159: Unable to defend oneself

After Liu Rong was taken away, he was immediately locked in the detention center.

From beginning to end, he was still in a daze.

When had he ever raped anyone?

Someone must be framing him.

Liu Rong, who was accustomed to a life of debauchery and luxury,

felt uncomfortable everywhere once he entered the detention center.

He stared blankly at the detention center gates, still praying in his heart that Liu Tianchuan would quickly pull some strings to get him out... The time goes back to 5:00 AM this morning.

The sky was just beginning to brighten.

Gao Zilong was just about to fall asleep when he was called up for interrogation again.

This was already the third time he had been interrogated this night.

Once last night, and once at 2:30 AM.

And now once more.

It seemed as if the police wouldn't rest until they had pried more information out of him... Inside the interrogation room.

Interrogator: "Gao Zilong, given that you were very cooperative in the first two interrogations, I hope you can be just as cooperative this time and earn yourself a chance for lenient treatment!"

Gao Zilong: "Officer, I've already said everything I need to say. There's really nothing left to confess."

Gao Zilong yawned as he spoke; he was exhausted.

If he didn't get some sleep soon, he was afraid he might drop dead right here.

Interrogator: "Then let me ask you, you withdrew 1.5 million yuan from a bank card the day before yesterday. Where did that money go?"

Gao Zilong played dumb: "Officer, what 1.5 million yuan? I don't know anything about that."

Interrogator: "Think about it carefully. The opportunity is right in front of you. If we have to find it ourselves, the outcome will be completely different."

Gao Zilong pretended to have a sudden realization: "Oh, I remember now. It seems there was such a thing. That 1.5 million yuan is just the salary I've saved up over the years. Officer, is it not okay for me to withdraw my own salary?"

As the manager of the Purchasing Department of the Tiansheng Group, Gao Zilong did have an annual salary of several hundreds of thousands of yuan.

It wasn't strange for him to have saved 1.5 million.

Interrogator: "Cut the crap. You know exactly where this money came from."

Gao Zilong: "Officer, if I tell you where the money went, will I get a lighter sentence?"

Interrogator: "The court will consider it during sentencing and reduce it as appropriate. If you can confess to other crimes committed by your accomplices that we don't know about, it will count as meritorious service. Meritorious service definitely leads to lenient treatment."

Gao Zilong: "Alright, then let me think back."

...Gao Zilong had been waiting for the interrogator to say exactly that.

He knew that if he had blurted everything out at the very beginning, he wouldn't have gained any benefit at all.

After a short while.

Gao Zilong suddenly exclaimed: "Officer, I remember now! Besides that 1.5 million, I really do know about someone else's crimes. Liu Rong from the Tiansheng Group committed rape, and more than once. Just from what I know, there were four or five times."

Hearing this, the interrogator immediately perked up.

"What evidence do you have?"

Gao Zilong: "I have a USB drive at home..."

He honestly confessed the whereabouts of the 1.5 million yuan and where the USB drive was stored at home... After the police dug up new information from him, they split into two teams to gather evidence.

One team set off for the Lotus New City Residential Area to retrieve the money.

The other team went to his home to get the USB drive.

To the police's surprise, they retrieved the USB drive.

But under the bed where Gao Zilong said the money was hidden, there were only two empty boxes.

Could this guy be playing us?

...After the USB drive was brought back to the station.

Several officers verified the contents of the videos on the spot.

The videos showed Liu Rong having relations with different women.

There were four clips in total.

All were in different clubs.

The videos were very clear, and the faces of the women Liu Rong was with were clearly captured.

Because the footage was so clear, the police used facial recognition to match the information of these four women from the system... After verifying their identities, the police finally understood why Gao Zilong was so certain that Liu Rong had committed rape.

The women in the videos were all quite young. (Please use your imagination for the details; I've already had a chapter taken down once for being too descriptive [crying]).

The conversations in the videos were also clearly recorded... "Hello boss, I am..."

"Hello boss, I am Technician No. 02..."

...The unlucky Liu Rong didn't know that his usual casual flings had been caught by Gao Zilong.

How could he not be caught?

These were all secretly arranged for him by Gao Zilong.

It was to keep a trump card against the uncle and nephew.

If everyone made money together and stayed out of trouble,

then naturally, everything would be fine for everyone.

But if you want to mess with me, then I'm sorry, we'll just have to reveal our hidden daggers.

It's a fight to the death in court... After learning that Liu Rong had been arrested, Gao Zilong didn't have long to be happy before he was interrogated again.

Inside the interrogation room.

Interrogator: "Gao Zilong, under the bed in the guest room of Unit 1602, Building 7 of Bixi Garden, there were only two empty boxes. There was no money like you said."

Gao Zilong: "Impossible! I put the money right there..."

Interrogator: "Tell the truth. You can't be unaware of how serious the consequences of deliberately concealing facts are!"

...This time, Gao Zilong was interrogated for another two hours.

Throughout the entire interrogation, he insisted that he had placed the money there.

But the police couldn't find it.

He was unable to defend himself.

The whereabouts of that 1.5 million yuan thus remained at a stalemate... Chen Su, the mastermind behind it all, was sitting on the sofa of his luxury flat.

Holding half a chilled watermelon, he was scooping it out with a spoon while watching a TV drama.

It had been a long, long time since he had been this relaxed... Before being fired by Liu Tianchuan, he was a workhorse for the Tiansheng Group, running himself ragged every day.

After getting the system, he was also busy every day completing system intelligence tasks.

Sometimes he was even busier than when he worked at the Tiansheng Group.

Finally having such a leisurely afternoon,

he naturally had to take a good rest... At 5:00 PM.

A middle-aged man arrived on time at the Paternity Testing Center on the seventh floor of the outpatient building of Fengcheng City Hospital.

It was Wang Qi's husband, Sun Shishi.

When he saw that the two paternity reports in his hand both showed that he was not the biological father,

a sense of shame he had never felt before instantly flooded his heart.

He clenched his fists tightly and walked quickly out of the hospital.

When he reached his car, he didn't go back to the company but drove straight home... He drove very fast and arrived at his residential area in no time.

When he got home, Wang Qi was lying on the sofa, enjoying the air conditioning and scrolling through short videos, looking very comfortable indeed!!

...Hearing the door open, Wang Qi didn't even look back, saying bluntly, "Why are you back so early today? I haven't even made dinner yet! If you're hungry, make it yourself!"

Seeing Wang Qi's indifferent attitude only further fueled the rage in Sun Shishi's heart.

He slammed the door shut and threw his briefcase aside.

He walked quickly toward Wang Qi.

As he got close, he grabbed Wang Qi by the hair and threw her heavily onto the floor.

"Ah! Are you crazy?!" Wang Qi cried out in pain.

"Yes, I'm crazy! Driven crazy by you!"

Sun Shishi raised his hand and slapped Wang Qi hard... The entire living room was filled with the sounds of clattering and crashing.

"Ah! Help!"

"Slap!"

"Shut up!!"

"Help!! Murder!!"

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