"Jun Jie... do you realize that stealing your grandfather’s belongings, having them end up at the police station, will have a major impact on him?"
"... I know."
Yin Junjie stared wide-eyed, "Fourth Granny, if a person has a clear conscience, why would they fear such an impact?"
Su Xiaong frowned slightly,
"Yes, having a clear conscience ans not being afraid, but I must say sothing unpleasant. Your grandfather is not an entirely just person, what he has done..."
"If he has a guilty conscience, then he will receive the punishnt he deserves."
"..."
All the words Su Xiaong had prepared in her mind stopped abruptly at her lips.
"Fourth Granny, I took my grandfather’s things without his consent, so I got a beating. Dad and Grandpa made their mistakes and should be punished the sa way. That’s fair."
Yin Junjie looked directly at Su Xiaong, and in his youthful, dark eyes, one could see the justice in this child’s heart.
Su Xiaong t his gaze for a long ti, pressed her lips together, and thought maybe she had underestimated this child.
He knew and understood much more than she had imagined.
She reached out and patted his head,
"Having a little grandson like you makes Fourth Granny both proud and compassionate..."
This child shouldn’t have to grow up in such a family. The elders in this family don’t deserve to be his guardians.
"Did Fourth Granny really co just to see today?"
"What else?"
Su Xiaong smiled bitterly in helplessness,
"Knowing the things ca from you, how could I not worry? But... I can only worry in vain. This is your ho, your grandfather is your grandfather... Fourth Granny can do very little."
She spoke like this, but she had already made a decision in her heart.
One day, she would give this child a better environnt, a deeper sense of family, so he could see the kindness and beauty in this world.
Make sure this boy, whose heart is rooted in a deep sense of justice, won’t regret any decision he makes today.
"Fourth Granny, I’m already satisfied that you’ve taken the ti to co see despite your busy schedule!"
Yin Junjie laughed, a smile coming from his heart.
Su Xiaong felt a pang of sorrow for this child,
"Fourth Granny can’t do much right now, but rember, if you encounter any difficulty again, talk to Fourth Granny first, understand? If your family hits you again, tell Fourth Granny."
"Fourth Granny would even dare to snatch you away outright."
Yin Junjie paused, his eyes suddenly reddened. He sniffed, chuckled twice, and looked at Su Xiaong,
"Fourth Granny, do you rember? When you and Fourth Grandpa got married in Bali Island, Du Qian and I had a squabble, and what you said to then?"
"..."
"You said... if parents always protect their kids and always call on soone to stick up for them..."
"Then when the child grows up, they’ll do the sa... always calling soone to stick up for them..."
"You said that if Jun Jie doesn’t want to beco a sissy, then I shouldn’t always rely on my parents to stand up for whenever there’s a problem."
"Hitting others when you don’t get what you want is sothing only a sissy would do..."
"I said I was a man, and you told n protect girls and don’t make them cry..."
"Fourth Granny, the first ti I ever apologized to soone was because of your teaching... Every word you said I’ve kept in my heart..."
"When I look at you, I find it amazing. You’re the first person to tell you wouldn’t stand up for or discipline others for ..."
"I don’t know why, even though I have my parents’ protection and should feel safe, when I heard you say a man should protect others rather than be protected, I felt... very excited..."
Yin Junjie, maybe feeling a bit embarrassed by his words, touched his nose,
"I don’t like Grandpa, I don’t like Grandma, I don’t like Dad, I don’t like the woman who drove my Mom away, and... I don’t particularly like Mom either... but I really like you and Fourth Grandpa..."
This child spoke his true feelings, his words tinged with a sob, making Su Xiaong’s chest tighten,
"Fourth Grandpa is gone... Such a sad thing, but I heard Grandpa and Dad laughing about it... sob sob..."
Yin Junjie couldn’t hold back his tears any longer.
Su Xiaong quickly reached out to embrace the child, gently stroking his hair over and over.
"Jun Jie, if your Fourth Grandpa knew you were so distressed over his death, he would feel comforted."
Yin Junjie’s tears were a sudden outbreak of emotions, and after crying for a while, he quickly pulled himself together, looking up at Su Xiaong,
"Fourth Granny, don’t worry. Even though I’m young, from now on, I will do my best to protect you! Even if Fourth Grandpa isn’t here, I won’t let anyone bully you!"
..............
After leaving Yin Shiqing’s ho, Xiao ng sat alone in the car for a long ti before driving away from the neighborhood.
The docunts Yin Junjie stole from Yin Shiqing were taken by Guo Shuai.
Yin Junjie confessed to this as soon as he got ho that day.
Yin Shiqing and Yin Bowen quickly sent people to find Guo Shuai, but there were no more leads.
They didn’t know that this evidence of Wu Rong’s cri had already fallen into Bai Sidong’s hands.
Yin Shiqing told the truth to Wu Rong, who hung up the phone in a fit of rage.
No one knew whether Wu Rong believed what Yin Shiqing said.
Wu Rong was not one to sit idle and wait for death. Knowing that the evidence Yin Shiqing had was missing, he kept a close eye on his phone, emails, and any visitors.
According to Yin Shiqing, the person who ultimately got the docunts was not a good person either, just a thug and a hooligan.
Wu Rong didn’t think too much into it and was sure this person would eventually co to him.
With this thought, Wu Rong felt he might be lucky amid misfortune.
Having evidence in the hands of a brainless thug might be easier to control than in soone as calculating as Yin Shiqing.
Wu Rong had mostly dealt with smart people over the years, so he didn’t anticipate that a "brainless" thug could be even harder to control than a cunning smart person.
This "brainless" thug indeed planned to use the docunts to properly extort this "big man".
But while Wu Rong anticipated the beginning, he didn’t predict the ending.
On the fourth day of the disappearance of the docunts, Wu Rong beca a bit restless.
He waited during the day, and at night, but what he was waiting for didn’t co. Instead, sothing unexpected appeared.
Wu Rong was quite startled when he saw the news push notification pop up on his phone—
A 15-year-old case reopens, the family of the deceased detective seeks justice for their husband, hoping the governnt will right the wrong.
Wrongful cases aren’t exactly rare nowadays, so the headline didn’t scare Wu Rong. What frightened him was a na that appeared under the headline in a small subtitle.
Wu Yao.
Wu Rong clicked on the long blog post and read it carefully from beginning to end.
The more he read, the more startling it beca, chilling his spine and leaving him breathless.
Who was it?
Who had betrayed him?
The blog post contained far too many confidential details, details that could not have been recorded or preserved in writing and could only have been known by those involved at the ti.
There were only a few who played roles in the case involving Wu Yao.
Wu Rong imdiately called these people, getting similar responses from all of them—none would dare risk self-exposure to reopen a 15-year-old case, surely they weren’t insane.
The blog was published by Lu Ping. But if Lu Ping knew this information at the ti of Wu Yao’s death,
it was impossible for her to keep it secret all these years.
But if she had learned of it recently, soone must have betrayed him...
Yet Wu Rong couldn’t find any reason or motive for anyone to betray him...
Who was it really, who was causing trouble!
Wu Rong overturned all the docunts before the case, clenching his fists tightly.
................
With the reopening of the case from 15 years ago, the nas of the people involved at the ti were listed in the blog.
Among them, the most talked about was Wu Yao’s brother, Wu Rong.
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