Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 450 It's getting late

"Chen Gengyun, what are you hiding?"

Zhou Yi stared at the other person and asked.

Chen Gengyun's right eyelid twitched involuntarily, and he said with an awkward laugh, "No...no, I'm not hiding anything."

In the dark audience seats, Xie Guoqiang's eyes remained calm as he watched the two men vying for dominance under the spotlight.

"What exactly is going on with the villas in Jianghai Mansion, and what's behind them? Someone will talk to you about that later. Anyway, you and I both know the truth."

"You said Xu Liu took two days off to go out and have fun during the May Day holiday, right?"

Chen Gengyun nodded.

"Where to play?"

"I think I heard her mention that she was going to Changle Lake."

Changle Lake is a famous tourist attraction in the province, more than 200 kilometers away from Hongcheng, so it makes sense to go there for sightseeing.

"So, will you take her there the next day?" Zhou Yi asked.

“How could I possibly send him there? I’m so busy, and I have to…” Chen Gengyun’s words were cut short when his expression suddenly changed, because he realized there was a logical flaw in his statement.

Zhou Yi immediately sneered: "Since you're not going to see her off, she can either sign up for a tour group or take the train herself. She's leaving on the 29th, right?"

Chen Gengyun broke out in a cold sweat and nodded.

What mode of transportation does she plan to use? What specific time will she depart?

"I didn't ask... I just agreed to pay for it..."

"Okay, I'll pretend you didn't ask. Then let me ask you, where is the nearest bus stop to Jianghai Mansion?"

Chen Gengyun raised his hand, taking the opportunity of scratching an itch to wipe the sweat from his temples, but he couldn't escape Zhou Yi's gaze.

"I rarely take the bus, so I'm really not... sure about this."

"Okay, if you don't know, then I'll tell you. The nearest bus stop is about two kilometers away from Jianghai Haoting. You can calculate how long it will take to walk there yourself."

"And can you calculate something for me too?"

"What?" Chen Gengyun asked somewhat guiltily.

"Can you calculate for me how many taxis pass by Jianghai Haoting empty every day?"

Chen Gengyun fell silent, because he knew that the flaws in his logic had been exposed.

"You said Xu Liu is going to Changle Lake for a trip and has taken two days off. No problem."

“You say you’re too busy with work to go, but you can pay for it, no problem.”

"You said you gave Xu Liu a spare key and password before, but she didn't stay in a hotel at all. Instead, she insisted on going to stay in a cold and gloomy villa by herself because she liked it. Anyway, there's no way to verify this now, so say whatever you want."

"But she's going on a trip the next day. Whether she bought her own train ticket or joined a tour group, there's a fixed departure time. Logically, why would someone choose to spend the night in a place with extremely inconvenient transportation under these circumstances?"

"Even if she's young, willful, and unreasonable, insisting on living there, what about you? Don't tell me you haven't thought of such a simple issue? Even if you haven't considered the transportation problem the next day, don't you doubt her motives for insisting on living there alone?"

Zhou Yi's rapid-fire questions immediately made Chen Gengyun feel extremely uncomfortable, and for the first time, he responded with complete silence.

Zhou Yi continued, "It's been more than half a month since the incident. You couldn't possibly not have considered this issue, but you still gave a logically flawed answer today. I think there's only one reason for that: you couldn't find a more reasonable explanation."

"Dean Chen, tell me. What are you hiding?"

Looking at the policeman opposite him, who was less than half his age, Chen Gengyun suddenly felt a surge of fear.

Back when the "Ask the Heart" program team approached him to record the show, he was dismissive of Zhou Yi, a name he had never heard of before. He heard that she had saved someone in public, and that she was a female college student, but he just thought she was lucky to have met her.

Although he heard the name a few more times afterward, he only had a vague impression of it.

