Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 308 - 281: The Woman by the River

Li Jianwei confessed everything, including planting the bomb and all the details of where he obtained the raw materials. By the time he came to his senses and wanted to change his story, it was too late.

Because everything was said by him personally.

Looking again at Li Moli’s face, which had already returned to normal, his head drooped completely, unable to say anything.

And Li Moli, who had regained her composure, did not know what had happened during the process.

But seeing her uncle confess, she thought it was all thanks to Mu Yunchu. She quickly ran out to express her gratitude.

"No need to thank me."

"If you want to thank someone, thank your father."

She hadn’t had time to do anything yet.

Mu Yunchu’s voice was light and ethereal.

This made Li Moli, who didn’t quite understand, feel sad involuntarily.

Li Xiuqiu, who came walking over, thought about the times when they couldn’t light a fire at the grave.

Maybe it was really their father helping them.

As they turned to leave, in Mu Yunchu’s eyes, a weathered middle-aged man slowly bowed in her direction.

...

What Mu Yunchu could do ended here.

Wen Xu gave her a ride back again.

While driving, Wen Xu glanced at the mirror several times, wanting to say something.

It was only when they were almost there that he spoke up.

"Do you remember when we entered the police station, Hu Chi and the others kept staring at us?"

Mu Yunchu nodded.

"I remember."

"They said we looked like we were wearing matching couple outfits."

"Couple outfits?"

Mu Yunchu turned her head, her gaze slowly moving down from Wen Xu’s eyes, looking at his clothes, then at hers. She seemed to have a sudden realization.

So this was a couple outfit!

In the past twenty years, Mu Yunchu had never dated, focused solely on mysticism.

Of course, it was also because in this era, few people wore such couple outfits out on the street.

So she initially thought it was just a matching style.

Wen Xu kept observing her expression from the corner of his eye, and seeing that apart from the initial brief shock, her expression remained unchanged, he felt a subtle uneasiness.

Even he didn’t know what this feeling was.

Mu Yunchu said, "No wonder their looks were so strange."

Because she often told fortunes for people, she also liked to pay attention to others’ micro-expressions.

Actually, as soon as they entered the police station, she vaguely sensed that their gaze was unusual. But at the time, she was in a hurry to handle official business, so she didn’t think much about it. Now that Wen Xu mentioned it, she understood.

Wearing couple outfits like this is indeed quite strange, right?

Wen Xu was relentless and asked, "Is it uncomfortable?"

After he asked, he took a rapid breath, his Adam’s apple moving unnaturally up and down, seeming focused on driving, but actually just because there was not a single soul on the road they were on.

"Hmm, a little."

Mu Yunchu’s words made his heart skip a beat.

A sour feeling uncontrollably surged from his chest, but before it could spread throughout his body, he heard Mu Yunchu continue,

"After all, I’m not in the habit of wearing clothes without washing them first."

"So it’s a bit uncomfortable."

If Wen Xu hadn’t asked, she wouldn’t have had the heart to say anything.

She felt like there were bacteria crawling on the clothes.

When they reached the store, she said she must change out of them and take a shower.

She spoke seriously, completely unaware that Wen Xu’s face suddenly turned sour.

However, this situation didn’t last long, because something completely unexpected soon occurred.

Having gone through such a big ordeal, the sky had unknowingly darkened.

They found themselves on a riverside road, with not many streetlights around, only those aged ones every ten meters or so.

It wasn’t that Wen Xu took the wrong road, on the contrary, it was the route they had to take to return to the store.

During the day, again, not many people passed by here. Despite the good scenery, the distance from the city, with nothing else nearby, made it a poor choice for a stroll or tourism.

Unexpectedly, it looked so eerie at night.

Even though Mu Yunchu was beside him, and there was no need to worry much about any ’ghosts and ghouls,’ at that moment, the car stalled unexpectedly.

Before the two of them could think much of the strange situation, while trying to restart the car, Wen Xu’s peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of something moving. Almost reflexively, he flung open the door of the driver’s seat and dashed out.

His long legs took strides as he reached the riverside in two to three steps, bent halfway, stretched his hand over the railing, and grabbed hold of a person dangling precariously, about to be swept away by the river.

"Grab my hand!"

Wen Xu didn’t even have time to think about why there would be a person here at this hour. He also didn’t consider whether this person intended to commit suicide by jumping into the river. All he thought about was how to pull this person up with all his strength.

The hand that was slowly losing its grip regained hope of survival with Wen Xu’s help.

The person dangling by the railing lifted their head, tears streaming down their face, and looked at him with bloodshot eyes, "Help me, please save me!"

"I don’t want to die!"

Screaming hysterically, their survival instinct on full display.

"Please don’t let go!"

Although Wen Xu wouldn’t have let go even if they hadn’t said so, their words gave him an even stronger determination to use all his strength.

Wen Xu wasn’t very familiar with the river below, but he had heard about it. The river wasn’t deep, and the water wasn’t particularly fast. But there was gossip that it was muddy beneath. The mud was at least two meters deep, and if a person fell in, they would get trapped with no chance to escape.

Every year, a few swimmers drowned, let alone those who couldn’t swim.

So Wen Xu exerted even more force.

If this person were to fall, it would likely be fatal.

But strangely, no matter how much strength he used, the woman barely shifted upward.

Wen Xu didn’t see himself as a muscle-bound hulk, but regularly visited the gym for normal sleep and did strength training at home if nothing else. Over time, he became much stronger than his appearance suggested.

The woman in front of him appeared to weigh just over a hundred pounds, a weight he would describe as ’light.’

But what was happening today?

While lost in thought, the woman let go of the railing with one hand, grabbing tightly onto Wen Xu’s.

"I’m running out of strength, can you apply a bit more force?"

"I feel like I’m about to fall!"

"Quick, pull me up a bit!"

Wen Xu gritted his teeth. Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt as if his body was being slowly dragged down by her.