Chapter 874: Chapter 864: The Truth

After leaving the police station, Shen Yi took the two of them directly back to Jiangming District to see his mom.

Although the hospital didn’t find any problems during his coma this time, he stayed there for three days, which was a big deal for their family. Naturally, he had to go back and have a look after being discharged.

For their return home, his mom, Zhou Hui, was quite happy, especially upon hearing that he had quit his job at the police station.

Last year, she would have been excited about her son having a decent job, but this year she couldn’t care less. In fact, the hospital incident even made her develop a sense of resistance.

Two days ago, when the deputy director of Jiang City’s main bureau came to the hospital to visit him and praised him in public, even chatting with her, his mother, she would have felt proud in the past, but now she didn’t think much of it at all.

If possible, she would rather her son leave quickly; it was too dangerous.

Things aren’t like they used to be. In the past, Su Qing was a young man with nothing to his name, and having a public service job as a policeman was naturally good. At least the people of Jiang City respected it, but now her son is a billionaire, and even if he just takes it easy, no one would call him lazy. Why take that risk?

Although she used to say she wanted her son to have a good job, the risk involved makes it a different story.

Zhou Hui’s expectations for Su Qing were no different from those of most mothers: at the very least, just stay alive.

Being healthy is better than anything else. Their family lacks nothing now, and her son is in a relationship with an outstanding and beautiful girlfriend. Nothing unexpected must happen.

She was just waiting for both families to meet in a few days, then settle the matter between the two kids, aim to have them marry this year, and hope for a grandchild soon.

That’s the right thing to do; meddling at the police station every day, what’s the point? This time he ended up in the hospital; what about next time?

Zhou Hui didn’t even dare to think, but luckily her son resigning eased her worries a lot.

In the afternoon, Old Su got home after class around three, and the family had dinner together. Regarding his resignation, Old Su was supportive. For one, Su Qing didn’t need the meager salary now, but mainly because Su Qing’s hospitalization had shocked the elderly couple.

At eight in the evening, Su Qing sat alone on the balcony drinking beer, enjoying the evening breeze. It was quite relaxing, but Shen Yi knew her man was lost in thought over some matters.

After all, they didn’t just meet yesterday; she knew Su Qing’s habits inside out. He wouldn’t drink alone at home for no reason.

Especially with his low alcohol tolerance, he definitely wouldn’t drink alone if he didn’t have some reason.

"What’s wrong, little brother? You’ve already quit your job, what else is bothering you? Want your sister to drink with you?" Shen Yi walked over, sat across from him, and gestured with a beer bottle.

Hearing this, Su Qing smiled somewhat absently, "It’s okay, really, it’ll just take a couple of days, just a bit hard to get used to!"

Shen Yi looked at him affectionately, then noticed a few items on the table: letters, photos, a worn-out plush toy, and an elementary school graduation photo.

Shen Yi hadn’t seen most of them, but she recognized one photo and the worn-out toy; Su Qing had brought them back from a trip, claiming they were gifts from his elementary school classmate. She was even a bit jealous about it.

Besides, she had helped her man save that girl’s photo, and today it appeared again.

"Little brother... these..."

"I guess they are my classmate’s relics, you see, this is the guy I told you about, San Er. Handsome, isn’t he? This letter is from his girlfriend thanking us, sent during the New Year. In the graduation photo is the classmate who had an accident, he’s gone now.

Why... must there be so much suffering?" Su Qing said, almost as if talking to himself.

Honestly, birth, aging, illness, and death are inevitable, and Su Qing wasn’t unfamiliar with it growing up. However, losing a peer or friend felt particularly different compared to the passing of older generations due to natural causes.

When San Er suddenly passed away, he was in shock, unable to believe a lively guy was gone just like that.

Ever since, his life with the voiceover gained much convenience, wealth, and financial freedom, but also its share of troubles.

He received some goodness due to the narration, but naturally also bore more pain than others.

Anxiety, depression, unstoppable anxiety and depression; at one stage, he even felt the air full of freedom, yet exerting all his effort, he couldn’t get a breath.

Grown-ups aspiring for everything couldn’t even keep their childhood joy, all the unattainable desires and aspirations seen but forgotten.

These emotions turned into shackles, binding him on the spot. Sometimes he felt he was about to explode, but then thought that those things weren’t his business, why make himself miserable over others’ affairs?

Yet knowing was one thing, convincing himself was another.

Although Shen Yi couldn’t fully comprehend, having lived together without barriers, she had a rough guess as to why her man felt this way.

After contemplating for a while, Shen Yi said, "Little brother, I may not understand everything, but in this messed-up life, we must abandon something to go further. Don’t get caught in irrelevant matters. They are important, but you are the most important.

What difference does it make going through the crowd or being passed through by the crowd? We only need to live brightly and strive. There are many ways to solve unhappiness, but little brother, there’s only one of you!

Come, drink with your sister, don’t leave until we’re drunk tonight, talk to me, tomorrow will be a new day!"

Shen Yi smiled brightly at him with a sweet and charming smile, lifting her beer bottle.

The gentle lady might not be a strong drink but a bowl of comforting morning congee. It wasn’t a grand stimulus, but an undeniable source of comfort for him.

"Want to listen?"

"If little brother speaks, I’ll listen!"

Clink~, a crisp sound as their beer bottles met.

Su Qing then roughly explained Bai Longsheng’s case, now closed, so he wasn’t afraid to leak details.

Besides, by now, the case’s status wasn’t a secret; the victims’ families needed to be informed.

As long as someone knows, it’s no secret, and in this case, there wasn’t just one insider, so telling Shen Yi was no big deal.

Anyway, he had already resigned and would have no further association with the police station.

Upon hearing that a disabled girl had been abused by two scumbags, and instead of reporting to the police, her stepmother and her son sought private settlement for more compensation for the biological son, Shen Yi’s face turned uncharacteristically somber.

Then, learning that a similarly unfortunate man, due to a small favor from the girl when he was young, repaid it with revenge, made her respect the man greatly.

In the end, hearing about the man’s elaborate revenge plan—using the police to find targets, then decapitating them in one night, then hiding at his abandoned childhood school to drink pesticide and commit suicide—left her deeply moved.

She also seemed to understand why her brother had such a strong reaction. Even as a listener, it was unsettling, not to mention Su Qing had experienced it, and the victim was his classmate.

"He got what he wanted, no regrets, but it’s a pity for that girl, to be born into such a family!" Shen Yi said, downing her beer and opening another, continuing:

"By the way, how did your classmate know the second scumbag returned? Wasn’t he just back from out of town that day and planning to leave overnight? How did he not escape? So unlucky, it’s like even the heavens didn’t want him alive!"

Hearing this, Su Qing took a deep breath, stood by the window, gazed at the night view—busy streets and thousands of lights—his thoughts drifting back to that rainy night days ago.

In the car, he was on the phone with Bai Longsheng as the other threatened him. He said he wouldn’t deal with criminals and didn’t, indeed.

But when the lightning struck, he said only one thing.

"While I won’t provide any information, you can keep an eye on me!"

Indeed, he didn’t leak Liu Chunbao’s information, yet it was through him indirectly.

Bai Longsheng monitored his whereabouts to get the intel, and the thing he removed from his rearview mirror was a tracker.

A silent collusion reached its goal.

Thinking this, Su Qing smiled:

"Who knows~~"

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