Zhang Manting thought that if one day Jiang Zhongze knew that she was lying to him, would she die without knowing why like Zhang Yumei?
On the second day after Zhang Yumei's death, Jiang Zhongze came to apologize to her with a smile on his face. He told her that no one would be able to stop them from being together in the future. However, out of consideration for their relationship, he would wait two years before marrying her.
Zhang Manting forced a smile and nodded, but she felt cold in her heart. "What a heartless and cold-blooded man he is! How could he smile so brightly after killing his wife who has been with him for nearly 30 years?"
For the first time in her life, she was afraid of this cruel man and had the idea of leaving him after making a lot of money.
From then on, Zhang Manting became well-behaved. She didn't even dare to contact Wu Jiawen for fear that she would be discovered by Jiang Zhongze and be killed. She could only pay attention to his movements in the name of his fan. Although they both understood that they were just taking what they needed and there was no future, after all, Wu Jiawen was the first man who made her pregnant. It would be a lie to say that she didn't have any feelings for him.
Two years later, Jiang Zhongze kept his promise and married her. Even though she didn't get pregnant again, he always thought that she was hurt by the abortion and always cared about her.
Not only did he let her live in a luxurious villa, but he also did whatever he wanted from her. He bought her any brand or car she wanted without hesitation. He simply spoiled her to the heavens. This made her lost in his warmth. She even wondered if it was an accident and if he did not kill Zhang Yumei.
But the unspeakable fear in her heart still made her keep an eye on him. She secretly collected evidence of Jiang Zhongze's violations of laws and regulations in case of emergencies, as a bargaining chip to negotiate with him in the future.
Recently, Jiang Zhongze's career had progressed and he became the acting mayor. But after all, time waited for no man. He was getting older and older, and he was getting more and more incompetent in bed. He began to talk about wanting a child again.
With the evidence in hand, Zhang Manting thought that she had the capital to compete with Jiang Zhongze. In addition, she had not been satisfied with him in the past few years, so she thought of her old lover, Wu Jiawen, who had become a big star. After knowing that he was shooting a TV series in Ninghai, she took the opportunity to contact him when Jiang Zhongze went to Yan Jing to report work and wanted to continue their relationship.
Wu Jiawen was worried about not having a place to hide. Seeing that his old lover had made an appointment, he naturally ran over to have a secret rendezvous with her. As a result, he did not expect that it was this secret rendezvous that caused their affair to be exposed to the public, and he fell into a hopeless situation.
Knowing that the adultery had been exposed, Zhang Manting was scared. She packed up her things at once, took the portable financial items in the villa, and wanted to escape from Ninghai. She planned to use the evidence in her hands to negotiate with Jiang Zhongze after leaving Ninghai and arriving at a safe place, in exchange for wealth and peace for the rest of her life.
Unfortunately, she didn't expect that Jiang Zhongze would act so fast. When she arrived at the airport and saw those suspicious men in black, she knew that not only the airport, but all the main roads might have been blocked. She made a prompt decision to return to the city and put the evidence she had in hand in a safe place as her last bargaining chip to survive.
After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Ding Ning couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly. He didn't expect the matter to be so complicated. Zhang Manting obviously underestimated Jiang Zhongze's viciousness. She thought that Jiang Zhongze wouldn't do anything to her if she put the evidence in a place where no one could find it.
If she hadn't met him, Zhang Manting would have died without a burial place.
In fact, both Zhang Manting and Ding Ning neglected one thing. Jiang Zhongze didn't know that Zhang Manting had the evidence of him breaking the law. If he had known, he would never have ordered her to be silenced before he got the evidence.
The reason why he wanted Zhang Manting to disappear from the world was that he was angry that she had cheated on him and made him lose face. Secondly, he was worried that after her photos were exposed by human search, some people would notice something wrong from her villa, luxury car, and extravagant dress and make a big fuss in public. Then the higher-ups would pay attention to it and send people to investigate it. He was worried that she couldn't bear the interrogation and would confess. Even if there was no evidence to convict him, it would make his impression in the minds of the big shots and affect his career.
In fact, if someone didn't deliberately target him, the second possibility was almost impossible. After all, he was a provincial cadre. At this level, without the approval of the few big shots at the top, no one dared to investigate him easily.
But there was no luck in the officialdom. It was better to be safe than sorry. Even if there was only one in ten thousand possibility, Jiang Zhongze, who knew the truth well, had to nip this possibility in the bud.
At this moment, he was still in Yan Jing. After Jiang Hongbin reported to him that Zhang Manting had died in a car accident, his heart was finally at ease. He felt so relaxed that he even hummed a tune happily.
Although he still felt a little sad when he thought of the eight years of loving husband and wife, compared to his career, this sadness soon disappeared. It was just the death of a dissolute wife. As long as he had power and power, he could find any beautiful woman.
If he knew that Zhang Manting, whom he had doted on for eight years, had been guarding against him and even secretly collected evidence of his breaking the law, he would not be in such a good mood.
Of course, he would not have thought that Jiang Hongbin was so sure that Zhang Manting had died before confirming the news of Zhang Manting's death.
It was not Jiang Hongbin's fault. Anyone who saw the horrible scene of the car accident would not think that Zhang Manting had any hope of survival.
