Chapter 193 The evidence is irrefutable, Chu Zhennan puts justice before his own family!

The dull thud of the knee hitting the floor sent a jolt through everyone.

"Uncle Chu, what are you doing!" Su Yue exclaimed in surprise as she peeked out from behind Gu Beichen.

Chu Zhennan didn't look at her. He straightened his upper body and kowtowed heavily to Gu Zhengfeng, who was in the main seat, and Huo Shouzhen beside him.

The sound of his forehead hitting the floor was clearly audible.

"I plead for my heartless mother! I plead for my insane and wicked sister!"

Chu Zhennan's voice was so hoarse that every word sounded like blood being squeezed from his throat.

"Apologize to the Huo family and to the nation!"

One sentence was enough to shock the entire room!

Gu Zhengfeng and Huo Shouzheng exchanged a glance, both seeing great surprise in each other's eyes.

"Chu Zhennan, explain yourself clearly!" Gu Zhengfeng shouted in a deep voice.

Chu Zhennan raised his head, his face indistinguishable between sweat and tears.

"I just returned home yesterday after completing a secret mission."

He seemed to be caught up in some terrible memory, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"I overheard my mother and sister arguing..."

He spoke haltingly, recounting the truth he had heard—a truth that was enough to overturn his entire world.

Twenty-three years ago, Chu Yanran, driven by love turned to hatred, spread rumors and slandered Huo Shouzheng at home.

Then there's his mother, the dignified and composed old lady Chu in his heart, and how she used her power to gradually turn the frame-up into a "fact."

Then there was the sealed-off Buddhist temple, the soldier who was silenced, and the dossier that his father, Chu Huai'an, had personally torn up and hidden!

Finally, it even implicated the overseas enemy intelligence organization codenamed "K," and brought to light the heinous crime of treason, which could lead to the extermination of an entire family!

"boom--"

As Chu Zhennan finished speaking, he seemed to have all his strength drained away, or perhaps he had accumulated all his despair, and he slammed his fist hard on the ground.

"My God...it's all gone."

"I am a soldier. I swore an oath before the national flag to be loyal to the country and the people!"

"But my family... my biological mother, my biological sister... they are parasites! They are traitors to the country!"

He roared in agony, a tough soldier in his forties crying like a child.

The study was deathly silent.

Su Yue stared blankly at Chu Zhennan, who was kneeling on the ground, on the verge of collapse.

She had considered countless ways to get revenge on the Chu family, but she never imagined that it would be someone from within the Chu family who would tear away all the pretense in such a brutal way.

Is this what it means to sacrifice one's own family for the greater good?

How tragic, how devastating!

After enduring extreme pain, Chu Zhennan seemed to have made a decision. He took out an old sandalwood box from his military satchel.

"After I got home, I locked myself in my room for one night."

“This morning, I broke the lock on the Buddhist shrine and found this in the dark room.”

He held the wooden box in both hands and raised it high above his head.

"This is something my mother has kept hidden her whole life, and it's also all the evidence of her and Deputy Commander Zhou's... that traitorous group's crimes over the past twenty years!"

The last straw!

The last and heaviest straw that broke the camel's back for Deputy Commander Zhou and the entire interest group!

Gu Zhengfeng strode forward and took the heavy wooden box from him.

Opening the box revealed a thick ledger wrapped in cowhide.

Gu Zhengfeng turned the first page with trembling hands.

The densely packed, tiny characters record a series of shocking transactions.

"In 195X, we delivered 300 dan of grain to the Zhou family in exchange for Chu Huai'an's place in the Ministry of Military Industry."

"In 196X, through the overseas channels of the 'K' organization, we arranged for the eldest son of the Zhou family to study abroad, with funds of 10,000 US dollars."

"In 197X, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, under the guise of a pension for 'traitor' Huo Shouzhen, twenty bars of gold were embezzled from the military region's logistics department. Ten bars were given to the Zhou family, and ten bars were used to install trusted confidants in the military..."

Every stroke, every line, is stained with blood!

All of these records document how this family and this group groveled over the nation and sucked the lifeblood of the people!

This ledger, together with the list that Huo Shouzhen brought back, perfectly forms a closed loop of evidence!

Witnesses, physical evidence, and incriminating evidence are all available!

The inescapable net has been cast!

Gu Zhengfeng's hand holding the ledger felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.

He looked at Huo Shouzhen, his old comrade-in-arms who had endured for twenty-three years, whose eyes were now filled with tears.

That's enough.

That's enough!

After handing over the account book, Chu Zhennan seemed to have lost his backbone, and he kowtowed heavily to the ground once again.

“Commander Gu, Hero Huo… The evidence is here. The Chu family’s crimes are unforgivable. I have nothing to say.”

"I only beg... I only beg for the sake of my wife... and my daughter Jingya, who knew nothing about this..."

“Give them... a way out.”

After saying this, he knelt down and refused to rise, his forehead pressed against the cold ground, his body trembling violently.

Su Yue's heart felt as if it had been violently clenched.

Chu Jingya.

And her gentle and kind aunt.

They are innocent.

Su Yue took a deep breath, stepped forward, and, under Chu Zhennan's astonished gaze, personally helped him up.

"Uncle Chu."

Su Yue's voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable power.

"The state will judge right and wrong, merit and demerit. The old lady of the Chu family and Chu Yanran will pay for their crimes themselves."

"I promise you, Jingya and Auntie are innocent, I won't hold a grudge."

One sentence brought tears streaming down Chu Zhennan's face, a grown man.

Looking at his niece-in-law, who was so young yet possessed such magnanimity and grace, he was overwhelmed with gratitude and speechless.

Gu Zhengfeng held the account book and exchanged a glance with Huo Shouzheng.

It's all time to end it all.

He turned and walked back to the red encrypted phone, this time with unwavering determination.

"The net of heaven and earth has been cast; it's time to close it."

...

One week later.

The entire city of Beijing was awakened by that earth-shattering announcement on the radio.

"The Joint Investigation Team of the Central Military Commission issued a report..."

After a crackling sound of electricity, the announcer began reading aloud in a clear, emotionless voice.

"An investigation revealed that Zhou XX, former Deputy Commander of the Central Military Commission, colluded with the overseas enemy intelligence organization 'K' for a long period of time, stealing important national military and economic intelligence and betraying national interests. His crimes also included framing loyal officials, murdering the entire family of martyrs of the 'Lone Eagle' special operations team, and falsely accusing Comrade Huo Shouzheng, a hero who defended the country, of being a traitor for 23 years..."

"Further investigation revealed that Chu Huai'an, Old Madam Chu, and others from the Chu family were core members of this traitorous group. They not only assisted Zhou XX in destroying evidence, but also illegally profited from the martyrs' pensions..."

The announcement was short, but every word was like a bombshell, exploding one after another in the skies above Beijing.

For a moment, everyone who heard the broadcast, whether on the streets or inside and outside the courtyard, fell into a deathly silence.

Immediately following was a tremendous uproar!

Deputy Commander Zhou? That highly respected veteran in the military was actually the most deeply hidden traitor?

The Chu family? That family that prides itself on being a scholarly family and a model of integrity, is actually a parasite that feeds on the blood of heroes?