Edited by Noks and Qiuxue
How could Shen Youquan not be in a hurry after discovering that his son’s finger had been chopped off by the kidnappers? He, Lan Qi and the others swiftly returned to the study to speed up the process of selling properties and stocks.
At the same time, Long Chengsheng sneaked outside, took out an old dumb phone and dialed a certain number repeatedly, again and again. However, the call never connected.
“Damn it! What kind of damn phone is this?!” He was so angry and anxious that he felt a ferocious urge to slam the phone against the wall rise up.
Zhong Huilu also silently snuck outside, just like a thief, and only after walking for a long while did she find him.
With tears that continued to fall, she asked, “Didn’t you say that nothing would happen to Rao Rao? Why did they cut off his finger? Quick, tell them to let Rao Rao go! I want Rao Rao to come back soon! Long Chengsheng, you are too cruel! Rao Rao is your very own son. How could you let them do something like that?”
“Keep your voice down!” Long Chengsheng looked around to make sure there was no one nearby before saying in a hurry, “Are you sure that it’s Rao Rao’s finger? Fang Hu is my brother. He won’t hurt Rao Rao. I don’t believe such a thing at all!”
Zhong Huilu hadn’t dared to touch that finger, but could not imagine it being anything else under the extreme fear and worry that had plagued her at the sight of it. “Of course it is Rao Rao’s finger. Do you think I wouldn’t be able to recognize it? Long Chengsheng, you have to get them to release Rao Rao, or I will call the police and have you arrested! You promised me that you wouldn’t let Rao Rao be wronged in any way or manner. But now? One of Rao Rao’s fingers has been cut off! I must have been crazy to agree with your plan at that time!”
“If you dare to call the police, I will confess how you also had a part in all of this. Don’t forget that you were also an active participant in this plan. I have recordings of all the past conversations we had regarding this too! We’re both on the same boat.
“And don’t you dare threaten me! We have already climbed up ninety nine steps, and now only one last step remains. I will not give up!
“It’s just a finger. It can be reattached in the future. Anyway, Shen Youquan has a lot of money. Can’t he afford Shen Yurao’s operation costs? That 50 million yuan is just within my reach. I won’t let anyone destroy my plan, not even you!” Long Chengsheng threatened in a low voice while strangling Zhong Huilu’s neck. His face looked incredibly ferocious.
Zhong Huilu stared back at him in horror, and did not dare to even let out even a squeak.
At this moment, the two security guards who were responsible for guarding the metal cases filled with cash suddenly appeared behind Long Chengsheng. In a few swift movements, they pulled his hand away from Zhong Huilu’s neck, grasped his wrist, turned him around, kicked his knees, and handcuffed him.
Zhong Huilu, who was stunned motionless, was also immediately handcuffed.
At this moment, Song Rui, wearing a well-ironed suit, walked out of a corner, with a signal jammer that was flashing red in his hand. With the existence of this device nearby, it was no wonder Long Chengsheng was unable to contact his other accomplices through the phone.
“Bring them in for interrogation.”
Song Rui slowly approached the two handcuffed people and pulled out two micro voice recorders from the inner lining of the hem of their clothes.
These voice recorders were the items that Xiao Li had quietly attached to the two of them while passing by them after first entering the house. Their conversation from just moments ago had been fully recorded and had thus become conclusive evidence.
With this action of Song Rui’s, Long Chengsheng seemed to have realized something, and the speed with which his face turned grey was visible to the naked eye.
The two of them were then taken to different guest rooms for questioning.
Since the child was still in the hands of the other two kidnappers, the current whereabouts of the child was of top priority, and all other matters could be set aside for later.
Fortunately, Song Rui’s psychological attack, which aimed to drive a wedge between Long Chengseng and Zhong Huilu, proved to be very successful. She believed that the child’s finger had really been cut off, so she quickly confessed all that she knew.
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As for the whereabouts of their current hideout— Zhong Huilu shook her head, only Long Chengsheng knew those details.
From her understanding, this couple was only responsible for looking after the child and then releasing him at the appropriate time, they were not responsible for picking up the ransom.
Long Chengsheng had planned to receive the ransom in person. He would ask Zhou Yuan to call at the last minute and order Shen Youquan to change all the RMB into US dollars and put them in a case.
Zhong Huilu had already quietly purchased two identical cases beforehand for this exact reason, and at that last minute, she would convince her husband to place all the US dollars into one such case. The other one would be filled with useless paper hidden under several thousand yuan. Then, she would find the right time to exchange the two boxes.
While Shen Youquan took away the case with the white papers, she would give the real case that contained the ransom in US dollars to Long Chengsheng to hide.
The place they had arranged for the settlement of the ransom was a viaduct, under which thrived the most chaotic slum in Beijing. For the sake of the child, the anxious Shen Youquan would not hesitate to throw the case to the depths below the bridge, completely in accordance with the kidnappers’ instructions.
