Chapter 208

The room fell silent again.

At this moment, Liu Qi's face revealed no emotion; her eyes fixed on the desk, as if lost in thought.

Yu Dazhang sat across from her, studying her expression.

The matter had come this far—could she still have a hidden card?

He simply could not imagine what kind of trouble Liu Qi could still stir up.

"Have you not obtained the statement yet?" Liu Qi suddenly asked.

"What?" Yu Dazhang was caught off guard.

"The lab technician's statement," Liu Qi smiled.

In this moment, she regained the image of the calculating, powerful woman:

"You said all that just to stall me—you succeeded. But your colleagues are inefficient."

So all along her silence was waiting with me for the statement… Yu Dazhang smiled helplessly.

This woman is too dangerous.

Give her even a moment, and she can analyze the situation thoroughly and respond with precise, effective measures.

But this time, though she clearly guessed Yu Dazhang's plan, she made no move to counter it—she simply spoke out loud.

This means she has given up.

Only with a clear understanding of the situation could she make such a choice.

Decisive, clean, resolute…

Now, on her face, there was no regret or resentment—only the calm acceptance of victory or defeat.

"Since you've come to terms with it, let's speak openly," Yu Dazhang proposed.

"Fine," Liu Qi replied, then asked:

"How did you discover the medicine was switched?"

Yu Dazhang told the truth:

"I ran a fingerprint test on the bottle you left—you wiped it too clean."

With a smart person, you don't need to spell everything out—they'll fill in the gaps themselves.

Sure enough, upon hearing that, Liu Qi guessed the rest.

"It couldn't be helped."

She sighed and said:

"The bottle had my fingerprints—right on the surface. If I hadn't wiped them off, the police could've identified me just from that trace."

This kind of conversation is so much more comfortable… Yu Dazhang's inner joy was nearly bursting through.

If Liu Qi was willing to talk like this, it meant she had no intention of fighting back.

"My turn," Yu Dazhang thought, then asked:

"Drug purification shouldn't be hard for you—why did you need to partner with a lab?"

He had pondered this before but found no answer.

"Purification is simple. The hard part is turning it into pills identical to Verapamil."

Liu Qi sighed and shook her head:

"The appearance must match exactly, the weight nearly identical—it can't be done by hand alone; you need the right equipment."

"If I went to buy pharmaceutical machinery myself, wouldn't that be like covering one's ears while stealing a bell? The police would immediately suspect me."

So you went around in a huge circle and hired a lab to do it… The rest, Yu Dazhang already knew.

For someone who pursues perfection, this approach is understandable.

If the pills' appearance had changed, Liu Zhengyang and the butler would've spotted it at a glance.

Before Liu Qi could ask, Yu Dazhang interrupted:

"If you were dissatisfied with the will, why follow it?"

"And you already succeeded in making Liu Siyuan forget its contents—why do this at all?"

His question revealed he had already accepted Liu Qi's motive for murder.

He had confirmed it during his conversation with Liu Siyuan that morning.

"You're quite confident," Liu Qi said coldly.

Yu Dazhang looked at her:

"Other than this, I can't think of any other reason."

Liu Qi fell silent for a moment, did not deny it, but asked in return:

"Have you ever seen someone taming a hawk?"

"I've heard of it, never seen it," Yu Dazhang answered.

He knew Liu Qi meant to use the hawk-taming analogy—but he couldn't see how it related to the inheritance, so he answered honestly.

"When taming a hawk, the trainer wraps meat in a ball of straw."

Liu Qi said slowly:

"At first glance, it looks like a piece of meat—but only the outer layer is meat."

"After the hawk eats it, it soon regurgitates the straw ball."

"The straw ball comes out coated with the hawk's internal fat."

That's a cruel trick… Yu Dazhang had never heard of feeding hawks this way.

By this method, no matter how much the hawk eats, it always spits it all back out.

He also understood now—Liu Qi wanted Liu Siyuan to hand over the estate himself.

If her plan succeeded, once Liu Siyuan was imprisoned, only Liu Qi would be left as a relative, and the property would naturally be handed over to her for safekeeping.

Not a single error in any line of content—take a look!

Thinking really far ahead~

"There's more." Liu Qi added:

"I didn't do this for the money."

Although she didn't give a specific explanation, Yu Dazhang believed what she said.

If it were for the money, she wouldn't have agreed to give the fixed assets under Liu Siyuan's name to Zeng Lisi.

Moreover, even if Liu Siyuan went to prison, he wouldn't necessarily hand over all his property to her.

There were variables in this.

The safest method would have been to hypnotize Liu Siyuan, make him forget about the will, and then simply take the property for herself.

But Liu Qi didn't do that; she chose a more extreme approach.

Clearly, she was carrying hatred.

She hated Liu Zhengyang, that biased father.

She hated Liu Siyuan, that useless yet doted-upon younger brother.

She wanted to destroy them in her own way.

Precisely because he had thought of this layer, Yu Dazhang didn't doubt what Liu Qi said.

Where in this world are there parents who can keep everything perfectly balanced?

Let alone the fact that Chinese people traditionally favor boys over girls.

One shouldn't be so extreme... Yu Dazhang couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Liu Qi waited a while, and seeing he had no more questions, finally asked:

"How did you find this?"

She pointed at the medicine bottle on the table:

"Last year the lab was robbed, and everything related to the purification experiment went missing."

"If the theft case had been solved, I should have gotten word."

I'm even more curious than you... Yu Dazhang thought it over and decided there was no need to hide it from her.

"This morning I received a package with no specific sender written on it."

Yu Dazhang stared at her and said:

"Inside the package was not only this bottle of medicine, but also the experiment reports on drug purification and content measurement."

As he said this, he deliberately watched Liu Qi's reaction.

The result showed she didn't reveal any surprise or other emotion because of it.

She remained calm, but her eyes gradually lost focus, as if her whole person had drifted into a dissociated state.

Looks like she doesn't know who sent it either... Yu Dazhang quickly reached a judgment.

Otherwise she wouldn't have fallen into deep thought the moment she heard this news.

Yu Dazhang wasn't anxious either; just as Liu Qi had said, his purpose in coming here was to stall her.

As long as the lab technician confessed over there, he could immediately proceed with the arrest.

About two minutes later, Liu Qi suddenly spoke:

"It's him?!"

Her eyes regained their sparkle, but were filled with confusion.

"How could it be him?"

(End of chapter)