Li Donglin was at the fingerprint battle scene, shocked when Lu Chuan matched another murder case, in the interrogation room of the Qianzhou City Criminal Investigation Team.

The arrest went very smoothly. After the high school student was killed, the police never gave up, but the case actually had little impact on the family.

The victim's father was disabled, and just being able to stay alive was already good enough for him.

He had no other way but to pin his hopes on the police regarding his son's death.

The child's mother and stepfather didn't seem to mourn for long after the incident.

Within less than half a year, the child they conceived was born, and they both plunged into a new life.

Thirteen years passed, and it seemed everything from back then had long faded away.

Had it not been for Lu Chuan successfully matching the fingerprints, Sun Jicheng and Wang Huihui's newly formed family might have had a beautiful future, and the sins of the past would never have been redressed.

Sun Jicheng was just over forty at the time, now he's over fifty, with some gray in his hair.

Under the spotlight, Sun Jicheng looked even older with handcuffs on.

Interrogating Sun Jicheng was Hao Yong, the deputy captain of the Qianzhou City Criminal Investigation Team.

He was the one in charge of this case back then.

Hao Yong had interacted with Sun Jicheng more than once.

Not just back then, even in the past thirteen years, whenever there was a clue, at least a call would be made to Sun Jicheng.

But Hao Yong never expected that the person who killed that high school student was actually the child's stepfather!

"Sun Jicheng...the bloody fingerprints extracted from the murder weapon back then, are yours!"

Sun Jicheng sat trembling on the interrogation chair.

He didn't dare to meet Hao Yong's eyes.

His forehead was all sweaty, muttering unconsciously under his breath.

"Not me...not me...not me..."

Hao Yong sighed.

Since being arrested, Sun Jicheng had been in this disoriented state.

And rightly so, it had been thirteen years, he hadn't been suspected all these years, why was he caught now?

Next door, Sun Jicheng's wife, the biological mother of the victim, Wang Huihui, was also being questioned.

"Wang Huihui, you testified that Sun Jicheng wasn't at the crime scene back then, what do you have to say now?"

Sun Jicheng wasn't out of suspicion range.

But Wang Huihui testified for Sun Jicheng back then, saying that at the time of the incident, he went to the factory to pick her up.

Because she was working overtime, she asked her brother, who lived near the child, to send food to the child, thus discovering the child was murdered.

So, Sun Jicheng got out of suspicion.

But now, it seemed Wang Huihui had given false testimony.

Clearly, logically speaking, Wang Huihui must have known her biological son was killed by her second husband.

So, why did Wang Huihui give false testimony?

On one side was her own flesh and blood, and on the other was her second husband.

"Ms. Wang, the bloody fingerprint on the weapon that killed Chen Xiaosong has been confirmed to be Sun Jicheng's."

"The perpetrator is beyond doubt, so why did you give false testimony for him back then?"

"What method did Sun Jicheng use to deceive or threaten you into giving false testimony?"

Chen Ying, although a woman, specialized in preliminary examination of female criminal suspects in the Criminal Investigation Team.

While Wang Huihui was being questioned, not officially interrogated, she was suspected of giving false testimony. If it was voluntary, then Wang Huihui had already committed a crime.

If it was by deception, intimidation, or threat, it would be a different situation.

However, faced with Chen Ying's question, Wang Huihui remained silent, saying nothing.

Moreover, Wang Huihui didn't seem to have any joy that should've appeared on her.

After all, her biological son was murdered thirteen years ago, and now the injustice had been redressed, yet Wang Huihui showed no emotion.

Could it be because the murderer was her husband, so she's neither happy about the case being solved nor angry about her husband killing her son?

"I...Officer Hao! I really didn't kill anyone!"

In the interrogation room next door, Sun Jicheng seemed to finally recover from the shock of being arrested.

"You have to believe me, thirteen years ago, I wasn't at the scene, my wife! Wang Huihui can testify for me!"

"I wasn't at the scene, how could I kill anyone?"

