Boyfriend's passive-aggressive behavior, she turns the tables and makes him her backup option.

Listening to Xie Jingyao's warning, which carried a dangerous undertone.

Si Nian forced herself to explain, "My divorce from him is real, not because I'm worried about causing him trouble, as he said."

She continued, "Lin Tinghan wants to reinvestigate what happened between my mother and my stepfather back then... that's why I said a few more words."

"You know it's not appropriate to bring up what happened back then, right?" Si Nian asked probingly.

Xie Jingyao had previously brought up Zhou Lin's "secret".

But Si Nian didn't know exactly how much he knew.

She also wanted to take this opportunity to find out if the secret Xie Jingyao possessed would truly threaten her.

Xie Jingyao understood the unspoken meaning in Si Nian's words.

He gave a cold laugh and didn't reply immediately.

Seeing that he had no intention of replying.

Si Nian didn't rush to ask any further questions.

Instead, she reached out and shook Xie Jingyao's arm. "Don't be angry. When I chose to make a deal with you, I already decided that I would have nothing to do with him anymore."

The slightly coquettish tone of her voice eased Xie Jingyao's tense expression considerably.

He turned his head to look at the woman in the passenger seat, his fingers stroking her cheek, and said calmly, "If you don't want Lin Tinghan to investigate what happened back then, I can make sure he never knows the truth."

Si Nian gripped Xie Jingyao's sleeve tightly.

Xie Jingyao raised an eyebrow and asked, "How was it?"

Si Nian paused for a moment to think.

She parted her red lips and replied, "What I want to know now is how I can help my mother."

"I've come to see you today about your mother, and I need to let you know about it."

After Xie Jingyao withdrew his hand, he handed the phone to Si Nian.

Si Nian's heart clenched suddenly after she saw the video on his phone.

This is surveillance video from the prison!

She clicked play.

Under the night vision lens, she saw a woman slowly sit up.

Then the man stared at one person's bed for a full two minutes.

Si Nian recognized that it was Feng He staring at her fellow inmate, and a bad feeling welled up in her heart.

Immediately afterwards, Feng He took off her prison uniform and wrapped it around her wrist.

She took the clothes, went to her fellow inmate's bed, wrapped them around his neck, and then suddenly exerted force.

The inmate was startled awake from her dream and struggled frantically. As if afraid that the noise she made would wake others, Feng He directly straddled her and restrained her movements!

She tightly gripped her fellow inmate's neck with both hands, and his struggles gradually diminished until he barely moved at all.

Feng He seemed to come to her senses, and with a dazed and trembling expression, she slightly loosened her grip.

But the next second, her roommate suddenly rolled over and kicked her off the bed to the floor.

Feng He quickly got up and tried to continue strangling her, but her cellmate lost control and began to resist fiercely.

The sounds of the two wrestling woke up the others.

The inmate grabbed Feng He's head and slammed it against the bed frame.

"What a crazy woman! Does she think she owns the prison? Without the Lin family's protection, she thinks she can be my local tyrant!"

While cursing, her roommate grabbed Feng He's hair and quickly smashed her head until it bled profusely.

Si Nian's pupils trembled, and her breathing became rapid.

She looked at Feng He, whose face was covered in blood, lying on the ground, seemingly lifeless.

The fellow inmate seemed unsatisfied and kicked Feng He several more times before getting up to go back to his bed.

But just as she stepped onto the bed ladder, preparing to return to the upper bunk...

Feng He suddenly stood up, grabbed the man's body, and slammed him down!

The inmate was thrown uncontrollably down the stairs, crashing into the iron bed opposite him. He twitched slightly before losing consciousness completely.

Blood spread down her head, soaking most of her body.

The screams of other inmates also attracted the attention of the prison guards.

This concludes the video.

Si Nian gripped her phone tightly, looking at Xie Jingyao in disbelief.

"This video..."

Xie Jingyao spoke up, "The information I obtained from the investigation is that your mother initiated the conflict, and I just got my hands on the video."

After Lin Tinghan investigated, he informed Si Nian that Feng He had taken the initiative to commit the crime.

But Si Nian didn't believe it.

Later, she got in touch with Feng He by phone.

Feng He claimed that her roommate tried to strangle her while she was sleeping in the middle of the night, which is why she fought back.

But the video now tells the exact opposite of what Feng He said.

The person who initiated the murder was actually Feng He.

Si Nian's pupils trembled. If she hadn't seen this video, even if Xie Jingyao and Lin Lintinghan claimed that Feng He was the one who took the initiative, Si Nian probably wouldn't have believed it.

Her heart sank to the bottom, her mind filled with the thought that no one could save Feng He this time.

Excessive self-defense and intentional violence are two completely different things.

"I sent my lawyer to see her in prison. I'll wait for him to return later to get more details."

"Um……"

"As for Lin Tinghan, tell him that he doesn't need to get involved anymore. The Lin family is not suited to get involved in this matter." Xie Jingyao suddenly raised his lips and looked at the figure not far away.

Si Nian also subconsciously looked in that direction.