The incident caused quite a stir, and soon, everyone had heard about it.
Even Shen Shuang shared the news on her social media feed, adding the comment, "Guess you really can't believe in love. I'm just going to live off my parents forever."
And their mom even liked the post.
The city bureau couldn't possibly be unaware of such a high-profile case.
In the morning, the order had been to strictly investigate the internal leak. By evening, after the latest updates, their tune had changed.
Bizarre cases were a dime a dozen, but even the city bureau had probably never seen one quite like this.
They had originally planned to issue a formal announcement to debunk the rumors.
But then Sun Zhao came up with an idea.
He suggested they take advantage of Bai Jifei's "genius idea" and let the news ferment a while longer to see if it might compel Jiang Qi to contact the police herself.
They had already wasted five days. Starting the search from scratch would be extremely difficult.
