Chapter 180

Chapter 180: The Reason For Revenge

The two looked at each other. They were clearly surprised by the woman’s identity, but soon they found that there was something even more shocking behind it.

“Not only that, but Yao’s daughter’s tragic death is also related to her.”

It turned out that after Mr. Yao’s company went bankrupt and he was saddled with huge debts, Madam Yao had once taken their child with her to look for that woman.

She brought the child along because Madam Yao hoped that, as a fellow woman, the other person would put herself in her shoes, soften when she saw the child, agree to her plea, and persuade her own husband to help Madam Yao’s husband through the crisis.

However, she clearly underestimated how ruthless the other woman was. She never expected that they would run into a robber in the mall and that her only daughter would tragically become a hostage.

“At that time, the officers from the South District Police Bureau in charge of the case were negotiating very smoothly. The robber had a gun, but he did not really dare to hurt anyone. He was using it more to scare and threaten people. The negotiator in charge saw this and offered terms that fit the situation and matched what the robber wanted. They were just about to get the child out safely when someone suddenly screamed. The robber was startled, his hand shook…”

Du Bi Xiao paused for a long moment: “The child died.”

“So this has to do with that woman.” A bold guess suddenly popped into Du An Rao’s mind. “The one who screamed was her?”

Jiang You Nian’s expression changed. He subconsciously looked toward Du Bi Xiao for confirmation.

“…That is indeed the case.”

“What a beast!” Before Du An Rao could say anything, Jiang You Nian had already cursed first: “She did not do it on purpose, did she?”

Du Bi Xiao lowered her eyes: “There is no solid evidence to prove whether she did it on purpose or not, but it is a fact that the child died because of her scream.”

[No wonder I could faintly see blood and dark energy on that woman. She must have done a lot of things against her conscience.]

Jiang You Nian’s face turned green. He had grown up smoothly for more than twenty years, and the Blood Jade incident had been his first real look at how vicious people could be. But compared to that, what this woman did pushed his idea of human limits even lower.

He really could not understand how there could be such trash of a person in this world. Just how much hatred did she have to be so cold toward a living life like that, not to mention that it was only a child of a few years old!

“Because of their daughter’s death, Yao’s whole family was hit hard. Yao’s parents were already old, and they had fallen ill from worrying over his bankruptcy and debts. Now their only granddaughter was gone too, which hit them even harder. Not long after, they both…” She did not finish the word. “His wife was even more crushed by guilt. While he was out borrowing money yet again, she swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills…”

This was what Du An Rao had mentioned before about how the suspect’s whole family had died, leaving only him. With nothing left to hold him back, he naturally had no more scruples.

So he tied the last bomb to himself, planning to die together with everyone else and end everything that way.

It was not hard to guess why he chose to set everything off there. It was the place where his daughter had died, and also the starting point of his family’s disappearance from his life.

It was also easy to understand why he wanted to lure the police over, because he hated them for not saving his child that day.

Maybe at the beginning he wanted to lure over that same group of South District police officers. After all, they had been the ones who rushed over when his child had the accident. If something happened in the same place again and someone called the police, the ones sent over would most likely be the same group.

But he probably had not expected that by a twist of fate, the ones sent this time would not be the South District officers who had failed to save his daughter, but Du Bi Xiao and her team.

Looking at it this way, his actions seemed like random attacks on innocent people and the newspaper, but actually there was a clear logic of revenge behind them. In that case…

“That child who was almost taken hostage by him…”

“Was that woman’s younger daughter, one year older than his own daughter.”

Up to this point, all the anchors of his actions were linked together.

This was a carefully planned act of revenge. Yao was trying to create a kidnapping exactly like the one in which his daughter had died, to vent the pain of losing his whole family and to take revenge on the people who had caused his suffering.

“He is pitiful, and that woman is hateful, but are the guests who had no idea what was going on not innocent? Are you and those colleagues in the South District who could not save his daughter but still tried your best not innocent?”

Just because they had not saved her, he hated them. This was really a classic case of turning a favor into hatred.

Hearing her say this, Du Bi Xiao could not help laughing.

The reason the police announcement had not revealed these details was that they were afraid that some so-called saints who loved to be generous with other people’s lives would use sympathy for Yao’s family as an excuse to attack those colleagues from the South District, who already needed psychological counseling because they had failed to save the little girl.

If they really let that kind of talk spread, it would be no different from hurting them a second time.

“She looked pretty scared of you just now.”

“Probably guilty. We have looked for her and her husband a few times before to investigate the explosion case. The two of them are still key subjects of attention in our bureau.”

Anyone with eyes could see there was something fishy about how that woman’s husband had transferred most of Yao’s company funds away. But after he was brought in to talk, he kept insisting that the money had been his investment when he and Yao started the company, and that transferring it out was just withdrawing his investment.

He said it did not make sense for him to go down with the company and die together when it was about to close, still holding so much money. On the surface, this explanation sounded reasonable, but actually it was full of holes. You could tell that he had some expert coaching him from behind.

They had rules when handling cases. If something was only suspected, they had to treat it as if there was no crime. So even though they knew he had a problem, they could not just arrest him.

However, just because they could not do anything to him for the time being did not mean they had given up. They had been working hard to find evidence during this time.

What Yao did was indeed unforgivable, but the suffering he went through also should not be ignored. The two were separate matters.

That woman probably understood this too. That was why she had unconsciously shown a guilty look when she saw Du Bi Xiao just now.

After listening to her explanation, Du An Rao frowned slightly, deep in thought.

[Cause and effect always come around. That woman has blood energy and the dark resentment of Mr. Yao’s whole family gathered on her. The cloud over her head is several shades darker than President Sun’s. She is probably going to suffer something big soon.]

As if to prove her thoughts right, Du Bi Xiao’s phone suddenly rang. As soon as she picked up, she heard good news, which made her unconsciously look at the clueless girl in front of her.

But Du An Rao misunderstood what she meant and kindly said: “Cousin, do you have work to do? Then you should go back first. I still have Uncle A Wen and the others with me. Nothing will happen.”

“Alright then. When you finish shopping, go back early. If anything happens, call me.”

“Mm-hmm. Oh right, take this.” Du An Rao rummaged through the bags Jiang You Nian was carrying and took one out to hand to Du Bi Xiao.

The junior officer beside Du Bi Xiao immediately widened his eyes in surprise when he saw this. Good grief, was this a public display of…?