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Chapter 1219 Stereotypes and Path Dependence

Generally speaking, even if a normal person has bad intentions, they won't be that bad.

Anyone who has received a normal education from childhood will, when doing something wrong, first consider the consequences and the price they will have to pay. Once they understand this, they won't dare to go too far astray.

However, there are also some exceptionally talented players who can pull off mind-blowing plays with their extraordinary intelligence.

The first type is pure stupidity, acting entirely on instinct, almost without thinking, let alone considering the consequences.

The second type is purely evil. They are bad themselves and don't want others to have an easy time, so they want to drag everyone down with them and make them perish with them.

The third type is neither stupid nor bad. On the surface, he seems no different from a normal person, but he never treats others as human beings. Everyone else is treated like cattle or livestock, and the life or death of others is completely irrelevant to him.

Did Tianhua Company actually package and sell substandard, rotten cotton yarn?

If you ask this question directly, the answer is definitely no.

But if you ask seriously, then it's hard to say.

Tianhua Company was still running around like headless flies, making no progress in the investigation. Meanwhile, the executives at Pacific Bank, who had been watching the drama unfold, suddenly realized that their own situation was no less entertaining than Tianhua's.

Millions of dollars were embezzled, the vault was looted, and the entire security team they hired was wiped out and lying in the hospital on IV drips. Even so, the entire branch remained completely unaware that something was wrong; they continued singing and dancing as usual.

It wasn't until Tianhua Company came to lend cash that everyone checked the accounts and discovered...

Huh? How amazing!

What about money?

Wang Yunxiao stood at the window of Shen Qingxi's office, silently watching a middle-aged man in a suit and tie with a balding head pull out a pistol, point it at his temple, and pull the trigger without hesitation on the roof of the bank across the street.

Snapped--!
The Mediterranean Sea plunged down and turned into Mediterranean sauce.

"This is the second one."

"Cheng Xuefei is terrifying."

Shen Qingxi huddled barefoot on the sofa, trying her best to look pitiful and frightened.

"If she wanted to, wouldn't she be able to kill whoever she wanted?"

"How scary! I'll never dare to sleep alone again."

Shen Qingxi blinked her big eyes and whispered, like a devil's murmur: "How about you stay with me tonight?"

"You want to drain me dry, and then let Li Mumu notice something tomorrow?"

"What are you saying? You just overthink things."

According to the telegram Li Mumu sent back, she will return to Tianmen tomorrow. Wang Yunxiao and Shen Qingxi's dating agreement will also end today.

These past two days, Wang Yunxiao has indeed been dutifully accompanying Shen Qingxi shopping, watching movies, and going on dates... In short, in the eyes of outsiders, the Great Master Shen is undoubtedly deeply in love and cannot extricate herself.

Women become less intelligent when they fall in love, so conversely, whatever happens to Tianhua, it has nothing to do with her.

"There is a police officer named He downstairs who would like to see you."

This time, the police in the seaside area acted particularly quickly, arriving at the scene in less than 30 minutes.

Moreover, it seems that they had obtained some clues during the previous operation, and actually came directly to Shen Qingxi.

"If you don't want to see me, just say I'm on a date."

Shen Qingxi waved her hand casually, signaling Mogrede to go and deal with it.

If anyone wants to talk to me, it's the Secret Service. What's there to talk to you about?

Given Shen Qingxi's current status and position, if she doesn't want to talk, there's not much the police can do about it.

However, Officer He did not seem to intend to give up so easily. After being rejected, he stayed at the door, adopting a wait-and-see attitude.

"Alas, women like me are bound to be bullied."

Shen Qingxi sighed sadly.

Wang Yunxiao asked in confusion, "Are you so concerned about your image these days?"

"This isn't about whether or not one has an image to maintain."

Shen Qingxi spread her hands and said, "Do you know why I'm sitting in this position now, and not some other nobody?"

"The most important reason is that I have no ambition. I just work hard to make money every day, provide spiritual comfort to foreigners of the Shinto religion, help refugees of the Machinist religion find jobs and get rid of poverty, and incidentally help underage girls who have gone astray from Japan."

"Those above want people to do things, not people to cause trouble—that's the foundation of my position."

"Aren't we already causing trouble?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Tianhua and Pacific Company have their own problems. What does it have to do with us? I'm not kicking them when they're down, and I don't care about their lives. Right now, I'm just focused on dating."

