He glanced through the peephole in the door, his surprise immense. He quickly opened the door, yanked the person outside in, and shut it again, afraid of being seen.
"Don't let your men go to the dock tomorrow night," Qin Tianyi said to Su Kangxi immediately. "It's a trap."
Su Kangxi merely nodded and asked, "How did you escape? Didn't they have people watching you?"
"I, I hailed a car and fled here to you," Qin Tianyi said, a little out of breath. "They deliberately gave me a little freedom, actually wanting me to contact you police. But they didn't expect I'd already called you... Fortunately, we discovered this trap in time..."
"Alright, stop talking. I'll get you a glass of water," Su Kangxi said, turning towards the kitchen. "It's good that you escaped safely. It's alright now, they can't harm you anymore."
Qin Tianyi sat on the sofa in the room, feeling as though he had returned to the human world from hell. He still tightly clutched the USB drive A Mei had given him. With so much evidence of Lu Yuanhong's crimes, as long as the police moved quickly to arrest him, Susu and the children's lives could return to normal. As for himself, in his current state, it was best not to appear in their lives for now...
Su Kangxi brought over a glass of warm water, which Qin Tianyi took and drank in one gulp.
"Why don't you take a shower first, change your clothes, and rest here for a night? Tomorrow, I'll tell Sister Susu that you're actually fine..."
"No, don't tell her yet," Qin Tianyi interrupted him, showing him the USB drive in his hand. "Let's wait until Lu Yuanhong is arrested. This was given to me by a woman close to him. It should be evidence of Lu Yuanhong's crimes. Now he can be convicted without any doubt."
Su Kangxi took the USB drive from him, his face also filled with excitement. He immediately opened his computer, plugged in the USB drive, and asked, "Did you look at the contents before? What is it? Is it their group's ledger?"
Qin Tianyi also wanted to know the specific contents of the USB drive. He sat down next to Su Kangxi's computer and said, "The woman close to Lu Yuanhong is called A Mei. She gave it to me just before I came here. I haven't had time to look at it yet. And she was the one who told me that batch of raw materials was a trap set by Lu Yuanhong."
Su Kangxi turned to look at him with disbelief and joked, "I didn't expect you to use the honey trap."
"Don't talk nonsense. At first, she was just a pawn sent by Lu Yuanhong to test me. In reality, she herself didn't want to continue following Lu Yuanhong and wanted to escape his control, which is why she helped me. It's a case of mutual benefit..."
Before he could finish speaking, Su Kangxi had already opened a folder on the USB drive. It was full of photos and videos. When he clicked on one, they were both stunned.
"How could it be these things? Impossible!" Qin Tianyi recalled A Mei's expression when she handed him the USB drive earlier. She didn't seem like she was lying or deceiving him.
Since she had tipped him off and helped him escape, there was no reason for her to play such a trick on him at the end. Moreover, these were A Mei's own explicit photos. Giving them to him, wasn't she afraid he would spread them everywhere online?
Su Kangxi clicked on several more photos and a video, all of them indecent.
In these photos and videos, only A Mei was clearly visible. As for the man next to her, his back was either blurred or completely photoshopped out.
"Impossible, check the other folders. She must have put the wrong folder," Qin Tianyi said.
Su Kangxi opened several more folders, all the same. He opened all the files on the entire USB drive, but none of them were valuable. He concluded, "You were tricked?"
"No, she wouldn't play this kind of joke at a time like this." Qin Tianyi was also very surprised. He then remembered that she had also given him an envelope.
He quickly took out the envelope from his pocket and opened it. Inside was a note that read, "Just in case, I've also made a backup of all the files. It's in a locker at the Yijia Supermarket in the city center. The password is the numbers below. A Ban, there's one more thing. If, I say if, I can't secure the freedom of the two children, please tell my children when you have the chance that I love them very much but I detest their father. Let them know what I've been through. I only hope they grow up to be good people and live safe and happy lives."
After they both read the note, Su Kangxi said worriedly, "What if the backup she mentioned is also just these indecent pictures?" As he spoke, he closed the USB drive entirely.
Qin Tianyi remained silent for a moment, pondering what exactly had gone wrong. A Mei had clearly said it was evidence that could convict Lu Yuanhong. He picked up his phone, wanting to contact A Mei, but he didn't have her contact information at all.
Su Kangxi also thought for a moment and said, "There's another possibility: the USB drive containing Lu Yuanhong's criminal evidence was discovered and swapped."
"Someone replaced her USB drive, and the swapped drive is full of her private photos and videos. Who could do that?" Qin Tianyi asked, his heart chilling.
Su Kangxi quickly replied, "The person closest to her, Lu Yuanhong."
In fact, Qin Tianyi had also guessed this answer, but he dared not say it aloud, because if that were the case, A Mei would be in great danger.
Su Kangxi made a decisive statement, "I'll memorize this password and go to the supermarket locker to get the backup now. Then, I'll apply for an arrest warrant for Lu Yuanhong overnight. I hope A Mei will be alright."
Qin Tianyi said with great concern, "Send people to Lu Yuanhong's old residence tonight. I'm afraid A Mei will be in trouble by the time the arrest warrant is issued."
"But without an arrest warrant, even we police cannot trespass into a private residence."
"Just think of some excuse, as long as we can get A Mei out of Lu Yuanhong's residence." Qin Tianyi thought of something and said, "A Mei drove herself when she came to find me tonight. Check if her car has any traffic violations. Use traffic violations as a reason to see if we can get her out of there."
Su Kangxi nodded and said, "Alright, I'll go to the traffic police department right away and see if I can find any excuse. You wait here for my news and don't go anywhere."
"Okay," Qin Tianyi added, "Hurry up. Lu Yuanhong is a ruthless killer."
Although Qin Tianyi had no feelings for A Mei, he knew she was also an innocent and pitiable person. Now, he wanted to save whoever he could from Lu Yuanhong.
"I understand," Su Kangxi said, putting on his jacket and hurrying out. Tonight was destined to be another sleepless night.
...
After parting ways with Qin Tianyi, A Mei went to the mall and bought a lot of things before driving back to the mansion.
She parked her car and, feigning exhaustion, asked the bodyguards guarding the mansion entrance to carry all her shopping bags into the house.
At that moment, the two children ran downstairs and rushed towards her. She hugged them and kissed them, asking, "Mommy went shopping. Were you good at home?"