Three days later, the Public Security Bureau finally sorted and archived all the evidence provided by Ding Yun.
They also collected all other evidence from outside the Li family's ancestral grave.
Next, Kong Yanzi was invited over.
The suffocating nature of the process goes without saying; after viewing the evidence, Kong Yanzi had to be put on oxygen.
Later, she was given a tranquilizer shot.
Only then was her emotional state barely calmed.
Following her shock and anger, Kong Yanzi agreed to help the Public Security Bureau collect the final, and most crucial, portion of physical evidence under strict confidentiality.
This involved collecting genetic material from all involved parties.
Her own, Li Rong's, Li Yuning's, Li Xingfan's, the unnamed eldest son, and Su Lian's.
These individuals and the corpses.
Only she had relatively easy access to them.
Of course, collecting information from the corpses did not require her to do it herself. She only needed to cooperate with the Public Security Bureau staff to ensure they could enter the Li family's ancestral grave to collect samples silently.
What followed was a period of waiting.
Another two days passed before all physical evidence was collected and genetic matching began.
As for the final matching results.
They could only be described as fully confirming Ding Yun's suspicions. All the evidence Ding Yun had gathered was true. Kong Yanzi's biological son had indeed died shortly after birth, and it was entirely accurate to say he was killed by her husband.
Li Yuning, whom she had raised as her own for forty years.
Was the child of her husband and another woman.
Li Xingfan was even more outrageous; she was the biological daughter of another woman, Su Lian, and a different man.
The only child with her bloodline still alive.
Was Ding Yun, whom she had previously despised.
What a laughable and tragic situation.
Her entire life felt like a joke, manipulated at the whim of others, while she believed herself to be happy! How ridiculous, how utterly ridiculous.
Even though she had some preparation beforehand, upon seeing the irrefutable evidence, Kong Yanzi, whose emotions became uncontrollable, was quickly taken away by the forensic doctor waiting on standby at the Public Security Bureau and soothed.
Meanwhile, other staff at the Public Security Bureau.
Immediately packed their bags and began their arrest operation.
With lightning speed, they apprehended Li Rong without giving him any chance to react.
This was followed by interrogation, charges for multiple offenses, and so on.
The evidence was too conclusive to be refuted.
Although the media's attention to the Li family's situation had largely waned by this point, and the initial fervor had dissipated, it hadn't vanished entirely. Therefore, when a large contingent of Public Security Bureau personnel entered the Li residence and openly escorted Li Rong away as a criminal suspect, some media outlets still reported on it, viewing it as a resolution to the previous case.
They celebrated the official apprehension of the suspect.
Many netizens who remembered the incident also shared the news and posted comments about the inescapable nature of justice and the eventual triumph of good over evil.
Everyone seemed quite pleased.
They felt Li Rong's arrest was a just deserts.
Some even complained that he wasn't arrested sooner, saying they thought he was already in jail.
As this matter was only reported by a small number of media outlets and the outcome was considered by many to be inevitable, it did not generate significant buzz. After a brief appearance in the top hundred trending topics, it quickly faded into obscurity.
It wasn't until two days later that the Public Security Bureau released an official statement.
Ding Yun cooperated by sharing the news and explaining the entire series of events in detail. Only then did the related heat truly explode. Upon reading it, countless people felt their worldview shattered and quickly forwarded it, unwilling to suffer the shock alone. They believed everyone should experience it together.
And they should unite in their condemnation of this beast.
【After reading this, I'm stunned. Even TV dramas aren't this dramatic. What kind of bizarre values does Li Rong have?】
【The saying "even a tiger doesn't eat its cubs" is unreliable!】
【For a moment, I can't tell who is more pitiful: the child thrown into the toilet immediately after birth and left to freeze or starve, or Kong Yanzi. Good heavens, how can there be such disgusting people in this world? I'm so angry, I hit my husband!】
【Li Rong's father wasn't a good person either. This was clearly a marriage scam orchestrated by father and son.】
【As expected, for a father-in-law, only the son is biological, and the daughter-in-law is an outsider. No matter what wrong the son does to the daughter-in-law, he will always side with his son.】
【Too bad that old guy died early!】
【They should have dug him up and whipped his corpse.】
【Um, does anyone else feel that Su Lian is actually quite pitiful? She didn't really do anything wrong. She dated Li Rong for over four years, and Li Rong either couldn't resist or was too afraid to resist, and married someone else.】
【Then Su Lian was kept in the dark.】
【And passively became a mistress. Isn't that tragic enough?】
【Moreover, she left immediately after giving birth and found an honest man to marry. Uh, although it might not be entirely fair to the honest man, it shows she truly didn't want to follow Li Rong without status.】
【Later, sending their daughter away was also out of desperation. After all, she and her husband were both orphans with no relatives. If they didn't want to send their daughter to an orphanage, they could only ask Li Rong for help with raising her.】
【After all, he at least had feelings and the means.】
【Li Rong was so deranged, Su Lian probably never expected it, and she certainly didn't expect him to exhume her body after her death and bury it in his own ancestral grave.】
【This is simply absurd...】
【That being said, but when I think about how Su Lian's two children became the ultimate beneficiaries, I still feel she wasn't entirely clean. And after abandoning her children, did she never consider what would happen to them? Were they raised as illegitimate children, or how were they raised?】
【I think she actually knew some things.】
【Perhaps precisely because she knew her son was living well, even replacing Kong Yanzi's child and becoming the young master who would inherit the Li family, she became more certain of Li Rong's feelings for her, and before she died, she entrusted her daughter to his care with peace of mind.】
【What's the point of discussing these conspiracy theories now? That person has been dead for almost forty years. And from my perspective, the real culprit is still Li Rong, as these were all his actions.】
【Others could at most influence him.】
【The final decisions were still his own.】
【The engagement and marriage were indeed forced by his father, but couldn't he have resisted? I don't believe his father could have tied him down for an engagement and marriage if he truly refused.】
【It was still his unwillingness to give up wealth and status.】
【And his inability to share hardships with Su Lian.】
【He even fancied himself as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, claiming to love the story of Liang Zhu the most. Don't defile a classic. If you loved it so much, why didn't you elope with Su Lian and die together!】