The room is 72 square meters, with two bedrooms and a living room. When the TV is turned on, the sound can be heard throughout the house.
The sound of cutting vegetables and the sound of the television mixed together and filled the entire room.
"Welcome to 'Truth Rush'. Today we have invited Mr. Fan, the suspect in the 'Nancheng Sexual Assault Case', and Mr. Meng Xin, the suspect's lawyer, to show us the whole story of the 'Nancheng Sexual Assault Case' in detail."
Fan Jiancheng's gentle and familiar voice came from the TV: "Hello everyone, my name is Fan Jiancheng, and I am the defendant in the Nancheng sexual assault case."
"Hello everyone, I am lawyer Meng Xin."
Ye Sibei chopped the pork, put it aside, and stirred it to season.
"On April 9, 2018, in Nancheng, G Province, a woman hid in a reed field with disheveled clothes and called the police. However, she disappeared soon after calling the police. A few days later, the woman appeared at the police station again and called the police to report that she was assaulted. The police investigated overnight and locked the target. They arrested her boss Fan as the first suspect. After DNA identification, it was confirmed that Fan was the suspect. However, more than four months later, Fan was acquitted. What is the secret behind this? What is the entanglement in the middle? What kind of relationship does the woman have with Fan? Why did she use such a crime to frame her boss? Welcome to today's "Truth Rush", let us unveil the truth one by one."
After a rather creepy-sounding review of the previous events, there was warm applause.
Ye Sibei seasoned the pork and made it into meatballs.
"Actually, this matter is not complicated. Miss Ye was recruited by me. I have always been nice to her. She was short of money at that time..."
Fan Jiancheng started to speak his usual remarks again. After he finished, Meng Xin briefly talked about some legal content related to the case.
When the program entered the interactive session, the host asked Meng Xin a question: "Lawyer Meng, there is a term called 'Ye Xianren' that has appeared on the Internet. It refers to women who frame men to extort money. It is often used to tease others. For example, people say to men who show off their wealth, 'Be careful, Ye Xianren is coming to you,' or to women who say they have been assaulted, 'Hey, here comes another Ye Xianren.' What do you think of this phenomenon, Lawyer Meng?"
Meng Xin was silent for a moment after hearing this. After a long while, he spoke: "I think winning a case does not mean the truth. Winning a case may just be due to insufficient evidence. As bystanders, we should neither insult the suspect nor the victim. We should control our words and deeds and try to minimize the harm."
Just as Meng Xin finished speaking, the door opened. Ye Sibei turned around and saw Qin Nan coming in. She smiled and asked, "You're back so early?"
Qin Nan, wearing a sweater, glanced at the TV. When he saw the people on TV, he walked over and changed the channel.
"Stop it."
Qin Nan instructed, turned around to hang the bag on the coat rack, and closed the door.
"It's just a random show," Ye Sibei said, with his back to him, putting the vegetables into the pot and stir-frying them, "It won't cause any trouble. How's the food processing today?"
"Chen Jun borrowed money."
Qin Nan walked over to Ye Sibei and washed the vegetables in the sink for her. "His relatives have raised 100,000 yuan for him. I don't want the change. He has been with me for so long, so I'll give him 30,000 yuan."
"good."
Ye Sibei didn't care at all, and talked about his schedule for the day: "I went to the central area to stroll around during the day and bought some food. I sent my resume to all the recruiting companies in the provincial capital, but I haven't found a job yet."
Qin Nan nodded: "It's okay, just stay at home and take the civil service exam. I found a job with a monthly salary of 12,000 yuan. I will go there next month after I hand over the store to Chen Jun."
"The salary is so high," Ye Sibei looked back at him and smiled, "Do you think I went to college for nothing?"
"I'm an old master," Qin Nan couldn't help laughing when he heard her praise, "You can't compare with me."
The two chatted and laughed while they finished cooking, and then ate together.
During the meal, Ye Sibei glanced at her phone from time to time. She used a privacy screen protector, so Qin Nan couldn't see what she was looking at. Qin Nan pretended not to notice and continued chatting with her.
Ever since losing the lawsuit, Ye Sibei seemed to have become a different person. That incident seemed to have been completely erased from her life, as if it had never existed.
She goes out every day and sometimes doesn't come back until eleven or twelve o'clock. Qin Nan doesn't know where she goes, and when he asks her, she says she goes out to relax.
She changed her phone password, so Qin Nan couldn't open her phone and didn't know what she was doing.
