He Jun's grandmother, protective of her son, couldn't help but rush over and shield He Jun behind her when she saw Father He looking at He Jun so harshly.
" He Weiguo!" Grandma He shouted, "Do you want to beat my grandson to death? If you lay a hand on my grandson again, I'll fight you to the death!"
The old woman stood defiantly in front of He Jun, her imposing manner no less than that of Father He, and even appearing quite self-righteous.
Faced with his elderly mother, Father He. He couldn't bring himself to hit his son anymore. He pointed at He Jun in a fit of rage and shouted, "Mom, do you know what your eldest grandson did? He killed someone! That was a living, breathing human being!"
He glared at He Jun and cursed, "Now that something's happened, you know you're coming to me? Who told you to kill someone in the first place?"
Grandma He: "... Didn't Junjun say he didn't do it on purpose? It was just an accident!"
He Jun nodded, hiding behind his grandmother, "I really didn't mean to. How was I supposed to know he'd be so unlucky? I just pushed him, and his head hit the table, and he died just like that..."
"You still dare to talk back!" Father He roared in fury.
He Jun shrank back, not daring to say anything more, and could only call out pitifully, "Grandma..."
Upon hearing this, Grandma He He's wavering heart immediately sided with her grandson, and she said to her son with displeasure, "Why are you shouting like that? Do you want everyone to hear you? Things have already come to this, do you want to beat my grandson to death?"
Father He said bitterly, "I think I should have beaten him to death long ago, otherwise how could he have caused so much trouble? Now he even dares to kill people!"
Grandma He raised an eyebrow, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Fine, you dare to kill my grandson? Then I'll smash my head against a pillar and die... making you, He Weiguo, lose both your son and your mother in middle age!"
Helpless, He Weiguo said, "Mom, can you please stop making a scene? It's because you spoil him so much that he's become more and more reckless and dares to do anything! Now that he's dared to kill someone, what won't he dare to do in the future?"
"Then what do you want to do?" Grandma He demanded. "The deed is done, do you want my eldest grandson to pay for that person's life?"
Father He glared fiercely at He Jun and said, "I plan to take him to the police station to turn himself in!"
Upon hearing this, He Jun panicked. He grabbed Grandma He's hand and said, "Grandma, I don't want to go to the police station. If I go to the police station, I'll die... Grandma, I don't want to die. I still want to stay with you and take care of you until the end."
Grandma He immediately said, "Don't worry, Grandma won't let anything happen to you."
After saying that, she glared angrily at Father He and said, "If you dare to send my grandson to jail, I'll kill myself right here! Anyway, if you don't want your son, you definitely don't want your mother either..."
As she spoke, the old woman plopped down on the ground, began wiping away tears, and cried out, "Waaah, old man, open your eyes and look! Your son is utterly heartless; he wants our He Family to end..."
He Jun also started crying, "Waaah, Grandpa..."
Watching this farcical scene of crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide, Father He. He felt a throbbing pain in his temples. He gritted his teeth and said, "Then what do you want me to do, huh?"
Seeing that he was softening his stance, Grandma He immediately raised her head and said, "You must have a way to smooth things over, right? Otherwise, what's the point of you being an official? If you can't protect your son, you might as well go home and farm and sell sweet potatoes!"
Upon seeing his father's reaction, He Jun knew the matter was settled, and a glimmer of light flashed in his tearful eyes.
News of the discovery of the body of the missing S University student began to circulate online.
When Ye Rou saw the news, she still found it hard to believe. She hurriedly found Ye Mo, held up her phone to show her the news online, and said, "... Yu Rong's body was actually found in our school's garbage dump? You were right?"
Ye Mo glanced at her and asked, "Is it really that hard to believe? Didn't you make that call because you trusted me?"
Ye Rou: "..."
"That's true," she muttered, "But I didn't expect you to be right about everything..."
Well, she felt that Ye Mo wouldn't joke about something like this, and she also held a very faint hope that what Ye Mo said was true, so that the truth about Yu Rong's matter could be revealed as soon as possible.
However, she was still shocked to find that everything Ye Mo said had actually come true.
How could it really be true?
"... You can actually tell fortunes?" She looked at Ye Mo in utter shock.
Ye Mo shamelessly replied, "Of course, I'm a genuine Divine Calculator (charlatan)!"
Ye Rou asked curiously, "How did you calculate these things? Did you have to study something like the I Ching or the Eight Trigrams?"
Ye Mo pondered for a few seconds, then shook his head and said, "... My fortune telling is different from others. It's high-tech fortune telling, completely different from traditional fortune telling."
High-tech fortune telling = Gossip System, no problem.
Ye Rou was clearly taken aback by her words, feeling that this so-called high-tech fortune telling was truly incredible, and she looked at Ye Mo as if he were a master.
"Don't get too excited," Ye Mo reminded her.
Ye Rou asked in confusion, "Hmm?"
Ye Mo said, "This matter concerning your classmate has only just begun... The murderer not only has the audacity to kill, but also the confidence to escape legal punishment."
Ye Rou frowned, asking incredulously, "Why? How can he escape legal punishment? This is murder!"
"Because his family is powerful and influential." Ye Mo looked at Ye Rou and said, "You should have a deep understanding of this, right? There must be people around you who bully others because of their power... This murderer is the same."
Even within the entertainment industry, Ye Mo has encountered his fair share of bullying and oppressive people. How much more so in this vast world? After all, even under the brightest sunlight, there are shadows.
Hearing Ye Mo's confident tone, Ye Rou couldn't help but feel a huge sense of disorientation.
The disappearance of the S University has garnered considerable attention online.
Not long after the student's body was found, news of the murderer turning himself in spread online.
[... The murderer, it was said, was the victim's roommate. Because he was resentful that the person he liked liked the victim, he beat the roommate to death while drunk, and then dismembered the victim's body—a truly heinous act.]
[Wow, this is terrifying! Just because the person he liked liked the victim, he killed the victim? The victim was so innocent!]
[According to my second aunt's brother's daughter-in-law's brother-in-law, the victim suffered terribly; he was beaten to death, and the body was so badly pieced together that it was unrecognizable...]
[The victim was the top student in his major at S University. I heard that the professors in his department had high hopes for him. If he had graduated smoothly, he would definitely have become a big shot. But now, because of this one thing, he was killed... Even as an outsider, I can't help but feel sorry for him. He was such a talented person.]
[That's not all. I heard the victim came from the mountains and was the only college student from his village. He was an outstanding student from a young age, and now he's been murdered.]
[This murderer is an idiot, does anyone know who the murderer is?]
[I know this. The murderer's surname is Zhang, his given name is Zhang X, and he's in our class. The saying "your appearance reflects your heart" is sometimes really true. I always thought he wasn't a good person, but I never imagined he would actually commit murder.]
[You're welcome. This Zhang X is from XX Village, XX County, XX Province...!]
With the murderer's confession, the case at S University seems to have been brought to a close.
Ye Rou asked Ye Mo on her phone, "... Is Zhang Fu the murderer?"
She remembered Ye Mo saying that the murderer was a powerful and influential person, but this Zhang Fu, Ye Rou remembered, was someone from a small town, and had nothing to do with being powerful or influential.