Afterlife Department

Inside the room adjacent to the interrogation room where Ke Congyi sent Su Lin and his mother, a deafening silence befell them before Su Lin finally reacted when he had found his voice.

"WHAT?!" he exclaimed in shock as his face registered a horrified expression. He looked at his mother as if she's a kind of a beast. "Mom…" he called and his voice broke. "How could you…" he said and he screamed. He kicked the chair and it hit the wall with a loud bang. "How could you?!" he asked as his voice raised in hysteria. "Is the money I give you not enough?!" he asked. "Father is also working! How can he prostitute his own daughter?!" he asked as he looked at his mother with his bloodshot eyes. his veins throbbing in his forehead and his face is pale in anger. "You can tell me if it isn't enough and I'll find a way to support you and my sister! You can tell me if father is abusing you. You can tell me anything! So why didn't you?!" he asked as he looked at her with a hurtful expression.

His mother could only cry since she couldn't find an answer.. She has an illness, and only her daughter can look after her since her husband is working while her son is also studying like her daughter but at the same time working in his part-time job to help the family. However, she didn't expect that when she got up from her bed, she will hear her daughter's screams and the voices of her husband's friends. With slow footsteps, she saw them touching her daughter all over while her husband was just watching them with cold eyes.

She doesn't know how long has this been happening, but she can guess this isn't the first time seeing her daughter's pained and humiliated appearance. "Your father was fired in his job since he laid a hand on their superior's woman…" she cried.

"So that's why he prostituted his daughter?!" Su Lin asked in disbelief. "Mom… why didn't you tell me?" he asked. His voice is tired. He hadn't gone home for a long time. When was it did he last see his sister? He cherished her, only for their father to destroy her.

He closed his eyes and his tears fell. Only his mother's cries can be heard in the room.

The door opened and Hao Baiyun appeared. "What happened?" he asked.

"I would like to make a report." Su Lin answered. "I would like to report my father and his friends for sexually abusing a minor." He said. His mother's cries became louder when she heard what he said.

Hao Baiyun was shocked. However, before he could answer, they heard a loud string of curses coming from outside.

"Where is that bastard?!" a man's voice asked in the hallway as he tried to walk past Zhang Bao. "Don't play dumb! I've already went to the university and they told me he's involved in a murder. Not only is he a callboy, but also a murderer!" he said in rage.

"Sir. We still haven't concluded he is really involved in this case so please don't make assumptions." Zhang Bao said and glanced at Jiang Xinduo and Song Mingfan who were pushing outside the reporters who were still trying to take a picture inside. They were riled up because of the raging man's appearance.

"Not a murderer?! Well, maybe. I just pity his friend who died for having a friend like him!" the man said as he gritted his teeth. "Where is he?! How dare he lay a hand in my wife!" he said as he glared at the door of the interrogation room that opened and Gu Xingfeng came out. "Where is Su Lin?!" he asked.

Inside the interrogation room, Xu Ke and Lu Ming looked at Su Lin who went out of the adjacent room with his mother and Hao Baiyun.

"Su Lin! I dare you to come out, you bastard!" the man outside said. "You had the guts to touch my wife yet you do not show your face now?!" he yelled in the hallway while Zhang Bao and Gu Xingfeng stopped him.

Su Lin's face paled and he glanced at his mother who looked paler than him. "Lin-er… you – " she said and clutched her chest as she heavily gasped.

Su Lin's eyes widened. "MOM!" he cried and immediately caught her when she collapsed. "Someone! Help my mother!" he cried as he looked around.

Ke Congyi immediately carried Su Lin's mother outside, bypassing the husband of Su Lin's patron. The reporters were shocked to see them and immediately made way for them. Ke Congyi immediately stepped on the gas after he secured Su Lin's mother in the backseat. Then, he drove to the hospital.

"Hey. If you don't go back, we'll arrest all of you for obstruction of justice." Jiang Xinduo told the reporters.

"We have lots of spare cells and the prisoners are getting cold and lonely." Song Mingfan said. "They'll definitely welcome you there as their neighbors – " he said.

