Chapter 8, Poppy 08
Luo Siwei asked Xue Rong about everything about the girls in her dormitory harassing Yu Wanying, and then asked Xue Rong to sign the confession.
After Xue Rong confessed everything and confirmed what Ye Ruxi had done in the whole incident, Luo Siwei let her go and asked her to go back and wait for notification from the police.
Finally, she asked Ni Xiang to call Ye Ruxi over.
Ye Ruxi had been waiting in the interrogation room for two hours, from one in the afternoon to a little after three. Ni Xiang, in accordance with regulations, collected her cell phone and belongings.
When Ye Ruxi entered the interrogation room and sat down, Luo Siwei looked up at her and said, "Xue Rong has already confessed everything you did. Do you have anything else to confess?"
This sentence was like a basin of cold water poured directly at Ye Ruxi.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Ye Ruxi frowned, then cursed under her breath, seemingly complaining about Xue Rong's betrayal.
Luo Siwei continued to provoke her: "According to the information we have, Yu Wanying treats you very well. She often brings you gifts and snacks, and even packs food for you to take back and asks you out to play..."
"She treats us well?" Ye Ru raised her head angrily. "That woman is not so innocent. Who cares about the things she brings? Every time she comes back from the restaurant, she packs up some leftovers and gives them to us like beggars. She's just pretending to show off!"
Luo Siwei asked her, "Is this why you pretended to be a voyeur and stalker and harassed Yu Wanying?"
Ye Ruxi admitted it. She snorted and looked away: "I have never seen such a hypocritical person. No one in the class really likes her."
Luo Siwei asked her for details again.
Ye Ruxi said, "It's not that I can't stand seeing others succeed, but she's the type...who always acts superior. She can do things herself, but she still pretends not to be able to. When the test results come out, she gets more than ten points higher than others...I only do those things to punish her and scare her."
Ye Ruxi said these words as if she was the one on the side of justice.
Luo Siwei asked: "So you sold her personal information to her fans?"
After hearing this, Ye Ruxi's breath paused, and her expression finally changed. She didn't expect that Xue Rong would even tell others about this matter.
Ye Ruxi lowered her head, her breathing gradually becoming rapid, but she still insisted: "That's Xue Rong's nonsense, I didn't do it."
Luo Siwei seemed to have expected her to deny it. She said slowly, "Then we can ask your other classmates and see what they say."
Ye Ruxi didn't have much social experience, and with the witnesses, her psychological defenses were not difficult to break through.
Sure enough, the girl in front of him reacted. She bit her lip and emphasized again: "You have no evidence."
Luo Siwei looked at the girl in front of her. Her eyes were clear, as if she had seen through everything. Luo Siwei said frankly, "We really haven't found any transaction records of yours at the moment."
When Ye Ruxi heard this, she slowly loosened her clenched fists, as if she was relieved.
Luo Siwei continued, "However, we infer that you may have used other methods to circumvent the usual transaction methods..." She deliberately slowed down her speech and said, "We noticed that you have several games on your phone. Do you play mobile games often?"
Hearing this, Ye Ruxi's eyelids twitched, and her expression changed significantly. Her hands involuntarily folded together and wrapped around her chest.
Luo Siwei observed Ye Ruxi carefully. During the interrogation, this micro-movement showed that she was seeking self-comfort, which meant that the female student in front of her was on the verge of confessing. She guessed right.
Luo Siwei took out a form with Ye Ruxi's bank records on it.
She continued, "You've always spent a lot of money. Two years ago, you opened Huabei and then started taking out online loans... In recent months, your spending has suddenly decreased." Her voice was steady. "I speculate that you made transactions through the game and then had your classmates exchange them for cash. The evidence should be stored on the game server."
Ye Ruxi lowered her head for a moment, without denying it. She raised her head and asked, "Can you pour me a glass of water?"
During the interrogation process, the criminal will make some requests, and agreeing to these requests can promote the building of a relationship between the two parties.
Luo Siwei nodded, and Ni Xiang went to pour Ye Ruxi a glass of water.
Ye Ruxi took the disposable water cup. She seemed to be very thirsty and drank the whole cup of water in one breath.
Then she raised her eyes and looked at Luo Siwei in front of her. From the first time she saw this female police officer, she felt a sense of oppression under calmness. Later, when she arrived in the interrogation room, she felt this more and more. The woman in front of her seemed to be the queen of this interrogation room.
Xue Rong must have been unable to resist her pressure just now, so he confessed.
She is just stalling for time now.
Facing this female police officer, she was completely powerless to resist.
Xue Rong told everything. The police already knew what she had done. Luo Siwei's questioning made her panic. It would be better for her to confess and make her feel more at ease.
Thinking of this, Ye Ruxi changed her sitting position and began to confess: "Initially, I didn't intend to do this..."
Luo Siwei sat opposite her and listened to her confession patiently.
Ye Ruxi's family conditions are average. Since she was a child, she has always envied those rich classmates. She longs to be able to buy those beautiful clothes, cosmetics, high-end mobile phones and tablets.
Having just entered university, she experienced the freedom of being able to control her own finances.
Her desires gradually expanded, and she wanted to possess all the beautiful things she saw. She began to learn to buy some cosmetics, but she was not pretty enough. Even with makeup, she could not compare to Yu Wanying without makeup.
