During lunch, Qin Beiting received a call and left, allowing Yu He to avoid him.
After lunch, Yu He received a call from Chen Hao.
"Miss Yu, Qin Meimei has been bailed out."
Yu He narrowed her peach blossom eyes, "Who bailed her out?"
Had they finally made their move?
"This morning, Gu Tianlei brought Qin Xinhui and Qin Jincheng from the Qin family, along with a lawyer. They just got her out on bail," Chen Hao said.
Qin Xinhui was the son of the fourth master of the Qin family, and Qin Jincheng was the adopted son of Miss Qin Xinhong, who was the daughter of the current head of the Qin family.
Were Qin Meimei's backing in the Qin family the Qin family head and the fourth master Qin?
"Why did Shao Chen let go?" Yu He thought of Shao Chen.
He had helped suppress the Gu family back then. Who had made him relent now?
"Didn't you see the news? Master Shao had an accident," Chen Hao said, surprised.
Yu He immediately opened the news. The headline read: "Young Master Shao Severely Injured Due to a Scandal."
Clicking on it, she skimmed through the report.
The incident was about Shao Chen harassing a social media influencer, but he had messed with the wrong person. The influencer was the young wife of the Huo family head, a powerful family in the south. The matter had reached Shao Chen's grandfather, and General Shao, a man of strong character, had beaten up his grandson for harassing a married woman.
According to the report, Shao Chen was badly beaten and was in no condition to handle her affairs.
"..."
"I understand. Thank you for your hard work, Chen Chen," Yu He said.
"It's nothing. I didn't help much. I'll notify you if there are any developments in the case."
"Okay, thank you."
Yu He hung up the phone. Just then, an email with no subject arrived in her inbox.
The email was from a QQ account, and the subject line was: "Classmate, you must read this."
Classmate?
Luo Xiaoyao? Dafeng Novel Network
Hadn't she died?!
Yu He immediately opened the email.
[Classmate: I didn't mean to not contact you. My mother and I were held captive. We finally escaped and are on the run. I can't explain about my father to you. I'm sorry. If you see this email, it means something has happened to me. Please go to the fourth tree under the Rongshu Lin in Lin County, Nanshi, and dig up a box. Hand it over to the police. Please, classmate. You're a good person. Luo Xiaoyao]
After reading the email, Yu He found Luo Xiaoyao's QQ number from the class group's contact list. It matched the sender's email address.
She sent the QQ number to Shi Ban.
Crow: [Help me check the login addresses for this account from September until now.]
A Pig: [Received.]
A Pig: [May I ask weakly, is it urgent? I'm on a date.]
Yu He: "..."
Crow: [You go on your date first.]
"Hehe, want to go for another soak in the hot springs outside?" Cheng Lizhu walked over.
"No, I have some things to do. You guys go ahead." Yu He put away her phone and went out to borrow a computer from the front desk.
Using the web version of her email, she traced the code and found that Luo Xiaoyao's email had been scheduled to send over a month ago, with the IP address in Lin County, Nanshi.
At that time, Luo Xiaoyao and her mother had already fled there. She knew something would happen to her, so she had scheduled the email to be sent?
Yu He screenshotted the email content and sent it to Chen Hao. Chen Hao's call came immediately.
"This email content is enough to prove that Luo Xiaoyao and her mother did not die in an accident!" Chen Hao said excitedly. "But we need to confirm that Luo Xiaoyao herself set up the scheduled sending."
"Yes. I've already asked someone to check the QQ login addresses," Yu He said. "I'm planning to go to the address above."
"I'll go with you. It's not safe for you to go alone. Give me your location, and I'll come pick you up."
Yu He: "Okay."
--
Meanwhile.
The Gu family.
Qin Meimei got out of the car. Her face, without makeup, looked much more haggard.
She stood in her own yard and took a deep breath.
She was finally out.
"Mom, hurry inside, it's cold out here," Gu Ze came out from the house and obediently helped Qin Meimei.
"No rush," Qin Meimei waved her hand and turned towards the pine trees by the yard. "Come out!" she yelled.
The butler hurried forward and dragged out a paparazzi in a black down jacket, desperately protecting his camera, from behind the pine trees.
"If you want to take pictures, take them openly! Sneaking around, be careful I sue you for portrait infringement!" Qin Meimei said sternly.
The paparazzi thought he had misheard and was a bit disbelieving, but he still hesitantly raised his camera and took a few shots of her before turning and running away.
"Mom, why did you let him take pictures?" Gu Ze was confused and wanted to chase after him, but the person had already disappeared.
"It's fine. I need someone to spread the news," Qin Meimei said.
On her way back, she had learned about the Gu family's situation from Gu Tianlei. While angry, she also felt a sense of immense value.
The Gu family truly couldn't do without her!
"But..." Gu Ze hesitated.
Qin Meimei didn't pay attention. She went inside to wash away the bad luck, changed into expensive clothes, ate delicacies, put on beautiful makeup, and instantly returned to her former elegant lady persona.
"Prepare the car. I need to go to Shengda Venture Capital with you again," Qin Meimei said to Gu Tianlei.
She had to personally handle the Qin family's affairs for them to be effective.
However, Gu Tianlei didn't move. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Meimei, your movements are restricted."
They had only been able to bail her out temporarily. But as long as Yu He didn't withdraw the accusations of defamation and bribery against Qin Meimei, and until the truth about the deaths of Luo Xiaoyao and her mother came out, her movements were restricted, and she could only stay at home.
"What!" Qin Meimei's face darkened. "What does Qin Xinhong mean by this?!"
This kind of bail was no different from no bail at all! It was just a change of prison!
"Xinhong said she could only do her best," Gu Tianlei explained.
Although temporary, bailing Qin Meimei out could resolve the Gu family's public relations crisis in the business world.
"Nonsense!" Qin Meimei cursed. "I don't believe they can stop me!"
She didn't believe it. Angrily, she went outside, only to see two uniformed armed police officers guarding the entrance of the villa's courtyard.
The armed police stopped her at the gate when they saw her coming out. "Sorry, you cannot leave this villa."
Qin Meimei saw that they were all armed and didn't dare to act rashly. She turned back with a dark expression.
She shut herself in the study and called Qin Xinhong, but no one answered.
She called five times, and the last one was finally answered, "Cousin Meimei, what's wrong? You're out?"
Qin Meimei listened to the slow voice on the other end of the phone, feeling a fire in her heart, thinking that Qin Xinhong was deliberately making her wait before discussing matters.
However, Qin Xinhong was from the main family. Even though she called herself cousin, her status as Miss Qin was nobler than hers!
Qin Meimei could only suppress her anger.