The police did not take this matter too seriously at first, thinking that Ye Fei was suffering from paranoia. After all, it sounded absurd that a father wanted to kill his son.
But considering the amount of tax paid by Feixiao Technology every year, the police were still called in as a gesture of respect. Afraid that he would cry before seeing the coffin, I cooperated and sent the glass of water for testing.
Unexpectedly, the test revealed a problem: the water contained the highly toxic heavy metal thorium.
There was an uproar in the bureau and no one dared to take the matter lightly anymore. They dispatched troops to search the Ye family and successfully found half a bottle of unused sulfuric acid.
This thing is a controlled item. Use in factories requires layers of approval, and private possession is obviously illegal.
With such strong physical evidence before him, it was useless for Ye's father to deny it. Soon he and Zhao Jin were placed under administrative detention.
At the same time, Ye Fei took out the evidence she had found and requested a reinvestigation of her mother's death from illness twenty-one years ago.
Information spreads quickly in the film and television circles, and with such horrific incidents as poisoning a parent and child and suspected murder of a wife, it quickly became a sensation. Ye's father has been running Dingyuan for more than 20 years, but has never produced a popular star. When I got old, I made the headlines of major news sections because of my cruelty to others.
For a while, the whole society was talking about this matter. There are no secrets that can be hidden in the Internet age. Within three days, all of Ye's father's past was exposed.
Born in a remote mountain area, he met Ye Fei's mother after being admitted to Fengcheng University. He married her shortly after graduation and quickly made the leap into higher class with the help of his wife.
However, instead of feeling grateful for this, he cheated on Wang Lingling behind Ye Fei's mother's back. Even shortly after her death, he made his mistress his wife.
Not only that, when the matter fermented to a certain extent, someone suddenly came out in disguise and said that Ye Yao, the youngest son of Ye's father, was actually an illegitimate child. It’s just that Ye’s father wanted to save face, so he deliberately changed Ye Yao’s age to one year younger.
There is no wall that is impenetrable, and everyone in their circle at the time knew something about it. But it happened so long ago that if I hadn’t seen the news about Ye’s father, I wouldn’t have remembered it at all.
These revelations, one after another, make people feel creepy and cold. Ye's father was completely labeled as a scum and a beast, and even Wang Lingling and Ye Yao were scolded as well.
Only Ye Fei received care and sympathy from all sides.
Even Gu Ruijia, who had a rough personality, began to learn to take care of others.
He and Ye Fei have known each other for more than ten years and he has long known that Ye's father is partial to his son. However, he never imagined that for a mere 60 million yuan, Ye's father could be so cruel as to attack his own son.
"Fei, we as human beings cannot argue with animals," Gu Ruijia spent most of the day in Ye Fei's office, finally squeezing out a few words of comfort, "Look, didn't Lu Xun say, don't be angry, who would be happy if I were to die of anger?"
Ye Fei: “???”
Ye Fei took a puff of cigarette and sneered: "Don't blame everything on Lu Xun, he didn't say anything."
"It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it makes sense," Gu Ruijia ruffled her hair, "Hasn't the criminal police team already intervened in Auntie's case? Don't worry, there will be a good result."
Ye Fei hummed, lowered her eyes and flicked the ash into the ashtray.
In fact, after so much time has passed, his mentality has almost adjusted. Ye Fei is not a sentimental person. Instead of dwelling on his and his mother's misfortunes all day long, he now wants to see Ye's father brought to justice.
"By the way, how are you going to spend tomorrow?" Gu Ruijia also lit a cigarette and asked.
Ye Fei raised her eyes: "Hmm?"
"You didn't forget, did you?" Gu Ruijia looked at his confused expression, feeling both amused and distressed, "Tomorrow is the last day of this year."
Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it." He blew out a smoke ring and leaned lazily against the back of the chair, like a big cat with no energy. "If I come to work tomorrow, it will be a lot of fun."
"There will be a New Year's countdown and water show fireworks show in the central square tomorrow," Gu Ruijia took out his mobile phone, found the news page and handed it to Ye Fei, "If you have nothing to do, just go with Brother Xiao."
Gu Ruijia winked at him and made a "you know" expression: "Fireworks and such are not the point. The important thing is to walk among the people, sweep away the bad luck, and usher in a new beginning in the new year."
There is a local superstition that when a person is unlucky, he or she will feel much better if he or she stays in a popular place for a while.
Ye Fei knew that he meant well, so she glanced at the screen and chuckled, "Thank you, I'll ask Yan Xiao later."
He didn't have any close relatives on his parents' side, let alone Yan Xiao, who was completely alone. The two of them really had nowhere to go on New Year's Day.
Gu Ruijia took back the phone and patted him on the shoulder.
