Zheng Shijie knew too much.

If he couldn’t keep his mouth shut...

Then for all of them, it might as well be a death sentence!

...

March 21st.

Eight in the morning.

Inside the Jiang City detention center.

Within the detention center, Zheng Shijie was stepping on a sewing machine, but the stitches he made on the fabric were quite unsightly, clearly distracted, often absent-minded.

He even nearly injured himself!

Prisoners nearby noticed and quietly asked.

"Brother Zheng, what’s wrong with you?"

Hearing the voice.

Zheng Shijie snapped back to reality, blinked at the person beside him, and said:

"No... nothing."

Having said that, he buried his head in sewing again.

Unfortunately, his pale appearance, the bloodshot eyes, and anxious breathing.

One glance and it was obvious he was very agitated!

"Buzz, buzz, buzz~!!!"

Zheng Shijie sewed the clothes with a blank expression, but his mind was a whirlpool of thoughts.

Since the afternoon of the 19th, after Xu Liang told him those words...

The man had disappeared.

Yes, disappeared. In the two days since, he had not seen him again!

As if... he really went to take care of something.

What was he taking care of?

Aimed at his wife and daughter!

If the other party truly had set their mind against them,

The only outcome would be sinking to society’s lowest rungs, even becoming homeless!

He believed Zhao Hailong would provide money, but with the police watching, that would be suicide for Zhao Hailong!

With even a little money, the police would have their eyes on him and launch a detailed investigation...

So, once they realized it was a judicial freeze, neither Zhao Hailong nor Cheng Jia would do anything, at most some relief... no, if Xu Liang truly targeted them, even relief would be impossible!

So, Zheng Yu and Zhao Yue...

"No... don’t!"

Zheng Shijie was startled, blurting out.

The prisoners beside each other looked at each other, unsure of what to say.

Aware of his loss of composure, Zheng Shijie quickly reined in his rampaging emotions, settled down, and continued stepping on the sewing machine.

What fate befalls female beggars, female homeless?

No one understood better than Zheng Shijie!

It’s sexual assault.

It’s relentless sexual assault!

These individuals are colloquially known as ’free x slaves’!

During their wanderings, they are endlessly assaulted, repeatedly becoming pregnant, giving birth, eventually losing their minds, growing insane, and then dying from childbirth complications...

"No... it can’t be...."

Zheng Shijie’s eyes filled with blood vessels as he muttered, his sewing actions becoming increasingly rapid.

A sense of urgency filled his heart.

Until...

"Bang!"

The door to the sewing room was pushed open, a prison guard walked in, glanced around, and spoke:

"Prisoner 9527, Zheng Shijie, come out."

In the crowd.

Zheng Shijie paused, utterly stunned.

He stood up and walked out.

Who would visit him? He didn’t know, but the first thought that flashed through his mind was Xu Liang.

Was the person going to interrogate him again?

But unfortunately, reality hit him hard.

When Zheng Shijie reached the door and asked the prison guard, the answer was...

"Your wife is here to see you," the guard said expressionlessly.

Wife... wife?

In an instant, Zheng Shijie’s face turned deathly pale.

If he remembered correctly, the last words Xu Liang said before leaving were...

’Arrange for him to meet his wife!’

Now the person was actually here, and as for how it was arranged...

Zheng Shijie didn’t believe the person was kindly invited over. Considering the previously mentioned financial issues, the arrangement method was quite clear.

"No... no, isn’t he a cop!?"

"Sun Chuan... that’s the chief of Jiang City police, they’re the police, how can they do this!?"

Zheng Shijie’s heart was roaring, but the guard wouldn’t give him too much time.

Immediately pushing him towards the visiting room.

On the way there.

Zheng Shijie held onto a final thread of hope.

Perhaps, the person wouldn’t go too far....

Perhaps... their actions wouldn’t be as bad as what he imagined.

But unfortunately...

All his mixed emotions collapsed the moment he saw Zhao Yue’s haggard face through the glass in the visiting room!

Zheng Shijie’s lips turned pale, he shakily sat in the chair, his mind blank, staring at his wife in front of him.

"Wh-why did you come to see me?"

His trembling voice transmitted through the microphone to Zhao Yue’s ears.

Zhao Yue, however, didn’t notice anything amiss. Hearing his voice, she immediately broke down, collapsing into sobs, holding her face with one hand, crying:

"Yu’s side is in debt, nine thousand, the online loan company is asking her for nine thousand!"

"She’s overdue for several months, if she can’t pay this month... she... she...."

Saying this.

Zhao Yue couldn’t bear to finish, covering her mouth in breakdown:

"My card is frozen too, I don’t have that much money, selling the things we used to buy takes too much time."

"Brother Zhao doesn’t dare to give money, he said it’s a judicial freeze, done by the police, he doesn’t dare give money, he told me to ask you if it’s a problem with the prison..."

"Is it a prison problem? Speak quickly, someone knocked on Yu’s door yesterday, they’re already pressing us for the debt..."

Hearing this.

Zheng Shijie’s face turned paler and paler, his head buzzing, unable to hear anything, only the piercing ’tinnitus’ in his ears.

The reality was the scene he most feared to see.

That young man... really was as he said, set on Zhao Yue and her daughter!

It wasn’t an empty threat, nor simply to scare, it was serious!

"No... no... how could this happen...."

Zheng Shijie was devoid of color, muttering.

If, as the person said, they hadn’t lied to him, does that mean... the so-called ’corpse identical to the one in the barrel’ is also true!?