Chapter 107 The Truth

"Team Nan." Shang Jingxuan ran in from outside the office, confused, "Aren't you sure you're going to close Liu Shu's case? Why are you reopening it again?"

Nan Xuqiu looked at the file and said, "I don't know why, but I always feel like something is wrong. I must go back and visit again."

As he said that, he got up, packed his things, and went to Xiang Qisong's house again.

"I'm sorry to bother you again." Nan Xuqiu said.

Xiang Qisong replied respectfully, "Officer Nan, that's not what I meant. It's all work. I understand."

Nan Xuqiu looked at the paintings on the wall again and said, "You said last time that your wife likes to paint?"

"Yes, is there any problem?" Xiang Qisong asked.

Nan Xuqiu smiled and said, "Nothing. I heard that your wife is allergic to things like oil pens. I was just curious. In that case, how does she paint?"

"Like me."

At this time, a voice was heard.

Nan Xuqiu turned his head and saw Xiang Qisong’s male colleague walking down from upstairs.

He was wearing a tight raincoat and medical gloves.

He walked up to Nan Xuqiu and said, "I'm also allergic to oil pens, but I love oil painting. Xiao Liu and I share the same problem, so we came up with this solution. Officer Nan, is there any problem?"

He asked back.

Nan Xuqiu shook his head and said, "Nothing, so that's how it is."

"I don't know yet. What do you do for a living?" Nan Xuqiu asked again.

He suddenly realized something and replied, "Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet. Let me introduce myself now. Officer Nan, please don't mind. My name is Zhang Ru, and I work as an art instructor at the school."

"You are an art teacher."

"Yes, my wife is half his apprentice, and he taught her oil painting." Xiang Qisong said.

Zhang Ru lamented, "Xiao Liu is a very talented person, but it's a pity that she has such a short life. Alas..."

"My condolences." Nan Xuqiu comforted.

After getting the explanation he wanted, Nan Xuqiu didn't find any other suspicious points and could only leave.

As he drove, he recalled the whole situation. Everything seemed to be going well, but he still felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.

After returning home, Nan Xuqiu thought about Liu Shu's case.

I wrote down the names of several people on a piece of paper, marked the relationships, and all the logic made sense.

But everything seemed to be going too smoothly.

He questioned why Liu Shu suffered from depression, and her director's incident proved it to him.

He questioned her sensitivity to oil pens, and Zhang Ru also gave an explanation.

Everything seemed to be arranged in the dark...

Chi Jinjin went to the supermarket to buy things and saw a familiar figure in the distance. It turned out to be Xiang Qisong.

He was shopping with Zhang Ru.

He pushed the cart while Zhang Ru picked items from the cargo rack and put them into the cart.

Chi Jinjin noticed the hands of the two of them and looked confused.

"Nan Xuqiu."

In the evening, Nan Xuqiu was working in the study.

Chi Jinjin came running from next door.

He looked up at her and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chi Jinjin said, "There's something, I don't know if it's a coincidence."

"What's the matter?" Nan Xuqiu asked.

Chi Jinjin hesitated a bit, walked over to him, leaned against his desk, and said, "Didn't I meet Liu Shu's husband and his colleagues today? I...I accidentally noticed that they all had rings on their fingers."

"Yeah." Nan Xuqiu gestured for her to continue.

Chi Jinjin said, "Rings are nothing special, but... Liu Shu's husband and his male colleague are wearing matching rings! Look, this is it."

Chi Jinjin showed him the phone.

One of her colleagues bought this as a Valentine's Day gift for her boyfriend.

It is a niche brand, limited to Valentine's Day.

"Couple rings..." Nan Xuqiu was puzzled.

"Isn't it strange?" Chi Jinjin said, but then thought, "But maybe they have a good relationship. We girls sometimes buy couples' rings and wear them for fun. Besides, this ring is everywhere. Maybe they are not a pair."

Nan Xuqiu thought, this is also possible.

However, the next day, an old lady was at the police station, looking for Chi Jinjin.

Chi Jinjin looked closely and found that the person who came was actually Liu Shu's mother.

"Lawyer Chi, can you help me file a lawsuit?" asked Liu Shu's mother.

Chi Jinjin asked her, "Who do you want to sue?"