Shen Qingxi distanced herself completely.

"What about tomorrow?"

"You're asking your wife out tomorrow, didn't we already agree?"

"Who told you that?"

When it was time to leave work, Wang Yunxiao took Shen Qingxi's hand and walked downstairs. When they arrived at the door, they found that the police officer was still waiting there.

This level of professionalism is truly astonishing.

Even if we don't see him, there's no need to deliberately take a detour or use back channels just to avoid him.

Officer He approached from afar, nodding and smiling, "Ms. Shen, I wonder if I could take up a little of your time?"

"No."

Shen Qingxi bluntly retorted, "If you have any questions, you can contact my secretary or lawyer. I don't have time to chat with you."

"We'll just have a brief chat; it won't interfere with your schedule."

Even when confronted face-to-face, Officer He didn't show much grievance or anger on his face, maintaining a calm demeanor.

"Okay, let's chat for a bit."

Seeing his good attitude, Shen Qingxi felt too embarrassed to continue making things difficult for him, after all, he was just doing his job.

Seeing that she had relented, Officer He quickly asked, "Ms. Shen, could you talk about your grievances with Tianhua?"

"We're not on the same path, so why talk about grudges?"

Shen Qingxi answered readily.

Officer He glanced at Shen Qingxi, then at Wang Yunxiao standing beside her.

Men are such strange creatures.

A woman feels a strange psychological advantage when facing a single female, but this advantage disappears when she is with a female who has a partner.

Ultimately, it comes down to bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

When Wang Yunxiao stood there, all the prepared remarks he had made became difficult to deliver.

With his mind racing, he decided to get straight to the point.

"A few days ago, the three former owners of Taichang, Rongsheng, and Fushun came to visit Ms. Shen, but not long after they left..."

"You remember this?"

Shen Qingxi smiled and asked in return, "In broad daylight, three bloody heads were thrown at my feet. Such a trivial matter, if someone hadn't jumped off a building at Pacific Bank today, you probably wouldn't have even thought of it, right?" Officer He's face darkened.

He was a local native and a veteran detective who had worked at the Seaside District Police Station for many years. Just by looking at the cause and effect, he could roughly deduce what had happened; otherwise, he wouldn't have come to Shen Qingxi in person to ask her questions.

As a result, Shen Qingxi retorted with just one sentence.

When three heads were falling, you were nowhere to be seen. Now that two have just jumped down, you're already panicking?

What, do I look like someone easier to bully than a fake foreigner?
Whether Shen Qingxi is easy to bully or not is not for a lowly police detective like him to judge.

It's not his place to spout any criticisms about forbearance for the sake of the country and prioritizing the overall situation.

"The previous murder case is of course still under investigation, but there hasn't been any progress yet. If you could provide us with any clues, that would be great."

Wang Yunxiao laughed from the side, "If you don't want to get involved, then don't. Why make things difficult for yourself?"

This isn't a question of whether to investigate or not; it's a question of whether you want to manage it or not. Tianmen City isn't small, but it's not big either. As local bullies, if you claim you don't know the inside story, then you're insulting other people's intelligence.

He understood why Officer He had come.

It's simply a matter of wanting both.

If someone hits you, don't hit back. If you hit back, it takes two to tango.

If it were their former boss here, they would never be so weak. Qin Xiangdong is notoriously stubborn and unyielding; he only cares about fulfilling his duties and wouldn't give face to even the Emperor himself.

If you're so capable, then get me off the stage; if not, then get lost and rest somewhere else.

The person in charge of the seaside area clearly lacks this will and awareness.

Officer He gave an awkward smile, not daring to reply. He knew Shen Qingxi's boyfriend, though others might not.

Many people are selected from local areas to join the Special Service Bureau, but only one person transferred from the Special Service Bureau to the Navy.

In the past two years, many things on the streets of Tianmen... the degree of harm and complexity of many events far exceed the level of the internal strife in Tianhua, and all of them have an inexplicable connection with this young master.

Seeing Wang Yunxiao appear and hearing Shen Qingxi's attitude, he felt that his trip today had been worthwhile.

As for the deeper issues, let the higher-ups worry about them.

If there are truly insightful people in Tianhua, and they can cultivate a good relationship with the police at this time, they might actually find a way to solve the problem.

