SS Chapter 22

Ye Xiaochen glanced at Long Xinyu, then secretly sized up Rao Xian.

Rao Xian’s face was unreadable, as if waiting for Ye Xiaochen to continue.

But Ye Xiaochen stopped talking.

Rao Xian asked, “Is that how the case is? Then what do you need my help with?”

Ye Xiaochen was stunned for a moment, sniffed, and said truthfully, “I do like Cheng Yang, but I’m not blindly defending him. Because I like him, I pay attention to him and understand him. He is definitely not a brutal person. And Yang Miaoting is my classmate, I also understand Yang Miaoting, Rao-dage, they were fine the day before the incident. I even saw them eating, dating, and watching a movie. The next day, they were both dead, bound and bled. This has a process. This… this isn’t the behavior of committing a crime! Besides, Yang Miaoting is a person, wouldn’t she struggle and explain? … Also, what kind of conflict can develop into murder!”

Ye Xiaochen’s voice was choked with sobs. She wiped her nose, somewhat incoherently as if questioning. She liked Cheng Yang, and believed Rao Xian could see that. So even if she wasn’t Cheng Yang’s girlfriend, Ye Xiaochen couldn’t bear to see Cheng Yang bear the notorious name of a murderer. In her impression, Cheng Yang had always been a handsome boy with a gentle smile, how could he suddenly change his personality so drastically and commit murder and bloodletting? She didn’t believe it.

Ye Xiaochen’s stubbornness made Rao Xian unconvinced. They had handled many criminal acts that were caused by impulsiveness.

Long Xinyu, who was listening on the side, was troubled by the name “Yang Miaoting”. He flicked the ash of his cigarette and muttered, “Why does this name Yang Miaoting sound so familiar!”

Hearing this, Rao Xian and Ye Xiaochen both looked at him.

Ye Xiaochen had already sensed Rao Xian’s disapproval. As if grabbing a lifeline, she took out her phone and showed Long Xinyu a photo, “This is Yang Miaoting, do you know her?”

Long Xinyu lowered his eyes, saw the girl in Ye Xiaochen’s phone, and was shocked. He reached out and took the phone, identified her, and handed it to Rao Xian, “I was wondering why this name sounded so familiar. This Yang Miaoting is from Luo Pingping’s fan club. The day Wang Ling committed suicide, she was also there. She participated in threatening me.”

Rao Xian took the phone and looked at the boy on the screen. Slightly chubby, not particularly outstanding in appearance, but looked very gentle. Rao Xian recalled and remembered seeing Wang Ling and this Yang Miaoting talking in the video of Wang Ling’s suicide. It seemed that another victim related to Wang Ling’s case had been added.

Hearing Long Xinyu’s words, Ye Xiaochen said softly, “Yang Miaoting really liked Luo Pingping’s songs and joined her fan club, but the fan club disbanded because of Wang Ling.”

Wang Ling’s obsession with chasing stars to the point of suicide had caused a lot of discussion at the school. Although the school controlled the news, there were no airtight walls, and Ye Xiaochen had also heard about it.

Seeing that he had agreed, Ye Xiaochen felt a stone fall from her heart. She hugged her phone, nodded lightly, and said loudly, “Thank you, Rao-dage.”

Seeing Ye Xiaochen leave, Long Xinyu opened the car door and called Rao Xian to get in.

As Long Xinyu started the car, he thought about Yang Miaoting’s death, took a puff of cigarette. The smoke choked Rao Xian, Long Xinyu realized and quickly extinguished the cigarette, concentrating on driving.

Along the way, Rao Xian was typing information into his phone. Before long, the phone vibrated with incoming messages. Rao Xian looked at the messages one by one.

While waiting at a red light, Long Xinyu leaned over to glance and saw that Rao Xian was looking at a photo. The pale body, the hideous, gaping wounds, the scalp covered in blood clots – so bloody!

Without looking closely, he knew that it was most likely the crime scene photos of Yang Miaoting and Cheng Yang’s case. Long Xinyu looked at Rao Xian’s unchanging expression and clicked his tongue in amazement.

All the way, Rao Xian was looking at his phone, and Long Xinyu didn’t bother him.

Soon, Long Xinyu’s house arrived, and Rao Xian also put away his phone.

Long Xinyu took Rao Xian home. The house he had moved into this time was a two-story villa, with the dining room, living room, kitchen, and gym on the first floor; the second floor had a study, guest room, and bedroom.

Sha Rou had already arrived, and Xiang Ze opened the door for her. Poor Assistant Xiang, on Saturday, was caught by the unscrupulous boss to help Rao Xian move.

Sha Rou walked around Long Xinyu’s house and found that Xiang Ze had already arranged for people to put Rao Xian’s things in place, leaving only some personal items for Rao Xian to unpack himself.

Who knew that as soon as Long Xinyu and Rao Xian returned, Rao Xian, without even looking at the half-moved house, called Sha Rou over and said that a murder had occurred at Chongda University. One of the dead was from Luo Pingping’s fan club, named Yang Miaoting. The case was handed over to the branch office and was being classified as a “crime of passion”. However, Cheng Yang, who was considered the perpetrator, died at the scene, and the branch office was preparing to close the case. He had already notified Shao Hui to see if it was related to Wang Ling’s case.

In fact, Rao Xian’s paperwork had already been approved, but their bureau chief didn’t want to let him go and planned to hold onto the paperwork for a while to see if Rao Xian would change his mind.

Rao Xian knew this, Huo Lenggang had suggested that he stay in the bureau and transfer to an internal affairs position, but he had already made a decision.

