Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 167 Explains the Process
Zhu Xuan is from Jicheng. Her parents passed away when she was very young.

She attended university in Jicheng and came to Jinghai five years ago.

"Why did you kill Luo Min?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"I didn't kill her."

"Luo Min's blood was found on the floor of your residence, and your hair was found at Wu Liang's residence. There's no point in you trying to deny it now." Zhuang Yanzheng had stayed up all night, and his head was throbbing. His expression looked fiercer than usual.

“I didn’t kill her,” Zhu Xuan said again.

"You ran away as soon as you saw us, and even took someone hostage. You say you didn't kill her?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "If you didn't kill her, why did you run away?"

Zhu Xuan remained silent.

"Luo Min's blood was found on the floor of your residence. Here are two photos." Zhuang Yanzheng held up two photos. "This one is from the elevator in Jinrong Residential Complex, and this one is from a surveillance camera on the commercial street behind Xiangyao Street. They're both of you."

"You didn't even get a picture of my face, how can you be sure it's me?" Zhu Xuan said.

"Playing dumb, is that it?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Do you think you can't be convicted just because you don't say anything? All of this is evidence."

Zhu Xuan fell silent.

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her.

He felt that she was deliberately trying to make him unhappy.

Zhu Xuan looked honest and unassuming, neither afraid nor nervous, nor did she tell the truth.

Zhuang Yanzheng was silent for a moment, then took out a photo of her and Shi Xiaoru: "College classmates, roommates?"

Zhu Xuan's eyes suddenly narrowed.

“Luo Min, Wu Liang, and Xiao Xia. These three people are all more or less related to Shi Xiaoru,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “Wu Liang is the source of the rumors, while Luo Min, Xiao Xia, and others are the rumor-mongers and instigators of the cyberbullying against Shi Xiaoru.”

"Because of this incident, Shi Xiaoru gave the team a break and also took a vacation herself."

Zhu Xuan looked at him.

"After receiving the report, we quickly located Shi Xiaoru and those around her."

Before Zhuang Yanzheng could finish speaking, Zhu Xuan said, "I did it. I killed them all. It has nothing to do with her. She knows nothing."

Su Miaoyi looked at Zhu Xuan's profile through the one-way glass outside the interrogation room.

I don't know why, but I suddenly have a feeling of familiarity.

She frowned, wondering where this familiar feeling came from.

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at Zhu Xuan, paused, and then continued, "We investigated Shi Xiaoru and many people around her, her work partners, her team, and her friends she frequently contacts. You are not among them."

Judging from the contents of Zhu Xuan's phone.

She would only chat with Shi Xiaoru for a few minutes on certain holidays.

Moreover, they chatted politely, but there was a familiar yet strange feeling in their words.

The rest of the time, they don't chat at all.

Zhu Xuan repeated, "So what? Nobody says friends have to stay in touch all the time, right?"

"Have you tried contacting her using other phones?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“No.” Zhu Xuan frowned. “I know what you suspect. You suspect that Shi Xiaoru instructed me. She didn’t instruct me. I did everything myself. She had no idea.”

"The last time I contacted her was on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

"Why kill them?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"Haven't you already found out?" Zhu Xuan said. "Why do you keep asking?"

"Answer whatever I ask you." Zhuang Yanzheng frowned.

Zhu Xuan sighed softly: "When Wu Liang spread rumors about Xiao Ru, I knew her better than anyone else. We lived together for four years in college. She is a very kind and upright person. If Wu Liang hadn't said those things online, she definitely wouldn't have told anyone about Wu Liang harassing her offline."

"Moreover, she wouldn't resort to those dirty tricks; she wouldn't contact online trolls or exploit her own fans."

"Since you've investigated, you should know very well that she loves and cherishes her fans. She's a dance streamer, and after becoming popular, she also recommends some products. Everything she recommends is something she's personally tried before recommending." "Such a good person, and because of Wu Liang's words, look at what her comment section looks like?"

"Look at what happened to the entrance of her residence. There are insults and personal attacks all over the internet, attacks on her parents and family, photoshopped funeral photos of her, and rumors."

"Shouldn't Wu Liang have died? Did he really think that spreading rumors was costless? He ruined a woman with just a few words."

“Do you know that people nowadays only know about rumors and not about clarifying them? Even if this matter is clarified, it will follow her for the rest of her life. People will bring it up from time to time. People will ask from time to time, ‘Isn’t this that streamer?’ But the truth is, she didn’t do anything. She just rejected a disgusting man.”

“Wu Liang deserves to die.”

"Luo Min and Xiao Xia are the ones who deserve to die even more."

"They'll make money off any kind of dirty money. With just a few keystrokes, a person's life can be ruined."

"Shi Xiaoru has gone to relax now, but what about later? If these people don't die, Shi Xiaoru might be the one to die."

"Why should the bad guys hide in the shadows while the good guys die? Don't they think no one can find them through that app? Don't they think they're taking the defendants lightly?"

"Sure, just go die."

Zhu Xuan said these words very calmly.

You could sense her anger, but you could also sense her calm.

She recounted Xiaoru's ordeal when she was angry.

She was calm because she didn't take killing seriously.

“If you hadn’t stopped them, none of those people would have escaped,” Zhu Xuan said. “Killing them will make others behave.”

Zhu Xuan then recounted her crime.

Xiao Xia and Luo Min's crime was the same as what Su Miaoyi had witnessed.

The process of killing Wu Liang was largely consistent with their speculation.

Zhu Xuan used tape to remove the fingerprints from the combination lock on Wu Liang's residence.

He unlocked his room with his fingerprint.

Wu Liang was live streaming at the time, so he didn't hear the door being opened.

Zhu Xuan moved the sofa and hid behind it.

She would kill Wu Liang after his live stream ended.

"Where did Wu Liang's tongue go?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"After leaving his house, he just threw it in the roadside green belt," Zhu Xuan said. "Maybe rats or stray dogs ate it."

Zhuang Yanzheng frowned: "Where did you throw it?"

Zhu Xuan gave a general range.

"Where are Xiao Xia's hands?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked again.

"I threw it in the trash can near my house," Zhu Xuan said with a smile. "Since you haven't found it yet, it must have been disposed of along with the trash."

Hearing her words, Zhuang Yanzheng slowly took a breath: "Where is Luo Min? Why did she throw her head and hands into the drainage ditch, and the rest of her body into the river?"

"You pulled it up?" Zhu Xuan looked a little surprised. "I thought it was sunk to the bottom of the river and you wouldn't find it for a while."

Zhuang Yanzheng stared at her with a stern face, noticing her nonchalant and even relaxed smile.

Zhu Xuan said, "I dismembered her body, intending to put the pieces in several bags and dispose of them in several places."

"But after I threw a bagful into the drainage ditch, I found it too troublesome. I had to avoid people, avoid surveillance cameras, and go to several different places. So I simply tied the rest of the bags with stones and threw them all into the river."

"Just for convenience."

　Goodnight everybody.

　　(End of this chapter)