The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 361 - 365: After the Female Lead is Kidnapped and Sold (9)

Chapter 361: Chapter 365: After the Female Lead is Kidnapped and Sold (9)

Chong Technology held an extraordinary status in Hua Country as the frontrunner in emerging technologies.

Chong Yongyi himself possessed immense power.

Unexpectedly, the girl entrenched in the village warranted his personal attention.

Upon learning of President Chong’s arrival, local leaders of the small county rushed over in trepidation.

They were met with Chong Yongyi’s seething rage.

As Su Yuan, whom Chong Yongyi personally acknowledged as his adopted sister, spoke, investigators paid special attention to her words.

The investigators also expended a lot of energy looking into the girl Su Yuan mentioned, who faced similar ordeals.

However, in the small county, with its lack of resources, it was not like the city where cameras were found every few steps to assist in tracking.

Moreover, the locations where the two were trapped were expertly chosen by seasoned traffickers, in secluded dead zones.

Even utilizing Chong Yongyi’s influence to capture a widespread network of traffickers didn’t yield any trace of the girl Su Yuan had mentioned.

It seemed as though the girl spoken of by Su Yuan was just a figment of her imagination.

Some investigators began speculating privately whether the girl’s mind was in disarray after suffering a great shock.

There were precedents showing that some individuals, when they reached their psychological limits, would split into an alternate personality to protect themselves.

Su Yuan’s case bore striking similarities to such examples.

Their discussions were conducted in secret, but everyone understood the implications—they were just short of openly questioning whether President Chong’s adopted sister had gone mad.

Considering it, it made sense: a girl of her age, facing such an ordeal, would naturally have difficulty accepting it.

Su Yuan was extremely determined—she spent every day at the Police Station, refusing to compromise, refusing to give up... insisting on finding the girl she talked about.

When Su Li was around, he paid little attention to her, and had never exchanged information with Su Yuan; at this point, Su Yuan knew nothing about him.

She could only rely on her own judgment for description.

The girl wasn’t much older than she was, looked mature and composed, and most importantly, exceptionally beautiful.

But finding someone based on such a scant description seemed almost impossible.

The investigators tasked with the case lamented endlessly.

They tried to use the villagers as a starting point since, according to Su Yuan, they had been trafficked into the village together and should have been seen by them.

Strangely enough, every villager had no recollection of the person Su Yuan mentioned.

An investigator named Xiao Ming, who was the least experienced—a youngster who had just joined the force after graduating—was pushed to the forefront because his seniors did not want to directly face Chong Yongyi’s fury.

Xiao Ming grimaced, took a deep breath, and then, holding his investigative materials, pushed open the door to the conference room.

These past days, Su Yuan had been sitting quietly in there.

The president of Chong Technology stayed by her side continually, with even the documents requiring his attention at the company being flown in by his secretary on a private jet.

"President Chong, might I have a word?" Xiao Ming said, avoiding Su Yuan’s gaze as he gestured to Chong Yongyi.

In truth, his feelings towards Su Yuan had fermented from initial sympathy to weariness in just three or four days.

Seeing Xiao Ming, Su Yuan instinctively wanted to stand up and ask questions.

Chong Yongyi, who had only just managed to calm Su Yuan, followed Xiao Ming out, gently closing the conference room door behind him. His expression, warm and soft moments before, immediately turned exceptionally stern.

Eyes covered in frost, Su Li’s gaze pierced into the person opposite him like blades of ice.

Xiao Ming was just an ordinary investigator, unable to withstand such a powerful aura, his heart was in turmoil.

Yet, after the initial panic, his dissatisfaction with Chong Yongyi bounced back stubbornly, supporting him to stand his ground.

Chong Yongyi stared at the man in front of him until beads of sweat formed on the other’s forehead, then he finally moved his gaze away.

His words were laced with ice shards as he said, "I’m very dissatisfied with you all."

"Your efficiency is too poor. I pay so much in taxes every year... Is this how you repay me?"

Xiao Ming really wanted to retort, ’You run a company, paying taxes is an obligation, not a bargaining chip you can use.’

But he held back. He had passed his hotheaded teenage days, swallowing any discontent no matter how unbearable it felt inside.

His impression of President Chong had taken a huge hit; the man was so different from the image portrayed on television and in magazine articles.

Xiao Ming tried to ensure the words from his mouth did not carry his inner emotions.

He quickly went over the investigation results once and then stuffed several thick pages of materials into Chong Yongyi’s arms.

They contained testimonies from villagers, results from surveillance system investigations, psychological assessments of Su Yuan’s mental state...

In summary, everything pointed to one reality: Su Yuan had serious cognitive disorders.

The girl he loved was mentally ill.

This fact dealt a heavy blow to Chong Yongyi.

The papers in his hands were crumpled by his grip, and with one phone call, the severity of charges for everyone involved in the kidnapping case increased.

Consequently, the women and children who had emerged from the village and escaped disaster faced continuous calamity.

Of course, that was a story for later.

At that moment, facing Su Yuan’s expectant eyes, Chong Yongyi couldn’t get the words out of his throat.

Was he supposed to tell her directly that the person she spoke of didn’t exist, that it was all in her imagination?

"You...you’re mentally ill..."

Before Chong Yongyi could speak, Su Yuan urgently grabbed the documents from his palm.

After quickly skimming, Su Yuan couldn’t help but doubt herself.

Could it be true, as stated here, that it was all just her own fantasy?

No, it absolutely was not.

The memories of their time together felt so real, utterly genuine...

Even knowing that under those circumstances, when the bridge broke away, there was no chance of survival, she couldn’t let it go.

She could’ve spared herself such hellish torture if only, if only that woman had helped her...

Su Yuan felt she desperately needed an outlet for her fury, or she was going to lose her mind.

That woman’s family, friends...everyone had to know what she had done. Su Yuan wanted her to bear a lifetime of curses, even in death...

Su Yuan had everything well thought out, even planning every detail.

She knew how her foster brother Chong Yongyi felt about her—whatever she wanted, he would undoubtedly fulfill.

But reality struck her a cruel blow.

The result was that there was no such person...

Chong Yongyi firmly held onto Su Yuan as she began to unravel, "Little Yuan, calm down..."