Even when Xu Liu later told him that Zhou Yi was Lu Xiaoshuang's boyfriend and had even gotten her an internship at the tax bureau, he just laughed it off. He knew what Xu Liu was thinking; finding her a respectable internship would have been easy for him, but he simply couldn't do it, because that would be giving her a handle against him.

Until the 23rd, a friend from the provincial capital suddenly asked him during dinner if there was a policeman named Zhou Yi in Hongcheng. His cousin worked in the public security, procuratorate and judicial system in the provincial capital. He said that there had been many major cases in Hongcheng recently, and one of them, Zhou Yi, had stood out and had been specifically mentioned by his superiors.

He then realized that this young man he looked down on might be more than he seemed.

Just now, Zhou Yi suddenly said there was a problem, which made him tremble all over.

Then Zhou Yi, like a surgeon with a scalpel, quickly located the lesion.

“Chen Gengyun, do you only confess if I lay the words ‘leniency for those who confess and severity for those who resist’ in front of you? Do you know that your habit of lying is ingrained in your DNA?” Zhou Yi said, slamming his hand on the table.

At that moment, Xie Guoqiang's voice suddenly rang out from the dark audience seats: "Dean Chen, it's getting late. I hope you can understand how hard we work."

It was a very simple sentence, but Chen Gengyun's expression changed slightly when he heard it.

Zhou Yi knew this was a warning from Xie Guoqiang.

Although it was described in a lighthearted manner, it was undeniable.

Chen Gengyun shook his head helplessly, then gave a bitter smile.

"Alright, what's meant to be will be. I can't escape it now. Anyway, I'm stuck here. As Director Xie said, it's getting late."

Chen Gengyun looked up at Zhou Yi and said, "Officer Zhou, may I ask you a question first?"

"you say!"

"If I want to kill someone, I have a criminal motive, and I have a criminal plan, but that person is killed by someone else before I can commit the crime, am I guilty?"

Zhou Yi knew that his question wouldn't be asked in vain.

I allowed him to ask the question because I wanted him to open up as soon as possible.

The situation he asked about is a typical example of preparatory crime. Having criminal intent but not having the opportunity to commit the crime is generally considered not to constitute a crime. Even if it is, the law usually gives a lighter punishment to those who are preparing for a crime.

But Chen Gengyun wouldn't ask this question for no reason, and with his knowledge, surely he knows the answer? So it's obvious he's trying to stir up trouble again.

Of course, I couldn't answer in the same way he said.

"Since that's the case, I do have a question I'd like to ask you." Zhou Yi was now channeling Murong Fu.

Chen Gengyun immediately became alert. "What?"

"If the person you're trying to kill dies at the hands of someone else, and you not only create an alibi for that murderer but also help them dispose of the body, do you think that constitutes a crime?"

Chen Gengyun gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes."

Zhou Yi then asked, "If you were to collude with this murderer again to kidnap and attempt to kill another victim, and then frame the latter for the crime, do you think you would be guilty of a crime?"

Chen Gengyun replied expressionlessly, "I have no more questions."

Zhou Yi nodded and said, "Since there are no problems, let's continue."

The occurrence and process of the case are based on reasonable logic and cannot be baseless.

When Chen Gengyun explained the situation involving Lu Xiaoshuang, Zhou Yi had already basically guessed why Lu Xiaoshuang was involved in this life.

But Chen Gengyun has to say it himself.

Moreover, he didn't figure out how Lu Xiaoshuang became a victim in his previous life.

“In that case, things might have to be moved forward a little,” Chen Gengyun said.

How long will it take?

"one day."

"On April 27th at noon, she suddenly came to my office to see me. This had never happened before. I told her very seriously that she could not have any contact with me at school. If the matter was exposed, I would at most be demoted, but she would definitely be expelled from school."

"So that noon she suddenly knocked on my office door, which startled me. I opened the door and looked around, and found no one in the hallway, so I quickly pulled her into the room and sternly questioned her why she had come to find me."

