Chapter 1 The Blank Mind

In the state police joint interrogation room, Qiuqiu stared blankly at the iron bars in front of her, the handcuffs on her wrists, and the stern-faced police officers berating her!

This scene was too alien and frightening for her. She had never imagined that one day she would be sitting here as a criminal suspect.

What would happen in the future? What awaited her? Qiuqiu was filled with fear. She possessed so much—wealth, a promising future, power, a beautiful life ahead. She couldn't bear to give up any of it...

A series of footsteps approached. A middle-aged man in a suit walked to the door of the interrogation room, looking at her with a polite expression. He asked, "Would you like to make a phone call?"

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Suffolk County.

After ending his call with a friend, Yu Zhen immediately pushed open the car door, wanting to communicate with Qiuqiu's father again.

In the car ahead, Chief Yu held his phone in his right hand, looking in the rearview mirror, and saw Yu Zhen walking towards him.

"Hello, Chief Yu, are you still listening?" a voice came from the phone.

"...Do you have the authority to make a decision?" Chief Yu asked in a hoarse voice.

"I can contact you, of course I have the authority to make a decision," the other party replied with a smile. "This shouldn't be a difficult choice for you, right?"

Chief Yu looked at Yu Zhen's back in the rearview mirror and decisively said to the driver, "Go, leave here!"

"Huh?" The driver was taken aback.

"I told you to go!" Chief Yu urged.

The car started and slowly drove towards the street ahead.

Yu Zhen walked on the side of the road, and when he saw the car leaving, he immediately shouted, "Chief Yu, please wait!"

The distance between them wasn't far. Old Yu in the car must have heard Yu Zhen's shout, but he had no intention of communicating further. He just held the phone and said faintly, "I want to talk to her!"

On the roadside, Yu Zhen, who had been in the system for decades, instantly realized An Qiqi's predicament!

Standing there for a few seconds, Yu Zhen immediately waved at his car, "Come over here, take me to the joint police station!"

...

Inside the joint interrogation room.

An Qiqi sat on the iron chair, hearing hurried footsteps in the hallway.

After a while, seven or eight white police officers came over with two Chinese men. They unlocked the iron door and came to An Qiqi's front.

An Qiqi looked up at them, feeling nervous but trying to remain calm. She said, "I want to see a lawyer!"

A middle-aged Chinese man smiled, holding the iron table with both hands, "You'll have plenty of opportunities to see a lawyer, but before that... you need to sign a lot of documents!"

The white man placed a large stack of English documents in front of An Qiqi. The middle-aged man opened the first page, took out a pen, and handed it to An Qiqi, saying, "Sign here!"

An Qiqi looked down at the contents of the documents, her expression gradually turning to astonishment. "What... what do you mean?! The details of the case recorded here are completely inconsistent with the facts!"

"What's inconsistent?" the middle-aged man asked.

"I... I didn't instigate Qiuqiu to hit Wang Ying, and I didn't use a shard of glass to slash her neck!!!" An Qiqi responded angrily, "I was just acting in self-defense. When I was grabbing her gun, it accidentally went off and shot her! But this was because she was going to hurt me! You can see, I have injuries on my arm. Wang Ying shot me first."

The middle-aged man turned his head to look at An Qiqi's arm wrapped in gauze, paused for a moment, pointed to the wound and asked, "Is it here?"

"Of course!"

"Oh!" The middle-aged man nodded, reached out and pinched An Qiqi's arm wound, slowly applying pressure. "Young lady! How can you prove that your wound was inflicted by Wang Ying?!"

A sharp pain struck, and An Qiqi's delicate body trembled as she looked at him, pursing her lips, refusing to cry out!

At this moment, An Qiqi was not like her father, but more like her decisive, never-give-up mother!

"You're quite resilient!" The middle-aged man smiled and looked at An Qiqi. "Your resistance is meaningless!"

An Qiqi gritted her teeth, looking at him with hatred. "I won't evade my responsibility! But if you want to use me to get to my parents! That's impossible!!!"

"Hehe!" The middle-aged man nodded slowly and waved towards the outside of the room.

Three seconds later, a familiar figure appeared in front of An Qiqi. She lowered her head, her hands tightly clenched in front of her, and she wasn't even wearing handcuffs!

It was Qiuqiu!

It was the one who shouted "Best friends forever," the one who was willing to lend Wang Ying six million, and the sister who accompanied An Qiqi on her post-breakup trip!

"Tell her what the situation was like at the time!" the middle-aged man said to Qiuqiu.

An Qiqi slowly raised her head, looking at the other woman with a blank expression.

Qiuqiu lowered her head and said in a hoarse voice, "An Qiqi and I... had an argument with Wang Ying in the stairwell of the Suffolk Hotel... An Qiqi hit and scolded Wang Ying several times... The other party took out a gun, but An Qiqi grabbed it. While questioning Wang Ying about whether she had committed economic fraud against us... An Qiqi retaliated and shot the other party. Wang Ying resisted, smashing the ventilation glass in the stairwell... An Qiqi took a piece of glass and stabbed Wang Ying in the neck...!"

An Qiqi stared at her blankly, forgetting to resist, forgetting to refute!

"What did you do at the time?"

"I slapped Wang Ying twice, but that was at An Qiqi's instigation." Qiuqiu wept, tears streaming down her face. "She kept stirring up my emotions... saying we were being cheated. I couldn't control myself, so I hit her."

An Qiqi slowly clenched her fists. "Is... is that so? Qiuqiu!"

Silence. After a long silence, Qiuqiu's head lowered even further. "After killing Wang Ying... we fled the scene. An Qiqi deliberately shot herself in the arm... and told me that when facing police interrogation, I should say that Wang Ying shot us, and we were acting in self-defense...!"

"The gun has been found!! The case is clear enough! Due to your father's status, you may not be able to be bailed out!" The middle-aged man stared straight at An Qiqi. "The only ones who can save you now are your parents. If they are willing to compromise, perhaps you still have a chance!"

An Qiqi ignored the middle-aged man's words. She only watched Qiuqiu's every move, as if she had grown up in an instant!!!

In this year, her parents' political situation was very awkward. The originally harmonious, stable, and happy An family was already in a precarious state...

In this year, An Qiqi, who had grown up in a greenhouse, was forced to lose her first love.

In this year, An Qiqi was betrayed by her two best friends, who ruthlessly stabbed this girl twice in the darkest moment of her life...

In the interrogation room, An Qiqi looked at Qiuqiu's confession, tears streaming down her face blankly.

A seedling grows vigorously in a greenhouse, but when a storm strikes and the greenhouse shatters, all that's left is rubble!

At that time, all the seedling can do is either die in the rain tonight, or be reborn after the storm passes!!

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Sri Lanka base.

While Su Tianyu was studying how to do bad things with Sun Wei, he suddenly heard the phone ringing loudly.

"Hello?!"

"An Qiqi is in trouble...!"