Rebirth
Peng Yue pounded the table. "I told you that Zheng Tong's death had nothing to do with me! No, how can you slander others so casually? Do you have any professional ethics?"
After being detained for six hours, Peng Yue finally couldn't stand this kind of cold violence anymore and yelled at the police opposite.
"Let me out!" He lazily leaned back in his chair, his eyes fixed on the ceiling. "It's better to detain Anna than me. She's obviously the more suspicious one!"
"Don't worry, even if it really isn't you, we will let you stay for the full 24 hours." Cheng Xiaoxiang pushed the door open and said this.
Seeing that the person had changed, Peng Yue straightened up and accused again, "Officer, I am really innocent! It was that crazy woman who came to provoke me first! You all saw it, she came with a knife! I didn't do anything!"
Cheng Xiaoxiang calmly opened the notebook and glanced at him. "Really? You didn't do anything? Then what were you doing in the club?"
"Of course it's nonsense..." Peng Yue paused for two seconds and changed his expression, "I feel sad when Zheng Tong died, so I drink to drown my sorrows."
"Heh." Cheng Xiaoxiang sneered, "Peng Yue, you know what 'Shengse' KTV is about better than I do."
Peng Yue pouted his cheek unhappily, and said, "Then I didn't kill anyone."
"Did you kill anyone? Did the police tell you that you killed anyone since you walked in? I think you're just guilty."
He spoke these words in a relaxed manner, as if he was chatting with someone, and he even said them while sorting out documents. The more relaxed the other party appeared, the more flustered Peng Yue's sneaky heart became under the suppression of anger.
"Anna misled me. She has also been brought back. She will definitely frame me."
He said this without any confidence.
Cheng Xiaoxiang stopped joking with him and said seriously, "Since you said you didn't kill anyone, then answer my questions properly so that you don't have to come here again next time."
"Let me ask you, was Zheng Tong playing in the escape room with you guys the day he got into trouble?"
When talking about that day, Peng Yue swallowed twice and said, "Yes."
"She was the one who suggested playing the Chamber of Secrets?"
"...Yes." Peng Yue crossed his arms naturally. "She said she had never played it before. Before this, we played a new book in a newly opened park. Your police officer also knows this. We are together and can testify."
Cheng Xiaoxiang nodded and continued to ask, "Have you ever been dissatisfied with Zheng Tong because of her frequent boyfriend changes?"
Peng Yue's mind suddenly flashed with many images of Zheng Tong humiliating him, but he quickly regained his composure. "Come on, officer, you're a human being too. How can you remain calm when you know your girlfriend is going to cheat on you? No one can."
"So your relationship wasn't good during that time?"
"I can't say it's bad." Peng Yue hesitated, "I have to try to save the relationship, so I'm taking her to try something new."
"Does that include taking drugs?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang's eyes suddenly became sharp, and his gaze was fixed on him.
Peng Yue raised his eyes and looked at her for a few seconds before lowering his head again, ashamedly saying, "Yes. Actually, there's nothing wrong with it. This thing isn't very addictive, and it was Zheng Tong herself who said she wanted to find something exciting to do. I just..."
"You describe drug use so well, why don't you do it yourself?" His feeble rebuttal was forcefully interrupted, and Cheng Xiaoxiang continued his attack, "How did you know about Anna's relationship with the Zheng family?"
Touching the key point, Peng Yue was silent for a long time, and finally said perfunctorily: "I just...found it by chance."
"Accidental?" Cheng Xiaoxiang sneered, "Zheng's parents have been searching for their daughter for over a decade, and you just stumbled upon her? Do you think the police are just freeloaders?"
Peng Yue remembered the interface on his computer that hadn't been closed yet, and said stubbornly: "It was really a coincidence!"
"Okay, if you don't want to talk about it," Cheng Xiaoxiang skipped the question. "We found that your parents' accounts had a remittance of nearly 300,000 yuan in June, July, and early August. Please explain."
As far as they know, Peng Yue's parents passed away when Peng Yue was a freshman in college. His mother died in a car accident and his father died while working at a height.
"Oh...you mean that?" Peng Yue's mental state was indeed not very good. When asked about this, a drop of sweat dripped from his forehead onto the table. "That was my dad's compensation!"
Cheng Xiaoxiang calmly exposed his lies. "Your father's compensation was already transferred into your account in one lump sum. It was three hundred thousand yuan, but you lost it all on gambling. Do you have any other excuses?"
Peng Yue was silent. Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "Peng Yue, you're amazing. You have so much money but you didn't give your parents a proper funeral. You didn't even close your bank account."
Peng Yue's hometown is Yuyang County, and he has never been back there in recent years.
Finally, he seemed to have given up completely, and he relaxed completely, a wicked smile curling up at the corner of his mouth. "I don't know. What if some kind-hearted person put a lot of money into my card? Aren't you police very powerful? Just investigate it yourself."
His attitude turned defiant.
Cheng Xiaoxiang also held his breath. Seeing that he deserved a beating, he gritted his teeth and restrained himself from taking action.
"Okay, then let's talk about why you killed Zheng Tong and how you killed him."
