Li Zhen's mind went blank for a moment when he saw Chu Rong. He recognized the man, after all, the Chu Group was a prominent entity in A City, and everyone knew its head.
But wasn't he single? And his relationship with the woman in front of him was that of husband and wife? A secret marriage? Was the person attacked last night actually the young madam of the Chu family?
Various questions flashed through his mind. He smiled and said, "It's fine if it's at home." As long as there were no doubts.
Quan Jiu found it convenient not to make another trip and invited Li Zhen into her home.
As soon as they sat down, Li Zhen was the first to confirm their relationship.
Chu Rong took out the marriage certificate and showed it to Li Zhen.
Li Zhen was shocked again when he saw it; they had been married for seven years.
He no longer doubted and instead asked Quan Jiu, "Tell me everything you experienced last night, in meticulous detail."
One of his companions took out a voice recorder and placed it in front of Quan Jiu. Li Zhen opened the small notebook he carried with him and looked at Quan Jiu.
Quan Jiu took a deep breath and slowly recalled.
Chu Rong got up, went to the kitchen, poured a few glasses of juice, and brought them over.
Li Zhen felt a little flustered. The president of the Chu Group was actually serving him drinks, which was truly overwhelming.
"Don't you have any maids at home? I see you're usually quite busy. What about the child?" Li Zhen, driven by his intuition, couldn't help but ask a few more questions.
Chu Rong sat leisurely, "I manage the household chores now. The child has been with their grandparents these past few days."
Li Zhen became even more puzzled, "You must be very busy with work, yet you have time for household chores?"
"I want to spend more time with my wife. I'm working from home currently," Chu Rong said, pointing to a pile of documents under the coffee table.
Li Zhen nodded casually and asked Quan Jiu again, "Tell me what happened to you last night."
"I was working overtime last night and only left the company at ten. When I was passing through the Fudong section, several cars suddenly appeared ahead and blocked my way. There were also two cars attacking from behind. After I was forced to stop, more than ten people got out of those cars. One of them smashed my car window..."
The details of the incident were exactly the same as in the video. Li Zhen believed that at least the content of the video was absolutely true.
He asked again, "So you didn't know her, and she suddenly hired people to surround and beat you?"
Quan Jiu sighed lightly, "At the time of the incident, I really couldn't recall who she was. But later, I remembered. She had auditioned for the crew of 'Fleeting Life.' I had commented on her acting at the time, and she might have held a grudge."
She took out the business cards of Jiang Nan Chen and Wang Fei Fei, "These are the contact details of the director and the director of the crew. You can ask them."
Li Zhen put away the business cards and continued to ask, "How did you escape the scene afterward? Did someone help you, or did you escape on your own? Did you fight back?"
"There were people in the bushes by the roadside at that time. When I was being beaten, those people might have spoken up to stop them. In any case, those people left very quickly. I took the opportunity to escape back to the car and drove away from the scene."
Li Zhen frowned slightly and questioned, "So, you deny cutting Shen Lu's face with a knife?"
Quan Jiu was shocked and confused, "How is that possible? You've seen the video. I'm the victim, and Shen Lu is the perpetrator. After those thugs left in a hurry, I was also terrified. My first reaction was to escape. Why would I provoke Shen Lu?"
You, a woman, might not. But the person next to you, who knows.
Li Zhen looked at Chu Rong, "Where were you from ten to twelve last night, and what were you doing?"
Chu Rong said calmly, "I was at home the entire time."
"So, there's a third party who cut Shen Lu after you escaped. But why did Shen Lu swear that you were the one who cut her?" Li Zhen asked again.
Quan Jiu laughed in anger, "Did she admit to hiring thugs to beat me?"
Li Zhen paused for a moment. Shen Lu indeed hadn't admitted it, but his intuition told him that Shen Lu had definitely hired people to assault him. This meant that she might also be lying about the identity of the assailant.
"She wouldn't dare to admit it, would she?" Quan Jiu said with a sarcastic smile. "When I escaped, she also threatened me, saying that if I dared to call the police, the Shen family would not let me go. I have no power or influence, how could I dare to confront her? That's why I didn't call the police last night."
Li Zhen chuckled, "The young madam of the Chu Group can't be considered without power or influence, can she?" He looked at Chu Rong.
