Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 346 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (57)

"How could I possibly know anything about his work?" Dong Hongcheng's ex-wife retorted.

"If you want to ask, ask his school. I haven't contacted him in a long time. Okay, is there anything else you want to ask? My parents are sending the child back in a little while."

"I don't want...these things to affect the children."

"You haven't told your son about his father yet?" Jin Shuhe pressed.

"He's so young! What could he possibly understand! Would you expose such a young child to these kinds of things?"

The woman became quite emotional when the topic of children came up.

Qin Wen stealthily glanced at Jin Shuhe beside him.

Everyone in the Major Crimes Unit has seen his file. Although no one ever mentions it, his past is no secret.

What a coincidence... The person in front of you is someone who faced a lot of terrible things when they were very young.

Jin Shuhe was not affected by her emotions. After she calmed down a bit, he continued to ask all the questions he wanted to ask, in a methodical manner.

As he got into the car, Qin Wen recalled how he had acted just now.

I thought to myself, what a promising interrogation candidate! He's incredibly stubborn and won't listen to reason!

Those in their line of work are advised against being too emotional, because once emotions take over, rational judgment will naturally sway towards that side, which is human nature.

No matter what the case is, no matter how pitiful the victim or the person being interviewed is, as law enforcement officers, they must handle it impartially and not be swayed by emotions.

However, they cannot be completely devoid of emotion; they need passion and empathy to do this.

Seeing too much darkness makes it easy to be swallowed up by the darkness if you don't have emotions to support you.

So far, Jin Shuhe has performed very well.

He has the drive of a newcomer, but he won't be led by others. He has strong logic and good stress resistance.

No matter what emotions the people he faces are in, he can always proceed at his own pace and never lose his composure.

"You did well in your practical classes at school, right?" Qin Wen asked, turning his head to the side.

"Fortunately."

"Aren't you affected by the emotional changes of the people you're facing?"

Jin Shuhe thought for a moment and said seriously, "No matter what changes the other person's emotions may have, there must be a reason. Whether it is happiness or sadness, nervousness or something hidden, it is because there is a change in their heart that their emotions change."

"Changes in the other person's emotions, while sometimes affecting the questioning process, can also give us information. There must be a reason for the change in the other person's emotions at that time, which can be considered... providing a direction for the investigation?"

Jin Shuhe, just like answering a teacher's question in class, organized his thoughts and tried to explain his views concisely and logically.

"...Wow! Combining textbook knowledge with practical application!" Qin Wen was stunned by his standard explanation.

"Relax, I'm not your teacher."

"Can I have a smoke in the car?"

While waiting at the traffic light, Qin Wen turned his neck and asked.

"It does not matter, I do not mind."

"You really are clever when you're being clever, and you really are dull when you're being dull..." Qin Wen didn't know how to evaluate him for a moment.

“What you just said is all correct, but it depends on the situation. Not everyone who is being questioned is guilty and can reveal something under interrogation.”

He patted Jin Shuhe on the shoulder: "Especially the families of some victims. If we become aggressive or a little tough, they may already see us police officers as adversaries."

“Especially some family members who are in pain may subconsciously feel that we are not on their side, so they will subconsciously resist us.”

Qin Wen flicked the ash into the ashtray: "So, sometimes when the other person is showing emotion, if we express sympathy, understanding and concern, these positive attitudes may calm the other person down and make them recall more things."

Jin Shuhe listened attentively and nodded: "I've got it."

"It's alright, it's pretty good! A while ago, when we went to visit the family in that intentional injury case with Lao Chen, there was a disabled old woman who was crying pitifully. Before we even finished asking her questions, Qi Silang himself started crying with snot and tears streaming down his face."

Qin Wen patted him on the shoulder, stubbed out his cigarette, and continued driving forward.

"You know that girl surnamed Lü from the group where my great-aunt works, right? When she first arrived, she couldn't hold back her anger and started arguing with the perpetrator's family. Deputy Captain Wu was trying to stop her, but she just slammed her hand on the table and stood up, which startled Deputy Captain Wu so much that he almost had a stroke!"

Qin Wen was worried that he would feel guilty, so she told him all sorts of messy things from the past.

