Chapter 78.4: “Ji Lin, I found the key evidence!”

Fortunately, because Xie Miao had previously investigated Tian Mu’s whereabouts, there were records of the day he went to the gym on the investigation report. Therefore, Bai Duan Duan was finally rescued from the vast video surveillance.

As soon as she returned to the office, she retrieved the video surveillance of Tian Mu’s visits to the gym those days, made herself a cup of tea, and sat in her seat to review the footage frame by frame.

With people coming and going in the public area, and the angle of the camera causing some footage to be missing, it was actually quite difficult to investigate. Another lawyer might consider it a waste of time and effort, since whether they win the lawsuit or not doesn’t affect their fees. However, Bai Duan Duan couldn’t do that. Since she promised the client, even if a plan had only a one in a million chance of success, she would try it. Just like Ji Lin, his time was valuable, but he still gave his all to every case. At this moment, Bai Duan Duan was reviewing the surveillance footage at her desk, while Ji Lin was reviewing another set of surveillance footage in his office. The two decided to investigate separately first and then double-check each other’s footage to ensure that there were no omissions.

Tian Mu went to the gym for a total of eight days. Bai Duan Duan was responsible for reviewing the first four days of video, while Ji Lin was responsible for the last four.

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On the third day, they finally captured footage of Tian Mu entering Aegis, and sure enough, they also captured footage of Lu Shuisheng, but there was not a single shot of the two of them together, let alone footage of them talking.

Bai Duan Duan felt dizzy after watching for a while. He communicated with Ji Lin and found out that Ji Lin had already finished watching the surveillance footage that he was responsible for, but there was no decisive evidence in the surveillance footage from those days.

This time, Ji Lin’s face was unusually solemn: “In my video, I did see Tian Mu and Lu Shuisheng appear in the aisle within a few minutes of each other on the same day. Then they went into the men’s locker room one after the other. I strongly suspect that they completed the transfer of the USB or some other material in the locker room. After all, they chose a time when there weren’t many people in the gym, and even if there were people in the men’s locker room, they wouldn’t have noticed these two people talking or exchanging things.”

Ji Lin paused for a moment, glanced at Bai DuanDuan, “I think your thinking is correct. But the problem is that even though I saw this monitoring footage, it cannot be considered as key evidence because the men’s locker room in Eger’s gym should be very large. Tian Mu and Lu Shuisheng can easily claim that they didn’t meet each other in the locker room, which is also reasonable. After all, we have no evidence, and there are no monitoring probes in the men’s locker room because of privacy issues. Even if we force to retrieve the footage, it would be in vain.”

Bai Duanduan naturally understood the pros and cons. There was indeed Lin Hui’s guidance behind Tian Mu, and this operation was seamless. After all, no matter what store’s locker room, it is impossible to have monitoring, which is a blind spot for evidence gathering…

Therefore, the victory or defeat was left in the monitoring video of the last day in their hands.

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After communicating with Ji Lin, Bai DuanDuan returned to his seat, dripped some eye drops, encouraged herself, and then continued working.

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Unfortunately, in the long period of time before this video, neither Tian Mu nor Lu Shuisheng appeared…

Just when Bai DuanDuan was almost desperate, perhaps it was the heavens not abandoning those who persist, she saw about 80% of the video, approaching the end, and although Tian Mu still didn’t appear, Tang Li did.

If Tang Li was there, wouldn’t that mean Tian Mu must be there? And if they could also capture some interaction between Lu Shuisheng and Tian Mu… the matter could be easily resolved!

Bai DuanDuan almost instantly became alert and focused her full attention on the computer screen. However, after waiting for about ten minutes, Tian Mu still did not appear in the footage. Tang Li was bored, sitting in the reception room chair, and then she took out a small mirror to touch up her makeup, followed by taking out her phone for selfies.

There were only about ten minutes left until the end of this segment of the surveillance video, and it seemed impossible to capture any interaction between Tian Mu and Lu Shuisheng…

Just when Bai DuanDuan was about to give up, the heavens gave her a pleasant surprise.

Tian Mu didn’t show up, but Lu Shuisheng did.

He glanced at Tang Li for a moment, seemingly impressed by her appearance, then waited a moment and didn’t see Tang Li looking up, so he walked over and sat down next to her on the reception room chair.

In the video, after a while, it seemed that Lu Shuisheng found a topic and started chatting with Tang Li who was sitting next to him. Fair to say, Lu Shuisheng was one of the more handsome bosses, with a smile on his face, and he seemed quite amiable and humorous in his speech. After a while, Tang Li couldn’t stop laughing, and the two chatted for a bit. Then Lu Shuisheng took out his business card and handed it to Tang Li. They agreed to add each other on WeChat. Tang Li took out her phone and had Lu Shuisheng scan her QR code. After that, Lu Shuisheng greeted Tang Li and left. Not long after, Tian Mu also walked out of the gym and into the reception area. Tang Li stood up, held his arm, and walked away as if nothing had happened.

The video did not capture any interaction between Tian Mu and Lu Shuisheng, but Bai DuanDuan felt excited and overjoyed.

She rushed into Ji Lin’s office with her laptop and exclaimed, “Ji Lin, I’ve found the key evidence!”

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Author has something to say: Sorry, I thought I could finish this case in this chapter, but something came up suddenly, and I couldn’t continue writing. I’ll finish the ending in the next chapter.

[Small Theatre]

After witnessing Bai Duan Duan’s deadly cooking skills, Rong Sheng only has three requirements for finding a partner:

1. Alive
2. Female
3. Able to cook edible food without causing fatalities

Out of frustration, he secretly made a set of memes for Bai Duan Duan, with captions like:

“Want to date me? Prepare to die from my cooking.”

“Want to date me? Prepare to reach the heavens.”

“Want to date me? Prepare to go bankrupt.”

“Want to date me? Prepare to be beaten to a pulp.”

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Bai Duan Duan: …