However, this fallen case wouldn’t be taken by the kidnappers, and instead, it would be picked up and the money in it would be distributed amongst the various inhabitants of the slum.
After all, there was still cash worth several thousands yuan inside it. Most of these inhabitants were either drug addicts or fugitives. They would easily commit crimes for just dozens of yuan, let alone the thousands they’d find in the case.
The habit of destroying evidence had long been rooted deep into their bone marrow. After dividing up the money, they would naturally burn the case along with its remaining content consisting of white papers to ashes, and no one would provide any clues when the police came to investigate.
Thus, in a place where the long arms of law couldn’t reach, the ‘more than seven million US dollars’, which was still quite a ways away from landing into their hands, would quietly vanish. In the end, Long Chengsheng would face no repercussions at all.
Such a criminal plan was ingenious.
After obtaining Zhong Huilu’s confession, Song Rui immediately walked to the other room to see Long Chengsheng. At the same time, Xiao Li also uncovered the details of several other crimes that had been perpetrated by Fang Hu and Zhou Yuan, and thus came to the understanding that they were both ruthless.
Song Rui stared into Long Chengsheng’s eyes and emphasized every word he said, “Believe it or not, the severed finger indeed belongs to your son. You know more about Fang Hu and Zhou Yuan than I do. Do you think they will treat the child kindly to give you face? Back then, Fang Hu would kill people for just a few hundreds of yuan. Which do you think he would value more? Your brotherhood or 50 million yuan? Your plan is perfect, and I admire your ingenuity…”
At this point, Song Rui intentionally paused for a few seconds. His speciality was attacking people’s minds, and the one in front of him was all too vulnerable before his eyes.
Sure enough, Long Chengsheng revealed a half-satisfied and half-contemptuous expression in response, showing that he did not believe the other’s words in the slightest, his defiant attitude clearly indicating that he would not betray his brother.
Song Rui waited for his pride to inflate enough before saying, “But there is a huge loophole in your plan.”
Long Chengsheng still appeared as indifferent as before, but his ears trembled slightly.
Song Rui chuckled. “Your biggest mistake is that you should have known not to put your most important bargaining chip into the hands of others. You formulated the kidnapping scheme for money, and Shen Yurao is the bargaining chip for that money. You don’t have this bargaining chip in your hands, but you still want to take the 50 million yuan.
“Fang Hu and Zhou Yuan hold this chip, but they have to follow your orders. Did you really think that they would obey your words in such a situation? You would get the money and the child would return to your side, but at that time, would you remember to split the money with them? Supposing that you took a crueler route and directly hired people to kill them, so that there would be one less nuisance for you to deal with. Say, under such circumstances, would they still trust you?”
Song Rui leaned forward and asked slowly, “Long Chengsheng, do you still think your plan is perfect? The real question is what won’t those two people do to your child? You calculated everything, but you forgot to take into account people’s hearts. As long as the chip is in their hands, they have a thousand ways to deal with you. Knowing that you have been arrested by the police, what do you think Fang Hu and Zhou Yuan will do next?”
A cold sweat broke out on Long Chengsheng’s forehead. Those two people were willing to kill others for just a few hundreds of yuan. Needless to say, with 50 million yuan dangling in front of their eyes, they would naturally become fearless, and would dare to do anything.
Perhaps, the reason why they cut that finger wasn’t to intimidate Shen Youquan, but rather him—Shen Yurao’s biological father! Because they knew the truth!
They wanted to use this severed finger to tell him—Long Chengsheng, your son is in our hands. Be smart, split the money obediently, don’t try to swallow it all alone!
What’s more, they might even intend to not release the child at all, and may continue to hold the child hostage until he gave them the full 50 million yuan ransom!
A con within a con! If they came to know that he had been caught, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill the child and run for their lives!
Once this train of thought rushed into his mind, Long Chengsheng’s psychological defense completely collapsed. He had watched Shen Yurao grow up right in front of his eyes these past few years, and had probably spent more time with Shen Yurao than Shen Youquan had done. How could he have no feelings for his own child? He didn’t dare to obstruct their investigation anymore, and confessed Fang Hu and Zhou Yuan’s whereabouts without much struggle.
In fact, Zhou Yuan had passed the child to Fang Hu in the parking lot opposite the kindergarten. Then she had driven to Cao An parking lot and had exchanged her car for a different licensed car before getting onto the highway. By now, she had long left the province. She had used a voice changer when making the ransom calls to Shen Youquan and had conscientiously driven around to prevent being tracked by the police.
Under this cover that his girlfriend had provided, Fang Hu smoothly and quietly took the child away. Currently, he was hiding in an urban village in Beijing, biding his time and waiting for the ransom to be paid, after which he would release the child. It appeared that he had no worries whatsoever, and had to simply take care of the child’s physiological needs.
