Chapter 216 - Motive

[Warning: Chapter contains mature R-18 content. If uncomfortable, feel free to skip.]

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There was a package that bore only his name--without even any information about the sender. The label on the parcel only had his name was present, along with the address of his company. 

Lei Zhao's eyebrows furrowed in wonder as his eyes had not left the parcel that was in his hand. He slowly sat down on his office chair as he opened the case of the CD, with a paper attached to it. 

It said: "Watch me."

'What could be in this CD,' Lei Zhao wondered, 'It seemed that something burned a content in here and was sent here on purpose just for me to watch it.'

Lei Zhao was curious as to what contents could be inside the CD. He carefully put the CD on his PC's disk reader, then opened VLC to play the file that was inside. 

Lei Zhao's eyes widened at what he had seen. His mouth was almost agape as he kept watching the contents of the CD, with no intention of stopping to see why someone had sent him this. 

In the video, he saw a man and a woman having s.e.x. Both of their faces were censored and blurred, making it difficult for Lei Zhao to see who it was. 

His lips turned into a tight line as he continued watching, his eyebrows furrowing as his eyes focused on the girl's body, making him look as if there was something distinct in their body to identify them. 

He thought that he would be able to figure out who the people were in the video if he heard their voices, but unfortunately, the video only provided the visuals and removed the audio.

The man in the video put his hands on the waist of the woman then he thrust hard into her. The woman had both of her hands grasping on the sheets for dear life as the man slowed down, adjusting their position to something else. 

Now the woman was on her knees. The man had his left hand on the woman's waist as his right hand held the woman's wavy hair, thrusting deeper and faster in her, Lei Zhao slightly sighing as he found his actions quite rough on the woman. 

He had s.e.x with Yan Mei, the woman he loves many times, but never did it cross his mind to grab her hair during s.e.x, and never did it cross his mind to hold her throat at the same time. 

With the video playing before him and with his thoughts in mind, it made him think if the man violated the woman. 

As Lei Zhao watched the video, his thoughts wandered off. He wondered what could be in the mind of the sender to have made him or her send him this. 

He also thought at the same moment if watching the whole video could give him some hints, leading him to some clues about the sender and what could his or her motive be. 

Lei Zhao watched closely. His eyes almost narrowed, almost kissing the screen as he put leaned in closely, observing the surroundings in the video. 

They filmed in a dimly lit room, with only the lamp giving them light. Lei Zhao clicked his tongue as his fingers tapped his desk restlessly, wondering who could the people in the video be. 

'How long is this video?'

Lei Zhao put the pointer of his computer to the bar below and noticed that it was almost 15 minutes long. He sighed as he realized that it was as if he was watching a p.o.r.n video on the internet, but nothing seemed quite right. 

As the video went wrong, the man was quite rough on the woman, as if having the intentions of doing so. Lei Zhao's eyebrows furrowed as he skipped some parts, seeing no clues until now as to who the woman or the man was. 

'Who are they? Why did the sender give me this, and what is his or her motive?'

What happened next on the video slightly surprised him. He could be wrong, but in the angle where the woman was sitting on the man, the body seemed quite familiar. 

"Yan Mei?"

His heart started racing. He focused on the figure of the woman once more, almost narrowing his eyes so he could shift his focus.

Lei Zhao felt nervous about what he thought, but he knew better not to jump to conclusions because he knew that he could also be wrong.

Lei Zhao heaved a small sigh as he shook his head slowly, focusing on the figure of the girl to assure himself of his thoughts. 

"People can nowadays edit, Lei Zhao," he said, convincing himself. "Besides, videos taken at certain angles could be deceiving," he added, Lei Zhao, leaning back on his chair as he held his mouse, skipping some parts of the video again. 

As he was nearing the end of the video, he stopped as he saw the man already leaving the woman alone on the bed after releasing his white ooze on her. Lei Zhao scoffed as he clicked his tongue, disgusted with what the man did. 

"After toying with her, he left the woman alone? How could I not think that this woman was either forced to do it with him?"

Lei Zhao was talking to himself as he allowed his suspicions and thoughts to run wild. However, when a message flashed at the end of the video, it got Lei Zhao's full attention as he clicked rewind on the video and paused it on the text when it flashed on the screen. 

"Who do you think they are, Lei Zhao?"

The text was in Century Gothic font. It seemed that the sender or editor capitalized each letter and did it in bold to intentionally catch his attention as if wanting to taunt Lei Zhao at the same time.

The hand on his desk turned into tight fists, his lips forming into a tight line. His body somewhat turned cold when he felt something off from the video, making him wonder who the sender was...

And whatever could his or her motive be?

M.A