Chapter 134 Rescue: She Needs Someone to Help Her Build Confidence
"Report! Suspect Zhou Mingyuan has been apprehended!"
"Report! The victim, Sun Wei, is safe! No visible external injuries!"
A clear and concise report came through the walkie-talkie.
Inside the command vehicle, Lei Xiao and Fan Wei let out a long sigh of relief, only to find that their backs were soaked with cold sweat.
As Sun Wei, supported by Zheng Yu, staggered out of the building, Sun Guodong and Li Shufen, who had been notified and rushed over, immediately rushed to her side next to a police car.
"Weiwei! My daughter!" Li Shufen cried out, trying to hug her daughter.
Sun Wei's body suddenly stiffened, like a startled rabbit, and she instinctively shrank behind Zheng Yu.
Sun Guodong approached, his face grim: "Come on! Come home with us."
When Sun Wei's eyes met Sun Guodong's face, her body trembled violently, and she shook her head desperately, resisting her father's approach.
Zheng Yu turned around and saw Sun Wei's eyes filled with fear. She immediately protected Sun Wei, raised her hand to stop Sun Guodong and Li Shufen from getting closer, and said in a deep voice, "The victim is currently psychologically unstable and needs professional medical intervention. Please do not come over yet."
Zheng Yu gave Fan Wei a wink, and Fan Wei quickly ordered: "Get him to the hospital immediately, with a psychologist accompanying him throughout. No one is allowed to visit him without permission!"
Sun Guodong's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, his face turning pale and then red.
He looked at his daughter cowering behind the policewoman, then met Zheng Yu's unwavering gaze. His face flushed red and then paled. He gritted his teeth and cursed at Li Shufen, "Look at your good daughter! Shameless enough to run off with a man, and now she's giving us attitude! What an ingrate!"
Li Shufen looked at Sun Wei pleadingly, weakly begging, "Weiwei, come home with Mommy..."
Sun Wei's breathing stopped for a moment, then she shook her head desperately.
Zheng Yu took the thin blanket handed to her by her colleague, turned around and draped it over Sun Wei, wrapping her from head to toe, and said gently, "Don't be afraid, the police are here, you are safe."
Sun Wei gripped the edge of the blanket tightly, burying her head in the darkness, letting out a soft "hmm" through her nose. She felt as if the gazes around her were needles pricking her, and all she wanted was to find a place to hide.
Zheng Yu put his arm around Sun Wei and walked to the ambulance, gently supporting her elbow: "Get in, we'll go to the hospital first!"
Sun Wei used the momentum to get into the car and left quietly.
Sun Guodong stomped his feet in anger. After running a few steps alongside the ambulance, he stopped, panting, and glared fiercely at Zheng Yu: "That's my daughter! If anything happens to her, can you police take responsibility?"
Zheng Yu stood firm: "She is our victim, and we must ensure her safety!"
Sun Guodong's face flushed red. He stared at Zheng Yu for a moment, but finally gave in. He turned to Li Shufen, who had followed him, and said, "Look at you, look at you! I told you to quit your job and stay home to manage her, but you wouldn't listen! Now look what's happened, you've grown wings and don't want to be managed anymore. You look at us like we're your enemies!"
Li Shufen pleaded, "Guodong, Weiwei was just rescued by the police. Let's not rush to scold her, okay? She must not have been eating or sleeping well these past few days. I'll go to the hospital to take care of her right now. Don't worry, as long as we talk to her nicely, she'll behave."
Zheng Yu said coldly, "Go home first and wait for the police to notify you. Sun Wei needs psychological treatment now and cannot see you for the time being."
Sun Guodong was furious, but he was helpless against the police's persistence, so he could only leave grumbling.
On the other side, Zhou Mingyuan was handcuffed behind his back and roughly shoved into another police car. His face was bruised and bleeding from the scrapes he had been pressed to the ground, and his hair was disheveled, but the rage in his eyes when he was arrested was gone. Instead, they had regained an unsettling calm that was both arrogant and scrutinizing.
