Liu Lan’s calm performance made Jiang Pingce very puzzled—— The deceased was her husband, and she didn’t bother to disguise even the slightest bit of sadness. From beginning to the end, she looked as if she was helping a stranger with the procedure.
Her psychological quality must be very good, the average person facing the death of her husband simply could not be so calm. It was normal for the husband and wife with a good feeling to break down and cry. If the relationship was broken, either pretend to be sad or could not hide the joy.
However, she just looked calm, looking at the dead man pushed out of the freezer, like looking at an ant on the ground.
Captain Lin called Liu Lan alone to the interrogation room and asked her some questions, “You’ve been married to Zhou Ziyang for 8 years, right? And you also have a 7-year-old son. Are you not sad at all as he died?”
Liu Lan’s face was cold, “Why should I be sad? The relationship between us has long been gone. We’ve already separated for more than a year, and I only feel strange when I look at him.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Has the division signed the <Divorce Agreement> before?”
Liu Lan raised her head to look at Jiang Pingce and said lightly, “I haven’t seen the divorce agreement. We haven’t officially talked about divorce yet, because my son has just entered elementary school, and the school needs the participation of parents when organizing activities. We had to play a loving couple occasionally. We intend to wait until our son is a little older and adapts to the environment of the new school before we divorce.”
For the sake of the child, it was understandable that both parents postpone the divorce. But had Liu Lan really not seen the agreement that allowed her to ‘leave the house cleanly’? Separated first before divorcing, was she not afraid that her lawyer’s husband would transfer the marital property?
Captain Lin turned the pen in his hand and said, “Where were you from 10:00 to 12:00 last night?”
Liu Lan said, “Last night, I was at home tutoring my son’s homework. After my son fell asleep, I went to my room to watch TV for a while, and I didn’t sleep until 12:30. I have never left the Jinzuo Community, you can go to the property to check the monitoring of the community.”
Judging from the agreement, Zhou Ziyang bought three houses 33-01, 33-02 and 33-03 on the 33rd floor of Unit 1, Building A of the Jinzuo Community. Jiang Pingce asked, “Which suite do you live in Jinzuo Garden?”
Liu Lan said, “The partition wall between the 33-01 and 33-02 has been opened and renovated into a large room. My son and I currently live here; 33-03 is a two-bedroom suite that used to be lived in when his parents came over, and Zhou Ziyang is currently living there. When my son asked, he explained that he was busy with work, needed to work overtime, and was worried about affecting our rest.”
In other words, they nominally lived apart, but actually lived in different rooms in the same building and on the same floor. On the surface, they also pretended to be harmonious, so as not to let their son be suspicious.
Jiang Pingce and captain Lin looked at each other, and the latter continued to ask, “Is there anything abnormal about Zhou Ziyang recently? Do you know if he has offended anyone in the lawsuit he once handled?”
Liu Lansmiled wryly, “I’ve been separated from him for a long time. Although he occasionally returns to my place to accompany his son to dinner, he will go to his own room after eating. I don’t know what he has been doing recently or who he has offended.”
Captain Lin said, “Is the reason you separated from him because he cheated?”
Liu Lan nodded and replied, “Yes. Women’s instincts are sharper. There was a time last year, he frequently had an unfamiliar perfume smell on his body and I thought something was not right. One weekend, he wore sportswear and said he was going to the gym. I secretly followed him and saw him dating a woman with curly hair in the Xinghai Building.”
The curly-haired woman was naturally Chen Yueqin, the designer on the 39th floor.
A trace of pain flashed in Liu Lan’s eyes. She lowered her head and said, “I was sad at that time, but I didn’t want to catch adultery myself and make myself so embarrassed. After returning, I thought about it carefully. Since he was no longer loyal to me, even if I barely regained him back, he will still cheat on me in a few years when he meets a beautiful young girl. It’s better to let yourself be free.”
Jiang Pingce said, “So you took the initiative to separate?”
