The police officers were very knowledgeable and often handled fraud cases. They listened carefully to Mao Xia's words, took notes on the details she mentioned, and asked her questions from time to time.
Fearing that Mao Xia might be upset, they specially found a policewoman to take care of her, which gradually calmed her down.
“Ms. Mao, what you need to do now is to tell us as many details as possible, which will help solve the case. You just asked which hotel Xiang Yanlong is staying at? What is his room number? How is the name Xiang Yanlong written? Please write it down on a piece of paper.”
Mao Xia did everything they asked for.
“We will arrange for police officers to go to the hotel to investigate. If the person checked in with their own ID card, it will be easy to find out their real identity.”
Mao Xia felt a little better, and she wanted to find Xiang Yanlong and confront him to ask him why he had to lie to her.
Mao Xia was unwilling to accept being deceived by the person she loved most, and felt terrible.
"Ms. Mao, there's one more thing I'd like to ask you."
Mao Xia looked up and said, "Please speak."
"Based on what you've said, you've only recently arrived in Hong Kong from the mainland, so it's unlikely you would know someone like Xiang Yanlong. If he were setting a trap for you, he would need to know beforehand that you have this money. I'd like to ask you, who knows that you have this money?"
Mao Xia was taken aback by the question. After arriving in Hong Kong, she often wasted her time, spending money on bars, dating, and giving gifts to men.
But she was very guarded and never dared to tell anyone that she was rich, for fear of being targeted.
Xiang Yanlong had no idea she was rich, so how could he have set up a trap to deceive her beforehand?
"Based on our experience in handling cases, this kind of scam is targeted from the very beginning. Imagine a man pretending to be a rich man, renting luxury cars, giving you counterfeit luxury goods, renting a yacht, and then taking you to a French restaurant. If it wasn't premeditated, why would he waste so much time and money on you? So, it's quite likely that he knows you have money."
“But I never told him that I’ve only been in Hong Kong for a little over a year and I don’t have any close friends. I only have two relatives in Hong Kong, and apart from them, no one knows that I have money!”
After Mao Xia finished speaking, the police's gaze remained fixed on her. She herself realized something and was stunned for a long time.
"Impossible, those are my uncle and my brother, they are both my family."
"They know you have money?"
“My uncle is my mother’s business partner. He knew I had this money and even inquired about the exact amount, but I didn’t tell him at the time.”
The police shrugged. "As you've realized, your uncle is also a suspect. Of course, we can't wrong an innocent person before we've investigated the matter thoroughly. Ms. Mao, you'd better keep the progress of this investigation confidential, otherwise we might alert the suspect."
On her way home, Mao Xia felt cold all over and couldn't help but shiver.
Was Xiang Yanlong hired by Zhou Jian'an?
In order to swindle her money, Zhou Jian'an found a man to date her.
He rented luxury cars and yachts for Xiang Yanlong and bought fake luxury goods to deceive himself, because Zhou Jian'an knew that she had tens of millions of assets. As long as she fell in love with Xiang Yanlong, she would give him money without reservation.
The thought of having such a person by her side, scheming against her at every turn, made Mao Xia tremble with fear.
The investigative capabilities of the Gangcheng Public Security Bureau are beyond question. Two days later, Officer Li, who had received Mao Xia, called her and asked her to go to the police station.
"Officer Li?" Mao Xia asked nervously as she arrived at the police station, holding her wallet.
The police station was bustling with people and detectives coming and going. Mao Xia's ears were filled with noise, and her heart was pounding. She couldn't wait to know the truth, but she was also afraid to know it.
The truth means facing the cruelest part of the whole thing, the part she usually deceived herself about and ignored.
She could accept that Xiang Yanlong had deceived her, but if Zhou Jian'an was behind the whole thing, Mao Xia was afraid she would collapse.
"Officer Li?" Mao Xia called out again, and Officer Li turned around. "Mao Xia, you're here. Have a seat."
After Mao Xia sat down, Officer Li showed her the police dispatch video and the testimony of the hotel staff.
“We visited the hotel and learned from the front desk staff that Xiang Yanlong had indeed been staying at the hotel for more than half a year, but the rent for those half a year was not paid by Xiang Yanlong himself. A man would settle the bill for him every month.”
After Officer Li finished speaking, he looked at him sympathetically, "During this period of time, every time you left the hotel, Xiang Yanlong would go to nightclubs and bring different women back to the hotel. In other words, you are not his only woman."
Mao Xia was no longer surprised. "Anything else?"
“Based on the license plate you provided, we investigated the Porsche that Xiang Yanlong has been driving for the past six months and found that the car belongs to a well-known car dealership in the port city and is rented by a man. The rental method is to pay a monthly rent, and the rent payment date is the same as the hotel date.”
"As for the yacht you mentioned... we also interviewed and investigated the relevant staff at the dock. On your birthday, they did know that a yacht was going out to sea. The yacht was rented by a man at a high price and was only rented for one day and one night, leaving at noon the next day. Because they helped arrange the wine and food on the yacht, they had a deep impression of you and vaguely remembered your appearance, knowing that you were the lady who celebrated her birthday that day."
Officer Li continued, "According to them, after you left that day, a man came to complete the formalities to return the yacht, and he even talked with Mr. Xiang for a while. Unfortunately, when we showed him a picture of your uncle, Mr. Zhou Jian'an, he recognized him immediately."
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