Interrogation room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Zhou Mingyuan was strapped to the interrogation chair, the handcuffs on his wrists gleaming coldly. The presiding interrogator was the experienced Fan Wei, while Jiang Ling and Zheng Yu sat in the observation room beside him, listening to the conversation through earpieces, ready to provide technical support at any time.
Fan Wei didn't speak harshly; his voice was calm: "Zhou Mingyuan, do you know why we invited you here?"
Zhou Mingyuan raised his eyelids slightly, a faint, smug smile playing on his lips: "Officer, I think there's a misunderstanding here. Sun Wei and I are mutually in love. She's suffering a lot at home, and I just want to help her escape that cage and start a new life. We're... dating."
Inside the observation room, Jiang Ling's eyes were icy cold.
Sure enough, it began. Maintaining the mentor persona and glorifying the criminal act as salvation or romance is a typical defensive reaction of the manipulator after experiencing setbacks. He is trying to regain the power of discourse and definition, portraying police intervention as the destruction of true love.
Fan Wei remained unmoved, his voice still steady: "Dating? From what we know, Sun Wei is only 18, a senior in high school, loves literature, is innocent and kind, and is about to take the college entrance exam. Her teachers say she's a promising candidate for Tsinghua or Peking University, with a bright future ahead of her. And you? 35 years old, divorced once, unemployed, occasionally taking on plumbing and electrical work, and living a nomadic life. Your biggest hobbies are chatting, playing games, and watching videos in internet cafes. The difference between you two is like heaven and earth. Now you're telling us that what you have is dating?"
Feeling his pride wounded, Zhou Mingyuan stiffened his neck and said confidently, "True love can transcend age and social class. We are spiritual companions, transcending worldly existence."
Fan Wei scoffed: "True love? The true love you're talking about is locking her in a strange, shabby, unfinished room and subjecting her to mental belittling and torture?"
Zhou Mingyuan was a little embarrassed, but he still stubbornly insisted: "Officer, you don't understand the situation. She has psychological problems and needs my guidance. Her parents, especially her father, don't understand education at all; they only know how to suppress her with violence. And her mother blindly obeys her father. No matter how her father beats and scolds Sun Wei, her mother will only cry on the side and then beg Sun Wei to be obedient, sensible, and not to resist her father."
At this point, Zhou Mingyuan seemed to remember something and quickly added, "Her father had a bite mark on his hand, which was the only time Sun Wei ever resisted. She told me that when she was in junior high school, a boy passed her a note, and her father whipped her with a belt, calling her a shameless bitch. Sun Wei was so enraged by the insults that she completely lost her mind, screamed, lunged forward, and bit down on her father's right hand, the one that was waving the belt."
Jiang Ling and Zheng Yu exchanged a glance.
Zheng Yu picked up the walkie-talkie: "Old Fan, find out the relationship between Sun Wei and her parents."
Hearing Zheng Yu's voice through his earpiece, Fan Wei looked up at Zhou Mingyuan and deliberately said, "And then? Although Sun Wei's father was rough and her mother was weak, they fulfilled their caregiving obligations and cared about Sun Wei's college entrance exam and future. But what about you? What right do you have to belittle her parents' sacrifices?"
Fan Wei's words successfully provoked Zhou Mingyuan's anger. His voice suddenly rose: "You're comparing me to her parents? You're insulting me! Sun Wei's parents both care for her and suppress her, which makes her very fragile. She needs someone to help her build confidence and see the right direction. I'm reshaping her, helping her recognize reality and break free from the poison of her family of origin! She cries because she feels pain in the process of breaking free of her shackles; this is the price of growing up!" He spoke eloquently, as if he were truly a selfless life mentor.
Fan Wei scoffed at Zhou Mingyuan's actions: "Trying to reshape her by isolating her? Making her face reality by forcing her to give up the college entrance exam? Using the rhetoric of 'Everyone is harming you, only I understand you and love you' to help her escape the poison of her family of origin? Zhou Mingyuan! You can fool some young girl with those words, but you can't fool us police officers!"
