"Since it was deliberate, she couldn't possibly have stayed on the ship."
Su Qiao felt a little headache coming on.
It wasn't that she wanted them to stop searching the sea. She meant that they should shift their focus to the land.
Tao Junhui pondered for a moment. "There's one problem. How did she know there would be a hurricane at sea that day? And how did she know the ship would definitely run into trouble? Could it be that she tampered with something on board?"
Su Qiao didn't find that strange at all.
"The hurricane is actually easy to explain. Her maternal grandfather's family had lived by the sea for generations, making a living by fishing. They should have been very familiar with maritime weather and might even have known about some lesser-known weather phenomena."
"As for the ship's accident, perhaps she tampered with it, or perhaps she was simply taking a gamble—a gamble that the ship would run into trouble during the hurricane and that the people aboard would fall into the sea and disappear."
"Of course, even if she guessed wrong this time, she would still have another chance. She would eventually find a way to escape through 'death.' That was also why she had disguised herself as Xia Xiaolin and taken over her identity, yet hadn't used Xia Xiaolin's ID to buy tickets for trains, buses, or planes. She needed enough time to find an opportunity."
In short, Su Qiao didn't believe Ding Peixin would knowingly go out to sea when she might die.
She didn't want to live, but at least she wouldn't die yet. Otherwise, everything she had done afterward would have been pointless.
"You make sense, but I still need to go to the site of the maritime accident and see whether there