Chapter 349: Lying in Wait
"Each victim will receive one million in compensation for emotional distress!"
"The Shentu family’s Youmei Cosmetics Company has committed a severe error and will be shut down immediately. The responsible party, Shentu Lin, will be punished for multiple offenses and is currently being held in a detention center to await trial!"
This was a swift decision made by Sun Jiancheng to ensure he could hold on to his position.
However, the victims’ families and the general public remained unsatisfied, demanding Sun Jiancheng explain how severely the Shentu family would be punished.
After discussions with various departments, Sun Jiancheng gave the public a general idea of the punishment: The responsible party, Shentu Lin, would likely be sentenced to thirty years in prison, and the Shentu family would be fined five hundred million...
Why was Shentu Lin the one held responsible?
Only the Shentu family knew the real answer to that.
By unilaterally dismissing the police, he had dealt a heavy blow to the Shentu family when they might have otherwise salvaged the situation. Shentu Lin was the family’s disgrace!
But half an hour later, news broke that Shentu Lin had committed suicide to escape punishment.
As soon as this news spread, everyone’s faces darkened.
It was nothing more than a self-serving ploy by the Shentu family.
Without seeing a body, no one believed it.
But in the end, the Shentu family presented Shentu Lin’s body.
There was a deep, fist-shaped crater on Shentu Lin’s face, and a ligature mark around his neck.
The fatal wound on Shentu Lin’s face was, of course, the result of Jiang Xinghai’s punch.
The ligature mark on his neck, however, was just something the Shentu family had added later.
’A bunch of rabble, that’s all.’
Jiang Xinghai leaned in a corner, sneering at the outcome Sun Jiancheng had announced and the Shentu family’s petty schemes.
’This level of punishment seems severe on the surface, but compared to the more than two hundred families and the societal impact, it’s utterly insignificant.’
At this point, he had already switched his disguise from the likeness of Shentu Lin to that of ’Little Chef’.
’I’ll use my identity as Little Chef to take down the Shentu family for good tonight.’
Suddenly, a girl on a shared bike, about to leave, entered his line of sight.
"Hey, Cao Yan!"
Jiang Xinghai walked over to the model who had previously snuck out of the hospital.
"You’re... you look so familiar," Cao Yan said, looking at Jiang Xinghai with suspicion in her eyes.
’This face is just so familiar.’
"I’m Little Chef," Jiang Xinghai said with a slight smile.
"Right, right! Little Chef, I remember now! A few days ago, during the nationwide live broadcast, you fought Wanyan Xiong to a standstill with a single punch atop Luolin Mountain..." As a practitioner of the Martial Arts, the event was still fresh in Cao Yan’s mind.
Jiang Xinghai nodded calmly. "That was me."
"Little Chef, this is great! I finally get to meet you."
Cao Yan was a student at Central State University. She was leaving rather late, and seeing Little Chef now, her spirits were suddenly lifted.
Jiang Xinghai, however, got straight to the point. "Cao Yan, I can see in your eyes that you seem to be hiding something. Is there anything else that hasn’t been made public?"
"I..."
Cao Yan’s expression tightened, and she hesitated, wanting to speak but holding back.
"The reason I’m here is to see that justice is served. You can tell me the truth. I will make the Shentu family pay the price," Jiang Xinghai said with a sincere smile.
Cao Yan nodded emphatically. "Yes, the price the Shentu family has paid is far too little. They’re disgusting..."
She then told him about how Shentu Di and Shentu Shan had assaulted several of the girls in the bathroom locker room.
’So there are still secrets,’ Jiang Xinghai thought, a murderous intent flashing in his eyes.
Cao Yan shook her head. "Unfortunately, I’ve spoken to those girls in private, but they all deny it. It seems they’re worried about their reputations if it becomes public..."
"That’s understandable."
Jiang Xinghai nodded. "Still, I will give them the justice they deserve. When the sun rises, they will be gratified."
"Little Chef, are you really going to go against the Shentu family?" Cao Yan asked nervously.
"Want to come along?" Jiang Xinghai chuckled.
Cao Yan hesitated. She was only a Ninth-Order Martial Artist; it was too dangerous.
"Just kidding. I just need you to do one thing for me. Can you give me the personal information of all two hundred of you models?" Jiang Xinghai added.
"Are you thinking..." Cao Yan trailed off as she seemed to realize something.
"A mere one million in compensation for emotional distress is not nearly enough to make up for what you’ve suffered," Jiang Xinghai said, not spelling it out completely.
Cao Yan was a smart girl and immediately nodded in agreement.
She exchanged contact information with Jiang Xinghai before leaving reluctantly.
As she left, she couldn’t help but imagine what shocking move Little Chef might make tonight.
After all, the incident had rocked the entire city, and even the whole country, that night.
The night grew deeper.
After midnight, aside from some news media outlets still staking out the Shentu family’s hospital, the families who had come from all over the country had already begun to depart one after another.
"Taxi."
After seeing Cao Yan off, Jiang Xinghai waved his hand and hailed a taxi.
’Rather than waiting here to ambush the core members of the Shentu family, it’s better to head to the Shentu estate first and lie in wait.’