Chapter 55: Attacking the Heart
◎It's just for fun, why take it seriously?◎
"It's a pity that she was wearing that dress and saw someone else first."
Zhao Xiangwan spoke very slowly and even paused deliberately in the middle to observe Tan Xueru's reaction.
Perhaps it was because he had just seen an old friend that Tan Xueru was brought back to his past memories. Those scenes that he had deliberately forgotten suddenly flooded into his mind, and Tan Xueru was somewhat unable to control his emotions.
He raised his hands suddenly, but found that they were handcuffed to the armrests of the chair. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "Who is it? Who is it? Who is the man she met first?"
[Who is that man? But she refused to say anything! I cried and lay on top of her, venting my anger like crazy, my hands tightly pinching her neck. Gradually, her body became colder and colder. The moonlight was so beautiful, but her body turned into a corpse.
When I regained my senses, I was so frightened that I tried to deal with the body in a panic. When I watched TV dramas before, the murderer dealt with the body easily, but when it really happened to me, my mind went blank. There was a large bush next to the bluestone beach, with weeds and bushes, and no one usually went there. I dragged the body into the bushes and hid it, then crawled back to the train station and caught the 5 am train. It was almost 9 am when I returned to the guesthouse. After taking a shower, my hands were still shaking.
I spent the whole day in fear, and I went back again at night. This time I brought tools, dug a deep pit, and buried the body. After so long, the body should have decayed, right? No one had ever been to that place, and I buried it deep, so no one would have found it. 】
Zhao Xiangwan listened to this while suppressing his discomfort, his face gradually turning pale.
Seeing Tan Xueru's reaction, Yu Chuxiao felt a mixture of cold and hot, not knowing what she felt in her heart. He cared so much about her mother, and was so jealous of her for wearing a new dress and seeing another man first. Maybe her mother was really harmed by him. Yu Chuxiao sat down and muttered to herself: "Why is it like this? I'm just in love, how can it be so messed up? Give my mother back to me, give her back to me!"
Tan Xueru suddenly grinned and laughed wildly: "You have to ask your mother who her lover is! Although she saw me that night, she slept with another man. Go ask that man for her! Your mother looks like a good woman, but in fact she is a slut. Who knows where she went with that wild man?"
Zhao Xiangwan suddenly asked, "You saw her that night! What time?"
Tan Xueru's thoughts were suddenly pulled back to reality by Zhao Xiangwan. He looked at the sharp-eyed policewoman in front of him warily, his eyes rolled around, and his smile suddenly faded.
[What did I just say? Oh, yes, I said I met Wei Qingwan that night. Why did I say that? Didn't I tell the police before that I was on a business trip in Zhu City, and Lai Kuan testified that we slept in the same room and never went out at night? It's contradictory... What should I do? ]
Tan Xueru started to act like a rogue: "No, I have never met Qingwan. This is all my imagination. After Qingwan disappeared, I went crazy and dreamed about her every day. On the night of September 23, I was on a business trip with Section Chief Lai. He can testify for me that I was on a business trip in Zhu City and had no chance to meet Qingwan at all."
"Bang!"
Zhu Feipeng picked up Lai Kuan's testimony and slammed it in front of Tan Xueru: "Open your dog eyes and see clearly. Lai Kuan has confessed that he was not with you at all between 6pm on September 23, 1990 and 9am on September 24. He gave false testimony for you!"
Tan Xueru's expression suddenly changed. His mind went blank, and he stared at the testimony blankly. He seemed to recognize every word on it, but when they were put together, he had no idea what it meant.
Lai Kuan admitted it?
It has been a year and a half since the incident, how come Lai Kuan told the truth?
Lai Kuan fears his wife like a tiger, so how could he dare to tell her about his recruitment?
Zhu Feipeng saw that his face was flushed, his facial muscles were distorted, and his expression was extremely unnatural. The words Zhao Xiangwan had said and the portrait Ji Zhao had painted flashed through his mind. The experienced Zhu Feipeng immediately realized that this meant that Tan Xueru was suspected of lying and was worried that he would be exposed and his image would be damaged. He felt very anxious.
Zhu Feipeng struck while the iron was hot and imitated Zhao Xiangwan, staring at Tan Xueru with sharp eyes, as if he was a lion hunting. He was observing the prey's every move and looking for the most vulnerable point to attack.
