The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

"I called Feifei, and she said that indeed, Lanni had mentioned going over. 

I relaxed, but then... in the middle of the night, I received a call from the hospital. My Lanni had been in an accident." 

As Lu Yuming talked about that night, sorrow became more evident in her eyes ."I always had my suspicions over this incident. When she was found, she was in the west part of the city. But she should have been going to your home, shouldn't she? Her ex-boyfriend was also with her at that time. I thought she was probably eloping with him?"

Ji Xiehan furrowed his eyebrows and was also slightly suspicious.

Where was she going?

And wait. Ji Feifei was involved? 

Crap! No wonder there was an accident. 

He wasn't being pessimistic. His sister had tried to hurt Li Lanni not once but twice, and he had discovered it both times. Added to this, it should be thrice. He really wanted just to go and kill her, but what could he do? She was his blood-sister.

He was sure that the damned girl knew that Li Lanni was going somewhere else but intentionally lied to Li Yuming. If things blew up, a pretentious actress like her would simply cry and say that she thought Lanni was going to her home, too. 

And her only reason for lying could only be... she had a role to play in that accident. 

It seemed... he had been wrong. He shouldn't have considered their blood relationship. He should have punished her when he had the chance. 

But, wait, Li Lanni was going to the west?!

His home was not far from Li Lanni's, and neither was Jiang Xingyu's. 

Wait! That idiot Jiang Xingyu had a private villa in a district in the west. 

Was this a coincidence? 

Ji Xiehan! You're focusing on a minor point. He berated himself before asking, "Who found them?" Was this where Ji Feifei came in?

"I don't know either. The cops said that it was a passerby who found them.  But there is one thing that I wasn't able to understand until now and it doesn't make any sense to me. They said that she managed to crawl out of the car before she fell unconscious, but I went to the scene to check it out before it was cleared. If you saw that scene, you would know that it's impossible to get yourself out. The car door at her side was severely damaged, and it would be impossible to open it from inside using her strength alone.  Not only that, but they also found a phone in the car. They thought it was Lanni's and gave it to me, but it was neither Lanni's nor her friend's. Someone must have dropped it there, and surely, people don't often walk into accident scenes, right? I believe there was one more person at the site of the accident, who had helped Li Lanni out of the car." 

Ji Xiehan didn't know what to say. He had come seeking answers. But instead, he was rewarded with a head full of questions. 

Was she really going to meet Jiang Xingyu that night? 

If she was, why would she be with another man?

If she wasn't going to Jiang Xingyu's place, where were they going? 

Who dropped that phone? Was it her savior? 

Li Yuming finally said her speculations after a brief pause with a sigh. "I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think Lanni must have offended someone. I believe it was no way an accident. Someone really was after her life, and that person is still out there. He could come for her life again. Just this thought alone had me spend many sleepless nights in fear. And the person who helped Li Lanni out of the car, was he a friend or foe? Either he wanted to save her or take her away but wasn't able to do so, probably because some passerby was alerted by the accident. Or I maybe I'm just being too paranoid. But what can I do? She is my only daughter and my  whole world." 

Ji Xiehan also felt that the person was only helping Lanni. A foe would not use so much effort to get the victim out. Since there must be broken shards at the scene, why not stab her right away? 

On the other hand, if that were someone who knew Li Lanni, he would obviously save her first. As for why he didn't save Yang Su, Ji Xiehan passed it off as a lack of time on the savior's part.

With a heavy mood, Li Yuming sent off Ji Xiehan.

On the way back, he started analyzing Li Lanni's accident.

From Li Yuming's narration about her accident, Ji Xiehan understood a few things. 

Jiang Xingyu did not meet Li Lanni on that day. Jiang Xingyu's girlfriend also disappeared on the day Li Lanni had the accident. If Li Lanni was indeed his girlfriend, then her accident must be the reason why she didn't meet him again and her amnesia would explain why she didn't recognize him when she came to his company.

And the reason why Jiang Xingyu couldn't find her might be because she had been in a six month coma and Li Yuming had heightened the security around her.

But why did Jiang Xingyu keep calling Li Lanni 'Xia'? As he was wondering about it, he recalled something.

When he was a child, he had met Li Yuming's ex husband a few times and he remembered that  his surname was Xia. That was most likely Lanni's father as well.

Did she use her father's surname? But why would she? She had never met her dad, right? Or had she?

Just how many secrets did his Lanni have?  

And as for the person who helped Li Lanni out of the car, he shouldn't be a foe. Since he was a friend, he wouldn't bother to investigate him.

He had a more important task: to investigate Ji Feifei's involvement in the accident.