"Sun Jicheng!"

Hao Yong slammed the fingerprint identification analysis report in front of Sun Jicheng.

"Even at this point, you still want to argue?"

"The murder weapon that killed Chen Xiaosong has your bloody fingerprints on it!"

"If it's not you, then who?"

"Wang Huihui is being questioned next door, she has confessed, saying she was deceived by you into giving false testimony."

"Wang Huihui has retracted her statement; you didn't go to the factory to pick her up back then. What else do you have to say?"

Hmm?

Sun Jicheng suddenly froze: "She...said I deceived her...gave false testimony?"

Hao Yong nodded affirmatively: "Wang Huihui's signed statement is next door, she has already gone home, do you want me to bring it over for you to see?"

Of course, the reality was that Wang Huihui hadn't said a word next door.

But that didn't prevent Hao Yong from using wording beneficial for extracting a confession from Sun Jicheng.

Separate interrogations are meant to prevent conferring testimonies, after all.

"Impossible...she couldn't have betrayed me...she said she loved me, we have a child...child..."

"Haha, you're lying to me!"

"Officer Hao, my wife couldn't have betrayed me!"

"Sun Jicheng, nothing is impossible, you killed Wang Huihui's biological son, after all."

Hao Yong picked up the walkie-talkie: "Bring over the signed statements from Wang Huihui for Sun Jicheng to see."

Putting down the walkie-talkie, Hao Yong stood up, walked to Sun Jicheng: "Sun Jicheng, I don't know what method you used to make Wang Huihui testify falsely for you for thirteen years."

"But remember, you killed Wang Huihui's biological son. Maybe she didn't know at first that it was you."

"But now with the fingerprint evidence, you're the murderer, do you still think she can continue giving false testimony for you?"

"No no, impossible!"

Sun Jicheng shook his head wildly: "She couldn't have betrayed me!"

"I want to see her! I want to see her!"

"See her?"

Hao Yong laughed: "Sun Jicheng, Wang Huihui has gone home. If you want to see her again, you probably have to wait until the trial to see her for the last time."

"She…went home?"

Only those who are arrested know how important freedom is.

Hao Yong emphasized that Wang Huihui had gone home, deliberately to agitate Sun Jicheng.

"How can she go home?"

"Why can she go home!"

"We killed the person together!"

"Why can she go home?!"

Hao Yong was shocked watching Sun Jicheng's hysterics: "You...what did you say?"

"You two killed the person together?"

"Haha, of course, we killed the person together, otherwise how could Wang Huihui have given false testimony for me!"

"If I'm to die, impossible!"

"Nobody gets away!"

Coming back from the shock, Hao Yong stared intently into Sun Jicheng's eyes: "Tell me, all the details, how did you and she kill Chen Xiaosong!"

"Why did you kill him?"

"Heh heh, why, he wasn't my son, why should I raise him?"

"High school itself cost a lot, and university would cost even more money later, wouldn't it?"

"His disabled father couldn't manage him, better to kill and save trouble, kill him, and focus on raising our own child, isn't that better?"

Sun Jicheng began to confess, neurotically recounting everything about the crime.

"You don't know, that little beast was strong; when I wanted to kill him, I couldn't hold him down."

"But when his mother came over to help hold him down, the kid immediately stopped struggling, and I stabbed him instantly. Then, worried he wasn't dead, I stabbed him a few more times."

"After killing, we took money from home, forged a robbery and murder scene, then sneaked out to Wang Huihui's factory, pretended to work overtime, and had the uncle bring food to the kid so that an alarm could be raised."

Sun Jicheng confessed thoroughly, but what he confessed made Hao Yong and the others...find it hard to accept.

Especially the process of killing.

The child was too strong, he couldn't restrain him alone, but when Chen Xiaosong's mother helped, Chen Xiaosong immediately stopped struggling.

Hao Yong and others found it hard to imagine the despair Chen Xiaosong must have felt, seeing his own mother restraining him, as he was being murdered!

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