She is the most beautiful rose

Chapter 251 Compromise
Shen Duanwen looked at her in disbelief and disappointment, "Manzhi, do you have to be so aggressive when you speak? You weren't like this before."

Shen Manzhi's eyes flickered slightly, aggressive?

Isn't she...always like this?

He habitually uses rhetorical questions to look down on everything, pretends to be calm to cover up his weaknesses, and is covered with thorns, which gives off an arrogant and domineering temperament.

The first time she fought back was when she was pushed in public again. The cafeteria was noisy and crowded. The bowl of hot soup on the man's plate spilled, most of it splashing on her white T-shirt, but he just glanced at her lightly, then smiled and walked away with his friends.

People around also gave me strange looks and whispered to me.

Shen Manzhi lowered her eyes to glance at the stains on her body, then calmly watched the group of people sit down. Her upbringing had always been restraining her behavior.

That was the first time, after being besieged and deliberately harassed many times, she walked straight up to the group of people.

He pulled the girl's ponytail up with incredible force, and lifted her up from the stool.

The girl was pulled so hard that she screamed, "Are you crazy?"

Shen Manzhi expressionlessly poured the freshly made soup on her plate, and the sisters around her stood up and dodged.

"Shen Manzhi!"

The girl recovered from her shock and tried to save her hair, but Shen Manzhi fanned her back with his own plate.

Yes, he slapped her on the arm very violently and then slammed her on the table so hard that it shook.

"what!"

The girl was furious and suddenly felt a sense of fear. She protected her ponytail with one hand and tried to escape with the other. Shen Manzhi stepped on her stool and cast a cold look at the group of companions who wanted to dissuade her.

She pulled the girl's head and said in an arrogant tone, word by word, "Don't dare to provoke me again in the future."

The girl never thought that she could fight back. Her facial features were distorted by the pain. Although she was unwilling, she could only shiver and shake her head.

She learned to protect herself for the first time by fighting violence with violence.

But no one knew that her hands were shaking when she left the cafeteria that day.

Since then, there have been fewer people who have come to cause trouble for her for no reason.

The most outrageous incident was when she was surrounded by a bullying group in an abandoned teaching building and beaten up, leaving her body covered in bruises.

The big sister of the school was standing there in all her glory, she didn't even need to do anything herself, a group of minions around her were rubbing their hands and eager to try, and on the other side stood a few boys who were called over to support her.

It really gave Shen Manzhi a great honor.

The eldest sister stepped on the steps with one leg, leaned over and looked at Shen Manzhi on the ground, "I heard that you have been very arrogant recently?"

Shen Manzhi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes cold, "What grudge do I have against you?"

The eldest sister seemed to find this very funny. She sneered and said, "I just want to beat you up because I don't like you. Do I need any more reasons?"

A little henchman behind her spoke for her, "It's just that your family has some filthy money. Don't act like everyone looks down on you. Who are you trying to show off to? People who don't fit in will be excluded. I think you are too spoiled, young lady. You don't even understand this. You are worse than your sister."

That's it, there is no reason, I just want to make trouble because I don't like you.

Shen Manzhi glanced at her coldly. Sure enough, they were all crazy.

The girl felt looked down upon again and said angrily, "Who the hell are you looking at?!"

The big sister really seized the opportunity and slapped her, "I gave you face?"

But this time, the slap failed to land. Shen Manzhi grabbed her wrist and bent it backwards, causing the elder sister to turn pale in pain.

Before the people around could react, Shen Manzhi quickly swept the person upside down in front of him with his long legs, and held the fruit knife he had pulled out from his hand across the big sister's neck.

The little minion got closer and saw the shining blade, "What are you doing!?"

The eldest sister didn't dare to act rashly. It was the first time she was threatened by someone who took the initiative, but she remained calm and held her breath, "Shen Manzhi, don't be impulsive!"

Looking at the person who wanted to come forward, Shen Manzhi exerted force on his wrist, and the blade pressed into the flesh, leaving a red mark. If he went any further, blood would be seen. "Try calling another one?"

The eldest sister protected her neck and shouted anxiously to the others, "Don't come over!"

The boy who was watching the show finally stepped out to act as a peacemaker, "Miss, it's just a beating, can't you just fight back? Is there any need to use a knife? Besides, I don't believe you really dare to do it."

Shen Manzhi moved the knife downwards with a fake smile. The girl felt obvious pain, as if her skin was cut. "Please don't...ah!"

Shen Manzhi suddenly thrust the blade in front of her again. The girl was so frightened that her whole body began to convulse. The tip of the knife pierced steadily into the gap between the girl's legs. If it had been a little off, it would have pierced her leg.

