Mr. Su's Love Investigation Report
Chapter 225

Chapter 225: Chapter 225

Su Ronggui’s steps were somewhat heavy as he climbed the stairs and came to a stop on the second floor.

Su Zhen had already heard his daughter’s voice and emerged from the study, facing Su Ronggui.

"Ronggui, you’re back?" Su Zhen smiled.

Su Ronggui nodded, "Dad, where is Mom?"

Su Zhen, being very astute, immediately sensed that his stepson was somewhat different today, "In the room, is there something you need to discuss with Mom?"

Su Ronggui’s job involved dealing with people, so he was extremely skilled in assessing situations. He knew he was showing too much emotion today; it would be hard to talk to Su Zhen and his mother without getting noticed, so he didn’t avoid it and nodded again, "Yes, it’s something very important."

Shang Qingmei was gently patting her face in front of the mirror when she heard the door and turned around with a smile, "Coming to sleep this early today?"

Her smile froze instantly when she saw the two people enter. She stiffened and turned back to pat her face in the mirror, "Oh, our young master of the house has returned. I thought you had forgotten about this mom of yours."

"What nonsense are you spouting? What’s wrong with a child wanting to be independent when they grow up? Why are you always so sour? Can flowers grown in a greenhouse have big prospects?" Su Zhen retorted.

Shang Qingmei wanted to say, "Then why hasn’t your Rongcheng and Rongxing gone out to be on their own?"

But these words only stayed in her heart; she dared not say them. Not only did she not say it, but she turned with a playful look toward Su Zhen, "You, as a father, sure know how to take sides, always making me the bad guy! You just play the good guy! No wonder all the kids are close to you! I haven’t seen my son in a while and miss him; can’t I complain a little?"

It was a good picture of a loving father and mother.

A trace of bitterness crossed Su Ronggui’s heart.

If possible, he really didn’t want to open his mouth.

Normally, Su Zhen would have cooperated with Shang Qingmei with a smile, but at this moment, he only said, "Ronggui seems to have something to say to you," then pointed at a chair, signaling Su Ronggui to sit down.

Su Ronggui didn’t sit; he remained standing by the door, silent for a while, and finally took out his phone, pulled out a photo, and displayed it in front of the two of them.

Shang Qingmei glanced at it, a man, but didn’t recognize him. Yet she felt something dangerous about Su Ronggui’s return today, forced herself to be calm, but her eyes wandered a bit, and she smiled, "Who is this?"

"You definitely don’t know him." Su Ronggui swiped his finger across the screen to reveal another photo, "Isn’t this guy also unrecognizable to you?"

Shang Qingmei glanced at it and indeed did not recognize him.

Su Ronggui continued flipping, finally displaying a familiar face, "This person you should recognize, right?"

"Cui Pei?" A senior executive, Su Zhen, of course, recognized him too.

Panic flashed in Shang Qingmei’s eyes, but she remained silent.

"What’s going on?" Su Zhen, whose business was his life, wondered if Cui Pei’s involvement was related to the company. This was no longer just a matter between mother and son and should not be underestimated.

Su Ronggui’s finger swiped back to the first photo, speaking slowly and methodically, "Yesterday afternoon, after I finished a character interview, I headed back to the newsroom. Because of a traffic jam, I got off early and walked back, unexpectedly witnessing a farce."

Shang Qingmei’s carefully maintained composure cracked a bit.

Su Zhen, with his sharp mind, quickly connected the dots, furrowing his brows as he looked at Shang Qingmei, "Does it have something to do with you?"

Shang Qingmei knew today wouldn’t end well; Su Ronggui’s menacing return surely meant he had solid evidence. Yet her inborn pride and the indulgence Sa Zhen afforded her over the years made her simply sneer, unwilling to bow her head. It broke her heart, too, that the person standing before her as her "judge" was her own biological son.

Seeing her remain silent, Su Ronggui continued, "At the time, our newsroom’s Tu Hengsha and Hao Ren were just coming out when out of nowhere a group of bizarre people appeared. Each wore a cap and mask; one person threw a bucket of swill at them, and as soon as it was done, they scattered like animals, and soon disappeared. I was quick and observant, pursued one of them for half a street, and caught up with him—it was him."

He tapped to light up the dark screen of his phone, "This person is Wang Dayong. It didn’t take much for him to confess that this guy assembled them and instructed them to do it." He swiped to the second photo, "I then sought him out. Fortunately, I found him and soon traced it back to this one." He swiped to the third photo, "From there, things got a bit tricky, but I discovered that the mastermind was Cui Pei."

His finger returned once more to Cui Pei’s photo.

Shang Qingmei sneered, "Of course! How could anything stump you? Who are you, anyway? A famous journalist! What can’t you uncover? I worked tirelessly to send you to a prestigious university, indulged your career choice, and nurtured you into a top journalist! Now you’ve achieved something! Investigating me! Is this my destiny? Others raise children who repay them, but mine bites back? What did I do wrong in my past life?"

He lowered his eyelids, his modest posture but firm tone, "Mom, I never wanted to investigate you."

Shang Qingmei looked at him, her heart growing colder. This son, whom she had rigorously raised and devotedly groomed since childhood, grew further from her more with time, and now she found herself confronting him for a woman.

She sneered again, "Don’t want to? Yet you investigated me, and now you say you didn’t want to? Fine, I instructed it; isn’t that what you want to hear? I instructed it! What are you going to do about it? Expose the truth? Throw your mom into the pits of hell and shame her before the whole world? Go ahead, just pretend you never had this mom!"

Su Ronggui gazed deeply at her, his brow knotted, "You know being shamed isn’t pleasant, don’t you? You knowingly push people into the fire? Do not do to others what you do not wish for yourself! Moreover, reversing right and wrong, stirring public opinion, even extending hands into criminal cases..."

Before he could finish, Su Zhen cut in, "Criminal cases? What is going on?" While he listened to his son and wife argue, if it was merely a small matter, he could let it slide, but if it involved criminal cases, at this critical time, he couldn’t let it go.

"Stop making it seem so severe! It won’t fundamentally alter the case; it’s just a few unrelated people that changed their testimony." Shang Qingmei, upon hearing Su Zhen ask, subdued her anger slightly.

"Not severe? Unrelated?" Su Ronggui repeated her words, "To tarnish two innocent reporters, you didn’t hesitate to bribe Liu Hong’s family to change their testimony, instigate them to coerce their child to alter evidence, even extend your reach into the detention center? Liu Hong’s testimony was altered! Liu Hong’s lawyer, when you mention names, I believe both you and Dad will be familiar, right?"

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