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112: Chapter 112 My wife is lost? Want help finding her?
Su Yun raised an eyebrow.
Only 50 points?
It seemed that Zhou Hai hadn't done anything truly heinous in his daily life; at most, he had just cheated for traffic and tips.
Still, even mosquito legs are meat; many a mickle makes a muckle.
He set down his teacup and tapped the microphone twice.
"Alright, stop sending gifts."
Su Yun's tone was flat.
"This Zhou Hai is a negative example."
"Everyone, take this as a warning."
"There's nothing wrong with making money, but don't gamble with your own body."
"Is it worth trading your life for a bit of vanity and money?"
"Health is the capital of revolution; without a healthy body, no matter how much money you earn, it's just a number."
"Alright, this chapter is closed. Let's continue."
At the same time.
In the meeting rooms of several large MCN agencies in Jiang City.
Several executives stared at Su Yun's livestream on the big screens, their expressions quite grim.
They had seen the downfall of Starlight Media with their own eyes.
Now, even a top-tier influencer like Zhou Hai, with tens of millions of followers, had suffered such a massive setback before Su Yun.
Not only did his persona collapse, but he also nearly lost his life.
"What exactly is this Su Yun's background?"
A balding executive wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"He even knew about the gambling agreement Zhou Hai signed!"
"Wasn't that matter confidential? Even his wife didn't know!"
A man wearing glasses beside him shook his head.
"No matter what his background is, this is someone we can't afford to provoke."
"Send out a notice immediately."
"No influencer under our company is allowed to leech off Su Yun's popularity!"
"And they are especially forbidden from causing trouble in his livestream!"
"Anyone who dares to provoke him will have their contract terminated and be kicked out immediately!"
"Put him on the highest level of the blacklist!"
The executives nodded one after another, deeply agreeing.
This Su Yun was simply a living Yama; whoever touched him died.
Su Yun naturally didn't know he had already been blacklisted by all the major agencies.
He stretched and checked the time.
"Family, it's getting late."
"Let's hurry and start tonight's third reading, which will also be the final one."
"The rules are the same as always."
"A Lucky Bag draw, with a thousand-yuan fee per reading."
"Fair prices for all."
Su Yun operated the backend, and a red Lucky Bag appeared in the center of the screen.
"One-minute countdown. Everyone, test your hand speed."
The bullet chat boiled over again.
"It's here, it's here! My twenty years of single-life hand speed is finally coming in handy!"
"Master Su, pick me! I've been incredibly unlucky lately; I step in dog poop every time I go out!"
"Praying to win! I'm willing to trade ten years of my roommate's life for one fortune-telling opportunity!"
"The person above, you're really something! What did your roommate do wrong!"
"Blessings, blessings! This humble believer is willing to go vegetarian for life in exchange for winning once!"
The one minute passed quickly.
The Lucky Bag exploded open.
The winner's ID popped up on the screen.
"The Foreman Striving to Lay Bricks."
Su Yun read the name aloud.
"Is this Foreman brother here?"
"If you're here, please apply for a connection."
A few seconds later, the screen flashed, and the video connection was established.
The screen split in two.
A middle-aged man appeared on the right.
The man had dark skin, his face etched with the traces of wind and frost.
He wore a faded camouflage work uniform, stained with quite a bit of dust and cement spots.
The background was an extremely simple prefabricated house.
A few hard hats and some cluttered tools were piled in the corner.
A half-torn project schedule was posted on the wall.
It was clearly a temporary dormitory on a construction site.
The man appeared somewhat ill at ease, his two large, rough hands rubbing against his clothes.
"Ma... Master Su, hello."
The man spoke, his voice a bit raspy.
Su Yun nodded.
"Hello."
"First, please introduce yourself."
The man quickly sat up straight.
"My name is Qi Xiu."
"I'm the foreman at that new housing development site in south Jiang City."
"I usually lead a group of brothers doing masonry work."
Su Yun leaned back in his chair, looking at Qi Xiu on the screen.
