Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

"So, between gratitude and love, what did you choose?" Xie Qingfei looked at this young face and understood why Zhang Yan was so angry at first, and even said that she was self-deprecating. "Since you said that you and Wang Shuang were together more than a year ago, it means that you still chose Wang Shuang."
"I don't know either." Qin Yonghui shed two lines of tears, and her broken face looked even more pitiful. "I don't know what to choose."

After meeting Zhang Yan, Qin Yonghui also privately inquired about her news. After finding her video account, she learned that Zhang Yan's life was not as smooth as she thought. She also had a younger brother. The reason why she sponsored the girl was that she had never received love. She was disappointed with her choice because her dream of going to college was not fulfilled. Although the two of them were born in different families, there was actually no essential difference between them.

Qin Yonghui's conscience told her that what she was doing now was repaying kindness with enmity. Those short videos recording their lives were the ironclad evidence that the couple had walked through half of their lives together. But at the same time, Wang Shuang was as tender to her as he was to his wife in the video. Why? Later, Zhang Yan became pregnant. Half testing and half intentional, Qin Yonghui would leave messages under those videos swearing happiness, "inadvertently" questioning the man's feelings. If the relationship between the two was really indestructible and everything was just her own wishful thinking, then these few words would not stir up any waves. On the contrary, it could also warn Zhang Yan and help her recognize the reality earlier and get out of the fake marriage.
This was the excuse she gave herself.

After Zhang Yan's accidental miscarriage, Wang Shuang was depressed for a while. He blamed himself for the accident and felt ashamed to face his wife. He rarely went home during that period. One night, Qin Yonghui heard a knock on the door and opened it to find it was him.

How vulnerable this man whom she had always admired was now. He told her about his failed marriage, his negligence as a husband, how he had come to this point alone, and how he dealt with all the oppression from his wife's family. He laid out all his weaknesses in front of her, begging for comfort and understanding. Qin Yonghui remembered that she just wanted to hug him at first, but the surging emotions overwhelmed her bottom line, resulting in an irreversible bitter fruit.

Afterwards, Wang Shuang repeatedly assured that he would take responsibility, saying that he loved her too, that his wife was just a comrade-in-arms who accompanied him in starting his career, and that his love was only for her. The former is responsibility, and the latter is sincerity, so why can't they have both? Qin Yonghui was confused when she heard him say that he loved her. She felt like her long-cherished wish had come true, and she almost lost her mind. In fact, Wang Shuang had always kept her by his side over the years. After she escaped from her family, she had never really suffered from the hardships of society. All her values ​​were instilled by him personally, and all her cognition was also shaped by him personally. The only thing she wanted in her heart had a response, as if... there was no reason to refuse.

So she felt guilty towards Zhang Yan, while at the same time she was addicted to her relationship with Wang Shuang, and her whole soul was in agony as if it was torn apart.

"You and Wang Shuang are a good match," Lu Shaohui listened to her beating around the bush and didn't have the patience to understand the little girl's literary view of love. He said bluntly, "You are both equally selfish."

Qin Yonghui's expression changed instantly when Wang Shuang was mentioned. She was about to retort, but something seemed to be stuck in her throat, making her unable to speak to defend herself.
Lu Shaohui continued, "You are an adult with your own thoughts. It's rare that you still remember Zhang Yan's kindness, which shows that you are still a moral person in your bones. Why do you act like a ghost when you meet Wang Shuang? Even if you are young and ignorant, doesn't he understand? If he works hard, his child will be as old as you. Do you believe him when he talks about love? You little girls are really stupid."
Qin Yonghui finally just raised the corners of her lips weakly and responded to his words: "I am too stupid."

Xie Qingfei saw her hand unconsciously touching his belly, hesitated for a moment, and said: "The child in your belly..."
"It's gone." Qin Yonghui was unexpectedly calm. She lifted her eyelids and glanced at her calmly. "I won't give birth to a murderer's child. Rather than letting it grow up and be criticized by others, it's better not to let it come into this world from the beginning."

Xie Qingfei grabbed her words: "Murderer?"

Qin Yonghui nodded and said decisively: "Officer, I want to testify. I can prove that it was Wang Shuang who pushed Zhang Yan down the stairs. He told me this himself. I have recordings to prove it all."

After listening to her narration and hearing her resolute tone, the police officers in the ward were quite surprised.

Lu Shaohui scratched his head in confusion: "I thought... you would be happy. After all, if Zhang Yan died, you could be with Wang Shuang openly. Isn't this what you always wanted?"
Qin Yonghui looked at him in surprise as if she had heard a joke. "It was because Wang Shuang said he would divorce Sister Yan Zi that I decided to be with him, but I never thought that the price would be Sister Yan Zi's life. Wang Shuang deserves to die, Zhang Yuheng deserves to die, and even I deserve to die, but Sister Yan Zi is innocent, and she didn't do anything wrong, so why did she have to die?"

