vrcanaries Chapter 214 Is it torture to extract confessions?
Chapter 214 Is it torture to extract confessions?
The waiter's clothes were dusty and dirty, with a few weeds still clinging to his hair. He scrambled to his feet and cried out, "I didn't drug you, Miss! I really didn't drug you! I wouldn't dare to drug you even if you gave me ten lives!"
"I just saw a rabbit next to the dog hole and went over out of curiosity. I had only been peering through the hole for less than two minutes when the Third Young Master dragged me out and insisted that I had drugged someone." The waiter's eyes darted around.
"Go see rabbits? Could your excuse be any more ridiculous? If I hadn't dragged you out, you'd be nowhere to be found right now. Daring to have your way with the Ji family on our turf, I think you have a death wish." Ji Chen sneered, emanating a chilling aura.
"I...it really wasn't me." The waiter shivered with fear, filled with regret. He shouldn't have been greedy for that 100,000 yuan.
He crawled towards Ji Ziyang using both hands and feet, reaching out as if to grab her trouser leg.
Ji Ziyang glanced at his dusty hands, frowned, and stepped aside to avoid his hand. "Whether it's you or not, we'll know after watching the surveillance footage."
“No, it wasn’t him.” Yu Baisu muttered to herself as she stood to the side. She stared at the waiter’s ordinary face, her expression grim. She clearly remembered that the spiked drink had been taken from a waiter with very pretty eyes.
Although the waiter was of average appearance, his eyes were unforgettable once you saw them.
Ye Chengyan glanced at Yu Baisu but said nothing.
His gaze fell on Yunzhi, who was standing not far away beside Cheng Shuyan. His eyes darkened, and it was unclear what he was thinking.
Upon hearing the words "check the surveillance footage," the waiter who had just been gritting his teeth on the ground, insisting it wasn't him, shuddered. The next second, he sat up and slapped himself hard. "Miss, I was forced into this situation. Please forgive me, Miss."
The waiter slapped him with all his might, and the next second half of his face swelled up. The people around him were in an uproar, which was almost an admission that he had drugged him.
Yunzhi leaned on Cheng Shuyan's shoulder and watched the play silently.
She felt that something was not quite right. For example, how did the medicine that was supposed to be given to her end up being taken by Bai Weiwei and Yu Baisu by some twist of fate?
It seemed as if an invisible hand was binding them together, but Yunzhi knew too little to guess who was behind it.
Ji Ziyang's face darkened, and she raised her hand to slap the other half of his face. With a loud slap, the other half of his face swelled up, making the two faces symmetrical.
The waiter was knocked to the ground. Ji Ziyang was trembling with anger. She would never have attacked a waiter in front of so many people if she wasn't extremely angry.
Ji Chen walked over, coughed lightly, and lowered his voice to Ji Ziyang's side, saying, "Big sister, calm down. He doesn't have that kind of guts. There must be someone behind him. Maybe someone is deliberately targeting our Ji family and trying to embarrass us."
Ji Ziyang calmed down a bit.
Before she could speak, Mother Ye couldn't help but interject, "You said you were forced into this situation, but who forced you? Who encouraged you, and who gave you the medicine? Was it someone from here?"
The Night Mother glanced around and her gaze settled on Yunzhi.
She was practically calling her by name.
Countless eyes were fixed on Yunzhi.
Cheng Shuyan frowned, wanting to shield Yunzhi, but she stopped him.
“Aunt Ye, why don’t you just ask him directly if I instigated it? Why beat around the bush?” Yunzhi stepped forward, her expression calm and composed. She slowly walked to the waiter and half-squatted down. “Take a good look. Did I instigate you to drug Miss Yu?”
The waiter stared at it for a long time, then shook his head. "No, it's not."
He remembered that the woman who gave him the medicine wasn't this pretty.
Whether she was fearless or unafraid of him reporting her, when the woman bribed him to drug her, she didn't cover her face at all, and didn't look like she was doing anything wrong.
Yunzhi stood up, turned around and looked at Ye's mother who looked incredulous, "Aunt Ye, you heard it too, it wasn't me. Don't pin everything on me in the future. I just have a good temper, not that I don't have one. You can't bully me just because my parents aren't in the country."
As she spoke, she winked at Mother Night with a smile.
Mother Ye was furious and suspected that this was Yunzhi's provocation.
"Impossible! Are you deliberately saying it wasn't her? Who else could have bribed you to drug Xiao Su?"
Night Mother, furious, walked up to the waitress, grabbed her by the collar, and demanded an explanation through gritted teeth.
The waiter was terrified. He opened his mouth but couldn't say a word for a long time. Finally, Madam Ji, who arrived late, couldn't bear to see it and pulled him away.
Mrs. Ji looked at her friend, who was acting crazy, with a headache. She really couldn't understand her friend's thought process. "What are you trying to do? Torture her? She has already said that Miss Yun did it. Why do you insist that it was Miss Yun?"
Mother Ye stared intently at Yunzhi, "It must be her. Even if it's not her, she's definitely involved."
“You…” Madam Ji shook her head helplessly.
Then Madam Ji said some high-sounding words, the gist of which was to apologize and hope that everyone would keep today's events to themselves, to give an explanation to the victims, and to sincerely apologize to Yunzhi.
In everyone's eyes, Yunzhi was indeed an innocent victim.
"Ms. Yun, we apologize. We will definitely give you an explanation for what happened today. We all believe that what happened today has nothing to do with you. To express our apologies, I will visit you tomorrow to discuss compensation."
Madam Ji addressed Yunzhi with the respectful "you," clearly indicating that she no longer considered Yunzhi a junior but placed her on the same level. Alternatively, she might be apologizing not only to Yunzhi but also to the Yun Group behind Yunzhi.
The Ji family originally had something to ask of the Yun Group and was even thinking of a marriage alliance. Now, the marriage alliance is out of the question. They can't afford to strain their relationship with the Yun Group over such a small matter. If they can't get the technology, their plans to rise to the next level will be ruined.
Yunzhi wouldn't hold a grudge against the Ji family over a trivial matter, especially since the responsibility didn't lie with them this time, and their apology was very sincere. She even winked playfully at Madam Ji like a junior.
“Mrs. Ji, I’m not angry. I know that the Ji family is also a victim in today’s incident. You don’t need to apologize to me or come to apologize in person. If you did, it would be too much for me.”
Madam Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and her impression of Yunzhi improved even more.