The police arrived at the scene soon after Zuo Xi reported it.
The police cordon was put up, and the killer was found as a corpse, signaling that although the case had not been brought to an end, it had more or less come to a close.
Zuo Xi sat in the Police Car on the way back, dealing with the old criminal police officer's concerned words as he drove.
But that wasn't important.
What mattered was...
Those cheap plot points had actually happened to Meng Yang.
This left Zuo Xi almost perplexed.
Someone capable of writing novels of that caliber might be cheerful in a way that contradicted the core of her novels, but she should still have experienced firsthand the kind of pain so heavy it could never rise to the surface. No matter how much pain she left for her readers, she could never have written something like that without experiencing it herself.
So, no matter what, she shouldn't have been so...
Vulgar.
Zuo Xi couldn't understand it.
After the officer finished taking her statement, he drove her back to school. Having skipped an entire afternoon of classes and returned in a Police Car, Zuo Xi temporarily replaced Meng Yang as the new focus of discussion.
However, since Zuo Xi herself wasn't particularly well-known, it probably wouldn't be long before the campus's current hot topic returned to Meng Yang.
Besides, when people questioned her, Zuo Xi had used the excuse of a "traffic accident dispute," the explanation least likely to attract attention.
Before school let out, all discussion of Zuo Xi had completely died down.
After evening self-study ended, Zuo Xi, as a boarding student, left the school again.
This time, however, she had asked for leave—because she had just returned in a Police Car that afternoon,