“I showed him the intimate video I took at that time, and he knelt in front of me and begged for forgiveness. He said that he would immediately break off contact with Chen Yueqin.” She scorned and said in contempt, “My decision proved to be right. He continued to entangle with Chen Yueqin while begging me for forgiveness.”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
A cheating man, it was delusional for him to honestly return to the family. Liu Lan aws undoubtedly decisive and wise in handling this matter. However, such a smart and calm woman, didn’t she realize that all the properties owned by the two were bought by Zhou Ziyang before the marriage? Once divorced, she would be at a great disadvantage in terms of property distribution.
Was she indifferent to property? Or did she have some other calculations?
Captain Lin asked, “If your husband cheats, don’t you hate him?”
Liu Lan’s gaze was frank. “Of course I hate him, I wish he would die immediately. But so what? It was him who made the mistake, not me, and I didn’t have to delay my life for his mistake. Even if he wronged me, I can’t kill him and turn my son into an orphan without a father and mother.”
Captain Lin stared at her thoughtfully, as if trying to analyze the truth of her testimony from her expression.
Liu Lan looked calm, and did not show the slightest guilty manner at all.
A moment later, she suddenly remembered something, opened her mobile phone, and handed it to Jiang Pingce, “By the way, at about eleven thirty last night, Zhou Ziyang suddenly called me, and I recorded the voice.”
Hearing this key, Jiang Pingce immediately sat up straight and took the mobile phone from her hand.
In the call record of the mobile phone, there was indeed a call from Zhou Ziyang at 23:30 last night, the call time was about 3 minutes. Jiang Pingce pressed the play button, only to hear a drunken man say on the other side of the phone, “A-Lan, I’m sorry… If I say, I regret it, I want to go home, I want to be with you and my son… You, what do you think?”
Liu Lan said coldly, “Are you drunk?”
Zhou Ziyang’s voice was indeed a little drunk, sounding like he was crying and laughing at the same time. His mouth muttered for a moment before he said, “Chen Yueqin and I were just playing around, I never wanted to marry her… Do you know? Men, sometimes they can’t help themselves… That kind of flirtatious woman is not suitable to marry into the family…”
He was drunk and spoke somewhat incoherently later.
Liu Lan was silent for a moment before she couldn’t bear to say, “Zhou Ziyang, you make me feel sick.”
She simply hung up the phone, and the recording came to an abrupt end at this moment.
Captain Lin held his arm and looked at her, “When you talk to your husband on the phone, do you record every time?”
Liu Lan said, “This is what he taught me. Everything must be left with evidence, just using your mouth, how can it be clear?”
Captain Lin scratched the back of his head, stood up and extended his hand, “Well, thank you for cooperating with the investigation. If there’s any problem, we will contact you again.”
Liu Lan got up and politely shook hands with him, turned around and left. The woman in the linen dress had a thin back, but her walking posture was very straight, and her tall posture and elegant temperament were also very outstanding in the crowd.
A colleague next to him sighed in a low voice and said, “With such a beautiful wife, he still went outside to cheat. This Zhou Ziyang is really blessed and did not know the blessing…”
Captain Lin asked, “Xiao Jiang, do you think Chen Yueqing and Liu Lan could be the murderer?”
Jiang Pingce thought about it carefully and said, “Chen Yueqin is very suspicious, not only did she stay in the Xinghai Building with Zhou Ziyang last night, but there was her necklace on the rooftop, and there’s her skin fragments in his nails, plus Liu Lan’s recording Zhou Ziyang clearly said that he wanted to return to the family and just play with Chen Yueqin. Assuming that Chen Yueqing heard this conversation afterwards, of course, she might be angry and thought that Zhou Ziyang was cheating on her feelings, so she killed Zhou Ziyang impulsively.”
Captain Lin nodded and said, “En, she has the time to commit the crime and the motivation of the crime. What about Liu Lan?”
Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment and said, “Liu Lan, this person, I always feel that I can’t see through her. It may be because she has depression. She seems to have closed her heart and her emotions are not exposed.”
No matter what the question they asked her, she could answer it all calmly as if she were telling someone else’s story.
There was something strange about this woman, but she said that she would not delay her life because of the other mistakes and would not leave her son an orphan… And this reason was sufficient. Because once she killed Zhou Ziyang, she would be sentenced to death, and the child of the two would have no one to take care of, which was not a good bargain.
Jiang Pingce analyzed, “She received Zhou Ziyang’s call at 11:30 last night, but the time of Zhou Ziyang’s death was around 00:00 in the morning. Her suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, but I don’t think she looks like a murderer. From a mother’s perspective, if he kills her husband and makes her child orphan, it doesn’t quite fit with her calm personality.”
Captain Lin agreed and said, “En, I also think so. I still have to find the mobile phone of the deceased.”
Jiang Pingce made a suggestion and said, “The deceased called his wife, Liu Lan at 23:30 last night, indicating that the mobile phone has always been by his side. In other words, if his mobile phone has not been taken away by the murderer, it may still be in a certain corner of the Xinghai Building.”
Captain Lin waved his hand and said, “Group A conducts a carpet search of the Xinghai Building and finds the deceased’s mobile phone as soon as possible!”
At the same time, Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo also started their investigation quietly at Minghui Law Firm.
Zhou Ziyang died, everyone in the law firm talked about it. Some interns did not dare to talk nonsense when facing the police, but a lot of fierce news broke out in private chat——
“Lawyer Zhou must have an affair with the beautiful woman downstairs. That weekend, when I went back to the law firm to get my things, I saw them making out in the restroom. I was scared and ran away.”
“Chen Yueqin is indeed beautiful, and her sister is also very beautiful ah.”
“By the way, her sister came to Lawyer Zhou every day for a while, and the two locked the door in the office to talk about things. They talked for hours, and her divorce lawsuit was helped by Lawyer Zhou, as a result, she got a house worth tens of millions, and the custody of the child was sentenced to her husband. She didn’t seem to be very convinced?”
Yue Xingwen heard the key revelation of ‘making out in the restroom, pretended to go to the restroom, and wanted to check if there were any clues.
The entire floor on the 40th floor was Minghui Law Firm, and the restroom was located in the corner of the corridor.
Yue Xingwen pushed the door in. The entire restroom was very luxuriously decorated, and it was not inferior to a five-star hotel. There were five compartments in the men’s restroom, all doors were opened and cleaned, nothing special was found. It was not good for Yue Xingwen to enter the women’s restroom rashly, so he let senior sister Lan and senior sister Lin to go in and take a look.
Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo entered the door together. They were also the same five compartments, four opened doors, and there was one closed door in the corner. Both of them looked at each other, Lin Manluo stretched out her hand and pushed the door gently——
There was no one in the restroom, but there was a mobile phone on the platform next to the toilet paper!
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Lan Yarong immediately took out the mobile phone and said, “Xingwen, the mobile phone was found!
Yue Xingwen looked down—— The mobile phone with a black shell was exactly the same as the mobile phone used when he saw Zhou Ziyang calling in the stairwell yesterday, and it was turned off at this time.
Yue Xingwen looked serious and said, “Senior sister Lan, ask the law firm if anyone has lost their mobile phone?”
Lan Yarong took out her mobile phone and asked in the office group of ‘Minghui Law Firm’: “Have any colleagues lost their mobile phone?”
Everyone said: “No.”
The three looked at each other and said in unison, “Is this Zhou Ziyang’s mobile phone?
However, Zhou Ziyang was a man, how could the mobile phone appear in the women’s restroom? He was so confused when he went to the restroom that he didn’t see the male and female signs? Or was it left behind by the murderer?
Either way, finding his mobile phone was a big progress. Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message to Jiang Pingce: “We found the mobile phone of the deceased Zhou Ziyang in the women’s restroom on the 40th floor.”