Back at the police station, Ji Linchuan put the newly discovered badge together with the one he had found at the scene earlier.

Although both badges were damaged, the characters for "anger gate" were identical.

He pulled up the file on "White Tiger". The man in the photo had a blurry face, but the tattoo on his wrist was exactly the same as the one he had seen that night.

"It seems that all of this is inextricably linked to this 'Angry Gate'," Ji Linchuan muttered to himself.

It was late at night, but the lights in the police station were still on. Ji Linchuan sat at his desk, with various case files spread out in front of him: the Brussels missing persons case, the Hong Kong tycoon murder case, the Zurich bank robbery case... These seemingly unrelated cases were now connected by the "Angry Gate" and the white tiger tattoo.

...

On the other side, after killing Lin Yuan, Shen Chumo returned to the Lin family home, only to unexpectedly see Xu Qin and Jiang Ping downstairs.

That's true. With Jiang Haihe in trouble, their good days are coming to an end. How can they possibly stay together?

As soon as she saw her coming, Xu Qin rushed over, her face covered in tears and snot.

"Chu Mo! Please save your Uncle Jiang!" Xu Qin gripped her wrist tightly, her nails almost digging into her flesh. "He raised you for so many years, you can't be so ungrateful!"

Jiang Ping, her eyes red, leaned closer, her voice choked with emotion: "Sister, Dad is getting old, he can't take imprisonment... We're all family..."

"Are you sure you've got something wrong? I did call the police, but I didn't pin the charges on you. What good are you coming to me for?"

Shen Chumo coldly pushed Xu Qin away.

Xu Qin staggered back two steps and bumped into a trash can on the side of the road, the plastic can making a jarring sound.

She rushed over again, this time kneeling directly in front of Shen Chumo, her loose hair clinging to her face with cold sweat: "Chumo! Wang Zhou said that if you're willing to change your story and testify, the Jiang family is willing to give you the development rights to the western part of the city!"

Jiang Ping also knelt down, her carefully maintained knees slamming heavily on the bluestone slab: "Sister! Mom raised you from a baby, please have pity on us! Now all our assets are frozen, we're almost homeless..."

Upon seeing Xu Qin kneel down, Shen Chumo immediately slipped behind her.

Xu Qin was, after all, her biological mother. For her biological mother to kneel before her would be a sin.

When Xu Qin saw Shen Chumo run behind her, she immediately tried to turn around and kneel down, but Shen Chumo kept flashing behind her again, determined not to let Xu Qin succeed.

Xu Qin turned several times but only missed, her knees slamming heavily to the ground, the pain radiating numb. Suddenly, she screamed hysterically: "Shen Chumo, do you think you can escape? I'm your mother, your own mother! How can you treat me like this? How can you face your father?"

Xu Qin knew that Shen Chumo cared most about her father, after all, Shen Chumo had always been pampered by him.

"Xu Qin, how dare you mention my father?" Shen Chumo's tone immediately turned cold.

“Back then, my father had only been gone for a month, and you couldn’t wait to remarry. In order to curry favor with this man and please his children, did you ever care about the life or death of your own daughter?”

She took a step closer, and Xu Qin involuntarily stepped back: "Now you remember I'm your daughter?"

“I’m telling you, Jiang Hai is definitely going to be stuck in jail, and you can just wait to go bankrupt and end up homeless.”

Jiang Ping pleaded pitifully, "Chu Mo, we really know we were wrong. Please help us out of the way, considering how many years our Jiang family has raised you. If you can get my father out, we're willing to give you another 10% of the shares."

"Support me?" Shen Chumo sneered. "How much of Jiang Haihe's company's success is due to my father's patented research? Every penny you've squandered over the years is stained with my father's blood!"

Jiang Ping wanted to say something more, but Shen Chumo looked at her coldly.

"Jiang Ping, it seems you've forgotten my methods. I'm not a kind-hearted person."

Looking into Shen Chumo's eyes and thinking of Murong Xue's current fate, Jiang Ping couldn't help but shudder.

I instinctively backed down a bit.

She turned to leave, but Xu Qin suddenly lunged at her and grabbed her leg: "If you don't agree, I'll die right here today! Let everyone see how you drove your own mother to her death!"

Shen Chumo looked down at the hysterical woman, coldly withdrew her hand, pulled out a piece of paper from her spatial storage, and threw it on the ground.

"Ms. Xu, this is the severance agreement you signed not long ago." Her voice was like ice. "It's written clearly in black and white: from the day you signed it, our mother-daughter relationship is severed."

She suddenly pulled another document from her bag: "This is an admission application to a mental hospital. Since Ms. Xu is so determined to commit suicide, why not get a mental evaluation first?"

Xu Qin released her grip as if burned, her face deathly pale: "You, you..."

"By the way," Shen Chumo said casually as she walked to the door, turning back, "that villa under Jiang Ping's name, wasn't it bought with embezzled public funds? The police should be coming to seize it soon."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ping collapsed to the ground, letting out a piercing scream.

Shen Chumo walked out the door without looking back, followed by Xu Qin's hysterical curses: "Shen Chumo! You cold-blooded animal! You'll get your comeuppance!"

The only response she received was the resolute sound of Shen Chumo slamming the door shut.

As soon as Shen Chumo entered the room, she saw Lin Lin standing at the top of the stairs, holding a cup of hot milk in her hands, her eyes full of worry.

"Chu Mo..." she called softly, quickly walked over, and stuffed the milk into Shen Chu Mo's hand. "Have they come to cause you trouble again?"

Shen Chumo took the milk, the warmth seeping through the cup to her fingertips. She looked down at the slightly swaying milky white liquid in the cup, paused for a moment, and then said softly, "It's alright, they can't cause any trouble."

Lin Lin sighed, pulled her to sit down on the sofa, and gently held her hand: "I saw it all just now, Aunt Xu... she's still so unreasonable."

Shen Chumo twitched the corners of her mouth, but the smile didn't reach her eyes: "She's always been like this. She'll do anything for the Jiang family."

Lin Lin looked at her and squeezed her fingers tenderly: "But you are different. You never waver because of them."

"Wave?" Shen Chumo scoffed. "Do they even deserve it?"

Lin Lin shook her head and said seriously, "I'm not afraid you'll waver, I'm afraid you'll feel bad."

Shen Chumo was taken aback, her fingertips tightening slightly.

Lin Lin continued, "I know you hate them, but hating someone is exhausting. I don't want to see you stuck in this emotion."

Shen Chumo was silent for a while, then suddenly whispered, "Lin Lin, do you know? Sometimes I think, what would I be like now if my dad hadn't died, if Xu Qin hadn't abandoned me?"

Lin Lin gently hugged her, her voice tender: "But you are doing well now, you are stronger than anyone else."

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