Zhu Feipeng's gaze was too sharp, and Tan Xueru's psychological defense mechanism gradually collapsed. He stammered, "I, I slept in the guesthouse that night. Although Lai Kuan went out to find a woman, I was really sleeping."
Zhao Xiangwan said, "After dinner at six in the evening, you left the guesthouse and went to the train station. At one o'clock, there was a passing train heading to Xing City. What time was it when you arrived? Ten thirty-four? There weren't many people at the Xing City train station at that time. Did the conductor see you?"
As Zhao Xiangwan asked one question after another, Tan Xueru's heart became more and more nervous. Memories mixed with all kinds of negative emotions suddenly flooded into his mind, squeezing it to the point of bursting.
[How did she know that I was taking the 7:30 passing bus? ]
[How did she know that the train station was not crowded? ]
[Did anyone really see me?]
[When I was leaving the station that day, a female train attendant glanced at me. Was she the one who said that? Damn! It's been so long, how come someone still remembers me? I should have known I shouldn't have dressed so neatly. Why did I wear that floral shirt? I'm so slutty that people remember me! ]
Zhao Xiangwan suddenly raised his voice: "Tan Xueru, do you need me to bring the witness over?"
Witness? Tan Xueru shuddered, thinking that someone had really seen him that night and had a deep memory of it. His psychological defenses completely collapsed, and he raised his hands to cover his face and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"I, I did go back to Zhu City at night and met Wei Qingwan. I love her, I miss her, and I missed her so much that my chest ached after only three days of separation. She said she wanted to break up with me, but I couldn't bear it, so I tried hard to persuade her to meet me at night. Even if we were going to break up, we should have said it clearly to each other's face, right?"
The more Yu Chuxiao listened, the paler her face became. She felt like vomiting and she almost vomited on the table.
He Mingyu saw that something was wrong with her, so she quickly came over to support her and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Yu Chuxiao shook her head, raised her right hand, and rubbed her chest with the base of her palm for a long time before she came to her senses. She panted and stared at Tan Xueru with disgust on her face: "Shameless! Shameless! When you broke up with me, why didn't you say that we had to talk it out face to face? You're just being stubborn, bah!"
Yu Chuxiao's mood at this moment was very complicated.
From a woman's perspective, she cannot accept that the man she once loved only has someone else in his heart, and this someone else is her mother who depends on her for everything and says she can give everything for her.
Tan Xueru expressed his love for Wei Qingwan with deep affection, which made Yu Chuxiao feel disgusted.
He Mingyu looked at Yu Chuxiao seriously: "Your mother's life or death is uncertain, and the man in front of you may be her murderer. You are still thinking about why he broke up with you and why he doesn't love you but only your mother?"
Too cold-hearted! Even if Wei Qingwan stole her man, compared to her life, which one is more important?
That was her mother who raised her and loved her all the time.
After hearing what He Mingyu said, Yu Chuxiao was obviously stunned for a moment. Then he remembered that he was investigating the truth behind his mother's disappearance. He didn't know why he had completely forgotten his original intention when he saw Tan Xueru. He only wanted to blame and scold this irresponsible man.
Yu Chuxiao reacted and stared at Tan Xueru again, her eyes slightly red, and she finally came to her senses: "Did you harm my mother? There has been no news for so many years, did you harm her?! Tell me!"
Tan Xueru didn't say anything, his mind was torn between an inner struggle and a desire to do good.
[What should I say? What should I do? I have already admitted to meeting Wei Qingwan in the early morning of the 24th. How can I get rid of the suspicion of murder? I have met her, and Lai Kuan, that bastard, has told the truth. It seems that I have no choice but to admit it. Don't be afraid, I just met her. I can admit that I had a relationship with Wei Qingwan, but I absolutely, absolutely cannot admit to the crime of murder! ]
Thinking of this, Tan Xueru shook his head and said, "No, I didn't hurt her. Your mother had a relationship with another man. She must have met me, broke up with me, and then went back to see other men and disappeared."
He suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhu Feipeng steadily: "Comrade police officer, I did see Qingwan at night. She was wearing very light clothes that day, and there were traces of kisses on her neck, chest, and thighs. You know what I mean, right? She had other men besides me. After she saw me, she broke up with me and left. I sat there in a daze, and when my heart was chilled, I went back to the train station and took the train back to Zhu City."
Zhu Feipeng quickly caught the loophole in his words and asked: "Where did you meet?"
Tan Xueru opened his mouth, looking a little flustered.
