Qin Lou collected all the photos and documents scattered on the table. He frowned and flipped through the photos one by one. Finally, he found the familiar figure in the remaining photos, which confirmed his memory.
Yu Qisheng's father, now named Yu Yuntao, is Qiao Tianbo, Bai Song's defense lawyer in the EAG case.
And that man also disappeared without a trace after the case ended nine years ago.
Nine years later, the man's son became Song Shu's fiancé. And according to what Yu Qisheng said when he came to Vio that day, "the marriage contract was agreed upon by the parents of both families in person"... Yu Yuntao and Song Shu clearly still have a close relationship.
There was no way Song Shu wouldn't recognize her mother's defense attorney.
The more likely possibility is that when Song Shu faked his death, Yu Yuntao knew everything from beginning to end.
Song Shu, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, was able to successfully fake her death, and it was very likely that Yu Yuntao helped her do it.
That would explain why Song Shu had a close friend like Yu Qisheng by her side—they had known each other for nine years as the son of her lifesaver...
Qin Lou clenched his fingers unconsciously, and the pale blue veins on the back of his hand bulged slightly. When he came to his senses, the photo in his hand had been folded into layers of wrinkles that could not be smoothed out.
Qin Lou unfolded the photo again and looked at the person in the photo with gloomy and angry eyes.
The photo was taken during a bright and sunny day. The students were wearing graduate gowns. Yu Qisheng and Song Shu stood side by side between a row of blonde-haired and blue-eyed classmates. The handsome man and beautiful woman looked particularly eye-catching.
There were two girls in the front row who jokingly made heart-shaped gestures and then pointed upwards - in the photo, Song Shu and Yu Qisheng, who were standing a little higher than them, smiled towards the camera without noticing anything.
That was something he hadn't participated in for nine years.
Qin Lou only felt irritable, jealous, crazy, angry... so many different emotions intertwined together, like countless bugs clinging to and gnawing at his heart, forcing him to go crazy to relieve it.
Qin Lou's breathing became rapid. Before he lost control of his emotions, he bent down and opened the drawer under the table, and took out a white medicine bottle with foreign letters.
Qin Lou poured out a few pills and, without washing them down with water, put them directly into his mouth and chewed them vigorously into powder. The bitter powder spread between his lips and teeth, almost paralyzing his taste buds and nerves.
The excessive bitterness stimulated the stomach nerves so much that they almost twitched. A feeling of nausea came up, but was suppressed by Qin Lou's slightly ferocious expression.
—He has become accustomed to this self-torture process. Because in the past nine years, only this kind of pain can remind him that he is still alive, let him distinguish between dreams and reality, and prevent him from jumping off the 23rd floor before completing his promise to Song Shu.
The only sweet taste in a long time...
Qin Lou's eyes were slightly blank, and he thought back to last week in the general manager's office on the 22nd floor, when his little clam came up to him and took away the bitter medicine powder from his lips, and how she frowned with emotions of heartache and blame deep in her eyes.
As he depicted Song Shu's eyebrows, his every frown, smile, movement and pause over and over again in front of his eyes and in his heart, the violent emotions in Qin Lou's eyes finally slowly subsided.
He picked up the document on the desk again.
Qin Lou read through Yu Qisheng's investigation materials one by one, but what quickly flashed through his mind were the details of Bai Song's case.
—This is the only possibility Qin Lou could think of that could allow Song Shu and Yu Yuntao, also known as Qiao Tianbo back then, to stand together and plan for nine years.
The financial case that EAG was involved in caused a sensation at the time. The amount of money involved, as high as 50 billion, shocked the industry, but most of that principal was missing as Bai Song committed suicide in prison and his only daughter Song Shu died in a car accident.
Later, the court intervened and seized all assets under Bai Song's name, but failed to find the whereabouts of the huge amount of money. However, the flow of funds cannot disappear out of thin air. One of the eight criminal charges Bai Song was accused of was "money laundering" - so the real beneficiary is likely to still be at large.
And if there is another hidden story behind this case, if there was an unknown reason for Bai Song's suicide in prison, or even if Bai Song was not even the money laundering glove in this case...
Qin Lou's fingers on the armrest of the sofa suddenly froze, and the corners of his eyes twitched nervously.
Then about Song Shu’s car accident that year, and the driver who initially lied that he was driving under the influence and finally had to use some tricks to admit that he was taking revenge on Bai Song’s daughter out of hatred - there might even be a real mastermind behind all this, and there might even be more than one person involved!
Those who hide behind the scenes...
After a long period of dead silence, a scream of extreme pain and near madness was heard from inside the tightly closed electronic protection door on the 23rd floor.
It's those people.
Those people killed his doll with their own hands.
…
When Qin Liang, who was far away in Europe, received a call from his grandson, it was already nine o'clock in the evening in the local time zone.
"A call from Qin Lou?" Qin Liang was a little surprised.
"Mr. Qin, it belongs to Young Master Qin Lou. I have confirmed it."
"Wow, rare, why did he think of calling me at this time?"
