The Disowned Young Lady Married a Homicide Detective - Chapter 20

Gu Yezhou glanced at him: “Have you ever been in love?”

Xiao Zhang lowered his head in silence.

When Gu Yezhou arrived, he had already learned about everyone in the police station.

Xiao Zhang does have a five-year-old daughter, and he is indeed a father, but… he’s not her biological father.

He wasn’t a sucker; he was simply a bachelor who then adopted someone from an orphanage.

He only wanted to be a doting father to his daughter and didn’t want a wife, yet he took meticulous care of the little girl.

It’s actually quite difficult for a bachelor to raise a daughter.

“Boss, I heard the test results are in. Did Li Xiaoqiang smash that ashtray?” Xiao Zhang changed the subject.

Gu Yezhou nodded. “He admitted that when he went to deliver the hard drive, Shi Li opened the door for him, but the two had different views. Li Xiaoqiang got angry and threw an ashtray at him. But then he got scared and ran away immediately.”

“That doesn’t make sense.” Sang Ning’s voice was colder. “Li Xiaoqiang is a tough guy, that’s true, but he doesn’t smoke, just like Lin Zehui. Besides, who would bring an ashtray along when delivering a portable hard drive?”

“Yes, according to Li Xiaoqiang, when he had an argument with Shi Li, he impulsively grabbed an ashtray and smashed it on Shi Li’s head. That ashtray was originally in Shi Li’s house.”

Gu Yezhou paused for a moment, then said, “But Shi Li doesn’t smoke, as you wrote in detail in the autopsy report. That’s a good point.”

Because the deceased had been autopsied by Sang Ning, there would have been obvious changes in the lungs if the person had a history of smoking. However, Shi Li’s lungs were light pink, not due to long-term smoking, which would have resulted in charcoal-black patches on the lungs.

Sang Ning blushed slightly at the unexpected compliment. “So you mean there was another person at Shi Li’s house at the time?”

Gu Yezhou nodded. “I asked Li Xiaoqiang. After he knocked Shi Li unconscious, he was so scared when he saw the blood flowing out that he ran away immediately. The time he came to find Li Xiaoqiang was right when you left Ping An Apartment. He had been monitoring you the whole time.”

Hearing the words, “I’ve been watching you all along,” Sang Ning felt a chill run down her spine.

She couldn’t imagine that if the other party had intended to harm her, she would have been dead long ago.

“Then he…” Sang Ning asked with difficulty, “Why is he spying on me? It can’t be because he likes me, right? There’s no connection between us. Even if he likes me, he could tell me to my face. Besides, we only met because of the two professors.”

“I don’t know. He only said that it felt great to follow someone without being discovered,” Gu Yezhou said, quoting Li Xiaoqiang’s exact words.

This sent another chill down Sang Ning’s spine.

“So, he wasn’t the real culprit; he was the one who indirectly caused Shi Li’s death?”

Gu Yezhou nodded. “I’m going to the Lin Group in a bit. I might have to meet your blind date. Do you want to come along?”

“Let’s go together! I want to go too!” Shen Chen exclaimed excitedly from the side.

Sang Ning nodded, “Okay, I’ll go with you. Anyway, there’s nothing I can do to help here.”

After saying that, the two walked away side by side, leaving Shen Chen alone to enjoy himself.

As Sang Ning walked around the corner, she couldn’t help but glance at Shen Chen, thinking that the kid was rather simple-minded and silly.

“Shen Chen is just like a child, don’t take it to heart.” Gu Yezhou gentlemanly opened the passenger door.

Sang Ning was taken aback, then smiled and got into the car. “I can tell, but his abilities are indeed outstanding.”

As the engine started, Sang Ning watched Gu Yezhou fasten his seatbelt and asked, “Do you still suspect that Lin Zehui is the real culprit who killed Shi Li?”

“Do you think he is?” Gu Yezhou didn’t look at her, turned the steering wheel, and sped off.

Caught completely off guard, Sang Ning stumbled forward. She said unhappily, “I don’t think he is, not because he’s my ex-boyfriend, even if he lied to me about his past identity.”

But I really can’t believe he would dare to kill someone. How could someone who’s afraid of blood do that?

Even though physical characteristics and age match those of the murderer.

Initially, the reason they didn’t confirm Li Xiaoqiang as the murderer after his arrest was simply because his body type didn’t match.

The coffee table in Shi Li’s home is made of glass, very thin glass, so thin that it can’t support the weight of two adults.

Any attempt to hang a person on a fan using a coffee table will inevitably result in cracks.

However, the coffee table at the scene not only had no cracks, but was also wiped clean, indicating that the murderer was extremely meticulous.

“Also, I have a feeling that Li Xiaoqiang isn’t telling the truth. Are you really going to let him off so easily?”

In Sang Ning’s memory, the veteran detectives she had dealt with before would interrogate these people relentlessly until they revealed all the truth.

Gu Yezhou: “There are many suspicious points about Li Xiaoqiang, but I can’t waste all my time on him. With Professor Li around, it won’t be long before Li Xiaoqiang confesses on his own.”

Sang Ning was speechless for a moment. “Captain Gu is really confident.”

Are we waiting for the suspect to tell the truth himself?

If all criminals were so easy to find fault with and willing to confess honestly, that would be great.

When Sang Ning arrived at the Lin Group building, she immediately spotted the people sitting in the coffee shop next door.

At 10 a.m., Lin Zehui was actually drinking coffee?

The aura he exuded was completely unlike the pathetic sight of him begging for reconciliation outside the police station in the early hours of the morning.

Across from me sat an elegant and dignified woman. Her makeup was heavy, and every smile and gesture seemed to have been carefully practiced.

After parking the car, Gu Yezhou looked in the direction Sang Ning was looking, and his brows furrowed slightly when he saw the man.

Could it be that she still can’t let go of this man?

Seeing that Sang Ning’s face was expressionless, Gu Yezhou assumed that he was overthinking it.

“Let’s go.”

Sang Ning withdrew her gaze and walked towards the office building.

The entire office building belongs to the Lin Group, and this is the first time Sang Ning has entered such a large enterprise.

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Lin Zehui took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, and turned his head to look out the glass window. Just now, it seemed that two people walked by, and he should know one of them.

“Mr. Lin, what are you looking at?” The woman looked out the window in confusion; there wasn’t even a single leaf in front of the office building.

Lin Zehui chuckled, “I must be seeing things. She won’t come here. After all, I lied to her.”

“Your sweetheart?” the woman teased. “I heard that Mr. Lin is never short of women, yet he has never touched any of them. Is that true?”

Lin Zehui gave her a cold look and said, “Mind your own business.”

The woman pouted and took a document out of her bag. “I got what you wanted, but I’m not sure if it’s real or fake.”

“Okay, I understand.” Lin Zehui waved his hand.

After handing over the documents, the woman picked up her bag and left.

Lin Zehui was left alone, drinking coffee and looking at the documents in his hand, a hint of coldness creeping into his eyes.