My Life with Narration

Chapter 497 - 488: Will You Listen When the Stock God Speaks?

Gotta say, when Zhao Minghui and the others found out he’d made three hundred million, they were shocked, but more than anything, they felt it was a pity.

Because they knew it was impossible to keep him tied to the department with just benefits. He’s a billionaire boss now, why would he want to slog it out at the police station? Isn’t it better to find a nice place to relax?

Just keeping him as a consultant is already the maximum they can do. They’re regretful because he’s such a useful consultant, and just the "human lie detector" ability alone can save them a lot of trouble.

After these months of interaction, they’ve become truly convinced of Su Qing’s ability. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have rushed him back to help when there was a homicide at Jiangcheng University.

Might as well use it while they can, and make the most of his interest in the job. If he gets bored later, he might just up and quit.

And he’s not a full-time employee and doesn’t need the money, so he can leave anytime, can’t he?

In the interrogation room, Su Qing saw the other protagonist of the case, Professor Jiang Maoxue from Jiangcheng University, for the first time. His hair was messy, and he looked exhausted.

They didn’t call him back for anything major, mostly just to see if this so-called professor was lying, since Zhao and the others had already cleared up the case details.

Never underestimate a police department’s power. They were solving cases just fine without him, just using different methods. For a case as straightforward as this, it’s a no-brainer.

Right in front of him, Jiang Maoxue confessed to using graduate school placements as bait to hook up with his students. After rumors started to spread, the school administration talked to him, and he had to prove his innocence, admitting there was nothing going on. Naturally, the spot for graduate school couldn’t go to Wei Caiwen.

Then they got into a fight over the phone. After the fight went nowhere, Jiang thought she was a hassle. Better she just graduates soon; he could find the next one later. After all, there’s no shortage of young, pretty female students in university.

Instead of getting tangled up with a student like this, better to cut ties sooner rather than later, save the trouble, and he broke up with her over WeChat.

Wei Caiwen, of course, wasn’t having it. She hurled all sorts of insults and even threatened on WeChat that if she didn’t get the graduate spot, she’d hang herself at school.

Jiang didn’t take Caiwen’s threats seriously. It’s not like it’s the first time he’s done this; he didn’t believe anyone would actually kill themselves over this.

Did they have feelings for each other? Sure, but not much. It was more of a transactional relationship. He was after her looks, and she was after his resources. They were just mutually agreeable; it wasn’t suicide-worthy love.

But he really did run into a girl like that. When he heard about Wei Caiwen’s suicide, he didn’t go to school that day, took a leave, but he didn’t expect the police to find him anyway.

Mainly because there was so much evidence on Caiwen’s phone and computer—all sorts of chat logs and photos that left Jiang with no way to deny it.

"Pfft... You shameless bastard, Jiang Maoxue, you’re how old and still so shameless. That girl is about the same age as your daughter. How could you bring yourself to do it? Do you have any shame?

How could your mom give birth to such a beast? Damn you, you fucking..."

In the interrogation room, after Jiang Maoxue finished confessing, he sat silently in the chair while a middle-aged woman in her fifties was cursing him out.

It was Jiang’s wife, after all the disgrace her husband has brought, what wife could stay calm?

This wasn’t like getting caught for embezzling money out of greed; while illegal, it’s not as humiliating. But this kind of thing is embarrassing no matter where you go.

Jiang’s wife couldn’t hold it in anymore; she began "greeting" her husband’s ancestors right there in the interrogation room.

If it weren’t for the officers holding her back, she’d have clawed him till his face was unrecognizable. Even so, Jiang got slapped around quite a bit, looking very embarrassed, with his glasses knocked off.

"Calm down, calm down, Ms. Xie, that’s just what happened. We still need to get more info. Professor Jiang is in this situation, and as family, you need to step up!" Yan Lie and Du Qiang tried to comfort Ms. Xie as they held her back.

"Step up, my ass. I’m filing for divorce later. Whoever wants to deal with this mess can do it. I’m telling the old man to come here, it’s his son’s crap, so why am I dealing with it? Let me go, I’m out of here!" Ms. Xie broke free from their hold upon hearing she had to step up as family, heading straight for the door without looking back, leaving everyone else with bitter smiles.

