Chapter 358

Ji Fei cut straight to the point, causing Yu Xin's expression to stiffen. However, Yu Xin quickly adjusted herself and said, "Oh, sister, it’s fine. I don’t mind anymore. If it’s lost, it’s lost. No big deal."

[Is she trying to continue smearing Qin Jiaxi’s name, making it impossible for her to defend herself?]

"Wow, that sounds so generous of you. You don’t mind, so you’re letting everyone assume Qin Jiaxi stole it, but you’re just choosing not to pursue it, right?" Ji Fei directly exposed Yu Xin’s little scheme.

Yu Xin’s face changed, and Qin Jiaxi finally caught on. Judging by the expressions of those around them, it seemed like everyone had already assumed that Yu Xin was magnanimously letting Qin Jiaxi off the hook for being a thief.

Qin Jiaxi seemed to finally understand why she had always been left speechless when dealing with Yu Xin in the past. Even though Yu Xin never directly attacked her with words, she always managed to make everyone despise her. Qin Jiaxi had thought she was just inherently unlikeable, but now...

She immediately glared at Yu Xin and said, "You know perfectly well that the bracelet is mine! I would never steal your things. You did this on purpose!"

"Qin Jiaxi, what are you doing? How can you have such a malicious mind and judge others like that?" Su Ze snapped angrily.

Qin Jiaxi was stunned by his harsh tone. She looked at Su Ze’s furious expression, then at Yu Xin, her eyes flickering before she let out a bitter laugh.

"You’re right. Someone who does this on purpose is truly malicious!" Ji Fei said with a smile, turning her gaze to Yu Xin.

Su Ze was momentarily taken aback, while Yu Xin was on the verge of hyperventilating from being cornered. Still, she managed to say in a pitiful tone, "I just wanted to say that I don’t care about the bracelet being lost. I really didn’t mean anything else by it."

"You don’t care, but I do. After all, I was the one who personally gave that bracelet to Jiaxi. Are you suggesting I stole it from you and then gave it to her?" Ji Fei’s expression turned cold.

This statement immediately revealed Ji Fei’s identity—the current matriarch of the Qin Family!

Yu Xin panicked, her eyes darting around as if searching for a way to defend herself. But Ji Fei was already losing patience.

"Cat ​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‍got your tongue? Open your eyes and take a good look. Are the beads on this bracelet the same as yours? If you say they are, I’ll call a jewelry appraiser right now to examine them in front of everyone! I’d love to see how an antique bracelet somehow became your new one!"

Not daring to go up against a member of the Qin Family, Yu Xin could only try to save face by saying, "I never said Jiaxi stole it. I just said my bracelet was lost."

Qin Zhao snorted coldly and said, "So you’re saying you and Qin Jiaxi have identical bracelets, but yours got lost, so everyone just assumed it was hers and tried to take it from her to give to you?"

Yu Xin was at a loss for words.

Qin Rong chimed in, "Damaging someone else’s property beyond a certain value can land you in jail. That’s an antique bracelet my sister-in-law gave her. If we’re talking market value, it’s worth at least ten million. And you all broke it."

The moment these words were spoken, the room erupted in chaos.

"What? I thought the most expensive version of that bracelet was only worth a million!"

"That can’t be true. Why would Qin Jiaxi have a bracelet worth ten million? What’s going on here?"

Seeing everyone still trying to shift the blame, Qin Yi couldn’t help but add, "The bracelets in the same series look similar, but the most expensive one is only worth a million. Jiaxi’s is an antique, one of a kind in the world. And now the beads are missing... Should I call the police right now?"

Finally, someone couldn’t take it anymore and said, "Yu Xin, that bracelet is yours, right?"

"Earlier, you were crying about how your brother gave you that bracelet and it went missing. When we said we saw a similar one on Qin Jiaxi, you didn’t deny it!"

"Young Master Su, when we asked you about the bracelet earlier, we even mentioned whether Qin Jiaxi had taken Yu Xin’s. You didn’t explain anything, so we misunderstood!"

"This isn’t our fault!"

Afraid of being held responsible, everyone started exposing the misleading actions of the two. After all, if they knew Qin Jiaxi already had the bracelet but still made those ambiguous statements, weren’t they deliberately misleading everyone?

They might not be afraid of offending Qin Jiaxi, but if the bracelet was really that valuable, how many of them could afford to pay for it? They didn’t want to be arrested.

This left Su Ze and Yu Xin looking extremely uncomfortable. Since they had indeed done these things, they had no way to defend themselves.

[See, some things just can’t withstand scrutiny. But Yu Xin is truly a master at manipulating people. She deliberately played the victim so Qin Han would give her a bracelet from the same series. Once she received it, she started scheming. Since Qin Jiaxi had always worn the bracelet discreetly, no one had seen it before. So everyone assumed Yu Xin was the first to wear it, and when it went missing, Qin Jiaxi started wearing it. Add to that her affair with Su Ze, knowing that even if Su Ze didn’t understand what she was doing, he would never defend Qin Jiaxi. This way, Yu Xin could once again use her classmates to bully Qin Jiaxi and vent her frustration. If she couldn’t have the bracelet, she might as well destroy it.]

[It seems like she’s done this many times before, and it’s always worked. Of course, Su Ze and Qin Han are also complicit in this.]

Finally, Su Ze couldn’t take it anymore. "Shut up, all of you! What did Yu Xin and I ever say? You’re the ones who jumped to conclusions! What does this have to do with us?"

Yu Xin also put on a pitiful expression, even hiding behind Su Ze. "I don’t know how things turned out this way. I really didn’t know anything. The bracelets just happened to look similar, that’s all."

At this point, everyone understood—they had wronged Qin Jiaxi.

In the past, it might have been brushed off, but now that the bracelet was so valuable...

"It was her who pulled it off! We just said a few words!" someone pointed at the female classmate who had led the bullying against Qin Jiaxi.

The female classmate, who seemed to have some status, was flushed with embarrassment from Yu Xin’s betrayal but still stubbornly said, "I was just being reasonable. If Qin Jiaxi had shown us the bracelet for verification, there wouldn’t have been any misunderstanding, and the bracelet wouldn’t have broken."

"Quite the master of twisting words. Cousin, call the police," Ji Fei said bluntly.

Everyone immediately panicked and started trying to persuade the female classmate.

"You... you’re going too far!" the female classmate said, looking nervously at Su Ze, as if hoping he would speak up for her.

But Su Ze just glared at everyone, not bothering to help her.

"Haha, you didn’t think about the consequences when you were bullying her, did you?" Qin Zhao sneered. Then, after a moment of thought, he whispered to Ji Fei, "Sister-in-law, calling the police might not be enough. How about we try something else?"

Ji Fei shrugged indifferently. As long as Qin Jiaxi got justice, she didn’t care how.

Qin Zhao took the beads Qin Jiaxi had just picked up and suddenly tossed them into the pool. "Fine, we won’t call the police. But you, you, you, and you..."

He pointed at everyone who had bullied Qin Jiaxi. "Go fish out the beads. If even one is missing, we’ll call the police. Consider this your only chance."

Instantly, the faces of those named turned ashen.

Ji Fei, sharp-eyed, noticed Qin Zhao had secretly pocketed one of the beads. Well, good luck to them trying to find all of them now.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om