A few days later, under Su Kangxi's arrangement, she met Jia Nanfang.
It wasn't her first time at this detention center; she had met that devil Lu Yuanhong here before.
When she saw Jia Nanfang, she was stunned for several minutes, unable to confirm if the woman before her was indeed Jia Nanfang.
Jia Nanfang should have been nearly sixty. Even with the best maintenance at the Shu family, she couldn't have turned back time to look like a woman in her thirties or forties.
But this Jia Nanfang she saw now, after plastic surgery, had a changed facial structure, taut skin, and her eyes, nose, and mouth had all been altered. She no longer resembled her original self at all.
No wonder the police had never been able to catch her. She could probably walk through the airport brazenly, and no one would recognize her.
"Does my appearance seem strange?" Jia Nanfang's voice was unchanged; it was her voice.
Susu did not speak. She noticed that when Jia Nanfang spoke, her facial expressions appeared very stiff, likely due to excessive plastic surgery.
Jia Nanfang smiled at her, a smile that made her face look even more eerie.
"Shu Zhongze is dead?"
Susu merely nodded, surprised that Jia Nanfang's first question was about Shu Zhongze, not Lu Yuanhong.
"How could this happen? How could this happen? He didn't do anything evil, why would he die so young?" Jia Nanfang stared at Susu disbelievingly. "You're lying to me, aren't you? He's still alive, perfectly fine, he just doesn't want to see me, right?"
Susu said calmly, "He died of a sudden heart attack."
"He always had a heart condition, but it shouldn't have been this severe." Jia Nanfang's expression turned very sad.
Susu replied, "Perhaps it wasn't before, but when you and Lu Yuanhong plotted to seize the Shu Group, the turmoil you caused led to him having several attacks. He didn't have the time to undergo surgery, and it became very serious."
Jia Nanfang gave a bitter laugh. "The days with him were truly wonderful, filled with brilliance and sunshine, making me believe I was the noble Mrs. Shu. Why didn't I meet Shu Zhongze first? If I had met him earlier..."
"He wouldn't have liked you either. Without your and Lu Yuanhong's schemes, you wouldn't have become his legitimate wife," Susu said, unwilling to waste time listening to Jia Nanfang's hypocritical words, which made her nauseous.
Resentment flickered in Jia Nanfang's eyes. "Are you the heir to the Shu Group now? In the end, it's the daughter of a shameless woman who reaped the benefits. My Yan! All of this should have been yours. You're so foolish!"
"What right do you have to call someone else shameless?" Susu didn't want to waste any more words with her and asked directly, "Before Lu Yuanhong left Lancheng, he told me there was something suspicious about the deaths of the Shu family's old madam and my father's fiancée. Was it you? Did you kill them?"
Jia Nanfang's entire face broke into a smile. She pointed to her current face and said, "Do I look beautiful now? Am I very much like you, and like her?"
Susu did not answer her but wished she wouldn't smile. When she smiled, she looked exactly like a female ghost, seductive and terrifying.
Jia Nanfang ignored Susu's response and continued, "Do you know whose appearance I had the doctor replicate during my plastic surgery? It was the Shu Zhongze's fiancée's appearance. That way, if I die and go to the underworld to find him, maybe he'll like me."
"When you die and go to the underworld, all those you harmed will come to settle accounts with you!" Susu felt she had gone mad. No wonder Su Kangxi said she was mentally deranged.
Jia Nanfang said indifferently, "It doesn't matter. I was the one who spent the most time with Shu Zhongze. If they come to settle accounts with me, I won't be at a loss."
"You admit it. You killed my father's fiancée at the time and the old Shu madam."
"So what? What was so good about that woman? She was inferior to me in every way. It was only because her family background was slightly better and she bore a slight resemblance to the old madam that Shu Zhongze treasured her. As for me, I was so capable, handling all the crises for the Shu Group, yet in their eyes, I was just a dog."
Susu did not voice her thoughts. To this day, Jia Nanfang still didn't think she had done anything wrong. Susu let her speak her fill.
"At that time, Lu Yuanhong was secretly urging me to establish a firm foothold in the Shu family. Otherwise, if I were no longer useful to him, he would silence me like a discarded pawn. I could only succeed, not fail. My father needed money and connections in prison for an early release, and my mother suffered all sorts of bullying and scorn in that backward village. At first, I attached myself to Lu Yuanhong simply to make life better for my family and myself. But I never expected he would want me to infiltrate the side of his enemy. He is my savior; I listened to everything he said. Was I wrong to do as he told me?"
"Did he instruct you to kill the old madam and Shu Zhongze's fiancée?" Susu exposed her sophistry. "These were probably all your own insane acts..."
"What do you know? He only gave commands from the shadows. He still harbored illusions about the old madam who gave birth to him but didn't raise him and didn't love him. If I hadn't helped him eliminate the old madam and that troublesome woman, how could I have smoothly become the mistress of the Shu family!" Jia Nanfang glared at Susu, her eyes filled with undisguised malice.
"Yes, anyone who stood in your way, you cleared them," Susu asked abruptly. "Then what about Shu Zhenhao's mother? How did you harm her? Did you ultimately kill her too?"
Jia Nanfang was startled at first, but then she laughed heartily. "She was already in poor health. What does that have to do with me? How did you know about Shu Zhenhao? Isn't he forever unable to return to Lancheng from abroad?"
"If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it." Susu looked at her and asked, "How many people have you harmed? When you brought back my father's illegitimate children, you didn't have good intentions, did you?"
"To be honest, I didn't expect Shu Zhongze to change completely after his fiancée and mother died, becoming philandering and promiscuous, fooling around everywhere. Those women outside, did any of them have good intentions? They knew Shu Zhongze was just playing around, yet they schemed to have children with him. Since that's the case, I'll fulfill their wishes, let their children fight amongst themselves in wealthy families, and let them all die miserable deaths!" She burst into laughter again.
It seemed she had harmed more than just Shu Zhenhao's mother. Susu didn't want to hear her continue with her self-justifications; it was depressing.
"Why did you want to see me? Did you just want to tell me about your glorious past? If you're interested, I don't have the time."
"Wait, actually, the one I most wanted to kill was you, the white moonlight!" Jia Nanfang suddenly slammed the table in the meeting room with her handcuffed hand. "It's a pity your life is too resilient."
"What are you doing! Sit down!" The female prison guard standing nearby immediately drew her baton and pointed it at her.