Chapter 108 Everyone's a Villain

That's right.

It was a conflict!

To a gambler, having someone swallow his chips is like snatching food from a starving ghost's bowl.

It's as good as taking his life.

By hiding this fact, the siblings' interaction naturally seemed like a simple matter of borrowing money, and Li Sheng, as the younger brother, would have no motive to kill his sister.

He told a very clever lie.

"Think about it carefully again."

Chen Mo strolled around the room, maintaining a relaxed posture.

This is a common tactic used during interrogations to increase the psychological pressure on the subject.

It keeps the subject in the dark about the interrogator's hand and what information they actually possess.

If Li Sheng really had a problem, he would naturally feel the pressure.

Conversely, if he truly wasn't the killer, Chen Mo's actions would only make him feel uncomfortable.

"Sorry, everything I said is true. I really can't remember anything else."

Li Sheng shook his head, still acting as if he had nothing to say.

"We found a 5-yuan chip in your sister's abdominal cavity."

"Do you know what it means when you say you can't remember?"

A cold sneer appeared on Chen Mo's face.

In Li Sheng's eyes, this sneer looked like a tiger baring its fangs at him.

It caused him to break out in a cold sweat.

He didn't dare meet Chen Mo's gaze.

"Is, is that so?"

"I forgot, but I think that did happen. My sister was trying to convince me to stop gambling, so she snatched my chip and swallowed it."

"I forgot just now, but what does that prove?"

His voice fluctuated in pitch.

He wanted to explain something but was afraid of saying the wrong thing.

In short, his responses were very strange.

"It proves that you and your sister had a conflict."

"Otherwise, she wouldn't have swallowed a chip—an impulsive act born of extreme agitation."

"Am I right?"

No normal person would eat a chip, and no one would choose that method to educate their brother.

It was highly likely that something happened at the time that made them both emotional.

Then, in a fit of rage, Li Xiaolan chose to swallow the chip.

Following that, Li Sheng became even more agitated and naturally chose to kill her.

"No, I don't know what you're talking about."

"You're fabricating something that even I, the person involved, am unaware of."

"I see. Do you think I killed my sister!?"

"You're being ridiculous. Since you can't find the killer, are you going to make me the scapegoat?"

After Chen Mo voiced his deduction,

Li Sheng's emotions suddenly flared up.

He claimed Chen Mo was making things up out of thin air and accused the police of not following procedure.

In short, he played the part of someone panicked and helpless to perfection.

"Your current attitude has already given me the answer."

"You have one last chance to explain why you aren't a suspect."

Chen Mo crossed his arms and looked at him with a cold gaze.

The reason he was giving him one more chance was that he didn't want a repeat of Mai Ruoyun's situation.

Every circumstance had pointed to her being the killer, yet she had turned out to be more innocent than anyone.

It was fine if that happened once, but if it happened repeatedly, it would damage the investigators' confidence.

He wasn't affected himself, but he had to consider Liu Fengxia.

He couldn't have her constantly making arrests with full confidence only to return in disappointment.

"How... how could I have killed my sister!?"

Li Sheng stood up from the floor and roared at Chen Mo.

But when these words reached the ears of the three people present,

it didn't sound like a rhetorical question; it sounded like a statement of fact.

It was as if in Li Sheng's heart, he was genuinely wondering why he had killed his sister.

In short, he was highly suspicious.

All the supporting evidence was pointing toward him.

"Come with us."

Chen Mo shook his head, and the officer behind him took out handcuffs and bound his wrists.

Li Sheng tried to resist, but he couldn't break free.

...

Walking out of Li Sheng's house,

Liu Fengxia watched as Li Sheng was taken into the car and couldn't help but start complaining.

"Don't you think this case is a bit too... abstract?"

"What I mean is, there's almost no one who could be called a good person."

At first, she thought Li Xiaolan was quite tragic—her sharp tongue was innate, her daughter had died, her husband divorced her, and her best friend had slept with him.

But looking at it now, even if Xu Feng hadn't had an affair or won the lottery, the divorce wouldn't have been unjustified.

'Brother-obsessed' was a term that any normal person would despise.

And if she hadn't treated Xu Feng poorly for years, he wouldn't have hidden the lottery money from her, and Mai Ruoyun wouldn't have been involved in the first place.

As for Mai Ruoyun, she certainly wasn't a good person either.

And now Li Sheng looked like the one who killed his sister.

To be able to kill his own sister, who had been paying off his gambling debts for years...

It was clear that this person's values were completely different from those of a normal person.

"That's true."

The vehicle drove back to the Luocheng Municipal Bureau.

Li Sheng had already been taken into the interrogation room ahead of time.

The most important thing now was to get him to confess.

"I'll do the questioning."

Liu Fengxia nodded and gestured for Xiao Song to handle the interrogation records.

—Creeak.

The door to the interrogation room was pushed open.

Li Sheng's eyes were fixed on Chen Mo; the expression of grief over losing a loved one was gone.

He seemed to realize that now that he had been brought here, there was no longer any chance of getting out.

"Are you going to talk or not?"

Chen Mo didn't want to waste words with him and got straight to the point after entering.

Even if this guy didn't talk, he had a hundred ways to find evidence.

It would just be much simpler if he confessed.

"Do you have evidence that I committed the murder?"

A flat voice came from Li Sheng's mouth.

His current appearance gave Chen Mo the feeling that he was no longer pretending and was laying his cards on the table.

Since that was the case, Chen Mo decided to be straightforward as well.

"Not currently, but since we're certain it's you, we will definitely find it."

"Simply put, we only need to prove that the suitcase is connected to you."

Chen Mo revealed his hand directly, and it was a hand that Li Sheng had no way of beating.

The only thing he could do now was to confess honestly.

"Mm, you're different from all the other police officers I've met."

"Any other cop hearing me say that would definitely claim they have evidence but still want me to admit it myself."

He squeezed out a slight smile and offered Chen Mo this compliment.

"That's not what I want to hear."

Chen Mo spoke with a displeased tone.

He was in no mood to discuss his differences from other police officers with a man who was about to die.

"I have one request."

"It's not a difficult one. My method of crime is likely considered 'vicious' under the law."

"So my request is this: after I die, just find some random place to throw my ashes. Don't send them back to my family's ancestral grave."

"If you can do that, I'll tell you everything."

As Li Sheng said this, a hint of pleading appeared in his eyes.

In his heart, having killed his own sister, he had no right to be buried beside the ancestral graves.

He had no face left to meet his parents.