Chapter 160: Praised to Death

Shen Qingyi understood. "Then for now, we only need to turn a closed case into a doubtful one, keeping He Xiangcao as bait while getting everyone to keep their eyes on this case."

Lu Yan said, "Mm!"

Shen Qingyi suddenly smiled. "Great! I'll leave for Pengcheng tomorrow to find my mother."

Lu Yan pursed his lips. "There's really no need to rush."

Only then did Shen Qingyi remember. "That's true too. If I haven't obtained the divorce certificate, she won't help me either."

At the mention of divorce, although he now knew his wife's true feelings, a wave of distress still washed over him. He asked again, "Do you really not have that manuscript with you?"

Shen Qingyi hesitated for a moment. "I don't!"

"All right! I understand." Lu Yan's expression dimmed for a split second, but he quickly returned to normal.

Not noticing anything unusual about Lu Yan and afraid he would keep questioning her, Shen Qingyi said, "I'm going back to my room first."

With that, she walked away.

The next morning, after Lu Caiqing returned from running her street stall, she pulled Shen Qingyi aside and excitedly rambled on. "Qingyi, a lot of people are wondering if that He Xiangcao is connected to Professor Shen's case from back then.

Moreover, because the attention is so intense, Wang Mingyi's case was tried exceptionally fast. He was sentenced to five years, and the sentence is to be carried out immediately.

Wang Chunhua's children have also received widespread attention from all sectors of society. I heard both kids have found sponsors and even been placed in a school to study.

Someone even helped her secure a stable job."

Shen Qingyi was quite satisfied with this outcome. "That's good!"

On the very next day after the verdict was handed down, Brother Wen went to visit Wang Mingyi in prison, posing as his former classmate.

He knew all of Wang Mingyi's personal identification details.

Thus, he gained entry to see Wang Mingyi without a hitch. Yet, in just three days' time, the man before him looked like a completely different person.

With bruises on his face and a desolate spirit, he glanced at Brother Wen and instantly grew agitated. "You bastard! You're the one who framed me, aren't you? What is your relationship with Wang Chunhua?"

He remembered clearly that it was this exact man standing behind Wang Chunhua who had shoved him hard in the back.

Brother Wen said expressionlessly, "I have nothing to do with her. I'm here today to inform you to transfer the house under your name to Wang Chunhua. I've brought all the transfer paperwork; you just need to sign a few documents."

Gritting his teeth, Wang Mingyi looked on the verge of going mad. "And you still dare claim you have nothing to do with her?"

Brother Wen couldn't be bothered to argue with him and directly played his trump card. "If you refuse to sign, so be it. Naturally, someone will report the origin of your assets, and how many more years you'll end up serving then is hard for me to say."

The moment he heard this, the previously frantic Wang Mingyi was left completely speechless.

Setting aside how many additional years he might get, if it dragged the people behind him into the light, would he even be able to survive? His expression shifted from shock and anger to utter bewilderment. The angry mobs outside only cared about his downfall; who on earth would care about the source of his wealth?

This person must have thoroughly investigated his past to be so certain that he wouldn't dare fight back.

Brother Wen raised an eyebrow slightly and pushed the documents toward him. "Sign?"

Wang Mingyi took the papers from Brother Wen and flipped to the first page: *Due to the existence of a de facto marriage between the signatory and comrade Wang Chunhua, and having raised two children together, the signatory, owing to prior criminal acts and a deep sense of guilt, hereby gifts his sole property to Wang Chunhua...*

What followed was the property transfer certificate.

He took up his pen and signed his name. When Brother Wen retrieved the paperwork, he felt a brief flash of shock. He hadn't expected it to go so smoothly; he had prepared himself for a lengthy tug-of-war.

It seemed there really was something deeply shady about this money.

"Where is the property deed? I'll go get it from Li Qiong." Once business was concluded, Wen Gang didn't want to linger for even a second.

Looking ashen-faced, Wang Mingyi muttered, "She knows."

Stashing the documents in his briefcase, Brother Wen turned and walked away without looking back.

The moment he left, Wang Mingyi began pounding frantically on the glass partition, shouting at the top of his lungs, "I want to see Officer Li! I have something to tell him..."

After about twenty minutes, someone finally walked over and barked harshly, "What are you yelling about?"

"Could you please call Officer Li for me? I really have something to tell him, something extremely important, truly..." He raised his voice, his tone dripping with the utmost subservience. Even back in the countryside, he had never humbled himself this much.

If he ever found out who was the one behind his ruin, he would make sure that person died.

Anyway, he had already served time in prison, and his reputation and future were completely destroyed. That wouldn't stop him from going out and killing someone once he got out. He ground his teeth until they clicked.

Remembering that this man had once been Officer Li's brother-in-law, the police officer eventually agreed to go fetch him.

Li Wang strode over briskly and sat down opposite Wang Mingyi.

Wang Mingyi said eagerly, "Big Brother, someone deliberately framed me, truly! They forced me to sign a property gift agreement."

Upon hearing this, Li Wang leapt to his feet in anger. "What? The house was gifted to whom?"

"Wang... Wang Chunhua."

"Very good! Splendid!" Li Wang ground his back molars. "Then where do you expect Li Qiong and the child in her belly to live in the future?"

"They forced me! They said if I didn't sign, they would drag Li Qiong down into this too," Wang Mingyi lied without missing a beat.

Li Wang relaxed his clenched fists and raged, "I'm still around, who dares? Was your brain kicked by a donkey?"

"I was just panicked at the time. She's pregnant, and I was afraid she'd come to harm," Wang Mingyi began playing the sympathy card.

Of course, Li Wang knew someone had laid out this trap well in advance. "Who was the person who forced you to sign those papers just now?"

Wang Mingyi shook his head. "I don't know. Probably Wang Chunhua's kept man. He's the one who shoved me last time when Wang Chunhua caused a scene."

"I see," Li Wang dropped the cold remark and walked away.

Stepping out of the visiting room, Li Wang felt a splitting headache. Wang Mingyi had been completely and thoroughly calculated, down to every last detail, and even he himself had been maneuvered precisely where they wanted him.

This invisible, manipulating hand was truly terrifying.

When he got off work that evening, Li Wang managed to track down Wang Chunhua's new residence. Upon arriving, he found her home surrounded by a crowd of enthusiastic neighbors.

Before he could even speak, several people crowded around him.

"Oh, thank goodness for Officer Li upholding justice and turning in his own family! What a wonderful policeman who truly serves the people."

"Officer Li is famous now, he's even on television!"

"That's right, we originally thought Officer Li was just making empty promises on TV, but he really keeps his word. He even came to visit the victim in private."

Wang Chunhua hurriedly called over her two children. "Hurry up and say thank you to Uncle Li!"

The two children stood neatly in front of Li Wang and bowed respectfully. "Thank you, Uncle Li."

Wang Chunhua tugged at Wang Tao's sleeve, prompting the boy to speak up as well. "If it weren't for Uncle Li, my mom would have died of grief and my dad wouldn't have faced any punishment at all. You saved our family."

With that, he moved to drop to his knees and kowtow. Before Li Wang could react and get ambushed by this wave of excessive flattery, he quickly reached out to steady Wang Tao. "No, no. I just have a few words I'd like to ask Comrade Chunhua in private."

Wang Chunhua turned to the well-meaning neighbors and her son. "You all go outside for a moment. Officer Li won't give me a hard time."

Once everyone had cleared out and before Li Wang could utter a word, Wang Chunhua took the initiative. "Did you come here today regarding the matter of Wang Mingyi's property?"