Chapter 172 In My Name 08 If Life Could Just Be Like Our First Meeting
Chapter 8
"It's very likely." Lu Changfeng said.
Ju Heng on the other end of the phone was silent again.
Lu Changfeng asked: "What else did she say when she came to you? Why did she hope that you could help her report Shi Minjie?"
Ju Heng said: "She told me that Shi Minjie plagiarized her research, and she didn't want to do it. She wanted to report Shi Minjie for academic misconduct. If she wanted to completely discredit Shi Minjie, she needed enough evidence. It's difficult to do it alone, so she needed my help."
Lu Changfeng: "Have you seen the evidence she prepared?"
Ju Heng shook his head: "I haven't seen it. Maybe she has approached many people, but no one is willing to stand up. I don't want to be the first one to speak out, so I chose to remain silent."
"Now that I think about it, maybe if I had stood up for her, she might not have committed suicide."
One must be at a dead end before choosing to end his life.
Although Ju Heng felt sad, he did not feel much apology.
After the call ended, several people discussed the case in the car.
"The current testimony almost confirms that Shi Minjie committed academic misconduct such as stealing other people's research results. His death is most likely a revenge by the judges who were dissatisfied with their plagiarism of other people's results."
Lu Changfeng flipped through the list of past graduates. "I don't think these students will come forward to say that their mentor has any problems. The breakthrough should be made by these graduates. They have entered society, have new social circles, and have stable jobs. They don't have so many concerns about Shi Minjie."
Yue Fanglin: "Ju Heng and Ni Zitong provided us with a lot of information. Shi Minjie is likely to have an extramarital affair with Wen Ting. We should also investigate who the father of Wen Ting's unborn child is."
"I will sync the message to Ouyang Ji now and ask him to help us check if Wen Ting has any medical records in Yancheng."
Wen Ting's roommate Qiao Man, who was a graduate student at school, returned to her hometown and worked outside Yancheng, so the only way to contact her was by phone.
Lu Changfeng called Qiao Man.
Qiao Man and Wen Ting are in the same department, but different majors.
After the call was connected, Lu Changfeng asked for the other party's identity information, and only stated his purpose after confirming it.
Qiao Man said: "We haven't been in touch for the past few years, and I don't know much about her affairs."
When Lu Changfeng heard her say this, it seemed that he didn't know that Wen Ting had passed away.
So I told her this information.
Sure enough, Qiao Man was very surprised when she learned that Wen Ting had passed away.
"I thought she stopped contacting me because we had less common topics after graduation and we went our separate ways."
Lu Changfeng asked: "How was your relationship during school?"
"Very good." Qiao Man said, "We have a lot of common topics and similar hobbies. We even like the same anime characters. She is a very outstanding girl. Unlike me, she is really goal-oriented and hopes to contribute to medical engineering and help more people."
Lu Changfeng asked: "Did Wen Ting have a romantic relationship while in school?"
Qiao Man did not respond immediately, thinking about what to say.
"Yes." She finally chose to tell the truth.
"Is it her mentor?"
Qiao Man was a little surprised: "Do you already know?"
Everyone in the serious crime squad looked at each other, and it was just as Ni Zitong said.
Lu Changfeng asked: "How long have they been together? Is there any evidence to prove it?"
"During my second year of graduate school, I went to the mall to buy a cell phone and watched a romantic movie. I happened to see the two of them sitting in front of me."
Qiao Man still feels surprised when she recalls the scene at that time, because the school clearly stipulates that teachers are not allowed to have romantic relationships with students, and once verified, they will be severely punished.
Qiao Man said: "I advised her not to have a relationship with her teacher because it would ruin herself, but she didn't listen to me."
"Actually, anyone with a discerning eye can see that even if Shi Minjie divorced his wife, he would not marry Wen Ting. If they did, it would mean that they had an improper relationship during the period of their teacher-student relationship."
Lu Changfeng was also surprised, "Is Wen Ting the third party?"
Qiao Man denied it decisively: "No."
"When Shi Minjie and Wen Ting were together, Shi Minjie and his wife were divorced."
"How do you know that?"
"I also questioned it at the time. Wen Ting said that Shi Minjie and his wife had divorced a long time ago, but it was not made public just for the sake of their own interests."
Zhou Yu immediately launched an investigation into the matter.
Qiao Man sighed: "I advised Wen Ting many times at the time that if she had a relationship with her mentor, it would definitely ruin her future. She refused to listen to me. She was good in every way, but she was a little love-brained. She believed too much that Shi Minjie was a good person, and she threw herself at her like a moth to a flame."
Lu Changfeng asked Qiao Man in confusion: "What on earth does Wen Ting like about Shi Minjie?"
The two people are more than 20 years apart in age. Even if you go back 10 years, Shi Minjie would be in his 40s, and he doesn't look handsome. How could Wen Ting, such a young, beautiful and smart girl, fall for a man who looks like he's half buried in the ground?
