Mr. Su's Love Investigation Report
Chapter 218

Chapter 218: Chapter 218

He simply turned off the monitor quickly and turned to Tu Hengsha, feeling somewhat astonished. Despite the obscene words in the private messages, he himself felt clear of any guilt. However, considering Tu Hengsha was a girl, he still felt quite embarrassed.

"Little Sha..." His throat felt a bit dry, "these..."

Tu Hengsha’s face was ashen, "I know... I’ve seen it before. Previously, I was just puzzled as to why everyone held such malice towards strangers. Now that the knife has cut into myself, it really hurts, hurts, and feels disgusting."

Hao Ren tried to comfort her, "Little Sha, you don’t have to..."

Tu Hengsha shook her head and gave a bitter smile, "I’m fine, this incident served as a warning to us, we need to work more meticulously and earnestly in the future."

Was she really fine? Hao Ren looked at her face, which had gone unnaturally pale. He was now only grateful that Tu Hengsha didn’t have any personal social media accounts. Those personal attacks targeted only him, not affecting Tu Hengsha.

At that moment, Tu Hengsha’s phone rang.

It rang once and she immediately jumped up to get the phone. She thought it might be Su Ronggui. However, when she got her hands on the phone, she was greatly disappointed; it was an unknown number.

"Hello?"

The voice on the other end was a woman’s and quite impolite, "Is this Tu Hengsha?"

"Yes, may I ask who this is?"

"I’m your mom! Years ago, I hooked up with Hao Ren’s dad and gave birth to you, this abomination!"

Tu Hengsha had never heard such filthy language before. Even during her often cursed childhood, no one had ever cursed her like this. Her face flushed with anger, yet she couldn’t utter a single word.

However, the person continued speaking, "Why aren’t you talking? Your dad died and didn’t teach you properly, so you learned to sleep around! Does Hao Ren fuck you well? If you still owe some manly fucking, be careful tonight, there will be men waiting for you on the road! Waiting to be raped by hobos, huh! Oh! Perhaps you wouldn’t even mind that? You spread your legs before they even force you..."

Never in her life had Tu Hengsha heard such dirty words; her whole body shook as she held the phone.

"What’s going on? Who was that?" Hao Ren noticed something was wrong and asked her.

She didn’t answer, just trembled. Hao Ren grabbed her phone and put it to his ear, immediately became furious, and hung up the call, "Just don’t answer such calls! Treat it like a dog barking!"

Tu Hengsha suddenly covered her mouth and rushed to the restroom, vomiting violently over the sink, though nothing came out.

Hao Ren followed her closely and handed her a tissue, "Are you alright? Let me take you to see a doctor."

Leaning against the sink, Tu Hengsha shook her head, her reflection in the mirror was indeed a mess. But the words from the phone call lingered in her ears and were truly disgusting, "No need, just feeling nauseous. Hao Ren, tell me, did we really do something wrong?" Faced with such overwhelming malice, could she explain it away, unless they had truly committed some heinous acts?

Hao Ren paused briefly, "Impossible!"

Tu Hengsha gave a bitter smile, "Let’s go back."

She wiped her face, her chaotic mind becoming somewhat clearer.

When the two returned to the newsroom, a colleague informed them, "You two have been doxxed, all your personal information has been exposed online."

Tu Hengsha wanted to go online to check, but Hao Ren stopped her, "There’s nothing worth seeing, just the same old tricks."

At that moment, Chief Zhou returned and called the two of them for a meeting.

"I just want to ask you one question, are you two, in your heart of hearts, innocent in this matter?" Chief Zhou sat down and got straight to the point.

Hao Ren was very firm, "Innocent!"

Chief Zhou nodded, "I have always been willing to believe in each of you. Since you are so decisive, remember your attitude today. I will investigate this matter, and I want an explanation from you. It is not difficult to determine what is right and wrong. During this time, suspend other interviews."

"Chief Zhou, this matter shouldn’t require us to provide an explanation, why? Manipulating public opinion has become too easy, any random person can become the media, with a little maneuvering they can create an uproar online, turn black into white, and white can be dyed ink black. Someday someone might claim you committed murder, would you have to prove your innocence then?" Hao Ren was indignant.

"Nonsense!" Chief Zhou patted the table.

Hao Ren sighed, "I’m just giving an example. It’s not that we consider ourselves special, but I also want to ask, Chief, why did we go into journalism in the first place? I may not know your reasons, but I ventured into this field with youthful dreams, I told myself to be a good journalist, for heaven, for earth, for justice and truth! Now, however, a group of self-proclaimed media clowns can be controlled by money, directed wherever you want. What’s more laughable is that we are caught off guard by these buffoons and have to prove our innocence! After being bitten by a dog, we dare not even lower our heads and question if our flesh was too tasty? I’ve never heard such logic in my life. No, those people aren’t worthy of being called media, they’re just marketing, but human nature can’t withstand tests. When public opinion can be marketed with money, some people easily lose their bottom line."

"Don’t be pessimistic, young man, this is just a process. With the rapid development of the internet, new industries emerge, supervision can’t keep up for a while, but it will gradually improve. As for you proving your innocence, that’s going too far. Aren’t you here for justice and truth? If someone is reversing right and wrong, then give them the truth, argue black and white for them to see. This has been what we’ve always been doing, isn’t it, and what you are good at? Of course, the premise is that you are really right and someone is indeed reversing right and wrong, otherwise, I can’t protect you." Chief Zhou stated.

Hao Ren scoffed, "And you say you believe in us, is this believing?"

Chief Zhou simply stopped arguing with him and looked at Tu Hengsha, noticing she was sitting there rigidly, looking terribly pale, "What’s wrong with Tu Hengsha? Is she scared?"

"Received a threatening call." Hao Ren answered for her, "In our line of work, you’d be embarrassed not to have received a threatening call once a year, but for the sake of what were we threatened? For truth, for broad daylight, we’re proud to accept it! But now, being threatened by such scum from cesspools, it’s really fucking suffocating!"

Chief Zhou thought for a moment, "Anyway, be careful in the next few days. There probably won’t be any major moves, as you didn’t threaten anyone’s interests, but I worry about minor harassment that might frustrate you."

"Understood." Hao Ren responded.

With nothing more to discuss, Chief Zhou and Hao Ren talked in detail about Liu Hong’s case and the little girl’s situation, then let them go.

Back at their desks, both Hao Ren and Tu Hengsha’s phones rang on the table.

Tu Hengsha directly ignored it and didn’t answer. A glance at the screen showed that in this short time, there were four or five missed calls, all from unknown numbers.