Chapter 218

In that villa, a lot of incriminating evidence was found, enough to convict Jiang Yinian.

Jiang Yinian's illegal experiments also implicated many industries under the Jiangmiao Group. The hospitals and high-end nursing homes under his name were also shut down.

However, they did not find the list of Jiang Yinian's accomplices. The evidence in the villa could only point to Jiang Yinian, but not his accomplices.

The materials found in his laboratory did not include experimental data on the "Neural Rose," nor any information about it. After Jiang Yinian's death, everything about the Neural Rose became a mystery.

Jiang Yinian's death brought down the Jiangmiao Group, but would the people behind him continue their criminal activities?

Jiang Yinian had prepared his will long ago, leaving all his assets to Lin Qianyan.

Lin Qianyan was still a minor, but Jiang Yinian had cultivated a large number of loyal followers during his lifetime and established strict management systems to ensure that the operations of the Lin family would not be significantly affected by the change of heir. These loyal individuals handled Jiang Yinian's inheritance for Lin Qianyan.

After the conclusion of Jiang Yinian's case, Fang Rui went to the clinic where Shen Xiyin worked to find her.

The receptionist looked upset and said to Fang Rui, "Officer Fang, Sister Xiyin is resigning. You and Mu Mian should try to convince her not to leave. We’ll all miss her so much."

Fang Rui walked to the door of Shen Xiyin's office and knocked.

"Come in."

Shen Xiyin was packing her things, as it was her last day at work. She wasn’t surprised to see Fang Rui.

"Fang Rui, I knew you’d come to see me."

"Sister Xiyin, do you really know nothing about the Neural Rose?"

Shen Xiyin looked at Fang Rui seriously. "If Mu Mian were to become like Miao Miao, would you still love her unconditionally?"

"I would. No matter what happens to her, I’ll stay by her side," Fang Rui clenched his fists.

Ever since he learned about the existence of the Neural Rose and Miao Miao's tragic fate, he had been living in fear. What if Mu Mian was also a subject of the Neural Rose experiment? What if she turned out like Miao Miao? What would he do?

Shen Xiyin continued, "What if she were to die soon, just like Miao Miao?"

Fang Rui finally understood why Miao Miao's boyfriend had committed suicide after her death. He loved her too much and couldn’t bear to live without her.

"I don’t know. Maybe I’d die with her, or maybe I’d live on to remember her."

Shen Xiyin smiled. "Then whether Mu Mian is a subject of the Neural Rose experiment doesn’t matter anymore, does it?"

Fang Rui felt a surge of intense fear. "Sister Xiyin, is Mu Mian really…?"

"She’s not! If she were an experiment, she’d be an experiment of love. It’s the love of all of us, our refusal to give up, that created this miracle. And you, along with Mu Mian’s friends, will continue to carry on this miracle."

Fang Rui’s face lit up with joy, but he sensed the underlying meaning in Shen Xiyin’s words. "What about you?"

"I’m leaving. Mu Mian doesn’t need me anymore, so it’s time for me to pursue my own dreams." Mu Mian had been the most important person in her life, and she always would be, but Shen Xiyin had other important things to do.

In ​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‍the past, she had done everything for Mu Mian. From now on, she would do it for herself and to save more patients.

Fang Rui couldn’t help but ask, "Sister Xiyin, were you the one guiding us in investigating the Jiangmiao Group all along?"

"Fang Rui, if you want to continue investigating this matter, you can. But in the end, you won’t find any evidence.

You don’t have to make difficult choices—whether to investigate or not, to uphold justice or ignore some evils. But please don’t tell Mu Mian about your suspicions. I want to remain the kind older sister in her memories."

Fang Rui had once investigated Shen Xiyin’s connection to the cases but found no clues.

"Fang Rui, there’s a psychological dilemma called the trolley problem: There are two railway tracks. On one track, there’s one person tied up, and on the other, there are five. A train is speeding toward them. You have a button that can switch the train’s direction. Which track would you choose?"

Fang Rui knew Shen Xiyin was hinting at something. The track with five people represented the victims of the Jiangmiao Group, while the track with one person represented those sacrificed to bring down the group.

"What if the five people were replaced by fifty, five hundred, or even countless people? Would the choice still be difficult?"

Fang Rui said, "I could choose not to press the button."

"Wouldn’t you feel guilty for not pressing it? People would still die, whether it’s one person or five. The train has to run over one of the tracks."

