The next few chapters contain scenes related to intense abuse that may be triggering to read. Please read at your own risk and be guided accordingly. Though, the circumstances might change throughout the story.
Shen Yuanye saw the news of Li Xinyi’s family bankruptcy on the Internet.
This incident has no effect on her at all. In fact, because of this, it is easier to sue Li Xinyi. Li Xinyi certainly cannot afford to hire a powerful lawyer.
A few days later, Tang Feng came over with new information, “Miss Shen, as expected, we found a small piece of surveillance and it happened to have a clip at that time.”
This refers to the incident six months ago.
Shen Yuanye immediately livened up, “Really? It was really recorded?”
Tang Feng opened a folder on the computer, which had a video file. The cover was the studio that Shen Yuanye was familiar with.
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Although it is a dark basement, it still costs a lot of money. She was only able to rent it after she sold the handbags she had in her apartment for a discounted price.
She also reluctantly sold her remaining shoes and clothes.
Mother Li is weak and cowardly. She always listens to other people. Her husband ran away with the money, so now she only listens to her daughter. She still groans and sighs in despair though.
Early in the morning, Li Xinyi couldn’t sleep soundly: “Xinyi, don’t you need to go out… looking for a job? It will be late if you don’t get up now.”
Li Xinyi said in a bad mood: “Why don’t you go looking for a job?”
Now that her stepfather ran away, they can only live in these kinds of places in the future. The rent and utility bills are quite high.
Suddenly someone knocked on the door.
Li Xinyi came out of the room and opened the door. It was a courier who delivered a document-like folder. She closed the door and asked, “Mom, is this yours?”
Mother Li said: “No.”
Li Xinyi was puzzled and opened the folder. A piece of paper fell out of it. When she saw the content on it, her expression suddenly changed.
“What is it?” Mother Li walked over.
Even though she only had a few years of education, she can still read the words on the paper clearly. The words of the court subpoena are quite obvious.
Shen Yuanye really sent her a court subpoena!
***
Not long after the court subpoena was given, Zhao Qiulu deleted the previous Weibo post with a guilty conscience.
However, this is of no avail. Tang Feng has already obtained relevant screenshots, and there is also evidence in the recording.
It’s not the first time those marketing accounts have encountered this kind of thing, but most of the time it is just a lawyer’s letter. There is no need to take it seriously. Who would have thought that this time it turned out to be a court subpoena?
It is much more formal than a lawyer’s letter.
Meanwhile, Weibo became lively.
Shen Yuanye gave the full authority of the matter to Tang Feng for him to manage. Tang Feng would also report the progress of the matter to her every day, including the defendant’s useless effort.
These are all within their expectations.
She still has classes to attend. But when Shen Yuanye went there after a week, she felt something is wrong. The atmosphere in the classroom is wrong.
She is not familiar with those models, so she is in no position to ask.
It’s just that Shen Yuanye thought too easy of this matter. Almost everyone in the classroom is absent-minded. They even made mistakes many times.
The teacher is also helpless, “It is useless to worry. The case has been reported, and Zhou Lu will be searched for by the police.”
Zhou Lu is missing?
Shen Yuanye did not expect this to be the case.
The teacher saw that almost everyone is not focused so she ended today’s class ahead of schedule. When she left, the discussion started in twos and threes.
“It seems that she disappeared suddenly, who knows what happened.”
“Do you think Zhou Lu was kidnapped? After all, she is a big popular model, and it is possible to ask for a lot of money in exchange for her.”
“…”
Everyone discussed it differently, and Shen Yuanye also guessed the current situation from it.
Zhou Lu has disappeared, and no one knows how she disappeared.
This is normal. Zhou Lu and these people have basically never spoken. It would be weird if they knew how she disappeared.
Shen Yuanye changed her clothes and left the classroom first.
Liu Li had been waiting outside for a long time, walking side by side with her, “Recently, there is another endorsement. It is for milk tea. The price is not bad, but you must agree to it.”
“Milk tea? Haven’t all the domestic milk tea brands already been released? Why should I join in for fun?” Shen Yuanye asked.
“It’s not the two well-known brands now. It’s a new brand.”
Shen Yuanye thought of the level of competition between the two well-known milk tea brands. It is not easy for a new milk tea brand to suddenly emerge.
Liu Li added: “The other party offered a price of one million yuan. It seems that they are throwing caution to the wind (TLN: This means that the new milk tea brand is doing something without worrying about the risk or negative results. They are willing to spend that much for Shen Yuanye’s endorsement). With your current status, this price is considered very good.”
Shen Yuanye thought for a while.
Since Liu Li will talk to her about this matter, it means that she thinks it is a good idea to do it since the endorsement is very simple.
As for this endorsement fee, it’s probably because of Zhang Wentao and Li Mengran. Otherwise, one million dollars would be a point that she couldn’t reach yet.
Shen Yuanye said: “Let them send me a box of milk tea first for me to taste.”
“Okay, you will receive it soon.”
Liu Li said it would come soon, and it really came soon. In the evening, there was a knock on Shen Yuanye’s apartment door. She opened the door and saw that someone delivered two boxes of milk tea.
The other party was very polite: “This is for Miss Shen to taste for free.”
Shen Yuanye told them to put the box of milk tea next to the entrance of her apartment. There are suddenly two boxes of milk tea next to the entrance of her apartment, and she is not used to it.
The other party left soon.
