Chapter 160 Oleandrin
Xia Lili nodded her chin. "Yes, I heard it all. The person on the other end of the phone said he'd give you 700,000 yuan after the deal was done. What did he want you to do?"
Seeing Wei Shan still had doubts, Xia Lili showed her ID: "I have a cooperative relationship with the police. If you can report it to me in time, we can speed up the investigation of the case and send the truly guilty person to prison."
"I can assure you, no one will hurt you."
Wei Shan was surprised when she saw Xia Lili's ID: "Lili, you are so amazing!"
Xia Lili gave her official explanation: "I'm a criminal profiler, so I'm particularly sensitive to danger. Now, can you believe me?"
Wei Shan took a deep breath. "Three months ago, my colleague Xiaoyan gave me a dozen financial statements. When I was calculating the branch's quarterly report, I found that several large amounts of funds were unaccounted for."
"I was afraid that this matter would implicate me, so I carefully investigated the flow of these funds and found that it revealed a shell company controlled by Chairman Yang Shanhe!"
When Xia Lili heard this, she remembered that when they first met, Yang Yidan said that Wei Shan was particularly sensitive to numbers.
Wei Shan's voice trembled slightly. "I secretly collected false invoices and other evidence, confirming that Yang Shanhe embezzled more than 20 million yuan in public funds."
"I'm the company's accountant. If I don't report this matter in time and it gets exposed, I might be implicated and go to jail."
Xia Lili suddenly realized that Yang Yidan wanted to kill Wei Shan to silence her, so he took her on the speedboat. Yang Yidan relied on his good swimming ability and Wei Shan's poor swimming ability, so he was very confident and thought he could kill Wei Shan, but he didn't expect to be killed by Wei Shan.
So in the hallucination scene, it was obvious that Wei Shan killed Yang Yidan by mistake in self-defense, but in the end he was still sent to jail and was described by reporters as a criminal suspect of embezzling public funds. He was clearly made a scapegoat and was wrongfully imprisoned!
This must be the work of Yang Yidan and her father Yang Shanhe!
Xia Lili couldn't help but feel scared. If she hadn't intervened in this matter, Wei Shan would have been entangled by the poisonous snake of the Yang family, and would have been dead wherever she went!
Xia Lili recalled Wei Shan carrying a large suitcase from the airport all the way to the restaurant and hotel, looking very relaxed. "Are you very strong?"
Wei Shan nodded and smiled bitterly: "I have been working since I was three years old and could hold a broom."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Xia Lili only recalled the image of Wei Shan swinging the ship's fire extinguisher. Yang Yidan was too arrogant.
Wei Shan then explained to Xia Lili the phone call at the dock: "Just as I was about to report it to the economic investigation department, an unfamiliar number called me."
"They said they would give me 700,000 yuan as hush money and bring my sister to live with me, freeing her from my parents' control."
700,000 yuan can pay off the family debts and leave 200,000 yuan as a small treasury to save my sister.
It has to be said that this condition is indeed too tempting for Wei Shan, who is stuck in the mud.
Wei Shan let out a self-deprecating smile: "After my parents found out that I won the Outstanding Employee Award and the island trip, they pushed me even harder."
"What's even worse is that my dad told me that night that he had arranged marriages for my sister and me, and that we had accepted all the gifts from the men. I even wanted to kill them!"
"So that day I was shaken. I really wanted my sister to go to school smoothly, get into university, and live away from home."
"I don't have to be pressured by my parents for money anymore. I can live like Itami."
Xia Lili felt bad after hearing this: "In the end, you still chose to refuse the hush money, right?"
Wei Shan nodded: "After I hung up the phone that day, I couldn't sleep all night in my room."
"If I accept this hush money, I will still be living in fear for decades to come, worried that I will be caught one day for taking bribes. The pain will just be in a different form and weigh on me."
"I realized I couldn't accept the money in the end. Instead of being so scared, I decided to be brave for once."
"Have you told Yang Yidan about this troublesome matter?" Xia Lili's eyes were cold.
Wei Shan shook her head: "I didn't dare tell anyone about this, but Yidan knew that I was in trouble at work. On the morning we went out to sea, I said to Yidan, I think I need to be braver."
Xia Lili suddenly understood. She looked at Wei Shan with a complicated expression, "Then you must not know that Yang Yidan is the daughter of Yang Shanhe, the chairman of Shanhe Sports?"
The news exploded in Wei Shan's ears like thunder: "W-what?"
"I checked Yang Shanhe's information and didn't know he had a daughter!"
"I only know that he has a son who returned from studying abroad."
Yang is a common surname, and Wei Shan did not connect Yang Yidan with Yang Shanhe, the chairman of Shanhe Sports.
When Wei Shan thought of her interactions with Yang Yidan, she felt as if her heart was being suffocated by a poisonous snake, and her face turned extremely pale.
"Rich people have many ways to hide their family affairs." Xia Lili sighed, "To be honest, your chance encounter with Yang Yidan was probably arranged by her just to get close to you."
Wei Shan's lips trembled, her mind buzzing. She had always believed Yang Yidan was genuinely kind to her—taking her out to dinner, chatting with her, and teaching her to be cheerful. But now she realized that all that concern was fake.
“…I see.”
Wei Shan burst into tears. She thought she had finally met a friend who was truly kind to her, but it turned out to be a complete scam.
Xia Lili looked at Wei Shan who was crying bitterly, patted her shoulder and handed her a tissue.
After a while, Xia Lili asked, "We need you to provide relevant evidence now."
"Are you in your current condition able to go back to the police station with us and cooperate with the investigation?"
Wei Shan wiped her tears and nodded vigorously. The sooner the bad guys were sent to prison, the sooner she could feel at ease.
"I'll pack up my notebooks and cell phone now. The evidence of Yang Shanhe's embezzlement of public funds has been sorted out."
*
Interrogation room.
Yang Yidan was handcuffed and sitting at the single table and chair for interrogation, with a gloomy expression on his face.
Xia Lili sat aside and listened.
The interrogating police officer, Yan Hong, threw a test report in front of her and said, "We extracted oleandrin from that glass of milk."
"Oleandrin poisoning occurs in the same way as a heart attack. If the victim drinks milk and then takes a bath, the warm water will accelerate blood circulation and the toxin will take effect quickly."
Xia Lili was stunned when she heard this. She had seen her neighbor's chickens die after eating oleander leaves in her hometown before. She never thought that this common green plant was so poisonous that it could be used to kill people!
"We detected oleander extract in your luggage."
"The surveillance camera in the corridor on the fifth floor of the hotel was also destroyed."
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