The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

The first day of November had been set as the day of the first hearing in court. Everyone was looking forward to it.

By the 29th of October, Lanni and Xiehan had managed to find the ’perfume bottle’ USB drive and got someone to verify that its content was original and had not undergone any changes. They showed it to everyone at the dining table that night.

The content was several videos, including confessions from servants in Xia Hanchen’s home. Some of them revealed that they had witnessed Li Xiyan’s violent behavior and that it was she who had started the fight between her and Xia Luna. There was also video evidence to prove this. One of the maids was on her way to the kitchen when she heard a vicious argument and had recorded it for the sake of gossip.

However, she had not expected it to escalate to the point of near-murder. She had fled soon after it happened to avoid being caught in the middle of such a scuffle. After Paul investigated everyone that was in that scene at the time and found out that some servants had left, he looked for them and spoke to them. That was how he found out that the maid had the video. He got it from her as well as her verbal statement. That was some of the content of the USB drive and he was going to help Luna present it to the court.

"Just in time. We should make a copy of it and send it to the lawyer too." Li Yuming suggested when she saw it. These kinds of meetings had been common lately; Madam Jiang would come over with her son and so would Xiehan. They would have things to discuss and even if it was not related to Luna’s case, they would still have meals and drinks together.

"Yuming is right. He is a reputable lawyer, but there is no such thing as too much caution. We should still give him a copy and keep the original, in case it gets lost." Madam Jiang seconded. She and Li Yuming had grown quite close lately.

"I will also save another copy on cloud," Lanni suggested, and they all burst into laughter at how cautious they were being.

"Enough about that. Now that we are able to prove that Li Xiyan is the one who attacked Luna first, how about the current case?" Lanni asked.

"Mrs. Paul refused to confess that she had lied to the police. She still insists that her late husband told Luna that he had found her guilty."

Everyone huffed. How can one tell such a lie and insist on it?

"There is already so much evidence to prove that her statement was a lie. There is no way that Detective Paul would have told Luna that he had found her guilty when he had found all this evidence, right? It wouldn’t make any sense." Xiehan shrugged.

"Yuming doesn’t have to try anymore. We already have enough evidence in our hands." Madam Jiang announced. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Did you find the real murderer?" Lanni asked.

"Is it Li Xiyan?" Luna speculated.

"Not exactly Li Xiyan..." Madam Jiang explained. "It is a young man. There is evidence of him entering the house and leaving sneakily at around the time that Detective Paul is said to have died. However, there is nothing to prove that he is in contact with Li Xiyan or may have worked for her."

"And he is still lurking out there?" Li Yuming sounded worried. "What if he and the mastermind find out that we have evidence against him? Wouldn’t he try to go after Luna?"

"We came here as soon as we found the evidence. We will hand it over to the police. However, we cannot be sure that his mastermind will not hire someone else. We have to keep our guard up."

Luna looked solemn. "As long as he is caught. He can reveal the mastermind if he gets interrogated."

"Though I’m curious. Why would the police previously suspect Paul’s wife for murdering her husband?" Lanni asked.

"Are you seriously going to look into that? Some people’s lives are complicated. You would rather not find out." Xiehan held her waist as he stated.

It was not important. As long as Luna was freed of the charges, whatever lie everyone told would be invalid. It was no longer their business.

Now that everything was only one step away from being settled, everyone was happy.

Jiang Xingyu raised a glass in the air, grinning widely as his eyes filled with joy. "Just a little more and I will be able to make Luna my woman."

"Uh..." Luna was speechless.

"That’s your main point in all of this?" Madam Jiang looked at her son like he was an idiot.

"How is it not the main point? Luna has been throwing me off with this matter as an excuse. Now she will no longer have any excuse. She will have to be with me."

Luna shook her head at his logic. "Who gives you excuses? Are you insane?"

"Then you agree to be with me?" Jiang Xingyu looked excited as he asked.

"You’re impossible." Luna stood up from beside him and went to sit next to Madam Jiang instead. She no longer wanted to be close to this unreasonable man.

"Mother, look at her bullying your son." Jiang Xingyu complained, earning a glare from his mother. "Shush! My Luna is such an angel. How can she even bully anyone? It’s you who is bothering my little angel."

"Just who is your real child? Did you perhaps switch me and Luna and carry the wrong child home?" Jiang Xingyu whined.

"How I wish I carried the wrong child home." Madam Jiang looked serious as she lamented. "It would be much better to have such a darling like Luna as my child than a punk like you."

Li Yuming watched the mother-son banter and laughed so hard her stomach hurt. This family was too funny.

And the best part of it was that Luna would be in safe hands if she married Jiang Xingyu. She wouldn’t have to worry about her daughter being mistreated by her in-laws.