Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

"N-No that I mean of course I wanted to expose her!"

"But you didn't," Ai affirmed.

Lu Bohai felt it more and more difficult to dodge their questions. "We…My girlfriend and I a-actually broke up not just long ago! It was painful for a while but as soon as I gathered myself, I swore I would expose this bitch who killed my brother!"

Sun Bai didn't respond.

Jun said, "Not broke up just long ago. It's getting difficult for me to trust you. So call your ex-girlfriend right now and I will talk to her."

He froze.

"Let us compare some numbers here," Jun smiled.

"It's not…. really necessary…" he began to sweat.

"I will decide what's necessary and what's not. Call her already. Don't waste my time."

But Lu Bohai only fumbled with his phone, his fingers shaking as he swiped left and right.

Ai asked, "Does it take so long to find her number?"

"No I-I…"

"Or did you already delete her number?"

"Y-Yes! I a-actually deleted her number after we…"

Jun chuckled. "And you don't remember it? Didn't you date her for four years? I am pretty sure that any guy would have memorized it by now."

Lu Bohai stuttered but was unable to give any satisfying answer.

"Now that your shitty story is exposed which never made any sense to begin with, I will move on to Sun Bai."

He stared at Jun, aghast. "Shitty story? I-I am telling the truth, Sir!"

"That we will know about once Sun Bai starts talking about the real deal."

Sun Bai felt on edge. Her fingers twitched and squirmed as she said, "Real deal? I don't understand, Sir."

Jun tilted his head. "It was me who had interviewed you when you had applied for a job here, right?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Hm. I was looking for a good and talented editor who I could make Sky's Chief Editor in the future without any worries. So I personally took interviews. And I had noticed that you were fidgeting similarly then just like you are doing now."

Sun Bai blinked.

"Your gaze seemed very afraid and cautious too. At first, I thought it was the interview jitters. Everybody goes through that. But then I felt as if you felt like saying something to me at one point. I did tell you that you were free to ask me or tell me anything you had in your mind."

She stiffened.

"But after much struggle within yourself, you didn't. I found that very odd. So I looked into your problem."

Her eyes slowly widened.

Jun glanced at the reporters once and then back at her. "I came to know about your relationship with Lu Long, the fact that he was no more and that you were responsible for killing him."

Lu Bohai brightened as soon as he heard that. He couldn't control his joy. "See! I told you that she is guilty! She killed my brother and continued to live her life as if she did nothing!"

Jun's expression turned frigid. "I think you didn't understand the first time when I said that you are not allowed to speak unless I tell you to."

He jolted back in pure fear. He had never seen a man who could leak such an imposing and killing aura.

"This is the last warning or you will seriously write on pen and paper from now on."

Jun glanced back at Sun Bai after scaring the shit out of Lu Bohai and said, "You said that a big argument took place between you two and you killed him in a fit of anger."

"Y-Yes…" Sun Bai was still in a trance after knowing that Jun was already aware of what she had done.

"But it wasn't an argument," Jun stated. "You struck him as an act of self-defense when he tried to force himself on you."

The reporters couldn't control their gasps and they stared at Sun Bai, wide-eyed.

Sun Bai jerked her head towards him, stupefied. "That's…"

"The truth. You were paying all the expenses in your relationship and Lu Long was getting greedier and greedier. He was living off you instead of working on any decent job himself. You broke up being unable to bear it. But he kept pestering you. One day it broke into a huge fight where he wanted to punish you for not listening to him and stopping the money flow."

Her eyes watered and she trembled.

"During that resistance and escape, you struck him hard with a knife to protect yourself. You took him to the hospital but it was too late and he died of blood loss. When the police questioned you, you panicked and lied that it was a thief who broke in and stabbed him. You found him later and brought him to the hospital."

Sun Bai clutched her bag with all her strength. She felt breathless as those memories came back to her.

"I already knew about your and Lu Long's relationship and about his death too. You were totally panicking during the interview and later I knew why. You didn't have a problem admitting what you did, but you have a little sister who is studying abroad. It's in your employee record too that you have a younger sister. You have no parents, and you are the sole provider of her education fees and the rest of her expenses. If you went to jail, your sister would suffer, which you didn't want."

Sun Bai wanted to refute but her reactions gave her out. Thinking of that traumatizing evening and then about her sister who needed her - she couldn't stop her eyes from getting moist anymore.

"Y-You already knew…?"

"Yes. Naturally, I learned what you were trying to tell me during your interview."

Sun Bai was stupefied. "And you still h-hired me!?"

Even the reporters were zapped with the same question.

Jun narrowed his eyes. "I needed your excellent skills, and you were the perfect choice for that. It's not like you murdered Lu Long with cold calculation. It was self-defense. Your dignity was at stake. And a certain someone has pounded into me the meaning of acting in self-defense very deeply," he coughed as he pointed his statement at Ai.

Ai harrumphed and nodded.

It was just last night when Jun was in complete self-blame mode of killing Ouyang Haitao. Sun Bai was in a similar position as him.

Jun cleared his throat and continued. "I admire how you remained strong for your sister's sake and also the fact that you really did want to confess the truth to me despite knowing that I could very well reject you. Any normal boss would."

"S-so why did you not…?"

Jun chuckled. "When have the Liu's ever been normal?"