Chapter 327 - 301: Turning Back is the Shore (Monthly Tickets 1150+ Update)
About the suspect’s information, it wasn’t yet fully compiled, and only rough details were known. Xiao Qian saw this man’s workplace when she was downstairs and could guess so much just from her brief interaction with him.
“I didn’t! Everything I have, I earned on my own!”
The man’s words seemed to confirm Xiao Qian’s suspicion.
“You need her family’s support, but deep down you look down on this woman. You think you are better than her in every way except your family background, more beautiful, smarter, you only lost because of your upbringing.”
“I didn’t think like that…” the bad guy’s tone was so soft that even he couldn’t convince himself.
“So, before the incident happened, when she acted coquettishly to you, you thought she didn’t deserve your comfort. You let her run out at night and then she had an accident. You began to worry. Your source of worry was not her, but your own dignity. How would you face people’s speculation after returning to your hometown? Those malicious rumors were like sharp knives stabbing into your heart. They said you wore a huge green hat. They called her second-hand goods. You were filled with various kinds of anger and resentment. Your upbringing made you feel inferior, and today, someone provoked you. That’s why, fuelled by alcohol, you came here to do such a thing, right?”
Xiao Qian’s tone became more and more serious, and the man panicked. She had hit the nail on the head, speaking his inner thoughts exactly.
“Your ability to endure psychologically is quite poor. When confronted with a problem, you go to extremes. You can’t accept that your fiancee is no longer perfect. Your current reaction, from a psychological perspective, is called external attribution. You blame everything on us. If you really loved her, you would be trying every possible way to help her through this difficult time, not running here to find an extreme solution. So all your actions right now are a twisted, pathological display. I understand you, really, you can’t control your actions.”
The last sentence was one that Xiao Qian often used as a doctor – it seemed simple, but it was very effective.
When she hit the suspect’s psychological defenses, casually saying she understood him could usually cause a critical blow.
Sure enough, the man’s emotions began to fluctuate dramatically, his breathing became rapid, and he kept repeating one sentence.
“It’s not my fault, not my fault…”
“Turning back is the shore, tell me where the shore is?”
“The shore…”
Following Xiao Qian’s train of thought, the man replied.
Yu Minglang and his team were holding their breath, waiting for the man’s response.
Xiao Qian suddenly raised her voice.
“The shore is in turning back, the shore is in self-reflection. Tell me, where is your shore?”
“I was wrong… Jingjing, I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!”
The man was broken by Xiao Qian, he let go of the child he was holding hostage.
Yu Minglang could hear the admiration from the team member closest to Xiao Qian through his headphones.
“Damn, my sister-in-law is brainwashing him. I almost got brainwashed too. She’s awesome!”
That’s what Yu Minglang was thinking too. Xiao Mei had just changed completely, and his heart was pounding.
Xiao Mei, you are my shore.
The child was sitting on the ground, his legs had turned to jelly, and the man was covering his face, sobbing.
“I didn’t… I’m not like what you said… I’m not…”
Rescue personnel immediately seized the opportunity, lunged forward, and quickly picked up the terrified child, while two others quickly joined from the flanks.
Xiao Qian was still standing in the same spot, looking at the man whose psychological defenses she had broken down, with sympathy but no forgiveness.
“I will take responsibility for treating that poor girl. Even though I know that you care not about her, but the rumors and that layer of membrane you care about, I still want to tell you that her future will be bright, but you, maybe not so much.”
Everyone has to pay the price for their actions. Anyone who wants to take revenge on society by going to extremes will ultimately find that they can’t get revenge on anyone but themselves.
The harm caused by malicious rumors triggered a Phoenix Man’s extreme purity. This kind of mindset only hurts women, and men with this inclination are also injuring themselves with their stubborn prejudices.
To see Xiao Qian break an extremely wicked man’s mental defenses and make him cry out in pain through conversation alone left everyone present deeply impressed.
This was even better than negotiation experts!
Yu Minglang approached, and Xiao Qian waved her hand to signal that she was fine.
The Bureau Chief personally shook Xiao Qian’s hand, “Young lady, would you be interested in joining our negotiation team? We’re willing to recruit you specially!”
“For now, I’m still a student, and I can’t work. But if needed, I can help- ”
“Calm down!” Yu Minglang just broke out in a cold sweat and sighed a breath of relief as he saw Xiao Qian resolve the problem.
He hugged her, and Xiao Qian patted him to calm him down.
“It’s all right; everything’s under control. This is my specialty.”
When she first came up, she had already briefly reviewed the man’s information, combined it with the information she heard, and used her judgment to successfully find the Phoenix Man’s psychological weak spot.
Just like the topic she had discussed with Mother Yu earlier, why do men place so much importance on a woman’s chastity?
It’s a fixation, a natural reaction after evolution, that a man wants his woman to belong to him and him alone. However, when this kind of reaction becomes an attack, or even hatred, that hurts others, it’s a pathological behavior.
Mother Yu talked about harming others, but the man Xiao Qian dealt with today harmed not only others but himself.
Pitiful and hateful, understandable but not deserving of sympathy.
In Xiao Qian’s mind, there was no reason to hurt others, and she didn’t have the love to give out sympathy.
After hugging her, Yu Minglang released her and stroked her face, “You naughty little thing! You weren’t careful when you slipped in the shower. You even told people it happened while you were kidnapped, afraid they’d expose you!”
Xiao Qian stuck out her tongue, “Didn’t I learn that from you, to make use of every available resource?”
At that moment, Yu Minglang suddenly narrowed his eyes and saw a figure sneak to the door’s side, pick up a small machine from an inconspicuous place, and say into a microphone.
“Dear viewers, that concludes the hostage rescue operation. We have brought you live coverage from beginning to end. We saw our brave rescue team impersonate the person the suspect wanted, cleverly outwitting the extremely wicked bad guy, and successfully cracked the case without any harm. Let’s cheer for our brave people’s guardians. And now, let’s interview the woman-hero who just impersonated the victim and saved the hostage.”
As the journalist spoke, he walked towards Xiao Qian, holding the small machine in his hand.