Rong Jian said hoarsely, "There were so many people donating money. I don't understand how he figured out that it was us. I mean I quit my job days after the fire and moved to Wuhan. I changed my number and emails because I never wanted to hear from any of those people. I just wanted to forget.
I got married and had a son. And then one day, he was kidnapped and the kidnapper asked for a ransom. I knew it as soon as I saw the amount, and I felt sick to my stomach."
"So why didn't you tell the police all this?" She asked him.
He almost laughed. "And expose what had happened in the fire! I wanted to wait and see what he wanted. I didn't expect my son to die. I considered telling the police everything after that, but I thought of how it would destroy my wife. She would never look at me the same way. We had already lost our boy, we didn't have to lose each other as well."
All He Xiao Yi heard in the response was selfishness and fear.
