There was silence in the interrogation room late at night.
Xu Li was sitting alone on a chair in the center of the room, with her hands on her knees, looking particularly calm.
"I killed Zhao Yingling."
"Explain the crime process."
Yuan Chen opened his notebook.
Xu Li sighed softly.
"I have long known that Zhao Yingling has an affair with my husband, but I also know that my husband cannot live without me. Therefore, if Zhao Yingling wants to marry him, my husband will definitely not agree."
There was contempt in her eyes.
"She doesn't understand him very well."
"How did you know that Zhao Yingling was going to marry your husband?"
Xu Li raised her eyebrows slightly.
"One time they were on the phone and I heard them arguing. Zhao Yingling seemed to have caught something against my husband. I could feel that she had pushed my husband to the edge, so I decided to have a talk with Zhao Yingling."
"When I entered the room, Zhao Yingling was lying on the sofa, as if she was asleep. I stretched out my hand to check and found that she was still breathing.
I saw beer and some photos on the coffee table. I picked up the photos and looked through them one by one. They were all intimate photos of my husband and this bitch.
Although I knew about their relationship, the feeling of seeing is completely different. I was so angry that I couldn't swallow it. I looked at the bitch lying on the sofa again, and I had an idea.
.
I want to kill her!
As long as this woman dies, my husband will completely give up.
I picked up the pillow on the sofa and pressed it on her head. She really had no ability to resist. When I lifted the pillow, she was already out of breath.
I killed someone.
I knew there was no turning back and I had to protect myself.
I stuffed the photos on the coffee table into my pocket and packed all the beer bottles and bottle caps into plastic bags. In order to interfere with your judgment of the time of death, I turned on the air conditioner. How about this, Officer Yuan?
Even you can't do anything about it, right?"
She actually smiled a little proudly.
Similar to the prisoner's provocation method, if the person sitting opposite was Hao Weida, he would probably jump up and the two of them would yell at each other, but the person being interrogated now was Yuan Chen, and this trick had no effect on him at all.
"Then where are those things you took away from the scene?"
He knew very well that this was the key to the problem. If he found those beer bottles, there might be some new clues.
"When I came down from her house, there happened to be a garbage station downstairs, so I threw everything away."
She still looked proud.
Throw it away?
Yuan Chen was a little disappointed, but his expression remained very calm.
"We have witnesses who saw Jin Zhang going to Zhao Yingling's house that night."
"He did go there, because I followed him and watched him go upstairs. I was downstairs at the time."
"Then what?"
"Then, I watched him go downstairs and leave."
"You didn't go up?"
She shook her head.
"What time is it?"
Xu Li thought for a while, "It's about ten o'clock."
"Then when did you arrive at Zhao Yingling's house?"
"Around one o'clock in the morning."
Yuan Chen frowned, "Then where have you been during this period?"
Xu Li closed her eyes.
"I was walking alone on the street. Finally, I decided to go find Zhao Yingling."
This sentence doesn't sound like a lie. Yuan Chen can imagine how a disgraced wife would feel when she follows her husband at night and witnesses him walking into another woman's home, as well as her conflicting feelings about whether to go up and have a showdown with the other woman.
"After you entered Zhao Yingling's house, were you sure she was asleep?"
"Sure."
This time her tone was particularly firm.
"What did you give her to drink?" Yuan Chen leaned forward slightly.
"No, I haven't given her anything to drink."
"But we found psychedelic drugs in Zhao Yingling's stomach..."
"It definitely couldn't have been done by my husband. He wouldn't touch that kind of thing at all."
For the first time, her expression became serious.
"You can check this. As for Zhao Yingling, if she can't control herself, you can also check if she has a habit of taking drugs."
Her eyes gradually moved downward.
Yuan Chen leaned on the backrest again, sighed, and looked at Xu Li with a strange look.
"Why did you want to kill Zhao Yingling?"
"I can tolerate these young girls seducing my husband, because I know that my husband is an emotionless person and she can't touch my family.
However, I will never agree to anyone who wants to ruin my husband’s reputation.
By doing this, she ruined not just my husband, but my entire family."
............
The next morning, the news of Xu Li's surrender quickly spread throughout the police station, and everyone was very surprised by the sudden reversal of the case.
"Go and check, have Jin Zhang and Zhao Yinling ever taken psychedelic drugs?"
After Yuan Chen finished explaining his work to a police officer, he sat back on his chair.
He looked at the contents of yesterday's interrogation of Xu Li in his notebook, thoughtfully.
"Officer Yuan."
Li Ting sat back in her seat.
She also hadn't slept all night, with a tired look on her face and her eyelashes lightly covering her face. In this state, she had a different kind of blurred beauty.
"I checked and found that the garbage at the garbage station was taken away and destroyed every other day. The evidence Xu Li threw away could not be found."
Yuan Chen was a little helpless. Although he knew that the hope was not very high, when he really heard the news, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
"Thank you for your hard work. You worked overtime with me all night. How about this? I'll treat you to a meal tonight. Do you have time?"
"Oh, no need. It's work, this is what I should do."
"It's okay, don't be polite to me."
"Okay then, thank you."
After Yuan Chen's repeated invitations, Li Ting finally agreed. Looking at the man next to her, for some reason, she felt a little hopeful in her heart.
"What are you two talking about, so happy?"
Hao Weida walked over as if he had timed it right.
"Talk about the case, we are talking about Xu Li."
Yuan Chen cleared his throat. If this idiot knew that he invited a female colleague to dinner, he would definitely be ridiculed by him, and he would probably go with him shamelessly.
"Xu Li, by the way, I also have some ideas when it comes to this woman."
Hao Weida took the topic naturally.
"You are saying that this Xu Li even admitted to murdering people. There is no reason for her not to admit that she was the one who administered the psychedelic drugs."
"This is also where I am confused, but there is another doubt."
He pointed to somewhere on the notebook.
"Beer bottle cap."
The other two people were a little confused.
"That's right. Xu Li said that what she took away from the scene were three wine bottles and two bottle caps. There were also traces of three wine bottles left on the table at the scene. So, where is the other bottle cap?"