This was one of the reasons Shen Xiyin wanted to destroy the Jiangmiao Group. They were too insane and had no moral boundaries.

Jiang Yinian used his resources to lure many doctors and researchers into helping him with illegal experiments. Older figures like Director Chen, who had encountered too many incurable patients, harbored intense psychological conflicts and longed for new treatment methods. So when Jiang Yinian told them he could break through the current limitations, they joined him without hesitation.

Younger individuals like Chen Xue always wanted to surpass their elders. Jiang Yinian gave them the opportunity to stand on equal footing with their predecessors and even provided them with more resources. As a result, they were even more loyal to Jiang Yinian than their elders.

But as long as Jiang Yinian, the mastermind, was dead, the others wouldn’t be able to cause any more trouble.

Shen Xiyin smiled. "Fang Rui, the optimal solution is to have someone else press the button for you. That way, you won’t face moral condemnation."

Fang Rui understood that Shen Xiyin was implying that everything had been done by others on her behalf, leaving no evidence.

"Fang Rui, I hope you’ll take good care of Mu Mian for me."

"I will."

Fang Rui drove back to find Mu Mian. He rushed into her office, where she was reaching for a file on the top shelf of a cabinet. Fang Rui ran over and hugged her tightly.

"Mu Mian, I was so scared that you might also be a subject of the Neural Rose experiment, that you might end up like Miao Miao. But thankfully, you’re not." Fang Rui held her tightly.

Mu Mian frowned, puzzled. "Fang Rui, you’re so silly. How could I possibly be a subject of the Neural Rose experiment? I’m a genius. No drug could create someone like me. Besides, I regularly check my brain scans, and they’ve always been healthy.

"Fang Rui, don’t you remember I’m a medical professional? If someone injected me with drugs or made me take strange medications, how could I not notice? Have you become less intelligent?"

Fang Rui didn’t respond.

After a while, Mu Mian reminded him, "Fang Rui, you’re hugging me too tightly. I can barely breathe."

Fang Rui only held her tighter, as if this could dispel the fear he had been suppressing all this time.

"Fang Rui, you’ve been hugging for too long… Okay, just a little longer… Really, it’s been a long time."

Wang, watching them, suddenly thought of Chen Shu. He felt a pang of sadness but quickly forced a smile. Life goes on. People will leave, but others will always come.

After the case was closed, Lin Qianyan went to the police station with his bodyguards and personal assistant. As a relative, he was allowed to claim Jiang Yinian’s body.

Mu Mian led Lin Qianyan into the freezer and helped him locate Jiang Yinian’s corpse.

Lin Qianyan said to Mu Mian, "Mu Mian, my cousin Jiang Yinian didn’t lose to you. He lost to himself."

When Jiang Yinian realized that Shen Xiyin had orchestrated everything, he gave up resisting. Lin Qianyan didn’t understand why Jiang Yinian, such a cold-blooded person, could love so irrationally. But Lin Qianyan took this as a lesson: he would never fall in love with anyone in the future!

"If Jiang Yinian hadn’t committed crimes, he would have been a medical genius," Mu Mian said regretfully.

Lin Qianyan countered, "Even as a criminal, he still was."

"Lin Qianyan, can’t you try to be a good person?"

Lin Qianyan didn’t answer. Only naive people divide others into good and bad. In the real world, the lines are much more complex. Criminals aren’t necessarily bad people, and those praised and supported aren’t necessarily good.

His bodyguards helped him load the body into a car.

Lin Qianyan looked at Jiang Yinian's lifeless body and sneered, "Yinian, I told you she didn't love you. You were such a fool. Now, you're dead. She'll forget you, she'll be happy with someone else, and you’ll get nothing!"

"Qianyan, are we heading to the funeral home now?" the assistant asked cautiously.

"No, I’m taking Yinian home."

"But what about Mr. Jiang’s remains?"

"I’m going to have him frozen. Help me find someone to build a cryogenic chamber, like the ones in sci-fi movies."

The assistant was too shocked to speak. After a moment, she managed to say, "Qianyan, you should let Mr. Jiang rest in peace."

Lin Qianyan murmured softly, "I never liked cold corpses before, but now I’ll have to learn to."

"You can’t like a corpse!"

"But I want to see him! I can’t bring Yinian back to life now, but that doesn’t mean I never will."

"Qianyan, the dead can’t come back to life!"

"Medicine and technology are always advancing. What’s impossible now might not be impossible in the future."