Chapter Ninety-One: Public Execution (Part Four)

Then what?

You used the money Mister Jin gave you to keep hunting for detectives, and kept getting deceived!

For all these years, not only did you spend every last cent of that money, you even burned through your sister's savings as well, while the real killer remained at large!

Chen Yu's voice echoed through the interrogation room, each word smashing mercilessly against Liu Gang's already shattered nerves.

His sister's savings...

Yes, he remembered now.

All those years, consumed by the obsession with revenge, he had run about like a madman.

The money Mister Jin had given him was quickly gone, and those swindlers swarmed him like sharks scenting blood.

Whenever he was backed into a corner, it was his sister, Liu Hong, a woman who had also lost her husband fifteen years ago and suffered the same misery, who would take out the money she had painstakingly saved and silently support him.

He had always thought his sister was supporting him in avenging his wife.

Only now did he finally awaken to the truth: perhaps all she had been supporting was her brother, that desperate, pitiful man with nowhere else to go.

And he, in turn, had calmly squandered her hope and her pain.

A tide of remorse swallowed him whole.

The live chat exploded instantly.

"Damn it! He even spent his sister's money? Liu Gang isn't even human! His sister is way too tragic!"

"His sister's husband disappeared eleven years ago, and the brother spent all her savings trying to avenge his sister-in-law... Why do I feel like the sister is the saddest one here?"

"Think about it and it's terrifying! Liu Hong's husband, Luo Xiangdong, also disappeared eleven years ago. Could this have anything to do with all these messes?"

"Am I the only one who feels sorry for Sister Liu Hong? Husband gone, brother turned into a murderer. What kind of life is this!"

Chen Yu's icy gaze swept across Liu Gang's face, which was filled with despair, and he gave him no chance to breathe, a cruel sneer curling on his lips.

"Oh, right!"

That lightly tossed turn, casual as it sounded, made everyone's hearts tighten.

"After you killed that escort girl, just a few days later, you used the very same method to kill Smoker's wife! Tell me, did it feel good?"

Boom!

If all the revelations before had been thunderclaps, then this one was a depth charge!

Smoker's wife?

Wasn't Smoker the detective who ranked sixth in the variety show?

His wife... had been killed by Liu Gang?!

This reversal was beyond anyone's imagination!

"Holy hell, holy hell, holy hell! What the hell did I just hear? Smoker's wife was killed by Liu Gang?!"

"My God! This plot... what kind of god-tier story is this!"

"I get it! Liu Gang hired Smoker to investigate Brother Lei, but when Smoker found nothing, Liu Gang took it out on him and killed his wife? That... that's completely insane!"

"So Smoker, because his wife was killed and thought Brother Lei did it since Brother Lei took the blame at the time, then killed Brother Lei to avenge her? This... this is a death loop made of lies and hatred!"

"So ironic! Such a huge irony! Two men who both sought revenge for their wives, and in the end one of them was the killer of the other's wife!"

In the interrogation room, Liu Gang was trembling violently all over. He lifted his head abruptly and stared fixedly at Chen Yu, desperate to read something from his expression.

But Chen Yu still wore that same look of total control.

"Sigh..." Liu Gang drew in a long breath, as if he wanted to defend himself, but in the end it became only a bleak, bitter smile as he shook his head.

"I know I was wrong... At the time... I really thought I was just punishing those pieces of trash who cheated me out of my money! I... I really didn't think that much..."

His voice was filled with helplessness, like a child who had done wrong and was trying to excuse himself with the flimsiest of reasons.

"Didn't think that much?"

Chen Yu's cold laugh rose sharply.

"Just because you said you 'didn't think that much'?!"

"Do you know that because of what you did, Brother Lei was forced to admit to everything!"

"Back then, over this matter, he endured torture of nine knives and eighteen holes!"

"Then, because he confessed to all of it, he was mistakenly killed by Smoker! Just last night, Brother Lei was sitting in the very chair you're sitting in now! Aren't you afraid?!"