The beautiful Yu Wanying is like the moon surrounded by stars, and she is the focus of people's attention wherever she goes.
Ye Ruxi knew in her heart that she was jealous of Yu Wanying, and she could not control her hostility towards Yu Wanying.
Everything exploded because of what happened.
It was the first semester of her freshman year, winter was approaching, and the weather was getting colder. At the beginning of the semester, Ye Ruxi was holding her mother's old phone, which she had been wanting to replace. She used the excuse that the weather was too cold and she needed a new quilt, so she asked her mother for a few hundred yuan more and secretly bought a new phone.
At the end of the month, she found that her living expenses were not enough, so she called home to ask for more money. Her parents complained that she spent money too quickly and said that they could only give her the money after receiving their salary next month.
Ye Ruxi didn't want to borrow money from her classmates, fearing they would look down on her. She made a strict plan for herself, eating steamed buns and instant noodles at noon and drinking only water at night, trying to save money.
Her life was hard, but her classmates were doing the same as usual.
On the weekend, Yu Wanying returned home again and brought some snacks for everyone. She also brought a thick duck down quilt and put a quilt cover on it in the dormitory.
There is no heating in Donglan City in winter. Ye Ruxi watched all this silently. She only had a thin old quilt and had to wear some clothes to sleep to keep herself from being too cold.
They had physical education class on Tuesday afternoon. In the evening, Ye Ruxi was so hungry that she felt dizzy and couldn't fall asleep. Then she suddenly remembered that Yu Wanying had given them some snacks.
Late at night, several students climbed onto their upper bunks, lit the lights above their beds, and began studying behind the curtains. They chatted idly, waiting for lights-out time to fall asleep.
Ye Ruxi was so hungry that her stomach started to hurt. She felt that she had to eat something. She thought about whether to tell Yu Wanying, but she couldn't open her mouth. She remembered that one of her roommates had asked Yu Wanying for snacks, and Yu Wanying had told the other person that they didn't need to ask her every time and that they could just take whatever they wanted.
That’s right, Yu Wanying has so many snacks that she can never finish them all. She doesn’t care if there are a little less.
Ye Ruxi looked at the other students' beds and saw no movement. She secretly got out of bed while no one was paying attention, and went to Yu Wanying's desk to get a bag of potato chips.
Ye Ruxi sat back in her chair, feeling like a thief. She carefully opened the package and ate secretly. She tried to eat quietly, but the chips still made a crunching sound between her teeth. The crispy and fragrant chips soothed her hungry stomach, making her unable to think about anything else.
Ye Ruxi had just eaten half of it when she heard a voice: "It's so late, why are you eating potato chips?"
She raised her head and saw Yu Wanying standing opposite her.
"Those are the new flavors of potato chips I bought. I want to share them with everyone tomorrow." Yu Wanying blinked, took a step forward, and continued to ask, "You didn't eat and wanted to mistake snacks for dinner, right?"
This sentence tore apart all the lies, like a sharp knife piercing Ye Ruxi's heart.
Ye Ruxi remembered that night Yu Wanying was wearing a white lace nightgown that seemed to be made of silk. The light shone on her fair face. Her black hair was tied loosely. She was extremely beautiful...
It was this beautiful woman who was killed with just a few words, exposing her vanity, poverty and shamelessness to the public, and trampling all her dignity underfoot.
The dormitory was extremely quiet. Ye Ruxi could sense that the other two students were also listening to what was happening in the corner. She stopped, her whole body cold, as if she were in an ice cave.
"I...I..." Ye Ruxi's eyes were wet. She felt like she was being publicly executed. She wondered what to say. Should she lie and say she missed dinner because she was trying to lose weight? But then why would she eat high-calorie potato chips?
Moreover, why did Yu Wanying say it in such an exaggerated tone? It was as if she was announcing to the world that she was so poor that she had to steal snacks from her classmates to fill her stomach.
"It's okay, eat it. I told you guys to help yourself." Yu Wanying thought she was embarrassed because she hadn't told her. She generously said she didn't mind and continued to say to Ye Ruxi, "However, eating these snacks for dinner will hurt your stomach. If you like, you can eat them in the afternoon."
Ye Ruxi was so angry at Yu Wanying's expression and what she said that she was shaking all over.
Yu Wanying was showing her mercy, which was a great humiliation to her.
Ye Ruxi resisted the urge to throw the chips in her face. She ate the remaining chips in a few bites and went back to her bed without even brushing her teeth. The quilt was cold, like an ice cave. She curled up and cried silently.
She hated Yu Wanying so much.
Then she began to listen...
Yu Wanying was still talking about something, something about taking the people in their dormitory to a restaurant, saying that the new cosmetics she bought cost her five hundred yuan but were difficult to use, and where she had been recently and the scenery there was nice.
At first, the classmates were still talking with envy, but later, they all stopped talking.
It was a life they envied. It was something they couldn't obtain no matter how hard they tried. Even if Yu Wanying treated them to a meal so they could temporarily experience it, it would only be a fleeting experience, highlighting their humbleness and ordinariness.
Ye Ruxi could feel the smell of jealousy spreading in the dormitory.
But the naive Yu Wanying felt that she was just talking about her life, not showing off. She was completely indifferent to people's jealousy.
Huddled in the quilt, Ye Ruxi stopped crying. She thought, perhaps, she could use this emotion...
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