"Hey, hey, hey, your process is wrong. I've already said that I didn't kill him. And you don't have any evidence to just make blind guesses." Peng Yue said arrogantly, and his original guilty conscience and timidity were all gone.
Cheng Xiaoxiang ignored him and continued to talk to himself, "You are with Zheng Tong because you are greedy for her money. If she abandons you, you will lose your source of income. You don't want to lose this long-term meal ticket, so you choose to kill Zheng Tong..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Peng Yue placed his index finger on his palm. "Listen to me, does this make sense? If I need Zheng Tong so much, why would I kill her? Isn't that stupid?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang glanced at him. "You haven't finished yet. Zheng Tong was spoiled and difficult to please since she was a child. In the process of trying to please her, you must have felt her insults towards you. These insults accumulated over time and formed your hatred for her. Coincidentally, you discovered the truth, so killing Zheng Tong and helping Anna return to the Zheng family became your main mission."
"You began planning, trying to get close to Anna while Zheng Tong was away, gaining her trust. At the same time, you also found the best way to kill Zheng Tong: to disguise her death as an accident. It wasn't long before you set your sights on escape rooms; no one would suspect foul play if an incident occurred. After careful selection, you finally found the perfect script to get rid of Zheng Tong: 'Reincarnation.' Choosing this script probably also served as a satire on her. For a reason, you bought the "Water Army Marketing" script on a social media app, and then, logically, invited Zheng Tong to play. That was your initial plan, right?"
He said a lot, but Peng Yue seemed to be distracted.
His brows were furrowed, completely different from his arrogant and provocative look just now.
"I'm with you because I want to show off when I take you out. Otherwise, what do you think I'd like about you?" Zheng Tong sat in front of the makeup mirror, tracing her eyebrows. Her hands were deft and her mouth was full of words. "Peng Yue, don't be so shameless. I'm lucky I can take you along. You know, the people at my party are all wealthy tycoons from all walks of life. You, a country bumpkin, are lucky to even get in. And you complain that the suit I gave you doesn't fit you? You wear it even if it doesn't fit! You're so picky!"
Peng Yue sat on the bed behind him, clutching the sheets angrily. Zheng Tong had her back to him and naturally couldn't see his hateful eyes.
"Don't keep interfering with who I'm with. You'll get tired of eating the same dish every day. You also have to learn to be considerate of me. After all, I have everything and everything is at my fingertips. This is also boring." He turned around and said as a matter of course, "Hey, I can do it, but you can't. After all, I'm the one who supports you now. To put it bluntly, you're like a dog. Dogs are not allowed to betray their masters."
Peng Yue didn't dare show any resistance and could only remain silent.
"Knock, knock, knock." Cheng Xiaoxiang knocked on the table. Peng Yue suddenly came back to his senses, his eyes dodging around, and he covered it up, saying, "That's just your speculation. Don't, don't try to slander me."
He didn't even hear what the other person said.
Chen Anqu, who had witnessed the entire incident from the observation room, drummed his fingers on the table. Peng Yue's condition gave him a new theory. They had originally assumed Peng Yue had approached Anna to curry favor with Zheng Tong in order to secure a long-term meal plan, but now, on reflection, that didn't make sense. Assuming Peng Yue had indeed committed the murder, he knew Zheng Tong would replace him, but there were many ways to extort money, and he wasn't exactly a good person. Why would he kill Zheng Tong? And why would he pin the blame on Anna? The location and circumstances he chose were all connected to Anna. Zheng Tong died in the secret room where Anna worked, on the day she was on duty, and in the hand of the notebook she had written. Why?
What on earth was he trying to do? If he really wanted to get money from these two people, his chances of getting the money would be gone after doing all this. Not to mention Anna escaping his control, once Zheng Tong died, he wouldn't even have the chance to threaten Zheng Tong for the money.
Unless his money didn't come from either of them at all, the fact is, he could only get the money by doing these things.
Card. His parents' card.
Peng Yue's parents passed away, but there has been a continuous deposit into his parents' cards. Someone has been sending him money for six, seven, and eight months. Who is this person who sent him the money?
When Cheng Xiaoxiang interrogated him just now, he was very panicked at first, which shows that his mental state is not very good. But when he was asked about the DNA test later, he refused to answer and even challenged the police. What gave him such confidence? It was the people behind him.
He firmly believed that the person behind this was more powerful than the police, so he shouted at the police.
"Boss! I'm so pissed!" Cheng Xiaoxiang slammed the door open, picked up the cup on the table and drank it all in one gulp. He pointed at the person outside the glass and said, "Damn it! He doesn't answer any questions and even mocks us!"
Cheng Xiaoxiang was very angry. Chen An asked him with interest, "What did he say?"
"You...you didn't hear?" Cheng Xiaoxiang opened his eyes wide, seeming a little incredulous.
"I listened to it and got a general idea of it." Chen, a master of deception, An.
"He said we had no evidence and couldn't keep him in custody. He also said that once he got out, he would never come back, so we had to hold on tight."
evidence……
Chen An's gaze fell on the arrogant young man again. You want evidence, right?
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