" Have you inquired how she got out to begin with? Have you found anything? Because, she is a walking bomb that could explode anytime...."
The silence that followed Director Zhou's observation was absolute, suffocating in its weight. Every person in that boardroom suddenly felt the ground beneath them become less stable, as if the marble floors might crack open at any moment.
Lu Zeyan's face went pale, then flushed, then pale again as the implications hit him as successive hammer blows.
"I..." he started, then stopped, his throat working. "I arranged for her imprisonment. The evidence was airtight, I made sure of it. She should have served at least ten years, possibly twenty with all other charges. The prosecutors assured me....." As much as it was a case of murder, they had made sure to add more charges to destroy her.
