The Favored Heiress
Chapter 425: Shang Qiongying Becomes a Suspect

Chapter 425: Chapter 425: Shang Qiongying Becomes a Suspect

It wasn’t long before the host received a reminder from the judges, and indeed, they did not request for Academician Jiang and the others to leave again.

After a brief flurry, the symposium got back on track.

The agenda for today’s meeting was for representatives of pharmaceutical companies to take the stage and speak, primarily to introduce their company’s strengths and extend invitations for collaborations to laboratories they were interested in.

Soon, Xia Siyu took the stage to speak on behalf of Huanxia Pharma Enterprise.

After several tedious opening remarks, Xia Siyu’s eyes flickered, she took out a list in her hand, and pensively looked towards the audience below.

As one of the leading pharmaceutical enterprises in the country, many laboratories were eager to receive favor from Huanxia.

Then, amidst the expectant gazes of all the laboratory colleagues, Xia Siyu’s gaze fell on the third row, "Academician Jiang, I now extend an invitation on behalf of Huanxia Pharma Enterprise to Renhe Laboratory. Would you be willing to establish a permanent and amicable collaboration with Huanxia in the future?"

The scene: "??"

The other twelve laboratories looked blankly at Xia Siyu, and the judges were incredulous, staring at the stage.

Hadn’t Renhe Laboratory just been embroiled in a scandal involving human experimentation yesterday? Even though all were released, the incident itself had not been resolved yet. Had the heiress of Huanxia gone mad?

Meanwhile, Academician Jiang was also stunned, watching Xia Siyu and had not yet had time to react when suddenly the doors of the venue were pushed open by the manager of the convention center—

Standing at the doorway with his back against the door, he addressed the people outside: "Please come in."

The host, not knowing what unexpected situation had arisen again, was about to ask, but then saw four police officers walk in followed by a girl with a corpulent figure and a pale face.

Xia Siyu on the stage narrowed her eyes slightly, while Shang Qiongying seated below covered her eyes with a hand at the moment she saw Guan Mingyu and the officers appear, her complex gaze harboring a hint of suspicion.

How had Guan Mingyu gotten out?

Shang Qiongying lifted her eyelids again, her gaze sweeping inadvertently towards Li Qiao.

The distance was somewhat far, and it was difficult to discern at the moment what the inscrutable expression on her face signified.

At this point, Guan Mingyu walked unsteadily up to the stage, flanked by two female police officers, one of whom looked around and said, "Don’t be afraid, if the suspect is really here, you only need to identify them."

A suspect?

At this moment, the attendees were fully perplexed—is this symposium hiding how many suspects?

Shang Qiongying couldn’t fully grasp Guan Mingyu’s intentions immediately but reminded by the ace she held in her hand, she nudged the elderly judge next to her with her elbow and whispered something to him.

The old man’s face showed surprise, and upon seeing Shang Qiongying subtly lower her eyes, he understood and turned toward Guan Mingyu, "Young lady, you must be the victim forced into human experimentation, right?"

A clamor almost threatened to rupture the roof.

Guan Mingyu timidly turned her head in the direction of the voice, and when she unexpectedly saw Shang Qiongying, her breath hitched, which even the police officer by her side sharply noticed was amiss.

The girl had run to the police station to report the case half an hour ago, and her condition then was even worse than now; she was hardly able to stand.

Guan Mingyu withdrew her gaze from Shang Qiongying’s face, then pursed her lips with a nod, but seemingly realizing something was not right, abruptly shook her head, "No..."

The elderly judge wore a confused look, "So, is it or is it not?"

Guan Mingyu, grasping the front of her clothes with both hands, swallowed and then spoke in a crisp voice, "I am not a victim of human experimentation; I’m a volunteer for drug trials."

Volunteer?

So that’s how it is.

All this fuss, and the young lady is just a drug trial volunteer.

That’s perfectly normal.

Any laboratory developing drugs would recruit a certain number of drug trial volunteers; it’s an essential part of the clinical trial phase in drug development.

At this moment, Shang Qiongying looked at Guan Mingyu with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, moistened her throat with a sip of tea, "Young lady, you seem a bit out of it. Are you sure you’re a volunteer? Can you take responsibility for what you’re saying?"

Guan Mingyu’s gaze flitted as she looked at Shang Qiongying, her breathing fluctuating. After a long while, she made a shocking statement, "So because I refused to help you frame the laboratory, you decided to abduct my brother and even tried to control me with drugs?"

Deathly silence.

An even more eerie quietness than before spread throughout the entire venue.

Guan Mingyu appeared very weak, obviously frightened but with a kind of desperate courage, she accused Shang Qiongying word by word, "Of course I am a volunteer, as I have signed the volunteer agreement."

Shang Qiongying’s complexion changed upon hearing this.

Guan Mingyu had actually signed a volunteer agreement?

But as a woman who had been through many trials and tribulations, she ignored the gazes of everyone present, turned her head towards Guan Mingyu with a slight smile, "Young lady, do you realize that you’re now suspected of committing slander?"

Guan Mingyu was not panicked, or it could be said that by showing up here, she hadn’t left herself any way out.

She looked at the police officer beside her, tremblingly pointed at Shang Qiongying, "She injected me with drugs, she abducted my brother, and she forcibly brought me to Chong City."

"Do you have evidence?" Shang Qiongying’s eyes darkened as she raised an eyebrow, her smile growing ever more splendid.

Then, Guan Mingyu took out her very old off-brand phone, opened the voice mailbox, where there were seven or eight files, and without much hesitation, handed it over to the female officer, "Inside are recordings of her calling me several times before."

Once again, both testimonies and physical evidence were gathered.

This was even more eye-catching than the scene when Li Qiao was taken away yesterday.

As the vice-chair of the Medical Research Council, to inject a volunteer with drugs was even more despicable than human experimentation.

At this time, Shang Qiongying shook her head with a wry smile, "Recordings can be fabricated, you could’ve procured the drugs yourself, what on earth makes a young girl who can’t speak clearly think she can do something like this? Who’s pulling your strings?

As for the abduction you’re talking about, it’s even more laughable. Why would I have any reason to abduct your big brother?

As the vice-chair of the Council, why would I target a laboratory that’s unknown to anyone?"

Two other police officers who were standing off the platform walked up in a strictly official manner, completely ignoring her sophistry, "Ma’am, please come with us for investigation cooperation."

Shang Qiongying sat firm as a mountain, lightly placing the cup in her hand on the table, "I’m not a citizen of your country and have no obligation to cooperate with you."

The moment the words fell, an official document in bilingual languages was taken out by an officer, "We have already contacted the Parma Embassy in China.

Regarding the details of your crimes, the Parma Police Station has agreed to let the domestic police take full charge of the investigation.

And since the situation is extremely serious, the extradition treaty does not apply. So, it would be in your best interest to cooperate, otherwise, we will have to execute by force."