As long as we tell the meeting place, the body will be dumped nearby. What if the police find it?
"Zao River, by the Zao River. If we start from the train station, isn't Zao River the nearest meeting place? I remember there are a lot of willow trees there. Let's meet under the willow trees."
"Which willow tree?"
"It's been so long, who can still remember it?"
"How long does it take to walk from the train station to the meeting place? Twenty minutes? Thirty minutes? Forty minutes?"
Although Zhu Feipeng wanted to imitate Zhao Xiangwan's questioning style and force out the correct answer, unfortunately, Tan Xueru's facial muscles were tense and his eyes were wandering, so his micro-expressions could not be seen. Zhu Feipeng turned his head and glanced at Zhao Xiangwan, with help in his eyes.
Zhao Xiangwan nodded slightly, and then continued to ask questions following Zhu Feipeng's words.
"After leaving the train station, do you walk, take a tricycle, or take a minibus?"
"Very good, you walked to the Zao River. How long did it take you? The moonlight was very bright that day. Didn't you meet anyone on the way? It took you about 20 or 30 minutes without you noticing?"
"Oh, thirty minutes. Walk along Zhanqian Road towards Zaohe River. Where is it approximately?"
Zhao Xiangwan paused for a moment and started doing mental arithmetic.
He Mingyu is a quick calculator and gave an answer immediately: "The walking speed is 60 to 100 meters per minute. He walked about 1,600 to 3,000 meters."
The three of them had already cooperated tacitly. Zhu Feipeng took out the map of Xing City, pointed at the map with his hand, and started along the road in front of the station. He drew a circle at the location of the thirty-minute journey: "Here!"
Zhao Xiangwanfeng narrowed his eyes and stared closely at Tan Xueru's expression: "You are waiting for her here? Do you remember what the surrounding environment has? A lot of willow trees?"
Tan Xueru was confused and nodded desperately: "Yes, yes, yes, there are many willow trees in that place."
"There are no stones along the river?"
"No, no, not a single stone."
Tan Xueru's face flushed and his eyes wandered. Zhu Feipeng, who had been trained in micro-expression behavioral theory to have accurate judgment, immediately said, "You are lying!"
Tan Xueru forced a smile and said, "I, I am telling the truth."
Zhao Xiangwan nodded approvingly to Zhu Feipeng, "Yes! He is lying. There were no willow trees where he and Wei Qingwan had their tryst. There were lots of rocks instead."
As soon as these words came out, Tan Xueru raised his head abruptly, his pupils shrank, his eyelids trembled, and he squeezed out a word from his throat with difficulty: "No——"
Zhao Xiangwan smiled and said, "Very good, it seems I was right."
Zhu Feipeng immediately followed up: "Okay, I will notify Zhu Kang and the others immediately, and search this area and the rocky beach next to the Zao River. He told Qian Yong after drinking that if someone was killed and buried by the Zao River, as long as the body is found, he can be convicted!"
Tan Xueru's expression became even more nervous, and his whole body began to tremble.
[What should I do? I buried the body not far from the rocky beach, under the holly tree in the bushes. If the police really go to dig it up, what should I do?]
Hearing these words, Zhao Xiangwan stood up and said, "Brother Zhu, take him with you. Let's go out with Brother Zhu to find the body!"
Tan Xueru gripped the armrests of the iron chair tightly with both hands, shook his head desperately, and a "ho ho" sound came out of his throat.
Zhu Feipeng sneered and grabbed him: "Let's go!"
The group arrived at the crime scene. There was a bush about ten meters away from the bluestone beach. There were thorns everywhere, reeds were enough to cover a person, and various trees grew randomly. Normally, no one would go in there.
The July sun was extremely scorching, pouring down, making the bushes less eerie.
Without Zhao Xiangwan's guidance, Zhu Feipeng judged from the degree of Tan Xueru's resistance that the body must be buried in this bush.
Leading the group into the bushes, Tan Xueru refused to move forward and fell to the ground, holding his head and shouting, "I can't walk anymore! I can't walk anymore!"
How could Zhao Xiangwan let him escape? He squatted in front of him, raised his right hand, and drew it lightly in the air: "Here? Here? Here?"
Tan Xueru refused to raise his head.
Returning to this horrible place, Tan Xueru's psychological defenses completely collapsed, and he kept shouting, "It's not me, it's not me, I didn't, I didn't kill anyone——"
Zhao Xiangwan pointed with his right hand: "This land is not fertile enough, but the tree with thorny leaves is growing well..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tan Xueru curled up into a ball, his whole body stiff, but his eyes looked involuntarily towards the not-so-strong holly tree on the west side of the bushes.
