Chapter 120 Tumi 11
After lunch, Luo Siwei came to a cafe near Mu Yuexin's residence.
She brought a team with her and had other police officers lurk around, ready to provide support if any situation arose.
Then she called Mu Yuexin.
It took a long time before the phone was picked up.
Mu Yuexin seemed to have just woken up and called out in a hoarse voice.
Luo Siwei asked: "Mu Yuexin, are you home? I'm in the coffee shop downstairs from your house. I want to see you."
Mu Yuexin's voice was still as soft as usual: "Lolo, why didn't you tell me you were coming here? What a coincidence, I'm not at home today. I've been..."
Luo Siwei didn't continue to play along with her. She spoke up and exposed Mu Yuexin's lie: "You are here."
Sitting in this cafe, Luo Siwei could even see the French windows of Mu Yuexin's residence. The curtains were drawn, and there was a police car parked downstairs, on 24-hour standby. There was no way for her to get out.
Mu Yuexin didn't say anything else.
After a while, Luo Siwei looked up at the building across the street and saw a figure standing in front of the window.
Mu Yuexin's voice changed, becoming more urgent. "So what did Captain Luo want to talk to me about today? Are you here to see the suspect or an old classmate?"
Luo Siwei said, "Both. You are now a suspect in the police investigation, and you are also my old classmate."
Mu Yuexin checked the time and said, "Oh, I see. It's office hours now. You love your work so much, so you probably want to talk about business. But you have to wait for me for a while."
Luo Siwei asked: "How long do we have to wait?"
Mu Yuexin thought: "I need to make some preparations, which will take half an hour."
Luo Siwei used to wait for Mu Yuexin in this coffee shop, so much so that she could recite the drink menu with her eyes closed. She had also sat in this position before.
In the past, she would order two drinks, one cup of coffee for herself and one cup of pearl milk tea with double sugar for Mu Yuexin. She knew her taste and preference.
She often asked Mu Yuexin: "Why do you want to drink something so sweet?"
Mu Yuexin would smile and say, "Anyway, I can't gain weight. If I have something sweet in my mouth, I'll be happier. It will also give me the motivation to move forward in life."
But at that time, she didn't notice many things. Looking back now, she found that things have changed.
Luo Siwei hesitated for a moment, ordered just his own coffee, and sat in the outer window seat waiting for her.
Forty minutes later, Mu Yuexin came down from the nearby residential building and walked into the coffee shop.
She saw that Luo Siwei didn't order a drink for her, so she ordered a cup of pearl milk tea for herself and sat opposite Luo Siwei.
Luo Siwei discovered that Mu Yuexin had put on makeup when she came to see her, and her clothes were also carefully selected. She had her nails done, and there was a layer of snow powder on them, which looked shiny.
Mu Yuexin loves beauty. In high school, she would secretly trim her eyebrows, paint her nails, and even apply a layer of loose powder. She always smelled sweet, but she seemed to be a late bloomer and always went without makeup.
Now think about it, they have so many differences, it is magical that they can be friends for such a long time.
Mu Yuexin put her phone on the table and said straight to the point: "Tell me, Officer Luo, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Luo Siwei said, "I just recently found out about your family and what happened at school..."
In the past, Mu Yuexin was just a classmate, and she didn't know much about her family. But recently, because Mu Yuexin became a suspect, Luo Siwei did a thorough background check on her classmate.
Mu Yuexin's mother died when she was in college. Her father was a middle-level manager in a factory. When she was a sophomore, he raped a female worker and injured her. He was locked up by a police station. During the subsequent investigation, it was discovered that he was a repeat offender and had hurt more than one girl.
With a father like this, one can imagine what kind of childhood Mu Yuexin had.
She joined Potential Workshop before graduating from university. At that time, Potential Workshop had only been in operation for a short time, so she was considered a veteran employee.
Mu Yuexin was stunned for a moment after hearing her opening words. Then she tilted her head and said, "Yes, you should know that I have a father who is a rapist."
"Now, I can finally tell others about my past. I've endured it for so many years." She stirred the pearls in her glass with a straw. "I've been good-looking since I was a child. Even though my family background was ordinary, my father sent me to dance school at an early age. When I was little, I thought it was a good thing, but when I got a little older, I realized that for a girl, it could be a misfortune."
"Ever since I was in primary school and started puberty, I've been scrutinized by men. Even when I was crossing the street, I'd get stared at and some would make unfriendly jokes."
"In my father's eyes, my mother and I were just slaves serving him, not even independent people. From the time I was ten, he would come into my room in the middle of the night."
"When I was fifteen, I went to my father's factory to look for him. The factory director saw me by chance and praised me for being beautiful. My father then took me to drink with the factory leaders and used me to exchange for his promotion..."
She took a sip of milk tea, as if using the sweetness of the drink to dispel the bitterness of life: "The older I get, the more the world hurts me. At school, after class, I would be called to the office by Principal Yan..."
"I've been reflecting on this: Did I do something wrong? Shouldn't I be good-looking? Shouldn't I love beauty?"
She spoke one thing after another, her tone the same as usual as when she was gossiping with Luo Siwei.
This was the first time Luo Siwei heard her say this. Mu Yuexin had never revealed these experiences to them. She smiled sweetly and happily every day, like a carefree little princess or a beautiful flower.
Luo Siwei has seen too many criminals. Every criminal has different experiences. Some are tragic, and some are former victims, but these experiences are not reasons for them to commit crimes.
