Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 154 - 127: Song Hongyi’s Testimony

At first, they didn’t suspect the nanny, and his wife thought she had just misplaced it. But after searching the entire room and finding no trace of the jewelry, they gradually focused their attention on the nanny.

[This nanny is just too much, isn’t she? Getting paid thirty thousand yuan a month, and still resorting to theft, isn’t that a bit too stupid? If it were me, I’d definitely do my job well and not get into such nonsense.]

[More than that, thirty thousand covers room and board, with no transportation costs, so it’s pure profit. Plus, you get to eat and drink with the family. This job is just too good.]

[Had I known, I would have become a nanny after graduating...]

[Guys, stop arguing and let him finish his story.]

Song Hongyi continued to speak calmly, "Later, after confirming that she indeed stole the items, my wife and I considered reporting to the police."

"But thinking about how she had worked for the family for so many years, it was hard to be ruthless, so we told her to return the items, and then she could just leave the job."

[Sigh... you two are really good people. Even then, you’re still thinking about the thief.]

[If it were me, I’d have sent her straight to jail, and then none of this later stuff would have happened.]

Song Hongyi let out a deep sigh, visibly burdened with guilt. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

These days, he couldn’t help but think if he hadn’t been soft-hearted, his two closest people wouldn’t have been killed by that ruthless nanny.

But no matter what he thought, it was already too late.

"Maybe I should’ve handled it that way back then."

After the nanny was dismissed, they thought the matter was over.

But they never expected to face retaliation, and a week later, their house was engulfed in flames.

Song Hongyi said, "I was out on business at the time, so I wasn’t home."

His fist struck the table in front of him, seemingly suppressing his strength, "But had I known, I’d have rather died in that fire."

[Sigh... I don’t know what else to say to comfort you, just try to live on.]

[Has the nanny been caught? This terrible culprit must not go unpunished!]

Song Hongyi pinched his nose bridge, "The police are trying hard, but they haven’t caught her yet."

[What!?]

He switched the topic, "But don’t worry, although our house burned down and most of our assets went up in smoke, and my youngest son is still waiting for medical expenses, I will definitely pull myself together as soon as I can!"

Previously, his family was considered wealthy.

But the fire nearly destroyed it all.

The house was bought on a loan, so there were many underlying issues.

He lowered his gaze, hiding his true emotions in his eyes. On the surface, nothing seemed amiss, but he was secretly glancing at what people were saying in the comments.

When he noticed that netizens hadn’t mentioned the ’key’ point, his arm off-screen moved slightly, he picked up another phone and typed a few lines.

[User108923573: I remember seeing online before that he’s having issues with his cash flow, and his youngest son is in critical condition from extensive burns, and lacks money for surgery.]

[What? Quick, put up the account number, we’ll donate to you!]

[I know, I know, I’ve seen his crowdfunding info, I’ll share it in the fan group now.]

...

Netizens acted very quickly, and coupled with Song Hongyi’s emotional speech just now, it quickly garnered public sympathy, so everyone hurried to donate money.

Large sums were hundreds, small sums were a dozen.

The livestream had tens of thousands of viewers, and even if only a third donated, it was still a considerable amount.

Watching his bank balance grow, Song Hongyi could hardly contain his grin.

He knew his plan would work.

Ever since the incident, he had been thinking of ways to garner wider public sympathy to secure donations.

He had done interviews, contacted media, and even independently found people to help him defend his rights.

Of course, he had also tried hosting livestreams like this.

The issue did gain publicity and even trended multiple times, gaining him tens of thousands of fans who sympathized with his plight.

However, donation results had always been mediocre.

That’s when he realized that he needed a ’stage’ to tell the whole story comprehensively.

After all, whether on Weibo or through interviews, netizens were only seeing snippets.

When he opened the Whale platform and saw Mu Yunchu’s livestream on the homepage, he knew his chance had come.

And that’s how this played out.

He had it all planned out: once the donation hype died down, he could start selling goods during livestreams and earn another hefty sum.

With his goal met, Song Hongyi understood well the wisdom of "too much is as bad as not enough," and promptly apologized to Mu Yunchu.

"Sorry, streamer, I lost control."

"Perhaps it’s loneliness; whenever someone brings up my wife’s matter these days, I get lost in memories and become overly talkative."

He maintained a submissive stance.

Because he knew, as long as Mu Yunchu wasn’t a fool, they wouldn’t pick a fight over this at such a time.

Reading the comments, a gleam appeared in Song Hongyi’s eyes.

Now, public opinion was completely within his grasp.

...

At the same time.

Qinghe City Public Security Bureau’s official account was nearly ’overrun’.

Hu Chi walked into Zhou Zhicheng’s office with a phone, telling him, "Starting ten minutes ago, our accounts on Weibo and the Whale platform suddenly flooded with comments."

And almost all of them were criticizing us.

Since these two platforms had always been under his management, he intended to log in and repost a routine ’anti-fraud’ note just now and noticed this situation.

Now, in the internet age, as police, their image must be carefully maintained.

The power of rumors cannot be underestimated; they cannot allow their image among the public to be tarnished.

Especially when thousands of comments surged within minutes, Hu Chi instantly sensed something was amiss.

Opening them, he found out they were related to the ’nanny arson case’ recently handled.

Although clues could already confirm this nanny as the arsonist, oddly, they hadn’t caught her yet.

Naturally, this was why netizens were berating them.

Zhou Zhicheng scrolled through comments calling them ’incompetent’ or ’inefficient’ and asked, "What suddenly brought this to their attention?"

With his experience, he knew it was impossible without someone stirring the pot.

Hu Chi’s mouth twitched, "Because the victim’s family went to Mu Yunchu’s livestream."

"I heard it’s for a fortune telling now."