"Then... she took out a pregnancy test and cried, saying that she had found out last night. She was very scared and couldn't sleep well all night, so she had to come to me."

Chen Gengyun said he was stunned at the time because he was very careful about this kind of thing and always used safety measures.

So his first reaction was to confront Xu Liu with a dark expression, asking her whose child it was and whether she had slept with other men.

Xu Liu was completely stunned. After a few seconds, she burst into tears, which startled Chen Gengyun so much that he pressed her against the wall and covered her mouth. If the crying attracted attention outside, he would be ruined on the spot.

After being comforted, Xu Liu swore to heaven and earth that she had not slept with other men and that she was not so shameless as to sleep with anyone.

She even said that if Chen Gengyun didn't believe her, she would jump off the roof right now to prove her innocence.

Chen Gengyun, of course, couldn't let her make such a fuss, so he could only comfort her, and then the two of them recalled the details together.

Finally, Xu Liu said that once she only realized the condom was torn after she finished.

Chen Gengyun said, "Didn't I tell you to buy emergency contraception pills yourself?"

Xu Liu cried as she said that she had already arrived at the pharmacy that day, but she ran into a classmate and didn't dare to go in. She then forgot about it.

Chen Gengyun knew that this matter needed to be resolved, otherwise there would be endless troubles.

He reassured Xu Liu, saying that he would use his connections to arrange an abortion for her, which would not affect her, and that he would also give her some money for nutrition.

He said that he had already decided that he would cut off all contact with Xu Liu after the matter was resolved, because this near-miss made him realize that the grass near his nest was not to be trifled with and was too dangerous.

But to everyone's surprise, Xu Liu revealed his true intentions.

She told Chen Gengyun that she could have an abortion, but she asked him to use the International Academic Research Association to arrange her government-sponsored study abroad program.

Chen Gengyun said that it was only at that moment that he realized that this young girl was far more complex than he had imagined. He agreed to her half-heartedly and explained to her that the research association's government-sponsored study abroad program was very complicated and could not be completed immediately, so he needed to give her some time.

He promised to get it sorted out before the end of the semester so she could go abroad to study next semester.

However, Xu Liu was not so easily fooled. She had already learned about the basic rules of the research association's overseas study selection from her previous consultation with Chen Gengyun. She forced Chen Gengyun to write an English recommendation letter for one of the partner universities on the spot, and after he finished writing it, she watched him put it into the school's mailbox.

It was precisely because of her series of actions that Chen Gengyun decided to kill her, because she had crossed the line too seriously.

Keeping her around will only cause endless trouble!

While keeping Xu Liu calm, he wrote her a letter of recommendation on the spot and did as he was told step by step.

Xu Liu was finally satisfied and promised him that she would listen to him in everything from now on, and he could do whatever he wanted.

At that moment, he already had a plan to get rid of Xu Liu in his mind. He followed Xu Liu's words and asked her to find a reason to ask the school for two days off. He had a villa in Yunxia Mountain in Wuguang next door. While she was still newly pregnant and there was no impact, the two of them went to the mountain for a honeymoon. After they came back, he would arrange for the abortion.

With her desire to go abroad fulfilled, Xu Liu naturally behaved as obediently as ever, listening to everything he said and promising to serve him well and make him feel like he was in heaven.

But when Zhou Yi heard this, he knew that this matter had completely exposed Xu Liu's weakness of being too young. Her way of forcing Chen Gengyun was too direct and brutal, and she left no room for maneuver. It seemed that she had forced Chen Gengyun to bow his head, but in reality, she was driving herself to a dead end.

In fact, she was pregnant, which gave her the biggest trump card. As long as she held onto this trump card, Chen Gengyun should be on edge all the time.

As long as he keeps him hanging on, Chen Gengyun will naturally take the initiative to negotiate in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and he will continue to increase his demands until Xu Liu's requirements are met.

