Her eyes were wide open and bloodshot, and her face was filled with anger and unwillingness.
"Li Lin! You disappoint me so much! I thought you were different from those bluffing guys in the Discipline Inspection Commission, but now it seems that you are all birds of a feather. You are so hypocritical and shameless!" Her voice became a little hoarse with excitement, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth.
"I still say that. I have nothing to say. Just give up on this idea!" After saying that, she turned her head to the side in a huff, deliberately avoiding looking at Li Lin. She looked so angry, like a willful child.
Looking at the stubborn Chu Yao, Li Lin shook his head helplessly.
Birds of a feather?
She, Chu Yao, and those lawbreakers like Lu Chengze are truly birds of a feather!
He sighed softly and said, "I have said what I want to say. Today's interrogation ends here. Starting tomorrow, the comrades of the Discipline Inspection Commission will count your family's illegal income according to Chu Guoan's testimony... You don't need to say anything. Just wait to be transferred to the judicial authorities and stand trial!"
After saying that, Li Lin no longer looked at Chu Yao. He bent down, slowly packed up the files on the table, and prepared to leave.
Seeing this scene, Chu Yao suddenly panicked.
Her eyes were filled with fear and helplessness. She slowly turned around and looked at Li Lin's departing back. Her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself.
Only she herself knew that everything Li Lin said was true, and her seemingly legal income was actually bribes received by Chu Guoan in disguise.
Her guilt, fear and panic reached its peak at this moment.
The moment Li Lin's hand touched the door handle, Chu Yao could no longer control her emotions. Like a drowning person grabbing the last straw, she stood up and called Li Lin, "Wait a minute!"
Li Lin stopped and slowly turned around to look at Chu Yao. His eyes were cold, like a bottomless pool, and he asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
That expression was extremely cold, and that voice was like a sharp ice cone, piercing straight into Chu Yao's heart, making her shiver uncontrollably.
Chu Yao clenched her fists tightly, the veins on the back of her hands bulged, and she said with trembling lips, "Don't leave yet! Let's talk more!"
Li Lin sneered, with a hint of sarcasm in his laughter, and said, "What else can we talk about?"
Chu Yao licked her dry lips, as if she had made a great decision, and asked, "Is what you just said true? My dad...he really..."
Li Lin raised his lips slightly, revealing a barely perceptible smile, and said, "You have done a lot of projects in Pingyang, right? From advertising spaces on both sides of the road to bulletin boards in the community... In Pingyang alone, you can earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions a year... Am I right? Do you want to hear other examples? For example, the deals you made with Yunling City, the Transportation Department, the Education Department...?"
Li Lin simply pieced together the fragmented evidence he obtained, pretending to know all the secrets of the Chu family, trying to completely break down Chu Yao's psychological defenses this time.
However, every word he said was like a precise scalpel, peeling off the secrets that Chu Yao tried to cover up...
Listening to Li Lin's statement, Chu Yao felt hopeless.
She knew in her heart that if Chu Guoan had not confessed, Li Lin would never have known so many details.
Now that things have come to this, what's the point of denying it?
Chu Yao laughed at herself, her laughter full of bitterness and helplessness, "Heh...they offered me these projects to curry favor with my dad...I make hundreds of millions every year from Pingyang, but you may not believe it, but I've never even been to Pingyang...As soon as the project was completed, the people from the Finance Bureau transferred all the money to my account...Now I feel sick when I think of those fawning faces towards me and my dad...I thought that since there was a company and a formal contract, it wouldn't be considered illegal...Now it seems that I was too naive."
"You really don't know that this is illegal?" Li Lin stared at Chu Yao, his face gradually becoming gloomy.
His eyes revealed anger and pain. If it weren't for companies like Chu Yao that drained Pingyang's finances, how could Pingyang be on the verge of bankruptcy?
He and Qian Lingyun went to great lengths to attract investment and settle laid-off workers for the economic development of Pingyang. However, people like Peng Yutao, for the sake of their own careers, used the local treasury's real money to bribe their superiors in various ways.
Thinking about the huge sums of money that people with connections would embezzle from Pingyang’s finances every year, Li Lin felt extremely heartbroken, as if an invisible hand was tearing his heart apart.
Now he really wants to curse at corrupt elements like Chu Guoan and Peng Yutao - damn it!
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