Chapter 87
The moment the recording pen was turned on, An Le didn’t hear his mother’s voice, but An Qiang’s impatient urging: “What are you dawdling for? Hurry up, Mr. Gu will be waiting.”
Zhou Xiao didn’t speak, only the suppressed sound of angry breathing.
The recording was long, over three hours from start to finish.
An Le and Lu Heng sat on the sofa and listened carefully. An Qiang’s intentions, his mother’s refusal, Gu Chen revealing his true face—they heard it all.
The sounds of the car accident when Zhou Xiao called Tang Yan were also recorded.
Just as An Le thought the recording ended after the accident, he suddenly heard Zhou Xiao’s weak voice: “Le Le, if… if you hear this recording, you must live well. Don’t believe your father, he’s not a good person. Go live with Grandma and Grandpa later. Mom… Mom may not be able to see you again, I’m sorry.”
After Zhou Xiao finished speaking, she was exhausted and silent.
Then came the shouts of the surrounding people, and soon the voice of the police. Then the recording pen was picked up, and a man’s voice was heard on a phone call, asking how to deal with a found recording pen, then the recording pen was turned off.
After listening to the recording, An Le was already in tears.
He had heard his mother’s fear and terror firsthand, yet he could do nothing. He finally hid in Lu Heng’s arms, silent.
Lu Heng hugged An Le, comforting him with pheromones while connecting the recording pen to the computer, transferring the recording, and then starting to edit.
Lu Heng: “Le Le.”
An Le heard his name and subconsciously looked up, softly calling, “Sir.”
“Don’t cry.”
Lu Heng held him, whispering, “I know you’re heartbroken about your mother’s experience, but what we need to do now is bring them down and reduce Omega victimization, right?”
An Le nodded, “Right.”
“Then don’t cry, let’s do it together, okay?”
Lu Heng knew An Le didn’t know how to do these things, but now he could teach him. Not only could he edit the recording, but it would also help An Le distract himself, killing two birds with one stone.
“Okay.”
An Le agreed and worked with Lu Heng.
After about twenty minutes, Lu Heng had cut and organized what he wanted. Just as he was about to post it online, An Le saw a new message on the computer.
It was from Gu Qian, directly sending them a file. Lu Heng subconsciously clicked it, finding evidence of Gu Chen murdering Zhou’s parents after they discovered his crimes and found evidence of his assault on several Omegas.
Because the Zhou family had some reputation, although they couldn’t completely bring him down, they could still cause him trouble. Therefore, Gu Chen chose to work with An Qiang to cause a car accident for the elder Zhou couple, silencing them permanently.
What Gu Qian sent was evidence of Gu Chen instructing someone to do this, including recordings, photos, and chat logs.
“So, it was them who…”
Seeing that information, An Le couldn’t stop crying. He had suspected their involvement in his grandparents’ deaths, but he still couldn’t accept it knowing the truth.
Lu Heng: “The truth about Grandma and Grandpa will be made public. They won’t have died in vain. With this information, Gu Chen can’t clear his name.”
Gu Chen could no longer turn the situation around.
Lu Heng quickly shared the information, and his team knew what to do.
They would keep backups, post the information online, and send it to the police station.
Including the recording he had just edited, everything would be made public, leaving no evidence unshown.
Sure enough, the moment they posted it online, it caused a huge uproar; all of Gu Chen’s previous efforts were in vain.
The authorities called Gu Chen, stripping him of his official position and announcing his dismissal and investigation online.
The police went to Gu’s house and took Gu Chen away.
An Qiang was also arrested after Luo Ping’s report, and the two met in prison.
With irrefutable evidence, neither of them could escape; their meeting was full of animosity, and they started fighting in front of the police…
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When everything settled, it was already the next morning.
An Le, in his pajamas, stood at the door, watching Lu Heng making beef soup for him. The question he had pondered all night finally came out.
He said, “Sir, Gu Chen is Gu Qian’s father; they are family. Won’t Gu Chen implicate them?”
Why would Gu Qian help them?
Why would he send the information to Lu Heng?
Lu Heng paused his stirring of the beef soup, whispering, “He doesn’t want Gu Chen to be well either. In the eyes of their family, they are enemies.”
The Gu family were all mad; few had a good reputation; they were all hated by their relatives.
Gu Chen was the same; his wife and children wished him dead.
As for whether it would implicate the Gu family, it certainly would.
An Le didn’t respond. What kind of people were the Gu family, that they were all hated by their relatives?
And Lu Heng…
An Le dared not think about it.
