Jin City, Retirement Home.
After the lawsuit ended, the group didn't return to the cafeteria but went out to celebrate instead. Of course, Qin Mu played host, and Li Weiguo footed the bill.
By evening, everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and returned to the home.
Qin Mu also received a call from the relevant authorities, informing him that Yang Minghui and the other two had been formally arrested. Regarding the subsequent compensation, the authorities would urge the other party to pay promptly. Should they refuse, all their assets would be legally frozen. These would then be auctioned off in a judicial sale to cover the compensation.
It was believed that Mr. Li's money would be in his account soon.
By then, Mr. Li would be able to help even more people in need.
Subsequently, Qin Mu returned to his room to record the final part of the video.
Facing the camera, he took a deep breath.
"After a lengthy process of evidence collection and waiting, the court officially held a trial for this case today. The verdict is as follows: the three defendants, verified to have committed fraud, are sentenced to five years in prison and fined 480,000 yuan, in accordance with the law. Relevant law enforcement agencies have now arrested the three individuals and are preparing to transfer them to a prison in the nearest jurisdiction to serve their sentences. If they refuse to fulfill the compensation, their assets will be forcibly frozen and liquidated to cover the compensation."
He then turned the camera towards the court's judgment and spoke earnestly, "Although the embezzlement of donations is a recurrent and difficult issue to manage, this is no excuse for you to act so recklessly and lawlessly! I advise those who have accepted donations: others are not obligated to donate to you; if they do, it's out of kindness. Do not take the good deeds and charitable actions of others for granted. No one in this society is going to spoil you!"
With that said, he saved the video to his phone and opened his computer. It took him over an hour to edit the video. He posted the final product online.
As for the title… he chose an eye-catching one: "Insulted After Donating, I Fought Back and Sent All Three Perpetrators to Jail!"
"I hope this video goes viral and exposes such people," Qin Mu muttered.
One reason for creating this account was that the work at the retirement home was relatively light. On the other hand, he wanted to expose this type of behavior, to stand up for justice, and to show disheartened donors that justice will always prevail and that kindness is never cheap!
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for successfully upholding justice. The offenders have received their due punishment. Task completion: 110%."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've earned a random system reward: 200 luck points."
"Luck points have been dispatched to your System Backpack. Please check it, Host."
Suddenly, a mechanical voice appeared in his mind.
Qin Mu's eyes brightened. He quickly opened the system panel, found the backpack, and saw the 200 luck points inside.
He had used luck points once before when dealing with that phone scammer, deducting the scammer's luck points into the negatives. Afterward, he learned from Zhou Qin about the scammer's tragic fate: almost choking to death while drinking water, getting hit on the head by a falling flowerpot, and even being hit by a car while crossing the street… In summary, they were incredibly unlucky.
Conversely, if luck points weren't subtracted but increased, one would obtain heaven-defying luck.
I didn't expect the system to be so generous this time, giving me 200 points straight up! He still remembered the last reward was only 40 luck points.
After a short contemplation, he chose to use the 200 luck points immediately. The recipient… was naturally himself. For the effective duration, he directly chose ten years.
This meant that for the next ten years, his luck would be boosted by these 200 luck points. It wouldn't be out of the question to win the lottery. When opening loot boxes in games, he'd at least be considered a 'Lucky King.'
As for after ten years... he felt that it shouldn't be difficult to complete a few more system tasks and receive such a reward again. Even if he couldn't, after ten years, his luck would, at worst, return to normal, so there was nothing to regret.
「Time slowly passed.」
In the middle of the night, before going to bed, Qin Mu specifically checked the new video he had posted. However, he found that it only had a handful of views, barely a dozen. As for likes and comments, there wasn't a single one.
But he didn't demand too much; if it went viral, great; if not, so be it. After all, he wasn't relying on this social media to make a living.
「Meanwhile.」
Thousands of miles away, a popular streamer named Qing Lan on a video platform was searching for funny videos live in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers.
"Good times are always fleeting. Thank you, everyone, for spending the night with me. No more gaming. Let's watch a few funny videos before signing off."
Inside the live stream room, Qing Lan lazily leaned back in her gaming chair, hugging her knees, browsing through videos. The camera clearly captured her graceful figure.
"Huh? 'Insulted after Donating, I Fought Back and Sent the Three Perpetrators to Jail!?'"
Suddenly, Qing Lan blinked her large eyes as she came across a video. It didn't have many views and had been posted just a few hours ago, yet the content caught her attention.
A little help earns gratitude, but give too much and it breeds resentment. After she made some money from being a streamer, she had also donated to many underprivileged families. But after donating for a year, she realized that such acts weren't always appreciated, and it wasn't something everyone could do. If you donated too little, they'd say you weren't generous enough, just putting on a show. If you donated a lot, but then less the next time, they'd complain. In this society, many people take others' help for granted. Gratitude, it seemed, had become a rare virtue. Therefore, after donating for a year, she had given up on giving back to society. If she didn't donate, no one would say anything. If she did, others might accuse her of showing off or seeking fame. Rather than dealing with that, it was better to do nothing at all.
After opening the video, Qin Mu's voice emerged from it.
"Hello everyone. I believe you've all heard stories of good Samaritans who donate out of kindness, only to end up being blamed and pleasing no one. Something similar happened near me today, and it was even more shameless."
"..."
"Their child had dropped out of school, yet they kept asking for money, claiming it was for school fees—demanding two hundred thousand yuan right off the bat. When exposed, they became furious and arrogant, brazenly declaring they wouldn't repay the money."
After listening to the story about the elderly donor, Qing Lan's eyes widened in shock. She couldn't help but murmur, "There are actually people like this in the world?"
She thought the issues she had encountered in the past with donations not ending well were bad enough. But she hadn't imagined… the 'underprivileged family' this content creator encountered was even more outrageous.
And in the live stream chat, after watching the video, the hundreds of thousands of viewers were also outraged.
"What the heck?! Stuff like this actually happens? The world is truly full of surprises!"
"That's nothing. My uncle once donated over two hundred books to children in a remote area. They flat-out rejected them, saying, 'If you want to donate, give money. Don't be so hypocritical.'"
"The main thing is, the people this content creator ran into—their kid dropped out of school, and they were still asking for money?"
"But I think it'll be hard to get that money back. Donations and loans are different..."
Inside the live stream room, comments flooded the screen.