Quan Jiu gave a self-deprecating smile, "We've been married for seven years, and you only just found out he was married? Who would know I'm the young madam of the Chu Group when we go out? To be honest, we are about to get divorced, which is also why I didn't tell him about this."
"I forbid it," Chu Rong's expression turned cold. He glanced at Li Zhen and added, "Divorce."
Li Zhen suddenly understood. No wonder he felt a sense of disharmony between them at first. They were about to divorce. It was understandable that the wife would be unable to tolerate being married in secret for seven years while maintaining a single persona.
Lost in thought, he suddenly realized he was distracted and quickly returned to the main topic.
Next, Li Zhen asked a few more questions, and Quan Jiu answered them all. Li Zhen found no doubts and left with his men.
Upon returning, the evidence from the scene and surveillance footage from various locations were sent to the station.
Li Zhen meticulously checked them several times. The evidence from the scene revealed nothing significant, only proving that Quan Jiu was not lying; she had indeed been surrounded and attacked, and Shen Lu was the instigator.
The surveillance videos also corroborated the statements of Quan Jiu and Chu Rong, with one not leaving the house and the other escaping on time.
In short, after reviewing everything, the biggest breakthrough point lay with the owners of those six cars.
However, in the following days, Li Zhen mobilized many people to search, but there was no trace. Those people seemed to have vanished into thin air, and even their cars couldn't be found.
He vaguely felt that there was something fishy going on, but he couldn't figure it out. In the end, he could only focus his attention on the lying Shen Lu and interrogated her for two consecutive days.
Shen Lu's psychological resilience couldn't withstand it, and she finally confessed, admitting that she did intend to "scare" her, but she still insisted that Quan Jiu was the one who cut her face.
Li Zhen tried to find evidence, but all the clues provided by Shen Lu had disappeared. The existing clues and evidence could not prove Shen Lu's claims at all. In the end, the matter could only be judged as Shen Lu's intentional harm.
As for who harmed Shen Lu, he speculated that it was the escaping thugs. Perhaps they had a disagreement over the price or failed to complete the mission. In any case, they had a conflict with Shen Lu, injured Shen Lu, and Shen Lu, in order to conceal her hiring of thugs, pushed the blame onto Quan Jiu.
Regardless, Shen Lu could not escape the crime of hiring thugs, and the charges were quickly determined. The group that attacked Shen Lu and surrounded Quan Jiu was also wanted, but it was uncertain when they would be found.
After her daughter was convicted, Du Wen Feng, crying and making a scene, found Shen Hai Tian and forced him to find connections to save their daughter. However, Shen Hai Tian threw a contract at Du Wen Feng.
Shen Group was gone. Due to Shen Lu's incident, the stock price plummeted. Chu Group seized the opportunity and acquired Shen Group at a very low price.
In just three days, the Shen family and Shen Lu were completely unable to stir up any trouble.
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On the day Shen Lu was convicted and taken away, Quan Jiu specifically went to the scene to watch.
She stood in the crowd. Although she was wearing a mask, her exceptionally beautiful face could not be hidden even by the mask.
Shen Lu spotted her at a glance, and then, like a soulless doll wound up, she went crazy, screaming and lunging at her.
Unfortunately, before she could get close, she was restrained.
Shen Lu was powerless and could only rage and curse, truly like a madwoman, causing passersby to curse her deserved fate.
Quan Jiu watched Shen Lu's tragic end and silently turned to leave.
She would not have the slightest sympathy for Shen Lu. Seven years ago, she had recognized a truth: being merciful to enemies is being cruel to oneself.
At that time, He Miao, who had been hiding at home to avoid trouble, felt her heart turn as cold as midwinter when she saw the news.
She silently deleted the secretly recorded video that Quan Jiu had not discovered that night, listed Quan Jiu as a level one dangerous person in her heart, and no longer dared to have any ulterior motives. To avoid the truth from coming out, she even processed her passport overnight and flew abroad the very next morning.
The celebrity hiring thugs to assault incident that had stirred up the entire internet finally began to calm down. Quan Jiu also returned to her normal life, until one day, Quan Zhi Wei and Quan Xiao Tang found her.