Lu Heng quickly brought out the beef soup, “Le Le, come and have some soup.”
An Le quickly went over and sat at the dining table, sipping the soup.
With Gu Chen and An Qiang arrested, all the officials involved fell silent, secretly dealing with their own secrets, not daring to confront Lu Heng, this madman.
After all, Lu Heng was someone who was willing to bring down even his own family.
The An family fell completely; all of An Qiang’s property was returned to the Zhou family, belonging to An Le.
As for Gu Chen, everyone was watching the Gu family collapse, ready to seize their opportunity.
Except for Gu Qian and his mother, the rest of the Gu family were in a mess.
Because Gu Chen was an official, the matter was serious and required a public trial. But on the second day of the trial, when Gu Chen was brought to court with a pheromone blocker and handcuffs, he suddenly hit his head on a sharp corner of the wall and committed suicide.
He didn’t admit his guilt nor defend himself, just dying unexpectedly, taking everyone by surprise.
The scene was silent for a long time. When everyone came to their senses, the trial continued, with Gu Chen’s lawyer still present.
In the end, the verdict was reached: Gu Chen was guilty of death; the Gu family could no longer hold government positions for five generations; seventy percent of the Gu family’s assets would be confiscated and used to compensate the victims and pay fines.
To everyone’s disappointment, although the Gu family collapsed overnight, the remaining thirty percent still allowed them to maintain a firm foothold in the business world.
Knowing that Gu Chen was dead, An Le was very sad. For his mother’s death, his grandparents’ deaths, and the innocent Omegas, Gu Chen never apologized.
An Le hated him; if he were a police officer, he would never let Gu Chen die so easily, he would make sure Gu Chen apologized to everyone he had harmed.
These days, since they were safe, they had moved back to their house after marriage.
An Le sat on the sofa watching the news, his nose a little sore. He felt that their long efforts were in vain.
Death was too easy for someone like Gu Chen.
Gu Chen didn’t deserve it!
An Le was feeling sad when the doorbell rang. He quickly wiped away his tears and ran to open the door.
Lost in sadness, he forgot that Lu Heng knew the door code and would never make him open the door.
Only when he opened the door did he realize that it wasn’t Lu Heng, but an Omega woman, Lu Heng’s mother.
Gu Rou, Lu Heng’s mother, raised her hand to slap An Le as soon as the door opened.
Luckily, An Le dodged quickly, otherwise, the slap would have landed on his face.
Faced with Gu Rou’s unprovoked aggression, An Le was startled, immediately regretting his careless opening of the door. He pushed Gu Rou, trying to shut her out.
But Gu Rou was also strong, pushing against the door to enter, “You bitch, dare you push me out?”
“Open the door, let me in!”
“That little bastard isn’t home, good. I’ll teach you a lesson, you ungrateful bitch! He killed Xiao Chen for you; he’s worse than a beast!”
“I wasted my time raising such a son! I should have killed him when he was young!”
Gu Rou was frantic, extremely strong.
An Le was struggling, and unwilling to let Gu Rou insult Lu Heng, he fiercely retorted, “If Sir is a beast, what are you? The mother of a beast?”
“It’s the same, both beasts!”
An Le, for the first time in his life, cursed like this, feeling both scared and excited, his face flushed.
Finally, finding he couldn’t get rid of Gu Rou, he let go, letting Gu Rou in.
Hearing An Le cursing her, Gu Rou became even more enraged and pushed harder. Just then, An Le let go, and the door swung open. Gu Rou stumbled and fell to the floor.
An Le quickly turned and ran into the kitchen, grabbing the longest spatula as a weapon. He trembled with fear, but still mustered the courage to say, “Sir is so good, you don’t deserve to be his mother!”
Gu Rou’s fall wasn’t light; she lay on the floor for a while before raising her head, “I don’t deserve it? Why wouldn’t I deserve it? I gave birth to him. Why wouldn’t I deserve it? Tell me, tell me, why wouldn’t I deserve it?”
Gu Rou crawled towards An Le as she spoke, “Look what he did. Is he even human?”
“When he was a child, he killed his younger brother. Now he drove his uncle to his death. Do you think he’s human?”
“My Xiaoyuan was only four years old. He was so young, and that beast threw him to his death. He doesn’t deserve to be my son, I don’t deserve to be his mother!”
“You need to understand!”
“No, no, no, you don’t understand. You’re in cahoots with that beast!”
Gu Rou got up, took a fruit knife from her bag, and approached An Le with red eyes.
An Le trembled, “What… what are you going to do?”