After Lily finishes telling him what to do next, Jasper takes the document and is about to leave.
Just at that moment, someone knocks on the door, and then it opens.
"President Lily, excuse me."
Ella comes in, followed by several men in uniform.
Lily gets up from her chair and asks, "What's wrong?"
"We are from the Yorkshire Police Station." One of the men shows his badge and says seriously. "Ms. Lily, we suspect you of murdering a pregnant woman. Please come with us to the police station."
Murdering a pregnant woman?
Lily is surprised. Does she have anything to do with a murder?
"Ms. Lily." Seeing that Lily doesn't respond to his words, the man takes out a pair of handcuffs and says, "Please come with us! If you resist, we'll handcuff you."
"Sorry, I was lost in thought just now."
Lily doesn't know what's going on, but since she's now in the company, she doesn't want to make a big fuss. If she really walks out in handcuffs, it'll be troublesome.
"Could you please wait a minute? I'd like to have a few more words about the work with my colleagues."
With their acquiescence, Lily talks to Ella about their work.
She also tells Jasper that he must investigate carefully to see where the Egret Company got the perfume formula.
Ella asks worriedly, "President Lily, will you be alright?"
"Don't worry. They're just going to ask me a few questions." Lily smiles and says, "I didn't do that so there's nothing to be afraid of."
Lily then leaves with the policemen.
When they leave the company and get into the police car, Lily can't help but ask the man next to her, "Since you said I'm suspected of murdering a pregnant woman, can I ask who that woman is?"
The man says in a cold voice, "Sit there quietly. You'll know when you get to the police station!"
"..."
Ten minutes later, they arrive at the police station.
As soon as she steps into the police station, Lily remembers the past and Lucy's death. She woke up in the police station, and was tortured and detained for several days before being released.
She also recalls that Jason was shot dead in order to cover her. Her heart aches.
If she didn't choose to take revenge and go to the Sky Fun Palace when she discovered the love affair between Jason and Lucy at that time, she wouldn't have met Louis and the rest of her life might be completely different.
A policeman takes Lily to a desk and points at the chair in front of her.
"Ms. Lily, sit down please."
Lily pulls out the chair and sits down.
It's good not to go to a private interrogation room because she can't stand the dazzling light inside.
"Did you give this duck soup to Willow Roth?" The man shows a few photos to Lily as he opens the interrogation notebook.
Duck soup?
Looking at the photos, Lily finally realizes that the pregnant woman he just mentioned is Willow!
What's going on?
Did Willow call the police?
Since Lily doesn't answer his question, the man raises his voice, "Ms. Lily, answer my question!"
"Yes." Lily moves her lips and wants to explain, "I did give it to her, but there was a misunderstanding..."
"Since you just admitted giving this duck soup to her, what other misunderstandings can there be?" The man interrupts Lily, "You deliberately put the medicinal herbs which could invigorate blood circulation in the duck soup and then gave it to Ms. Roth. You did that because you wanted her to have a miscarriage!"
"No." Lily clenches her hands tightly, trying to calm herself down.
"A friend gave me the soup but I was too full at the time, so when I saw Willow’s mother-in-law return, I asked her to take it back to Willow, but I didn't know that there were some medicinal herbs in it that can cause miscarriage."
The man tries to find a loophole in her words and says, "Even though you didn't know that the duck soup contained medicinal herbs for invigorating blood circulation, it was you who had given this soup to Ms. Roth, wasn't it?"
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