"I think this man was far too heartless! The child was innocent, after all!" Lin Zhixuan shook her head and sighed.
"Could Pi Yijie have discovered that the child wasn't his?" Taking a man's perspective and putting himself in Pi Yijie's shoes, Zeng Siming offered a bold but entirely plausible hypothesis.
Quite a sharp mind you've got there, young comrade!
Zhou Yi looked at Zeng Siming appreciatively, conveniently ignoring the fact that the other man was actually two years older than him.
According to Tang Nan, the investigation had revealed that Pi Yijie had secretly had a paternity test done. The child was indeed unrelated to him by blood, which reasonably explained why Pi Yijie had not only wanted to kill his wife, but had also burned everyone and their home to ashes!
"Even if the child wasn't his, that was still a little life! How could he be so cruel?" Lin Zhixuan objected.
Neither Zhou Yi nor Zeng Siming responded. This was not a subject they should pursue.
"But none of this information appeared in the case file. It merely gave a brief explanation before concluding that Pi Yijie had killed his wife in a fit of rage over her infidelity and then set himself on fire. The investigators explained that these details had no direct bearing on the conclusion, so there was no need to describe them at length!" Without keeping them in suspense, Zhou Yi revealed the correct answer and continued analyzing the suspicious points with them.
"What they really meant was that, as long as they could establish that the three deaths had nothing to do with the demolition, their job was done. Why bother with anything else?" Pleased that he had guessed correctly, Zeng Siming pressed on with his deductions.
Zhou Yi nodded again. He