Xu Liu may have some understanding of the rules of the game in the sordid relationship between men and women, but she is still too young. She doesn't understand human nature and is too eager to achieve quick success.

"Are you sure she's really pregnant?" Zhou Yi asked.

But once the words were out, he realized there was no need to ask. What difference would it make if he wasn't sure? Xu Liu's actions at that moment had already made Chen Gengyun decide to kill her.

After all, Xu Liu's coup occurred on the 27th, and Chen Gengyun already had a plan to kill him at that time, and planned to carry it out the next day.

Calm and collected, yet swift as lightning—that's what's truly terrifying.

Chen Gengyun said with a wry smile, "I'm not sure. I wanted her to go to the hospital for a check-up to confirm, but she was too anxious."

Yes, Xu Liu was too hasty; she didn't leave herself any way out.

This is very strange, because the task force did not find anything unusual about her in the period leading up to the incident during their investigation.

Logically speaking, this behavior is somewhat abnormal.

But judging from Chen Gengyun's tone, he probably didn't know the reason behind it either.

"So what exactly is your murder plan?" Zhou Yi asked.

"I made an appointment with Xu Liu on the 27th. She took leave on the 28th, and we went to the villa in Jianghai Haoting to stay overnight. The next day, I drove directly to Yunxia Mountain."

"Then, on the morning of the 28th, I took the initiative to call a few friends to invite them to dinner and drinks. After making the appointments, I found Xu Liu and told her that I had a very important dinner party that evening. I asked her to take a taxi to the villa and wait for me. I also gave her a spare key and password."

Zhou Yi asked, "Are you planning to get your three friends drunk, sneak back that night to kill them, and then come back to have a solid alibi?"

Unexpectedly, Chen Gengyun shook his head. "No, I had no intention of going to Jianghai Mansion on the 28th at all."

Zhou Yi was taken aback, then realized: "You're planning to kill someone and dump the body on the way to Yunxia Mountain?"

The logic is simple: the most troublesome aspect of murder is not how to kill the person, but how to dispose of the body and stage the crime scene.

Clearly, Xu Liu's death in the Jianghai Mansion villa was a huge problem for him, a very bad idea. The best option would be for someone unrelated to him to die in a place unrelated to him.

"What is the specific plan?"

Chen Gengyun replied that his original plan was to drink with some old friends on the night of the 28th, then pretend to be drunk and pass out, so that one of his friends could carry him home. Unexpectedly, the cook suggested they eat at his house, which was even better; all four of them could sleep at the cook's house, giving him a solid alibi.

He had Xu Liu find an excuse to take two days off, but he himself didn't ask for leave at all. Of course, his position didn't require attendance, but usually when he had to go on a business trip, he would inform his subordinates and arrange some work-related matters.

Then he planned to leave early on the 29th, using an excuse to drive to the villa to pick up Xu Liu and head directly towards Wuguang.

He had prepared water laced with sleeping pills in the car beforehand. He planned to coax Xu Liu into drinking it and falling asleep in the car, then get off at an intersection leading from Hongcheng to Wuguang, take a side road, and push Xu Liu off a nearby bridge that few people frequent.

Xu Liu can't swim, so even if she wakes up, she won't survive.

After pushing the person down, he immediately drove back to Hongda.

He calculated that there was enough time for him to appear at school normally on the morning of the 29th.

That way, no one will notice that he left. When Xu Liu's body is found in a river hundreds of kilometers away, and she was on leave to go home, no one will be able to trace it back to him.

After hearing the plan, Zhou Yi gasped. If Chen Gengyun's plan was followed, there would indeed be no reason to suspect him.

Even if they trace Zhang Wenhua, then find Xu Liu's pager, and then find Liu Baoguo's phone number, Liu Baoguo can still deny it.

The severity of the two cases is drastically different: one involves a female college student who drowned naturally a hundred miles away, and the other involves a female college student whose body was cut into more than a thousand pieces and then deep-fried and cooked.