"and then?"

"And then? Then she got a disciplinary action, what, you think? You're going to give her a banner praising her for her strong sense of justice and for her good scolding?"

"Just praising it in private is fine... I was just kidding! Don't follow my example!" Qin Wen quickly tried to cover it up.

"That's quite the little firecracker!"

"You like Sister Lü?"

"Hey!"

Qin Wen was so taken aback by Jin Shuhe's direct question that he almost lost his footing.

"Why are you observing me again?"

Qin Wen sighed: "She doesn't like me. I used to have a crush on her, she was such a beautiful flower."

"now what?"

"We're too familiar with each other now, I don't feel anything anymore," Qin Wen replied honestly.

"It must be tiring for someone to live with you, since you're thinking about them the moment you open your eyes."

Jin Shuhe was taken aback.

He was indeed thinking about Sister Li Ruan, but he had no idea what she was thinking. His intuition and the knowledge he had acquired were all ineffective in front of Sister Li Ruan.

"No."

Qin Wen was a little annoyed because his thoughts had been exposed.

"You're always like this in life, how can you be likable?" he casually remarked.

Suddenly, I felt the person sitting in the passenger seat straighten their back.

"I……"

"What?"

Am I really that unlikable?

Qin Wen: ...

No, why are you suddenly taking this sentence so seriously?

"Is there something wrong with my personality?" Jin Shuhe had always felt this way.

It turns out that Li Ruan was jokingly telling her about how Zhao Jingyi seemed to have a crush on her back in high school.

Zhao Jingyi said that she felt that her personality at that time was boring and dull.

At the time, Jin Shuhe didn't care. He didn't care about Zhao Jingyi's evaluation of him, and he wouldn't want to change himself because of other people's opinions.

And now...

He was genuinely worried that he was boring, dull, and unlikable, and that Sister Li Ruan would never like him again.

"No, since you started working here, several young women in the company have asked me about it privately!" Qin Wen told the truth.

"It's probably because of my face."

Qin Wen almost burst out laughing: "You actually have some self-awareness! Alright, stop acting all innocent after getting the benefit. You're quite the charmer, yet you're so quick to take advantage of people, you little brat..."

"Can I be considered half your master?" Qin Wen looked at him.

"Ah."

"Then let me teach you a few things: you have to say what you like and love. Once this opportunity is gone, it's gone forever! If you like someone now, say it now. Being hesitant will only cause you to miss out on opportunities. This is my advice based on years of experience!"

"What if I ask and get rejected?"

"We'll see! What's wrong with your words? As long as they don't find you annoying or harassing, then go for it!"

The car drove into the municipal bureau compound.

"But let me remind you, if they really don't like you, don't be shameless. Although I don't think you'd actually do it, you're the type who won't budge an inch..."

After Qin Wen finished his concluding remarks, he opened the car door and got out: "Stop thinking about it! Let's get to work!"

"The child...you mean she kept emphasizing the child?" Wu Qidong asked, looking at what Jin Shuhe had written down.

"Yes, she seems to care a lot about the child."

"This Dong Hongcheng might be involved in some illegal or criminal activities," Wu Qidong analyzed.

"His ex-wife doesn't want to talk to us, is it because she's worried it will affect her child's civil service exam? Their kind of family..."

Qi Silang was speaking when he noticed that several people were looking at him.

He whispered the rest of the sentence: "Kids from families like theirs take the civil service exam too?"

"Whether she takes the civil service exam or not, I don't know, but what you're saying... is true. She probably knows something and is worried that if we find out, it will affect her child's future. She might be thinking that now that Dong Hongcheng is dead, we can put an end to everything about him."

"At work and at school."

“Although she was unwilling to reveal it, what she said still reflects what he was thinking,” Qin Wen interjected.

"It's also connected to the student suicide incident." Jin Shuhe nodded.

"Investigate! Follow this line of inquiry to all schools, not just those from this year onwards!"

As expected, the school's attitude was ambiguous.

After repeated questioning, it was confirmed that Dong Hongcheng had indeed been reported for falsifying data in his thesis.