"I hid it pretty well, didn't I?" Mu Yuexin said this with a wry smile. She raised her eyes to look at Luo Siwei, her eyes slightly red as she said, "And you, my best friend at the time, Luo Siwei, Officer Luo, you were so righteous and independent. I envied you so much. Also, I should thank you for sending Principal Yan to prison."
Luo Siwei said: "If I knew something earlier, I would help you."
Mu Yuexin's gaze paused, her eyes suddenly becoming empty. She shook her head, "You couldn't help me. You were too busy to take care of yourself back then." Then she sighed and lowered her head again, "We're just classmates. Why should I blame you? I chose this path myself."
Luo Siwei said: "We found Zhang Angu's body. You know him, right?"
Mu Yuexin didn't seem surprised, she just let out a low "oh".
"He once taught a few classes at the Potential Workshop." Then Mu Yuexin lowered her head and said, "Maybe I will be the next one."
Luo Siwei didn't persuade her, blame her, or rebuke her, nor did she judge her from a high vantage point. The two of them sat face to face, one drinking coffee and the other drinking milk tea, just like a scene that had happened many years ago.
Sometimes they were accompanied by Su Ye Nan, and sometimes they were alone. Through the French windows, they could see the scenery outside, people hurrying by, and the tree outside the window changing from spring to winter.
When they finished their drinks, Luo Siwei said to her, "Mu Yuexin, I remember that when we were in school, you were the best at answering multiple-choice questions."
In high school, they had done a lot of questions and often encountered difficult choices that they didn't know how to answer.
Mu Yuexin was lucky. As long as the questions required multiple choice, she could always get most of them right, whether she was guessing or guessing. So even if she answered other types of questions badly, she could always get high scores on the multiple choice questions.
Mu Yuexin nodded: "I am very good at guessing the purpose of those who set the questions. I know what the consequences will be if I make different choices."
Luo Siwei continued, "You actually know the answer to this question, right?"
Mu Yuexin's tears suddenly flowed down. She cried for a while and said, "You have found out everything, right?"
Luo Siwei said, "Based on the evidence the police have now, you can't escape. I hope you can cooperate with the police."
"I understand. I'll go with you." Mu Yuexin said this, then looked up at Luo Siwei. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she smiled. She pulled out a USB drive from her pocket and held it tightly in her hand. "Lolo, to be honest with you, I've kept some life-saving items over the years. I can tell you everything I know. But I hope you can promise me one thing."
Mu Yuexin wiped her tears with a tissue and said to her, "I don't trust the other police officers, so I'm only talking to you. I hope you can help me get a reduced sentence for turning myself in and cooperating with the investigation."
Luo Siwei looked at Mu Yuexin. When they were together in the past, they once joked that Mu Yuexin should go into acting. She was a good actor who was born with the talent for acting. Her eyes were round and big, and her gaze was sincere when she looked at others.
If it were in the past, Luo Siwei might have been soft-hearted, but now, she did not make any promise to Mu Yuexin.
It was Mu Yuexin who had been deceiving her and using her.
If she wanted to turn herself in, she would have done so long ago.
Even today's meeting was arranged by her, Mu Yuexin.
The woman in front of me may be involved in multiple cases, and she may even be one of the culprits behind the scenes.
She said this now only because she finally realized that she had no choice.
Luo Siwei was very rational: "I will record everything truthfully. If you meet the requirements, I will help you apply, but the prerequisite is that the clues you provide are valuable and contain no false information."
She looked at Mu Yuexin and spoke word by word, "You can't lie anymore. If you lie, no one can help you."
Mu Yuexin didn't seem to expect more. She nodded and said, "Your words are enough." Then she stood up and said, "There should be quite a few police officers among these people around, right?"
Luo Siwei didn't say anything and tacitly agreed to this.
Mu Yuexin thought, "Officer Luo, don't handcuff me. Where is your car? I can walk there by myself."
In the afternoon, Mu Yuexin was taken to the Municipal Bureau. As soon as she arrived, Luo Siwei locked her in the interrogation room.
Luo Siwei did not choose Ni Xiang to accompany her today, but called Lao Huo to go together, and then asked Guo Zhengyao and Ni Xiang, who had just returned from outside, to go to the observation room to take notes.
Huo Cunsheng stood up and asked, "Is it your classmate who needs to be interrogated?" He tutted his tongue and said, "This woman has been hiding by your side for so many years, Captain Luo. She must be something special."
Luo Siwei said seriously: "She may be the actual controller of Potential Workshop and one of the administrators of Whisper APP. So,
Everyone, please be extremely alert during today's interrogation."
After everything was arranged, Luo Siwei walked into the interrogation room and Mu Yuexin sat opposite her.
Even though she was someone she was very familiar with, Luo Siwei still followed the rules and asked her age, hometown and other information, and Mu Yuexin answered them one by one.
Luo Siwei asked: "When did you start doing those things?"
Mu Yuexin asked, "Do you mean for me to join the Potential Workshop?"
Luo Siwei said: "The earliest one, starting from when you met those people..."
Mu Yuexin lowered her head and thought for a moment: "I met Hua Wenyi when I was in high school. We were one year apart. At that time, I would occasionally go to the school dance team for practice, and he was in the art class in the same building."
At this point, she fiddled with her nails and said, "I've never told you about my boyfriend because... Hua Wenyi is my boyfriend, or rather, I'm one of his girlfriends. We've been secretly together since the first semester of my second year of high school."
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