“That’s not right!” Zhou Yi said. “You said earlier that on the night of April 12th, Xu Liu told you that her roommate Lu Xiaoshuang might have seen her in your car on the 9th. Then, on the night of April 12th, you went to a print shop and made a batch of prostitution flyers. You did that, right? We’ve already checked, and you’re the only one in Hongcheng who knows Xu Liu’s pager number, so it’s no use denying it.”

Chen Gengyun hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "That's right, I did it."

"So you didn't just start plotting to kill Xu Liu on April 27th. On April 12th, before Xu Liu even confirmed whether Lu Xiaoshuang had seen her, you already had the intention to kill her, right?" Zhou Yi slammed his hand on the table and scolded, "Otherwise, how do you explain the prostitution flyer incident?"

Chen Gengyun immediately waved his hand and said, "No, no, Officer Zhou, you really misunderstood. I did this because I realized that this number was at risk of exposing me, so I wanted to take precautions and confuse the public."

Zhou Yi frowned and stared at him. Something was wrong; it wasn't that simple.

In fact, apart from the first contact where he used Liu Baoguo's office phone, he used public phones afterwards, so there was no question of exposure. To say that he was taking precautions would be a bit redundant.

Zhou Yi suddenly remembered something: in the study on the second floor of the Jianghai Mansion villa, many fingerprints left by Xu Liu were found.

However, there were no Xu Liu fingerprints inside the hidden door.

It's easy to imagine that she was searching everywhere in the study in search of a hidden door or compartment.

Chen Gengyun said that Xu Liu had never stayed overnight at the villa before, so these fingerprints should have been left by Xu Liu when she was alone at the villa on the night of the 28th.

Her clear purpose indicates that she knows Chen Gengyun has hidden something in the study, which is why she is looking for it.

What could interest her so much must be more than just money.

Zhou Yi immediately understood: she was looking for something more valuable than money!

Something that could blackmail Chen Gengyun and thus get her to go abroad!

Zhou Yi believes that only one thing can achieve this effect: Chen Gengyun's livelihood as a political broker, a ledger or list.

Xu Liu must have learned of this thing by accident, so she wanted to get her hands on it to blackmail Chen Gengyun.

Furthermore, this also reveals something else: on the night of the 28th, Xu Liu was still looking for this thing when she was alone in the villa, even though she had already pressured Chen Gengyun to write a letter of recommendation on the 27th by citing her pregnancy.

Why would she do that?

There's probably only one answer: she wasn't pregnant! She knew that after May Day, Chen Gengyun took her to the hospital for a checkup, and she discovered that she had been lying to herself.

Then everything she had done before would have been for nothing.

She was really stupid; she ruined her own life.

Chen Gengyun's actions on April 12th can only be described as having murderous intent, as he said, it was a precautionary measure.

This certainly aligns with his cunning and calculating nature.

However, his preparations were not for the pregnancy itself, but rather to prevent Xu Liu from discovering something more important.

Unexpectedly, Xu Liu soon pulled off the stunt of faking a pregnancy.

And so, the tragedy occurred.

Chen Gengyun's explanation at this point led Zhou Yi to a huge question.

It's just that the previous life and this life are different.

Based on the current information, although his appearance caused Lu Xiaoshuang to appear in a place she had never been in in her previous life on April 9th, it triggered Xu Liu's probing and targeting of Lu Xiaoshuang.

However, this did not directly lead to Xu Liu's murder.

At most, it aroused Chen Gengyun's vigilance and made him want to kill.

The key to Chen Gengyun's decision to kill was Xu Liu's feigned pregnancy to force him to commit murder.

If Xu Liu had done the same thing on April 27th in her previous life, she should have been killed before Lu Xiaoshuang, either dismembered or drowned.

But no, after the major case in the previous life, Xu Liu was still alive and well, and was one of the key targets of the investigation.

