A Bad-Hearted Doctor is Unbearably Beautiful - Chapter 25
[Teacher Shen~~]
Lu Xiao was looking down, typing.
Shen Zhao looked at the message: [I don’t have time to chat.]
[This is serious! What could have happened that would make Zhang Dalong pay Old Third Song an exorbitant amount of money without his life being threatened?]
“Old Zhou, Old Third Song’s lips are sealed. He gives up information in small bits, like squeezing toothpaste. It’s so annoying. The 100,000 yuan is definitely not normal. It can’t be as simple as him asking for it and Zhang Dalong just giving it to him. Interrogate him again. And that scar-faced man, he’s so stubborn. He won’t say a word!”
Old Zhou made an ‘okay’ gesture.
Lu Xiao and Shen Zhao continued to analyze the case.
Suddenly, Shen Zhao’s message came through: [Old Third Song didn’t see Liu Tingting when he went to her place, right?]
[Correct.]
[And he didn’t go back later?]
[Yeah, he already got the money from the boss, so there was no need to look for HR anymore.]
[Then he has even less reason to kill Liu Tingting…]
The two of them reconstructed the scene from the evening, three days before New Year’s Eve, assuming Old Third Song had nothing to do with their deaths.
It was still the evening, three days before New Year’s Eve.
At 6 PM, Old Third Song arrived at Liu Tingting’s apartment complex.
He then found that no one was home, so he rode his scooter to Zhang Dalong’s place.
The distance between the two locations was about a 40-minute scooter ride. Old Third Song arrived at Zhang Dalong’s apartment complex, Yunting Garden, just before 7 PM.
He then got into a dispute with Zhang Dalong over money, and Zhang Dalong threw a vase at him.
After that… what happened that would make Zhang Dalong agree to give Old Third Song 100,000 yuan?
The amount was too specific.
[Could it be…]
The two of them almost simultaneously thought of Liu Tingting’s fingerprints on the lock of Zhang Dalong’s door.
Let’s make an assumption: What if Liu Tingting was at Zhang Dalong’s apartment at that time and Old Third Song happened to run into them!
So Old Third Song had a malicious thought and threatened to expose their affair to the public!
And the 10,000 or 20,000 yuan he originally wanted turned into 100,000.
What was originally an attempt to get severance pay turned into blackmail…
“Zhang Zhen, one more thing. Besides the man in the hoodie who is probably the scar-faced man, we need to check for one more person in the surveillance footage from Yunting Garden: Liu Tingting!”
Lu Xiao strode into the interrogation room and saw Old Third Song acting like a scoundrel.
Old Zhou glanced at Lu Xiao. “Hey, Captain Lu, what are you doing here?”
Lu Xiao gestured for Old Zhou to come out, and he walked in.
As soon as he entered, he kicked Old Third Song and his chair over.
Old Third Song grimaced in pain. “You! What are you doing! I’ll sue you, I’ll appeal!”
Lu Xiao glared at Old Third Song, his suede Chelsea boots on the table in front of him.
“Stop with the nonsense! I don’t have time to waste with you! I’m only going to ask you one thing, Old Third Song. Did you see Liu Tingting at Zhang Dalong’s apartment?”
Old Third Song’s face suddenly turned pale, and he stammered. “I…”
“Did you or didn’t you!”
“No, it was just Zhang Dalong!”
“You’re still playing dumb with me! You went to their house and found two people having an affair. So you blackmailed Zhang Dalong for 100,000.” Lu Xiao’s eyes were cold, not giving Old Third Song any chance to hesitate.
“What… what evidence do you have?” Old Third Song panted, lying on the floor.
“Let me put it this way. You have two choices. The first is to admit to blackmail and holding a hostage. We’ll handle it accordingly, but you will definitely have a chance to go back and take care of your mother.”
“The second choice is you make it difficult for us to solve the case, and we can’t find the real culprit. This evidence will only get you locked up. This is about two lives, Old Third Song.”
