What's even more frightening is that all of our relatives, friends, and neighbors know about this.
When she was released and returned home, she naturally received many strange looks and pointed fingers.
Not only did the elders in her family blame her and her husband for going too far, but the children were also greatly affected.
Just when she was running around trying to plead for help to no avail, she heard that the clothing store had reopened, so she rushed over in a hurry.
Gu Wei was perfectly aware of Liu Shanshan's scheme.
She just wanted to make a scene and beg for mercy, hoping to win his heart and get him to let her go.
There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
Everyone must be held accountable for their actions.
Gu Wei showed a look of disgust and said without any politeness, "You make it sound so simple, just trying to scare me. If it weren't for the people staying at the hotel that night discovering it in time, the property loss wouldn't be a big deal, but the main problem would be that someone would die, you know?"
Who doesn't have elderly parents to support and young children to raise? Don't try to play the victim in front of me!
If only you had known then what you know now! They say competitors are enemies, but fair competition is something no one would complain about! Yet you resort to underhanded tactics behind the scenes. If you let things slide this time, won't you be ruthless next time?
The two of them made quite a commotion.
This naturally attracted onlookers.
Not only did the shop assistants and customers come out, but many people from the neighborhood also rushed out to see what was going on.
Liu Shanshan was choked up.
After the arson incident, she felt a wave of fear and even blamed Zheng Zhigang.
But now that her husband is imprisoned, the scales will definitely tip in favor of her own family.
She glanced discreetly at the onlookers, then cried even harder.
"No way! My husband and I are just ordinary people with no special skills. We wouldn't have started our own businesses if we hadn't been forced into this situation! We would never dare to take someone's life! This was truly an accident, and we were pushed to our limit after being locked up for so many days!"
I promise you, if you agree to let us go this once, I'll do anything for you! Or we can close our shop! I'm begging you, I can't let my husband be locked up for years, we'll both starve! I'll kneel down and beg you, okay?
Liu Shanshan cried and wailed, and then suddenly knelt down.
Gu Wei had no intention of accepting her kneeling ceremony, so he moved aside to avoid it and said coldly, "You don't need to give me that! A country has its laws, and a family has its rules. If you break the law, you must accept the punishment of the law. This is not something I can decide!"
Even if he did have the final say, he wouldn't let Zheng Zhigang off so easily.
Being merciful to the enemy is being cruel to oneself.
After the arson incident, he regretted not being ruthless enough.
How can we repeat the same mistakes?
Moreover, Liu Shanshan's words sound nice, but since there are no men in the family, getting supplies will be a problem, and it's uncertain whether the store can even open.
Liu Shanshan gritted her teeth. If looks could kill, Gu Wei would be riddled with holes by now.
"You decide! As long as you agree to a settlement and drop the case, everything will be fine! It didn't cause any major losses to begin with, so why can't you be forgiving and give us a way out? Are you only happy when you've driven us to our deaths?"
Liu Shanshan persisted in chasing after him.
Li Bin and his group tried to stop them.
Chen Hong and Wang Shufen, along with several other women, beat them to it.
After all, men and women are different.
If you get falsely accused, it'll be hard to explain.
Wang Shufen grabbed Liu Shanshan's arm tightly and said indignantly, "Who's really not giving whom a way out? Your family was about to set fire to the house and burn people to death, and now you're crying and begging for mercy. Why didn't you think about the consequences when you did it?"
If her fiancé had been on duty that night and he and Li Bin hadn't smelled the smoke in time, she might have become a widow before she even got married. How could she not be angry and resentful?
A woman with an oval face standing nearby couldn't help but chime in, "Exactly! If you dare to do something, you should dare to take responsibility! It's fortunate the fire didn't ignite, otherwise we neighbors would have suffered too! Who wouldn't feel unlucky if something like this happened during the Lunar New Year!"
The onlookers also chimed in with their own opinions.
"Now that you're going to jail, you regret it and come here crying and begging. You only have yourself to blame; you were just unlucky to be caught in the crackdown."
"Yes, under normal circumstances, the sentence might not be this severe."
"..."
Of course, among the onlookers, there are also those who see the weaker party and sympathize with them.
There were also those who spoke out as peacemakers or acted like domineering fathers, hoping that Gu Wei would give the other party a chance to repent.
Gu Wei wouldn't care about those people's opinions.
His face was grim, and his voice was extremely cold as he warned, "If you keep making a scene like this, we'll go somewhere else and let the police settle this!"
Liu Shanshan felt a chill run down her spine from Gu Wei's cold gaze and instinctively shrank back.
She thought that this young man surnamed Gu seemed to be quite kind-hearted, and that she could find a breakthrough through him.
Furthermore, the excessively harsh sentence might evoke sympathy and disapproval from onlookers.
However, to my surprise, the other party was unyielding and very determined, even resorting to threats.
"We're nobody and nobody's money, how can we possibly fight you! Going there, we'd just be at your mercy... Oh well, it's just a few years in jail, we'll get out eventually!"
So what if they come out then?
Gu Weike was not afraid of this at all.
The changes were so rapid that even he himself didn't know where he would be at that time.
Besides, if you're worried about this and afraid of that, you won't get anything done.
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