Liu Shu's mother said, "I want to sue Xiang Qisong."

Xiang Qisong?

Isn't that her son-in-law?

I felt that the relationship between the two was pretty good before.

Chi Jinjin was surprised and asked, "What are you going to sue him for?"

"I'm going to sue him for marriage fraud, domestic violence, and killing my daughter!" The old lady clenched her fists and said gritting her teeth.

Chi Jinjin was suddenly shocked.

In her impression, Xiang Qisong is a pretty good person. He is humble and polite in his words and deeds. No one would ever associate him with domestic violence.

And he seems to love his wife very much.

How could it be...

"You sued her. Do you have any evidence?" Chi Jinjin asked.

The old lady took out a thick notebook from her plastic bag.

She pushed it in front of Chi Jinjin and said, "This is my evidence."

"Can I see it?" Chi Jinjin asked.

The old lady nodded.

Chi Jinjin opened the first page, and the words "Liu Shu" were written on it.

It seems to be Liu Shu's diary.

Chi Jinjin turned to the second page. The diary must have been kept for a long time. The paper was damp and had a musty smell.

She took a look and found that this diary was indeed Liu Shu's love diary.

The first part records in detail the story between her and Zhang Qisong, from their meeting to their acquaintance, to their love and then marriage.

The whole process is high in sugar and very sweet.

Because Zhang Qisong worked too hard, he suddenly fell to the ground and lost consciousness on his way to the supermarket after get off work, suffering from temporary suffocation.

Fortunately, Liu Shu happened to pass by. Seeing this, she immediately ran forward and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Zhang Qisong.

This is the meeting of two people.

After Zhang Qisong woke up, Liu Shu was in charge of his hospital bed again.

The two met again in this way.

With increasingly frequent communication, the two became boyfriend and girlfriend.

The next year, Xiang Qisong suddenly proposed to her.

At first, Liu Shu didn't dare to agree because of her family background.

She told Xiang Qisong about her situation, but Xiang Qisong didn't despise her at all.

This completely moved Liu Shu, and the two got married that year.

After reading the rest of the book, the faint smile on Chi Jinjin's face gradually froze, and finally disappeared completely, from disbelief to anger.

Liu Shu thought she married for love, but in fact she married a devil.

What she was heading towards step by step was not the palace of marriage, but the long road to hell.

It turned out that Xiang Qisong had never loved her, and all his love and affection were fake.

The reason why he didn't despise her original family was because most girls born in such families had low self-esteem and were easier for him to control.

What he wanted was never a wife he loved, but a wife who was obedient, had a decent job, was beautiful, and was not embarrassing to take out.

The most important thing is that the reason he married him was because the person he really liked was his colleague Zhang Ru!

Chi Jinjin was shocked that Xiang Qisong and Zhang Ru were actually a couple and had been in love for four or five years.

The reason why Xiang Qisong gave up a higher-paying job was also because Zhang Ru was in that school.

They loved each other, but were afraid of being criticized by the world, so they kept it hidden.

But the two of them have been together for too long, so it is inevitable that people will talk about them.

In order to protect Zhang Ru and to better protect their relationship, Xiang Qisong married Liu Shu.

Using Liu Shu as a cover, he was openly with Zhang Ru.

The diary reads:

I was in the next room and heard my lover making love with someone else. I listened all night and vomited all night.

He used the same mouth that had kissed that person to say words of love to me, and used the same body that had pressed that person to suppress me. I felt extremely disgusted.

Xiang Qisong and Zhang Ru treated Liu Shu like a servant.

Liu Shu wanted a divorce, but just when she asked for it, she was beaten by them.

They dragged her into the room, stripped her clothes off, took photos of her, and threatened her that if she didn't divorce, they would release the photos and everyone would be doomed, including her mother.

Because of her mother, Liu Shu had no choice but to compromise.

She thought that if she just ignored them she would be free.

Unfortunately, these two highly educated and well-dressed men are more sinister than imagined.

They actually asked Liu Shu to have a child with each of them. When Liu Shu refused, they forced her to do so, and this happened more than once.

Xiang Qisong and Zhang Ru couldn't help being jealous of each other, so they took out their anger on Liu Shu.