Freeze reaction! The more nervous he is, the more he will stare at the thing that scares him.
Zhu Feipeng suddenly had an idea. He walked over quickly, pointed at the holly tree, and shouted, "Dig!"
When the body was dug out, all the police officers at the scene felt a chill run down their spines.
After more than a year, the muscles had already decayed, leaving only white bones.
Among the remaining rags and worn-out clothes, one could vaguely make out that it was a piece of black cloth with hollow flowers - this was the black skirt that Wei Qingwan was wearing before she disappeared.
It will take some time for DNA testing to confirm the identity of the body, but everyone knows that this is Wei Qingwan.
The serious crime unit formally arrested Tan Xueru, but he suddenly changed his face and acted like a rogue: "I only met Wei Qingwan, I didn't kill her, I don't know why there was a body buried there. Wei Qingwan saw me fooling around with my lover before, so she must have been killed by that lover after I left. Yes! That man hated her for playing two-timing, so he killed her and dismembered her body. What a beast."
"I didn't say anything. You guys just guessed and dug it out by chance."
"It doesn't have to be Wei Qingwan, right? That's just a wandering ghost."
"Who said I killed him? I didn't say anything."
Perhaps the most worrying thing has already happened. After Wei Qingwan's body was dug out, Tan Xueru, who was originally trembling with fear, seemed to have broken through some kind of shackles and actually became relieved.
He was now clear-headed and logical, and he spoke eloquently to the police, even taking the initiative to ask, "Police comrade, have you had dinner? The emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. It's almost six o'clock, why don't you get off work?"
After extreme fear, some people will have traumatic stress reaction, some will have anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder, but Tan Xueru is special.
——His body turned on the "dissociation" mode and entered a state of self-protection.
The so-called dissociation mode usually means that the mind is blank, there is no emotion psychologically, and in terms of behavior, people will act very rationally, so that people can't see any signs of fear. It's as if the feared thing has completely disappeared, leaving no trace on him.
Zhao Xiangwan pursed his lips, feeling that the situation was a bit tricky. This dissociative state of mind would make Tan Xueru act very rationally, which would increase the difficulty of the interrogation.
Zhu Feipeng, Zhao Xiangwan and He Mingyu all frowned, feeling deeply exhausted. They felt they no longer had the energy to tangle with Tan Xueru.
After a busy day of interrogation, exhumation, identification, and continued interrogation, everyone ate a few mouthfuls of food in a hurry and then returned to their busy work. It was already 5:30. Normally, everyone would have gone to the cafeteria with their lunch boxes to eat happily at this time, but Tan Xueru had changed his confession and denied what he had previously admitted.
Zhu Feipeng rubbed his brows and said, "Whether the person is Wei Qingwan, the forensic doctor will have a result soon. You said that after Wei Qingwan saw you, she broke up with you and left, and you sat there for a long time before returning to the train station and taking the 5 o'clock train back to Zhu City. If that man killed someone at night and dismembered the body, and buried the body in the bushes where you met, wouldn't it alarm you?"
Tan Xueru refused to admit it: "I don't know how long I sat there, maybe one minute, maybe two minutes? Anyway, I left very quickly. As for why Wei Qingwan disappeared, and whether her lover killed her, you can go and interrogate him. Why are you forcing me to ask?"
Tan Xueru was not wrong, Liang Chenghong was indeed a suspect in murder.
—— Liang Chenghong followed Wei Qingwan and had the idea of killing her after seeing her having a tryst with Tan Xueru. Liang Chenghong had been secretly in love with Wei Qingwan for so many years, and he watched her having sex with another man. He was jealous and it was not impossible for him to kill her and then dump her body.
Zhao Xiangwan could see that everyone's energy had been drained out, so he lowered his head and said a few words to He Mingyu, then walked out of the interrogation room, washed his face with cold water, and drank a big sip of cool tea. Only then did he pull himself together and went into the next interrogation room with Gao Guangqiang and Liu Liangju.
Liang Chenghong was completely at a loss and in a state of panic. Ever since Zhu Feipeng and others brought him to the Municipal Bureau, no one had cared about him, and no one had told him about the progress of the case. He had no idea how to deal with the situation.
