Chapter 44 In order to escape punishment

In fact, Qi Jianyue was also very flustered, but in order to appease Ma Jiande, she could only pretend to be calm.

"Brother De, don't be anxious. Even if Cao Wen implicates us, so what? Does she have any evidence?"

"Don't worry, I'm always careful in my work. When I instructed Cao Wen to do something, I always told her verbally in person and didn't leave any written evidence."

“If she confesses, our statements must be consistent. We must say that she is making baseless accusations. As long as you do as I say, Brother De, I guarantee that this matter will not affect me, and it will not affect you either.”

But Ma Jiande was still very uneasy. "It would be best if it were as you said, otherwise if I get implicated, you'll be finished too!"

After leaving Ma Jiande's office, Qi Jianyue's face darkened, and she took out her phone to contact a lawyer.

"Have you seen Cao Wen? Did you manage to keep her calm?"

But the lawyer brought bad news: "Cao Wen is too timid. Even if I offer you the generous terms, it's still a police station, and under police pressure, she probably won't make it past the second round."

Qi Jianyue understood the lawyer's meaning, turned her head, and looked at Ma Jiande's office with a sinister gaze.

"In that case, we'll just have to find another scapegoat."

“Remember, if I don’t call or can’t reach you before 10 p.m., call my older brother.”

*

The police acted much faster than Qi Jianyue had anticipated.

Ma Jiande was taken away during the meeting, but what Qi Jianyue didn't expect was that Ma Jiande was even more useless than Cao Wen.

Before the police had even conducted a proper interrogation, Ma Jiande immediately protested his innocence, claiming that Qi Jianyue was the mastermind behind the entire affair.

Furthermore, the cunning and shrewd Ma Jiande even recorded the conversation.

During the daytime, he specifically called Qi Jianyue to his office.

It seemed that he was discussing countermeasures with Qi Jianyue out of unease, but in reality, he was deliberately trying to get information out of Qi Jianyue in order to exonerate himself.

Before they even got off work, the police came to their door for the third time, and this time they took Qi Jianyue away.

The two men under Ma Jiande's command, along with himself, were almost completely wiped out.

In no time, the gossip at the station was exploding, with everyone speculating whether Qi Jianyue and the others were doomed and would have to go to jail.

Ma Jiande, who thought he would be released soon after revealing Qi Jianyue's identity, was not granted freedom, but instead met with Qi Siyue, who came to deal with him after learning the news.

The lawyer introduced first: "This is Qi Siyue, the president of Tianhe Group."

Who in China doesn't know about Tianhe Group?

Ma Jiande spent half his life climbing, but he never even had the chance to meet Qi Siyue.

Now that he's seen him in prison, he hurriedly wipes his clothes with his hands and extends his hand in a fawning manner.

"Hello, Mr. Qi, I never expected to have the opportunity to meet you here..."

But Qi Siyue didn't reach out. Instead, he said in a businesslike tone, "You confessed to the police that my sister instructed you to murder your colleague, and you even recorded so-called evidence?"

Ma Jiande's mind went blank for a moment: "Sister, younger sister?"

The lawyer explained from the side, "Ms. Qi Jianyue is our CEO's sister."

Ma Jiande's smile vanished instantly.

Although he knew that Qi Jianyue came from a well-off family because she always wore designer clothes and drove different luxury cars to work, he never expected that she would be the daughter of the richest family in Beijing, the Qi family!

"I...I didn't know that Jian Yue was actually the daughter of the Qi family..."

Qi Siyue raised his hand, glanced at his watch, and said, "I have an important meeting in an hour. If it weren't for seeing Yue, I wouldn't have time to be here."

"Jian Yue was carefully nurtured by the Qi family from a young age. She is kind-hearted and would never do anything to harm her colleagues."

"And you, as her direct supervisor, in your pursuit of advancement, unwittingly led her astray, even attempting to drag her down and make her take the blame for you, right?"

Ma Jiande vehemently denied it: "Of course not..."

But before he could finish speaking, the lawyer calmly produced a photograph.

The above is a family photo of Ma Jiande, his wife, and their child.

"I heard that you and your wife have a harmonious relationship and a lovely daughter. You have always wanted to send your daughter to study abroad, but she has been rejected by prestigious universities."

“As long as you truthfully admit that you did this alone, it’s not a big deal. Besides, the victim was just frightened and did not suffer any real harm.”

"At most you'll be locked up for two days, and you'll only have a criminal record before you're released. Even if you leave the TV station, there's a wider world out there. You're a smart person, you know what to choose, right?"

Qi Siyue is using the power of the Qi family to put pressure on him.

Ma Jiande understood perfectly well that as long as he confessed to all the crimes, even if he had a criminal record and was fired by the TV station, he would be fine.

However, as long as the Qi family intervenes, they can help his daughter get into a prestigious university abroad, and once she graduates, the Qi family will also give her a suitable job.

Even though he has now pinned the blame on Qi Jianyue, he is still an accomplice.

But if he offends the Qi family because of this, even if he doesn't have a criminal record, he'll be finished when he gets out.

He naturally knew which was more important and how to choose.

"Mr. Qi, you are right. Miss Qi is the daughter of the Qi family and would never do anything to harm others."

"It's all because of me. I was blinded by greed and almost corrupted Miss Qi. I'm guilty, I confess, I confess!"

Ma Jiande slapped himself several times and shouted at the police that he wanted to confess.

From the moment Qi Siyue arrived at the police station to the moment the matter was settled, it took less than half an hour.

Qi Jianyue was acquitted and released with Qi Siyue.

"Big brother."

Qi Jianyue stepped forward, hugged Qi Siyue's waist, buried her face in his chest, and said in a sob, "Big brother, if you hadn't come to save me, I really thought I would never get out of here. I was so scared."

Their intimate posture startled the lawyer standing nearby.

But the lawyer didn't dare say much, let alone look any further, and quickly lowered his head.

When facing Qi Jianyue, even the usually mature and composed Qi Siyue showed a rare tenderness and patted her head.

"So, this is what you wanted to say at the family dinner that day?"

Qi Jianyue was afraid that Qi Siyue would have a bad impression of her, so she quickly explained, "Big brother, I didn't mean it. It was Ma Jiande who forced me to give him advice."

“He is my direct supervisor. If I don’t listen to him, I won’t be able to stay at the TV station. I just gave him a suggestion, but I didn’t expect him to be so unscrupulous in order to climb the ladder.”

"What I didn't expect was that, in order to get himself out of trouble, he deliberately tried to trick me into saying something to confuse the situation. I... I really have no way to defend myself, sob sob sob..."

As she spoke, Qi Jianyue burst into tears, looking aggrieved and pitiful.

Qi Siyue sighed and wiped away her tears.

"Alright, stop crying. The matter is resolved. You're just too stubborn. If you had listened to your mother and come to work at Tianhe, you wouldn't have had to suffer in this small TV station."