Chapter 280: What the hell, is this just a two‑brush?

Before using the truth serum, Sun Ying, although she seemed completely indifferent to Sun Jian.

But in front of Xu Mo, she at least still called Sun Jian "brother."

Who would have thought after using the truth serum.

She simply stopped pretending altogether.

She outright said she had no blood relation to Sun Jian.

She even claimed that, like Zhang Guodong, Sun Jian was also no good.

"Your brother… no, Sun Jian isn't related to you by blood, so you're a blended family?"

"Right, when I was in middle school, my mother married Sun Jian's father, so I was brought over and even changed my surname."

In such a family, the children on both sides resent each other; conflict is normal.

But even with big conflicts, it shouldn't have escalated to this level, right?

Is it acceptable to bluntly call Sun Jian "not a thing"?

Unless something happened in between that made Sun Ying bear a deep grudge against Sun Jian.

Only then would she have induced him to murder, leading to his arrest.

"Did Sun Jian do something that made you especially resent him? The mere blended‑family conflict shouldn't make you hate him that much," Xu Mo asked, puzzled.

Xu Mo's question made Sun Ying recall the details of that time.

Her eyes filled with resentment as she began to speak.

"Well, during the time I was at his house with my mother, he would touch me, even peek at me while I showered. I felt very uncomfortable, so I told my mother and his father about it, but they not only ignored it, they said I was lying to them."

"After Sun Jian realized both parents wouldn't intervene, he became even more brazen, coming into my room at midnight. I was terrified, calling my mother for help, but whenever I shouted, Sun Jian would run back to his room and pretend to be asleep. It always happened that way."

"Time and again, my mother and they stopped believing me. Later, no matter how I shouted at night, they just kept sleeping, not even bothering to open the door. Because of this, my mother grew to dislike me and began to favor Sun Jian more."

"I hated them, so I killed them all. Once, while they were napping, I sealed the windows, opened their bedroom door, turned on the gas, and poisoned them to death."

"It's a pity, Sun Jian wasn't home then; otherwise he would have died too! Ironically, Sun Jian still doesn't know his father was poisoned by me. After his father's death, he voluntarily took on the family's pillar role, earning money to fund my schooling."

"I kept enduring, hoping to wait until graduation, get a job, and escape this demon. Then I ran into Zhang Guodong. I thought I finally met a good person, but he too wasn't good. I wanted to kill him too, but found no chance. I'm a weak woman; I lack the ability to forcibly kill a man."

"So I gradually manipulated Sun Jian, making him kill Zhang Guodong for me, turning him into a scapegoat, sending both of them straight to hell!"

Xu Mo fell silent for a moment after listening.

He felt some sympathy for Sun Ying's plight.

"Why didn't you call the police back then? Your mother didn't believe you; the police could always help you,"

"They wouldn't let me call the police; after all, if I had, their precious son would have been ruined," Sun Ying explained. "Once I secretly called the police, but when they arrived, my mother and the others brushed them away, saying I was lying, that I only fabricated the story because I disliked her remarriage."

Xu Mo merely sighed and said little more.

Although he sympathized with Sun Ying, because, frankly, she was also a victim.

Nevertheless, Sun Ying did commit crimes.

She not only killed her biological mother and stepfather, but also induced Sun Jian to murder.

That is an unchangeable fact.

No matter how much one sympathizes with Sun Ying, she cannot be released.

……

Police Station.

The officers were carrying out the final wrap‑up tasks.

At that moment, Xu Mo arrived at the Police Station with Sun Ying.

"Your timing is perfect; we've almost finished here. Take Sun Ying to see Sun Jian once; after that, today's work is done, and Sun Jian's subsequent handling is no longer our concern," Han Fei said with a smile, walking toward Xu Mo.

Soon, Han Fei noticed that Xu Mo's expression was somewhat off.

He quickly asked, "What's wrong? You left looking fine, why are you like this now? Did something happen?"

Xu Mo gave a wry smile and nodded.

"Han Team, you guessed right; indeed there's something, and it's not a good thing."

"Not a good thing? How so?"

"This case isn't over yet; can you call that a good thing?"

Upon hearing that, Han Fei's voice involuntarily rose a few pitches.

"The case isn't over? You mean… Sun Jian isn't the murderer? Did we arrest the wrong person?"

Hearing this, all the officers gathered, looking at Xu Mo with puzzled faces.

"Both yes and no," Xu Mo explained. "I'll be brief: when I arrived at Sun Jian's building earlier, I happened to run into Sun Ying…"

After a few sentences briefly explaining the whole story,

Xu Mo then pointed at Sun Ying standing nearby.

"In short, Sun Jian killed because he was manipulated by his half‑sister, Sun Ying. Moreover, before that Sun Ying murdered her biological mother and stepfather. Ask her for details; my account may be vague and can't serve as direct evidence."

Han Fei glanced at Xu Mo, then at Sun Ying whom Xu Mo had brought.

"Is that so?"

"Yes," Sun Ying nodded.

At this point, the truth serum's effect hadn't worn off; there were still a dozen minutes left, so she couldn't lie.

After hearing Sun Ying, Han Fei scratched his head, his face full of bewilderment.

He's handled many murder cases.

He's also arrested criminals who incited others to kill.

But this kind of situation with Sun Ying is his first time encountering.

Using a proxy to kill… and damn, it was done without the "knife" even knowing!

Logically speaking, this is already infinitely close to a perfect crime.

At present, the only one who knows about this is Sun Ying herself, and she hasn't left any evidence.

As long as Sun Ying stubbornly refuses to admit any connection to this matter.

The Police have no way to deal with her either.

First, there's no evidence; they can't trace anything to her.

Second, the Police would never even think in that direction!

After all, in their understanding, the criminal has already been arrested—Sun Jian—so who would continue investigating a case that's already closed?

Who could have thought that Sun Jian was merely a scapegoat, merely playing the role of the "knife" in a borrowed‑knife murder?

At this moment, everyone's expressions were nothing short of spectacular; they looked at Xu Mo as if they'd seen a ghost!

What the hell kind of person is this? To think of such a method of crime from just a few scraps of clue?

The most crucial thing is, they actually deduced it for Xu Mo!

That's just absurd!

But what they don't know is...

Xu Mo's ability to think of these was inspired by a film from a Parallel World, and that film has never existed in the Parallel World Xu Mo currently inhabits, nor have Han Fei and the others seen it.

As for how Xu Mo got Sun Ying to speak the truth and lay out the criminal facts, it relied on a truth serum.

And precisely because they don't know these.

The police officers only then felt.

They could no longer describe Xu Mo as having two brushes.

What the hell, just two brushes?