Less than a minute after entering the water, Axiu’s lips began to turn dark, and she shivered from the cold.
"Hurry up and search for it!"
On the shore, Nangong Feifei continued to issue orders relentlessly!
Enduring the bone-chilling cold, Axiu took a deep breath and dived to the bottom of the pool where she immediately spotted the ruby necklace that had fallen there.
Feeling overjoyed, she quickly swam downwards and grasped the ruby necklace in one swoop.
"Miss, I’ve found it..."
She surfaced, joyfully speaking, but unbeknownst to her, death was merely a second away.
The moment she surfaced, her head was forcefully pushed down——
Nangong Feifei’s eyes were harsh, and she put more effort into her hands, clearly intending not to let Axiu live to reach the shore.
Poor Axiu in the water, amidst her struggles and the cold, gradually lost the strength to resist, and the splashes from her struggles grew smaller until her frail body sank to the bottom of the pool...
Watching her struggles slowly cease, Nangong Feifei finally stood up and suddenly ran inside the house, shouting, "Someone, quick, help!"
The previously quiet living room, upon her shouting, quickly filled with servants and bodyguards, all seeing her panicked face.
"Quick, save her, Axiu is in the pool, go save her!"
Seeing her desperate appearance truly frightened the servants and bodyguards, who rushed to the backyard pool.
However, what they saw was Axiu, who had sunk to the clear bottom of the pool.
"Quick, save her, please!"
An older maid spoke up, urgently instructing people to rescue Axiu from the bottom of the pool.
"Quick, perform CPR, there might still be a chance to save her!"
Hearing this, Nangong Feifei’s expression darkened, how could she possibly let Axiu wake up?
Watching the maid about to perform CPR on Axiu, Nangong Feifei immediately pushed her away, "I’ll do it, you quickly call for an ambulance!"
"Yes, call for an ambulance quickly!"
Her urgent demeanor appeared as if she truly wanted to revive Axiu, but no one knew that her so-called CPR was merely for show.
Of course, by the time the ambulance and doctor arrived, Axiu had already been declared dead.
While everyone was immersed in grief and sorrow for Axiu’s death, no one noticed the slight upward curl at the corners of Nangong Feifei’s mouth.
Now only the private detective was left...
Meanwhile, at the hospital.
In the hospital room, after eating lunch, Nangong Mingchuan planned to go home to fetch some clothes for himself and for his wife, as he had been at the hospital for many days.
"Dad, you should go back too, Yuyan and I will stay here."
Turning his head, Nangong Mingchuan looked at his elderly father.
He knew it was New Year’s Eve, and with his son in the hospital, they could not just leave him there and go home for the New Year’s Eve dinner. Yet at home, Feifei was still there.
He admitted that between his two children, he favored his son more, but it was understandable. From the beginning, he had not accepted Feifei’s existence, which continually reminded him of the mistake he made years ago, mistaking Chen Lan for Tang Yuyan.
Later, under his old father’s insistence, he gradually came to accept the existence of his daughter.
Over twenty years passed, and slowly, a father-daughter bond had developed.
Knowing she would be alone at home and he could not accompany her for the New Year, he could only ask his elderly father to go back and join her for the New Year’s Eve dinner.