mtlumby2d Chapter 494 The Missing Bride
Chapter 494 The Missing Bride
Peng Wei's wife Zou Jiajia disappeared six years ago.
Six years ago, Peng Wei was 29 years old. He and his wife were college classmates. They started dating during college and broke up and got back together several times before finally getting married, ending their eight-year relationship.
After getting the certificate and meeting both sets of parents, we are just waiting to hold the wedding.
But Zou Jiajia disappeared the day before the wedding.
That day, they went to try on wedding dresses. Peng Wei's was done quickly, but his wife couldn't make up her mind after trying them on many times. Later, because he had something to do, he left early.
The last impression of his wife was her wearing a wedding dress, smiling and waving at him, telling him to go about his own business.
That was the last time he saw his wife as she disappeared from her house that night.
Because they were getting married soon, the two did not live together during those days. The wife moved back to her old house and planned to get married in this house on the wedding day.
He was too tired that night so he didn't contact his wife. When he couldn't contact her the next day, he went to her house to look for her.
When he opened the door, he found his wife was not at home, but there was a pool of blood on the ground. He was so scared that he called the police immediately.
The police came to check and found that the bloodstains were indeed from Zou Jiajia, but they found no signs of anyone else having been in the house, except Peng Wei.
They never found Zou Jiajia's body, and the forensic doctor said that the amount of blood on the ground was not enough to cause a person's death.
Therefore, the case was not classified as a homicide, but as a missing person case.
At that time, there were also suspects. Peng Wei always believed that his wife was killed by a man named Kang Huai.
Kang Huai was also their college classmate. He had been pestering Zou Jiajia since they were in school, and he did not give up even when Zou Jiajia had a boyfriend.
He would come to her from time to time, like a dog-skin plaster that could not be removed.
After graduation and starting work, it seemed as if he was deliberately going against Peng Wei. He did whatever job Peng Wei did and went to whichever company Peng Wei went to.
Later, Peng Wei started his own company, but he didn't expect Kang Huai also started one, and they became business competitors, always stealing his business.
Peng Wei and Zou Jiajia's several breakups and reunions were all related to Kang Huai.
Zou Jiajia proposed breaking up several times because she didn't want to implicate him, but in the end, the two of them couldn't let go of each other.
Kang Huai once threatened in the circle of classmates that he would definitely break them up, and if he failed, he would kill one of them.
Peng Wei could never figure out how he had offended Kang Huai. His wife was only pretty, not stunningly beautiful, not enough to make anyone risk their life for her.
They made up their minds to get married, and also thought about moving to another place to develop their careers after marriage.
If you can't afford to offend someone, you can always avoid him. Who knows, something bad might happen.
At that time, Peng Wei insisted that his wife's disappearance must be related to Kang Huai, and Kang Huai's car did appear near Zou Jiajia's old house that night.
However, after investigation, the police found that Kang Huai's car did pass by that area that day, but he was not the driver. He was drinking with friends that night and his friends took him home when he was drunk. After that, he slept at home until the next morning and did not go out.
Although he lived alone and had no witnesses, the police retrieved the community surveillance footage and found that he was indeed carried into the elevator by his friends that night. From the elevator footage, it seemed that he was very drunk and almost unable to move, and was completely dragged around by his friends.
His friend also confirmed that he was driving Kang Huai's car that night and did pass by Zou Jiajia's house, but that was his normal route home and there was nothing suspicious about it.
Kang Huai also admitted that he did say that he would definitely break them up, and if he couldn't break them up, he would kill one of them. But those were just words spoken in anger, and everyone has a time when they are young and frivolous.
He was so angry back then. He was obviously better than Peng Wei in every aspect, whether it was money or appearance, so why did Zou Jiajia just look down on him?
Not to mention back then, he couldn't figure it out even now.
Going against Peng Wei is just to disgust him and make his life miserable.
He is no longer the young man he used to be. He will consider the consequences before doing things. And as they can see, Zou Jiajia's appearance is at most above average.
There are many better flowers in the world, so why should you love only one? He is not that obsessed, and he has a girlfriend now.
After a thorough investigation, the police felt that there was nothing suspicious and could not find any other suspects, so the case was shelved.
Zou Jiajia has not been found alive or dead yet, so she can only be classified as missing.
Peng Wei joined Phoenix Reading Club a year after his wife went missing and got to know the person in charge at the time. Later, the person in charge retired and recommended him.
Qi Lei thought that Peng Wei was a relative of the victim.
Therefore, the people they are investigating now are either the families of criminals or the families of victims. These two originally opposing groups of people are artificially brought together.
In addition to the reading club, they also checked the initiators of the Phoenix Charity Foundation and found no suspicious points.
The name Phoenix was chosen because one of the initiators is a good friend of one of the founders of Phoenix Reading Club.
When he first started thinking about setting up this charity fund, he asked a friend, and his friend said, why not name your fund Phoenix? You see, we are good friends, and our companies sound like they are in the same group. I read to teach people, and you do charity to save people. Anyway, it's all good intentions, and they lead to the same goal.
He thought it made sense and used the name Phoenix.
Moreover, his company's charitable funds have many categories, including many designated special funds. Not only are there designated funds to sponsor the families of criminals, but there are also designated funds to sponsor the families of police officers who died in the line of duty. There are also special funds for helping various diseases.
Others value their reputation. Their accounts are open and transparent, with no hidden items.
Professor Yin has also obtained a list of names of people who have been rescued by the special fund in recent years. The names on the list overlap with the names of the families of the criminals in the cases involved in Wen Mo's novels, but not completely.
Moreover, they don't just provide financial support, they also help them find jobs. Although they are discriminated against, there are always people willing to accept them. It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.
Therefore, there is no problem with the fund itself.
In addition to these, Qi Lei also had doubts about Lin Huaiyu's identity because her appearance was too coincidental.
He sent Li Yan and Lu Cheng to Lin Huaiyu's hometown. Since he was worried, it would be better to investigate.
Unexpectedly, Li Yan and Lu Cheng made an extraordinary discovery.