Everyone was stumped.

It was hard for straight men to understand such stuff…

Everyone’s expression was similar to the emoticon that had a big droplet of water at its forehead.

Xiang Wan did not mind that since she only considered it as merely telling a story. “That Meng Chi realized that the man he loves had a sexual relationship with Lima and wanted to get rid of her. Before he did so, he found out that Lima had the backing of the Dark Clan’s boss, Cui Ming.”

Her eyes were shining brightly when she paused for a moment. “Let me ask all of you,” she laughed, “who could get rid of the Dark Clan in one go?”

Everyone then asked in unison, “Who?”

Xiang Wan pointed at them with a smile.

“It’s all of you—the police.”

The three of them looked at each other in silence. “…”

It was a story.

Just a story.

A story created by a web novelist!

Everyone continued to listen.

Xiang Wan continued with her story. “Hence, Meng Chi planned out everything. The one I saw at Wen Xin Nunnery is him, but he made Cui Ming carry the blame and killed him… Before Cui Ming died, he might have met Lima, but she might have been a little abnormal at that point…”

One of the detectives asked, “Why did Lima suddenly become abnormal?”

“The possibility of her being provoked is very high! The last time we saw her, she didn’t behave like a normal, schizophrenic patient…”

Cheng Zheng replied, “People with schizophrenia are abnormal!”

“…”

He’s so argumentative!

Xiang Wan was a little annoyed, but she did not argue over this matter and continued talking about the story.

“Cui Ming met Lima and knew about all these. He also stole Yu Ning and Ye Lun’s… that thing. Of course, by taking that away, he must have some use for it—”

“What use?”

“If what I have assumed earlier is correct, Yu Ning and Meng Chi are in an ambiguous relationship, then—” Xiang Wan smiled. “Don’t forget Cui Ming’s predicament at that point in time. His base in Vulture’s Mouth had gotten exposed, and his trusted aide, the Eye-patch guy, had died… Surely he would seek revenge?

“So who should he seek vengeance from? The police? Maybe he really hated the police, but if he had behaved like a rat in the past, he wouldn’t have confronted the police then.” Xiang Wan furrowed her eyebrows as she said that. “Cui Ming must have hated the one who led the police to get rid of the Dark Clan even more. At that time, he must have realized who the mastermind is—Meng Chi, whom we assumed.”

Everyone nodded. “Sounds logical enough!”

Xiang Wan thanked them. “So if Cui Ming took that thing to seek his revenge against the A-List celebrity, Yu Ning, and against Meng Chi, then that could totally be possible.”

Someone raised a doubt. “What about Ye Lun?”

Xiang Wan shrugged. “If CEO Meng has Yu Ning, why couldn’t he have Ye Lun as well? Maybe Cui Ming had wanted to take revenge against Ye Lun for having a fling with Lima. This is killing multiple birds with one stone. Wouldn’t it might be more satisfying?”

“Mm.” Bai Muchuan seemed interested in her story. “What happened afterward? Why did Cui Ming die in the end?”

“Meng Chi is the one who had things planned out better and was well-prepared,” explained Xiang Wan, “before Cui Ming could act on his plans, Meng Chi had already planned out how to retaliate and get rid of him—Wen Xin Nunnery. During his last moments, just like what Captain Bai had deduced, Cui Ming had deliberately left behind the DNA as clues for the police to solve the case…”

Cheng Zheng looked at the test tubes again while furrowing his brows in thought.

“All these test tubes look the same. How would Cui Ming know which belongs to who?”

Xiang Wan glanced at it before looking away. “Lima could be the one who told him personally. Maybe Lima and Cui Ming had been maintaining a very special relationship. After Lima survived the kidnapping incident, she asked Cui Ming to avenge her, right? So Cui Ming discovered that Meng Chi was the one who plotted the entire thing?”

“Revenge?” Someone could not understand. “If Cui Ming would avenge Lima, why did Brother Steel kidnap her? Brother Steel is Cui Ming’s subordinate after all.”

“About that, I think I can explain it!” Xiang Wan smiled. “Although Liang, the one who kidnapped Lima, had died, we have concluded that Brother Steel was a party that had been made use of. However, Lima must have felt upset, and it was highly possible that she could have told Cui Ming secretly about the entire thing… Don’t forget that back in Vulture’s Mouth, the Eye-patch guy who showed up with Cui Ming’s order, killed Brother Steel without qualms!”

“Cui Ming…” Cheng Zheng glanced at her. “This big boss of the Dark Clan was not a righteous man from our investigations. Why did he want to avenge Lima?”

“That would depend on what kind of relationship he had with Lima.” Xiang Wan shrugged. “Regarding this aspect, the police would need to investigate and find out what was their relation with each other.”

“…”

Bai Muchuan’s eyes darkened. “You still feel that Meng Chi is the biggest suspect?”

“Yes!” Xiang Wan nodded. “My idol, Second Young Master Mu, has said something like this before—’The real murderer likes to smile under the sun’… Every time I thought of this, I would think of Meng Chi’s smiling face as well as the man whom I met at Wen Xin Nunnery…”

Bai Muchuan replied, “You feel that Meng Chi… is him?”

The “him” Bai Muchuan referred to was not only the suspect of this case.

It was the orchestrator of all these cases.

Xiang Wan understood what he meant.

“Didn’t the report from the Capital mentioned that Cui Ming’s time of death was before they held me captive in Wen Xin Nunnery?” She squinted her eyes. “If there were two men who wore the Daoist robe and one of them was dead, then the one who’s still alive must be him.”