After determining the exact address, the child was soon rescued by the police.
In the end, it turned out that Fang Hu had not provided the child with either adequate food or drink. Instead, he had even bound his hands and feet and locked him in the toilet. Father and Mother Shen rushed up to kiss the child on the cheeks after seeing the child return home safely with all his fingers intact.
On the other hand, Shen Youquan didn’t even want to give the child a hug. He directly handed the child to the police and asked them to take him to the hospital for a physical examination. Then he opened the car door and said in a heavy voice, “Dad, Mom, Zhong Huilu and Long Chengsheng were both arrested by the police. This kidnapping was planned by them. You can go to the police station and listen to the interrogation.”
He didn’t know how to bring up the topic of Shen Yurao’s origins with the two elders, so he simply let Zhong Huilu and Long Chengsheng speak for themselves.
Father and Mother Shen got into the car angrily. They couldn’t understand how Zhong Huilu could be willing to join hands with an outsider in order to kidnap her own son. Was she short of money? The Shen Family had never treated her poorly!
The three of them entered the observation room and stood in front of the one-way mirror.
In front of them, Song Rui broke all of Fang Hu’s psychological defenses with only a few sentences.
“You probably didn’t know that Long Chengsheng had no plans of splitting the money with you. He has already worked out a route allowing him to escape alone and is preparing to hire a killer to end you. We discovered his abnormality by chance, and this is also the reason why we were able to find your location. Currently, he’s accusing you of being the main culprit. Do you have anything to say?”
“I knew that bastard Long Chengsheng had a trick up his sleeve! I shouldn’t have agreed to his bullshit plan! Police comrade, I want to report him, he is the main culprit!”
Fang Hu had already been arrested three or four times during his life, and naturally knew what actions to take in order to reduce his sentencing. “In fact, Long Chengsheng’s plan was not this initially. As you all know, Shen Yurao is his biological son, so he would have been reluctant to take an action like this.”
Upon hearing these words, Shen Youquan’s reaction was quite dull, but Father and Mother Shen were immediately dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning.
“What did he say? Rao Rao is whose son?” Mother Shen held her chest, her face paling stark white, and it seemed as if she almost couldn’t breathe.
Shen Youquan silently supported his mother’s frail back, but did not say a word.
Father Shen was anxious and tried to pound against the mirror, but was quickly stopped from doing so by a police officer.
“This is a recent photo of Shen Yurao and a photo of Long Chengsheng from when he was a child. Take a look.” Shen Youquan passed over two very similar photos.
Father Shen took the photos with a trembling hand. He involuntarily ended up letting out a distorted sound. It was as if there was some bloody matter stuck in his throat, which he was neither able to swallow or spit out.
Fang Hu continued, “So, his original primary target was Shen Yuling. Shen Yurao was just a smokescreen. Strangely enough, a pair of twins from the same mother, one of whom is almost an exact copy of Shen Youquan, while the other is similar to the child-version of Long Chengseng. Isn’t this a miracle bestowed by God?
“Seeing Shen Yurao grow and look more like himself day after day, Long Chengsheng began to harbor doubts, and secretly got a paternity test using a strand of the child’s hair. And hey, wasn’t the result strange? It actually ended up being his own blood! He was so happy that he seemed to be on top of the world!
“As you all know, Shen Youquan is wealthy, earns tens of millions yuan annually and has various investments. The Shen Family is particularly patriarchal, and they unwittingly treat Long Chengsheng’s son as a treasure, thinking of him as their own.
“In the future, once the child grows up, the Shen Family’s wealth will indirectly end up in Long Chengsheng’s hands, and that is the day that he is waiting for eagerly. But Long Chengsheng is also very greedy, especially greedy! Didn’t Shen Youquan also have a daughter? Won’t that daughter also get a portion of that wealth when she grows up?”
Fang Hu laughed sarcastically and kept speaking, “The Shen Family values men over women. Even if they divide the family property by giving some to the daughter, which obviously won’t be a lot, Long Chengsheng couldn’t stand the idea of releasing even this small amount. He often made remarks saying that the girl can’t stay, and that it will only hinder his son in the future. So, he has to find a way to get rid of her.”
It was these sentences that distorted Shen Youquan’s originally quite calm face.
Father and Mother Shen grasped each other’s arms, their legs trembling to the point that they were almost unable to stand!
No, everything that we are hearing must not be true. This man is talking nonsense!
Fang Hu unconsciously went on to say, “I listened to it at the time, but I didn’t take it seriously, so I didn’t know that he intended to act on these things he was saying. After uncovering the secret of being a father, with his son as his future self’s great backer, he began to spend money more and more lavishly. He owed millions in gambling debts to casinos in Macao. He also angered Shen Youquan and almost lost his job.