There has been a lot of turmoil on the Internet. Although a small number of netizens are willing to sympathize with her, more netizens are almost unanimously scolding her.
Compared to crime, netizens seem to hate deception.
They said she was exploiting public sympathy and wasting public resources, accused her of slandering others, and scolded all those who supported her.
There are also many people who have raised various questions and posts about how women can protect themselves when they slander men. They gave her the nickname "Ye Xianren" and asked anyone who objected, "Why, do you also want to be Ye Xianren?"
"Ye Xianren Warning"
"People like Ye Xianren should be cut into pieces as a warning to others."
This reversal was a huge carnival on the Internet.
But compared to the last time, Ye Sibei showed an extraordinary calmness. She could calmly handle all the comments. Sometimes, Qin Nan found her posting and snatched her phone. She looked up and comforted him: "It's okay, I'm just watching. You are just a bunch of talkers. Haven't I seen enough of them?"
Such a Ye Sibei made him scared and helpless.
He didn't dare to ask her anything, but he didn't dare to ignore her either. He could only observe her quietly, afraid that she would do something stupid.
He didn't quite understand what Ye Sibei was thinking, but he sensed it vaguely.
After they had dinner together, Ye Sibei found a variety show. She leaned on his shoulder and discussed with him the specific date to go to the provincial capital.
"November 1st, right? It's the beginning of the month, auspicious."
Ye Sibei thought about it, and Qin Nan responded: "Okay."
"I'll rent a house in the next two days and start moving my things. When the time comes, I'll put everything in the car and drive away."
Ye Sibei said this with a voice full of yearning: "When we get to the provincial capital, you can work while I prepare for the exam. Can you support me?"
"certainly."
The two of them discussed and sat for a while. Qin Nan felt sleepy. He got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he came out, he saw Ye Sibei heating up some milk: "Drink a sip of milk and sleep better. You haven't been sleeping well lately."
"Um."
Qin Nan nodded and opened the bathroom: "Don't you want to take a shower?"
"wash."
Ye Sibei went into the room to take a shower, while Qin Nan lowered his head and sipped the milk.
Ye Sibei had never taken the initiative to pour him milk before bed. After thinking about it, he took the cup to the kitchen and poured it directly into the sink. After rinsing the sink, he took the cup of milk and placed it on the bedside before going to bed.
Ye Sibei came out of the shower and saw the cup of milk on the bedside, feeling a little relieved.
She turned off the bedroom light, walked into the living room, turned on the desk lamp on the living room desk, then opened a notebook and turned on her cell phone.
The day after losing the case, she bought a GPS locator online and stuck it under Fan Jiancheng's car. She used her mobile phone to locate his position every day, and in two weeks she figured out his life trajectory.
She picked out some places he often went to, and then found time to quietly follow him one by one to find out what he was going to do, how many people were there, where he was, and what the environment was like.
Fan Jiancheng would walk home along Changren Road to and from get off work every day. On Tuesdays, he would go to a hotel not far from his company. She followed him once and found out that he was with Tao Jie, so she secretly took photos of him.
Fan Jiancheng goes to the spa center every Saturday and stays there for the whole afternoon. That is his time to relax.
He would send his children to cram school on Sundays. Fan Wenwen had several cram schools, and each one lasted the entire day.
Ye Sibei followed him to every place he went, and then found this location tonight.
Every Wednesday, Fan Jiancheng would go out of the city to an extremely remote place on the outskirts of the city. Ye Sibei had never been there, but Fan Jiancheng had been there every Wednesday night in the past few weeks.
We set off at 6:30, drive for half an hour, and return in the early morning of the next day.
A few days ago, she went here during the day according to the map, and found that there were only unfinished buildings and no one was seen. She didn't know what Fan Jiancheng was doing here at night, but she thought that maybe she had to go there at that time to understand what Fan Jiancheng was doing.
She drew and scribbled on the notebook, using symbols to organize her thoughts.
After waiting for a while, she checked the time, turned off the lamp, and walked into the room. Qin Nan's snoring filled the room. Ye Sibei called out softly, "Qin Nan?"
Qin Nan didn't respond to her, and Ye Sibei felt relieved. She guessed that the sleeping pills in the milk took effect.
She quietly took the car keys from the bedside, took the umbrella, and tiptoed out of the door. The moment she gently closed the door, Qin Nan opened his eyes.
He quickly stood up and carried Ye Sibei downstairs. He thought for a moment, found a raincoat in the room, put it on, and rushed downstairs.
It was raining outside at night. The rain in October was delicate and lingering, and it never stopped. Ye Sibei went downstairs with an umbrella, walked to Qin Nan's car, opened the door and got in.