After hearing Lu Changfeng's question, Qiao Man was also very disappointed: "Wen Ting admires strong men very much. In addition, her parents died early, and she lived with her grandmother. She lacked male guidance during her growth and was extremely lacking in fatherly love. Shi Minjie treated her well, and she fell for him. Shi Minjie is also a very strong person. His admiration for strong men constantly gave rise to her emotions, which completely trapped her in the quagmire and made her unable to extricate herself."
"I have tried to persuade her more than once, but as the saying goes, it's hard to persuade a damned ghost with good words. She insisted on jumping into this hell, and I had no other choice."
"According to what you said, she died a long time ago. Why are you investigating it now?" Qiao Man was puzzled.
Lu Changfeng explained: "We started investigating because we found a suspicious point in the case that connected her to him."
Qiao Man said "oh".
Lu Changfeng asked again: "Did Wen Ting tell you about academic matters, such as helping Shi Minjie with experiments, or helping him with other things?"
Qiao Man thought about it carefully, and then said with certainty: "Yes."
"Do you remember the details?"
"It's been so many years, I can't remember our conversations, but I remember that she often did hard labor for Shi Minjie. I always joked that she was like a slave. Our studies were already very demanding, but she always had to do a lot of uncomfortable work, such as helping Shi Minjie revise manuscripts and speeches, and helping him answer questions for his students. Shi Minjie also took her with him as an assistant. Although she was called an assistant, she actually had to do all the hard work for a meager salary, which was basically all spent on Shi Minjie."
Qiao Man was getting angrier and angrier as she spoke: "I was also very idle back then, and I was thinking about persuading her to change her mind and stop being in love, but now I realize that being in love is hopeless."
Zhou Yu found out some new information and showed it to a few people.
Shi Minjie and Lan Qi were indeed divorced, but they remarried half a year later.
According to the timeline, during the relationship between Wen Ting and Shi Minjie, Shi Minjie was still married. Regardless of whether Wen Ting knew about it or not, she was indeed the third party in the marriage.
Being in love with a student, no matter if it's sincere or not, or whether they are divorced or not, is against the ethics of teachers. When Lu Changfeng asked Lan Qi about this, she did not mention it.
There are two possibilities: one is that she was completely unaware of it, and the other is that she knew about it but deliberately concealed it.
Qiao Man asked: "Could it be that Wen Ting's death was related to Shi Minjie?"
Lu Changfeng said: "We are still investigating, the specific situation is not clear yet."
Qiao Man sighed, "I didn't continue my studies after I graduated from graduate school, and she stayed in school, but I vaguely remember that she was not in a good mood after our relationship faded. She even came to me once and said she wanted to go on a trip with me to relax. I asked her what was wrong, and she told me that studying for a doctorate was too stressful and she was too tired and wanted to drop out."
"I guessed at the time that there might be problems in her relationship with Shi Minjie. I asked her but she didn't tell me. I was very busy with work, and gradually our relationship faded and I stopped asking about her affairs."
You work yourself to death every day, but your former friends still treat you as a trash can, complaining crazily about the misfortunes they encounter, and sucking your emotions but unwilling to provide you with emotional value. Naturally, such friends will fade away slowly.
Wen Ting lived alone during the year she was studying for her doctorate, and no one knew who her friends were. It was completely impossible to investigate what happened that year.
Qiao Man suddenly remembered something and told them, "I saw Wen Ting's post on WeChat Moments once: If life could always be like the first time we met, why would the autumn wind make the fan sad? They must have changed their relationship."
The first meeting is always beautiful.
This poem by Nalan Xingde is also about a woman being hurt and abandoned by a man.
If nothing had gone wrong, Wen Ting would not have had such an exclamation.
Between the lines of Ni Zitong, Ju Heng and Qiao Man, one can almost piece together a complete story line.
Wen Ting admires strong men very much. She follows Shi Minjie and develops admiration for him. Shi Minjie not only violates the ethics of a teacher, but also hides the fact that he is remarried and dates Wen Ting. He further exploits Wen Ting's value and uses her as a laborer. Later, Wen Ting may have discovered that Shi Minjie was deceiving her and became disheartened.
Being in love means being a willing laborer for Shi Minjie. After discovering that she was deceived, she felt that her life was worthless, so she wanted to report and retaliate against Shi Minjie, and even wanted to get back the experimental results that Shi Minjie had taken away. However, no one was willing to help her. She had no way to bring Shi Minjie down, and therefore suffered from depression. She was pregnant with Shi Minjie's child, and her emotions continued to collapse. Finally, she could not bear the pressure and committed suicide.
But Lu Changfeng couldn't understand it. She and Shi Minjie had been together for so long, she should have evidence of their relationship. Reporting him would more or less allow her to retaliate against him. At least it would severely damage Shi Minjie's reputation, and the school might also punish him to some extent.
Jing Jue thought of Ju Heng's words: "If the child was really Shi Minjie's, when Ju Heng asked Wen Ting, Wen Ting would not have said that she didn't know who the child was."
"This statement is indeed very suspicious." Yue Fanglin analyzed it for a moment: "If what she said is true, she doesn't know whose child it is. Based on this analysis, she should have had relationships with different people in a short period of time. Could it be that she gave up on herself after being deceived by Shi Minjie?"
"We can't rule out this possibility." If this is true, it would be really sad.
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