"Brother Qi Xiu, what would you like to have read?"
Qi Xiu's eyes reddened, and tears nearly fell.
He raised the back of his hand and wiped his eyes.
"Master Su, I want to ask you to help me find my wife."
"She's missing."
"There's been no word from her for half a month."
The livestream audience perked up immediately upon hearing this.
"A missing person's case!"
"No word for half a month? Have you called the police?"
"With surveillance everywhere these days, how can a grown person just disappear?"
Su Yun raised his hand, gesturing for Qi Xiu to continue.
"What exactly happened?"
"Tell me in detail."
Qi Xiu pulled a phone with a cracked corner from his pocket.
He swiped on the phone a few times and then pointed the screen at the camera.
There was a photo on the screen.
In the photo was a woman in her thirties.
She was quite pretty, wearing a red down jacket and smiling happily.
"This is my wife, Li Juan."
Qi Xiu looked at the photo, his voice a bit choked up.
"We've been married for ten years."
"We usually have a good relationship and rarely argue."
"But half a month ago, I came home from the site and found she wasn't there."
"I thought she had gone to buy groceries, so I didn't think much of it."
"But she still hadn't come back by nightfall."
"I called her, but her phone was off."
"I sent WeChat messages, but she didn't reply."
Qi Xiu flipped the phone around and pulled up a screenshot of a WeChat chat.
He also pressed it against the camera for everyone to see.
"This is a WeChat message she sent me on the afternoon she disappeared."
Su Yun leaned in to take a look.
The screenshot contained only one short sentence.
"I'm leaving, don't look for me."
Qi Xiu pulled back the phone and ran his hands through his hair forcefully.
"I was stunned at the time."
"I didn't know why she would leave when everything was fine."
"I searched all our relatives and friends, and they all said they hadn't seen her."
"I also went to report it to the police, but they said she's an adult and left a message saying she left on her own, so it didn't meet the criteria for a case."
"It could only be registered as a missing person."
"For the past half month, I haven't even had the heart to work; I've been searching the streets for her every day."
"But I haven't even seen a shadow of her."
The bullet chat began to offer suggestions.
"Big brother, did something trigger your wife?"
"Yeah, did you neglect her by only focusing on work?"
"This is clearly running away from home; there must be a problem with the relationship."
Qi Xiu looked at the bullet chat and shook his head repeatedly.
"Impossible!"
"I was so good to her!"
"I gave her all the money I earned to keep; I only kept a few hundred yuan for cigarette money each month."
"She usually just cooked at home or played mahjong; I didn't let her do any heavy work."
Speaking to this point, Qi Xiu gritted his teeth, an angry expression appearing on his face.
"Actually... actually, I have a suspicion in my heart."
Su Yun looked at him.
"What suspicion?"
Qi Xiu took a heavy breath.
"I suspect she ran off with someone!"
As soon as these words came out, the livestream exploded.
"Holy crap! Another cuckold plot?"
"Foreman brother is truly miserable!"
"Do honest people deserve to be bullied like this nowadays?"
Qi Xiu continued.
"On the day my wife disappeared, I went home and checked."
"I found that all two hundred thousand yuan in the family's bankbook had been withdrawn."
"And the gold necklace and gold bracelet she usually wore were also gone."
"She took everything of value!"
"Moreover, there's a young carpenter at our site named Liu Bo."
"He's in his twenties, quite slick-looking, and usually likes to joke around with the older women on the site."
"When my wife sometimes came to the site to bring me food, this kid would always stare at her."
"I even warned him a few times."
"Coincidentally, the day before my wife disappeared, this Liu Bo suddenly quit!"
"He didn't even settle his half-month's wages before vanishing!"
"Tell me, how can there be such a coincidence in this world!"
"She must have taken my hard-earned money and eloped with that pretty boy!"
"Master Su, I beg of you!"
"Please help me calculate where this pair of scoundrels ran off to!"
"I must find them and break that little bastard's legs!"