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Yang Fan let out a helpless smile and said, “Let me recount the situation at that time.”
“You and Li Jiaqi decided to act separately. You knew He Shuang was studying the Waltz at the Thorn Flower, so you took a knife intending to kill her. However, you didn’t expect that Liu Yuhan was also there studying, and Li Jiaqi had taken another identical knife from the Knife Set to kill her.
At the time of the incident, you were actually very close to each other but didn’t see one another. Compared to Li Jiaqi’s determination, you were a bit smarter, thinking that after killing He Shuang, you could still escape unscathed. So, you first cut the fuse in the Dance Classroom, then took advantage of the darkness to commit murder, believing this would allow you to get away.
However, what you didn’t anticipate was that at the same time, Li Jiaqi was in another Dance Classroom trying to kill Liu Yuhan. The darkness you created caused Li Jiaqi to miss his strike, and Liu Yuhan was injured and managed to escape. Believing he had killed Liu Yuhan due to his drunken state, Li Jiaqi then committed suicide. Meanwhile, you had just finished your act and slipped away in the chaos. Thus, when the lights came back on, two bodies appeared on either side of the glass as if they were part of the same case!”
With Yang Fan’s confident conclusion, this tangled case finally reached its resolution.
Fan Zhiqiang confessed to his crimes after being “gently” interrogated by Chen Yin upon returning to the police station, and his account largely matched Yang Fan’s deductions. His trial would take place a month later.
After Yang Fan clarified the case of the missing plan book, Lo Xinyu spoke to him with noticeably more politeness. As for the reward he offered, Yang Fan politely declined. His response was, “After all, you are Old Lo’s nephew, and this was just a small effort on my part.”
Lo Xinyu nodded, took a sip of coffee, and left with a smile.
I couldn’t help but admire Yang Fan’s good temperament because among all his clients, Lo Xinyu was the most arrogant one. So I said to Yang Fan, “You should have taken his reward; at least let him know there are consequences for his mistakes.”
Yang Fan chuckled and replied in a teasing tone, “The Lo family has strict rules.”
I maliciously imagined Lo Xinyu kneeling on a washboard before watching him leave from the window.
I should also mention that girl named Liu Yuhan. When we went to her rented apartment at the police station to collect her belongings, we found a letter from her hometown. It was written by her parents, stating that due to debts, they had arranged a marriage for her. If she didn’t return home, they would be killed by debt collectors. This clarified Liu Yuhan’s reason for breaking up with Li Jiaqi. Her behavior of hiding in a corner crying for her love without seeking treatment for her injuries was truly pitiful. I couldn’t help but sigh; it was such a shame for a good girl like her.
When I received the letter, the ordinary paper was already soaked with tears, rendering the words blurry. I estimated that half of these tears belonged to Liu Yuhan and the other half to Sister Yin. As for Sister Yin leading her team of detectives to Liu Yuhan's hometown to combat organized crime, that's a story for another time.
Yang Fan placed the letter back on the table and picked up his coffee, sighing, "Ah, love."
I watched him take a sip of coffee and asked, "What do you think of Sister Yin?"
In that moment, I witnessed the usually unflappable detective choke on his coffee. I patted his back while stifling a laugh.
When I presented the novel I had written based on this case to Yang Fan, I couldn't help but complain, "There are too many coincidences in this case. For instance, those two knives and that power outage—it’s almost like a real novel."
Yang Fan merely smiled and said, "Life is far more bizarre than fiction."
At first, I was skeptical of Yang Fan's words, but an incident later changed my perspective.
At the year-end celebration ball of the West City Police Station, after finishing a dance with Xia Xiaoshi to applause from the crowd, it was Chen Yin and Xiao He’s turn. Unfortunately, Xiao He accidentally twisted his ankle. With the ball about to start and an equal number of male and female partners, all eyes turned back to Yang Fan.
Thus, throughout the entire ball, the most frequently heard sound was Sister Yin's furious shout: "Yang Fan! You idiot! Get your foot out of the way!!!"
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