Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon's Reluctant Love-Chapter 278 - 277 Her Husband is Fourth Master Gu

Chapter 278: Chapter 277: Her Husband is Fourth Master Gu?

Chapter 278: Chapter 277: Her Husband is Fourth Master Gu?

The prop master was a young man in his twenties named Li Hao.

He was reserved and kind-hearted and got along well with Ming Yao and the other actors.

On several occasions, he had even gone out to buy coffee for Ming Yao.

The room was full of the smell of charcoal. Ming Yao covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve and rushed in.

Seeing this, Jih Feng did the same, covering his mouth and nose, and charged in.

Ming Yao and Jih Feng worked together to carry Li Hao out.

Ming Yao checked his breathing and felt his wrist for a pulse.

Her eyebrows furrowed tightly.

Jih Feng had already called for an ambulance.

After making the call, he turned to Ming Yao, whose complexion didn’t look good, and asked anxiously, “Fourth sister-in-law, how is he?”

Ming Yao shook her head, “He’s been poisoned for too long, even if he’s resuscitated, he’s going to become a vegetative state.”

Jih Feng cursed under his breath, “Did he want to kill Ming Wan? What grudge does he have against Ming Wan?”

Ming Yao did not speak.

She felt that things weren’t that simple.

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All the disadvantages were aimed at her!

“Who is Ming Yao?” two uniformed police officers came over.

Seeing Li Hao unconscious on the ground, the two officers were stunned, “What happened?”

Jih Feng said somberly, “He tried to commit suicide by burning charcoal!”

One of the officers quickly went into the room.

The other officer said to Ming Yao, “We received a report that you are suspected of being involved in an intentional injury case, please come with us to assist in the investigation!”

The officer who went into the room came out quickly.

In his hand, wearing white gloves, he held a letter, “It seems to be his suicide note.”

The officer looked at the suicide note, then lifted his eyes to Ming Yao with a sharp and cold gaze, “Ming Yao, you bribed prop master Li Hao to switch the sword for you, and then you attempted to assassinate Ming Wan. The evidence is clearly written in Li Hao’s suicide note!”

Jih Feng’s face turned ashen, “What kind of international joke is this?”

“We never joke about these things!”

One of the officers stepped forward and handcuffed Ming Yao’s wrists.

Jih Feng wanted to say something, but Ming Yao shook her head at him.

This was a conspiracy to get her imprisoned.

However, it involved both Ming Wan and the prop master.

Compared to Jih Feng’s panic, Ming Yao was much calmer.

After Ming Yao was taken away, Jih Feng hurriedly called Gu Siting.

Gu Siting had been on a business trip to the sea city these past two days, and before leaving, he left his overcoat for Ming Yao.

He wouldn’t be back until tomorrow.

The phone rang for a long time, and just when Jih Feng thought no one would answer, a voice from Lu Zhou came through the phone.

“Young Master Jih?”

Jih Feng’s voice carried a hint of urgency, “Assistant Lu, where’s my Fourth Brother?”

“Fourth Master is attending a financial summit, he will be out in about half an hour.”

“When Fourth Brother comes out, tell him right away that Ming Yao is in trouble!”

Ming Yao’s trouble worried him more than his own.

After all, if such a thing happened on his turf, Fourth Brother would beat him to death if he found out!

Jih Feng also felt a great deal of self-blame; it was clear that someone was trying to frame his fourth sister-in-law, but now the situation was complicated by Li Hao’s suicide by burning charcoal!

Sea City.

After Lu Zhou finished talking to Jih Feng on the phone, he opened Weibo to look.

At that glance, he was stunned.

All the trending searches were reports unfavorable to his wife.

The prop master who had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning was also trending. Someone revealed that the prop master had followed Ming Yao’s instructions to switch the swords and, upon seeing Ming Wan injured, was consumed by guilt and thus took his own life.

Ming Yao, already in the eye of the storm, faced an onslaught of public outrage once the news of the prop master’s suicide broke.

There were hot topics calling for Ming Yao to be kicked out of the entertainment industry, for “Peerless” to recast its female lead, and for the actors’ association to ban Ming Yao.

Lu Zhou immediately contacted Gu Corporation’s public relations department to have them manage the situation.

With the intervention of Gu Corporation’s PR team, the trending searches detrimental to Ming Yao quickly disappeared.

But the scandal was too big, the multitude of voices couldn’t be silenced by merely pulling down trending topics.

Fans, outraged and unable to make their voices heard on Weibo, took to international platforms.

Even with Fourth Master’s extensive influence, he couldn’t control the foreign internet.

Seeing the situation spiral out of control, Lu Zhou broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before Fourth Master emerged.

Gu Siting rarely saw Lu Zhou with a look as if the sky was about to fall. He frowned, “What’s happening?”

Lu Zhou briefed Gu Siting with the most concise language about the information he had garnered.

Gu Siting’s handsome face visibly darkened at a rapid pace.

Taking the phone from Lu Zhou’s hand, he scanned the online comments.

His thin lips pressed into a straight line, he said icily, “Take screenshots of the usernames attacking my wife and those blood-sucking marketing accounts chasing clout, and send them to Yue Yanlin when we prove my wife’s innocence!”

Yue Yanlin is the best and most successful lawyer in the capital city, never having lost a case he took on.

“Book the return flight immediately!”

There were important engagements scheduled for the afternoon, but nothing was as important as Ming Yao.

Lu Zhou hastily booked a flight back to Li City.

In the interrogation room.

In the sealed room, Ming Yao sat handcuffed to the interrogation chair, with two interrogators sitting across the table, looking at her sternly. A dimly lit lamp was on the table, casting an austere chill over the entire environment.

“Name?”

“Ming Yao.”

“Age?”

“21.”

After asking her personal information according to the procedure, they began the interrogation in a standard manner.

However, throughout this process, no matter how they questioned her with leading questions, Ming Yao responded with ease.

She sat there nonchalantly, her cold and charming face carrying a slight sneer.

As if mocking them for interrogating the wrong person.

About an hour later, when they were getting nowhere and were preparing to take a break and switch interrogators, Ming Yao countered:

“Regarding the prop master’s suicide note that says I instructed him, have you found any evidence of my instruction? I didn’t know him before joining the cast, and in the studio, we only spoke five times. Twice, when he went out to buy coffee for the entire crew, I asked him to bring me one as well.”

“There should be surveillance cameras in the studio for verification.”

“Have you checked his phone call history and bank transfer records? I never exchanged phone numbers or WeChat contacts with him, and even before today, I only knew he was called Xiao Li. Can you really say that two unrelated individuals like us had any reason for him to switch the props and kill himself for my sake?”

“Also, what would be my motive for killing Ming Wan?”

An interrogator pulled out a photo.

Ming Yao glanced at it and saw the picture of her and Xiao Yichen ‘holding hands’.

“You’re probably not aware that I’m married, right? My husband is Gu Siting. In terms of appearance, physique, power, and demeanor, which aspect is not superior to Xiao Yichen? Me like him? Want to snatch him from Ming Wan’s hands? Sorry, but I’m not blind!”

The interrogators questioning Ming Yao had not expected her to be so eloquent.

But what had she just said—her husband was Fourth Master Gu?

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