In the last second he was a respected engineer at the Provincial Machinery Factory, but in the next second he was "invited" to the Public Security Bureau. No one responded to him no matter how long he waited. What happened?
Liang Chenghong felt as if there was a huge pot on his head, blocking out all the light. It was so dark and oppressive that he couldn't breathe.
Finally seeing someone coming in, Liang Chenghong's eyes lit up extremely brightly, as if he had seen a relative. He leaned forward and asked anxiously: "Comrade police, what's going on? What happened to Wei Qingwan? What did I do wrong to lock me up here?"
Gao Guangqiang is older, more steady, and gives people a strong sense of trust. Liang Chenghong's eyes were fixed on him. If he had not been unable to move, he would have rushed over to grab Gao Guangqiang's hand and begged him to tell him the truth so that he could understand his situation.
Zhao Xiangwan stood aside, Liu Liangju took notes, and Gao Guangqiang was in charge of interrogation.
"Liang Chenghong?" Gao Guangqiang's voice was deep and had the kindness of an elder, which could easily make people let down their guard.
"Yes, yes, it's me." Liang Chenghong had been ignored for so long and was eager for someone to talk to him.
"Wei Qingwan may have been killed."
Liang Chenghong was so frightened that he almost knocked over his chair. The police said that she might have been murdered and restarted the investigation. Wei Qingwan was probably dead.
"How could it be? How could she be killed? Who did it?" Liang Chenghong realized it belatedly and broke out in a cold sweat. If Wei Qingwan was already dead, and he had concealed important clues and was taken to the police station... Did the police suspect that he was the one who did it?
The first person Liang Chenghong thought of was a person, and he shouted, "It was Tan Xueru! It must have been Tan Xueru who did it! He was dating Qingwan that night, and it must have been Qingwan who broke up with him and angered him, so he killed someone."
Gao Guangqiang said slowly: "Oh, Tan Xueru said it was you who did it."
When Liang Chenghong heard Tan Xueru accusing him of killing Wei Qingwan, he was so frightened that his soul left his body. Tears and snot flowed all at once. He no longer had the image of a senior engineer at Sihao Machinery Factory and begged desperately.
"It's not me. It's really not me. I forced Wei Qingwan to be with me once, and then I let her go. I was thinking that I could use her affair with Tan Xueru to get back together a few more times, but I didn't expect that she disappeared after that night. I was a little scared at the time, afraid that I would be dragged into it, so I didn't say anything. How could I know that she was murdered? I definitely didn't kill anyone. I'm a coward. I don't even dare to kill a chicken, so how could I dare to kill someone?"
It was this idiot who harmed people! If he hadn't interfered, Wei Qingwan wouldn't have died.
There are always some villains in this world who dare not do anything extremely evil and only do small bad things secretly. However, it is often these small bad things that lead to extreme evil happening.
"Do you dare to confront me?" Zhao Xiangwan asked.
Liang Chenghong nodded hurriedly: "Dare, dare, dare! I didn't kill the person, I'm not afraid."
Zhao Xiangwan looked up at Gao Guangqiang and said, "Let Liang Chenghong and Tan Xueru meet." Who was the lover who had sex with Wei Qingwan that night was a knot in Tan Xueru's heart. It might be better to use Liang Chenghong to stimulate Tan Xueru, which might be effective.
Gao Guangqiang is hesitating.
Liu Liangju was very supportive: "Okay!"
Gao Guangqiang could see that Zhao Xiangwan, the youngest member of the Serious Crime Unit, was the backbone of the group. It had become a habit for them to listen to her on all matters, big or small.
Thinking of Zhao Xiangwan's various behaviors after he came to the Serious Case Team, Gao Guangqiang nodded and said, "Okay, you go and talk to Zhu Feipeng first, and I'll bring Liang Chenghong over in ten minutes."
Gao Guangqiang acted cautiously. Even when the two suspects were locked in an interrogation room for a confrontation, he still had to ask for permission from his leader to avoid causing any trouble.
Zhao Xiangwan looked at Gao Guangqiang deeply, his eyes bright.
Police investigations are not just about interrogation and winning over the minds of the people. In order to ensure fairness and justice, there are also standardized procedures. This is where I am lacking and I still have to learn more from my predecessors.
Zhao Xiangwan walked back into interrogation room No. 1. The atmosphere inside was somewhat tense.
Zhu Feipeng and He Mingyu were exhausted and lacked energy after a whole day of running around.