After all, they could do nothing about it, too.

Afterwards, they left someone there to watch over Jiang Maoxue while everyone else headed to the office upstairs.

"Xiao Su, was there anything wrong with what he just said?" Zhao Minghui asked as soon as he walked in.

At this, Su Qing smiled and shook his head, "We have solid evidence here. Even if he lies, what’s the use?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chengcai nodded and said, "In that case, we can rule this case as a suicide and close it. Xiao Zhou’s also got the autopsy report, and turns out the girl even had an abortion. No wonder Ms. Xie is so pissed. Young people today, huh!"

With that, he couldn’t help but shake his head.

"In that case, notify the deceased’s family and prepare to release a statement. Don’t delay; this case is causing quite a stir online, and there’s a lot of pressure from above," said Zhao Minghui.

No one had objections to this; it wasn’t a particularly difficult case. Whether the deceased’s family could accept it, how the responsibility is divided, that’s for the family and the court to deal with. Their job was just to investigate. How it’s judged is out of their hands.

"By the way, Lin Team, what kind of responsibility will Jiang Maoxue and Ke Yao be held to?" Su Qing asked.

At this, Lin Chengcai thought for a moment and said, "In Jiang Maoxue’s case, it’s more a moral issue. The deceased committed suicide, though he did play a role, criminal responsibility isn’t likely, but civil compensation is definitely required.

As for Ke Yao, we’ll have to see how the courts handle it. She incited her classmates to spread rumors about their relationship, trying to suppress the competition. Honestly, it’s iffy, but I think detention is likely, though it can be bailed. Civil compensation is her share too; the rest depends on how Jiangcheng University handles it."

Upon hearing this, Su Qing nodded. Indeed, since the person committed suicide, it’s hard to tie it back to the two of them, but they do have to bear some responsibility, namely compensation.

The dead can’t come back to life, so the family should get some compensation. Surely, Jiangcheng University can’t escape it either and is likely on the compensation list as well.

This is why they say university teachers may not care about your studies, but they’re afraid of a death on campus because of the implications.

Once the school compensates, there’ll definitely be an internal investigation.

Quickly, everyone started going about their business, and Su Qing went to the backyard to find Zhu Lili since she handled the official account and was the one doing the announcements.

"Fancy seeing you here, Stock God himself. I’ve asked you so many times already, can you bring Da Huang with you? I’m running out of material lately, and my followers aren’t growing. I’ve hit a bottleneck!"

Seeing him come in, Zhu Lili spoke with a smile.

She’d scored a small office of her own by then. Small as it was, it was hers, and she seemed quite content.

"Da Huang’s been too busy with work lately, no time!" Su Qing explained.

"Nonsense! Your video upload frequency is slowing, what’s Da Huang busy with?"

"Uh... It has a job, earning money for its own dog food, as a model!"

"What? You’re the Stock God, but you still let Da Huang work? That’s just cheap!"

While speaking, Su Qing noticed her phone screen displayed on the table, with none other than a stock trading platform.

"Hold on, you’re trading stocks?" Su Qing asked, feeling a bit uneasy.

Hearing this, Zhu Lili grinned widely, "Of course, I’m always keeping an eye on Stock God’s moves. As soon as yesterday’s video came out, I bought in. Thank you, Stock God, for the gift."

Only then did Su Qing realize how influential he had become.

Unlike Li Zijun and Du Qiang, Zhu Lili had a laid-back job, so she was well-informed about online happenings.

"How much did you buy?"

"Twenty thousand, impressive, right?"

"Su Qing: Can’t believe you’re a little rich woman!"

"Just moderately rich, haha, but it’s already gone up quite a bit."

As she spoke, Zhu Lili’s eyes squinted in joy.

Calling her a little rich woman wasn’t just flattery. For someone her age to have twenty thousand yuan for stock trading, that’s impressive and certainly not all of her savings.

"So, Stock God, I’m thinking of adding more to my position. What do you think? Add another thirty thousand and make it a nice round number!"

Su Qing: ...

"What if the Stock God says you should sell, would you?"

"Sell? Then you’re not a Stock God anymore, thanks!"

Su Qing: -_-|||

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