Rebirth: The Ascent of a Socialite-Chapter 672 - 274: Karma of Good and Evil
"Golden Coast" did not ultimately collapse, the crumbling stopped at the 70th floor. Most people were evacuated during the building’s shake, and those above the 71st floor were unused, so there were no severe casualties as a result of the accident. Given the adverse impact of the incident, the Z-country Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development organized a special task force responsible for investigating the entire accident. The sudden building collapse was later confirmed to be due to the contractor’s use of substandard building materials and shortcuts, as well as the original investor’s insistence on adding extra floors during the design phase.
When defining responsibility, the police also summoned Su Qingzhang, and after understanding the situation clearly, the investigation team determined that Su Qingzhang had not participated in the construction of the last thirty floors, so he was released before long. Of the two individuals involved in the case, the Earl from France, who had rushed into the building during the collapse, never came out again. He was a French noble with certain criminal immunity and thus the police could only proceed with the investigation from the other person involved in the case.
The other person in question was Wen Maixue, who had been rescued by the fire brigade from the bottom of the building. However, by the time she was saved, she had already gone mad. When she was carried out on a stretcher, Wen Maixue’s face was covered with blood, the sight of her cursing and biting as nurses attempted to clean the glass shards from her wounds startled them. Wen Maixue’s face was horribly disfigured, but what the Old Master Wen could not accept was that her mind had also collapsed.
Within the Wen family’s historical old mansion, Wen Maixue’s screams could be frequently heard: "Orleans, you deserve to die, go to hell, don’t come near me."
That relentless madwoman, that father and son who had completely destroyed her dignity, reappeared before her the moment the building collapsed.
Wen Maixue heard the loud bang of the office being barged open. Dust and lime blurred the vision, and amidst the chaos, she could hear the frantic breathing of a man, along with hands desperately reaching out to drag her into hell.
"No!" Wen Maixue swung everything she could wield as a weapon, throwing documents and telephones at the encroaching hands.
Still, the man called out her name: "Maixue! Hurry and follow me!"
"No! Orleans, don’t come over," amidst the fluttering papers, Wen Maixue was certain she saw "Orleans," whose face quickly turned into Olson, the despicable man who had violated her, causing her to forsake her soul and conscience.
"I’m going to kill you!" Wen Maixue lunged forward, struggling with the man; she bit his arm and attempted to strangle his throat. When her hands were pushed away, she touched something hard on the man’s chest; Wen Maixue drew it out, clutching it in her hand.
"Maixue, give me the pen," the man’s voice was anxious and urgent as he occasionally glanced at the ceiling, which was bulging. He didn’t know which floor the collapse would reach, but he could feel the sway in the stairs diminishing as he struggled to climb.
"Get lost," Wen Maixue shook her head, trying to banish the voice that somewhat resembled Pello’s.
"Give me back Blue Love," there was a commanding tone in the man’s voice.
"Don’t threaten me, you dare not!" Wen Maixue pulled out the pen, stabbing fiercely towards the man’s eyes!
"Maixue!" The pen sank in slightly, and blood splattered from the blue diamond-encrusted pen.
Wen Maixue saw the face up close, full of compassion and filled with apology, a face that was thousands of times more handsome than Bi Orleans, right before her eyes.
"Oh blue diamond of hatred, in the end, you were cleansed by the blood of your master, washing away a lifetime of sins," in the swaying building, amid the falling debris and the man staggering down holding Wen Maixue, there was only one sentence in his ears. His vision grew redder by the moment, and the encroaching red seemed to swallow all the light. After stumbling down the final step, Pello knelt on the ground.
His sunshine was gone, the constant pain in his eyes reminded him that he might never see Ziceng again. If he had known it would end like this, he should have looked back before leaving, whether it was her smile or the sadness flashing in her eyes, he did not want to forget any part of her.
After that incident, Sister Mu had to resign from her position as the chief designer at Espr and returned to the Wen family. This rebellious member of the Wen Family had once left home in pursuit of freedom, breaking off her wings in the process. When Sister Mu could produce designs even better than "Angel’s Broken Wings", she had no choice but to abandon her beloved career in design and using her steel legs, stood up to shoulder the Wen Family’s honor and disgrace once again.
