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

Chapter 173 seems to have a rather unfortunate fate.

"What's wrong with her? Did something happen?"

Shi Xiaoru asked anxiously.

"An investigation has revealed that Zhu Xuan is the murderer in these three cases," Su Miaoyi said. "She has already confessed."

Shi Xiaoru looked at Su Miaoyi.

After she finished speaking, she was still staring at her, not reacting.

Su Miaoyi looked at her but didn't say anything.

"What? What did you say?" Shi Xiaoru suddenly stood up after speaking. "How is that possible? How could she be the murderer! Is something wrong? Is someone framing her?"

"She...she wouldn't kill anyone, she..." she began, then trailed off, before continuing, "Was it because of me? Did she kill someone for me?"

Neither Su Miaoyi nor Zhuang Yanzheng spoke.

Shi Xiaoru stood for a while, then sat down again: "They killed people who spread rumors and cyberbullied me, it must have been for my sake."

She slowly lowered her head and looked at her hands.

Su Miaoyi was silent for a moment, then lowered her voice and asked, "When you were in college, Zhu Xuan was so strong, did you ask her why?"

Shi Xiaoru nodded mechanically: "She said she was all alone and had to do odd jobs, so she developed great strength."

"Has Zhu Xuan mentioned her parents to you?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Shi Xiaoru thought for a moment, then shook her head.

"What about Zhu Xuan's other friends? Those from high school, those from childhood?" Su Miaoyi hoped to get some information.

Shi Xiaoru shook her head again: "She said she's used to being alone and has no other friends besides me. When we talk about things before college, she doesn't say anything. She said there's nothing to talk about in the past."

"Where did she go after graduating from university?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“After graduation, I went back to Jinghai because my parents live here,” Shi Xiaoru said. “I originally wanted her to come back to Jinghai with me. But she said she wanted to stay in Jicheng, so we separated. She only comes to Jinghai to see me occasionally.”

"Did you know she came to Jinghai?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked again.

Shi Xiaoru shook her head: "Is she in Jinghai? She didn't tell me. I always thought she was in Jicheng."

“Zhu Xuan has been in Jinghai for many years,” Su Miaoyi said.

"I didn't know. I even sent her birthday present to Jicheng," Shi Xiaoru said. "If I had known she was in Jinghai, I would have invited her to live with me."

She frowned: "Are you sure you're not mistaken? How could she possibly kill someone? She's just an ordinary person, how could she dare to kill someone? Let alone killing someone, I'd be scared even if I killed an insect, but that's a person, a living person."

"Can I see her?" Shi Xiaoru asked.

"Not at this stage," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Shi Xiaoru fell silent. She lowered her gaze, then looked up at them after a while: "Can I see the lawyer?"

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded: "Okay."

Shi Xiaoru nodded again.

Afterwards, Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng asked her some more questions about Zhu Xuan.

After Shi Xiaoru left, Zhu Xuan's computer was also hacked.

Zhu Xuan said twice in the interrogation room that the exact same password was wrong and could not be solved at all.

In the end, it was the technical staff who cracked it.

Zhu Xuan's computer contained the addresses and phone numbers of Xiao Xia, Wu Liang, and Luo Min, which she had found.

Besides the three of them, the addresses, phone numbers, and names of people from Luo City, Fengcheng, and those who had previously contacted Xiao Xia were all found out.

These people are all Zhu Xuan's targets.

Zhuang Yanzheng instructed Chu Xingrou and Qi Feng to contact the local police.

In the morning, it was to protect them.

I'll have to contact them again in a bit.

They have crossed the line of the law.

No one can escape it.

"This is Shi Xiaoru's address, and also some of her schedules, regarding cooperation," said the person from the technical department.

There are so many things about Shi Xiaoru on this computer.

First, there were clips from Shi Xiaoru's various live streams.

Zhu Xuan edited Shi Xiaoru's live stream content herself, creating many exquisite videos, but instead of releasing them as derivative works, she organized all the videos into a folder.

Su Miaoyi watched the videos.

