Chapter 530 Framing
"What nonsense are you talking about? If she were really a married woman, she wouldn't be screaming. Song Yuanzhi would definitely have raped her..."
"That...that's rape? Oh my god!"
"...It's truly shameful for the district to have such an unethical deputy director!"
"Absolutely! People like that should resign!"
"Could it be that his leg was broken by the husband when he was cheating on his wife?"
For a time, all sorts of opinions were expressed, but no one spoke up for Song Yuanzhi.
Li Banxia looked unwell, but Song Yuanzhi smiled and advised her, "Everywhere there are people who use these kinds of scandalous stories to drag others down. This won't be the first time in my career, nor will it be the last. Don't be angry, it's not worth it."
Li Banxia glanced at him sideways, her gaze falling on his chest. She couldn't help but recall the shirt she had seen yesterday. She pursed her lips and said nothing.
Over there, when everyone gathered at the door of the room and saw the faces of the man and woman on the bed, they all gasped in surprise.
"Why is it just the two of you?"
Where is Song Yuanzhi?
"Yes, what happened? If it wasn't Song Yuanzhi, how did he get in?"
"Shao Min, tell me quickly, where did Song Yuanzhi go? How come you're sleeping with that guy surnamed Zhao!"
The woman covered her face and broke down in tears, "I don't know, I was knocked unconscious, and when I woke up I found..."
The group of people looked at each other in bewilderment.
Are you all looking for me?
Song Yuanzhi appeared just in time behind the group. Those closest to him jumped up as if they had heard a ghost, pointing at Song Yuanzhi and stammering, "You, you, how did you get out from behind us? Didn't we take you to this room?"
The others exchanged glances and echoed, "Yeah, you insisted on dragging Shao Min in with you..."
The purpose behind these words is self-evident.
Those people stopped pretending once they realized they'd been exposed.
"Song Yuanzhi, do you think you can clear your name by changing rooms and framing someone else?"
"Yes! We all saw it with our own eyes yesterday, Shao Min. Tell me, did Song Yuanzhi do anything to you?"
The woman glared angrily at Song Yuanzhi and shouted, "Yes! He pretended to be drunk, dragged me into the house, and when I tried to leave, he locked the door, saying that screaming at the top of my lungs wouldn't help. He even took off my clothes, saying that if I slept with him for one night, he would grant me one request..."
This is blatant mudslinging against him!
Su Laosan spat at him, so angry he wanted to hit him, but Su Laoer grabbed him and said, "What's the rush? Can't you see they're desperate?"
Song Yuanzhi glanced at the woman with a half-smile.
He said, "You think it's true just because you say so? Where's the evidence?"
"Yes, where's the evidence?"
Su Laosan rolled up his sleeves. "If you can't produce any evidence, I'll tear your mouth apart!"
"I have evidence!"
The woman shouted, "I have evidence! I have a recording! I was afraid Song Yuanzhi would deny it later, so I deliberately turned on the recorder in the room and recorded what Song Yuanzhi did to me. You can listen to it..."
The others looked completely at ease, clearly aware that such a thing as a tape recorder existed.
"Damn it! These bastards, what hotel would keep a recorder in the room? They planned this!" Su Laosan was so angry that his nose was crooked. If Su Laoer hadn't been holding him down, he would have really wanted to tear that woman's mouth apart.
Song Yuanzhi glanced at him and reassured him, "Don't be impatient."
Then he looked at the woman and said, "Take it out."
The woman noticed that he wasn't flustered at all, and a vague unease crept into her heart. But the die was cast, and with more and more people gathering to watch the commotion, she had to act quickly.
Damn it, with so many people around, she has no way to get out of bed to pick up her clothes and put them on!
"...There."
There was nothing she could do but point to where the tape recorder was. Someone peeked out and, sure enough, saw a tape recorder on top of the wardrobe.
Everyone looked at Song Yuanzhi with schadenfreude.
Song Yuanzhi asked the hotel staff to bring down the tape recorder and turned it on in the corridor in front of everyone. It was empty.
Many people gasped in shock.
"No, how could there not be?"
The woman, clutching the blanket, sat up straight in disbelief, staring at the empty tape recorder. She shook her head and said, "No, that's impossible. I put the tape in, I pressed start, how could it be empty!"
Many people who were waiting for Song Yuanzhi to be proven wrong were also dumbfounded.
Someone stared wide-eyed and said, "I saw her put the tape in with my own eyes..."
"Song Yuanzhi must have discovered it and taken the tape beforehand."
"Who else could it be but him? Such deep scheming..."
“What you all are saying is absolutely hilarious.”
Song Yuanzhi raised his hand and clapped three times, smiling at everyone, but the smile didn't reach his eyes; he looked somewhat sinister. "...So, you all conspired to drug my drink, get me drunk, and try to smear me without anyone knowing, so that I, the newly appointed deputy director, would be dismissed for misconduct?"
The expressions on everyone's faces changed slightly.
"Let me guess who the beneficiary is..."
Song Yuanzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping over everyone present, and smiled, "What benefits did the other side promise you that made you fight so bravely for him?"
"If he can harm my uncle like this, he can do the same to you in different ways in the future. You're trying to get something out of a tiger. You really think your political careers are too long!" Su Lao Er sneered from the side.
The faces of the group members were increasingly grim.
Someone rolled their eyes twice and spat, "Deputy Director Song, you've got some skills. You've shirked all responsibility in just a few words. If you're not in the wrong, why didn't you let a male colleague help you? Why did you have a female colleague help you and even drag her into the house to say those threatening things?"
Song Yuanzhi looked at him.
He said, "Why don't we call the waiters over and have them help you recall the truth of what happened? Who helped me up? What was the deal with that wine? They drugged the wine under the guise of a celebration, setting a trap for the deputy director. What was the person behind you planning? If you can't explain clearly, at best you'll be expelled from the Party and dismissed from your posts, and at worst, your descendants' careers for three generations will be ruined."
Some people looked scared and slowly backed away.
Some people stubbornly insisted, saying, "Don't try to scare us. There was nothing in the drink. You took advantage of your drunkenness to do something inappropriate to a woman, and you even said you had a sweetheart. I think that was probably a pre-prepared excuse to get away with it. You slept with her and then said you saw her as your sweetheart..."
Song Yuanzhi scoffed.
Looking at that person, he said, "You have quite the imagination. You really want to associate me with matters between men and women? I have someone I love, and I would never mistake someone else for me!"
The man didn't believe him and asked him to say his name. If he couldn't, he was just making it up.
Song Yuanzhi's eyes flashed with a chilling rage, a rare display of anger in him. "Who do you think you are? What do you want? I warn you, you can mess with me, but if you dare touch her, I won't hesitate to fight you to the death!"
"Min'an, go call the police! Someone maliciously drugged me, trying to use a relationship to bring me down. Their intentions are despicable! I will report this matter truthfully to my superiors. Every one of you will be punished!"
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