Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 29

“No, her fishing isn’t just targeting Lin Yue. Between the two of them, it’s hard to say who the fisherman is and who the fisherman is.”

Everyone was even more confused. What kind of crazy ideas were these? Only Wan Yan remained calm. He had already experienced Su Xiaoxiao’s wild imagination firsthand.

“Don’t worry, let me explain slowly.”

Su Xiaoxiao had just thought of some things, and she needed to organize her thoughts as she spoke.

“We discovered today that behind Guan Hongwei’s murder was a theft case, with a total amount stolen of 800,000 yuan.”

“This 800,000 yuan was all swindled from Wang Jue by Shi Yi, but where did Wang Jue get so much money?”

“She didn’t just sell the house Guan Hongwei gave her; she also withdrew all the money from his account,” Jiang Qing explained.

“That’s right, she sold the house that Guan Hongwei gave him, but it was an old house and not worth much. She sold it in a hurry and got a total of 200,000 yuan. Adding the 300,000 yuan she took from Guan Hongwei’s card, the total came to 500,000 yuan. She gave 1100,000 to 800,000 yuan, so there is still a shortfall of 300,000 yuan. Where did this money come from?”

Wutong City is just a small third- or fourth-tier city. Everyone knows how much a monthly salary is. Wang Jue has hardly ever had a proper job. She married Guan Hongwei because she was attracted to his family’s good financial situation.

I asked Wang Chen, and he said that when he was with Wang Jue, he often bought her things, including expensive ones, but he never gave her much money.

As for Liu Jie, it was even less likely that he would give her money.

She married Guan Hongwei less than a year after breaking up with those two men. I don’t think she could possibly have much money, at least not 300,000 yuan.

“So, you think the money she has left is ill-gotten?” Ye Jiuzhou understood what Su Xiaoxiao meant.

“Yes, what if Wang Jue’s unintentional mention of fishing wasn’t referring to Shiyi, but rather something else entirely?”

She said she is someone who clearly distinguishes between reality and dreams, and even if she likes Gu Yang, she wouldn’t go crazy for him.

Is it possible that she just wants others to think she’s a die-hard fan of Gu Yang, so that when she adds other fans under that identity, they won’t suspect anything, and then after getting to know them, she’ll invite them to join the fan group?

The invited fans were the fish she had her eye on.

At this point, the team members understood what she meant.

Su Xiaoxiao meant that Wang Jue was not actually a fan of Gu Yang; she was just using the identity of a fan to scam other fans out of money.

“That’s right, that’s exactly what I mean.”

Su Xiaoxiao just asked Xia Xia to print out some documents for her. These documents were the ones that Li Yan had remotely accessed and looked up for her that day.

She stuck one of the papers on the whiteboard. “Look, this is the private chat history between Wang Jue, using the ‘I am not Yang’ persona, and Lin Yue. Both of them act like die-hard fans of Gu Yang. After Wang Jue added Lin Yue, the two chatted very congenially. Three months ago, Wang Jue invited Lin Yue to join a group called ‘Gu Yang Movie Support Group 5.’ When she invited Lin Yue, she explained that it was a support group opened by the fan club.”

In reality, this was not a support group opened by Gu Yang’s fan club, but rather someone impersonating him.

What do you think her purpose is in creating this group by impersonating the fan club?

“What other purpose could there be? To swindle money from ignorant fans. These days, fans are so generous with their money for their idols. They’re willing to spend any amount of money as long as it helps their idol’s movie. I’m really impressed.”

Ye Jiuzhou got angry when he talked about this. His daughter asked him for money yesterday. He remembered that he had just given her living expenses and also gave her a lot of lucky money during the Chinese New Year. She shouldn’t be short of money.

But my daughter said she wanted to boost the box office for her idol, Gu Yang.

He was puzzled. Gu Yang’s movie was a huge hit this year, grossing at least several billion yuan. Why would she need a few more movie tickets from her?!

As it turned out, his daughter said she didn’t understand. This wasn’t about boosting pre-sales or filling theaters; her brother didn’t need that. Right now, she was helping her brother improve his ranking and trying to make his movie a part of film history.

Not only his daughter, but his wife also supports their daughter.

However, they were alright; they only spent a few hundred or a thousand yuan, which was still within his acceptable range. Any more, and he would have thought they had encountered scammers.

“Yes, you see, ever since Lin Yue joined the fan group, Wang Jue hasn’t chatted with her in private messages. If it’s inconvenient, he probably says it in the group.”

This group has now been disbanded, and the disbandment time coincided with the time Wang Jue deleted her Weibo account.

In other words, it was disbanded after Wang Jue died.

Think about it, someone deleted Wang Jue’s Weibo account and disbanded her fan group after her death. What does that mean?

“That means she has accomplices,” Wan Yan pondered. “This accomplice helped Wang Jue delete her Weibo account and disband her fan group because she was afraid the police would find them through these means.”

“Not only that, have you ever considered that the extra 300,000 yuan might have been obtained by Wang Jue through fraud? Wang Jue has been staying in seclusion these days, and she may not be hiding from Guan Hongwei, but from her accomplices.”

And will her accomplices let her off easily after learning of her betrayal?!

“Ah, I see.” Wan Yan slapped his thigh. “Her accomplice is probably Liu Jie. No wonder he installed Trojan software on Wang Jue’s phone so early on. He was afraid she would take the money.”

Wang Jue was unaware that her every move was being monitored by Liu Jie. Liu Jie not only knew that she had given the money she had swindled to Shiyi, but also that she had given Guan Hongwei’s money to Shiyi.

Thus, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

“My God, could all of this have been orchestrated by Liu Jie?” Ye Jiuzhou slapped his forehead. “He wanted to get the money back and get rid of those two, so he told Guan Hongwei about Wang Jue. Knowing Guan Hongwei as he does, he’s likely to make a move, and he’ll go get the money while he does. Besides, if they’re both dead, no one will know the money is missing.”

“That’s right, this must be Liu Jie’s scheme. He’s smarter than we thought. What we need to do now is find evidence, especially the money. The hotel’s surveillance footage alone won’t be enough to convict him. He won’t admit it.”

“It’s alright. As long as we’re on the right track, we’ll definitely find the evidence. Although we didn’t find any money this time, I brought his computer back. He must have deleted everything on it. Let’s see if the tech team can recover it.” Wan Yan rubbed his hands excitedly, but he still had a little doubt.

“Xiaoxiao, you just said that it’s hard to say who is the fisherman and who is the fished between Lin Yue and Wang Jue. What do you mean by that?”