Chapter 1350: I Only Want You (48)
“When a cowardly person commits a crime while completely being aware of its consequences, it goes to show how she had reached the limit of her endurance and how she did it with the mindset of perishing together with the victim,” Chen Anran replied, clearly confessing that she was the murderer.
At the same time, An Xiaoning had come prepared to record her confession. It was impossible for Chen Anran to not have known this.
“All these years, I haven’t had a good night’s sleep. Once I close my eyes, I can see her coming to me for revenge and treating me the same way I did her. To me, every single day has been a torturous and painful day, but I don’t even have the courage to kill myself. Ms. An, I’m about the same age as you, but look at me, don’t I look like someone who’s 50 years old already? As for you, you look like you’re in your twenties. This is the direct effect of what one’s life choices bring.”
“Can you tell me the motive of your crime?”
She was unbothered and replied frankly, “Do you know what my family has instructed me time and again? They warned me never to leave this estate, and they would punctually give me living expenses every month, but they simply forbade me from going out. All these years, I’ve been living alone and had no one to talk to. It’s been pretty horrible. The instant I ruined Jiang Guoguo’s life, I ruined mine as well. But when I think that I may have been too impulsive back then and start to regret, what comes to mind is everything that she did to me…”
It turned out, Jiang Guoguo and Chen Anran were both Year 3 students in that particular university in A City and were studying the same major.
When they were allocated the same dormitory room, Chen Anran was supposed to sleep at the lower bunk of the bed, but Jiang Guoguo reached the room before she did and told her that she didn’t like sleeping on the upper bunk as she had to exert effort to climb up. She also said that she moves quite a lot when she sleeps at night, so she was afraid that she would fall down from the bed. Hence, without seeking Chen Anran’s opinion, she simply settled down on the lower bunk of the bed.
Very coincidentally, Chen Anran did not like sleeping on the upper bunk either. But seeing how Jiang Guoguo did not listen to her opinion and was already sleeping on the lower bunk, she decided to let it go since they were living in the same dormitory and it did not seem nice to fall out with each other. As such, she slept on the upper bunk.
That was to mean that from the very beginning, Chen Anran had a rather unpleasant first impression of Jiang Guoguo.
Naturally, she didn’t quite like her as a person either. As a result, the two didn’t have much interaction.
Chen Anran could still remember very clearly the first time they had quarreled. That day was a Saturday, and they did not have lessons. Because she was going out to meet her boyfriend, Chen Anran woke up very early.
As the metal frame bed was rather unsteady, she unknowingly disturbed Jiang Guoguo, who was sleeping on the lower bunk as she was changing on the upper bunk. Jiang Guoguo immediately got up from her bed and started lashing out at her. Chen Anran was actually going to apologize to her, but seeing how she was acting, she naturally fought back and even told Jiang Guoguo clearly, “The lower bunk was originally where I should be sleeping. Did I say anything when you snatched my bed?”
In the end, Jiang Guoguo rebutted coldly, “So what if I snatched your bed? It’s not like I snatched your man.”
Chen Anran admitted that Jiang Guoguo’s words instantly triggered her, which was why she couldn’t help but get down from her bed and push her. The two were eventually pulled apart by their two other roommates.
This was the first time they had a conflict.
Actually, to Chen Anran, that incident only made her think that Jiang Guoguo was not a nice person to be around. As a result, she was careful not to have any confrontation with her and was never around when she was in the dormitory.
Things between them should have gone on peacefully, but Chen Anran did not expect to see Jiang Guoguo talking to her own boyfriend when she went out of the dormitory building. She was very upset, and only after Jiang Guoguo was gone did she approach her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend then told her that he had merely met Jiang Guoguo once at his friend’s gathering and was only briefly acquainted with her.
But Chen Anran was not assured by this.
A woman’s instinct has always been the most accurate.
After some time, Chen Anran was lying on her bed sleeping. As she was thin and as her head was covered by the blanket, it appeared as if there was no one lying underneath.
Jiang Guoguo naturally only took a quick glance and thought that she was not in the dormitory, and since the other two roommates were not back yet, she gave Chen Anran’s boyfriend a call.
At this point, when she spoke of this, Chen Anran still couldn’t help clenching her teeth in anger.
“Do you know what she said?”
An Xiaoning asked, “What did she say?”
“She asked my boyfriend if he had fallen for her, or else why was he so desperate to sleep with her? I didn’t hear what my boyfriend’s reply was, but I was already very sure that they were together. At that point in time, although I was especially infuriated, I didn’t harbor thoughts of killing her yet. I just felt that I could no longer live in the same dormitory as her. After all, if my boyfriend had fallen for someone else, it wasn’t completely her fault. It was the last incident that made me completely erupt.”
The ultimate trigger wasn’t anything else but a personal attack on her.
It was after Chen Anran and her boyfriend had broken up and she had already transferred to another dormitory. A series of sexual photos of her and her ex-boyfriend was suddenly released on their school discussion forum.
She was the only party revealed in the photos, whereas her boyfriend’s face was blurred out. Quite obviously, the person behind it was releasing the photos to target her.
Even though the school deleted the photos immediately, this incident was still a huge blow to Chen Anran.
She furiously decided to go and confront her ex-boyfriend, but she overheard him quarreling with Jiang Guoguo inside the boys’ dormitory.
Judging from their quarrel, it seemed that her ex-boyfriend had already deleted those pictures but forgot to clear the recycle bin on his computer. Jiang Guoguo, who was using his computer, accidentally came across those pictures thereafter.
She then released those photos by herself without discussing it with him.
When Chen Anran’s ex-boyfriend asked her why she had done that, Jiang Guoguo told him that she absolutely hated Chen Anran and that although her family background was ordinary, she always wore branded clothing to act like she was rich. Jiang Guoguo also said that she had done that simply to take her down a peg or two.
Finally, Chen Anran’s ex-boyfriend revealed the truth to Jiang Guoguo. He told her that Chen Anran did indeed come from a rich family. Her great-grandfather had strongly backed up the Tuoba family when there was a rebellion while her grandfather was a member of parliament. Her father was the CEO of the Chen Corporation while her uncle was a military commander. Her family was basically made up of reputable figures. If she had wanted to boast about all these, she would have done so. Wearing branded clothing and spending her money away was simply just her usual way of life, it was not to act like she was rich.
Chen Anran’s ex-boyfriend broke up with Jiang Guoguo on the spot.
However, the feelings that had been triggered inside Chen Anran did not disappear.
She did not confront them on the spot but silently went to prepare the tools for the crime.
She especially chose a weekend to murder Jiang Guoguo.
The other two roommates in the dormitory room had gone out to date and shop while Jiang Guoguo, who had stayed up all night to game, was sleeping in the day.