I think if she had just started using a different account, she would be in a really tough spot by now.

"Are you sure none of these videos were ever sent?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked the technical department. "They weren't sent to any short videos, nor were they sent to Shi Xiaoru or her team?"

"We're sure there isn't," the technical staff member said definitively.

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded. "Although these two haven't met, Zhu Xuan knows almost everything Shi Xiaoru does." Su Miaoyi touched the goosebumps on her body. "She has records of everything Shi Xiaoru talks about. Her schedule is even more detailed than Shi Xiaoru's assistant's."

Zhuang Yanzheng didn't say anything.

"This is terrifying." Su Miaoyi frowned, looking at the time after each video, the earliest of which was four years ago. "Looking at it this way, her motive for murder is indeed very strong. But Shi Xiaoru really seems to know nothing."

“She didn’t lie,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

We checked all their social media accounts, and apart from the Lantern Festival this year, the two of them had no contact.

It was time for Su Miaoyi to leave work in the afternoon.

Yan Cheng called her over and made her drink a bowl of medicine.

Su Miaoyi had a headache and a stuffy nose.

When people are feeling unwell, they are willing to drink even the bitterest medicine.

It was just a little too bitter.

After drinking it, Su Miaoyi felt nauseous.

Yan Cheng quickly gave her a piece of candy.

Once the bitterness in her mouth was masked by the taste of sugar, Su Miaoyi finally said, "This is the most bitter medicine I've ever drunk in my life."

"Drink it, go back and get some sleep, and you won't feel uncomfortable when you wake up," Yan Cheng said.

"Really?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Yan Cheng paused for a moment: "Only by saying it this way can it be worthy of this level of suffering."

Su Miaoyi's lips twitched twice.

Yan Cheng smiled, gave her all the candy in his hand, and then gave her a thermos: "Drink more hot water."

Su Miaoyi took the cup.

“The cup is new,” Yan Cheng said.

Su Miaoyi looked at the thermos; it was quite nice.

Just as she was admiring it, Chu Xingrou suddenly ran over from her workstation: "It's all over, it's all over, it's all over."

"What's wrong?" Su Miaoyi asked in alarm. "What happened?"

"My dad's here. My dad's here again." Chu Xingrou looked as if she were facing a formidable enemy.

Su Miaoyi breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought I was destined to never get off work."

Zhuang Yanzheng was coming out of his office when he heard Chu Xingrou say that her father had arrived. He suddenly had an urge to jump out of the window and leave.

But just as this thought crossed her mind, Chu Xingrou saw him: "Captain Zhuang."

Zhuang Yanzheng walked over calmly.

Chu Xingrou looked at him pitifully.

Zhuang Yanzheng was so impressed with her father that he wanted to become sworn brothers with him.

Her father was strongly opposed to her becoming a criminal police officer.

From the very beginning, after he found that he couldn't keep Chu Xingrou locked up at home, he started talking to his superiors, hoping they would send Chu Xingrou home.

Zhuang Yanzheng was also puzzled.

Why was it that her father always happened to have time whenever he came?

"Team Leader Zhuang, I'll cover the breakfasts for the field team for the next month," Chu Xingrou said.

Zhuang Yanzheng snorted: "With your meager salary, is it enough to watch the live stream? Your dad even cut off your SIM card."

Chu Xingrou pursed her lips.

"Alright, those who should go home should go home," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Where is Uncle? I'll go see him."

"The reception area is downstairs," Chu Xingrou said.

Zhuang Yanzheng walked downstairs.

Chu Xingrou followed him.

Su Miaoyi and Yan Cheng stood there watching.

Su Miaoyi stroked her chin: "At this moment, I feel that Captain Zhuang's shoulders have become much broader, and his image has risen to a whole new level!"

"All I saw was the word 'miserable fate'," Yan Cheng said.

Su Miaoyi looked at him: "Is it more miserable than reading students' papers?"

Yan Cheng felt as if his lifeline had been seized, and he couldn't utter a single word.
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