A year's work came to an end on this day. Employees happily packed up their things and settled down at their workstations, preparing to go home and reunite with their families. Ye Fei knew that everyone was eager to take a holiday, so she didn't let them stay until the end. At noon, she asked her assistant to notify all departments that they could go home.
The corridor suddenly became lively, with cheers and laughter mixed together, making it seem particularly lively.
Ye Fei smiled and stood at the window listening for a while until calm returned to normal outside. He estimated that most people had left. Just when I was about to go around the offices, I received a call from Yan Xiao.
"Ye Fei," Yan Xiao's voice came to Ye Fei's ears through the radio, "I'm downstairs in your company, are you going home?"
After a pause, without waiting for Ye Fei to speak, he slowly added: "If you still have work to do, I don't mind waiting until the normal end of get off work time."
The inexplicable emptiness in her heart was instantly filled, and Ye Fei couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips and said, "Go back."
On the way home, Ye Fei told Yan Xiao about the fireworks show.
Yan Xiao put down the half-written message on his phone and asked Ye Fei: "Do you want to go?"
Ye Fei said: "It's okay to go and take a look."
"Okay," Yan Xiao said, "Let's go together."
So, the next night, the two drove to the central square.
Neither of them is particularly keen on rituals, and they don't feel much about important festivals like New Year's Day. I stayed in the cafe until after eleven o'clock, then got up and went to the central square.
During this time, Yan Xiao kept sending messages to people and seemed very busy.
Ye Fei asked him: "Is there something going on at the company?"
Yan Xiao's body stiffened and his expression looked a little unnatural. He seemed to want to say something, but finally held back and only replied briefly with one word: "Yeah."
Ye Fei felt something was wrong and was about to ask carefully when an anxious female voice suddenly came from behind him -
"Hurry up, it's about to start!"
So he put aside the doubts in his heart, took Yan Xiao's hand, and said, "Let's go too."
There were a lot of people coming to the central square to watch the fireworks. It was so crowded that it looked like dumplings being cooked in a pot. They arrived too late and couldn't find a place with a good view, so they had to stand in the corner.
Looking ahead, there were crowds of people. It is very likely that you will only see fireworks but not the musical fountain.
There seemed to be a couple in love diagonally in front of me. The girl jumped twice on the spot and complained to her boyfriend that she was short and couldn’t see clearly. The boy ruffled her hair and picked her up as she screamed.
"Brother Yan," Ye Fei wanted to tease him and deliberately joked, "I think I can't see either, what should I do?"
"No," Yan Xiao looked at the girl, then at Ye Fei, and told him truthfully, "You are much taller than her."
It was indeed Yan Xiao's answer, and Ye Fei was overjoyed.
It was not until the countdown sounded that she stopped laughing in the face of his puzzled gaze.
Ye Fei didn’t have much of a feeling about the countdown or anything like that, she just wanted to relax. But when I was really immersed in this atmosphere and saw people around me counting down excitedly, I couldn't help but be infected.
“3, 2, 1——”
As the last syllable of the word "一" fell, as the music sounded, the water column of the fountain rose high, and combined with the colorful fireworks whizzing up, there really was a feeling of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new.
There was a thin layer of mist around me and fireworks were blooming above my head. At this moment, the negative emotions that Ye Fei had been suppressing in his heart seemed to have been left in the old year along with the passage of time.
The men and women around were cheering and screaming, holding up their phones to find angles to take pictures. Because there are so many people and the space is so small, we would bump into each other from time to time.
Ye Fei felt that Yan Xiao might not like such an occasion, so she looked up and said to him: "Brother Yan, shall we go?"
At this time, the musical fountain had just reached its climax and the fireworks were being set off more frequently. There was so much noise that Yan Xiao couldn't hear clearly what Ye Fei said.
He only saw Ye Fei looking at him with a smile in her eyes, her beautiful lips opening and closing as if tempting him to pick them. So Yan Xiao did not ask any further questions, but followed his heart, lowered his head and kissed his lips that were so close to him.
They were like a couple who had secretly dated each other during their school days without the knowledge of their teachers and parents. Under the New Year's fireworks, in a corner of the square where no one was paying attention, they kissed tenderly.
"Ye Fei," Yan Xiao gently stroked his face and said seriously, "Don't be sad in the future, okay?"
"How can I guarantee that?" Ye Fei smiled slyly, "What if you make me unhappy?"
"No." Yan Xiao said.
He looked away slightly, and seemed a little nervous for some reason. But soon, when the fireworks above her head were blooming at their peak, she looked into Ye Fei's eyes again and said to him, "I love you."
The author has something to say: I never expected that heavy metal is also a blocked word. . . .
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