Chapter 272

"These two, after all, are relatives; how could they possibly dismember the body?"

Li Tian said, "What I just asked was why you didn't cut it open, and you answered me that you were relatives. You were involved in this case too."

The man was stunned for a long time.

"Did I say that?"

Li Tian said, "It doesn't actually matter. This case is enough as it is."

The man recalled and said, "Forget it, I won't tease you anymore, and I'm too lazy to hide it. I did participate, but I only participated in the burial of my father. I was only thirteen at the time; I couldn't do anything at all. Believe it or not, this is the truth."

Li Tian said, "Continue."

"After that, there was nothing else. My biological father ran away, and after he came back, he fell seriously ill. Then, my mother just kept taking care of him. It really is just as you, Chen Fan, said—we have been suffering retribution here all along."

At this moment, Li Tian's phone rang.

The exhumation over there had been completed, and the body had been found. The wounds on the body declared that the deceased was a victim of homicide.

Li Tian looked at the man in front of him and said, "You actually killed someone. You killed your biological father, right?"

The man looked at Li Tian and Chen Fan.

Chen Fan said, "Don't put too much faith in what's said in the interrogation room. Whether we act on it or not depends entirely on our mood. Remember, surrendering is a factor for sentencing consideration, not a guarantee of a lighter sentence. If you had killed dozens of people and then surrendered, would we give you a lighter sentence? That's impossible."

Li Tian continued to press, saying, "How did you kill him?"

"I just bought insurance, then killed him. After that, we got a sum of money. I took that money, made more money, and led a good life with my mother."

Chen Fan opened his phone and said, "I had someone film this. Honestly, if I were you, I really couldn't take it. You've been caught now, and your old lady is currently out having fun with another old man, not caring at all."

The man completely broke down and said, "She deserves to die. She is the one who deserves to die the most. She is the one who deserves to die, she deserves to die!"

Li Tian looked at Chen Fan and said, "When did you...?"

Chen Fan said, "I am a person who has never believed in the saying that bad people will turn good. So, in my understanding, bad people will continue to be bad. People who like to play around will like to play around for their whole lives; there is no such thing as being tired of playing or having had enough."

Li Tian was silent.

"Where is there any such thing as 'putting down the butcher's knife'? It's just that the stakes aren't high enough. Redemption has never existed. If it did, it would be the biggest joke of a lifetime for the victims."

The story could actually end here, but as the aftermath unfolded, every sentence and every line heard by those in the observation room was so heart-wrenching.

The man said a lot, talking about how his mother married his nominal father and had him, and after having him, continued to go out and play with that other man.

Everyone in the village knew that his father had just left; divorce was impossible.

If they divorced, his mother wouldn't want him, and his father couldn't bear to part with him.

Actually, his father had wanted to take him away.

When he was dying, his father told him that there was actually no gold, just that he had found a good job and the boss was very good to him, and he wanted to take him along.

When the man said these things, he was weeping.

Li Tian said, "Why didn't he divorce?"

"There was no way to divorce. If they divorced, my father wouldn't be able to rest easy about me. But, after they got married, my mother used cold violence—the kind where she wouldn't cook when she got home, making my dad do it himself. If he didn't have money, she'd ask my dad for it, and if he didn't give it, she'd go out and sleep around. My father knew; at night when my father wanted to be intimate, my mother would refuse point-blank. She was just torturing him."

Why?

In the observation room, Yuanyuan could no longer hold back and said, "I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone this shameless. What is she doing?"

Qin Ming said, "I roughly know what this is. It's actually the same as the previous case, the case with Xiao Fang, remember? When you are dirty yourself, and a beautiful, clean person appears around you, in very rare cases, you choose to protect them. But most of the time, you choose to drag others into the water and torture them."

"You can't accept that this person is too clean, too pure."

"It takes courage to torture yourself, but it doesn't take courage to torture others. This woman was torturing herself, but she lacked the courage, so she switched to this person—what is commonly known in society as bullying an honest person."

Yuanyuan said, "Why?"

"Who knows? Isn't this just human nature? You can never accept the fact that you are very poor, but at the same time, you can't accept that others are very good. If the other person is very good, you must try every possible way to drag them down and make them become as bad as you."

The audience had long since exploded.

"I'm truly done. Am I watching a variety show or looking in a mirror?"

"Isn't this my girlfriend? I work hard every day, and she tries every way to make trouble, then finds some little loser, brings him along to cause chaos every day, and starts cursing in the street, saying the other person isn't ambitious, but she just won't break up."

"I'm truly disgusted. Damn it, where is this woman? I'm going to kill her, damn it."

"My blood pressure is up. Where is my blood pressure medicine? Where is my blood pressure medicine?"

In the interrogation room, Chen Fan said, "You're quite impressive, honestly."

"How am I impressive?"

"For so many years, you've been able to endure it. If it were me, well, actually, I don't know what I would do. After all, it's your own mother, isn't it? Just like Qin Shi Huang in ancient times, he didn't know what to do either."

The same thing—even an emperor wouldn't know, let alone an ordinary person today.

"So you chose our live stream; you want to ruin your mother's reputation, right?"

The man didn't speak.

Li Tian said, "Sigh, kid, you've thought too much. Remember, human nature is base. Even so, it won't affect her life. Conversely, men will be even more proactive in approaching your mother. Even if these people curse her with their mouths, the reality will still be like this."

— Author's Notes —

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