Therefore, Xu Liu definitely didn't do that in his previous life, at least not on that day.

This means that Xu Liu's actions in this life are also a butterfly effect triggered by Zhou Yi.

But I was in Anyuan at the time, so it wouldn't affect this area.

Could it be that Lu Xiaoshuang and Xu Liu had some conflict again?
That's not right. If it were true, the task force should have discovered it long ago during their investigation.

Suddenly, Zhou Yi had a jolt of realization. On the evening of April 26th, he had called Lu Xiaoshuang from his hotel in Anyuan!
Could it be because of this phone call?

It seems we need to confirm this with Lu Xiaoshuang and Mo Youyou later.

Zhou Yi continued, "Going back to April 28th, what about Fan Tianyou? What was his purpose in contacting you that night? How did he find out and get into the Jianghai Mansion villa?"

"As for Fan Tianyou, tsk... sigh... he really always causes me trouble." Chen Gengyun shook his head helplessly.

Zhou Yi had previously suspected that Fan Tianyou was also tricked by Chen Gengyun, who wanted to use him as a tool to kill someone.

But after listening to Chen Gengyun's plan, he realized that the risk was much lower and there was no need to play such a complicated game as using someone else to do the dirty work, which would only increase the risk.

After all, the methods of committing crimes nowadays are too complicated.

After mentioning Fan Tianyou, Chen Gengyun added some information.

After Dong Lu's incident, he immediately arranged for Fan Tianyou to study abroad.

After the storm had passed, he used the pretext of a publicly funded inspection tour to visit Fan Tianyou in Europe.

At the same time, I took Fan Tianyou to see a psychologist.

After diagnosis, foreign psychologists determined that Fan Tianyou suffers from mild paranoid personality disorder.

This illness does not present with symptoms of hallucinations or delusions, but psychologically it can manifest as suspicion, distrust of others, vindictiveness, and irritability. Extreme behaviors may occur when emotions are out of control.

Chen Gengyun demanded that Fan Tianyou receive treatment, or else he would cut off his financial support and leave him to fend for himself abroad.

In 1993, Chen Gengyun made an excuse to have Fan Tianyou send a blood sample to an address in the United States. In reality, he contacted a technology company in the United States, which was one of the world's first to commercialize paternity testing.

After confirming through a paternity test that Fan Tianyou was indeed his son, Chen Gengyun helped Fan Tianyou obtain his doctoral degree smoothly in 1994 through a series of procedures.

However, later investigations revealed that Fan Tianyou's school and degree were problematic. The school was a so-called diploma mill, and the degree was obtained through ghostwriting agencies and shady journals.

However, due to the significant information gap in the 1990s, coupled with the underhanded dealings of Chen Gengyun and Liu Baoguo, Fan Tianyou transformed himself upon returning to China and quickly became a young talent admired by everyone.

Of course, all of this requires substantial financial support, which is far beyond what Chen Gengyun could realistically earn through normal, legitimate income.

Chen Gengyun said that after returning to China, he observed Fan Tianyou's mental state for about six months and found that he was in good health and his emotions were stable.

Moreover, his years of studying abroad have made him less naive and more mature and composed.

So Chen Gengyun started to gradually introduce him to his network of contacts, which, to put it bluntly, was to let Fan Tianyou inherit everything from him.

That's how people are; once they hold something in their hands, they'll never let go, hoping to pass it down from generation to generation.

Therefore, Fan Tianyou knew about the existence of Jianghai Mansion Villa. He originally had a spare key and password, but ever since Chen Gengyun and Xu Liu got together and started using the villa as their dating spot, he found an excuse to take the spare key from Fan Tianyou.

Because he didn't want to be caught by Fan Tianyou one day when he was having fun with Xu Liu.

After all, what happened to Dong Lu back then still haunted him.

Then, on the night of the 28th, after he arrived at the cook's house, he turned off his phone to prevent anyone from contacting him and affecting his plans.

