114: Chapter 114 Sunflowers Blooming Amidst the Ruins!

"I only found out later that the people who bullied me were all hired by him. The bullying was real, but the hero saving the damsel was fake!"

"Less than a month after I slept with him, I started developing plum blossoms on my body. That hostess had passed the plum blossoms to him, and he passed them on to me."

"It wasn't long before the school discovered I was infected with the plum blossoms and expelled me. My parents took me to the hospital for treatment, but I snuck out halfway through."

"Ever since I caught the plum blossoms, everyone around me looked at me with discrimination and disgust. Even my best friends and classmates started avoiding me."

"Gradually, this world made me feel sick, so I decided: if others spit on me, I'll use that spit to plant plum blossoms!"

At this point, Xia Jie finished her cigarette.

She flicked the butt onto the ground, crushed it with her foot, looked up at Yang Tian, and asked, "Do you think this story is funny?"

Yang Tian didn't answer. He stubbed out his cigarette butt in the ashtray on the table, looked at her, and asked calmly, "Are you done?"

"I'm done!"

[But I still feel unwilling to accept this. It was this world that bullied and humiliated me first; I was merely striking back in the same way!] — From Xia Jie's inner voice.

After listening, Yang Tian asked, "Is there anything you need my help with?"

Xia Jie asked in astonishment, "Can you help me put that pair of scumbags in prison?"

[When I discovered that I was actually the 'other woman,' I found that hostess and wanted to confront her. Instead, she beat me up first, and later found a group of her sisters to bully and abuse me. They stripped me, slapped me, and burned my body with cigarette butts, recording the whole thing on their phones. They sent the footage to him, and not only did he not feel sorry for me, he said I deserved it, and even sent the videos to my friends and classmates.] — From Xia Jie's inner voice.

Xia Jie's inner voice was deafening. Yang Tian nodded, "I can, but there are conditions!"

Xia Jie's expression immediately became excited, "Tell me?"

"After the Court passes the sentence, you must go and get your illness treated immediately!"

Xia Jie smiled suddenly.

"It's a deal!"

Yang Tian walked out of the interrogation room.

"Done?" Wu Da asked, looking at Yang Tian.

"Yeah."

"It had to be you!"

Wu Da patted Yang Tian on the shoulder and walked into the interrogation room.

A few days later.

The Public Security Brigade issued administrative penalties for the illegal acts of prostitution involving seventy-seven fallen women.

The seventy-seven women were fined a total of 200,000 yuan, and 1.5 million yuan in illegal gains was confiscated.

In addition, regarding the criminal acts of "spreading venereal diseases," the Public Security Brigade, after perfecting the entire chain of evidence, transferred the case to the Procuratorate.

The Procuratorate directly filed a public prosecution against the seventy-seven young women.

Because the case involved a large number of people, was sensitive in nature, provoked strong public reaction, and was under the supervision of higher authorities, the Court quickly issued a verdict.

"Defendant Xia Jie, for the crime of spreading venereal disease, is sentenced to two years and three months in prison. However, because she is a minor, the punishment shall be mitigated, so the actual sentence is one year and one month in prison."

"Defendant Huang Taotao, for the crime of spreading venereal disease, is sentenced to two years in prison."

"Defendant Cheng Yi, for the crime of spreading venereal disease, is sentenced to one year and ten months in prison."

After the sentencing, because all the defendants suffered from venereal diseases, they were all granted sentences served outside of prison and were forced into hospitals to receive treatment.

On the morning of the second day after Xia Jie entered the hospital.

After a nurse finished giving her an injection, she suddenly remembered something. She took out her phone from her pocket, entered the photo gallery, found a picture, and handed it to Xia Jie.

"A Police Officer asked me to show this to you."

Xia Jie curiously took the phone.

The next second, when her gaze rested on the photo, she smiled.

But as she smiled, she began to cry, tears falling in streams.

The morning light hit her face, illuminating her eyes that had been trapped in darkness.

She turned her head to look at the rising sun outside the window and suddenly felt that the path ahead was full of light.

Seeing this, the nurse immediately asked with concern, "Why are you crying??"

Xia Jie wiped her eyes and looked up at the nurse, "I'm not, I'm smiling."

The nurse took another look at the photo.

There were four people in the photo: one Police Officer, one Assistant Police Officer, and a man and a woman wearing detention center uniforms, standing between the Police Officer and the Assistant Police Officer.

"Isn't this a very normal photo?"

Xia Jie grinned again, this time with genuine happiness, her face bathed in sunlight.

"Don't you see that the pair of scumbags in the middle are bruised and swollen?? Hehehehe..."

"Is that so?"

The nurse zoomed in on the photo and looked again.

"Hahaha, you're right! They must have been beaten up before they were caught by the Police Officers! It wouldn't have been the Police Officers who hit them, would it?"

"Who knows!"

"Well, get some rest, I'll come back later to give you your injection."

"Okay."

Just as the nurse was about to leave, Xia Jie suddenly thought of something and hurriedly called out, "Big Sister Nurse, next time you see that Assistant Police Officer brother, please tell him thank you for me."

"Okay."

Xia Jie picked up the notebook beside her hospital bed.

She opened it to the first page and slowly wrote down.

June 27, 2025, Sunny.

Meeting him was like finding a sunflower blooming in the ruins; in the future, when the darkness is hard to traverse, I will borrow a little light from him!

Yuzhang City.

Xijiang Television Station.

Station Chief Ma Guoqing was holding an internal meeting for the station's leadership team when his assistant suddenly pushed the door open, walked in, and whispered something in his ear.

Ma Guoqing paused, surprised, "So fast??"

The assistant bowed and nodded, "The Director of the Political Department of the Xijiang Department of Public Security is in the reception room now. What do you think??"

"What is there to think about? I'm going over there right now."

Although he was the station chief and a department-level cadre, and the Director of the Political Department of the Department of Public Security was only a deputy department-level, the television station was different from the public security, Procuratorate, judiciary, and legal systems; it was a profit-oriented public institution.

Even though he held a rank half a level higher than the other, in official circles, the social status of the Director of the Political Department of the Department of Public Security was somewhat higher than his.

Ma Guoqing quickly packed up the documents and notebook on the table in front of him, looked at the leadership teams of other departments, and said, "The meeting ends here for today. Old Li, notify the person in charge of the 'asking politics in xijiang' program team and tell him to come to the reception room immediately."

"Yes, Station Chief Ma."

Ma Guoqing walked quickly to the reception room, reaching out his hand excitedly as he walked toward the Director of the Political Department of the Department of Public Security.

"Director Gao! What wind blew you here??"

Director Gao stood up and greeted him.

"It had to be the east wind of you, Station Chief Ma!"

"Hahahaha..."

The two immediately sat down in the reception room. The assistant brought two cups of hot tea. Director Gao of the Political Department didn't waste time; he directly took out a prosecution transfer document sent by the Qianzhou City Public Security Bureau and handed it to Ma Guoqing.

"Station Chief Ma, look, our Yucheng County Public Security Bureau in Qianzhou City has already cracked this case. Shouldn't you let the 'asking politics in xijiang' program do a good job of publicizing it for our Provincial Department??"

Ma Guoqing took the prosecution transfer document with both hands and glanced at it, his expression suddenly erupting with intense shock.

"It, it really was cracked??"