"A lenient sentence?"

Li Changlong's face turned pale. "So, there's no way I can escape?"

"Once you do something, you have to bear the consequences!"

Wang Qian said coldly, "You only have two choices now!"

"First, if you follow my instructions, you'll at most be sentenced to a few months to a year or two."

"You can decide for yourself, but the result might be the same as Deng Zhiyu, either sentenced to death or life imprisonment."

In fact, he had a way to exonerate Li Changlong.

However, he had to ensure that Li Changlong was punished to some extent.

If he hadn't been observant and noticed something amiss, he and everyone else in the car might have perished in yesterday's accident.

A person capable of such a thing must have a truly wicked heart.

Therefore, even if Li Changlong cooperates, he may be spared the death penalty, but he must not be spared any punishment.

Is this really the only way?

Li Changlong was somewhat desperate.

"I'm only here to help you because you managed to pull back from the brink in time. Otherwise, your fate wouldn't be much better than Deng Zhiyu's."

Wang Qian urged impatiently, "Hurry up and make your choice, I don't have much time."

"Okay, as long as the sentence is lenient, I'll do whatever you say!"

Li Changlong dared not make any more demands and had no choice but to compromise.

After giving a serious briefing, Wang Qian left the repair shop.

"Xiao Qian, that was a beautiful move!"

While driving, Li Guangsheng said admiringly, "With just one move, you took down the general manager of the village-to-village passenger transport company and made Li Changlong, an accomplice, willingly accept punishment. I have to say, whether it's wisdom or methods, you have repeatedly refreshed my understanding of you."

"Brother Li is joking!"

Wang Qian shook his head. "I won't offend others unless they offend me. If others want to mess with me, I'm just doing it to protect myself."

"I'm so lucky I didn't become your enemy!" Li Guangsheng exclaimed sincerely.

"Brother Li, you're flattering me too much. I'm just a junior, I'm not that scary," Wang Qian said with a wry smile.

"Just keep being humble!"

Li Guangsheng rolled his eyes.

However, he didn't seem to want to dwell on this topic any longer, and changed the subject, saying, "By the way, I heard you want to cooperate with the Liu family?"

"How did Brother Li know?" Wang Qian asked back.

He remembered that apart from his close friends and the father and son Wu Yanping and Liu Liuyanran, no one else knew about his desire to cooperate with the Liu family.

Where did Li Guangsheng hear that from?

"I have a lot of inside information!"

Li Guangsheng chuckled, but didn't elaborate. Instead, he pressed on, "Weren't you always at odds with the Liu family? Why are you now thinking of cooperating with them?"

"This matter is complicated, Brother Li, please don't ask any more questions."

Wang Qian said meaningfully, "And Brother Li, you'd better not get involved in this."

"Why?" Li Guangsheng asked, full of curiosity.

"This matter... is not something that can be explained in a short time. Perhaps only when the dust settles will everyone realize it. As for now, it involves many secrets, and I cannot say them."

"Wow, it's getting more and more mysterious!"

Li Guangsheng immediately became interested, "So how exactly do you want to cooperate with the Gou family?"

Wang Qian: "..."

Sure enough, curiosity killed the cat. Everyone knows this, but there are always some people who refuse to believe it and insist on finding out the reason.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're interested in joining Liu Jingxian's industrial park project, right?"

Wang Qian remained silent, but Li Guangsheng continued to probe, "I've heard about that project too, but I'm not very optimistic about it. It requires a large investment, takes a long time to pay off, and is full of unknowns."

"So even someone as wealthy and powerful as Wu Qixuan wouldn't easily get involved in this mess."

"On the contrary, you risked your life to jump into that pit."

What exactly are you thinking?

Faced with Li Guangsheng's barrage of questions, Wang Qian simply shook his head. "Brother Li, can we not talk about this?"

Li Guangsheng frowned slightly.

However, he was sensible enough to force a smile and said, "Alright, I won't ask anymore. But if there's any business opportunity, you'd better think of your older brother."

"Don't worry, I will!" Wang Qian readily agreed.

...

The car accident case was quickly resolved.

Deng Zhiyu, general manager of the village-to-village passenger transport company, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for secretly planning a car accident and intentionally hiring someone to kill someone, but because no one died, he was not sentenced to death.

As for his accomplice Li Changlong, his trial was much shorter.

Li Changlong did indeed accept money from Deng Zhiyu and planned to cause a car accident for the passenger transport company under Wang Qian's name. However, apart from scattering nails on the road, he had a change of heart at the crucial moment and did not tamper with the bus's brakes.

The police initially didn't believe it, but soon someone came forward to testify.

This person is Yin Jiajun, the driver involved in the car accident.

According to Yin Jiajun, the bus did have a tire blowout the day before the accident, but when they asked Li Changlong for help to repair it, Li Changlong not only did not take the opportunity to tamper with the brakes, but also reminded Yin Jiajun to be careful when driving in the future.

Yin Jiajun even checked the brakes, and found that there were indeed no problems.

It wasn't until the next day, after the car accident, that Yin Jiajun discovered the brakes had been tampered with.

During this time, Li Changlong did not approach the bus, so the accident was not caused by Li Changlong, but by someone else.

As for who it is, the police are still investigating, and there are no results yet.

...

"Wang Qian, what do you mean by this?"

Wang Qian had just returned to the second alley of Beifeng Street when Liu Yanran was already waiting there, fuming.

When did you arrive?

Wang Qian glanced at Liu Yanran, then cast an inquiring look at Zhou Yuanyuan.

"Didn't you want to cooperate with me?"

Liu Yanran said angrily, "You want to gain my dad's approval on one hand, and on the other hand, you're undermining us. What exactly do you mean by that?"

I don't understand what you're talking about.

Wang Qian shrugged, found a chair and sat down, then slowly said, "Tell me slowly, and try to be as clear as possible."

"Are you still pretending to be stupid with me?"

Liu Yanran was even more furious. "Deng Zhiyu, the general manager of the Village-to-Village Passenger Transport Company, wasn't it you who set him up?"

"Oh? You mean this?"

Wang Qian abandoned his languid demeanor and said coldly, "When it comes to setting traps, why don't you first ask what Deng Zhiyu did?"

"What do you mean?"

Liu Yanran frowned.

Deng Zhiyu was indeed arrested because her father personally reported it to the police.

but,

That was only because there was no way to reverse the situation, and his father had no choice but to do this in order to prevent Deng Zhiyu from affecting the Liu family.

Otherwise, although Deng Zhiyu was a bad person, he was indeed loyal to the Gou family and made great contributions.

The reason why the Liu family lost such a capable assistant was entirely due to Wang Qian.