Episode 25 recap: Lu Jiang suspected Jia Lin.
Upon hearing Wei Hong Jun mention Shi Di Wen, Lu Jiang immediately thought of Lu Gao Yuan. Lu Gao Yuan was the kind of person who would use his salary for research funding. No one could deceive him in terms of knowledge, but when it came to life experience, he was not even as good as a high school student.
The source of Xu Mai's lighter was traced back to a bar, and the person who took Xu Mai to the bar was Huo Da, a senior executive who defected to the Xu family from Pan Corporation. Lu Jiang summoned Huo Da and learned from him that on that day, he intended to invite Jia Lin. It was Jia Lin who told him that Xu Mai had been in a bad mood recently and asked him to take Xu Mai out to relax. After that, he never went to the bar with Xu Mai again.
Wei Hong Jun believed that Xu Ke Ji might have used Jia Lin to get rid of Xu Mai. After all, Xu Ke Ji had four biological children, and Xu Mai was the least capable among them. Lu Jiang had a strong intuition that Jia Lin and Shi Di Wen were more suspicious, even though they were currently keeping everything secret. He believed in his intuition and decided to find irrefutable evidence to make Jia Lin confess.
Lu Gao Yuan learned from Pan Yue Yang that Gong Qi was the one who harmed Pan Xiao Jie. As a result, he grew cold towards Gong Qi. Gong Qi noticed Lu Gao Yuan's drastic change in attitude but didn't understand the reason. On this day, she deliberately didn't go to work and waited for Lu Gao Yuan at home, questioning him about the meaning behind his actions.
Lu Gao Yuan didn't want to confront her and wanted to handle the situation calmly by moving to the school. However, Gong Qi insisted that he explain himself. So Lu Gao Yuan chose a seat far away from Gong Qi and talked about how Lu Shan saw Gong Qi in the hospital corridor years ago. It took Lu Shan and Lu Jiang eight years to draw those eyes.
Lu Gao Yuan knew that Lu Shan was impulsive and would erupt if he saw Gong Qi. That's why Lu Jiang requested him not to let Gong Qi appear at the engagement banquet. He regretted letting Lu Jiang down. He remembered that when he found out that Gong Qi was struggling financially, he had sent her money several times. But it was precisely because of that money that Gong Qi caused Pan Xiao Jie's death, and he felt immense remorse.
Gong Qi denied ever going to the hospital eight years ago, but Lu Gao Yuan didn't listen to her explanations. This caused her great sadness and pain. Lu Jiang couldn't find Su Pan anywhere and went to Meteor Valley to search for her. As expected, he found Su Pan there. Su Pan talked about her tragic past of being abandoned since childhood, being adopted at the age of seven only to be abandoned by the adoptive family, nearly dying from an attempted rape, and many other untold stories.
Lu Jiang felt deeply sorry for Su Pan and held her tightly, asking her to stop talking. Although Su Pan couldn't completely let go of Lu Jiang, she believed that one day she would be able to do so. Lu Jiang informed Su Pan about Xu Mai's death by drug overdose and jumping off a building. Su Pan couldn't believe it because she had studied abroad with Xu Mai, and at that time, marijuana use was legal in that country. Xu Mai never even took a puff. But the truth was as Lu Jiang stated.
The suitcase Xu Mai left behind contained items related to Su Pan. Su Pan looked at the pictures of her and Xu Mai, tears streaming down her face. She remembered Xu Mai calling her multiple times, but she only answered one call. Xu Mai's voice was ethereal, inviting her to live in an unknown place where nobody would recognize them. After that, no matter how much Xu Mai called, she never answered his calls again.
Xu Jia Yin suddenly faced Yan Qing Qing going crazy, Xu Mai's death, and Xu Ke Ji having his own family. She felt that the beauty of the world was all a deception, and she felt deeply saddened. Lu Jiang shared his insights with Xu Jia Yin, recalling how when he was young and had no money to learn music, he used two years' worth of salary to buy the guitar he desired. He had been diligently learning, becoming a police officer to uphold the beauty in the world. But after becoming a police officer, he discovered the evil that exists in the world.
Lu Jiang still remembered when Xu Jia Yin was an auxiliary police officer and had expressed her desire to face the truth of the world, to fall and then rise again. He hoped that Xu Jia Yin could fulfill her promise. Unable to hold back her emotions, Xu Jia Yin leaned against Lu Jiang, drawing strength from him. Lu Jiang took the initiative to invite Dai Zhi Yong for a meal. As they ate and talked, Lu Jiang directly revealed that he already knew Su Pan was the sister Dai Zhi Yong had been searching for. He asked Dai Zhi Yong how he had accurately obtained the information about Su Pan in Linjiang.
Dai Zhi Yong said that his father's comrade-in-arms, a man named Chen Jun, had informed him. Lu Jiang urged him to contact Chen Jun immediately, but the phone couldn't get through. Chen Jun didn't have a specific position, but he had helped their family when Dai Zhi Yong's father had an accident. Over the years, he had been close to the Dai family. Dai Zhi Yong had always found it strange, and with Lu Jiang's guidance, he realized that Chen Jun, with his abilities, couldn't possibly know about Su Pan.
Lu Jiang remembered a family relationship chart created by Lu Qi, which showed that Jia Lin had a brother who was a military officer in the Lanzhou Military Region. He suspected that Jia Lin was behind the scenes pulling the strings.
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