“Without this job, he would not be able to see his son; if he could not see his son, he would not be able to foster good feelings with his son; if they had no deep feelings, would his son be willing to spend money on him later? Or even look after his aged father and arrange for a proper burial after his death?
“Thus, he simply didn’t think any further, and directly made plans to kidnap the two children and extort 50 million yuan from Shen Youquan in one go.”
Fang Hu continued to spill the truth—
“I was to be responsible for taking care of his son while in Beijing. My girlfriend would be responsible for taking Shen Youquan’s daughter to another province. Then, when Long Chengsheng received the ransom, I would release Shen Yurao. My girlfriend would kill Shen Yuling and leave her body on the highway to attract the police’s attention. By the time the police reached that province, we would have run away long ago.
“Shen Youquan would have spent 50 million to redeem a fake son, and he would never know the truth for the rest of his life. He would also lavish his daughter’s share of paternal love onto the returned son, and all the property of the Shen Family would eventually be inherited by this son, with no one present to fight with him over it anymore.”
“Long Chengsheng also planned to take advantage of this kidnapping to give a good performance of being a bodyguard and driver in front of Shen Youquan, so that he could retain this job, and thus quietly accompany his son and wait for him to grow up.
“Once the son grew up, at that time, Shen Youquan’s wife, child and family property would all be his. Shen Youquan would have worked hard all his life to end up with such an outcome, while he would receive the most benefits after having worked as just a small driver for him. Don’t you think the plot is cool?
“It’s a pity that Long Chengsheng’s plan couldn’t keep up with the changes, no matter how well planned out it was. My girlfriend went to the kindergarten to pick up both kids, but unexpectedly, Shen Yuling had already been picked up by Shen Youquan! We had to temporarily change our plan and could only abduct Long Chengsheng’s son.
“Did all of this happen according to the will of God? God doesn’t even want to look at a scheming person like Long Chengsheng! Ha ha ha…”
Fang Hu’s mocking laughter was interrupted by the harsh sound of banging coming from the left side, which was exactly where the mirror was. The pounding sound quickly became more and more violent, as if there was a mad beast present on the other side, one which was ready to break through the shackles of the mirror and bite Fang Hu to death.
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Noks: I feel really sorry for the two kids. Being born to such a mother-and-father pair. (And don’t defend Shen Youquan, he wouldn’t have come to his senses were it not for FJL.)
Fozenmirage: Family… drama…
Damn.
Thanks for the chapter!
I knew it.
Honestly, this whole case is just… one horror. If it weren’t for FJL, SYQ would’ve been oblivious to everything and the girl would be a goner >n<
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Oh gosh…
Thank you for the chapter
I first saw the title of the chapter in my notifications was “The Confession” and I thought, oh! A love confession in one of the novels I’m reading? Gotta see this fast fast fast !!
And then I saw it was a Psychic chapter 😔
Thanks for the chapter 😭❤
Lmal
Ahahahaha I get you QAQ
All I can say is… I’m glad the little girl is safe and sound and she will be loved as she deserves.
Thanks for the chapter!
today’s lesson children, is than men and the patriarchy are a disease
thanks for the chapter!
Inequality is a disease. No gender is better or worse than another, though, which is the whole point. Individuals can be horrible or remarkable, but they don’t represent their demographic as a whole.
They’re lucky FJL took action.. that would had been terrible otherwise.
Song Rui being all cool, I could imagine him being all like “FJL praise me more!” once he finishes up.
Thanks for the chapter!
I agree with Noks, with parents like these, who needs enemies? A negligent father, a cheating mother, a gambling addict birth father, sexist grandparents.
Nightmare fuel, tbh.
Ugh.. what a mess.. I really pity these kids
I want FJL to come back!! I miss him!!Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
Despicable!
Thanks for the chapter.
I hope after this the son(annoying face) get some lessons to respect his (not) sister. After all, his schemes are so terrible. (ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻
I miss our MC (FJL).. Where is he.. Hopefully he will appear soon.. Thank you for the chapter
They saved the kids!
Thank you very much♡♡♡♡:).
See? this is why I plan to put a tracker on my kids until they turn 13
What kinda privacy would a kid below 13 need?
I wonder what they’ll do with the boy now. His stepfather has no interest in raising him, and his biological parents should go to prison. Would he be put into foster care?
More!!!! Please…
It think that it was best that the boy was kidnapped, if that was the girl they wouldn’t have said anything
At least SY can still be considered human, the other 2 are just pure devils!!
After careful consideration.. nah fuck him as well tbh 🤷🏾♂️ Doe he isn’t as bad as the other too, he certainly still is bad
I’m not going to give shen you quan all the points but I wanna give him some point just🤏🏾🤏🏾 cuz he did come to his senses with the help fan and didn’t leave the boy there so uk . that’s so intense