She drove out carefully. Qin Nan, wearing a raincoat, hurried downstairs, got on his motorcycle, and caught up with Ye Sibei.
The two of them walked back and forth in the rain. Qin Nan looked in the heavy rain at the direction Ye Sibei was heading, his mind full of questions.
What on earth does she want to do? What does she want to do
She had already decided not to appeal, had agreed to give up, had agreed to leave this city, and start this life over again together. What else did she want to do
He didn't dare to think about it. The drizzle was like needles. After the motorcycle accelerated, it blew towards his face, making him feel even more painful.
Ye Sibei drove carefully. It took her almost fifty minutes to complete the half-hour drive and finally she arrived at the place she had been to during the day.
She didn't dare drive there directly because she knew that the car would be too conspicuous at night and would be discovered quickly.
She stopped the car far away, walked into the human-high grass in the rain, and pushed aside the grass to walk inside.
Qin Nan stopped his motorcycle and followed her from a distance.
The two of them pushed through the man-high grass and moved forward with difficulty. When they were getting closer and closer to the location, Ye Sibei came to the edge of the grass and the first thing he saw was Fan Jiancheng's car.
Except for Fan Jiancheng, there are cars everywhere, both local and from many nearby towns.
The unfinished building was silent at night, with only some lights faintly visible in the distance.
Ye Sibei gritted her teeth, came out of the grass, and ran towards the light. Qin Nan followed behind her, and they crossed the first floor of the unfinished building. As they got closer and closer to the light, they heard voices from a distance: "Drive! Drive! Drive the Leopard!"
Hearing the sound, Ye Sibei didn't dare to go forward. She crouched down, climbed to the second floor of the unfinished building, and looked down from a high place.
I saw a small courtyard in the distance. There was no one in the courtyard during the day, but at this moment it was brightly lit.
There were many people gathered inside, with the sound of sieves, shouting, and the laughter of men and women mixed together. It was like a ghost town opened, with evil spirits everywhere.
Ye Sibei was watching quietly from a distance, while Qin Nan was watching Ye Sibei's back from another building.
The two waited for a long time. At two o'clock, the door of the courtyard opened, and Fan Jiancheng and a bald man came out with smiles. Fan Jiancheng waved his hand and left first. The man called him loudly: "Mr. Fan, come and play again next time."
"Big, bet on big!"
Someone's excited shouting came from the room, and Ye Sibei vaguely understood that this was probably an underground casino.
She watched Fan Jiancheng walk back from the courtyard to the parking spot, which was about 500 meters away. Fan Jiancheng parked farther away, swinging the car keys and humming a little tune as he walked to the car.
For a moment, Ye Sibei wanted to pounce on him and bite his neck hard, making him bleed profusely and fall to the ground twitching.
But she didn't do it after all. She held him quietly, helped him get in the car, and drove away.
Ye Sibei waited until Fan Jiancheng left before going downstairs and returning to her car. She calmed down, swallowed back her tears, and drove home.
Qin Nan confirmed that she was safe and immediately returned to his motorcycle. Ye Sibei drove slowly, so he rushed all the way home, cleaned his clothes, dried his hair, turned off the lights, and lay back on the bed.
He lay on the bed with his eyes closed, but his hands couldn't help shaking slightly.
He knew what Ye Sibei was going to do. He should have known that she couldn't let go and it was impossible for her to let go.
She has given up hope on this world. She doesn't believe in people, laws, or Buddha.
She only believes in herself.
Qin Nan felt like something was stuck in his heart, and it hurt so much that he even found it difficult to breathe.
After a long time, he heard the slight sound of the door opening, and Ye Sibei came in again. She took care of her clothes in the dark, dried her slightly damp hair, and then quietly got into bed with the chill of late autumn.
Qin Nan turned over, pretending to have just woken up, and reached out to hug her.
"Why is it so cold?"
He spoke vaguely, and Ye Sibei buried his head in his chest, saying softly, "I was reading just now, and I didn't wear enough clothes."
As she spoke, she reached out and gently stroked his back: "Go to sleep."
Qin Nan didn't say anything, he closed his eyes. He had a lot of things he wanted to say, things he wanted to persuade, but he couldn't utter a single word.
He could only hold Ye Sibei in his arms, his voice a little hoarse: "Sibei."
"Um?"
"Next month, we will leave here and start a new life in the provincial capital. We will have a better life."
"I know."
Ye Sibei hugged him: "We will all have a good life."