Bai Muchuan said nothing.

Xiang Wan walked to him. “All these cases surrounding the film crew of ‘The Grey List’… Isn’t he the one who had the most chance to do all these?”

Bai Muchuan thought for a moment. “You’re right about everything else, but there’s one thing that doesn’t make sense—”

Xiang Wan replied, “What is it?”

Bai Muchuan seemed to be hesitating as he looked at her eyes.

“Come on!”

Xiang Wan couldn’t stand his hesitant attitude and urged him.

Bai Muchuan pulled her aside and whispered in her ear, “Xie Wanwan… She’s actually Meng Chi’s sister. Xie Wanwan is her stage name. Her original name is… Meng Liang.”

Eh? Hearing this shocked Xiang Wan.

She really didn’t expect that.

No wonder!

No wonder Meng Chi would try his best to save Xie Wanwan…

If he had really wanted to save her, then he really couldn’t have ordered the kidnapping of Xie Wanwan.

Xiang Wan looked at Bai Muchuan. After ruminating for a while, she came up with an even bolder inference. “Is there a possibility that what happened to Xie Wanwan… was actually related to Cui Ming? Maybe Zhou Dequan was actually quite close to Cui Ming? Don’t forget that he had wanted Xie Wanwan previously and because of that, he got locked up in the detention center.”

Bai Muchuan squinted his eyes slightly in thought.

“With the 121 case,” continued Xiang Wan as she looked at his eyes, “Meng Chi led the police to take notice of the Dark Clan. Not only could he avenge Xie Wanwan, but he could also take care of what he wanted to do. Of course, the prerequisite for this was that—if my assumption is correct—he really had that kind of relationship with Yu Ning…”

Bai Muchuan glanced at her and couldn’t resist chuckling. “You read too much BL[Boy’s Love].”

“…”

Oh my god, Bai Muchuan actually knew about BL.

“I didn’t know you knew about all this!” Xiang Wan revealed a cheeky smile. “Back to my story. Let’s think of it this way; although Meng Chi is rich, to deal with a triad like Dark Clan is no easy feat. He could only depend on the police to do that…”

Bai Muchuan said nothing.

“It was quite late when Cui Ming realized that Meng Chi was the mastermind to all these,” continued Xiang Wan, “he wanted to threaten Meng Chi using Yu Ning or Ye Lun but… he was a tad too late…”

Bai Muchuan replied, “So the mastermind behind the incident at Wen Xin Nunnery…”

Who exactly was this person?

“It might be Meng Chi,” replied Xiang Wan, “but it might be Cui Ming too. Didn’t the Dark Clan members say that Cui Ming liked to wear masks and behave mysteriously before them? I believe that he never expected that by wearing the imposing and mysterious mask, it actually caused his death directly—Meng Chi took his place, and no one knew about it.”

“You’re saying?”

“Meng Chi killed Cui Ming at Wen Xin Nunnery and the latter assumed his identity before killing everyone there…”

“If so, what reason did Meng Chi have to kill us?”

“It’s simple, to avenge his sister!” Xiang Wan grunted a laugh. “You let his sister down. In his eyes, you should be the first one he should kill, right?”

“…”

Both of them met each other’s gaze.

Bai Muchuan felt a little powerless when he saw her mischievous look.

“You’re really!”

“Do my words not make sense?”

“It does…” sighed Bai Muchuan. “But there’s another problem.”

“What problem?” Xiang Wan raised her eyebrows.

“In the 121 case, Liang kidnapped Xie Wanwan and Lima… It may be understandable that Meng Chi treated Lima like that, but why did he have to do that to Xie Wanwan too?”

“There are two possibilities.” Xiang Wan smiled. “First, maybe he cared about his sister less than we expect from him. If they kidnapped Xie Wanwan, it could remove the suspicion on him. See, you already thought he wouldn’t do that to Xie Wanwan. Maybe making it illogical was actually a cunning tactic of his to mislead us?”

Bai Muchuan asked with a smile. “How ’bout the second possibility?”

Xiang Wan continued, “The second, the one who wanted Xie Wanwan kidnapped could be Cui Ming. Liang was bought over by Meng Chi but he couldn’t possibly disobey his own big boss? Besides, it was highly possible that he didn’t know about the relationship between Xie Wanwan and Meng Chi—”

“…”

Bai Muchuan remained silent for a long time.

Xiang Wan pulled the hem of his sleeve. “What’s up? Anything wrong with what I said?”

Bai Muchuan’s lips pressed tightly together before relaxing. He pointed to the room. “We require further verification!”

“All right!” Xiang Wan puckered her lips slightly in disappointment. “I’ve said so much that my throat feels dry, yet I only get this from you…”

Hur! Bai Muchuan laughed. “Regardless if your inference is correct or not, Little Xiang Wan, you’ve really been a great help!”

Clearly, they had more clues now.

The truth of the case was slowly coming to light…

“That’s more like it—”

Xiang Wan smiled and glanced at him.

When suddenly, both of them were dazed for a moment.

“Hi, my dear darling, I want to tell you a story today…”

At this time, a low voice with a smiling tone came from the stereo system in the workout room. That startled all of them inside the house.

It also shocked the detective who accidentally turned on the stereo system.

The somewhat husky voice spoke with emotions, “This story took place 19 years ago. The place where it took place was, the faraway Jin City…”

…