Chapter 968: Chapter 968: Take It All
Outside the interrogation room, Zhao Xiuyu, listening to these words, screamed while pounding her chest, filled with anger and regret.
If only she had known earlier that Zhou Ming had a mistress.
If only she hadn’t given that painting to Zhou Shutong, her child wouldn’t have met such a tragic end.
She kept shouting Zhou Shutong’s name, shouting that it was she who killed Zhou Shutong, that it was all her fault...
The policemen nearby sighed deeply, continually trying to comfort her, but it was to little avail.
Weng Jingyun, upon hearing Xia Fangruo’s confession, continued questioning how she came to know the painting was harmful, and where exactly she had acquired it.
Xia Fangruo, her face ashen, did not resist and answered honestly.
She learned about the painting from a website.
It was an auction website.
It was said that the painting was very sinister, and everyone who obtained it, without exception, met a tragic end.
Afterward, their families all felt the painting was cursed and sold it off.
This painting passed through dozens of owners over time.
And every owner’s fate was the same.
Not a single one survived.
When Xia Fangruo first saw this description, she thought it was just a gimmick by the auction website.
But she had to admit, such a description did indeed attract her.
Curiously, she contacted the website administrators and, through them, reached out to the families of some former owners to inquire if the painting was truly so eerie.
Everyone said that the painting indeed could kill, and it was displayed only to attract others, not really to be sold.
Now the painting is vacuum-sealed in a secret warehouse, with no one guarding it around, only various mechanical security.
This is to prevent any guards from being harmed by the painting.
So now, it hasn’t caused any deaths for quite some time.
Xia Fangruo learned from the widows of those owners that they all died in the same manner, resembling dried-out corpses.
The identical descriptions of their deaths sent a chill down Xia Fangruo’s spine, but it also made her more confident that the painting possessed peculiar powers.
In Xia Fangruo’s hometown, there had always been superstitious rumors, and she had always been skeptical about such things.
But...
Now the situation was unique.
Remembering Zhou Ming once saying he would never divorce Zhao Xiuyu to marry someone else, she felt indignant.
As she had previously said, her reason for being with Zhou Ming and having his child was for the Zhou family’s wealth and the title of Mrs. Zhou.
How could she allow her efforts to go to waste, ending up with nothing?
Therefore, even if she didn’t fully believe in the painting’s powers, she still gritted her teeth, found an excuse to ask Zhou Ming for a large sum of money, and painstakingly negotiated with the website admin to buy the painting for an exorbitant price.
Just a few days later, coinciding with Zhao Xiuyu’s birthday, she secretly sent the painting to Zhao Xiuyu’s home.
Unexpectedly, the painting had such a rapid effect, in just two or three days...
Zhou Shutong was dead.
Outside the interrogation room, Zhao Xiuyu let out a sudden scream upon hearing this.
The next second, she suddenly turned around, swung her arm, and slapped Zhou Ming’s face, who stood there dumbfounded.
She glared at Zhou Ming with resentment, almost spitting blood from fury, and gritted out through clenched teeth, "Divorce! Zhou Ming, I want a divorce, and I will take all the assets!"
With that, Zhao Xiuyu pushed away the policeman supporting her and staggered away.
Zhou Ming stood there like he had been struck stupid, remaining unresponsive, his head still turned to the side from the slap, standing there for an unknown amount of time.