The boy's expression also changed, as if he really didn't expect her to do that.

Shen Manzhi leaned against the wall, holding the girl tightly in his arms. His clothes were wrinkled, there were bruises at the corners of his eyes, and there was blood at the corners of his mouth that had not been wiped off.

She held the hilt of the knife and looked at the people in front of her indifferently, saying in a cold voice, "Get lost."

It was the first time those people saw her so crazy. They looked at each other awkwardly and then scattered like birds and beasts.

Shen Manzhi pushed the person in front of him away, motioned to her with the knife in his hand, tilted his head and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Next time, it will be stuck in your leg."

It's really extremely arrogant.

She went into the bathroom and washed her face casually, but the wrinkles and bruises on her body made it clear to others what had happened. The head teacher came in with a serious face and called Shen Manzhi away before he sat down.

What happened in the abandoned teaching building that day spread like wildfire, and almost no one bothered her anymore. Of course, there was no one else around her.

Shen Ci treated her wound. Obviously he had heard about what happened at school. Looking at the little girl's indifferent expression, he felt distressed but also helpless and amused.

"So you asked me to teach you how to avoid causing fatal injuries a while ago, just to fight violence with violence?"

Shen Manzhi turned his head away from the iodine he was rubbing on his wound, and said coldly, "How about waiting for them to find their conscience and apologize to me?"

Shen Ci chuckled.

It's really true that even though it's like this, you still act so stubborn and arrogant.

He moved her head back and gently wiped the wound, "Aren't you afraid of accidentally hurting someone?"

Shen Manzhi lowered his eyes and said nothing.

After a long while, she raised her head, looked serious, and said sincerely, "Then please teach me more."

Shen Ci fell silent. Well, he had shot himself in the foot.

This arrogant and cold temper has not changed until now. Although she is no longer pretending to be calm in the face of violence, she still makes people feel that she is arrogant and domineering, pushing away the people around her who want to make friends, and her reputation is getting worse and worse. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that she and Qin Yanfeng are like this. They rarely talk calmly. Most of the time, she ends the topic with sarcasm, so there are too few moments of warmth.

But there is no time.

She looked at Shen Duanwen and was absent-minded for a moment.

She had talked back before, but Shen Duanwen was more ruthless. He was the elder, and Shen Manzhi would never do that. Later, she rarely went back and was unwilling to have conflicts, so they felt that she had a character that could be controlled.

She still said these words calmly, "From childhood to adulthood, have you ever really taken care of me? Academic performance, school life, family relationships, have you ever asked me as seriously as you did to Shen Luo?"

Seeing Shen Duanwen pursing his lips and saying nothing, she found it a little funny. "I have said these words to you many times. I am tired of them. You just choose not to hear them."

Shen Duanwen avoided his gaze and said, "I did neglect to discipline you in the past."

"Okay, don't change the subject," Shen Manzhi didn't want to hear this now, "Let's talk about the car accident. You have been hiding the real cause of my mother's death from me. The truck driver's drunk driving accounted for half of the cause, and the other half was you tampering with my mother's car, right?"

Shen Duanwen frowned, "Why would I do this to your mother?"

"Then why did you hide this matter? If you didn't do it, why do you feel guilty?"

Shen Duanwen was speechless for a moment, then he lowered his head and sighed in defeat, "I originally thought that the truck driver's drunk driving was an accident, but a friend of mine who was in charge of investigating this case told me that the brake system on your mother's car was tampered with, but no video evidence was found, and they were ordered to urgently hand over the case to other responsible persons. I felt that things were not that simple."

He glanced at Shen Manzhi and sighed, "Du Heping has told you all this, right?"

Shen Manzhi looked at him without saying a word.

Shen Duanwen seemed to be recalling the car accident 20 years ago, and his expression became deep. "This matter involves too many things. If we really want to know the real purpose of those people, we have to go back a generation. Your mother used the lawsuit of your grandparents to pry open so many people's official positions, and she had so much evidence on them. She even hid these from me. I only gradually understood them when I was investigating this matter later."

"Where's Du Heping?"

"After he woke up, he became very emotionally unstable. He believed that someone had done it on purpose and wanted to investigate it thoroughly. But the higher-ups have closed the case and paid the compensation. I was afraid that if he made a big fuss, the other party would want to silence him. His wife used to have a relationship with your mother, and I couldn't just watch him fall into danger!"

Shen Manzhi sneered, still lying to her, "You are not afraid that he will be retaliated by those people, but you are afraid that he will find out that you tampered with my mother's car, right?"