The reporters' eyes widened and they immediately ran away when Jiang Xinduo took out his handcuffs. In a flash, they're all gone.

"Pests." Jiang Xinduo spat out in dislike. He left the door to Song Mingfan in case those reporters might go back. He saw Jack and his friends are sitting silently inside their cell, looking behaved. After all, they were escaped prisoners.

He passed by them and went to the cell of Huo Ling's friends. They separated Jack and his friends' cells from them since Huo Ling's friends aren't yet confirmed as criminals unlike Jack and his friends.

"Sir!" Xiao Xie saluted when he saw Jiang Xinduo.

"Immediately tape Rong Zhe's mouth when he wakes up and send him to the interrogation room." Jiang Xinduo said. "We can't have Jack and his friends clamor again if they'd hear Rong Zhe's here." He explained.

"Yes!" Xiao Xie answered and walked inside Rong Zhe's cell to tape Rong Zhe's mouth.

Huo Ling and Yi Bing who were on the side heard them. "How did everything become like this…?" Huo Ling muttered and his shoulder fell.

Yi Bing turned to him. "It isn't your fault that they committed a sin." He said. "It's theirs, so you shouldn't burden yourself with it." He told Huo Ling.

"Yi Bing…" Huo Ling called before he sadly smiled. "I just feel like I've failed as their friend." He said.

"Why?" Yi Bing asked.

Huo Ling turned to Rong Zhe and Ye Ting who were inside their cell. "Because I never knew the burdens they bear." He answered and looked at Su Lin who came out of the interrogation room and was crying.

"You bastard! You finally came out, huh?!" the husband of Su Lin's patron said and tried to reach Su Lin to scratch him and hit him when Gu Xingfeng and Zhang Bao immediately restrained him.

"Let's all calm down first." Gu Xingfeng said. "Xiao Jiang." He called Jiang Xinduo.

"Yes." Jiang Xinduo answered as he turned to the husband of Su Lin's patron. "Please follow me." he told him and walked to the adjacent room and opened the door.

"Hmph!" the husband of Su Lin's patron glared at Su Lin before he pulled his arm Zhang Bao was holding.

"Please." Jiang Xinduo turned to them.

The husband of Su Lin's patron went inside first before the shaken Su Lin followed. "I'll leave them to you." Gu Xingfeng told Jiang Xinduo.

"Yes, sir." Jiang Xinduo answered and went inside.

Gu Xingfeng went back inside the interrogation room followed by Zhang Bao. Yi Bing and Huo Ling immediately slipped inside before the door could close.

"Even Ah Lin…" Huo Ling muttered in disbelief.

Yi Bing nodded and showed to Huo Ling the scandalous pictures of Su Lin and his patron in the internet. Huo Ling's face can't help but twist in disgust.

"Now, then – " Gu Xingfeng said as he and Hao Baiyun sat back on their seat while they looked at Lu Ming and Xu Ke. "Rong Zhe's down, as well as Ye Ting. Now, it was Su Lin." He said as he smiled at the two. "I wonder who's next between the two of you?" he asked as he looked at them both.

They heard the yells and the curses from the other room. Hao Baiyun sighed and rolled his eyes. "Hm?" he said when he felt his phone vibrated.

"What's wrong?" Gu Xingfeng asked.

"Oh. There's a mail…" Hao Baiyun answered before he opened his phone. His cheeks reddened since his phone's password is their wedding date. However, his face paled when he opened the mail. He dropped his phone like a snake has bitten him and he abruptly rose from his seat. His eyes are wide in horror as he sharply turned to Lu Ming.

"Baiyun-ge…?" Lu Ming called and felt dread when he saw Hao Baiyun's gaze on him.

"Xiao Yun. What's wr – " Gu Xingfeng said and picked up Hao Baiyun's phone before it cracked when he gripped it tight after he saw an inflatable doll of Hao Baiyun. "Lu Ming, you sick bastard!" he yelled before he threw Hao Baiyun's phone to Lu Ming in rage.