164 My Costar doesn't want me to blame myself

After that, Bi Jialu breaks down and admits everything.

She tells them exactly how she was approached by one of HuaHua's new executives, who promised to make all of her family's debt go away if only she'd kill Gao Wu and frame Yao Shen for it.

Between sobs, she says, "I told myself that if you asked me, at least once, what was going on, that I wouldn't go ahead with it. I'd tell you everything and stop this."

Yao Shen goes deathly pale, shrinking into the sofa cushions. Does that mean that all this is his fault? If he'd payed more attention to Bi Jialu he could have prevented Gao Wu's death?

"You've been manipulated by people who took advantage of your desperation," Xin Hulei says, his dark eyes not leaving Bi Jialu, still sobbing on the floor. "We'll do our best to bring them to justice too."

That seems to kick her out of her stupor. "What do you mean?"