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To my utter surprise, the person turned out to be a policeman! And a policeman from the Yanjing Police Bureau at that.
Bai Qiuhe was also stunned by this sudden turn of events and screamed, "Are you crazy? I didn't kill anyone!"
"Ouyang Ye is dead. You were the only one who entered his house before he died. Who would believe you if you said it wasn't you?" Jiang Cheng said angrily.
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't see Ouyang Ye at all when I went in yesterday. I just took a few pictures and came back." Bai Qiuhe said excitedly but without the slightest panic, even shouting.
She wasn't worried as long as they didn't discover that she had murdered her adoptive parents; Ouyang Ye hadn't done it.
"How do you explain the fact that only your fingerprints were found in the villa?" Jiang Cheng continued.
"How would I know how to explain it? I didn't see Ouyang Ye at all inside. It was so smelly in there. I only took photos for five hours before coming out. Of course there are my fingerprints in there."
[No, sister, didn't you realize this stench is from a corpse? You can still take pictures for five hours, you're really something, no wonder you're the scapegoat.] Song Shiwei thought to herself.
Jiang Cheng:???
A scapegoat? So, Bai Qiuhe?
He narrowed his eyes slightly, still deciding to give Bai Qiuhe a piece of his mind; perhaps there would be a new surprise.
Jiang Cheng continued, "So what did you do at home yesterday? Is there any proof?"
"I was editing videos at home yesterday, aren't you all witnesses?"
The others who had been happily munching on a large watermelon were now completely bewildered.
What? After you edited videos at home, how did they suddenly get adult certificates? Is Bai Qiuhe, that crazy woman, trying to drag them all into this?
Jiang Cheng clenched his fists. "Stop talking nonsense and speak properly, or you won't be treated like this at the police station."
Bai Qiuhe gave a cold snort, her tone tinged with pride, "The video released today that exposed Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining was edited by me, it's the real deal."
Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining, who were eating watermelon and preparing to eat the "killer melon" (a metaphor for being overpowered), were confused.
It's not that they were particularly helpful; none of them actually exposed Bai Qiuhe, Bai Qiuhe herself just exposed herself.
Song Shiwei simply couldn't understand Bai Qiuhe's thought process. [No, sister, if this counts as witness testimony, then we'd all be executed.]
But then I thought about it again and realized that this world really is so absurd, and it's no wonder that Bai Qiuhe is so crazy, since domineering CEO novels are completely illogical.
"I'm at home editing videos after 11 p. m., how could I have time to kill Ouyang Ye?" Bai Qiuhe said matter-of-factly.
Song Shiwei:???
[But this can't be used as evidence that you didn't kill Ouyang Ye. It also indirectly exposes that you were the online scammer from over a decade ago.]
Who the hell taught Bai Qiuhe this logical thinking ability? It's utter nonsense!
Jiang Zhuxin said calmly, "So you admit that the daughter who died in this video is you?"
"It wasn't me. I was just helping edit this video out of kindness, someone asked me to." Bai Qiuhe scoffed, then said with a righteous expression, "I can't let you murderers get away with it."
Sometimes, upon closer reflection, Bai Qiuhe's rogue logic is quite self-consistent, which made Xu Zizhen and Xi Zining laugh in exasperation.
{Oh my, still pretending! Guess what good stuff I got for you guys? I suddenly remembered that when I used to live in the suburbs of Beijing, Bai Qiuhe and I used to live in the same alley.}
{ Bai Qiuhe isn't actually named Bai Qiuhe! She was adopted by her foster parents, which everyone in our compound knows. When Bai Qiuhe was in her teens, her biological parents came looking for her, saying they wanted to take her back. Her foster parents felt sorry for her and said they would treat her like a relative. After that, we moved away. It was only today, while we were eating melons, that my mom sat next to me and said, "This is the Bai family's daughter," and that's when I remembered this.}
My mom also said they hadn't seen the Bai family couple for many years. They went to look for them in the alley, but they weren't there. Some people said they'd left with their daughter, probably to enjoy a better life with Bai Qiuhe.
{Huh? What are you talking about, upstairs? Bai Qiuhe publicly claimed that her parents had already died, and that she observed three days and three nights of mourning for them, posting no less than ten thousand pictures from the mourning hall. This even became a trending topic at the time.}
As netizens were immediately puzzled, the same netizen spoke up again, "Bai Qiuhe's adoptive parents were in very good health. The couple ran a small business and lived a very prosperous life. How could they have died?"
These words immediately sent chills down the spines of netizens, who wondered, "Could this guy be a repeat offender like Bai Qiuhe?"
{I'm really going to talk nonsense now, but I strongly believe that Bai Qiuhe's adoptive parents are dead, and that Bai Qiuhe killed them.}
{Ugh, I'm just an ordinary person who enjoys having fun, but how come I keep getting caught up in these increasingly outrageous stories? Will the police arrest me eventually?}
Netizens didn't expect that before they could even figure out one big piece of gossip, another bombshell would suddenly pop up.
They are now like a bewildered badger in a melon patch.
While netizens were bombarded with gossip but unsure where to start, a social news story quickly rose to the top of the trending topics: #Two unidentified bodies discovered during excavation of the hill behind Yangzi Lane Hutong.
{Hey, you there, don't run away yet! What's the name of the alley you live in?}
{Hey there, come back right now, there's some juicy gossip!}
{No, no, I just went out to see what was going on. The back hill was completely surrounded by people, and there really were two skeletons! I was terrified.}
Are they really Bai Qiuhe's adoptive parents?! I'm really anxious right now.
One bombshell after another dropped, and they were so engrossed in it that they were completely bewildered. They took a deep breath and then rushed into the live stream.