"My child, give me back my daughter!"

"Give my child justice!"

In front of the school gate, a middle-aged couple sat on the ground, crying their hearts out, holding an enlarged photo of Wei Caiwen from when she was alive, and beside them were signs with the words ’A life for a life’ written on them.

No need to think to know, these are definitely Wei Caiwen’s parents. The body was discovered yesterday morning, and her parents rushed over in the afternoon.

In just one night, they managed to create such a large scene, which suggests that someone must have advised them.

Moreover, they were surrounded by crowds, some were students, some were passersby, and of course, there were also reporters with cameras.

The scene was quite chaotic, but fortunately, police officers and school security were maintaining order nearby.

In situations like this, even the police cannot forcibly remove people. Firstly, they are not inside the school grounds, secondly, their child did die at the school, so the school should provide an explanation, and thirdly, how can you not let the family vent their emotions after facing such a tragedy?

This is Jiang City, a first-tier city in the country, relatively developed, not a small place where gray forces can suppress things forcibly.

Moreover, this incident has already been reported. Nowadays, the power of online public opinion cannot be underestimated.

At most, you can block some information online, but as long as there is attention, it can’t be completely suppressed.

The reason it’s said that someone advised them is because, in just one night, the parents made such a big move, resorting to this method of pressure, someone must have prompted them to do so.

After all, when one experiences such an event, grief is overwhelming, leaving no energy for such actions.

And who advised them is quite obvious. Just glance at the surrounding reporters; for some journalists, all that matters is having views, the method is irrelevant.

Such actions are beneficial and harmless for Wei Caiwen’s parents, it’s a win-win situation for both parties.

Su Qing looked at the crowd from across the street and couldn’t help but sigh. Actually, every year you see students die on campus, but it’s such a rare probability. When it happens, it’s a disaster for that family.

After all, to nurture a university student, especially a senior one, the amount of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and energy required is unimaginable. No family would just accept compensation and let it go.

With over twenty years of nurturing, suddenly it’s all gone? How many families could accept that?

It was already three o’clock in the afternoon. He had obtained the necessary information from Zhang Dandan and was here waiting to meet up with Li Zijun and Du Qiang, when he saw this scene.

"Is that the family of the deceased?" At this moment, Li Zijun’s voice came from behind, and Su Qing slightly turned his head, smiled, and nodded. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"What do you think?" Li Zijun continued to ask.

"How should I put it, it’s conventional. Although it’s not very useful, it’s understandable as human nature, but the leaders of Jiangcheng University and our police comrades will have to work hard for a while."

Indeed, this isn’t the first time such an operation has occurred. It’s probably the last resort for ordinary people. After all, their family isn’t from around here. Having come from afar, unfamiliar with the place and people, they can only use this method to seek justice for their daughter’s death.

"Exactly, if my guess is correct, they probably couldn’t accept that their daughter’s death was most likely a suicide after coming to the police station yesterday, so they acted like this" Li Zijun said softly.

Su Qing nodded, it has to be. The deceased’s family had arrived in Jiangcheng City yesterday afternoon and would surely have come here first to see their daughter’s body. Then, staff would comfort them, perhaps even explain the cause of death.

If there was a murderer, they would have a target to vent on. If there was no murderer and it was suicide, who could accept that? Moreover, who would believe their child would commit suicide for no reason?

"Hey, say, shouldn’t we chip in on the money I spent on machines, buying water, and ordering takeout? I switched to three internet cafes, used four machines, bought 17 bottles of water, and ordered seven takeouts, costing almost over two hundred bucks! Your sister didn’t pay a bit, and you ’Stock God’ should reimburse me!" At this moment, Du Qiang spoke like a grievance, with extreme wrongness in his voice.

He became a police officer to earn money, but who would have thought, after a trip, his money wasn’t even in hand yet, and he lost 200, so today was a wasted day.

On hearing this, Su Qing couldn’t help but look at Li Zijun in surprise: "Sis, the efficiency seems pretty good!"

"Of course, with your sister taking action, isn’t it always smooth sailing?"

"Hey, hey, hey. That was my money, okay? Who’s going to reimburse me? Are you two pretending not to hear me and isolating me?"

"No~pe~!" *2

They said in unison.

Du Qiang: ...

"By the way, sis, does our bureau reimburse for this kind of thing? I kept the receipts," Su Qing asked.

To this, Li Zijun rolled her eyes: "If there’s a clear target, there might be reimbursements, but our situation this time, probably not. For Du Qiang’s takeouts, how can that be reimbursed."

Upon hearing this, Su Qing spread his hands: "Qiangzi, I’m helpless then, how about I come next time?"

Du Qiang: →_→

"Nice ’next time for sure’, you two, cheating male and female! Isn’t this bullying an honest person?"

Facing Du Qiang’s accusation, the two just acted as if they didn’t see it. After all, they plan to take advantage indefinitely.

After a while, Li Zijun spoke again: "How’s your side?"

"It’s okay. Although it’s just one side of the story, there’s a lot of explosive information. Simply put, a female student wanting to use connections to secure graduate studies got envied by another girl. Rumors escalated, her spot was canceled, and she couldn’t take it and committed suicide. I have to say, that Ke Yao played a big part."

This isn’t him talking nonsense. Although respecting the deceased is important, her attempt to secure a grad-school spot through such means is a fact. Would a normal person engage in a relationship with someone in their fifties, even older than her dad, knowing the person is married?

However, no one expected that professor to back out from giving her the grad-school spot once things got out of hand. To this, he can only comment with the phrase, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

"Our side is even more thrilling. Rumor is someone saw the deceased getting an abortion last year, whether true or not. Have Zhou Ning check it out later. Other things align closely with what you mentioned, but there are some discrepancies, and I also got some screenshots, heard it’s from a small group Ke Yao set up, but it looks like the group is disbanded. I think it’s necessary to meet that Ke Yao." Li Zijun nodded.

Their discussions are based on their investigation, mostly hearsay, but all repeatedly mention a person, and that’s Ke Yao. This person must definitely be met.

"Indeed, let’s go then!"

On this point, Su Qing also felt it was time. This case is a suicide case at its core, with no murderer. They are merely investigating the reasons behind the suicide.

Unlike the irrefutable evidence against Professor Jiang, with an improper relationship existing between them, Ke Yao is just a student, making the investigation difficult, particularly in gathering evidence.

Then the group of three moved through the crowd, heading straight for the school gate.

The three of them found the stationed police officers, with their help located Ke Yao’s counselor to identify themselves, wanting to see this student.

"I’m sorry, Ke Yao took a leave this morning to go to the hospital. She’s not in school right now!" a woman in her thirties, the counselor, said to them.

Hearing this, the three exchanged glances. Such a coincidence? Is she really sick or just feeling guilty?

"Can you contact her, or we can go to the hospital and see her!" Li Zijun said calmly.

Just going to the hospital for being sick, not undergoing surgery, why can’t they meet? Unless she’s not in Jiang City, otherwise as police, they are entitled to meet someone.

Seeing the trio eyeing her intently, the counselor also felt uncomfortable. In reality, Ke Yao taking leave was arranged by the school. Given the enormity of the incident and her involvement, students all knew, how could the school leaders be unaware? They just wanted to minimize the impact.

[The school intentionally prevents Ke Yao from appearing to reduce the impact]

Listening to the narration in his head, Su Qing chuckled. The counselor, wiping her sweaty forehead, opened her mouth:

"Um... Given the recent impact on her, she’s mentally affected, how about another day?"

Su Qing: "It’s fine, I’m the psychological doctor at our police station, I can treat her."

Counselor: ...

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