Su Zhen had a secret.
It was a secret she had kept hidden for a very long time.
Whenever she was bullied at school, whenever she sank into despair, this secret always gave her confidence.
She and her sister lived different lives. Her sister lived in a shabby apartment building, while she lived in a luxury villa.
But she knew this arrangement was only temporary. The love of the BR Group and their family would all belong to her sister in the future.
She didn't envy her sister at all. On the contrary, she wanted to protect her sister in a special way.
Until that demon appeared.
Su Zhen discovered that a middle-aged man was always following her sister, secretly taking photos of her.
"If you don't stop, I'll call the police!"
Su Zhen didn't know where she found the courage to confront this middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man didn't get angry. Instead, he asked a question that nearly drove Su Zhen to despair: "Have you fallen in love with your own sister?"
Su Zhen didn't know how to answer, because in that moment, she understood that any rebuttal would be cruel to herself.
She was forced to become Qin Zu's "mistress," and because of Qin Zu, she suffered even more severe humiliation and bullying.
But none of that mattered. As long as her sister could be happy, what did this pain amount to?
On the school's BBS, someone posted photos of Su Zhen and Qin Zu checking into a hotel together. And this Qin Zu was a pervert obsessed with Fifty Shades—a man who constantly picked different young girls to be the objects of his twisted games.
That post wasn't widely spread, because Lu Yu, the eldest son of PN Pharmaceutical Group, saw the post and quickly shut down the entire forum. He and Su Zhen had grown up together, and he knew very well that Su Zhen was not a girl who would willingly degrade herself.
Xiao Zhen, as long as you tell me the truth, I'll give up everything to help you.
Lu Yu never got that truth. What he got instead was the news that Su Zhen had jumped from a building and died.
Her older sister Su Die had been right beside her before she jumped. Su Die watched her own sister take her life with her own eyes, yet did nothing.
Lu Yu swore he would seek revenge on Su Die. But after thoroughly investigating the case, he discovered that Su Zhen hadn't committed suicide at all—she had been pushed from the building by that perverted president.
"Grandpa, are you sure what you saw that day was true?"
"That day, my wife and I were tidying up our breakfast stall near the abandoned high-rise. We usually sold until ten at night. My wife saw a rich man in a suit push a young girl from the building. I saw the girl's terrible death with my own eyes too."
"Later, when the police asked us about it, we told the truth. But somehow, the girl's mother said she wouldn't pursue the matter. There was nothing two old folks like us could do to seek justice for that girl."
Lu Yu deduced that Qin Zu had kidnapped both Su Die and Su Zhen that day. He had released Su Die, but pushed Su Zhen from the building. That meant his target from the very beginning had been Su Die. Su Zhen had never truly been his "mistress." Instead, Qin Zu had been holding something over her—some kind of leverage.
Qin Zu. Su Yue. Su Die. Those female classmates who bullied Xiao Zhen. And Qin Zu's accomplices. All of your hands are stained with Xiao Zhen's blood.
"Lu Yu, are you going to become the same kind of person as Qin Zu?"
"Su Mosheng, are you saying that for the sake of your woman, or are you advising me?"
"Neither. I just think that repaying violence with violence is wrong. It's a false justice."
"Justice? You still believe there's justice in this world?"
"I don't believe this world is bright. But justice definitely exists. Yet I don't think Su Zhen would want to see you avenge her like this—hurting innocent people along the way."