Lu Xiao panted, his voice firm and unwavering.
“I didn’t kill anyone!!!” Old Third Song yelled, the veins on his forehead bulging.
“Keep your voice down!” Lu Xiao was so angry he kicked Old Third Song again.
“The time of death of the two people coincides with the time of the bomb explosion, making you the main culprit. You also happened to have gone to see these two people before the incident. The surveillance footage and the forensic evidence all point to you. Don’t you understand that I’m trying to help you, Old Third Song!”
Old Third Song was stunned for a few seconds and didn’t say anything. Lu Xiao turned and walked out of the interrogation room.
At the door, he said to Old Zhou, “Go in and take his statement. He should confess everything this time.”
As soon as Lu Xiao returned to the office, Zhang Zhen came over with several documents.
“The man in the hoodie, who is probably the scar-faced man, appeared at Yunting Garden at 9:40 PM. He drove a car, and there is only one blurry photo of him in the car.”
Lu Xiao saw the scar-faced man’s silver Toyota.
“The security guard didn’t stop him?”
“The guard said that the car had been registered before, so it could enter directly. No one paid attention to it.”
Looks like they were ‘old friends’ after all.
“What about Liu Tingting?”
“Liu Tingting’s old neighborhood has many surveillance blind spots, so it’s hard to track the silver Toyota. But according to the delivery man’s testimony, he ran into the scar-faced man in the stairwell around 11:30 PM, just after he delivered the roses to Liu Tingting.”
“Sending flowers so late?” Lu Xiao pondered.
“Yeah. Liu Tingting entered Yunting Garden at 3 PM that afternoon and left at 8:10 PM. It seems that she left not long after Old Third Song did.”
Zhang Zhen said, handing out another document:
“Ren’ai Medical Center was established five years ago. When I was checking the company’s personnel and stock changes from these past few years, I noticed a person—Chen Qiang, who was a shareholder of the company, holding 10% of the shares for only two months.”
“What does he look like?”
“I pulled up his ID information, and I think he’s the scar-faced man. Look at the location of the scar.”
Zhang Zhen pointed at the photo of Chen Qiang on his ID card. He was right.
Now there was finally some progress on the relationship between the scar-faced man and Zhang Dalong.
Based on the known information, if we reconstruct the case…
Evening, three days before New Year’s Eve.
6:00 PM – Old Third Song, with the address given to him by Chen Qiang, finds Liu Tingting’s place but doesn’t see her.
7:00 PM – Old Third Song appears at Zhang Dalong’s apartment complex and accidentally discovers Zhang Dalong and Liu Tingting’s affair.
7:40 PM – Old Third Song receives 100,000 yuan from Zhang Dalong to keep him quiet.
Before 8:00 PM – Old Third Song leaves the scene.
8:10 PM – Liu Tingting leaves and returns to her home.
And after that, Chen Qiang appears.
9:40 PM – Chen Qiang appears at Zhang Dalong’s apartment complex.
11:30 PM – Chen Qiang appears at Liu Tingting’s home.
Chen Qiang had previously posted a message online saying that Zhang Dalong was going to run away, which gave him a scapegoat—Old Third Song.
On one hand, he pretended to be a former coworker and encouraged Old Third Song to demand money. On the other hand, he disguised himself as a mysterious person and paid Old Third Song to go to the scene to destroy the blood samples and detonate the bomb.
He played two roles, framing Old Third Song for the explosion and murder.
And Old Third Song, because he happened to stumble upon Zhang Dalong’s affair, became greedy and turned his rights protection into blackmail. This is why he was so reluctant to confess to the person from the Coworkers’ Circle.
If the above speculation is the truth of the case, then there are still a few questions remaining.
Chen Qiang’s motive for murder.
What was Chen Qiang looking for when he returned to the scene?
What is the deal with the blood samples, which seem to have no connection to this case?
The time the roses were delivered made Lu Xiao very concerned. Is there some unknown secret here?
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