Chapter 572: To Escape, Even Dignity is Abandoned

Chapter 572: Ditching Dignity to Save His Skin

A homicide case occurred, and the affair between Gao Shuibing and Ji Qingqing was exposed.

Su Jianjun wanted everyone to know he had been betrayed—that his wife had cheated on him. After all, once he got the payout, he wouldn’t bother with his dead-end warehouse job anymore.

He craved pity, wanting the world to shame Gao Shuibing for being a homewrecker.

But he never expected the police would suspect him because of his wife’s affair with Gao Shuibing.

“Mr. Su, had you never noticed the relationship between Ji Qingqing and Gao Shuibing before?”

“According to interviews with your neighbors, you two were on the rocks, weren’t you? Always at each other’s throats?”

“Were your marital conflicts related to Gao Shuibing?”

“Where were you and what did you do from October 20th to October 21st?”

As the officers hit him with questions one after another, Su Jianjun started sweating bullets. He couldn’t understand why he, the victim, was being treated as a suspect.

“I never noticed Qingqing was seeing someone else. Before this, our relationship was very good—we never fought. Our arguments only started after we moved out of the canned food factory’s residential building.”

To save himself, Su Jianjun even abandoned his dignity as a man.

“I loved my family deeply. Qingqing was a good woman. But in recent years, our family faced many hardships...”

Like pouring out his bitterness, Su Jianjun recounted how he lost his job at the canned food factory due to a mistake, then lost another job because of his daughter’s divorce, followed by his mother’s death.

With carefully chosen words and polished phrasing, he played the poor, hard-done-by guy.

The officers, having conducted extensive investigations, remained skeptical.

“So this is why you and Ji Qingqing kept fighting—and why you beat her?”

“Our investigation shows that on the day Ji Qingqing died, you had beaten her and kicked her out.”

Su Jianjun’s hands, resting on his knees, clenched nervously. For the sake of his future, he decided to go all out.

Taking a deep breath, he put on a show of shame and anguish. “Actually… there was another reason.”

He held his breath until his face turned red, then whispered, “We did fight a lot these past two years… because… I suffered an injury. I couldn’t get it up. I always felt ashamed in front of her. Sometimes, she’d throw it in my face during arguments, and I’d lose control and hit her.”

After saying this, Su Jianjun didn’t even need to fake his distress—he was genuinely humiliated.

“Our relationship used to be really good. If she sought someone else… it must’ve been because of this. Because of my condition, I’ve been distant with her these past two years. I even avoided her sometimes, afraid she’d approach me.”

“I truly didn’t know about her and Gao Shuibing. If I had known… if I had known—” Su Jianjun gritted his teeth, “—I would’ve broken her legs!!!”

“I busted my ass for this family, and she couldn’t even control herself in this matter. Looking back now, every time we fought, it seemed like she picked fights on purpose. If she really was having an affair with Gao Shuibing, she must’ve picked fights just to sneak out and meet him!”

Here, Su Jianjun took the chance to throw Gao Shuibing under the bus too. “Officers, even though Ji Qingqing cheated, she loved our child dearly. For the child’s sake, she’d never have divorced me. I suspect Gao Shuibing, jilted, deliberately harmed her. He faked his own poisoning—why else would he survive while Qingqing died?”

“This happened in his home, with only him and Qingqing present. The truth is known only to them. Now that Qingqing’s dead, his word’s all that’s left. Of course, he’ll only say what benefits him.”

The more Su Jianjun spoke, the more confident he became. “Officers, Gao Shuibing must have killed Qingqing!!!”

Leaving the police station, Su Jianjun let out a shaky breath, his back soaked with cold sweat.

Ji Qingqing was finally dead. Gao Shuibing was finished—with cops on his tail. Even if he walked free, with a cheating scandal hanging over him, no employer would hire a man like that.

At that time, he would use Ji Qingqing's incident to scam two grand, and then get six grand from People's Insurance.

If it weren't for being at the police station entrance, Su Jianjun would have burst out laughing.

On his way home, he bought a bottle of liquor and some sliced pig's head meat. After all, such a major incident had happened—he was pretty damn upset and needed to drown his troubles in booze.

At home, Su Lei was digging through the kitchen for something to eat. He was hungry, and there was no one around.

Seeing Su Jianjun return, he quickly asked, "Where's Mom?"

Su Jianjun gave Su Lei a nasty look. From listening from under the bed last time, he had learned from Ji Qingqing and Gao Shuibing's conversation that Ji Qingqing had already been messin' around with Gao Shuibing before she was with him.

This son he had raised for over a decade—was he really his own or Gao Shuibing's? It was still uncertain!

"Mom, mom, mom, mom—what about her? Can't you talk to me about anything?"

Su Lei ducked his head. "I'm hungry."

Su Jianjun slammed the sliced pig's head meat down on the table. "If you're hungry, go cook. Two cups of rice, wash it twice, and add half a ladle of water."

"I don't know how!"

"Then learn!"

With that, Su Jianjun yanked Su Lei by the shirt collar and dragged him into the kitchen. "Come here, I'll teach you myself. What the hell can you even do at your age? Listen, cooking is your job from now on. Nobody's gonna cook for you no more. Do you expect me to work all day outside and come home to serve you?"

Su Lei struggled and yelled, "Mom knows how to cook! Let me go, let me go!"

Su Jianjun smacked Su Lei upside the head. "Mom, mom, mom—that whore ain't your mom! She's dead! She cheated and croaked from rat poison in someone else's house!!!"

"You're the one who's dead!" Su Lei retorted without thinking.

What followed was another hard slap from Su Jianjun.

Although the police suspected Su Jianjun, they had no evidence.

Two days later, he and Su Lei slapped together Ji Qingqing's funeral.

Only then did Su Lei believe Ji Qingqing was really dead.

He didn't cry, just stared coldly at everything.

Su Jianjun grew increasingly convinced that Su Lei was heartless and no damn good.

It seemed he needed to focus on his health, get himself a wife, and have a son to rely on in his old age while he was still young enough.

The next day, Su Jianjun went to the insurance company to inquire about the claim. Coincidentally, on the same day, Ren Shan showed up at the police station.