Double Betrayal, My Husband and My Best Friend - Chapter 12

“Hello! 110, there’s a fight at the Starlight Café! No, someone was pushed down the stairs! From the second floor to the first! A woman! She’s bleeding a lot!”

The waiter’s voice broke the dead silence of the scene.

Almost simultaneously, a slightly older waitress also dialed 120.

An immense sense of fear rooted Chen Chengjun to the spot at the edge of the second floor.

Time seemed to both crawl and fly by in the chaos.

The piercing wail of sirens grew closer.

Several police officers decisively rushed up the stairs.

Only when the cold handcuffs snapped onto his wrists did Chen Chengjun seem to wake from his trance, struggling. “It wasn’t me! She fell on her own…”

The officers ignored his resistance, forcibly dragging him down the stairs.

And I.

I had been sitting in the shadows of a corner on the second floor the whole time, from the beginning of the conflict to its end.

The chaos slowly subsided as the police began to question witnesses, the waiters trembling as they recounted the fragments they had seen.

I finished the coffee in my cup.

I stood up, smoothed out my dress, and calmly walked through the chaotic crowd.

As I passed Chen Chengjun being escorted into the police car, he suddenly made eye contact with me through the window.

His eyes were filled with incredible horror.

I smiled and mouthed the words to him: “Husband~”

The night wind brushed against my cheek as the police car sped away, its siren wailing.

I stood at the entrance of the café and looked up at the starry sky.

What a fine show.