Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 380: How can there be such a cruel person?

Chapter 380: How can there be such a cruel person?

"Pushed off a cliff?"

Jun Chi lowered his lashes, his eyes filled with regret, "It’s my fault. In order not to startle the snake by hitting the grass, after he bought those drugs... I knew he was planning to use Xiaoxiao to hide them, but I didn’t speak up to stop him..."

Officer Chen sighed, "Xiao Chi, you can’t blame yourself for this. We knew his plan and even took advantage of his greed... No one could have foreseen what happened afterward..."

Yan Yueqing frowned, "Don’t talk about guilt or regret. I just want to know the truth!"

The imposing manner, without anger, had quite a kingly aura.

What’s the point in speaking of regret and self-blame now, if everything has already happened?

Even if you admit it was your mistake, then what? Can it make Xiaoxiao recover in one second? Or can it immediately execute Song Qinglong?

Yan Yueqing felt that these two men were somewhat clueless about what mattered most, wasting time with useless talk.

Jun Chi was clearly influenced by her emotional fluctuations and gradually regained his composure.

"Here’s what happened. He bought a few jin of the stuff over there. Some of it was smuggled back through other channels, and two gram were sealed and tied in Xiaoxiao’s pocket," Jun Chi explained.

"On the way back, without exception, his channels were caught. Song Qinglong had no choice but to take the most dangerous mountain path. With that much on him, as soon as he entered the border, he’d be caught by the police waiting in ambush near the cliff."

"But... no one expected that just as he crossed into our side, he sensed someone’s presence and pushed Xiaoxiao off the cliff! Even with the trees and slopes to break her fall, Xiaoxiao was still injured so badly she spat blood and lost consciousness."

"I thought he was trying to destroy the evidence?! But then... the next second, he rushed down the mountain and, acting innocently and in agony in front of the police rushing towards us, said his daughter had fallen down the mountain and pleaded for us to urgently help call the hospital!"

"Human life is of utmost importance, and no one would casually move an injured child... During the hospital transport, he was there the whole time, which gave him plenty of opportunity to get the stuff onto himself... Only then did I realize that to transport the drugs, a father could even trade his own daughter’s life?!"

"If we hadn’t been prepared in advance and known what kind of person he is! If it had been just ordinary police or villagers arriving, they definitely would have prioritized taking the child to the hospital first... He wanted to exploit that goodwill to complete his transaction?! It’s just..."

Enraged by what she heard, Yan Yueqing exclaimed, "Shameless and brazen!"

Jun Lii asked, "Where is he now?"

"We’ve got him under control," Officer Chen said. "It was heart-wrenching for us to retrieve the stuff from the injured child, but since it had come to that point, failing to catch him red-handed would have meant all our previous efforts were in vain... We were very careful, Xiaoxiao wasn’t harmed. Song Qinglong was detained on the spot and taken away, while Xiao Chi accompanied Xiaoxiao to the hospital."

The drug enforcement team and ambulance had been prepared in advance.

Everyone silently prayed that we wouldn’t need the ambulance, that we wouldn’t need the blood transfusions we had prepared in advance.

Yet, who could have thought...

We ended up needing them after all?!

Yan Yueqing took a deep breath, "The fault lies with his cruelty, not you. On the contrary, if you hadn’t been prepared, Xiaoxiao might not have lasted until the moment she was taken to the hospital."

Officer Chen still felt ashamed, "We should have anticipated that, knowing his cruelty... but we always hoped for that glimmer of parental mercy... We were too emotional. If we had been more rational..."

Skipping that, Yan Yueqing asked, "With the current evidence, what kind of sentence can Song Qinglong expect?"

"Death penalty," Officer Chen said without hesitation. "Caught red-handed, plus the recording from the pinhole camera Mr. Xiao Chi provided during the transaction, and the charge of attempted murder, even the best lawyer couldn’t save him from the death penalty!"

Hua Country has very strict drug enforcement policies.

How much he had traded over the years and who his connections were, all came to light in this drug enforcement operation.

Not to mention anything else, just the two gram hidden on Xiaoxiao’s person were enough to seal his fate.

Yan Yueqing’s expression finally softened a bit, "A person like him deserves to die a thousand, ten thousand times!"

In her previous life, Xiaoxiao sacrificed herself for the greater good and died during the best years of a young girl’s life.

This time, Xiaoxiao hadn’t even begun to doubt her father’s actions towards her mother; she still held adoring father-daughter affection for him. Could Song Qinglong truly be so heartless to harm her?!

It seems, the word ’emotion’ only restrains those who have it.

For someone with a heart like a wolf and lungs like a dog like Song Qinglong...

Yan Yueqing took a deep breath, "Wait... when Sister Mansheng comes, don’t tell her any of this."

Jun Chi choked up, "I understand."

The atmosphere in the office fell silent once again.

Officer Chen felt terrible...

He wasn’t a narcotics officer, but because of the report from Zhongxing, he had the chance to be involved in the case.

In the past, he did chat with a few brothers from the narcotics division about the brutality of these criminals.

Ruthless, cold-blooded, treating kindred as strangers—such was their everyday fare!

Officer Chen treated it as just stories.

This time, he witnessed it firsthand—an affectionate father one second, afraid his daughter would get tired, constantly holding her in his arms.

The next second, he brutally pushed her off a cliff.

The sight of the little girl falling through the air, like a butterfly with broken wings, shattered everyone’s heart into pieces.

Jun Chi was also in pain!

He hadn’t spent much time with Xiaoxiao, but the girl was exceptionally well-behaved, occasionally handing him handkerchiefs and slicing fruit for him.

Jun Chi knew well that Song Qinglong would harm her, but he still was a step too slow...

The bitter anguish of regret tortured him so much that he couldn’t muster the courage to lift his head and look at Yan Yueqing.

He was the knife of the Jun Residence, the most obedient assistant.

There wasn’t a single mission given to him by his master that he hadn’t completed well.

He was close to perfection!

Yet, he encountered his Waterloo on this mission...

No!

It wasn’t just the mission!

Seeing such an adorable little girl, almost perishing right before his eyes...

The shock and pain flooded into Jun Chi’s heart!

At that moment, he even nearly lost his sanity, wanting to execute Song Qinglong on the spot!

In the end, it was the officers who rushed up and subdued Song Qinglong.

Officer Chen’s hand tightly grabbed his fist raised in fury.

Song Qinglong deserved to die!

Dying a thousand, ten thousand times wouldn’t be enough!

But, he should die under legal sanction, not by lynching.

Jun Chi lowered his brows and deeply apologized to Yan Yueqing and Jun Lii, "I’m sorry."

He had failed to complete the mission and to protect the child.

Seeing the state of Jun Chi, Yan Yueqing had long lost the arrogance she saw in him when they first met.

He was like a peacock drenched by a harsh rain, utterly disheveled.

She remained silent for a moment, shook her head at Jun Lii to signal that she didn’t blame him, yet she also... indeed didn’t know what to say.

Jun Lii understood, "Come out with me."

"Yes."

The two had just left when Du Mansheng arrived belatedly.

Xiaoyu was following behind her.