Lin Yifei could no longer return to school, so Zhou Jiajia and the others had to let Lin Yifei join them in solving the case.

The top priority now was to help Lin Yifan clear his name. Zhao Hong, that bastard, would be dealt with later.

After a short rest, Zhou Jiajia and her team took Lin Yifei to the Yanjing branch office.

Upon arriving at the company, they began to retrieve surveillance footage from all the cameras, searching for the criminal who had stolen Lin Yifan's private seal.

Unfortunately, surveillance footage from one night was missing; it was very likely due to someone pulling the building's circuit breaker, causing the cameras to lose power and stop recording.

Zhou Jiajia and her team suspected that Lin Yifan's private seal may have been lost that night; so they noted down the date and the time period of the outage, and then went to the buildings around to retrieve surveillance footage, looking for any suspicious individuals entering the building during that time at night.

In the surveillance footage from the entrance of a building opposite the office, they found several blurry shadows secretly prying open the building's main lock and slipping into the building on the night of the power outage.

This occurrence was a few minutes before the power outage; a few minutes later, the building lost power.

Soon after, Zhou Jiajia and the others noticed light beams coming out of Lin Yifan's office from the same floor in the opposite building's surveillance footage, likely from a flashlight used by the thieves.

Now, they could roughly prove that someone had tampered with Lin Yifan's office; however, all the evidence was fuzzy and not very convincing.

The key piece was to find a witness—the security guard who controlled the keys to the main entrance.

Since the two buildings were quite far apart, the surveillance video was somewhat blurry, and they didn't know whether the thieves had picked the lock or unlocked the door to enter; hence, they needed to question the security guard who controlled the keys to the main entrance of the office building.

After some time, upon finding the security guard who controlled the keys to the main entrance of the office building, they began to inquire about the condition of the door lock that evening and the following morning.

The security guard answered that when he left for home that night, he seemed to have been knocked out from behind, and when he woke up, it was already daylight. The main door keys were still on him, and he had not lost anything; everything was normal.

Moreover, the lock on the main entrance was intact, untouched.

After hearing the security guard's answer, Zhou Jiajia and her team had a rough idea of what had happened that night.

They speculated that the thieves might have knocked out the security guard, stolen the keys, unlocked the main door, then went to their company's floor, and stolen Lin Yifan's private seal.

However, the floor where their company was located also had a locked door. How did the thieves enter without anyone noticing? Had they used the same method, or was there an insider in the company?

The more they thought about it, the more uneasy they felt, so they called the employee responsible for locking the company's door to inquire.

The employee responsible for locking the company's door said that a few days before the incident, he went to KTV to sing with friends, drank a bit, then became groggy and passed out.

When he woke up, he did not know if he was drunk or had been drugged.

His friend had passed out just like him.

Once they woke up, they were safe and had lost nothing, so they just thought that they might have drunk too much and passed out.

After listening to the locking employee's story, Zhou Jiajia and her team furrowed their brows.

The thieves were really cunning, not leaving them any clue.

The thieves must have taken the keys from the lock-up staff to make an imprint; with the imprint template, they could easily duplicate the keys for the company locks. This way, they didn't need to steal the keys from the staff, and that was where their cunning lay.

However, Lin Yifan's office and safe were also locked, so how could these thieves enter Lin Yifan's office without leaving a trace and steal Lin Yifan's private seal from his safe?

They conjectured that among the group of thieves, there must have been a master locksmith; only such a person could open Lin Yifan's office and safe without leaving a single trace and steal the seal.

There were many master locksmiths in the world, not less than a thousand in Shenzhou Country alone, not to mention those unacknowledged by the public; therefore, this clue was almost useless and could be dismissed.

However, the clue that the KTV company employees were drugged was still worth their in-depth investigation.

Additionally, the surveillance footage from around the office building was worth looking into.

If the thieves had entered the office building, they must have left a trail when they escaped, so by following the escape route of the thieves, they could find something useful, unless the thieves really had a foolproof plan.

To find useful evidence, they needed patience; this was destined to be a prolonged battle. They had to carefully search for surveillance footage from the vicinity and the KTV to see what the thieves looked like and their identities.

While they were diligently searching for evidence, the case in which Lin Yifan was charged by the People's Procuratorate and brought to the People's Court began its trial.

Guiyuan City People's Court sentenced Lin Yifan to death in the first-instance trial, with a two-year reprieve.

Lin Yifan had already anticipated this outcome, so he refused to accept it and decided to appeal.

An appeal required a process, and during this process, he would have to be temporarily imprisoned.

Dressed in prison clothes and with a shaved head, Lin Yifan, handcuffed, was sent to the most brutal prison—Death Penalty Prison!

"Go in! Enjoy the last moments with your 'fellow sufferers' quietly," the prison guard "kindly" informed Lin Yifan upon his arrival.

To this, Lin Yifan snorted coldly, unconcerned.

The small prison could no longer hold him back; if he wanted to escape, he could do so at any time.

After entering Death Penalty Prison, Lin Yifan sensed a murderous aura.

The cell held seven inmates, each tall and formidable, exuding a strong aura of hostility, clearly young men from society.

Their malicious glances seemed to be scheming something against Lin Yifan.

Lin Yifan had heard about prison "rape incidents" from the outside, so he greatly feared these sex-starved wolves would pounce on him and "rape" him. At that point, he would be crying without tears and utterly disgraced.

"Ahem, ahem!"

After coughing twice, Lin Yifan spoke up, "Why are you all looking at me like that? Although I am handsome and dashing, you don't have to be so infatuated with me."

"Arrogance! Who gave you the guts to be so arrogant here?" asked a scruffy-looking young man with a Chi Luo tattoo on his upper body.

This is Death Penalty Prison where no one will treat you with kindness; you must always watch what you say.

From the tone of the other party, Lin Yifan felt a murderous intent, indicating that these people were not after his body, but rather intended to give him a beating.

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