Chapter 323

"The last person to see Ziwu wasn't us," Li Shuangshuang said before Dong Qianjin could. "It was a woman named Meng Qian..."

"Ha, is this company Nancheng Investment poisonous? Something happened again in less than a year," Wu Shanqiu got out of the car, looked at the familiar building, and sighed. "It's time to eat melons again."

Qi Fei knew what Wu Shanqiu meant by "eating melons."

The clue Li Shuangshuang provided voluntarily—that woman named Meng Qian was an employee of Nancheng Investment. Dong Ziwu meeting a female colleague alone at night—what happened in between couldn't help but make people's imaginations run wild.

Walking into Nancheng Investment, Qi Fei searched for a long time without seeing anyone he knew.

It seems that with a new emperor comes a new court. After Luo Yin and Feng Yi fell, many people had already been replaced.

The elevator went up to the third floor, and soon they reached the department where Meng Qian was.

Hearing that someone was looking for her, a girl poked her head out from her workstation. With long, straight black hair and big eyes, her appearance was significantly more outstanding compared to others in the office.

However, this style was similar to Li Shuangshuang's. It seems Dong Ziwu's aesthetic preference was quite obvious.

The people around seemed to have known Qi Fei and the others' intentions long ago, each of them understanding tacitly while pretending nothing had happened. This familiar office politics—Qi Fei savored it, as if he had returned to this time last year.

At Meng Qian's request, the three of them went to the tea bar in the lobby on the first floor.

"That's right, the night before Dong Ziwu went missing, he was with me. I stayed in the place he rented for a whole night, and we went to work separately the next morning," Meng Qian didn't avoid it at all and said it directly.

"Uh, the 'stayed for a whole night' you mentioned, surely it doesn't mean..." Wu Shanqiu's gossiping eyes could no longer be hidden.

"Yes, we had a relationship," Meng Qian raised her head, her eyes carrying a kind of stubbornness Qi Fei couldn't understand. "You don't need to be surprised. I am Dong Ziwu's official girlfriend. I have been with him for five years. He transferred to Nancheng Investment because of me. That Li Shuangshuang is just a mistress who used her pregnancy to force her way up. Did she ask you to come and find me? This scheming bitch! When I parted with Dong Ziwu, he was still fine. I didn't kill anyone!"

"Let's talk about your emotional affairs later. When was the last time you saw Dong Ziwu?" Qi Fei looked at the emotionally agitated Meng Qian and said helplessly.

"At eight o'clock that morning, I made him breakfast as usual. To avoid suspicion, I left before him. Usually, he would leave ten minutes later. However, I didn't see him arrive at the company that day. I thought he had gone out to discuss a project with General Manager Tian, so I didn't pay much attention. It wasn't until Dong Ziwu's family found me that I knew he had lost contact," Meng Qian said.

"When you were together, did he mention his plans for the next day? For example, who he was going to meet?"

"We don't talk about work when we are together. There was nothing special that day. If there really was anything, it was the same as before: he told me he was going to announce his marriage to Li Shuangshuang. This was very hard for me to accept, and I argued with him for a few sentences. But Dong Ziwu is someone who is particularly good at coaxing people. Before long, I was swayed by his sweet talk. It's always like this. The one who didn't want to make the relationship public at the beginning was also him. It's good that he's dead; I can finally be liberated!" Meng Qian said, covering her face and crying.

"Based on your understanding of Dong Ziwu, do you know why he would go to Bu Er Jing?" Qi Fei asked.

Meng Qian wiped her tears and shook her head: "He usually only likes playing ball and video games. He definitely wouldn't go to a place like this for outdoor hiking." The tone of her saying this was as if she were more like a wife than Li Shuangshuang.

After seeing Meng Qian, Qi Fei caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the corner of the lobby.

"Lao Qian?" Qi Fei took the initiative to step forward. Lao Qian was smoking in front of a trash can. Seeing it was Qi Fei, he hurriedly stubbed out his cigarette and smiled: "Officer Qi, I heard something happened to that Dong Ziwu in computing power. You're here to investigate this, right?"

"It seems this matter has spread everywhere."

"Heh, our unit now doesn't do any serious work. As soon as there is gossip, everyone spreads it enthusiastically. This Dong Ziwu, sigh, don't mention it." A year passed, and Lao Qian seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, not as happy as before.

"It seems you have something to say," Qi Fei smiled slightly.

"You know he rented a place near the unit, right?"

"Yes, his home isn't far from here. Why rent an extra place?"

"In name, it's for the convenience of working overtime. Heh heh, that overtime ended up in bed." Lao Qian's words were full of disdain.

"Are you talking about the affair with Meng Qian?"

"Meng Qian is just the relatively fixed one. This Dong Ziwu hasn't been here long, but he already has the title of 'Sea King.' As long as the little girls are slightly pretty, eight or nine out of ten have been tainted by him."

"Ah?" Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but exclaim when she heard this. "Even rabbits don't eat the grass by their own nest. Is he really that exaggerated?"

"Hmm, this Dong Ziwu looks okay, has studied abroad, and has a background. Plus, his mouth is sweet. With these things combined, those little girls who haven't seen the world—didn't they all fall for his tricks?"

"So there are many Meng Qians in this group?" Qi Fei felt a headache just hearing it. "He was about to marry Li Shuangshuang. Doesn't that mean everyone who had an affair with him is a suspect?"

Wu Shanqiu's focus wasn't here, and she wondered: "Don't these girls know he was dating many women at the same time? Don't they mind?"

"This Dong Ziwu has always walked around as a single man. People, they only believe what they see. I guess they all thought those rumors were fake," Lao Qian said. "Besides, he has a background here. Among those little girls, there are also those who want to take a shortcut by relying on Dong Ziwu. Look, didn't that Li Shuangshuang almost succeed?" Listening to Lao Qian's tone when talking about Li Shuangshuang, it was also a look of looking down on her.

"I saw in the information that his parents are ordinary retirees. Where does the background come from?" Qi Fei asked.

"Officer Qi, you only saw the appearance. His mother was a middle-level manager in a subsidiary of Nancheng Investment before she retired, and she was in the same department as our General Manager Tian before. His mother's rank isn't high, but she is particularly good at working upward and managed to become best friends with General Manager Tian. Dong Ziwu is General Manager Tian's godson; the whole company knows it. This person in charge of the computing power department is just his stepping stone. If he hadn't met with an accident this time, becoming the general manager of a subsidiary would have been a matter of time."

"Who is General Manager Tian?" Wu Shanqiu asked, hearing this unfamiliar name.

"Tian Mi, the company's second-in-command. Oh, she's the one who took over the position of Feng Yi before," Lao Qian said, smiling bitterly. "I originally thought that after Feng Yi left, everyone had finally made it through, but I didn't expect..."