Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 225 Unexplained Motives 15 (End)

Liao Wenxiang's mother, who was usually calm, eventually lost her composure.

She met Wang Yaohua, whose sharp questioning voice echoed throughout the police station.

"Why did you kill Wenxiang! Why?! What did my family do to offend you?! When your parents were beating you, it was us who gave you food and a bed! You ungrateful wretch!"

"Wenxiang doesn't allow anyone to call you an idiot in front of her. She was the one who helped you study hard and try to recover when you were in high school! She has never done anything to bully you or wrong you!"

"Why are you still laughing? You're not allowed to laugh! They're right, you're a fool, a good-for-nothing fool! A fool who deserved to be beaten senseless! A fool ruined my promising Wenxiang! Give me back my daughter!"

Her eyes were wide open as if they were about to pop out of their sockets, and her fingers were waving forward like deformed chicken claws, as if she wanted to pierce through Wang Yaohua's chest and grab his heart. She was completely frantic.

Liao Wenxiang's father stood by, wanting to stop her but not daring to. He reached out his hand and then pulled it back, seemingly embarrassed. He stood still, keeping his body far away from his frenzied wife, except for his hand.

The couple's reaction was completely unexpected by the onlookers.

"When Liao Wenxiang was chatting with her friends, she said that her family relationship wasn't very good, especially with her mother." Tan Jia stood outside the crowd, arms crossed, watching the scene unfold.

“Yes,” Xiao Chen recalled, “she was a left-behind child. And her father felt that having a daughter meant he wouldn’t have to work as hard as families with sons. But her mother was very strong-willed and wanted her daughter to succeed so her father would know that his daughter was just as capable as his son. So she was very strict with her. Before they could even develop a mother-daughter relationship, conflicts arose. Because of the oppressive family atmosphere, she used to think about going to university in the place farthest from home.”

However, it now appears that the mother-daughter relationship is complex and multifaceted.

They only talked on the phone once a week, and their relationship was obviously not good. However, Liao Wenxiang's college entrance examination score was high enough to attend most of the excellent universities in other provinces, but she still chose to stay in the province. After graduation, she also stayed in the city to work, and she would go home for holidays very often.

And her mother… Tan Jia remembered visiting the Liao family yesterday and seeing Liao Wenxiang's award-winning photos on the sunniest room of the Liao family home. It must have been her bedroom. It was spotless, with the four-piece bedding set neatly arranged and a lop-eared rabbit plushie on the bed. The furniture and appliances were mostly brand new…

Liao Wenxiang mentioned in a conversation with a friend that every time she went home, her mother would prepare her favorite dishes in advance, and would also give her money before she left home so that she wouldn't be too frugal.

Whenever Liao Wenxiang talks about these things with friends, she always says, "It's hard to explain."

But the only thing that's clear is that Liao Wenxiang's father seems to have automatically disappeared from the moment his daughter was born.

The intense emotions of strictness, concern, and grief towards Liao Wenxiang are only present in a mother; he remains in a neutral position, playing a completely gentle, and ultimately insignificant role.

"Sigh, the relationship between parents and children is actually more complicated than that between men and women. To be honest, at first I wondered if Liao Wenxiang's death was related to her parents, and I thought her mother's heartbroken crying was just an act, after all, we've had several cases like that in a row," Xiao Chen sighed.

Tan Jia, still looking at the person opposite him, said calmly, "Because it's difficult to create a dramatic and complex story."

Romantic relationships can almost always be summarized as a story of "something happened in a certain year and month, resulting in a certain outcome." The main plot is clear, and the ups and downs are obvious, which is why they are so popular in film and television dramas. Any kind of relationship can be found in existing works.

But the relationship between parents and children is more like the prologue to a very thick biography; it only truly begins once the prologue is finished.

But readers always give up before even finishing the prologue. They open it countless times afterward, but they always end up on a certain page in the prologue, stuck on the adjectives like pain, anger, disgust, and severity.

Until he himself became one of the parents in the prologue, he began writing a biography that no one found interesting to read.

Tan Jia sighed almost imperceptibly, losing interest in watching any further. He then took out a lump of dough and began kneading it with his eyes lowered. After a few minutes, the sharp screams from the other side suddenly stopped, leaving only the heavy breathing of Liao Wenxiang's mother.

Just as Tan Jia finished rubbing the head of the clay figurine, he looked up and saw Liao's mother staring at the entrance of the police station.

Wang Yaohua's parents arrived.

This made things even more chaotic, with shouts of questioning and crying that were driving everyone crazy.

It's unclear what exactly was said, but a few minutes later, Wang Yaohua's parents suddenly knelt down in front of Liao Wenxiang's parents, weeping and saying sorry, that Wang Yaohua was a fool, and that they weren't there to shirk responsibility, and that they would accept whatever the police decided.

Xiao Chen kept an eye on the area and even had time to say, "Having a son like this, one who was once someone we had high hopes for, who grew up to be an idiot, and now who has killed someone, it's really hard to say who committed these sins in their past life."

Tan Jia snorted through her nose, the meaning unclear, and then she asked:

"Do you think Wang Yaohua's parents know about the murder?"

As soon as Xiao Chen heard her humming, he knew something was wrong and replied, "According to the evidence, they didn't know. What, you think they knew all along?"

"Not really. I was just wondering if they ever had a fleeting thought of having Wang Yaohua die a natural death through some event, thus erasing this stain on their record?"

“Wang Yaohua’s parents also care a lot about their reputation. This son who has become mentally challenged is a stain on their reputation. They probably wanted to get rid of him a long time ago.”

"So even though they clearly saw that Wang Yaohua had blood on him, they pretended not to notice, waiting for him to suffer the consequences and be arrested. In this way, they wouldn't have to stand on the moral low ground of being parents and be criticized for not wanting their son, and they could stand on the moral high ground of the law and demand compensation from the police station."

She spoke as she thought, leaving Xiao Chen stunned.

After listening and understanding the underlying meaning, Xiao Chen's eyes widened: "So you think his parents borrowed our knife to kill their son?"

“Just guessing,” she shrugged.

“Your guess is most likely correct. I will question you more carefully along this line of inquiry.” With that, he strode away.

She was all alone in the place. Tan Jia glanced at Liao's mother, who was still sobbing and cursing the Wang family, and then turned back to her office.

For her, the case was over. She had no further work to do with the paperwork, and she had nothing to do with the court proceedings. She could "go home" now.

But for the criminal investigation team, the victim's family, and the murderer's family, the outcome of this case is still far off.

Wang Yaohua's cognitive and behavioral abilities assessment was just barely passing, so he needs to undergo another round of testing.

To prove that he possessed normal intelligence when he committed the murders and that the killings were premeditated, the criminal investigation team provided a constant stream of evidence.

They thought they'd be filling the pool with new talent, but the trial of Wang Yaohua ended prematurely.

Liao Wenxiang's mother killed him and then committed suicide.