That night, Zhuang Li quit his job in the laboratory, completed the withdrawal procedures, and bought a plane ticket back home.
As soon as he got off the plane, he rushed to the police station to find out what happened.
The original owner's sister was named Xu Yaya, whose real name was Zhuang Ya. The original owner's mother, Huang Wei, disliked the original owner's father because he was a poor scholar who only knew how to do experiments all day and didn't make money, so she had an affair with a wealthy businessman named Xu Yong.
When Xu Yong finally promised to marry him, Huang Wei insisted on getting a divorce and took their daughter Zhuang Ya away. Later, he changed her name to Xu Yaya.
The original owner's father left China in anger, but unexpectedly went abroad and made a breakthrough in his research, accumulating a large amount of patent fees. However, the original owner's father's health was damaged by this, and he passed away at a young age.
After receiving the notice from the United States, Huang Wei did not ask about the situation clearly. She thought her ex-husband was still the poor teacher abroad, so she did not go to the United States to pick up her son.
Firstly, she did not have much maternal love for her two children and even regarded them as a burden; secondly, her current husband Xu Yong would not tolerate her bringing in another burden.
For the reasons mentioned above, the original owner had not contacted his mother Huang Wei for many years. Now that Zhuang Li had taken over, he naturally would not take the initiative to look for this selfish woman.
He used his ID card and childhood photos to prove his relationship with his sister Xu Yaya, and then asked about the results of the investigation into the case.
The police officer who received him had a subtle expression. "Are you Xu Yaya's brother? You guys are so irresponsible. No one cared when the child was alive, and now you're asking about her after she's dead. What's the point now? If it weren't for your indifference, she wouldn't have gone astray."
Zhuang Li could tell that the so-called wrong path did not just refer to suicide, but also had other meanings.
So he inquired about the situation more patiently.
The police officer sighed and said, "Your sister most likely committed suicide for love. It's said, and I mean it, that your sister had problems in her personal life, her friends were a bit complicated, and she didn't get along with her classmates at school, which is why she took her own life."
"What do you mean by having problems in your private life?" Zhuang Li's tone turned cold.
The policeman shook his head, not knowing what to say, and handed the file over, "Take a look for yourself."
Zhuang Li immediately took the file and looked through it, his eyes becoming darker and darker.
The file contained testimonies from all the people involved, including Xu Yong, Huang Wei, Xu Jingjing, the family's servants, classmates, teachers, and friends outside of school...
Xu Yong said: "I don't know this child very well. I'm not her biological father, and she doesn't like to interact with me. I'm usually busy with work and don't go home often, so I don't see her very often."
Huang Wei confirmed her husband's statement: "Yaya is not close to anyone, and she doesn't talk to me. She has a bad temper and often yells and throws things around the house. She hides when she sees her."
Xu Jingjing said, "My sister and I weren't very close. She probably felt we didn't have the same father and rejected me. At school, she wouldn't talk to me, stayed alone all day, and even liked to skip classes. I didn't know who she hung out with outside. I only knew she ran away from home several times, only to be brought back by Aunt Huang. She'd make a scene when she came back, refusing to go to school and feigning illness."
The servants at home said, "The eldest daughter has a terrible temper. She loves to yell, scream, throw things, and is often sick. When she's sick, she misses classes for ten days or half a month, and her grades are poor. Her mother worries about her every day."
Classmates said, "Xu Yaya is a gangster. She's made a lot of random friends outside. She's a bus girl. You don't even know what bus girl means? That's so old-fashioned. It means anyone can be her friend! Everyone knows this. Many people in school have slept with her! She even had two abortions. How can there be no factual basis for this? Someone pointed at her nose and asked her if she had an abortion, and she covered her face and ran away. Isn't this just like a guilty conscience?"
The teacher said, "Xu Yaya was truly a problem student. She skipped classes all day, didn't study properly, and hung out with a bunch of people called cosplayers, taking random photos and recording bizarre videos. Her health wasn't good either, and she frequently took days off. I don't know why she committed suicide, but perhaps something bad happened to her. The students in my class definitely had nothing to do with her death."
At school and at home, everyone had a negative opinion of Xu Yaya. However, in the mouths of her friends outside of school, Xu Yaya was seen in a completely different light.
Friend A: "Yaya is really good at makeup and making clothes. She has amazing hands!"
Friend B: "Yaya is so beautiful and smart. She can dress up like anyone! I admire her so much! She has millions of fans on Weibo!"
Friend C: "Bullshit! She's not promiscuous, she never hangs out with boys! I'm warning you, even if you're a police officer, you can't slander Yaya!"
