Returning to the interrogation room, Cao Gang looked at Zhang Xiuting in front of him and suddenly felt a pang of unease. The girl in front of him, in her twenties, with a delicate appearance, was unimaginable as someone capable of doing such a thing just from her looks.

People can truly be deceiving appearances.

"Zhang Xiuting, is there anything else you're hiding from the police?"

"I've said everything I should have. I really didn't want him to die, nor did I expect it to happen this way." The moment she saw Cao Gang, Zhang Xiuting couldn't stop her tears from flowing. If this wasn't the interrogation room, anyone watching might think Cao Gang had done something execrable to her.

"Then talk about the things you shouldn't say, tell us about what happened between you and Liu Shijie."

Initially weeping, Zhang Xiuting froze for a moment when she heard Cao Gang say this: "Did he say something?"

Cao Gang didn't answer but said ambiguously, "It's your turn now. Don't try to deceive the police. We will get to the bottom of the truth thorough investigation."

Zhang Xiuting assumed Liu Shijie had already confessed, and in that instant, her psychological barrier collapsed too, with her tears flowing like a breached dam.

How can there be so many tears?

Clearly, she had conspired with her lover to kill her husband, yet at this moment, she felt full of grievance with no one to call for injustice.

"Last year, against my family's opposition, I married him, and I was very happy after marriage. But the good times didn't last long; six months later, his attitude towards me suddenly changed. He often didn't come home at night, either always on a business trip, or too busy with work. We fought several times because of this, but each time we argued, he beat me badly. The injuries on my body aren't lying, right? That's when I fully understood his nature and wanted to divorce him."

"Then just divorce. You're still so young. Marrying someone older than your father indeed defies common sense. How many grandfather-granddaughter relationships end happily?"

Cao Gang felt some pity for her, but to be pitied often links to being contemptible. If she had chosen divorce then, the following incidents might not have happened.

"I wanted a divorce, but I was unwilling to just leave. He said if we divorced, I'd leave with nothing. I married him against all odds, and in the end, I got nothing. Is that fair?"

Zhang Xiuting became a bit hysterical: "He messed around outside, yet wanted me to leave with nothing. I didn't agree and was determined to catch him cheating as evidence for a divorce."

"One day, I came across a private detective online, helping people catch mistresses, so I contacted him. He was Liu Shijie. I hired him to catch the mistress, promising him a hundred thousand after completing the task." Zhang Xiuting, saying this, suddenly felt somewhat embarrassed: "But I didn't expect..."

She didn't expect that Liu Shijie, as a private detective, had abysmal business skills. After tracking for two months, he found nothing, yet his sweet-talking skills were maxed, and, attending to her emotional void, she immediately fell for him.

"What didn't you expect? Be clear."

"I didn't expect that he tracked my husband for two months and found nothing, but we frequently contacted each other, and feelings naturally grew."

"And then?"

"He also supported my decision to divorce, saying once I got a divorce, he'd marry me. I didn't want to just leave it like that, so I had him continue investigating until he found evidence of my husband's affair."

"He searched for a while longer, but still found nothing, so he told me he could get his ex-girlfriend to seduce my husband, and that way, we could catch him in the act and blackmail him for money. I thought it was a good idea and agreed, but he said that for his ex-girlfriend's help, I needed to give another hundred thousand; otherwise, she wouldn't help. I agreed."

"You all know what happened next."

As Zhang Xiuting explained the full story, Cao Gang and the others couldn't sustain it anymore, and under the police's Great Memory Recovery Technique, they confessed the case's details.

What was extremely disturbing was when Li Xiang questioned Wang Yunmei again, she was completely unaware of her ex-boyfriend Liu Shijie's connection with Zhang Xiuting.

When Liu Shijie approached her that day, she initially didn't want to meet him, but upon hearing about a lucrative deal that could earn her a hundred thousand in one go, she hesitated.

The real estate industry was in a slump, and she was only getting minimum wage each month; the rent and living expenses suffocated her financially, leading her to agree to meet and hear what money-making opportunity he had.

Upon hearing it was to seduce a rich man and make a hundred thousand in one go, she was immediately tempted, and the two struck a deal, with Liu Shijie providing Cui Mao's location for her to accidentally meet him while handing out flyers.

Cui Mao was indeed lascivious, and with Wang Yunmei's slight hint, he took the bait.

When she found out that all this was a setup by Liu Shijie and Zhang Xiuting, and she was merely used as a tool, she also broke down.

When the team gathered again, everyone's attention naturally turned to Li Xiang.

This time, thanks to Li Xiang, if it weren't for him, everyone might have closed the case quickly, after all, Cui Mao's murder by those three was already an indisputable fact, the guilty parties were identified. Yet, their mixed testimonies contained partial truths, blurring the genuine story.

Without Li Xiang's persistence, and Mao Ji's breaking into Liu Shijie's phone chat records, the truth might have never surfaced.

"Li Xiang just joined our squad and has already played an indispensable role. Feng Da surely brought a valuable asset to our team."

"Captain Cao, you're too kind. I was just doing what I ought to do."

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