swear!"

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Lin Fangling said, "Now there’s both physical evidence and a witness, are you still not going to admit it?"

"I won’t admit to something I didn’t do!" Shi Erya got agitated too.

She seemed to think of something and suddenly questioned Aunt Chen, "Aunt Chen, you just said I told you that because Shengsheng’s return would decrease my share of the inheritance, I wanted to kill her."

"But if I was worried that Shengsheng’s return would decrease my inheritance, why did I personally go to Jiang City to find her and persuade her to come back to the Shi Family? I could have just told my dad I didn’t find her, wouldn’t that have been enough?"

—That’s true.

When Shi Erya said this, and thinking about her previously bringing Lu Sheng home warmly, such a motive for murder indeed didn’t hold water.

At this moment, Shi Chengyun suddenly spoke, like it hit a sore spot with him.

"When you brought Lu Sheng back, you probably didn’t expect she’d be able to cure him, and heal the old man completely, right?"

This sentence immediately left Shi Erya speechless.

Yes... she indeed didn’t expect Lu Sheng to be able to treat illnesses or completely cure her father.

But even so, she couldn’t develop jealousy over Lu Sheng getting the inheritance and wanting to kill her!

However, at this point, the incense burner was something she asked Aunt Chen to bring over, and the incense was what she usually used herself, with Aunt Chen blaming her openly.

Shi Erya felt she was unable to defend herself with a thousand mouths, without any strong evidence to prove her innocence.

Lin Fangling seemed ready to convict Shi Erya, directly saying to Shi Mingxiu, "Dad, since it’s Erya who did it, we can’t really call the police either. It would tarnish the Shi Family’s reputation if it got out. How do you suggest handling this matter?"

As parents, it’s impossible not to know their child’s nature.

Shi Erya has always been the most obedient and sensible among the children, and Shi Mingxiu was unwilling to believe that Shi Erya could have done such a thing to Lu Sheng.

But in the current situation, with witness and evidence present, whether it’s the truth or not, if he chooses to defend Shi Erya, it means disregarding Lu Sheng’s safety.

She is his biological granddaughter, lost for many years, only recently returned.

Shi Mingxiu found himself in a difficult position but didn’t want Lu Sheng to be wronged either, about to say they should call the police for an investigation.

However, at this time, Lu Sheng, who had been watching all this from the side, suddenly spoke up.

"—I seem to have forgotten to mention something just now."

"I am quite cautious with things like incense. So, when I smelled the scent of incense upon returning to my room in the evening, I directly extinguished it with water, which is why the incense ash looks hardened."

"The amount of incense I inhaled should be minimal."

Hearing this, Lin Fangling thought Lu Sheng meant that since she inhaled only a little incense, it might be something else that caused her to fall asleep deeply.

So she immediately said, "Inhaling such a small amount but sleeping so soundly? This clearly indicates a strong sleeping pill was used! Shi Erya, you’re really cruel-hearted."

She put another label on Shi Erya.

Shi Erya was red-eyed and yet to respond when Lu Sheng continued, "...But that’s not what I wanted to say."

Lu Sheng raised her eyes, her expression calm and unperturbed.

The deep, clear pupils were profound. Although she wore just a simple, soft white cotton-linen nightgown, her aura was mysteriously strong.

"What I wanted to say is,"

"Because I’m very cautious with scented things, and it was my first night sleeping in an unfamiliar place, I took some measures against possible danger before going to sleep."

—Measures against danger?

Everyone was stunned.

Shi Muchuan looked at Lu Sheng, "The measures you’re talking about are..."

And Lu Sheng’s eyes glanced in the room’s corner towards the bedside table against the wall.

Everyone followed her gaze—only now noticing that a phone was propped against the wall in the curtain folds on the bedside table.

No one had noticed the phone before. Furthermore, the camera on the back of the phone faced the bed and the room door.

Lu Sheng went over, took the phone, and after pressing a few buttons, turned to explain to everyone.

"The measure I took was to set my phone to remain lit before I fell asleep, and then I selected the recording mode and placed the phone there."

"I just stopped the recording, and the video was automatically saved. This means everything that happened in the room from the time I fell asleep until just now was recorded by my phone."

"Aren’t you all puzzled about how Chenchen entered my room in the middle of the night and where the knife in his hand came from?"

Lu Sheng seemed to glance at Lin Fangling unintentionally, then looked away, "To figure out what happened, we just need to watch the video."

...??? What? This, what is this?!!

Lu Sheng said she recorded the video of everything happening in the room from before she went to sleep until now??!

Who on earth would be so idle, sleeping with a phone beside them, continuously recording!!! Is this something a normal person would do!!

In that instant, Lin Fangling only felt her heart pounding, breathing difficult. She pointed tremulously at the video, shaking like a sieve, and asked Lu Sheng, "You, you really recorded all these things for the last few hours...?"

"Of course," Lu Sheng suddenly smiled sweetly, walked over to hold Lin Fangling’s hand, and sincerely praised, "Aunt really cares about Chenchen, look how happy she is knowing I recorded the real culprit, her hands are shaking."