Let’s go back to yesterday afternoon.

After sending away the three police officers who came to his door, Wang Shuang contacted his lover Qin Yonghui.
Qin Yonghui was pregnant with his child, she was young and healthy, and had not suffered much for the past three months. Wang Shuang was looking forward to the birth of this child, and even if his wife's body was still warm, it could not stop him from meeting his lover.

The two of them went shopping together, and went to the maternal and child supplies store to pick out clothes and toys for the baby. When talking about this child, Wang Shuang was full of enthusiasm. Seeing that he cherished himself and the child so much, Qin Yonghui was sad all night after learning that Zhang Yan had "jumped off the building to commit suicide", but the care of the living person was still there, and her mood was comforted, and her dependence on him became stronger. However, when the two walked out of the shopping mall, Wang Shuang's face suddenly became very bad.
Following his gaze, Qin Yonghui didn't see anything, so she asked him what was wrong in confusion.
Wang Shuang saw Zhao Chongyun's figure.

Because of the conversation in the morning, he could easily see the young police officer's suspicion and hostility towards him. He was probably sure that he was the murderer of Zhang Yan. He was not sure whether he had cleaned up all the traces left at the scene, but he also knew that if the police had solid evidence, they would not go to the police's house in person. This move only showed that they could not prove that he was a suspect.

Wang Shuang was feeling relieved, but at the same time, he felt annoyed when he saw Zhao Chongyun following him.

After watching so many legal movies and TV series, he didn't know if it was true as what was said in the dramas that everything would always leave traces. While hesitating, Qin Yonghui hugged his arm and asked what had happened.
Wang Shuang looked at her young face. This would be his future wife and the mother of his children. They both had unblessed backgrounds, were fatherless and motherless, and had been abandoned. They were the only ones in the world who were still in the same camp. So he hesitated for a long time and handed the camera memory card that he had hidden close to his body to Qin Yonghui.

"The police have already suspected me of Yanyan's matter."

Qin Yonghui was shocked: "Why would I suspect you? Didn't I say it was Zhang Yuheng..."

How could it be Zhang Yuheng? He is such a coward, if he had the determination to kill someone, he wouldn't have waited until now. Facing her astonishment, Wang Shuang just said, "Because yesterday at noon, when I went to deliver food to Yanyan...she found out about us."
Qin Yonghui immediately felt the blood run cold.
"She has no sense of security, so she always knew the password of my phone. At that time, I put the food away for her and went to the bathroom. Do you remember? At that time, you called me..."

Qin Yonghui looked at him in disbelief. She still remembered what she had said on the phone.
"Brother Shuang, are you coming to see me today? My baby and I miss you so much. Didn't we agree to buy new shoes for the baby?"

Zhang Yan never thought that he would hear such words.
When the person on the other end of the phone heard something was wrong, he hung up immediately.

When Wang Shuang rushed out of the bathroom, Zhang Yan asked him who the woman on the other end of the phone was, what her words meant, and what was going on with the baby.
The affair was discovered unexpectedly. Wang Shuang knew that Zhang Yan had the habit of filming videos. Seeing the camera on the bedside, he was not sure whether it was turned on, so he pulled her into the bathroom.
Explain, quibble, and beg.
He had done all the confessions that a cheating man should do, but he was such a perfect husband and the spiritual support of Zhang Yan, so she naturally could not accept this fact. The two of them had a fierce quarrel. Finally, Zhang Yan turned away in disappointment, stood in front of the window and looked at the cars passing by on the city streets, and calmly asked for a divorce.

There was no way Wang Shuang would agree to a divorce as she was pregnant with his child.
"Besides, what kind of big sin is cheating on your wife? Isn't the loss of my life being sucked dry by your family every day less than this small mistake? Do you know that your good brother came to me for money again today? Do you think my money fell from the sky and I'm a stupid ATM machine?"
Zhang Yan had no way to refute this. She didn't know that Zhang Yuheng went to find Wang Shuang after he failed to ask her for money in the morning. Her anger turned into shame and then into a strong inferiority complex, but it also strengthened her determination to divorce.

Wang Shuang didn't expect that his proposal would have the opposite effect, so he continued to fight for it. As a result, during the scuffle, Zhang Yan accidentally fell out of the window.

"He said it was just an accident." Qin Yonghui's tears welled up in her eyes. After wiping them twice, she looked at Xie Qingfei and said, "He said it, so I believed it. We have known each other for so many years. I have seen how good he is to Sister Yan Zi. Even if there is no love, there should be family affection. I don't believe he would take the initiative to kill someone, but..."