"I guess he's saying hello to you." The old man who had been with Qin Liang for many years said with a smile.
"Him? It's good enough that he doesn't cause trouble for me and make me angry." Qin Liang said this, but a smile still appeared on his face. He reached out and picked up the phone. "Hey, it's so late, what's the matter?"
The servant next to him looked at Qin Liang helplessly - the thing that Mr. Qin could never do in his life was probably to let go of the dignity of his elders, so even though he loved and worried about his grandson to death, he was always unwilling to show it.
But the grandfather and grandson still have the same temper.
The old man shook his head helplessly and was about to turn around and leave to give the grandfather and grandson some time and space to chat, when he suddenly saw Qin Liang's face behind the table suddenly darken.
"Why do you suddenly bring up that matter?" Qin Liang's eyes were cold. "It's been so many years. I said that the Qin family only suffered this one loss - don't mention it again. It's good for everyone. Don't you understand?"
Qin Lou's slightly hoarse laughter came from the other end of the phone, "Of course I don't understand. I've said it before, I will never understand your petty tricks."
"… You called me on purpose to make me angry, didn't you?!"
"Don't get me wrong, I don't have the time to do that. I just called to ask you something."
"What's up?"
"Since you still remember the big EAG case, do you remember the questions I asked you after that incident?"
“… What’s your attitude?”
"I have always been like this. Don't change the subject now!" On the other side of the phone, the smile in Qin Lou's voice disappeared, leaving only a gloomy and frightening feeling of impending storm. "When I asked you, whether Bai Song was innocent or guilty in that case - what did you tell me!?"
"… "
Qin Liang's expression changed several times, and he finally clenched his fist and said in a hard voice: "Even if you ask me again today or in the future, she is not innocent."
"But there's obviously something else going on in that case, right?!"
Qin Liang could no longer bear it and flew into a rage, "How many times have I told you - that thing is over! Those who have died will never come back to life again, and only these who are still alive are left! Do you still want all the living people to spend their whole lives with them in hell!?"
"… "
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and then Qin Lou laughed hoarsely.
"I never asked for everyone to accompany me - but if they are guilty, then they deserve to live in hell."
Qin Liang gritted his teeth, veins popping out on his old face, "Then how do you know who is guilty and who is innocent?"
"I can check."
Qin Liang's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth. "50 billion, how many lives are enough to fill it? Do you know? People who swallowed this money dared to risk their lives for it. They may not care how many people died - are you not afraid of death?"
“Hahahaha… Afraid of death?”
Qin Lou seemed to have heard a great joke and couldn't help laughing. He didn't stop until a long time later. "Grandpa, are you so afraid of death because you have lived too long? Is there anything you won't give up in order to live?"
"—This matter has nothing to do with me! If you want to investigate, you will be the one in danger!!" Qin Liang was furious.
"Danger? Ha, it doesn't matter." Qin Lou gritted his teeth and smiled, but every word sounded like a cry of blood: "Compared to the fact that I couldn't even die in the past nine years, what's the danger?"
"!"
Qin Liang slammed the table hard, his voice hoarse and old: "Qin, Lou! Do you really want to sacrifice your life and the entire Qin family for that mother and daughter!?"
The phone went quiet.
A dozen seconds later, on the 23rd floor of the Vio Capital office building.
In the dark and terrifying large flat, a deep and hoarse male voice was heard next to the table with a landline phone placed in the corner.
"The Qin family..."
In the darkness, Qin Lou silently raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes cold and crazy, "If Bai Song was innocent in that incident, then the Qin family was just a bystander, an accomplice, and even more likely one of the culprits! The Qin family's wealth is stained with their blood - even if I sacrifice my own life, it won't be enough to pay it back!"
"You, what nonsense are you talking about!" Qin Liang's voice on the phone was trembling, not only because of exhaustion but also because of guilt.
Qin Lou remained unmoved, his voice low and fierce.
"I was looking up the whole day yesterday, thinking about how you were so disheartened that you handed all the Qin family affairs to me. You seemed to be extremely disappointed with everyone at that time, and you only insisted that Qin Fujun and Song Chengjun and their spouses live in seclusion in Europe with you, saying that they would not be disturbed and would not be allowed to return home..."
"So what? I only have your aunt as my daughter in the Qin family... Is it wrong for me to let her stay with me?"
Qin Lou was silent for a long time, then laughed hoarsely, "Yes, of course it's right. No matter how well you treat Bai Song, she is still an outsider. No matter how vicious Qin Fujun is, she is still your own daughter!"
"Qin Lou!"
"Forget it, Grandpa. Just remember to say hello to my aunt and uncle."
"Qin Lou, you..."
"By the way, tell them that when I'm done with this, I'll definitely prepare a big gift for them. Just let them wait. I'll deliver it to the ends of the earth even if they chase me."
"!"
The author has something to say: I have been guessing from the comments, and today's chapter can finally reveal a little bit (in fact, it has been hinted several times in the text): the couple is indeed not innocent, but they are just small fry, and they did not have much real power in the Qin family at the beginning, and they could not stir up any huge waves on their own.
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