In fact, it was true. If Ding Ning had not come to rescue her at the first time, Zhang Manting would have died before the ambulance arrived.
Jiang Hongbin deliberately found an excuse to take a day off and pretended that he didn't know about the car accident to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, he would definitely know the news that the accident brigade did not take away Zhang Manting's body at the first time and immediately take remedial measures. Maybe things would go to a different ending.
But it was God's will in the unseen world. Things that should have been set in stone had an accident because of Ding Ning's appearance, and Jiang Hongbin, who had a guilty conscience, also made a stupid choice to avoid arousing suspicion, which made things develop to an unmanageable situation. This was probably the retribution for doing too many bad things.
Xiao Nuo came with her own people. When making the statement, Zhang Manting wanted to pretend to be deaf and dumb, but Ding Ning showed her the video after she was hypnotized and the evidence of Jiang Zhongze's breaking the law that she had hidden.
This pitiful and hateful woman completely collapsed. She honestly confessed all the problems and cried that she was willing to accuse Jiang Zhongze. She only strongly requested Xiao Nuo to protect her as a witness so that she would not be killed by Jiang Zhongze.
Xiao Nuo frowned and knew that the matter was serious. After discussing with Ding Ning, she decided to leave Zhang Manting in Qingyun Security Company and leave Fang Xiaomu and three other policemen as a witness protection for Zhang Manting.
She hurried back to the bureau to report the situation to Director Qi and ask him what to do next.
Director Qi was shocked when he learned the situation. In order not to leak the news, he secretly selected a group of policemen from his trusted subordinates and secretly arrested all the policemen involved in the case last night. They were detained and interrogated in a different place, intending to find out the mastermind behind the scenes from them with the crime of hit-and-run. Otherwise, it would be difficult to bring Jiang Hongbin to justice.
Both Xiao Nuo and Director Qi were very clear that this case had involved a level that they could not reach. While secretly controlling the policemen involved in the case, they called Secretary Xu and asked Governor Du for instructions on what to do next.
Unfortunately, Secretary Xu tactfully told him that Governor Du was reporting to the big boss and could not give clear instructions now. This made Director Qi sigh and almost turn white from worry. Without Governor Du's instructions, even if he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Committee, he had no right to investigate a powerful acting mayor.
After the surprise interrogation, the policemen involved in the case were all criminal police with good psychological quality and strong ability to resist interrogation. Even though the video clearly recorded their behavior of destroying the vehicle after hitting someone, they only admitted that they did hit-and-run after the accident, but it was just an accident and no one had instructed them to do it.
These policemen involved in the case were also very clear that as long as they kept silent and protected Jiang Hongbin, Jiang Zhongze would not treat them badly. Even if they could not get them out of prison for the time being, they would at most bear the crime of hit-and-run. When they were released from prison, the Jiang Family would never treat them badly.
Xiao Nuo also knew that if these policemen involved in the case did not speak, they could not even get Jiang Hongbin involved, let alone get Jiang Zhongze involved. She could only report the situation to Ding Ning and tell him that only when the higher-ups decided to file a case and investigate Jiang Zhongze and let these policemen see no hope, their psychological defense would collapse and they would bite Jiang Hongbin out in order to reduce the punishment.
After listening to Xiao Nuo's story, Ding Ning immediately understood Governor Du's meaning after thinking for a while.
Although Governor Du also hoped to bring Jiang Zhongze down, he could not say it. Once he reported to the higher-ups and requested to investigate Jiang Zhongze, the force behind Jiang Zhongze would put the big hat of destroying the stability and unity and being intolerant of others on his head.
Ding Ning made a prompt decision. He took the evidence and rushed to the Yan Jing Central Bureau to complain to the Emperor in person, so that Governor Du would not have to bear so much pressure and blame.
After asking Zhu Wuxia to book the earliest flight to Yan Jing for him and telling everyone to protect the safety of Zhang Manting and the others, Ding Ning hurriedly drove to the airport.
Although he could directly teleport to Yan Jing, he knew that at this time, he would rather waste some time on the road than teleport directly for the sake of saving trouble.
Otherwise, he could not explain why he appeared in Yan Jing without any flight record when he was still in Ninghai one moment.
In fact, he was also very clear that this time was different from the last incident with the Old Master of the Wang Family. The Old Master Wang was about to retire, but they let him retire in advance without holding him accountable, which showed the attitude of the big shots.
After all, it was not easy for the country to cultivate a cadre, especially for a senior official with a certain administrative level. They generally adopted the means of beating and educating the cadre to cure the disease and save the patient, but they did not agree to kill the cadre at once, unless the cadre had committed a heinous crime and could not be killed to appease the anger of the people, or even involved the betrayal of the national interests and the country, and could not be forgiven, they had no choice but to expose the cadre and severely punish the cadre as a warning to others.
Although Zhang Manting had collected a lot of evidence of Jiang Zhongze's violations of the law, most of them were videos and photos of Jiang Zhongze taking bribes and colluding with officials and businessmen for profit, which could not form a complete chain of evidence.
More than three years had passed since Jiang Zhongze's most serious crime, the case of killing his wife, and there were only doubts but no evidence. It was really difficult to bring Jiang Zhongze down with these.
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