Shen Yuanye opened the two boxes. The first box of milk tea is the original flavor, and the second box of milk tea had a different flavor. She randomly took one and boiled the water to steep the tea.
The taste is pretty good, but she doesn’t know how it will feel after drinking it for a long time.
The next day, Shen Yuanye went to the company.
The news of Zhou Li’s disappearance had obviously dispersed. Some trainees also knew about it. They feared that it would also happen to them.
Shen Yuanye went to Liu Li’s office, “Sister Li, has Sister Zhou Lu disappeared?”
Liu Li sighed when she heard this, “Yes, she went missing the day before yesterday. It had not been twenty-four hours yesterday, so the case is finally filed today.”
Zhou Lu’s agent is the one who said that Zhou Lu is missing.
Zhou Lu never shuts down her phone. If the first call does not get received, usually the second call will be connected.
After Zhou Lu and her agent separated at the company, her agent suddenly remembered something that she forgot to tell Zhou Lu. But the call never got through.
From yesterday till now, there is almost a hundred calls.
Zhou Lu’s friends and family had no information from her. Even the place where Zhou Lu lives gave no clues. It was as if she suddenly disappeared from the world.
Liu Li urged: “You should be more careful when you go outside now.”
Shen Yuanye had heard this sentence countless times since she came to Hua Yi. It was in this tone every time too. But she has to say that the concern is very heartwarming.
Shen Yuanye responded, “Sister Li, I will be careful.”
Just a week ago, Zhou Lu and Shen Yuanye had a conversation.
Shen Yuanye has a good impression of Zhou Lu. Although Zhou Lu looked lazy, she is very nice to people and had a good personality.
Maybe Weibo knows something.
There is an anonymously follow option now anyway. Even if she follows her hundreds of times, no one will notice it.
After someone exposed the matter of her following and unfollowing people, Shen Yuanye immediately followed Zhang Wentao and the others. Her following list finally has a few more people.
Zhou Lu’s Weibo is easy to find, and her popularity on Weibo is not low.
Shen Yuanye anonymously followed her. Soon, a death photo and the date of death jumped out.
Name: Zhou Lu
Date of Birth: September 26, 1991
Date of Death: May 21, 2018
Just a few days later?
It seems that it has been a long time since she saw such a recent death date. Shen Yuanye can’t remember clearly who’s date of death it was, but she didn’t expect Zhou Lu to pass away at such a young age.
Zhou Lu in her deceased portrait is her current young and beautiful appearance. In the black and white photo, she looks even more perfect, with harmonious and elegant features.
Unlike before, this time the calendar line is only five days, and the remaining two days are gray. Shen Yuanye understood this situation at once.
Zhou Lu must have died on the sixth day, so nothing is displayed.
Shen Yuanye clicked on each of the five days.
In the previous four days, Zhou Lu has been in the same room. The room is not big, and the things placed are messy, and there is a lot of rubbish on the floor.
The curtains are pulled tightly, letting in a little light.
Zhou Lu’s expression is not very good-looking, and her cold expression is even colder than usual.
But it makes sense. Anyone that is a human would not accept the fact that they are locked in such a place with such weak lighting and tied up.
Even if Zhou Lu could bear it, she couldn’t bear that she didn’t have any freedom at all.
The picture on the fifth day shows that she is still in that room.
Zhou Lu is tied up with some wires wrapped around her body. The wires are about the thickness of disposable chopsticks and they are all over her body. Zhou Lu’s eyes are closed.
There is text below the picture:
[Zhou Lu is entangled by wires and eventually lost her breath and died of suffocation.]
Shen Yuanye is shocked by this picture.
She continued to look down and slid to the video of the death scene.
The video is still one minute, and Shen Yuanye is mentally prepared and clicks play.
The location is the room in the previous picture. Zhou Lu is lying on the bed with her eyes closed, but a few seconds later, she suddenly sat up.
With this action, the sound of a door opening came from the video.
Soon, a pair of legs appear in the range of the video. But because of the limited range and the other person is standing, only the lower body is photographed.
Zhou Lu’s feet and hands are tied, and she could only stare at the man.
The man is wearing loose trousers, and a small section of his jacket showed. It can be seen that he is very fat, even to the point of obesity, and she can tell that he is a man.
The man stretched out his hand to tighten the rope on Zhou Lu’s hand, even entwining it around her arm, drawing some red marks.
Zhou Lu’s mouth is taped, so she couldn’t make a sound.
Half a minute has passed in the video. Just when Shen Yuanye thought this would continue, the man suddenly took out something that looked like a wire.
He directly wrapped Zhou Lu’s neck and arms together. Within ten seconds, Zhou Lu’s entire body is wrapped tightly.
She could clearly see Zhou Lu’s strangled skin from the video.
The last entanglement returned to Zhou Lu’s neck, wrapped tightly, and then pulled tight. Zhou Lu’s face gradually flushed and she couldn’t breathe.
Her slender neck is being strangled by the wire, which looked creepy.
Zhou Lu’s mouth is taped in the first place. Being tied up like this, she is already panting frequently. But then this happened.
Finally, Zhou Lu didn’t have any response at all.
TLN: Please let us know if there are any mistakes, or any parts you are confused with!
oh nooo, i think the company has bad energy. so many cases happen
So creepy right? I’m getting scared too (꒪ȏ꒪;) (꒪ȏ꒪;)