when the moon whispers

Chapter 469: Accomplice - Confession (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
One Hundred Confessions (Part 1)
"…This matter is related to me?"

Shao Jie rarely showed his timidity, and it was rare that he did not hide the guilt between his brows. Tao Fang leaned sideways on the sofa backrest, holding the hot cotton medicine bag tightly against his wrist, first gave him a slightly amused look, then looked at his lips that were pursed into a line, followed his drooping gaze, and glanced at the deep and winding scar on his wrist lightly.

"I used to wear a wrist guard to cover it up a little bit. What does this injury look like in its original form? This seems to be the first time you have seen it."

"Li Fubei took a photo of the injury assessment report when you called the police after being attacked..." Shao Jie frowned slightly, his eyes slowly swept across the deep and long scar on his forearm, and finally stopped at the horizontal scar line on the inside of Tao Fang's wrist that was once so deep that the bone was almost visible.

"But this on my wrist is a first."

Tao Fang lifted his eyelids and looked at Shao Jie's tense expression. He chuckled softly, moved the heat pack, nudged his shoulders which seemed to be facing a formidable enemy, and thought for a while with his eyes downcast. He did not deliberately hide it, "I was so impulsive at that time that I wanted to sacrifice my life for justice. But now the injury from cutting my wrist is more serious than the arm broken by Jiang Weili and his gang. It hurts whenever it's cloudy or rainy. It's much better now. Today, I just slept like a log after returning from the Finance Auditorium yesterday afternoon. I can't sleep because of the slightest pain——"

"Don't think it's too cloudy this morning. It's estimated that in less than half a day, the rain will hit Sheng'an." Tao Fang tilted his head to look at the vague light at the end of the terrace without a blackout curtain. He turned around and saw the tablet that Shao Jie handed to him. He raised his eyebrows and spread his hands to take it: "It really has something to do with me... Jiang Weili? The auditorium is a mess. Manager Xu is going to get to the bottom of it?"

Tao Fang was holding a medicine bag and flipping through the media releases on his tablet that were waiting for approval. He grinned at the busy Boss Shao, squinted his eyes to confirm the text, was stunned for two seconds, and then curled his lips: "This is almost revealing that Jiang Weili is ganging up on the Internet - Manager Xu is not just investigating, he wants to use the Sheng An murder case in the past two days as an excuse to completely bring Jiang Weili down..."

"The time until the mid-season tournament is not too long, and I originally thought that Jiang Weili would be quiet for a while because of what happened during the spring season, but who would have thought that he would cause such a scene in the school auditorium yesterday... If it wasn't by chance that Officer Jiang and his team were on duty at the school, if the flow of people at the scene really got chaotic, there's no telling how serious the situation would be."

Shao Jie glanced at the old wound on Tao Fang's wrist. He was thinking about the new and old injuries on Officer Jiang's body for no reason. He muttered softly, "I don't know how Officer Jiang is doing." After a moment of silence, he sighed and shook his head, "I heard that the cause of Sheng An's case these two days is related to the cyber violence incident. In addition, it is really a coincidence that one of the victims in the murder case a while ago was the suspicious person who sent the poisoned courier to our base..."

Tao Fang paused while scanning the screen and smiled silently: "Who told you that? Officer Jiang?"

"It would be nice if she had a chance to talk to me... We finally got to meet each other, but she had to go out on a mission with an injury."

Shao Jie waved his hands helplessly and got back to the point: "Before the incidents of the auditorium disturbance and the poisoning of the base courier, the club had never issued a detailed and complete announcement. At that time, it was involved in an investigation, and the follow-up investigation was delayed for a long time. Manager Xu originally planned to take this opportunity to investigate Jiang Weili's responsibility for leading the cyber violence for so many years, but this kind of verbal battle is not easy to reason with. If it goes wrong... the name of cyber violence will be put on our heads. We are afraid of shooting ourselves in the foot."

"But it's hard to say whether the facts of poisoning and causing trouble have any substantial connection with Jiang Weili. If we bring our beef with him out into the open, the consequences won't really hurt him..."

"There has to be some direct excuse that can hit Jiang Weili where it hurts..." Tao Fang suddenly looked up and raised his eyebrows firmly: "So this matter is related to me." "The truth about your sudden retirement from the entertainment industry is a greater threat to Jiang Weili. And in the videos and photos that Li Fubei secretly filmed... you can also see the person who has been arrested... Liu Shui."

Shao Jie was still hesitating, stammering and swallowing the second half of the sentence.

Taking advantage of the escalating momentum of the vicious cases caused by this cyber violence, whether it is possible to suppress Jiang Weili or not, it should not be difficult to make him stay quiet for a while. However, this matter trampled on Tao Fang's dignity that he had hidden for a long time, and also involved Shao Jie's regret that he had been worried about for a long time.

"Since it's the truth, why hesitate? Just let it go."

Tao Fang looked up indifferently, staring at Shao Jie's bitter and vengeful face. After thinking for a while, he nudged Shao Jie's left shoulder again, "At the beginning, Jiang Weili tricked me out to meet him, but ended up setting a trap for me and smashing my hand. You actually found out about this in advance, but you were unable to stop it in time for various reasons... So you feel sorry for me, right, Brother Jie?"

Shao Jie was stunned, "When did you know?"

"If it's confirmed, it's recently... In the Red Mansion Alley where I was injured, Boss Sun invited us to dinner some time ago, and I saw a photo of you and the boss's wife in a small restaurant at the other end of the alley. But actually, I guessed it when I first knew that Li Fubei was hanging out with you... After all, that kid is a legitimate cousin of ours, and it's hard to avoid him-"

Tao Fang scratched the back of his head slightly. "And to be honest, when you heard that Jiang Weili was going to pick a fight with me, so you asked Li Fubei to be a spy on him, that little brat secretly told me. With your previous experience of being cleared away as an obstacle, and the 'Hongmen Banquet' right there, I'm not stupid and can't guess anything... I just didn't expect Jiang to kill me--"

Tao Fang raised his eyes suddenly, and belatedly stared at the bitter smile on Shao Jie's lips: "Li Fubei said that you almost lost your life. Is that true?"

Shao Jie didn't say whether he agreed or not, but patted Tao Fang's arm with regret: "I originally thought... you just said a few words for me during the interview, and Jiang Weili just threatened and taught him a lesson at best, it wouldn't be that serious-"

"So if it can teach Jiang Weili a lesson, I think there's nothing wrong with making the fact of my injury public. I've already retired and become a coach, brother, and it should have been over long ago. Why are you still weighing the dignity for me while I'm stuck in it?"

Tao Fang stretched slowly, rubbed the old wound on his wrist, and knocked Shao Jie lightly on the forehead with the tablet.

"Jiang has done so many bad things. Wouldn't it be nice to take this opportunity to give him some retribution?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Thirty miles away from the mortal world, white clouds and red leaves are floating in the distance."