Ji Yanchen continued, "Where is she now?"
Shi Miao touched the tip of her nose. "She's at the police station. She was taken to give a statement."
"Hmm?" Ji Yanchen was slightly taken aback.
Shi Miao shrugged and said nonchalantly, "It wasn't because I fell into the water that I called the police, it was because someone saw me choking Qin Mingyue, and they called the police on the grounds that I was trying to kill her."
Ji Yanchen frowned. He knew that Shi Miao was not the type to act rashly unless the other party had done something really outrageous.
What did Qin Mingyue do to you?
Shi Miao hadn't intended to hide it from him. She lowered her eyelashes slightly, took a sip of the hot water in her hand to moisten her throat, and said, "I was trying to jump into the lake to retrieve the photos when she suddenly tackled me to the ground, holding a syringe and trying to stab me in the neck. You know what happened next."
Ji Yanchen's eyes gleamed with a slightly cold light, clearly indicating that he didn't intend to let Qin Mingyue off easily this time. "What photos?"
Shi Miao squeezed the paper cup in her hand. "The photo of Mom, it must have been given to her by Qin Chu..."
Ji Yanchen narrowed his eyes slightly. "So they want to lure you out with the photos, take the opportunity to inject the drug into your body again, and then just kidnap you."
Shi Miao hummed in agreement, then took out the photos she had retrieved from the lake from her pocket and began to look at them one by one.
Seeing this, Ji Yanchen walked over to her side and started looking at it together.
There are three photos in total.
The first two photos were taken when Gu Wanqing was pregnant, but in one of them her belly looks particularly big, as if she is carrying twins.
Shi Miao's eyes flickered slightly, and she couldn't help but recall what Qin Mingyue had said earlier.
She wasn't really convinced at first, but now that she saw the photo, she was almost 100% certain.
Shi Miao pursed her lips, her expression seemingly somewhat solemn, and slowly picked up the second photo, revealing the bottom one.
The first thing you see is a photo of a newborn baby.
However, the baby on the screen had its eyes closed and its face was grayish-blue, showing no signs of life; it was likely a stillborn infant.
"This is...?" Ji Yanchen's eyes were filled with surprise.
Shi Miao subconsciously clenched the photo in her hand and said in a deep voice, "Qin Mingyue said I have an older brother who died shortly after birth..."
Ji Yanchen's surprise seemed to deepen, and his brain started working at lightning speed.
So, Gu Wanqing was pregnant with twins back then, a boy and a girl.
But why did the older brother, who was born first, die? Could it be that Qin Chu killed him?
Furthermore, if Qin Chu didn't even intend to spare the child, then how did Shi Miao escape before being taken out of the hospital?
Shi Miao naturally thought of what Ji Yanchen had thought of as well. She also knew that the most direct way to find out everything about what happened back then was to pry it out of Qin Chu.
Qin Chu's mouth is really tight; when we captured him in M ​​Continent last time, we didn't get any useful information out of him.
As Shi Miao pondered this, she put the photo back into her pocket.
At this moment, the young police officer who had brought her here earlier pushed open the door, glanced at the two people in the office, and said, "Shi Miao, right? It's alright, you can go back now."
Shi Miao snapped out of her daze, turned to look at him, and said calmly, "Okay."
Just as Shi Miao reached the entrance of the police station, she looked up and saw He Zhi leaning against the car in front of her.
She turned her head to the man beside her and said, "Wait here for me."
Ji Yanchen's eyes darkened, and he responded softly, "Mm."
Shi Miao, with her hands in her pockets, slowly walked up to He Zhi and stopped. "Thanks for today."
He Zhi chuckled and adjusted his glasses. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming to Independent Continent?"
"I'm just here to attend an academic conference, I'll be gone in two days." Shi Miao's voice was slightly hoarse, and he seemed somewhat nonchalant.
He Zhi looked her up and down, a barely perceptible smile appearing in his emotionless eyes. "Then why did you make yourself look so disheveled?"
Shi Miao touched the tip of his nose. "It was purely an accident."
He Zhi raised an eyebrow. "Alright, I'll be going now. You should also go back and take a shower and change your clothes so you don't catch a cold."
Shi Miao nodded. "Mm."
After saying goodbye to her, He Zhi turned around, got into his car, and left.
......
Meanwhile, at the police station.
The officer taking the statement put down his pen, looked up at the girl sitting opposite him, and said, "Okay, I understand what you've said, but without actual evidence like CCTV footage, it's quite difficult. You can go home for now, and we'll contact you again after we've investigated further."
Qin Mingyue frowned, clearly dissatisfied with the outcome, and argued, "The strangulation marks on my neck are the strongest evidence, and there were also eyewitnesses at the time."
The officer glanced at another statement that had just been handed to him. "But the other party says that you attacked her first, and that she was only acting in self-defense. And the eyewitness you mentioned didn't witness the whole thing."
He lowered his head and began tidying up the documents on the table, then continued, "You can go back now."
Qin Mingyue's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. She finally realized that the policeman had no intention of handling the case. Filled with anger, she stood up abruptly and left.
As she left the police station, she took out her phone and called Qin Chu, but no one answered after several attempts.
Qin Mingyue stomped her foot in anger and walked to the roadside to flag down a taxi that was coming this way.
She smelled a faint fragrance as soon as she got into the car, but didn't pay much attention to it.
Qin Mingyue glanced at the driver casually, then gave him an address before looking at her phone screen without looking up.
Fu Xi glanced at Qin Mingyue in the back seat through the rearview mirror, curled his lips into a smile, then turned the steering wheel, made a U-turn, and drove off in the opposite direction.
Qin Mingyue had only been in the Independent Continent for a short time, and spent most of her time in the research institute, so she naturally didn't notice anything unusual about the route.
She looked at her phone screen and became increasingly sleepy. Gradually, her eyelids drooped and she fell asleep, her phone falling to her feet.
When she woke up again, the first thing she saw was the white ceiling above her head.
Qin Mingyue shook her heavy head and tried to sit up by propping herself up on her arms, only to find herself handcuffed to the bed.
Her face turned deathly pale, and she felt a chill run down her spine and straight to the top of her head, instantly waking her up.
I suddenly looked down at the clothes I was wearing and realized they were blue striped hospital gowns.
Qin Mingyue's pupils trembled violently, and she was still somewhat dazed, clearly not yet able to process what was happening.
What's going on?
How did I suddenly end up in a hospital when I wasn't in a taxi?
She suddenly remembered the fragrance she smelled before getting into the car, and how she felt sleepy even while looking at her phone. She finally realized that there was something wrong with the driver!
Qin Mingyue felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, her body trembling uncontrollably. She glanced at the empty, white room and was about to be swallowed by fear.
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