Chapter 60: Chapter 21 Explanation (Please collect and vote for monthly tickets)
Yang Cheng, 31 years old, raped an eighteen-year-old girl when he was 20, and was sentenced to six years in prison; later, he was sentenced to four years for extortion.
Bluntly speaking, the Yang Cheng in front of us is a total social scumbag.
"Yang Cheng, we know who you are. What did you do last Monday? Do you want to say it yourself, or do you need me to repeat what you did?" Luo Fei said coldly, his face ashen.
Rapists are among the criminals Luo Fei despises the most, which makes this even more intolerable. So at this moment, Luo Fei looked at this guy in front of him with extreme displeasure.
"I don’t know what you’re talking about?" Yang Cheng defended, but it was obvious to Luo Fei that Yang Cheng’s tone had quickened, clearly betraying a bit of panic.
"Looks like I need to help you remember. I’m not sure how a brainless, forgetful person like you dares to try honeypots. Listen carefully, last Monday night, Zhou Zhi went dancing with Zeng Tianming at the Night Bar. Afterward, the two went to a hotel. Once Zhou Zhi messaged you, you went in to catch them, extorting Zeng Tianming. Sound familiar? Remember anything?" Luo Fei half-truthfully asked.
He was sure that Yang Cheng and Zhou Zhi set up Zeng Tianming, but he didn’t know the specific details. However, that didn’t matter; what mattered was that they did set up a honeypot, and that was enough evidence.
"No, there’s no such thing!" Yang Cheng panicked but firmly denied it.
"No? Should we call Mr. Zeng over for a face-off? How do you think we found out?" Luo Fei said coldly.
Upon hearing Luo Fei’s misleading and ambiguous words, Yang Cheng believed Zeng Tianming had called the police and furiously said, "That bastard Zeng Tianming! How dare he? Isn’t he afraid I’ll post the video online?"
Sure enough, seeing that Yang Cheng had taken the bait, Luo Fei was pleased, but his face remained expressionless as he said coldly, "Even now, you dare to be arrogant. I suggest you honestly confess every detail of your crime and seek leniency."
Yang Cheng mistakenly thought Zeng Tianming had told everything to the police, so he no longer hid anything.
It turned out that the week before last, Zeng Tianming went to Longcheng KTV with friends. Zhou Zhi, the front desk lead at the KTV, accompanied them for drinks. Zeng Tianming noticed Zhou Zhi’s looks and took a liking to her, exchanging WeChat contacts.
In the following two days, Zeng Tianming flirted with Zhou Zhi on WeChat. Zhou Zhi, considering Zeng Tianming as a customer, politely responded to his messages.
Until last weekend, when Zhou Zhi and her boyfriend Yang Cheng passed by a café and discovered that Zeng Tianming was the café’s owner.
Knowing that Zeng Tianming owned such a large café, Zhou Zhi thought he must be wealthy and this sparked a different kind of idea in her mind.
All this time, Zhou Zhi had been dreaming of buying a house of her own in Ningjiang.
Both she and Yang Cheng were outsiders but had lived in Ningjiang for many years without owning a house, making Zhou Zhi feel extremely insecure.
To settle down and buy a house in Ningjiang, she had been saving for many years, but it was never enough for a down payment. She worked at the KTV and occasionally took fast-food gigs, earning quite a bit, but with two people spending the income of just one, everything she made was just enough to cover expenses.
After so many years, her dream of buying a house had never been realized.
Zeng Tianming’s appearance made her desire to buy a house more urgent than ever.
She shared her thoughts with Yang Cheng, who was fed up with having no money and readily agreed to make a fortune off Zeng Tianming.
The couple was already well-versed in playing honeypots.
In the following two days, Zhou Zhi changed her former attitude and openly chatted with Zeng Tianming, her words filled with flirtation and seduction. As a KTV lead, Zhou Zhi was skilled at enticing and seducing men.
Last Monday, Zeng Tianming finally couldn’t resist and invited Zhou Zhi out for dinner. After some playful reluctance, Zhou Zhi agreed, and after eating, they went to the Night Bar to dance and drank a lot.
Drinking was part of Zhou Zhi and Yang Cheng’s plan, as people are less conscious when drunk, more likely to walk into deliberately set traps.
Zeng Tianming, wanting something to happen with Zhou Zhi, was very agreeable to drinking at the bar. Willingly, they both drank quite a bit.
After leaving the bar, Zeng Tianming took Zhou Zhi to a hotel, where Zhou Zhi sent the hotel address and room number to Yang Cheng. Zhou Zhi pretended to be bothered by the alcohol smell on Zeng Tianming and asked him to bathe, using the opportunity to take out a tiny spy camera from her bag, place it on the cabinet next to the TV and cover it with her bag.
When Zeng Tianming finished bathing, they smoothly engaged in sexual activities, all secretly recorded by the camera.
At that time, Yang Cheng was waiting near the hotel. He entered only when he felt the timing was right, knocked on the door of the room.
Zhou Zhi opened the door to let Yang Cheng in, catching them red-handed.
Yang Cheng demanded fifty thousand from Zeng Tianming, threatening to kill him otherwise.
But Zeng Tianming claimed he didn’t have that much money.
Yang Cheng thought Zeng Tianming was lying. Running such a big café, how could he not have fifty thousand?
Zeng Tianming explained that his wife controlled the finances and he was broke, still ignorant he had fallen into a honeypot, genuinely believing he was caught by a jealous husband.
Seeing that Zeng Tianming refused to pay and showing some reckless courage, Yang Cheng had no choice but to take out the last resort, the video.
If all had gone smoothly and Zeng Tianming agreed to pay, Yang Cheng and Zhou Zhi didn’t intend to bring out the surveillance footage. Once the footage was shown, Zeng Tianming would realize it was a honeypot, and if he reported it to the police, Yang Cheng and Zhou Zhi wouldn’t get away with it.
But since Zeng Tianming refused to pay, they were left with no choice but to show the footage.
Upon seeing his naked body on the surveillance video, Zeng Tianming realized he had been trapped in a honeypot, angrily cursing at the vile methods of Zhou Zhi and Yang Cheng.
But cursing was useless; Yang Cheng threatened to post the video online, showing it to relatives, friends, and his wife if Zeng Tianming didn’t pay the fifty thousand.
Initially, Yang Cheng and Zhou Zhi wanted to extort one hundred thousand from Zeng Tianming, but worrying that it might push him to report to the police, risking everything, they only demanded fifty thousand.
Fortunately, Zeng Tianming didn’t consider risking it all; he agreed to pay but asked for some time to gather the money.
This was the entire honeypot scheme orchestrated by Yang Cheng and Zhou Zhi.