Guan Feng shook his head and said, "You are a suspect now! We can't let you meet! But if you honestly confess your problems, we will consider it and tell your sister that you have confessed! This will prevent her from having to consider her brother's situation and hesitate, which could lead to some unpredictable consequences."
After a pause, Guan Feng added another heavy sentence, reminding him, "I just heard a notification in my earpiece that our people have started the interrogation. You don't have much time left!"
Zhou Zhong's face began to show signs of struggle.
A moment later.
He sighed as if resigned to his fate and said, "I'll confess everything! Don't interrogate my sister anymore!"
Guan Feng looked at Zhao Dong.
Zhao Dongchong instructed into his earpiece, "Temporarily halt the interrogation! Zhou Zhong has provided some leads."
After saying that, he looked at Zhou Zhong earnestly and said, "Zhou Zhong, you only have one chance. We don't have the patience to waste time with you here. We hope you will tell us the whole story of the case!"
"I will!"
Zhou Zhong nodded and said, "I'm tired of hiding for three years. I will tell you everything."
Zhao Dong waved to Guan Feng, signaling him to continue the interrogation.
Guan Feng asked, "Zhou Zhong, did you kill Chen Qian?"
Zhou Zhong nodded and said, "Yes."
Guan Feng asked, "What's the reason?"
Zhou Zhong sighed and said, "It's a long story. She's been divorced twice. After we met, she came to work on my ship. She managed all my accounts, but I never expected that she would still be dishonest! I found out that she was flirting with other men."
“I asked her to break up with him and settle down with me. She agreed, but then I found that she just couldn’t help it, and we started arguing.”
Remembering Li Ziqiang's confession, Guan Feng asked, "Did you lay a hand on him?"
Zhou Zhong nodded and said, "We did fight! Sometimes we'd argue and then start fighting, but how should I put it, sometimes she'd strike first, and sometimes I would. It's not that I'm trying to shirk responsibility, but at this point, there's no need to do something like that, right?"
Guan Feng nodded: "Go on!"
Zhou Zhongdao said, "Chen Qian is quite strong. Sometimes we fight quite fiercely, but I don't think arguing is the main problem between us."
Guan Feng asked, "Then what was your main reason for killing her?"
Zhou Zhongdao: "During that last argument, she threatened me with my secret, demanding 300,000 yuan from me before she would leave, otherwise she would expose me. I was very angry at the time, and in a fit of rage, I killed her!"
Guan Feng asked, "How did you kill him?"
Zhou Zhongdao said, "During the argument, I used a towel to strangle her, and I strangled her to death."
Guan Feng asked, "Did Zhou Yang know about all of this?"
Zhou Zhong shook his head and said, "I don't know! He hadn't boarded the ship yet at that time."
Guan Feng asked, "So how do you operate your boat? Normally, a boat needs two certificates, right?"
Zhou Zhong explained, "Chen Qian was also a boatwoman before, and she had all the necessary certificates on the boat. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let her on board."
Guan Feng asked, "Then how did Chen Qian discover your identity?"
Zhou Zhongdao said, "Xia Ping and I are cousins and look somewhat alike. In addition, I deliberately changed my hairstyle, so a normal examination would not find anything. However, on the ID card, Xia Ping has a mole on his neck, which I do not. Ordinary people would not notice it, but people who know him well would definitely be able to tell!"
“Chen Qian once asked me why my mole was gone, and I said I had it removed. At the time, I thought she didn’t suspect anything, but thinking back, that’s probably when it was exposed!”
Guan Feng nodded, then asked, "Tell me, what happened in the arson case three years ago?"
Zhou Zhong frankly admitted, "I set that fire! I'm away on ships all year round, working hard to earn money to support my family. Every month I send my earnings home, but I never imagined my wife would be cheating on me with another man..."
Guan Feng then asked, "What about the child?"
Zhou Zhongdao said, "After I found out that my wife was having an affair with Xia Ping, I kept an eye on things. I noticed that the child didn't look like me when I grew up, so I asked someone to do a DNA test, and it turned out that he was indeed not my child!"
"I went home feeling utterly disheartened, wanting to ask what was going on. Why was the child I had raised with such care someone else's? But then I saw the two of them walking into my house, chatting and laughing!"
Guan Feng asked, "And then what happened?"
Zhou Zhongdao: "That night I sat by the riverbank for a long time, reflecting on what I had done wrong. I thought about it until midnight, and when I looked at my own reflection in the water, I realized that I hadn't done anything wrong!"
"If I had to say I was wrong, it was the way of the world that forced me to be away from home for so long! So at that time, I was twisted in my mind, and I made a snap decision. I went home, and while the two of us were asleep, I turned on the gas cylinder, poured alcohol all over the house, set it on fire, and ran away."
Guan Feng nodded inwardly.
The modus operandi was similar to the findings of the investigation by the Development Zone Branch.
At the time, the only concern was a fire caused by a gas cylinder leak.
Later investigations revealed no signs of the locks being pried open, and the case was closed as a typical arson.
Little did anyone expect that the real arsonist was the nominal homeowner.
Guan Feng asked, "And then what happened?"
Zhou Zhong said with a bitter expression, "Then it became simple! After I set the fire, I ran back to the ship and waited for you to come and arrest me. But I waited for three days, and the ship was docked for three days, and still no one came to arrest me. I was very surprised at the time. I secretly contacted my sister and found out that the outside world had already classified this as an arson case!"
"I knew I was dead. On one hand, I felt it was a rebirth! On the other hand, I felt the ship was no longer usable, so I asked my sister to sell it, and then... after that, I lived on under the name Xia Ping!"
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