It's not just about data fabrication; some of the laboratories and collaborating institutions involved also engaged in illegal activities. If this is truly investigated and brought to justice, at the very least, Dong Hongcheng will be out of a position as professor.

"We've already reported him, so why does he seem so indifferent?"

"And since it's already been reported, we just need to wait for the investigation. Who killed him at this time? The person who reported him? Isn't that redundant?" Qi Silang muttered.

"Think about it the other way around, the people who don't want him to be investigated, the people who are hiding something! They should be... people who were with him before they killed him!" Jin Shuhe drew an arrow on the information board.

"That's the right approach! Find those who used to have close ties with him but later started avoiding him! He's acting so calmly, and none of his students have noticed anything amiss, so he must have something planned in advance!"

As the investigation progressed, a name came to everyone's attention.

Meng Qun.

It appeared among the authors of a core paper published by Dong Hongcheng a few years ago.

From this perspective, he could be considered one of his most outstanding students.

Moreover, his name also appeared in the suicide note of the student who committed suicide.

The parents did not mention the suicide note at the time.

It was his girlfriend, or rather, his girlfriend at the time. When being questioned, she opened a photo from his album.

It was her boyfriend's suicide note, and she asked his parents to take a picture of it.

"He... is actually a very optimistic person, loves learning, and is a bit stubborn. We don't go to the same school, so I don't know... he could do something so foolish!"

Even after so much time has passed, the girl still gets teary-eyed when she talks about the past.

“Someone in his lab was bullying him, but I’m a humanities student, so I didn’t really understand what he was saying…”

“He went abroad the year before last. It was Dong Hongcheng who recommended him to study abroad for a year. He only returned to China after he started working.”

When Meng Qun's resume was pulled up, it was filled with prestigious schools and renowned teachers—it was incredibly impressive.

"How come he's the only one who gets the good thing?"

“When everyone else is saying bad things about someone, but only one person praises them, we should consider whether that person has received any benefit from it!” Wu Qidong said meaningfully.

When they found Meng Qun, he looked like an elite, and his words and actions were somewhat arrogant.

“Professor Dong is my mentor. Since I learned about Professor Dong’s accident, I have already visited his wife. How can you say I don’t care?”

"What else can I do? Isn't investigating the truth your job as police officers? Do you expect me to investigate who killed Professor Dong? I also want to ask you to solve the case as soon as possible, otherwise I will report you to the disciplinary committee for your passive handling of the case!"

Qin Wen gestured to Jin Shuhe with his eyes.

It means that you can now use your old methods.

Who cares what nonsense they're spouting! Just ask! Ask away!

Jin Shuhe lived up to his expectations. Regardless of the other party's attitude, he kept asking questions, one more detailed than the last, until Meng Qun finally showed signs of annoyance and panic.

"Can't you understand human language?!"

“I can understand human speech, so Mr. Meng, please answer my question directly, I can understand it.”

If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, Qin Wen's lips would have twitched.

When they came out, Qin Wen was so happy he could hardly breathe: "You're really funny, I love working with you so much."

Jin Shuhe didn't think he had made any sense; he was sorting through the information he had just received.

“There is no alibi. Silang just called to say that they found a car registered under his name. His mother also has a car registered under her name. They are investigating them together now.”

"Alright, I think it's related to this kid! Have someone keep an eye on him and don't let him get away!" Qin Wen nodded.

Thanks to the advanced Skynet system, as long as you find the right direction, the rest is not difficult.

The case was solved as a matter of course.

He was also involved in the data fabrication incident back then. The student who committed suicide was exploited by them but ended up getting nothing in return.

After that student committed suicide, Dong Hongcheng sent him abroad, actually to shut him up.

Unexpectedly, two years later, Dong Hongcheng's actions were still reported. But he had been doing this for more than a year or two, so he naturally had connections.

Even in the worst-case scenario, he could shift the blame onto someone else, and Meng Qun, who benefited from those papers back then, is now reaping the bitter fruit.

Dong Hongcheng was not worried about being exposed; instead, he thought of using this incident to blackmail Meng Qun, who was already working, to provide him with conveniences and continue to help him collude with others in wrongdoing...