But there's nothing I can do; I'm used to being domineering.

Tianhua was still in a mess, overwhelmed and confused by the non-existent mole, and didn't even notice that its stock price was fluctuating wildly. Nobody else thought there was anything wrong with it; everyone knew that Tianhua was in trouble, so it was normal for the stock price to fluctuate a bit.

Pacific Bank, on the other hand, reacted very quickly.

Banks are essentially ruthless capital-harvesting machines.

They quickly followed the trail of Da Yuzhou Company and found out where the huge loan went. They noticed the abnormal stock price fluctuations of Tianhua Company, then rushed to the stock exchange and directly retrieved all the transaction records of Tianhua stock, blocking all fund flows in twelve trading accounts, including those of Xiaomifeng Company and its rival.

But it was too late.

By this time, at least two million dollars had been laundered, and their whereabouts were completely untraceable.

Or rather, given Pacific Bank's capabilities, they couldn't continue investigating; at most, they could only manipulate what was on the books.

As for the heads and traders of those companies, they were mostly elderly people, or former homeless people who couldn't even speak Chinese.

You can't hit them or scold them, and they don't know anything when you ask them anything.

Shen Qingxi has never lacked people like this under his command.

At this point, the bank's senior management stopped investigating.

They have realized that this is not an ordinary case of an internal mole, but rather that someone has orchestrated a conspiracy.

As for who orchestrated the scheme—you don't need to ask others, just ask yourself.

Have you harmed the interests of others?

Everyone who gets set up will feel like a victim, but think about it the other way around: why would you be considered a target? Do you have the ability to protect yourself, or the awareness to protect yourself?

Have you established good relations with the local bullies?

Have you established a good relationship with the local police?
Have you established a good relationship with the intelligence agency?
After asking these three questions, the answer becomes self-evident.

At this time, some senior bank officials still clung to the hope that they could resolve the issue through connections with higher-ups.

The response I received, however, was very "official".

We are extremely shocked, attach great importance to this matter, take it seriously, and are conducting a full investigation.

And so the day passed.

Wang Yunxiao did not accept Shen Qingxi's invitation to stay overnight.

It's not that he's particularly chaste, it's just that if you spend a lot of time with Shen Qingxi, it's hard to develop romantic feelings for her.

Li Mumu appears aloof on the surface, but is actually quite arrogant.

When it comes to serious matters, they will talk to you about serious matters seriously; when it comes to romance, they will be serious about romance.

He kept saying things like, "Get lost," "Don't touch me," "Do you even have the guts?" and "You little brat..."

In reality, how to understand this is something that those who understand will understand.

As for Shen Qingxi... she can tell dirty jokes without any restraint in front of Wang Yunxiao and Li Mumu, without being shy at all, making you wonder if you're the one sleeping with her or if she wants to sleep with you.

He's more of a rogue than a man, showing absolutely no trace of girlish shyness.

It is said that she was an agent in the Secret Service's international affairs group before her death. Wang Yunxiao suspected that she might have been traveling for too long and had learned about the precious rainbow culture of the federal people.

Of course, this is just his personal feeling; Shen Qingxi is not like this in front of outsiders.

The next morning, Wang Yunxiao got ready early and arrived at the dock an hour early to wait.

Considering that Li Mumu sometimes appreciates romance, he even went out of his way to buy a bouquet of flowers and order a cake.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Shen Qingxi again at the dock.

"What are you here for?"

"Time to pick up your wife."

"You know that's my wife!"

Wang Yunxiao said irritably, "Miss Shen, are you so bored that you have nothing better to do? Can't you give us a little bit of private space?"

Shen Qingxi leaned on a cane, looking frail and pitiful, but her words sent chills down one's spine.

“You two can talk about anything private when you get home and lie in bed tonight. I have something important to discuss with her. You only know the traditional positions, which isn't enough to satisfy you. I need to discuss some of the more interesting positions with your wife…”

"Then why not go to bed together to study it?"

"It's not that I don't... um?"

Suddenly realizing that the voice was a little off, Shen Qingxi turned around with a start and saw Li Mumu, dressed in a white fur coat, standing behind the two of them with a charming smile.

"Hey! Mu Mu, when did you get here?"

"I just arrived. I thought the boat was too slow, so I got off first."

(End of this chapter)