Soul Patch

Chapter 36 This person is poisonous

"You have no evidence, yet you claim four people drowned?"

Officer Cao asked sternly, and the air in the interrogation room instantly became heavy as he spoke.

Lin Tao corrected him, saying "three."

Officer Cao pondered for a moment: "Qin Fen's death has nothing to do with you?"

"She threw herself into the river."

"If you hadn't forced her, why would she have jumped into the river?"

"She deserved it."

Officer Cao got up and left the interrogation room, instructing the officers to take Lin Tao into custody.

Seeing Lin Tao dragging his heavy steps behind the police officers with his head down, Officer Cao seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Did you tell your family before you turned yourself in?"

The implication is that since you've been detained today, should the police notify your family? This is the procedure the police are required to follow when filing a police report.

"No need, my wife has suffered a mental breakdown. She is unable to take care of herself."

Lin Tao spoke slowly, his tone revealing an undeniable heaviness.

"Oh?"

Officer Cao raised an eyebrow: "Wait!"

The police officer stopped in his tracks after hearing what Captain Cao had said.

"If you are detained, will someone take care of your spouse?"

“My father-in-law is taking care of her, and I have already told him about it.”

Officer Cao pondered for a moment, then waved his hand: "Take him away!"

Officer Cao shook the thermos in his hand and glanced at the goji berries floating in the cup.

Facing Lin Tao's retreating figure, he unexpectedly asked a question:

"By the way, do you know Wenjie?"

"Wenjie?"

Lin Tao's mind flashed to a broken laptop with a pale yellow adhesive residue on it, like a piece of chewing gum stuck to a crisp shirt.

"I don't know him," Lin Tao answered without hesitation.

Officer Cao nodded thoughtfully, watching Lin Tao disappear around the corner of the stairwell.

……

Dongheng Law Firm, located on the top floor of the Ginza Building in the western district of M City.

Huang Dongheng held a stack of documents in his hand, carefully flipping through each page, his expression growing increasingly grim.

Finally, with a dark expression, he slammed the documents on the table. Furious, he grabbed the internal phone and dialed an internal number.

"Mr. Huang, what are your instructions?"

"Have all those documents been verified?"

"Mr. Huang, it's been verified and confirmed to be correct!"

"it is good!"

Huang Dongheng took out his phone and typed a WeChat message: "I've checked Jia Nan for you. This person is toxic. Fire him tomorrow."

Seeing that the message had been sent, Huang Dongheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, his secretary knocked on the door and came in, reminding him that Mr. Meng from Sino-Singapore International had arrived. Only then did he remember that Mr. Meng's secretary had arranged the meeting for today two days ago.

"okay, got it"

He responded, rearranged the documents on the table, and locked them in the safe.

He got up, glanced at the locked safe, and then turned and left the office.

The negotiation lasted all afternoon. When he returned to his office, he wearily took off his coat, sat down in the chair behind his desk, and yanked off his tie, throwing it on the table.

Just then, a slender figure flashed past the office door, followed by a knock.

His office has a glass door, so he can see who's standing in the doorway.

Even without looking up, all the employees would be off work by now. The person who would be waiting for him to finish his negotiations would be none other than Bai Mengyao, the lawyer in charge of commercial cases.

"Who?"

Huang Dongheng squinted, leaned back in his chair, and asked weakly.

"Dongheng, it's me!" Lawyer Bai's gentle voice came from the doorway.

Huang Dongheng felt a little weak in the knees as he listened. He couldn't tell which was more real: the gentle and tender woman at the door or the aggressive, sassy, ​​and fierce lawyer Bai during the lawsuit.

"Oh, you... haven't left yet?" Huang Dongheng was a little absent-minded, and his thoughts would become disjointed when he was absent-minded.

I don't know if it's because of the negotiations we just had or something else.

Bai Mengyao pushed open the door and entered, her light steps treading on the dappled light and shadows on the floor separated by the blinds. She walked around behind Huang Dongheng and wrapped her slightly cool arm around his neck.

"You didn't even say 'please come in,' and then you asked... You haven't left, of course you haven't left. Have you forgotten what day it is today? They're waiting for you!"

As she spoke, she moved closer to Huang Dongheng's cheek and turned to look at him.

What day is it? What day is it?

Huang Dongheng hates it when women ask this question. He finds it strange that women remember so many anniversaries and holidays so clearly.

"The days I miss you!" Huang Dongheng said dismissively.

"It's someone's birthday today, what happened to the birthday party you promised?"

Bai Mengyao noticed that Huang Dongheng was acting a little strange today, so she pulled her arm away from Huang Dongheng's neck.

She turned around and leaned against the large boss's desk, so that she was face to face with Huang Dongheng. The light and shadows filtering through the blinds shone on Huang Dongheng's handsome face, making the man look both unrestrained and mysterious.

"What are you looking at?" The neon lights of the building across the street were flashing, and Huang Dongheng's emotions were well hidden in the changing colors.

Why aren't you turning on the light?

Bai Mengyao walked towards the door as she spoke; the office light switch was there.

"Don't turn on the light!" Huang Dongheng grabbed Bai Mengyao's arm with his warm hand.

Huang Dongheng pulled hard, and Bai Mengyao's slender body fell into his arms.

Bai Mengyao instinctively hugged Huang Dongheng tightly as she felt his warm body temperature.

Just then, Huang Dongheng's phone rang. In the darkness, he fumbled in his pocket to take out his phone and glanced at the screen.

There are unread WeChat messages.

Huang Dongheng suddenly realized something and nudged Bai Mengyao: "Go turn on the light!"

"how……"

"Go on! Be good!"

Bai Mengyao reluctantly walked to the door and turned on the light.

Snap! The office was illuminated by the bright white light.

Huang Dongheng felt a bit of glare in his eyes, so he squinted and opened WeChat on his phone.

He was restless all afternoon because Huang Weiwei hadn't replied to his messages.

Huang Dongheng skillfully opened WeChat, then froze in surprise at a push notification from a subscription account.

This is not information about Huang Weiwei.

He opened his chat window with Huang Weiwei and saw the message he had sent that afternoon lying there abruptly.

You seem a little upset.

"Whose message?" Bai Mengyao leaned closer and looked at Huang Dongheng's phone.

"Hey! Stop bothering me!" Huang Dongheng switched the phone to his other hand.

"Huang Dongheng! Who is she?" Bai Mengyao glanced at her quickly and saw Huang Weiwei's WeChat profile picture.

This youthful, beautiful, playful, and adorable girl pierced Bai Mengyao's heart.

"Who? It's none of your business!" Huang Dongheng was in a bad mood and had no interest in paying attention to Bai Mengyao.

"Who is this girl?"

Bai Mengyao knew that a successful man like Huang Dongheng, who was refined, wealthy, and dashing, would stand out in a crowd and it was only natural that he would attract the attention of young girls.

But she lost her sense of security, and the more insecure she felt, the more she wanted to desperately grasp at something.

(End of this chapter)