This left Rong Dai very confused, but as the trial was about to begin, even if she wanted to ask about it, that would be impossible.
Zuo Ran, handcuffed and in prison garb, was completely silent. Faced with the evidence presented against her, she admitted to everything.
For the matter of murdering An Fei Ya, Lu Hong had been extremely busy these past days, but had finally obtained the evidence. Combined with Zuo Ran's inability to withstand the pressure during interrogation, she had confessed some things intermittently.
The evidence of Zuo Ran's previous persecution of those girls, along with Zuo Ran's habit of video recording, had all been very completely preserved.
With cumulative sentencing, Zuo Ran was sentenced to death in the first trial.
Rong Dai was not surprised by this result.
A life for a life, this was a matter of natural justice.
After the court was adjourned, Zuo Ran still wanted to see Rong Dai again, but Rong Dai refused. There was nothing more for them to talk about in the first place.
She was not the original owner of this body, and with how Zuo Ran had schemed against her, she naturally had no mood to see her, nor was there any need.
After Zuo Ran's case, there was a one hour interval before Wen Shi Lan's case began trial.
As the victim, Rong Dai also had to attend.
When the Wen family saw her appear, their gaze was like poisoned daggers piercing towards her.
Especially old Mrs Wen's eyes, as if wanting to devour her!
Apart from the Wen family members attending, Huo Linjing had also come, carefully accompanying Wen Runlin, afraid to displease her in the slightest.
"Is Huo Linjing really so afraid that she won't be able to marry off? This is just too outrageous. That Wen Runlin is a coward, she's really wasted her pair of eyes!"
When Huo Mei Shu saw that Huo Linjing had actually appeared, her eyes nearly burst into flames!
Rong Dai lightly patted the back of her hand. "Don't get angry over irrelevant people."
Huo Mei Shu's expression was ugly, but Huo Linjing's expression was similarly unpleasant, her sharp gaze fixed on Rong Dai as if able to cut flesh!
Rong Dai sat placidly in her chair, exuding a tranquil aura. In her previous life she had seen plenty of such gazes, the likes of Huo Linjing and the Wen family were nothing to her.
Wen Shi Lan was brought in, also in prison garb and handcuffed. She no longer had the vigorous spirit she once possessed.
When she saw Rong Dai present, her eyes instantly reddened, her emotions becoming extremely agitated. "Rong Dai! You cheap slut!"
"Silence!"
She had just shouted when the judge sternly admonished her.
Wen Shi Lan was held back by a policewoman, her gaze exceptionally hateful as she stared at Rong Dai. Rong Dai fearlessly returned her gaze.
She did not fear Wen Shi Lan.
"If Wen Shi Lan's sentence ends up being very light, will you resent me?"
Huo Shao Ting suddenly spoke, in a volume only the two of them could hear, asking her this.
Rong Dai was slightly startled. Her fingers unconsciously tightened.
She deeply glanced at Wen Shi Lan in the courtroom. Her heart painfully stabbed, that kind of sharp piercing pain even with every breath.
This time it was because of Zuo Ran that she had suffered such a plight, nearly losing her life. Wen Shi Lan was indispensable in this.
What did he mean by saying these words now?
Rong Dai did not understand, but she knew that when hearing this sentence, her heart ached, she felt disappointment.
In the end, the Wen and Huo families did have connections. Old Mrs Wen had not spoken falsely.
She was just a penniless nobody, a mud phoenix who had flown up a branch. She could not bring Huo Shao Ting any benefits in his career.
On the contrary, the storms she had stirred up in the city these days had brought negative impact to the Huo corporation.
In her mind she rapidly flashed through the various things between them in the past.
His thoughtfulness, his gentleness, his care.
These were fleeting in the end.
Fortunately with her experience from her previous life, this was something she could endure.
"It doesn't matter, as long as you are satisfied."
This was something the original owner owed Huo Shao Ting, she would treat it as repaying her debts this time.
Her voice was very calm and cold. Her expression was tranquil to the point of being cold.
Huo Shao Ting's gaze looked at her side profile, wanting to reach out and grasp her hand when he saw her white knuckled grip, but he keenly felt the aloofness and coldness emanating from Rong Dai's body.
He could explain this matter.
The verdict in Wen Shi Lan's trial had been quite dramatic. Although there was solid evidence, the defense lawyer had provided a psychiatric evaluation report from a professional.
Wen Shi Lan suffered from mental illness.
Therefore the verdict was not announced in court, but Wen Shi Lan no longer had to stay imprisoned, she could return to the Wen family.
"The Wen family's methods are truly despicable! If Wen Shi Lan really has a mental illness, then every single member of the Wen family must be insane!"
After leaving the courtroom, Huo Mei Shu was so angry she nearly exploded on the spot!
But Rong Dai's expression was breezy and light, even emanating a cold air.
"Rong Dai, I told you from the start, if you had just compromised, things would not have developed to today's circumstances. Do you really think that with your status, Huo Shao Ting would fight with the Wen family for you?"
After leaving the courtroom, old Mrs Wen spoke to her with a measure of gloating satisfaction, enunciating each word to vent her anger!
Rong Dai maintained her faint smile. "Old Mrs Wen, have you heard this saying before? The longer one persists in evil, the surer the retribution. It is only a matter of time, not that retribution will not come. Heaven is watching all human deeds. It is true I do not have the same status and wealth as your Wen family, but a young lady notorious for her crimes and implicated in murder - how could she be better than me? "
"It is true I am just an ordinary person risen from the mud, nothing without the Huo family's backing. "
"But I, an ordinary person, was able to cause your distinguished and noble young miss of the Wen family to fall into the mire, and bear the label of mental illness. Old Mrs Wen, do you feel you have achieved total victory?"
"To kill a thousand enemies at the cost of losing eight hundred of one's own, at worst I would just divorce Huo Shao Ting and return to being an ordinary person. As time passes, who will still remember who I, Rong Dai, am? But it is different for Miss Wen. She will be nailed to the pillar of shame at every moment."
"Looking at it this way, Old Mrs Wen, even if I divorce Huo Shao Ting and Wen Shi Lan marries him, so what? What does that have to do with me? Miss Wen's deeds will be constantly criticized by people, especially in these circles."
She was in a bad mood, yet this old lady insisted on coming to stir up trouble.
She did not understand why things had become like this, but it was obvious some agreement had been reached between the Wen family and Huo Shao Ting.
And this agreement had already completely exceeded her standing in Huo Shao Ting's heart.
"You! You..."
Old Mrs Wen was so angry her face was purple. She pointed at Rong Dai and could not get out a complete sentence after yelling "You" repeatedly.
Rong Dai left a cold and arrogant back view for the Wen family's people, also not looking at Huo Shao Ting. No matter what transaction he had made with the Wen family.
What she owed had already been repaid halfway, the remaining half was the huge debt of two hundred million.
She had naively believed before that Huo Shao Ting was a man worthy of her trust, but now it seemed crows everywhere were equally black.
Rong Dai, oh Rong Dai, you are truly laughable. Weren't the bitter lessons from your thirty years in your previous life enough to make you wake up and understand clearly?