Sha Rou also knew Rao Xian’s concerns and felt a little sad for him, but she didn’t show it. Moreover, Shao Hui’s attitude was quite subtle, and she saw it. She just said, “Then I’ll go first.” Then she said to Long Xinyu, “Take good care of our Captain!”

Long Xinyu gave Xiang Ze a look, telling him to see her off.

Xiang Ze greeted Sha Rou to the door and closed it. As Sha Rou stepped outside, she saw Long Xiuyu – holding a milky gray kitten.

The kitten saw Sha Rou, blinked its watery eyes, and hummed softly.

“Wow, so cute!” The adorable kitten made Sha Rou stop and instantly become gentle, looking at Long Xiuyu with longing eyes, “Can I hold it?”

Seeing Sha Rou’s eager expression, Long Xiuyu pushed the kitten in his arms forward, but the kitten didn’t recognize Sha Rou and refused to leave Long Xiuyu’s arms, grabbing onto Long Xiuyu’s sleeves and not letting go, threatening Sha Rou with a fierce meow.

This made Sha Rou angry, she forcibly took the kitten from Long Xiuyu’s arms, touched, rubbed, and nuzzled it before returning it to Long Xiuyu, and then left gracefully.

Xiang Ze watched Long Xiuyu holding the “molested” kitten and comforting it, unable to help but snicker.

Then, Long Xinyu saw that the cat his brother had gotten for him was very frustrating.

Long Xinyu: “…”

In fact, Long Xinyu happily told Long Xiuyu that he had tricked Rao Xian into living with him, and asked Long Xiuyu to withdraw all the bodyguards in plain sight to see if anyone would want to attack him, and casually told his brother that he wanted a dog – Long Xinyu’s idea was that if he had a good dog at home, no one would dare to bring people into his house to be killed. But Long Xiuyu had something to do, Long Xinyu only said he wanted to keep a dog, and Long Xiuyu thought he just wanted to keep a pet. Considering Long Xinyu’s personality, Long Xiuyu felt that keeping a dog was not suitable for his brother, so he chose a cat for him.

Long Xinyu looked at the little thing on the floor and felt that there was a huge difference between it and his expectation of an “attack dog”, even the breed was different.

Seeing Long Xinyu’s tangled expression, Rao Xian smiled a little. He probably understood Long Xinyu’s thoughts about keeping a dog, but Long Xiuyu didn’t seem to have thought about it that way, resulting in such a mix-up.

Long Xinyu silently shut up.

After dropping off the cat, the elder Long greeted Rao Xian, inspected the place, and successfully withdrew – in reality, he was called away by official business, and also took away the bodyguards in plain sight. Xiang Ze also left.

Seeing that Rao Xian was organizing things without saying a word, Long Xinyu said, “You’re quite calm and composed.”

Rao Xian knew that Long Xinyu was referring to Yang Miaoting’s case. He put down the thing in his hand and said, “If there are no doubts in the case, it should be transferred to the general bureau, but it was intercepted by the branch office. It’s a very strange thing. I’m waiting for feedback from Shao Hui and the forensic doctor.”

Ye Xiaochen’s description was definitely not as detailed as what Rao Xian knew. He had just seen Rao Xian sending messages and asking a bunch of questions, and had read a lot of information, so he couldn’t help but ask.

Rao Xian picked up his phone, unlocked the screen, and threw the file to Long Xinyu.

Long Xinyu was a little surprised to see Rao Xian being so forthcoming, but after reading it once, he gasped.

The investigation report was very detailed, and the crime scene photos were very bloody. Yang Miaoting’s eyes were open, and she was tied to a lab table. There were deep cuts on her wrists and ankles, and the grooves of the lab table were full of blood.

There were several bloody footprints on the ground, all Cheng Yang’s. The last photo was of a distorted footprint, deduced to be formed by losing balance and slipping.

The crime scene was in the lab. There were some fingerprints and footprints of students and teachers in the lab, but there were only Cheng Yang’s fingerprints on the lab table and the lab tools.

The report stated: According to the scene, the process of the crime was deduced to be that after Cheng Yang controlled Yang Miaoting, he cut her limbs and watched her bleed. However, the blood flowed too quickly, overflowing the grooves of the lab table and flowing to the ground, where Cheng Yang stepped on it. Cheng Yang slipped, and his forehead hit the hard corner of the lab table, resulting in death. Yang Miaoting also died due to excessive blood loss.

The written record stated that Yang Miaoting’s classmates reflected that Yang Miaoting was given a demerit by the school for participating in threatening Long Xinyu, which would affect her graduation and postgraduate entrance exams, causing a conflict with Cheng Yang. So this may be the reason for this tragedy.

Because there were no doubts about the motive and the scene, it was not transferred to the general bureau.

Long Xinyu didn’t understand criminal investigation, so he rubbed his nose and said, “Looks reasonable and logical!”

“That’s why it’s too reasonable and logical.” Rao Xian said, “This scene is too perfect.”

Cheng Yang’s wound was obviously a sharp wound caused by precisely cutting off the vein.

For a student like Cheng Yang, to bleed his girlfriend without panic, with steady cuts, and a clean scene, it was clear that his thinking was clear when he committed the crime. But it was such a person who slipped, hit his head, and died, which was simply ironic. It could also be said to be contradictory, which made the whole event seem perfectly abnormal and full of black humor.

“So, this student is either a psychopath or has antisocial personality, or the scene is faked!” Rao Xian deduced.

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