Vermouth: Unemployed director
Recalling the scene, the Deputy Captain's expression darkened. "When I heard her words, my mind went blank. I don't know how long it took before I finally looked at Miss Xiao Du's body and figured out what had happened."
He looked at Jiang Xia. "You were right just now. Miss Xiao Du wasn't Mayor Jincheng's biological daughter, but his stepdaughter. After the mayor's wife died, Miss Xiao Du had someone kidnap her. She was probably trying to test whether Mayor Jincheng truly felt any fatherly affection for her.
"But who would've thought that Mayor Jincheng would refuse to pay the ransom? So Miss Xiao Du never came back. A year later, to take revenge on him, she and her accomplices stole the mayor's precious folding screen."
The two high school girls listened to this cruel twist of fate, their feelings complicated. "If Mayor Jincheng had paid the ransom back then, would things not have turned out like this?"
The Deputy Captain seemed to remember something. "Speaking of Mayor Jincheng, it looks like he probably knew long ago that these kidnappings and robberies were connected to Miss Xiao Du.
"That's why, when I resigned, he specifically told me that things had turned out this way because of his own fault. He said that if I wanted to hate someone, I should hate him alone and not seek revenge."
"I didn't understand what he meant then, but now..."
As the dawn slowly brightened, the murderer, who had been through far too much, lit a cigarette. A complicated expression appeared on his face—whether it was regret or relief, no one could tell.
By morning, the Production Team members who arrived for work one after another finally realized something was wrong and sent a boat to search for them.
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