TO SHOU WITH LOVE

94 - THE SEARCH

The night was dim, and the beam of the flashlight fell on Ping's contarted face.

Sailub leaned against the door, silently watching as Thanapon's fists and knees landed on Ping.

Watching Thanapon beat someone up gave a satisfying sense of catharsis, with no unnecessary movements, each strike carried a decisive force.

At one point, Ping tried to fight back, but Thanapon grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into the desk, completely depriving him of the chance to retaliate.

It was time to teach Ping a lesson, Sailub thought. Otherwise, with his domineering and manipulative behavior, he would only continue to act recklessly.

Thinking of Asperatus being eliminated after singing "Endless Night," the twenty-year contract that was essentially selling their soul, the ridicule and insults faced by Thanapon with his scarred past being exposed, and now Tania's disappearance, Sailub felt more and more that Ping deserved it.

Taking his gaze away from Ping, Sailub slightly shifted the direction of the flashlight's beam and looked towards Ping's desk.

He walked over and picked up Ping's phone from the desk.

Pressing the screen with his thumb, the facial recognition interface appeared. Sailub walked over to Thanapon and lifted the phone, aiming it at Ping's face.

Thanapon understood his intention with a glance and forced Ping to face the phone screen by gripping his chin.

The screen unlocked, and Sailub took a step back, leaning against the desk to examine the contents of the phone.

While Thanapon continued to beat Ping and interrogate him about Tania's whereabouts, Sailub opened Ping's WeChat interface, clicking into each chat one by one to browse.

Ping probably never thought that one day his phone would fall into Sailub's hands, so all his chat records were intact in the phone.

The fourth chat box involved the post, where the person sent the link to Ping, followed by a message: "Director Ping, the post has been sent out."

Below were several voice messages sent by Ping.

Sailub clicked on the messages and placed the receiver close to his ear: "This post is well done. When leaking information later, pay attention to the rhythm and don't release everything at once. Drip-feed it to keep people's interest. Also, arrange a few accounts to guide public opinion and make sure the marketing accounts are ready to follow up and repost at any time."

There was another chat box, obviously a conversation between a paparazzo and Ping as the person had sent Ping numerous covertly taken photos.

In addition to the dozens of photos taken that night on Atsadang Street, there were also many photos taken around Thanapon's rehearsal room-photos of Sailub and Thanapon walking out of the rehearsal room together, of the two of them sitting on a motorcycle together, and more recently, quite a few photos related to Tania.

Further up, about a month ago, Ping had received several photos of Sailub leaving the Gleaneages Hospital.

Sailub recorded all these chat interfaces and voice messages, reaching a conclusion.

He never liked to maliciously speculate about people's intentions.

When Ping claimed that the accident on the live stage was his "unintentional mistake," Sailub didn't take it too seriously.

But now, seeing these photos, he truly understood how sinister Ping was.

The so-called "unintentional mistake" was clearly a deliberate and malicious plot.