Friend D: "Yaya definitely doesn't have a boyfriend! She's afraid of boys. If a male cosplayer approaches her, she'll just give him a cold shoulder and tell him off."
Friend E: “…”
The file was a thick stack, and Zhuang Li finished reading it in just a few minutes by flipping through it.
Seeing him hand the folder back so quickly, the police officer who received him couldn't help but show a look of disdain. This was another person who pretended to care about the deceased, but was just going through the motions.
"We performed an autopsy on your sister and confirmed that she had indeed had an abortion, and your mother knew nothing about it. Your sister often skipped classes, ran away from home, and made many friends outside. We couldn't find her boyfriend, and we don't know who caused her pregnancy. So we initially determined that she must have decided to commit suicide because she was emotionally hurt." The police gave the final conclusion.
Zhuang Li declined to comment on this conclusion and asked, "Is my sister's body still at the police station? I want to see it."
"Your mother took it back for cremation a long time ago." The policeman sighed, "You came back too late."
"Cremation so soon." Zhuang Li's eyes darkened, and he asked, "Do you have any of my sister's belongings here?"
"No, they were all taken away by your mother. You can go ask her." The police waved his hand.
"Okay, thank you." Zhuang Li stood up and said goodbye politely.
After leaving the police station, he randomly found a hotel to stay in, and then used the Internet to collect all the information about his sister: her mobile phone number, friends, social media accounts, school forum accounts, etc.
Gradually, a more rounded and three-dimensional Xu Yaya emerged. She was cold and aloof, always preferring to be alone at school. All her classmates said she had a messy private life and was dirty. The girls hated her and excluded her, while the boys harassed and slandered her.
At first, she would cry when she was bullied, but as this happened more and more frequently, she stopped crying.
She started skipping classes, and her grades plummeted. But at the same time, she found a new world in the virtual world. Her stunning 2D look garnered her millions of followers on the site. Everyone affectionately called her Yago.
She hated and feared men, and because of this mentality, she armed herself to become a man.
She attempted suicide twice, once by cutting her wrists and once by jumping off a building; one attempt failed and the other succeeded.
She left this world with the disgust of many people, the love of many people, and her own heart full of despair and resentment.
Zhuang Li looked at the lively and lovely girl in the photos and videos, and his eyes gradually became wet.
He began searching hospital records but couldn't find where his sister had the abortion. It seemed she'd had the procedure done in a black clinic, leaving no trace. No witnesses had seen her mysterious boyfriend.
Zhuang Li started browsing the school forum again, trying to find out who was the first person to slander his sister, but he found that there were too many such people and he had no idea where to start.
Zhuang Li then hacked into the school's surveillance system to track down his sister and finally discovered something strange.
Before committing suicide, she took half a month's sick leave and recuperated at home for ten days. Somehow, she suddenly became depressed, ran to the school, and jumped from the roof of the laboratory building.
Zhuang Li discovered that the day before his sister called in sick, she didn't return home after school, but instead went to the hills behind the school. A surveillance camera captured her as she walked deep into the dense forest. Shortly after she entered, two tall boys also walked in.
More than two hours later, two tall boys came out laughing and dancing, as if they were talking about something happy.
Half an hour later, my sister came out staggering, her legs shaking as she walked, with several slap marks on her face, and the zipper of her schoolbag was torn, leaving a big hole in it.
She took a few steps and then fell to the ground. She lay there for a long time before slowly sitting up and taking out her cell phone to make a call.
When the call didn't go through, she continued to dial, one after another, then sent a text message and waited quietly.
The text message did not receive a response, and she finally raised her head, revealing her distorted face.
Zhuang Li closed his eyes, unable to even look directly at Xu Yaya. The anger and despair in her eyes had melted into a bloody purgatory. This was the emotion that could only be engendered by the most brutal torture and the most helpless exile.
The person staggering, struggling and wandering in the video is not a girl in distress, but a dead ghost.
Zhuang Li covered his face, took a deep breath, and a raging fire burned in his heart.
He had probably guessed what had happened to his sister.
7480 noticed that the temperature in the small dark room was rising, and immediately tried to comfort him: "Master, you must stay calm! Murder is against the law! You can't go to jail with the gods!"
Zhuang Li didn't say anything, just kept taking deep breaths.
After several minutes, he finally lowered his hand from covering his face and continued typing. He used a Trojan program to send a text message to his sister's phone, and when he found that it was turned off, he forced it to start up and locate it.
To learn more about his sister, he must get his hands on her phone. A person's most intimate information is often hidden in their chat logs. Perhaps the answers to her mysterious boyfriend, the father of her child, her love and hate, and the reason for her suicide could all be found.
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