How could anyone underestimate the power of netizens?
So many years had passed since that case, and afterward, the major wealthy families had joined forces to suppress the news.
Combined with Jiang Honghu's cleanup, almost no one remembered what had happened eighteen years ago.
Yet because of a single livestream, netizens had managed to dig up the old case again.
Most absurdly, with so little information online, netizens had actually unearthed the details they wanted from old newspapers their families had collected.
As for why they collected old newspapers? All that could be said was, to each their own.
After uncovering so many details about the case from back then and connecting them with the guests' conversation in the livestream, netizens immediately sensed that there had been something suspicious about the kidnapping case.
Once they discovered that the old case might have been a wrongful conviction, netizens immediately flooded the official platform, demanding that the case be reinvestigated.
As for whether they truly demanded it out of a sense of justice or because their desire for gossip was too strong, that was hard to say.
Still, netizens got what they wanted. Before long, the authorities released a notice stating that the old case would be reinvestigated.
The netizens cheered, believing their demands had been taken seriously by those above.
In reality, the authorities had begun investigating the case long ago. They were merely taking the opportunity to bring it into the open.
Soon, more details about the case from back then were disclosed.
This time, the information came from the authorities, making it far more comprehensive than the materials netizens had painstakingly found themselves.
Jiang Zhijie was also following what was happening online.
When he discovered that the kidnapping case from back then had been brought up again and