As a result, something unexpected happened.

Fan Tianyou was eager to find him and get to the bottom of something.

As a result, he could not be found in the office or the faculty dormitory, and his mobile phone was switched off and could not be reached. So Fan Tianyou thought of the villa.

He took a taxi straight to Jianghai Mansion, and then noticed light coming through the gap in the curtains of the master bedroom on the second floor of the villa, so he shouted for Chen Gengyun to come out.

As a result, after he shouted twice, the lights upstairs went out.

This infuriated him. He felt that Chen Gengyun was deliberately avoiding him. Although he no longer had the key to the outer wall and iron gate, he simply climbed over the wall and went inside.

Then he used the password to open the door and rushed to the master bedroom on the second floor.

When the light was turned on, he found someone hiding under the covers. He thought it was Chen Gengyun, so he angrily pulled off the covers.

As it turned out, the person on the bed was Xu Liu.

All of this was his answer when Chen Gengyun questioned him the next day about why he killed Xu Liu.

Chen Gengyun is only relaying the information, but he also said that he doesn't know if it's the truth.

Fan Tianyou said that the moment he saw Xu Liu, he knew what her relationship with Chen Gengyun was.

Xu Liu huddled in the corner, looking at him in terror.

Enraged, Fan Tianyou demanded to know where Chen Gengyun was.

Xu Liu was terrified and could only shake her head repeatedly.

Zhou Yi thought this was highly likely because he knew how terrifying Fan Tianyou's expression was when he lost control of his emotions.

Xu Liu was, in the end, just a weak woman.

Fan Tianyou turned his head and found Xu Liu's backpack on the table next to him. He grabbed the backpack and started rummaging through it while asking her if she had any secret way to contact the old man.

Then, he saw a pregnancy test in Xu Liu's bag.

He rushed up to Xu Liu with the pregnancy test, grabbed her hair, and demanded to know if the child in her belly was the old man's.

Xu Liu was terrified and kept denying that she was pregnant.

But what he got in return was a merciless beating from Fan Tianyou.

Finally, he pinned Xu Liu to the bed and suffocated her to death with a pillow.

By the time he came to his senses, Xu Liu was already dead.

Then, he ran downstairs, grabbed an imported knife from the kitchen, and dragged the body into the bathroom.

Chen Gengyun said that when he saw Fan Tianyou sitting on the ground with a knife and covered in blood, and the room full of blood in the bathroom and the dismembered body parts in the bathtub, his first reaction was to run.

But upon further reflection, Fan Tianyou's sudden interference not only disrupted his originally flawless plan but also plunged him into crisis.

The villa, Xu Liu, and Fan Tianyou are all inextricably linked to him. If he lets things go unchecked, this fire will eventually burn him down.

Therefore, he had to clean up Fan Tianyou's mess once again.

“Sigh, I told her to throw away the pregnancy test the other day, but I didn’t expect her to still have it with her. She’s planning to threaten me at any time,” Chen Gengyun said with a heartbroken look. “If it weren’t for this pregnancy test, this wouldn’t have happened. Tianyou is probably afraid that I will have another child and take away everything that should belong to him.”

Zhou Yi was already tired of his performance and asked coldly, "After saying all this, you still haven't explained why Fan Tianyou insisted on seeing you that night?"

"That's right. After I sent him abroad to avoid trouble, I lied to him that the female student named Dong Lu was dead in order to make him obedient."

"But on the night of the 28th, he said he saw Dong Lu at school."

"What? Fan Tianyou has met Dong Lu?" Zhou Yi exclaimed in surprise.

"He didn't say, but I guess he bumped into Dong Lu while he was following Lu Xiaoshuang. He thought he was seeing a ghost, which is why he was so eager to find me to ask if I had lied to him."

"Sigh, if this incident hadn't provoked him, he wouldn't have done such a thing."

(End of this chapter)