Chapter 60 In the Corner Where the Sun Doesn't Reach

Damn it!

How could she possibly have inappropriate thoughts about Gu Yishen at a time like this?

That was the man her best friend had been chasing all her youth!

As the saying goes, "One should not covet a friend's wife," Luo Jiayin was willing to go to great lengths for Yu Jiu, so she couldn't possibly have any thoughts about the man Yu Jiu loved.

Luo Jiayin quickly closed WeChat, then tossed her phone onto the bedside table. She picked up the remote control next to her pillow, set up the projector, and started watching TV.

As luck would have it, the TV was showing the episode of "Hold On to the Villain's Script" that she and Gu Yishen were participating in today.

Luo Jiayin was speechless for a moment, then picked up the remote and switched the TV to the news channel. At that moment, on the entertainment news, a female host dressed in a flamboyant manner was broadcasting a "bombshell" that seemed to be a bit outdated.

"According to reports, at around 5:20 p.m. yesterday, a media reporter photographed a well-known popular idol and a movie star appearing together in a high-end residential area."

"Furthermore, the two were behaving intimately and their attitude was quite ambiguous. Until this station received the news, neither party had given a public response..."

Luo Jiayin: ...I'm speechless!

Do these media outlets have nothing else to broadcast? They keep bringing up this baseless "scandal" between her and Gu Yishen over and over again; it's getting worn out.

"Depend on!"

Luo Jiayin cursed angrily, grabbed the remote control, and pressed the channel change button again. This time, she switched to Beijing TV Channel 1. She refused to believe it! Surely a proper national channel wouldn't keep bothering with her and Gu Yishen's entertainment gossip.

Sure enough, the program currently airing on Beijing TV Channel 1 is a legal education program that resembles a documentary, which Luo Jiayin used to enjoy watching.

However, today, the program did not, as usual, first broadcast a real case, recount the entire process of solving the case, and then use the case to begin legal education for the audience.

Instead, it tells the story of the increasingly rampant telecommunications fraud in recent years in a documentary-like format.

The program began with a short video that went viral online.

In the video, the blogger who posted it said that he suddenly received a call from a strange number while he was at home. With the promotion and popularization of the [National Anti-Fraud Center] APP, the public's awareness of prevention is now generally very high.

The caller ID for that strange number showed "Unknown number from Myanmar".

So the blogger immediately realized that the person making the call was a scam group.

In the caption of the video, the blogger said that at first he just wanted to tease the scammers, so he didn't hang up the phone immediately, but chatted with the scammers on the other end.

At the beginning of the video, the blogger bluntly asked the scammer how much money he planned to swindle, and even mocked the scammer's "professional skills" as inadequate, suggesting that he go to northern Myanmar to study for a few more years.

Unexpectedly, the scammers on the other end calmly said, "I've been here for three years."

The blogger then asked him how his "business" was going, whether the "business" was busy, and whether their commissions were high.

The scammers maintained the same tone, speaking in the most polite voice a sentence that sent chills down the spines of countless people.

“We don’t get commissions, so we’re not coming back.”

The blogger was also shocked at the time and said that if possible, he hoped that the other party could provide the contact information of his family members, and the blogger would help him to call the police.

However, the scammers said helplessly that they had already tried, but it was of no use.

Moreover, their calls are recorded, and once they utter information such as phone numbers and contact details, they are brutally beaten with stun guns.

Next, the program played several more videos about people who had been tricked or trafficked to northern Myanmar and their real experiences there. Each video was incredibly heartbreaking.

The purpose of the program choosing this case as its theme is to warn those who are blinded by greed and attempt to gain something for nothing: there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Those lunches that openly tell you you can "eat for free" often turn out to require you to put in not only a hundred or a thousand times more effort, but may even cost you your life.

Just like the scammer in the video at the beginning of the program said, once they get to northern Myanmar, there is a high chance that they will never be able to come back.

Luo Jiayin's mood suddenly became incredibly heavy.

She certainly doesn't like seeing her own "gossip," but she actually dislikes seeing these human sufferings even more.

In particular, hidden beneath the calm surface lies a storm of swords and spears.

That would constantly tug at her thoughts, taking her back to the most difficult and darkest time of her life in an instant.

"They're not coming back."

"It's completely useless."

"We've tried."

"We can't say."

"..."

These people living in hell stand in the shadows, speaking in the calmest of tones the most desperate words in the world.

No one knew that Luo Jiayin had heard such hurtful words countless times.

...

At that time, the petite Luo Jiayin was led by a group of men and women to a narrow and cramped room. Perhaps those people intended to intimidate the "newcomer," because as soon as Luo Jiayin stepped into the room, she heard a series of heart-wrenching wails.

What terrified her even more was that when she entered the room, the first thing she saw was a girl who had been tortured and was covered in blood.

The people in the room stripped her naked, grabbed her hair, and slammed her head against the wall repeatedly.

The girl no longer had the strength to cry out in pain.

The person grabbing her hair dragged her outside, passing through the group of "newcomers" brought over by Luo Jiayin.

In the instant they brushed past each other, the girl struggled for a moment.

As she swayed, the hair, stained with blood and filth, that clung to her forehead was flung away, and Luo Jiayin glanced at her.

Upon seeing the girl's appearance, Luo Jiayin felt as if something sharp had pierced her heart, causing her unbearable pain.

Because that face was all too familiar to her.

This girl was her former elementary school classmate. Because she was a little chubby, she was often bullied by other girls at school.

Oh right, now there's a specific term for it: school bullying.

Luo Jiayin had helped that girl escape school bullying and protected her until graduation.