Suyin heard everyone gasp, looking at her with eyes full of disgust. From her peripheral vision, she noticed the father-daughter duo's expression.
Celebration!? Huh?
But the climax was yet to come!
"Your own man busted your truth. Do you still have anything to say?" The reporter sweating a moment ago grew his wings out and asked haughtily.
"So you did everything for revenge. How shameful,"
"Can't you understand your ex has moved on? You should too."
"I feel pity for Mrs. Qi, she has to go through all this without a fault. Even her innocent father was pulled into the mess,"
Suyin heard many acquisitions from around the auditorium but remained calm. "Actually you are right, I planted him. I did it for REVENGE. Then can you tell me about the bank statements and call records where Hui Guozhi's assistant was communicating and making payments to them? In case you can't recall, the evidence is still available online. Is he also one of my men?"
"What rubbish!" HG's assistant retorted in a loud voice, "T-They used to be one of our men but later you bribed them,"
"No need to stutter. I don't bite," Suyin said a matter-of-factly, "Please mark Mr. Assistant's words- they were once Hui Guozhi's men."
HG assistant's hands clenched into fists as an unknown fear seemed into his bones.
In front of the sea of cameras, Suyin concentrated on the man sitting on the floor with a lowered gaze. "Can you tell everyone when and where I contacted you first?"
Hui Chouming's brows twisted, she could sense Suyin was up to something.
But what? How would she fight with this?
The men looked up, he was prepared with the answer, "Six months back it was one of your men who contacted me first and offered money. I happened to see you for the first time around ten days back when you asked me to take Mr. Hui's name,"
Though he said the mugged up answer accurately, only he knew how difficult it was to say that under Suyin's sharp gaze. One close look and anyone could notice he was trembling.
Suyin rubbed her chin, "Wow… Six months! Deep planner I am! So I kept my identity hidden from you for SIX MONTHS and then suddenly a bug of madness bites me and I revealed my face. Just like that! Right?"
The men gulped, "H-how would I know?"
"I don't understand why everyone is stuttering. Am I that scary?" She murmured loud enough to let everyone hear her then shook her head, "Anyway… I kept you hidden in low town in a slum where QI WREN'S men found you. Right?"
The men on the floor wanted to cry. 'What's with the interrogation? She should be in police.'
"YES," he forced the answer.
"Stop wasting everyone's time." Hui Chouming's expression hardened as she tried to control her anger to maintain her image in media. "It's already clear you did everything for revenge. Now stop being police and apologize for your shamelessness."
"MRS. QI, WIFE OF MR. QI WREN….. When your HUSBAND, QI WREN, can send his men to search these hidden criminals and do the job meant for police then why can't I do the same? Are you a privileged client of JING DISTRICT POLICE STATION?"
Chouming suddenly fell into a panic hearing her mention Jing police station.
Suyin hinted Long Tao. On getting the clue, he played video on the projector. It was nothing but Long Tao making a call to Jing district police station-
Long Tao, "I want to give information about people who appeared in the video posted last night. They are staying in flat 201 of galaxy building." Then he hung up.
In the next frame, the camera was turned and it shocked everyone to see the chief of police, Officer Su, sitting in front, facing Long Tao and Zhao Suyin.
After making the call, officer Su put on the headphones connected to the big machine placed on his table, "Miss. Zhao, I hope whatever you said is not true. Accusing a police officer is a serious crime. Be prepared."
"I'm sure he will pass the information," How fearlessly Hui Guozhi carried the illegal work to grab the land, she was sure they had bribed the officers of the concerned police station of that district.
HG's assistant started to sweat. His legs almost give up.
"Hello," a voice sounded from the machine placed on officer Su's desk.
"Someone has informed me about the location of your men in galaxy building. Shift them ASAP,"
"Good. I'll take care of this, you silence the caller first. I will transfer money within an hour,"
At the end of the video, it displayed a few pictures where the accused men were seen leaving the galaxy building in a white van.
*The video ended*
"Do I need to say who the owner of the voice was?" Suyin's looked meaningfully at HG's assistant before shifting her gaze to the man sweating out on the carpet, "Want to change your statement?"
The reporters turned to Hui father-daughter duo and their assistant, capturing their expressions from every angle. It was no rocket science to guess the men on the floor lied to frame Suyin. And probably, he did it on someone's order.
Hui Chouming put on a facade of being shocked. Dammit! She had placed all her chips on this. Never did she imagine that Suyin's planning was at another level.
Suyin, "Officer Su, please come in,"
A uniformed man stepped in followed by his team. He stood facing the audience, "Miss. Zhao was in constant touch with me from the start. Thanks to her we got to know the truth of head police officer of Jing district. He's in custody where he confessed on being bribed by Mr. Hui's assistant."
"Then why didn't you arrest them earlier?" A reporter questioned.
"That you ask from Miss. Zhao. She requested me to keep an eye on them from far." On officer Su's words, the cameras turned to Suyin once more, and she shrugged.
"Well… in the case my enemy would have come up with another plan, and I was already bored. So I let them continue with their childish plan and saved myself from headache."
"…."
*PAK*
A slap on HG's assistant's face once more changed the direction of cameras. The masked man sitting with Suyin on stage had come down with the support of Yu Mixi. He takes off the mask to let everyone know he was the ex secretary-General Chao Bojing.
Chao Bojing pointed his shaky finger, "This bastard tormented me for months, blackmailed me in the name of my family to the extent I was
resigned from the post. I was an honest officer throughout my life, but these people forced me to ignore the pleas of those poor widows and suppressed the matter. How could I?"
Suyin asked a reporter to give up his seat so that Chao Bojing could sit and talk. The sufferings of the past few months had aged him by ten years.
"I'm sure he did everything on the orders of this jerk sitting on the wheelchair, pretending to be sick." His words almost made Suyin laugh. "And this bimbo daughter supported her father. Shameless they are. Rich people but malicious heart. They will never rest in peace! Rot in hell where King Yama will boil you both in hot oil."
Hui Chouming "…"
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