Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 45

“Xiao Su, don’t be so polite with me. I’m a classmate of your team leader Qi, and I’ve heard a lot about you from him. I’ve heard so much about you. Let me tell you, I’ve never seen Qi Lei praise anyone like this before. Since you’re here, why don’t you come and give us some guidance when you have time?”

“You flatter me. I wouldn’t call it guidance, but exchanging ideas is no problem.”

Team Leader Qi is usually quite strict with them, but he always gives face to his own people in public. In reality, she’s not as formidable as he claims.

This Luo Xuan is about the same age as Qi Lei, with regular features and a somewhat heroic air, and he is somewhat similar to Qi Lei in temperament.

Since they were all on the same side, Su Xiaoxiao didn’t stand on ceremony and directly told him the purpose of her visit.

Luo Xuan then realized that her purpose in retrieving the case files was not for the naked loan issue, but for Li Jingge.

“Is there something wrong with Li Jingge’s death?”

Luo Xuan remembered Li Jingge. Their criminal investigation team received the report that Li Jingge’s parents had reported that their daughter might have been scammed.

Although there was no evidence at the time, they immediately sent someone to verify with Li Jingge, but Li Jingge said she had not been deceived.

Their two teammates were very responsible; they went to find her and wanted to confirm with her in person, worried that she might have been threatened.

As a result, a girl jumped off a building and landed right in front of one of the team members.

The team member’s name is Qin Guan. He was greatly affected by this incident, and the team later arranged for him to receive psychological counseling.

They investigated Li Jingge’s death and it was indeed a suicide. The reason for the suicide was that her nude photos were published and she was ridiculed. She couldn’t bear the blow and jumped off the building.

They later thoroughly investigated this illegal lending ring, and because their actions had caused serious consequences, the court handed down a severe sentence.

“There is no problem with Li Jinge’s death, but the case we encountered in Wutong may be related to her. We suspect that someone is avenging Li Jinge, so we want to confirm it.”

I saw in the case file that you took statements from the classmates who mocked her back then. I’d like to check the current situation of the two classmates who mocked Li Jingge the most.

Su Xiaoxiao’s first step was to confirm whether someone was seeking revenge for Li Jingge.

There were actually two reasons that led Li Jingge to commit suicide by jumping off a building: one was the publication of her nude photos, and the other was the ridicule from other classmates. Sometimes, the power of rumors is even greater than that of swords.

“No problem, is there anything else?”

“It’s fine for now. Lend us a car, and we’ll go check it ourselves.”

Because the case is still under investigation, she couldn’t reveal too much to Luo Xuan. She wanted to investigate Lin Yue’s matter herself.

If someone is truly seeking revenge for Li Jingge, why would they kill Lin Yue?!

She still couldn’t figure out what role Lin Yue played in Li Jingge’s death, and what the killer’s motive was.

Lin Yue and Li Jingge did not attend the same university. She studied Chinese Language and Literature at Haicheng University, a major that was relevant to her later work.

Luo Xuan said that once Su Xiaoxiao was done with her work, she would have dinner with them that evening so that they could show her hospitality.

Su Xiaoxiao agreed. Anyway, she had to eat, and building rapport with her local colleagues would make it easier for them to investigate the case.

They arrived at noon and grabbed a quick bite at a roadside spot. After eating, Luo Xuan gave the car keys to Su Xiaoxiao. He had his own things to do and couldn’t stay with them all the time.

Zhang Jun took the car keys from Su Xiaoxiao. “Where are we going now?”

“Go to Lin Yue’s school.”

University life is different from primary and secondary school. Students in the same class may not attend classes together, and teachers may not remember what all the students in the class look like.

There are only two kinds of people who know Lin Yue best: her counselor and her roommates.

So, they first went to the school to find the counselor and find out who her roommates were back then. Then, they talked to each of her roommates one by one.

Lin Yue’s counselor is named Xu Qing, a woman in her late twenties.

She remembered Lin Yue; the girl had a cheerful personality, unlike other girls who were pampered and spoiled, and she was very hardworking.

She was deeply impressed on her first day at school.

Lin Yue’s assigned dormitory was on the sixth floor. On the first day of registration, many senior students came to help. Other girls would ask the senior students to help them move their luggage.

She was good-looking, and some of her senior classmates offered to help her, but she refused. She carried her suitcase all by herself and climbed up to the sixth floor in one go, which amazed all the boys.

Moreover, she had just finished tidying up her dorm room when she went to find her and asked if there were any work-study opportunities at the school.

She understood immediately. No wonder she was so strong; it turned out that poor children learn to be independent early. Later, she introduced her to help out at the school cafeteria. Although the salary was low, meals were provided, which was most practical for poor children.

Later, she heard that she also did part-time work on weekends, but she wasn’t sure what exactly she did. As for Li Jingge, she didn’t know her and had never heard Lin Yue mention her.

They obtained the list and contact information of Lin Yue’s roommates from the counselor.

There were three people living in the same dormitory as her: Zhou Jingyi, Chen Ruoruo, and Liu Siyu.

They’re not in Haicheng anymore; they all went back to their hometowns after graduating from university.

Su Xiaoxiao and Zhang Jun called the three of them separately, and sure enough, they knew Li Jingge. From their accounts, they pieced together the story of how Lin Yue and Li Jingge met.

Lin Yue and Li Jingge met because they worked at the same bar on weekends, either as hostesses or as ordinary waitresses.

Lin Yue worked part-time because she was genuinely poor, while Li Jingge wanted to earn some pocket money.

Once, when Li Jingge was harassed by a drunk customer, Lin Yue helped her, and the two became friends as a result.

Zhou Jingyi said, “The two of them are so close. They often text each other late at night. I don’t know how they have so much to talk about. She doesn’t follow celebrities herself, but her friend does, so she helps her follow celebrities too. She even buys magazines and merchandise of the celebrity her friend likes as gifts for her.”

Chen Ruoruo said, “It seems that for a while, the two of them had a fight, and her friend ignored her. She couldn’t eat or sleep. Let me tell you, if her friend wasn’t a woman, I would have thought she was lovesick.”

“How do you know she doesn’t like women?” Su Xiaoxiao asked.

“I’ve met her boyfriend. Once, a boy came to her school and hugged her in front of many people. She blushed so much then, it had to be her boyfriend. Although she later said that he was her younger brother, those who know, know. Calling each other ‘brother’ and ‘younger brother’ is just a little flirtation in a relationship.”

Su Xiaoxiao thought to herself, what kind of little romantic gesture is this? That boy might really be her younger brother, but her younger brother does like her.

Lin Yue’s roommates only heard about how good Lin Yue was to Li Jinge. Before Li Jinge died, she had even stopped talking to Lin Yue after an argument. Her death had nothing to do with Lin Yue.

Why did the murderer kill her?!