Meng Chuyue then brought Shen Ci and Han Zheng into the space before "alone" answering the phone.
Lee Mi repeatedly confirmed that only Meng Chuyue was listening to this call and then, somewhat helplessly, said, "Meng Chuyue, I want your Mustard Space. Meng Chuyue, don’t say you don’t have it, I know you do, Meng Chuyue, I advise you to send it to me within a day, or else, not only will Han Xi die, the secret of your space will be known to everyone."
Lee Mi said this with conviction, but she had always had a bad premonition, so after the call, she immediately wrote a letter to Han Muchuan and told her about Meng Chuyue’s space.
Only, she deliberately reversed the addresses of the recipient and sender.
That is to say, if nothing unexpected happened, this letter addressed to Han Muchuan would make a round outside and come back to her hands, and Han Muchuan wouldn’t learn about Meng Chuyue’s space, thus eliminating one competitor for the space.
On the contrary, if something happened to her, or if she died, the letter would "return" to Han Muchuan.
In that case, Han Muchuan would chase after Meng Chuyue for the space, indirectly avenging her.
Just to be safe, she sent it as a registered letter.
The receiving address was the earthen building in the suburbs she was renting now, and the recipient’s name was written as Lee Mi, not Chu Lian.
The sending address was one of Han Muchuan’s private residences in Imperial.
If possible, she wanted to write Han Muchuan’s Hai City address, but unfortunately, the post office would be suspicious.
She drove to a farther post office to mail the letter and took the opportunity to buy some snacks.
Erhu knew she wrote a letter, but he didn’t read the contents or look at the envelope.
Hearing Lee Mi prattle on about the letter being for Han Muchuan, he didn’t give it much thought.
Lee Mi had dated Han Muchuan for so many years, although they had broken up, sending a letter was very normal.
Meng Chuyue, Shen Ci, and Han Zheng hadn’t expected Lee Mi to know the secret of the space; with this development, they couldn’t drag out the fight with her.
That very night, they had Erhu drug the sleeping Lee Mi with chloroform and rescued little Han Xi before immediately calling the police.
The charge was, impersonating Chu Lian.
They only accused Lee Mi of this single crime.
Everything else, including the kidnapping of Han Xi, was left unsaid.
After Lee Mi was arrested, she was naturally assumed to be Chu Lian’s murderer: if she wasn’t Chu Lian’s murderer, then why impersonate her?
And why was the timing so well aligned?
Not wanting to be framed, Lee Mi revealed the incident of Chu Lian’s stepfather dumping the body in the dead of night.
Chu Lian hadn’t been killed by her stepfather, but by one of his card-playing friends.
After Chu Lian’s death, he was given a large sum of money to decide to conceal and help stage the suicide scene.
He was not the mastermind murderer, and after his capture, he didn’t deny anything and quickly told the truth. Chu Lian’s death was soon laid bare, but it had little to do with Lee Mi impersonating Chu Lian.
This was another case, and besides, Lee Mi had sold Chu Lian’s house, which alone was enough trouble for her.
However, the police station was not interested in that.
They were only interested in the reason Lee Mi had a cosmetic surgery to impersonate Chu Lian.
If Chu Lian had been a rich girl, it would make sense for Lee Mi to impersonate her.
But Chu Lian was as pitiful as a patch of bok choy, Lee Mi pretending to be her... Could it be that she had a mental illness?
Lee Mi was acutely aware of this, so she didn’t dare reveal Meng Chuyue’s space so easily; she believed, if she dared to say it, they would dare to declare her insane.
The real reason, she wanted to say but didn’t dare, was frustrating.
And making up another one was even more suffocating.
After stewing for two days, Lee Mi finally concocted a convincing reason: she didn’t like her former identity and wanted to live with a different one.
Impersonating Chu Lian was just a coincidence, and besides, she had initially planned to save Chu Lian.
Judging by the situation that day... Indeed, Lee Mi seemed to be trying to save Chu Lian.
Nevertheless, even so, Lee Mi would still have to go to prison.