Liu Gang's pupils contracted violently, and fear instantly crawled over his whole body.

Brother Lei... sat in this chair... and died?

"And Smoker!"

Chen Yu gave him no time to process it and went on.

"He was once a respected elite teacher! He educated and nurtured students, and on top of that he loved solving mysteries. His life should have been brilliant!"

"All because of what you did! He was tormented by hatred for a full fifteen years, and in the end he became a butcher just like you!"

"An innocent woman, a wrongly accused scapegoat, a teacher who should have had a bright future! Three lives, two shattered families, fifteen years of lies and suffering!"

Chen Yu stepped closer and closer, bent over the table, and fixed Liu Gang with an unblinking stare.

"All of this, because of your words: 'I didn't think that much'?!"

The final accusation crashed down like a mountain!

Liu Gang could no longer endure it. He let out a desperate wail, clutched his head with both hands, and crumpled in agony on the chair like a dog whose backbone had been ripped out.

The entire live stream fell into a deathly silence at that moment.

Everyone had been stunned speechless by the overwhelming force of Chen Yu's words.

This was no longer a simple interrogation, but a relentless, merciless lashing of human evil at its most naked and complete!

Behind the interrogation table, Su Qingzhu's beautiful eyes were already wide with disbelief as she stared dreamily at the man standing with his back to her.

At this moment, all the usual roguishness and unserious charm had vanished from Chen Yu.

His silhouette under the interrogation room lights seemed gilded with a layer of golden radiance.

He looked so sacred, so towering.

For Su Qingzhu, her heart at that moment was filled by an emotion she had never experienced before.

It was shock, admiration, and even more, a feeling that was difficult to put into words, called being moved.

She suddenly understood that beneath this man's dashing, rakish exterior lay a heart that burned hotter than anyone else's, a heart that held fast to justice with absolute resolve.

Just when everyone thought the interrogation was about to end, Chen Yu slowly straightened and changed direction once more.

"Even if all the people before this were just unlucky, and deserved to be dragged into your mess and killed by you!"

The chill in his tone sent the viewers, just beginning to catch their breath, straight back to the edge of their seats.

"What about Zhang Luoluo? What did she do wrong?" Chen Yu's voice turned ice-cold. "Did she really deserve to die?"

The moment those words fell, far away in the top-floor CEO office of the Jiangcheng Group.

Zhang Fu, who had kept a dark, impassive expression the entire time, suddenly shook as he held his teacup!

Scalding tea splashed onto the back of his hand, yet he didn't even notice.

His body, which had been leaning back in the chair, instantly sat bolt upright as he stared fixedly at the screen.

In the interrogation room, Chen Yu's voice went on.

"When we were investigating Zhang Luoluo's case, we found something very interesting: a voice recorder. It was empty, and the memory card inside had vanished without a trace."

Chen Yu said blandly, "We also found that before the murder, you had met Zhang Luoluo in private!"

Liu Gang lifted his head and looked at Chen Yu in confusion.

"May I make a bold guess?" Chen Yu paced slowly as he spoke.

"As a prominent contestant on Old Case Reopened, Zhang Luoluo was also doing everything she could during this period to investigate the unsolved 'Ripper' case from fifteen years ago!"

"She was very capable, far more capable than Smoker. Following the faintest leads, she actually managed to trace them back to you. In fact, she knew far more than we imagined!"

"So she arranged to meet you, wanting confirmation from your own mouth."

Chen Yu stopped walking and turned to look at Liu Gang.

"So, in order to cover up all the crimes you'd committed before, and to keep the truth from fifteen years ago from coming to light, you had no choice but to kill her!"

"And then you took the recording that could directly implicate you, namely the missing memory card!"

Chen Yu spread his hands and smiled with "approval."

"I have to say, this time you really did leave no flaws! You didn't leave a single trace of yourself at the scene, and the killing method was clean and decisive."

"We really have no way at all to find physical evidence that could convict you."

"Except... making you discover the truth in your own conscience!"