Chapter 207: Longing in the Heart, Clearing the Name
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The video was filmed by another roommate at the time.
He suspected someone had secretly rummaged through his cabinet. In order to catch this person, without informing the other roommates, he bought a miniature camera online and secretly installed it in the dormitory.
As a result, he didn’t catch the thief, but instead captured the whole process of his roommate poisoning himself to death.
Later, when the truth came out, Jiang Ke was taken away by the police as the prime suspect.
The student who installed the camera was afraid of being implicated and dismantled the camera overnight, leaving no traces.
But the recorded footage had already been automatically saved to the cloud.
Originally, he could have handed this video over to the police as powerful evidence to clear Jiang Ke’s suspicion.
But in the end, he didn’t.
Firstly, he had violated the privacy rights of the other roommates by secretly installing the camera without their consent, which could lead to criminal liability if the circumstances were serious.
Secondly, Jiang Ke’s performance in the training camp was outstanding. With four competition slots available, he was certain to secure one, while his own comprehensive ranking happened to be fifth. If Jiang Ke were to be eliminated…
“How did you find out about this?” Jiang Ke suddenly spoke up.
He didn’t directly respond to Jiang Fuyue’s proposal, but changed the subject.
Niu Rui snorted lightly. “If there’s something the Qianji Pavilion wants to find out, there’s nothing they can’t uncover. Your selfish calculations and loopholes are all child’s play to us!”
Pride overflowed in his words.
Ye Qianji glanced at him with satisfaction. Not bad, not bad, this spokesperson could be rewarded with a chicken leg!
Jiang Ke was shocked.
So his wrongful conviction, escape from prison, and all the hardships he had endured were just “child’s play” in the eyes of the other party?
He didn’t feel insulted by being belittled; instead, he was filled with a strong desire for such power.
If he had even a tenth of their abilities back then, he wouldn’t have ended up in this situation today.
“Qianji… Pavilion?”
Niu Rui lifted his chin slightly and sniffed at him. “That’s right.”
Jiang Ke turned to look at Jiang Fuyue again, his gaze piercing. “How do you want me to serve you? What else can I do now?”
Jiang Fuyue smirked. “Of course, it’s to make the most of your talent in information technology. Otherwise, do you think I would have you do anything else? Or, to put it another way, do you have anything else that can be of value?”
“…”
Until Jiang Fuyue and her group left in a grand manner, Jiang Ke still hadn’t given a precise reply.
But he took the video with him, and that was enough.
That evening, outside the East City Police Station.
This was the first time in four years that Jiang Ke had dressed so neatly.
He changed into clean clothes, shaved, and even cut his messy long hair, revealing his face burnt by the fierce flames.
Finally, he stood tall and upright in the sunlight again, breathing fresh air freely, without having to hide or be on edge.
Every day in the future, he would live like this!
“Excuse me, sir, do you have something to report?”
“Yes,” he said, “I’m here to surrender myself, and at the same time, to file a case.”
The next day, after four years of uproar, the “Dormitory Poisoning Case” from the summer camp had a stunning reversal when the mastermind behind it was sentenced to death and escaped from prison.
The video was uploaded online, and within just two hours, it had been shared over a hundred thousand times, with views skyrocketing from a few thousand to tens of millions.
Then, the entire internet exploded—
“In the year 0502, how can such wrongful convictions still occur?”
“He didn’t want to live and dragged others down with him. Need a roommate? Look for the kind that gets you sentenced to death!”
“It’s fortunate he escaped, otherwise, he would have been gone, and the truth would have been forever covered up. Just thinking about it is terrifying.”
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