Chapter 325 - No Way Out

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Once Attorney General Leng was linked to that serial murder, the public became enraged again. Those who still had thought that they could do something to help him finally gave up. With that, Jeffrey Leng was removed from his position and his assets were frozen.

Later his wife and kids had left him. The family made a sudden decision to migrate to another country, leaving the former Attorney General behind.

With Secretary Liu's confession, Jeffrey Leng's disgusting hobby was exposed. The public found out that Jeffrey Leng had used both money and women as a means to win others' support.

The club he frequently visited to torture those women, was forced to close down as the public was enraged that such an establishment would help to hide such an act. Because of this, the club was under investigation and a few hot shots were brought to the police station for different offenses.

Of course, with Rainmaker and his circle of group intervention, the public did not pay much attention to the other hotshots and instead, focused on Jeffrey Leng. The public was disgusted with Jeffrey Leng's behavior and they continued to scold him online. 

The family and friends of the victims soon managed to gather a large number of people and held a demonstration, demanding for the authorities not to be partial towards a disgusting man such as Jeffrey Leng.

From this investigation, they later found out that Amanda Shen had visited this club before she died. At this time, she was close to Secretary Liu and had followed him to meet the Attorney General.

However, during this visit, Amanda had accidentally overheard some conversation she was not supposed to hear and had found out about Jeffrey's disgusting secret. 

Jeffrey Leng had kept her in his private room where she was tortured for a few days. Later, Amanda had tricked the person who was supposed to send her food and was able to escape. She managed to call Neil before she was recaptured and had met her death.

With details on Amanda's death was exposed, the police were quick to link it to the serial murder where four women had died.

A week after the matter was exposed, the authorities suddenly announced another shocking news. The police found a link between the serial murder in L City with the one in Z Town years ago.

The netizen was quick to find out that before Jeffrey Leng had risen to his rank, he had served a few years in Z Town. The timing of his service matched with the year of that event and later, they found out that there were more than ten women!

Soon, his former assistant was apprehended to help with the investigation.

One of the news channels had described what Jeffrey Leng had often done to those women and had come out with a list of his crimes. A long list of his previous dealings came out as well as the list of the women who had died in his hand. It was rumored that there might be a few more victims, but no one could be really sure.

With the list of witnesses and evidence, no matter how good he was in court, Jeffrey Leng could not find his way to escape his punishment.

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At this time, Edith was seated in the living room as her eyes wandered around the new, unfamiliar surroundings.

A few days ago, the movers came to pick up their stuff and they were now living in the new house. This place was a lot bigger than the two apartment units that she had lived in for the past few months. Because this place was bigger, Neil had employed a few people to look after the house. Moreover, his parents and Grandpa Mike will be staying with them for a period of time. It would be better if there are more people to look after them.

With so many people living together, Edith thought that the house has become a lot livelier.

Hearing a movement coming from the front door, Edith turned around and saw that her grandfather had come in. A gentle look appeared in her eyes as she greeted, "Grandpa."

Mike looked at his granddaughter and smiled. "How are you? Have you eaten yet?" His gaze rested on her stomach and Mike heaved a sigh. "Don't starve my great-grandchild. You must remember to eat in time."

Edith giggled. "Grandpa, I have eaten." With the nanny that her mother-in-law had hired to look for her diet, how can she miss her meals?

"That's good." Mike continued to stare at her stomach and felt a little uneasy. It was the same feeling he had experienced the last time his daughter, Rachel, was pregnant with Edith. He could not stop worrying.

"Grandpa, did you come back from the police station?" 

"Mmm…" Mike nodded.

The past few weeks, Mike has been visiting the police station to help with the serial murder investigation. Years ago, Mike was the one who was leading his team to investigate the murder. Since he knew a lot of details regarding the murder, the investigation team had chosen to consult him. With the evidence that Mike had collected in the past few years, it was not hard for them to link that Jeffrey Leng to that murder. 

"The investigation was done. In a few days, his trial will start," Mike said. "I heard that no one wanted to represent him and he chose to defend himself in court." Mike's expression turned darker slightly. "Although he might be good in court, he cannot win this one. We will make sure that he will not be able to plead for leniency."

As the two continued to talk regarding Jeffrey Leng's case, Hazel ran over happily towards them. The little girl saw Mike in the living room and her face brightened up. "Great-grandpa, you're back."

"Mmm..." Mike patted her on the hair. "Did you practice what I taught you while I was away?"

"Great-grandpa, I've practiced," Hazel said. "Auntie Edith had helped me with a few moves. Later, I will show it to you to see." The little girl turned to Edith and rubbed her face on Edith's arms. "Auntie Edith, I've arranged my stuff in my bedroom. Help me to see if it's alright."

Edith went over with Hazel to her new bedroom to inspect the little girl's arrangement for her room. The corner of her lips twitched upon seeing the large glass rack that Neil had built so that Hazel could display the Gundam model she assembled.

Her eyes caught the sight of the folder on Hazel's table. It was then that Edith recalled that the auntie at Hazel's old house had handed the folder to Neil before they left.

Edith reached to grab the folder and looked at Hazel. "What's in here?"

Hazel followed her gaze and her expression shifted slightly. "My drawings." She took the folder from Edith and hesitated. "Auntie Edith, would you like to see them?"

Before Edith could react, Hazel had pulled out the stack of papers in the folder. The little girl stared at the picture of her parents that she had drawn with a dazed expression.

Seeing the look on her face, Edith then pulled Hazel into her embrace and watched as Hazel goes through her past drawings one by one.

Almost all of the drawings in the folder would contain the picture of Hazel and her parents. Edith could see just how much Hazel loved her parents and how much she must be missing them at the moment.

At this time, Hazel might not understand much about what had happened to her parents, but later, when she grew up, Edith and Neil planned to tell her the truth. As her parents' daughter, Hazel deserved to know the truth.

Her movement halted when Hazel saw a few papers that were not supposed to be in her folder. There were many words on these papers and she could not understand most of them. Haze turned to Edith and asked, "Auntie Edith, what is this?"

Edith glanced at the papers and as she read the words on the documents, her expression started to change.

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