Tan Xueru entered a state of "dissociation", excited yet calm.
One gains while the other loses.
Zhu Feipeng could no longer suppress Tan Xueru's momentum and was gradually led away by him. When He Mingyu reminded him, Zhu Feipeng realized the problem, stopped asking questions, and fell silent.
Tan Xueru smiled sincerely, and the muscles around his eyes were actively involved. When he squinted, his eyelids looked heavy.
"Comrade police, I admit that I had a sexual relationship with Wei Qingwan, and I also admit that I met her on the night of the 23rd, but I really forgot the specific rendezvous location. There were many willow trees and few stones. Those are all vague memories of mine. It is possible that something went wrong. It was you, ah, yes, the young female police comrade who just came in, who inexplicably said that a dead body was dug up in Qingshi Beach. It was so scary. I didn't kill anyone, so don't wrongly accuse a good person."
Zhao Xiangwan walked up to Zhu Feipeng and whispered a few words in his ear.
Zhu Feipeng nodded: "Okay."
Tan Xueru couldn't hear their conversation clearly, but he teased them: "What are you talking about in a low voice?"
Are you trying to trick me into confessing? I'm telling you, I didn't kill anyone. Don't think of tricking me into confessing or forcing me to confess! I know you policemen, as long as you force someone to confess, you can close the case and get the reward, right?"
Zhu Feipeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and snorted coldly.
After Zhao Xiangwan sat down, he lowered his head, bent down, and dragged the chair to move himself closer to the table.
"Click--" As the iron chair was dragged, it scraped against the floor, making a harsh sound.
Tan Xueru looked at her slightly clumsy movements and childish eyes, and couldn't help laughing. When he was arrested by the police, he thought the Public Security Bureau was such a gloomy and scary place. After a few confrontations, he suddenly realized that this was not an ancient government office. The police handled the case according to the law, evidence, and procedures. As long as he didn't admit it, the police couldn't convict him!
[What about talking to Qian Yong about murder? That was just drunken nonsense]
[What's wrong with dating Wei Qingwan? The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried, so what's there to be afraid of in a normal relationship. 】
[What's wrong with meeting Wei Qingwan that night? I just met her, and I also provided favorable evidence: Wei Qingwan had another lover. ]
[Are you to blame me for digging up the body? You police officers dug it out yourselves. It has nothing to do with me.]
Zhao Xiangwan met his slightly mocking gaze and raised his eyebrows.
Zhao Xiangwan had long eyebrows and a pair of phoenix eyes. Whenever he moved his eyebrows, he looked stern and fierce, which made Tan Xueru's heart shrink.
Zhao Xiangwan: "By the way, you said someone else killed Wei Qingwan, who was it?"
Tan Xueru: "Before I met her, she had obviously slept with another man. It must have been that man who did it."
Zhao Xiangwan brought up the old topic again: "Do you know who that person is?"
Tan Xueru narrowed his eyes, and his focus seemed to be somewhat lost.
[Who is this man? The police have been unwilling to tell me. Why did Wei Qingwan have sex with him before meeting me? Were her claims of loving me and being obsessed with my body all lies? Did I break up with Yu Chuxiao for her, be her secret lover, and not be afraid of worldly views for her, but in the end I ended up with a broken heart?]
After graduating from high school, Tan Xueru went out to work as a temporary worker in a shoe factory. He always felt a sense of loneliness in this strange city. In the dead of night, he always looked at the moonlight and thought sadly, when will he have a home in this city that truly belongs to him?
He thought that as long as he married Yu Chuxiao, he would be able to settle down, but he was wrong. Yu Chuxiao was young and innocent, and she only knew about romance all day long. After being with her, he could only live in a rented house, and he had to cook and wash clothes by himself, and coax her like a princess, which was tiring.
Being with Wei Qingwan was different. Wei Qingwan fit him physically, had no demands on him, and took care of him tenderly. Although Wei Qingwan was a dozen years older than him, she made up for the sense of security he had always longed for. Gradually, he put his heart into her and began to demand "only" and "forever".
Zhao Xiangwan interrupted his reverie and said, "We have visited people who know the situation at the Provincial Machinery Factory again these past two days. Do you know what they think of you?"
Tan Xueru shrugged nonchalantly, "What can I say? It's just that we have a big age gap. I was in a relationship with Yu Chuxiao before, so we are not a good match. I don't care about these things. What's wrong with being older? As long as we both feel good about it. What's wrong with being in a relationship with her daughter? Love is free now, what's there to be afraid of? Who doesn't talk about others in front of others, and who doesn't have people talk about them behind their backs? Those people are just jealous, let them talk."
