Chapter 103 Secret Romance.

The moment the name Mai Ruoyun left Chen Mo's mouth,

Xu Feng, sitting in the interrogation chair, couldn't help but tremble all over.

His pupils constricted as he looked at Chen Mo!

A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead.

"Ruoyun? I know her. What happened to her?"

"Xiaolan is dead. The two of them were good friends, so she must be very sad."

Xu Feng's speaking speed fluctuated between fast and slow. Even if Chen Mo didn't understand facial expressions, he could clearly feel the man's current tension.

He got this nervous just from hearing a name.

This proved that Chen Mo's previous suspicion was correct.

There might be some other relationship between the two of them.

What kind of relationship could it be?

A phrase popped into his mind:

"Guard against fire, guard against theft, guard against your best friend."

"Are you going to keep pretending?"

"Do I need to repeat the nature of your relationship with Mai Ruoyun?"

In truth, Chen Mo had only guessed the general idea of their relationship; he wasn't actually clear on the specifics.

Therefore, when he said this, he left himself some room to maneuver.

"Officer, Officer!"

To his surprise, when Chen Mo mentioned their relationship,

Xu Feng instantly lost his composure.

"It has nothing to do with Ruoyun! It has nothing to do with her!"

"I killed Li Xiaolan! I was the one who killed her!"

His expression was frantic, looking as if he were trying to take all the blame.

The corner of Chen Mo's mouth twitched slightly.

Well then.

He had thought this guy's mouth would be hard to open.

He hadn't expected his psychological endurance to be so weak.

Since he cared so much about Mai Ruoyun, it was basically certain that there was an illicit relationship between them.

"Keep talking, I'm listening."

Chen Mo sat back on the table, arms crossed as he listened to the man's rambling.

"I hated Li Xiaolan, I hated her!"

"I couldn't stand that mouth of hers for a long time. I've been enduring it every day all these years, but I'm only human. Last month, I suddenly couldn't take it anymore!"

"So I killed her! I just killed her!"

Xu Feng tried hard to squeeze an expression of anger onto his face.

But in reality, he wasn't angry deep down.

Instead, he had become accustomed to Li Xiaolan's bitterness.

Habit is a terrifying thing, and it had changed Xu Feng.

"What tool did you use to kill her, and where did you dump the body?"

Whether Xu Feng actually killed her or not, these two questions would leave him speechless.

"With... with a kitchen knife. I threw her in the well, in the well..."

Meeting Chen Mo's playful smile, his voice grew smaller and smaller.

The police had only told him that his wife was dead; he didn't know the specifics of how she died or where the body was found.

"Essentially, you don't actually hate Li Xiaolan's bitterness because you've already grown used to it."

"And you have an illicit relationship with Mai Ruoyun, Li Xiaolan's best friend. So you chose to divorce her to be with Mai Ruoyun?"

"You kept hiding it because you thought the killer was actually Mai Ruoyun, right?"

At this point, almost all the suspicious points regarding Xu Feng had been resolved.

But one remained.

"You forged Li Xiaolan's fake signature because you knew in advance that she was dead, so you prepared ahead of time to deal with us?"

Hearing this, Xu Feng shook his head repeatedly.

"No, no, no, that was purely a coincidence. Li Xiaolan always refused to divorce me, so I wondered if I could achieve the divorce by imitating her handwriting."

"I heard that sometimes you don't need to be there in person to get a divorce certificate; you can entrust a lawyer."

Cases where a lawyer is entrusted and the person doesn't show up for a divorce certificate do exist.

His method was feasible, but it would ultimately result in the divorce certificate being invalid because it lacked legal effect.

Chen Mo nodded, no longer dwelling on this point.

Instead, he asked curiously, "Why do you think Mai Ruoyun is the killer?"

"Isn't it a bit far-fetched to kill someone just because Li Xiaolan wouldn't divorce you?"

The topic fell back on the name Mai Ruoyun once again.

Xu Feng's mouth opened and closed, but in the end, not a single word came out.

Clearly, he would rather take the murder charge himself than have Mai Ruoyun executed because of him.

"Even if you don't say it, we can investigate it. If you speak up, it might actually help with her sentencing."

Since he had found Xu Feng's weakness, Chen Mo didn't mind exploiting it.

"You!"

Xu Feng also realized that the policeman in front of him was not ordinary.

With just a few sentences, he had been backed into a corner.

If he didn't talk, the police would investigate sooner or later; if he did talk, he would be personally sending Ruoyun away.

A dilemma!

"I'll give you three seconds."

"3."

"2."

"1."

"I'll talk!"

"I'll tell you everything!"

Xu Feng was agitated, his face showing a look of pleading.

"Ruoyun only killed Li Xiaolan for my sake."

"Please, you must not sentence her to death!"

Chen Mo frowned.

Seeing this, Xu Feng immediately got to the point.

"Ruoyun and I met back when I married Li Xiaolan. Perhaps it was because of my status as a calligraphy teacher, but she was always very polite whenever she saw me."

"Every time she came to my house, she would jokingly ask me to write something for her. She especially loved watching me write her name. At her request, I've written the name 'Mai Ruoyun' hundreds of times!"

"I'm six years older than her, and I always saw her as a younger sister. But three years ago, while I was writing her name in the study, her hand touched my... down there."

"From then on, our relationship underwent a subtle change."

Chen Mo listened quietly to his narrative.

"Later, she told me that she had actually always liked me in her heart."

"She wanted to be with me, and the reason she hadn't married for all these years was because of me."

"Then she pressured me to divorce Li Xiaolan, otherwise, she would expose our affair."

"I kept stalling, but she pushed harder and harder. Last month, she actually stood on the rooftop and said if I didn't get a divorce, she would jump."

Xu Feng held his face in his hands, his tone filled with lingering fear and nervousness.

And now that these words were out, he was even more worried about Ruoyun's fate.

"Wait, your basis for thinking Mai Ruoyun is the killer is simply because she pressured you for a divorce and was willing to jump off a building?"

Chen Mo was speechless.

This only showed that Mai Ruoyun liked Xu Feng very much.

Liked him to a certain extreme degree.

But how to put it...

In his previous life, he had seen many videos of girls standing on rooftops to force their boyfriends to get back together.

How many actually dared to jump?

He didn't deny they existed, but Mai Ruoyun definitely wouldn't!

Xu Feng said Mai Ruoyun fell for him because she liked his talent (calligraphy).

That wasn't right!

Mai Ruoyun's previous reaction had invisibly told him that she extremely disliked calligraphy.

"Are you sure Mai Ruoyun liked you because she liked your calligraphy?"

Chen Mo felt things were getting more and more interesting.

"I am absolutely certain."

Seeing him like this, Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a bit speechless.

"I can tell you for certain that Mai Ruoyun doesn't like calligraphy; she's even quite disdainful of it."

"When she touched your hand, had anything major happened to you?"

"Something that could have attracted her."

Hearing this, Xu Feng blinked, his eyes showing some confusion and a hint of hesitation.

"There was indeed something, but she definitely didn't know about it."

Seeing the officer in front of him looking at him with cold eyes,

He said tremblingly, "Three years ago, I won a million in the lottery!"