In the last sentence of the diary, Liu Shu wrote:

I often wonder, if I cut off every inch of skin on my body, I can be reborn?

Unfortunately, a rose that is already crawling with maggots can no longer return to its branch...

Chi Jinjin remembered the last time he saw her. She stood alone on the bridge for a long, long time.

Maybe she still has some attachment to this world, maybe she doesn't want to leave.

But in the end, she jumped into the cold river in despair. The surging river became a kind of salvation for her.

When death becomes a person's salvation, then this person will only feel despair and pain towards this world.

These two beasts!

Chi Jinjin was filled with indignation.

"Auntie, I've taken on this case," Chi Jinjin said. "I won't let these two beasts get away with it!"

"Thank you, Lawyer Chi." Liu Shu's mother said while wiping away tears.

Chi Jinjin glanced at her luggage, a tattered bag that was completely tattered.

It seemed to contain a blanket and a large bag of steamed buns.

In order to get here, this mother suffered a lot along the way. She had no education, got on the wrong station, was scolded by the driver, and was lectured by the staff.

I couldn't bear to spend money on a hotel at night, so I just slept on the floor on the side of the road.

She tried not to spend a penny. She wanted to keep it all and hire the best lawyer to redress her daughter's grievances.

This mother has never used anything since she was born, what is the best...

"Lawyer Chi, how much do you want me to pay for this lawsuit? Do you think this is enough?"

The old lady tremblingly took out a wad of money from her bag and pushed it in front of Chi Jinjin.

She said worriedly, "If it's not enough, I'll go to the bank to withdraw more."

Chi Jinjin picked up the money, took out a hundred yuan, pushed the rest back, and said, "This is enough."

"Only, only a hundred? But they said that a lawsuit would cost a lot of money." The old lady said in surprise.

Chi Jinjin said, "For rural household registration, I only charge one hundred."

Having been caught in the rain before, Chi Jinjin wanted to hold an umbrella for someone.

She had established this rule a long time ago.

Later, Chi Jinjin found a hotel for the old lady to stay in. At first, the old lady was unwilling to go there, fearing that it would trouble her and cost her money.

In order to let the old man stay, Chi Jinjin lied that it was her own vacant house and that she was now married and had another place to live.

Only then did the old man feel at ease to stay.

After returning home, Chi Jinjin told Nan Xuqiu about this matter.

Nan Xuqiu suddenly realized, and all his doubts were solved.

Recalling the previous scenes, he admired Xiang Qisong for being a master of disguise. Even he was almost fooled.

Beneath the gentle and elegant exterior, there is actually a dark and corrupt soul.

The next day, Nan Xuqiu led people to arrest Xiang Qisong and Zhang Ru.

In court, Chi Jinjin listed several pieces of evidence.

In the end, the court ruled that the two were guilty of multiple crimes including abuse and rape, and were sentenced to 30 years in prison.

"Liuliu, look how powerful mom is. I brought all those bad guys who killed you to justice."

The old man held Liu Shu's photo, muttering, and tears fell on the photo.

Because they have no education, the old man never goes out, not even to the market.

But for her daughter, she actually came here, thousands of miles away.

There may be only one reason why a cowardly mother suddenly becomes strong, and that is that her daughter has been wronged.

There are no gods in this world, but there are mothers...

Later, Chi Jinjin and Nan Xuqiu drove together and personally sent the old man back home.

After this incident, Chi Jinjin received many cases from rural people.

Chi Jinjin has never raised the price and does every job very seriously.

Over time, the news about Chi Jinjin in the countryside also spread.

Many people who had nowhere to seek justice due to poverty came to find Chi Jinjin.

"Jinjin, are you a little stupid? The money I make for one case is what you make for more than fifty cases. Don't you feel tired? And I think their problems are all trivial matters, like this family stole a few ducks from that family, or that family released water and drowned other people's corn. If it were me, I wouldn't want to take it. Why do you take them all? You are famous. You are now a well-known person in our law firm." The colleague asked in confusion.

Chi Jinjin said, "You don't know, for rural people, these so-called trivial matters are actually related to their daily necessities for the whole year, so they are very serious matters."

You will never know how much food is wasted, how much effort is spent, and how much sweat is put into growing the corn.

But she knew, so she understood the key point.