A mocking smile gradually appeared on the corners of Zhao Xiangwan's mouth. She shook her head: "No, Wei Qingwan's best friend knows what happened between you two. She told us a secret. Her name is Wei Meihua. Have you heard of this name?"
Tan Xueru was attracted by Zhao Xiangwan's words and nodded involuntarily: "I know her. Qingwan once told me that because we have the same surname and similar personalities, we call each other sisters. What did she say?"
"Do you know why Wei Qingwan is dating you?"
"Qingwan said that she had been a widow for many years and had been introduced to many men by others, but she didn't like any of them. But when Xiao brought me home, she was deeply attracted by my youthful vitality and artistic temperament."
"mistaken!"
Zhao Xiangwan has the ability to read people's minds, so if he wants to stab someone in the heart, he can do it with absolute accuracy.
"The reason why Wei Qingwan is dating you is just to break up you and Yu Chuxiao. She doesn't like you at all. She just doesn't like you at all!"
The calmness on Tan Xueru's face was broken.
All kinds of past events came to my mind, and all my doubts were suddenly explained reasonably.
It was Wei Qingwan who took the initiative to express her love, but why did she suddenly become sensitive and thoughtful after he broke up with Yu Chuxiao, and proposed to break up from time to time? Yu Chuxiao went to Jiangcheng for training on September 1st, and he broke up with her on the phone on the 5th, and then Wei Qingwan said on the 10th that this would not lead to any results and proposed to break up.
If I hadn't been so entangled, if Wei Qingwan hadn't still been somewhat obsessed with his body, it probably wouldn't have lasted until late September.
So...so that's it!
I put my whole heart into her and planned to marry her regardless of the age difference, but in the end I am just a joke?
Tan Xueru's forehead was bulging with veins, his hands were tightly pinched, and suddenly he laughed: "Oh, good, very good."
[So she has been playing with me all along? Then I can kill her and no longer feel guilty. That's great.]
Zhao Xiangwan saw that his calm expression began to change, and continued to add: "Wei Qingwan has a suitor, and they are planning to get married. She went to see you that day just to officially end the relationship with you. Do you want to meet her fiancé?"
Meet Wei Qingwan's fiancé? Meet the man whose name she refused to reveal before she died? Faced with a huge temptation, Tan Xueru nodded: "Okay, I'll meet him!"
Just at this moment, Liang Chenghong walked in with his head hung and a sad look on his face.
Bald head, middle-aged obesity, loose skin and flesh, wrinkles all over the face, and a gray look.
——That’s it?
That's it?
Tan Xueru suddenly felt that he had been fooled.
Wei Qingwan was determined to break up with me, and the man she wanted to marry was such a person?
Overcome by a strong feeling of reluctance and inexplicable humiliation, Tan Xueru stood up abruptly, only to find that the handcuffs had fixed him to the chair and he could not move at all.
His eyes became increasingly crazy.
——Now is the time to attack!
Zhao Xiangwan whispered softly without waiting for Liang Chenghong to speak or Gao Guangqiang to settle the suspect.
"Wei Qingwan is good to you, but she is greedy for your youth and good health. But people will not be young forever, and your health can't always be so good. When a woman looks for a man, she still has to look for a man who can live with her, a man with money, a formal job, and status, such as... him, not you."
How could Tan Xueru, a young literary man who prided himself on being a romantic and charming man and who attracted countless young girls, tolerate such words?
The gold that he had worked so hard to put on his face was suddenly torn off by the policeman. Tan Xueru was ashamed and angry at the ugly and vulgar middle-aged man in front of him.
I am not as good as him? I am not even as good as him?
Tan Xueru's voice became sharp: "Bitch! Bitch! I killed her——"
Zhao Xiangwan glanced at He Mingyu and said, "You don't have the courage."
The provocation worked, and Tan Xueru gritted his teeth and said, "I have it!"
Zhao Xiangwan laughed: "It's just for fun, why take it seriously?"
Tan Xueru's expression suddenly became excited: "Comrade police, I want to surrender myself, I want to surrender myself! I want to expose the true face of this stinky woman Wei Qingwan——"
She dared to play with him, what was the point of just letting her die? He wanted to ruin her reputation!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