"I"

She continued, "You helped save Du Heping's daughter, right? And you were operating the case shortly after she was sent to the operating room. He had already noticed that my mother's car was out of control. If he insisted on a thorough investigation, the first thing he would do is to find the surveillance footage of my mother's driving trajectory and eventually find the person who could have tampered with my mother's car."

Shen Manzhi looked at him speechless, and said with a chill in his heart, "The car was driven from the Shen family. You were at home that day."

Shen Duanwen's face turned pale, as if he had been wronged. His voice was hoarse, "Manzhi, I have done something wrong to your mother, but she is someone I, Shen Duanwen, have truly loved. How could I treat her like this!"

He fell in love at first sight when he was young and was obsessed with love. He accompanied Zhan Yunqing everywhere. In order to find the truth about the suicide of the Zhan couple in the scientific research community, even though he was the only son of the Shen family, he had suffered a lot of cold attacks both openly and secretly.

At that time, he was full of passion and didn't care much. He just wanted to accompany his lover to fight against injustice. After the success, it was reported that they were a perfect match made in heaven.

He did give his heart and soul to his lover, and he did find another woman less than a year after his lover passed away, but he always believed that this was human nature.

The laboratory project under the name of the Zhan couple and the company carried out commercial cooperation, but the other party misappropriated important scientific research results and transferred them to the R&D team under the name of the company. They then gave the team a stigma of embezzlement of public funds and falsification of data, and took the scientific research results for themselves, causing the Shen couple to bear tens of millions of liquidated damages and compensation.

The power of capital itself is difficult to resist, not to mention the fact that they joined forces with local governments to make profits and their innocence is difficult to prove, which led to such a major incident.

It is conceivable how difficult it was for Zhan Yunqing to overturn the verdict and how great the danger he faced was.

It is a fact that Shen Duanwen has always been by her side, and it is also a fact that he has helped her find a lot of evidence.

He also didn't want his own daughter to get involved in this mess, even though... the gap between them was already very deep.

"I didn't tamper with the car. On the day of the accident, I received an email in which they told me very clearly that I should stand on their side, otherwise I would be charged with murdering my wife."

He smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not a coward. I have offended many people for her. Moreover, those who are innocent will be innocent. Why should I be afraid of his threats... But the turn of events did not allow me to refuse in any way."

Before he had time to digest the news of his wife's death in a car accident, the Shen Group was hit by a financial crisis that was so serious that it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

So he compromised.

Having lost his wife, he cannot lose his family property.

As long as he doesn't check and as long as others don't check, it's just a drunk driving accident.

If someone insisted on investigating, he would have to bear the charge of "murdering his wife" in order to keep the company, so an ordinary car accident became an intentional murder.

If he doesn't obey, the Shen family will never be able to raise their heads again.

That group of vested interests have been tightly bound together. Even if he grows bigger and bigger, he can't overcome the complicated interest relations that have been entangled for decades.

Shen Duanwen's eyes turned red, "That was the situation at the time...Manzhi, I had no choice."

Shen Manzhi was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke, "But you haven't checked again in all these years. It's not that you don't have a solution, you just don't love her enough."

Not sure if he was hit, Shen Duanwen choked up and looked at her again, "Those people have been promoted or left for more than 20 years. They are either rich or noble. Even if you investigate, what can you find out?"

"The Qiu family in the south of the city, Director Zhang of the Marine Surveillance Bureau, the director of Xinshu Nursing Home, the Qin family in the city..."

Shen Duanwen looked incredulous, "How did you know..."

Shen Manzhi pushed his drooping bangs back without making any comment.

"You can't beat them, and you just heard that they want you to stop."

Shen Manzhi sneered, "Do you think I can?"

Shen Duanwen looked at her with complicated eyes, "What if they find your weakness?"

"I have no weaknesses."

"Qin Yanfeng..."

Shen Manzhi looked at him directly, "He is not."

"Recently, there are rumors about your relationship..."

Shen Duanwen suddenly realized, "You agreed to marry him, and even came back to see him for the first time, all in order to get in touch with the Qin family and investigate the Qin family?"

Thunder and lightning split the sky, and under the dark cloudy sky, a streak of white light appeared.

Shen Manzhi's throat was choked with sobs, and he could only hear himself say in a hoarse voice, "Yes."

Shen Duanwen's expression changed slightly, and he looked behind Shen Manzhi.

The man stood in the west courtyard, with the tip of his long-handled umbrella resting on the ground, and listened to their words completely.

Shen Manzhi seemed to sense something again. He turned around and saw another burst of thunder. He suddenly felt empty in his heart.