The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

"So, because you could not find the truth after investigating for a long time, it automatically equals to him being behind the murder?" A chilling voice suddenly interrupted their conversation from behind them.

Lanni nearly screeched in shock when Luna suddenly appeared behind her. "When did you get here?"

Luna rolled her eyes and circled the sofa so Li Yuming could see her clearly. "I've been here all along. You were just too engrossed in listening to her lies to notice me."

"Lies?" Li Yuming was perplexed and enraged. "You have gone overboard! It's alright if your mind has been poisoned since you were young and naive but calling the truth a lie is too much! Do you think I would lie about such a matter?"

Luna sat down nonchalantly. "It's clearly… just a tale with no valid proof."

"Luna!" Lanni glowered at her. Saying such words would be alright if Li Yuming was making things up but by making such a heartless comment when she was clearly still grieving over the loss of her brother, wasn't it too cruel?

However, Luna did not think it was overboard or wrong in any way. She focused on Li Yuming. "You say that your brother mentioned discovering a secret about dad, did he tell you what he discovered or at least give you a clue?"

Li Yuming was reluctant to have this conversation with Luna but for the sake of clearing the air, she answered, "he didn't have the chance to."

Luna nodded slowly to indicate that she understood before asking, "Did he tell you when he would get home to tell you about it?"

"Why are you asking this?" Li Yuming was suspicious but when Luna said that she was simply trying to understand, she answered that too. "He said he was on his way."

"That's my point." Luna suddenly chuckled, earning question gazes from Lanni and Li Yuming.

She used the back of her hand to support her chin as she assessed, "Uncle didn't have the chance to tell you about the shocking secret he discovered, and neither did you find out about it later, so how did you conclude that it is enough to give dad a motive to murder him?"

"You…"

Li Yuming was about to ridicule her when the latter interrupted. "Besides, he said that he was on his way home. Even if he had not yet hit the road at the time, do you think there was enough time for dad to find out that secret had been discovered, plan a murder then hire people to do it? Don't you think he would have been too squeezed for time?"

Li Yuming narrowed her eyes with a snicker. "Since you think you know so much about assessing cases, why don't you become a detective?"

"That's enough." Lanni interrupted to prevent another fight from erupting. "Luna, just because he told mom that he was going to tell her the secret he discovered on that day doesn't mean that he had just found out. He could have found it out some days or even weeks beforehand and didn't know how to talk about it. Or he could have been trying to find evidence.

Who knows? Perhaps he even decided to talk about it when he sensed that his life could be in danger."

Li Yuming smiled. At the time, she had thought about this possibility too.

"You are too imaginative." Luna snickered. She looked at Li Yuming once again. "You said that he wanted to make you and dad have a divorce at any cost. What if he came up with some nonsense to slander him and make you sue him for a divorce?" 

"My brother would never lie." Li Yuming was on the verge of losing her mind from being interrogated by her own daughter. 

"Anyway, it was already hard to investigate twenty years ago and now, it will be much harder. There probably isn't any lead." Lanni was at a loss. 

"That's another reason why I couldn't tell you about it in the past. I was afraid you would treat it as baseless words and accusations since there isn't any proof." 

Luna rolled her eyes when she heard that. "Quit trying to guilt-trip Lanni into believing your tale. You're already not trustworthy at all! First, you lied and told Lanni that dad was dead. Then you claimed that the family rejected her and now you just spun a new tale about him being a murderer and expect everyone to believe you? 

Let's not forget how selfish you are—you even lied to Lanni about the career she chose and shoved her into an art class just to fulfill your own dream. What kind of mother are you?!" 

"Xia Luna, are you insane?! Even if you don't trust her, can't you at least have some respect? Is this how you talk to your mother?!" Lanni couldn't hold it in anymore and exploded. 

"Lanni, you…" Luna clenched her fists and swallowed back the rest of her words. In the next moment, she chuckled. "I was wrong." 

Lanni was just about to be relieved when Luna continued, "I was wrong to think that this wrecked family could ever reunite." Her chest heaved as she looked at Lanni. "Fine. You can trust her all you want. It's your choice whether or not to believe what she said. It's up to you to decide whether you want to save him or not… but if you don't, then let me go in your stead. 

I hope you will not begrudge me for trying to save the life of the only person who considers me his family." After saying that, she stormed off. 

"Oh well… as if there's not enough drama already." Lanni massaged her temples. 

"Here she was claiming that I'm trying to guilt-trip you when she is the one doing that in such a blatant way." 

Lanni was no longer sure who to believe. She scanned her mother instead. 

"What? Why are you giving me that look? I gave birth to that girl. How can I not know the kind of person she really is? I let her stay here… I thought her personality had changed after seeing that you cared about each other… but it turns out I only brought the snake into my house." 

Lanni found the word offensive. "Luna is right. This family was not meant to reunite." 

There was too much distrust.