The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 325 Same Ingredients

One of the women watching the drama wore a knowing expression and lowered her voice: "Ha, we only found out after Dong Ziwu's official announcement that he was being parachuted in that Li Shuangshuang and he never actually got married. If it weren't for this incident, they would have known they were planning to get married at the end of this month. Well, if they hadn't, the baby would have been born by now. As for why they won't admit it, everyone's guessing it was President Tian's idea. A few years ago, President Tian had a promotion opportunity, but it was rejected by Feng Yi, who was in charge of HR at the time, because President Tian's husband worked in the HR department, and it was considered a breach of confidentiality. Haha, everyone knows this was aimed at her. Now Li Shuangshuang is in the HR department, and Dong Ziwu is going to be promoted. President Tian is afraid he'll repeat the mistakes she made back then, so she probably made sure Dong Ziwu and Li Shuangshuang don't make their relationship public until Dong gets promoted."

"Huh?" Wu Shanqiu said indignantly, "This is so unfair to the woman! Her reputation is ruined! Has Li Shuangshuang been blamed for being pregnant out of wedlock all this time?"

"I heard that after Li Shuangshuang found out that Dong Ziwu was General Manager Tian's godson, she was incredibly proactive, almost to the point of throwing herself at him. Isn't that just a case of one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit? The competition in our group is so fierce now, and with Dong Ziwu's child, Li Shuangshuang might become General Manager Dong's wife before long!" the other party said sarcastically.

“No matter what, the person who came up with this idea must be both selfish and malicious,” Wu Shanqiu said.

"No matter what, Li Shuangshuang has lost both her money and her lover, and now she'll have a child to take care of. It's true that man proposes, God disposes."

"Hehe, that's right. We only found out after Dong Ziwu's accident. So his parents are just like that, retired old employees. What can they possibly do? No matter how much President Tian dotes on Dong Ziwu, do you think he'll take care of his children too? That kind of person..." The woman was about to say something when she realized that her boss was too dangerous, so she wisely shut her mouth.

At this moment, another woman seemed to remember something and said, "Speaking of which, do you remember that man? He hasn't come back since Dong Ziwu's accident. Could it be him?"

"Oh! Right, back then they were shouting at the company gate that they wanted to kill Dong Ziwu, and it was President Tian who stepped in and calmed things down."

Upon hearing this, Qi Fei hurriedly asked, "What man?"

"We don't know either. We just heard that Dong Ziwu was in the same position, but for some reason a payment from a supplier has been delayed for two years. The man in question seems to be the company's head. We heard he got promoted and was so angry that he came to cause trouble."

Do you have any information about this person?

"Ha, it seems that the man's surname is Peng, and he works for a small engineering company."
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In the police station office, Xiao Tao took the initiative to find Qi Fei. He would only leave his autopsy room and come to this place where he could see light under special circumstances.

"It seems the autopsy results for Dong Ziwu are in." Qi Fei reached out to take the report from Xiao Tao's hand.

“That’s right, anesthetic components were detected in Dong Ziwu’s body,” Xiao Tao said in his emotionless tone.

"In other words, our previous speculation was correct. He was most likely taken to the Path of No Return, rather than going there on his own," Qi Fei said, flipping through the report.

“That’s not the point,” Xiao Tao said, pointing to one of the lab reports.

Qi Fei glanced at the ingredients and saw it was an anesthetic, then asked, puzzled, "Is there anything special about this?"

"After seeing this component analysis, I felt that it looked familiar. I looked through past reports of similar substances being detected and found that it was similar to a drug that someone had been given."

"Who?" "Feng Yi."

"Feng Yi from Nancheng Investment?" Qi Fei couldn't help but recall the snowy day a year ago, when Feng Yi was drugged and kidnapped to the fields by Zhuang Xueqing. If they hadn't arrived in time, Feng Yi would have become the second Niu Yinzhu, an inconspicuous dried-up scarecrow in the rice paddy. "But Zhuang Xueqing has already committed suicide in prison, hasn't she?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Shanqiu immediately perked up: "Could it be that Zhuang Xueqing's ghost is still haunting us? I knew Nancheng Investment was a really strange place, should we go find..."

"Don't look for Zhong Kui lately," Qi Fei immediately interrupted her.

"Why?" Wu Shanqiu leaned closer, placing her hands on Qi Fei's desk and asking with a grin.

"Why ask so many questions?" Qi Fei glanced at her.

"You two didn't have another fight, did you?" Wu Shanqiu asked curiously.

"You're so free, have you found that man surnamed Peng yet?" Qi Fei changed the subject.

Wu Shanqiu smiled smugly: "I will definitely complete the task that Brother Fei gave me as soon as possible. I asked Tian Mi's assistant, and the person they mentioned is called Peng Jian. He runs an engineering company called Daguan Construction. The name sounds impressive, but it is actually a small company with only twenty people. We are familiar with the office location, which is in Huanyu International."
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In an inconspicuous corner of Huanyu International, Qi Fei found the company called Daguan Construction. The lights at the reception desk weren't even on during working hours, and they had to knock for a long time before someone answered.

Peng Jian sat in the glass booth, his unshaven face and visibly haggard appearance striking him.

"If Dong Ziwu hadn't been irresponsible, we wouldn't have had our cash flow cut off."

He was responsible for paying for that project, and it should have been paid to us the year before last. But we waited until almost the New Year and still nothing happened. I asked him many times, and at first he made excuses and wouldn't give me a definite reason. Finally, he couldn't hide it anymore, and do you know why? It was him—he forgot to stamp the document! His oversight caused us to miss the closing of the account.

As a result, in the second and third years, he kept trying to coordinate, sometimes saying that the budget could not be approved, and sometimes saying that there were problems with the audit.

Do you know how much money we advanced for that project? Does he realize how devastating it would be for us if we couldn't get that money back in three years?!

Of course I wanted to kill him, but I'm a decent man. I went to him to seek justice, but who knew that this guy was a coward. In the end, that woman gave me 200,000 yuan to get rid of me, but I didn't take it.

"Who are you insulting? I've already hired a lawyer to sue them. I'm so disappointed that Dong Ziwu is dead. I was waiting for him to be the defendant!" Peng Jian said, smoking a cigarette and talking non-stop, without caring at all that his words would increase his suspicion.

"Where were you on the day Dong Ziwu disappeared? Do you have an alibi?" Qi Fei asked.

“My lawyer and I went to Nancheng Investment to have one last talk with Dong Ziwu. If we couldn’t reach an agreement, we’d see him in court. But he didn’t show up for ages, and he didn’t answer his phone. I thought he was just hiding from us!” Peng Jian waved his hand and said, “But we just saw him when we were leaving. He was arguing with someone!”