Zhou Mingyuan's eyes flickered for a moment, but he forced himself to remain calm and said, "Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Her original environment was too terrible, and it must be completely severed in order for her to be reborn. You are all uncouth and worldly people, and you cannot understand these things, so I have no way to help you."
In the observation room, Jiang Ling picked up the intercom and whispered a few words to Fan Wei. Fan Wei nodded almost imperceptibly, then picked up a thick stack of QQ chat logs from the table and threw them in front of Zhou Mingyuan: "Don't waste time. These are your chat logs with Sun Wei. Every word is evidence of how you deceived Sun Wei and how you carried out the abduction!"
Zhou Mingyuan's face turned ashen.
When he realized that everything he had said was under police control, he felt as if his face had been ripped to shreds, and he was overwhelmed with extreme shame and anger.
If we were to use a term from later generations to describe it, it would be "social death".
Zhou Mingyuan screamed, "This is an invasion of privacy! I'm going to sue you! This is my private chat with Sun Wei, how could you... how could you..."
After talking for a while, he still couldn't find a suitable word, and could only nervously repeat the three words "How could..."
Fan Wei leaned back in his chair leisurely: "You tricked Sun Wei out of school under the pretense of meeting an online friend, took her to Lijing Garden, and then moved her to Chenxi Garden, cutting off her contact with the outside world and imprisoning her. Your criminal facts are clear and the chain of evidence is complete. Whether you admit it or not, you will be punished by law."
Zhou Mingyuan struggled desperately, but was pinned down by the police officers standing by. At that moment, he finally felt panic: "Let me see Sun Wei, let me see her! I'm doing this for her own good, I didn't hurt her, I just wanted to help her, we're dating..."
Fan Wei leaned forward slightly, his gaze piercing as he stared directly into Zhou Mingyuan's eyes. His words became razor-sharp: "Zhou Mingyuan, stop acting! You're just a pathetic wretch, extremely selfish, who needs to manipulate others to satisfy his morbid lust for power! You chose Sun Wei not because she needed help, but because she's young, naive, and emotionally vulnerable under the pressure of her family, making her easy prey. You meticulously crafted your words, posing as an understanding person, but in reality, you were plotting step by step to turn her into your spiritual slave. You didn't enjoy the process of helping her, but rather the thrill of completely controlling her and watching her obey and beg for your mercy. Your so-called love and help are nothing but a disgusting desire for control from beginning to end! You're committing a crime! You're using the most insidious methods to turn a young girl into your slave!"
"You, you're talking nonsense!!" Hearing Fan Wei's sharp words and seeing the printed chat history, Zhou Mingyuan could no longer maintain his false calm. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he suddenly jumped up from his chair, his face contorted with extreme anger and shame at being exposed, turning a terrifying purplish-red.
Inside the observation room, Jiang Ling watched Zhou Mingyuan's momentary breakdown and disarray behind the one-way glass, her gaze deep and thoughtful. She knew that interrogating Zhou Mingyuan was just the beginning; the truly arduous task lay in rescuing Sun Wei.
The root cause of Sun Wei's being mentally controlled by Zhou Mingyuan lies in her family.
Getting rid of Zhou Mingyuan is only the first step. Next, we must help Sun Wei rebuild her confidence, return to school, and successfully complete the college entrance examination. However, Sun Wei is currently in a state of near-collapse, extremely afraid of social interaction and unwilling to see anyone. What can be done?
Zhou Mingyuan's understanding of Sun Wei and her family was beyond that of ordinary people, and some of his statements were not wrong.
Sun Wei's parents constantly belittled her, which made her very vulnerable. She needed someone to help her build confidence and see the right direction.
To achieve this, her self-confidence must be rebuilt, she must face reality, and she must break free from the poison of her family of origin.
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