But Qin Yonghui's intuition made her feel that things were not simple. It was because Wang Shuang was so good to Zhang Yan that no one could be killed even if he was impulsive. So she looked at the man with a guilty face, suppressed the storm in her heart, suggested that he relax for a while, and took him to the bar to relax.
She knew Wang Shuang too well and knew that he had a low alcohol tolerance. Wang Shuang was also feeling depressed, so he took the initiative to drink a few glasses of wine, and was able to get the words out of her.

"I asked him, did Sister Yanzi really fall down the stairs by accident?"
Qin Yonghui stated quietly, and the trembling of her hands revealed her emotions.

"Of course not. This crazy woman might be sick. Not only did she push me, she also said she wanted a divorce. How could I agree? So when her back was facing me, I just did this -" Wang Shuang even made a pose to demonstrate to her, "Her upper body was against the window frame, and I picked her up and pushed her down without much effort."

He even took off the Band-Aid on the back of his hand and showed her the wound with the knife marks on it: "I said I got hurt while cooking, and the police didn't suspect anything, so you don't have to worry."
Qin Yonghui asked tremblingly: "You...can you guarantee that there will be no trace left? What if..."
"If they want to suspect someone, they should suspect Zhang Yuheng." Wang Shuang said, "Do you think I'm so stupid that I don't know how to deal with the scene? I have left evidence that can point to Zhang Yuheng. God also helped me, making him go to find Zhang Yan after I left, and the timing was just right. This is what he deserves. Even if he was a little better to Yanyan, he probably wouldn't be so suspicious. But what kind of person is he?"

When Qin Yonghui talked about it, she seemed to be back to the scene yesterday when she heard Wang Shuang's confession with her own ears. Fear and disbelief enveloped her tightly, and even breathing became difficult.

"I don't understand," she looked at Xie Qingfei, "Just for such a small matter, he, he wants to kill someone? Sister Yan Zi is his first wife, the mother of his child, even if... how could he push her down from the building without blinking an eye? He even... didn't feel any remorse at all. So I asked him."

"He said that he had not thought of letting Sister Yan Zi die now. This was not in his plan. If it wasn't for the fact that our relationship could no longer be concealed, and Sister Yan Zi suddenly lost control of her emotions, and if Zhang Yuheng hadn't taken 20 yuan from him this morning, making him feel bad... He wouldn't be so stupid as to have a conflict with her now.

"I asked him, what was your original plan? He said Sister Yan Zi suffered from severe depression, and the miscarriage of her previous children was a great blow to her. If she died before the birth of this child, she would definitely be upset. He also told me that he had already made it clear that the spouse of a child is not a legal supporter, and as long as Sister Yan Zi died during their marriage, he would not have to bear the obligation to support his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and then the two of us could be together.

"I asked him... why are you so sure that Sister Yanzi will have a miscarriage, and why will she be upset if she has a miscarriage? He told me that it's like this every time. Since he decided to give up Sister Yanzi, he has never thought about letting her give birth to his child. As for the rest... his wife is worried and sick, and her mental state is not good. This is a fact known to everyone, so even if she is optimistic, she can also become unhappy."

Qin Yonghui couldn't describe how she felt after learning the truth.

Wang Shuang started crying as she spoke. She looked through the photos of herself and Zhang Yan in her phone album and sobbed, "I really love her. It was love at first sight. Everything I've done for her is sincere and I have never regretted it. I also know how much she loves me. There is no one else in the world who loves me as much as she does."
This was the first time he confessed his love for his wife in front of her. Qin Yonghui knew that this was not a sweet talk to coax her, so she felt even more distressed: "You love her, why do you do this?"
Wang Shuang looked at her sarcastically, as if she had asked a very ridiculous question: "Do you think love is great? Love is shit in the face of reality. It's her fault that she was born in such a family, her parents, and her brother Zhang Yuheng. It's her own bad luck, but I want to save my life."

He held Qin Yonghui's hand and kissed the back of her hand gently, his eyes full of tenderness and affection: "Huihui, don't be afraid. This matter can't be traced to me. You stay at home and take good care of the baby. When this is over, we will get the marriage certificate. When our son is born in the future, we won't be disturbed by these people and things."
Qin Yonghui raised her head stiffly, her voice broken and weak: "Son?"
"You like daughters?" Wang Shuang smiled. "A daughter is fine too. If the one in your belly is a daughter, we'll have a son in two years when your body recovers. Our son will definitely be very cute. I won't let him be neglected like I was when I was little. You, me and our daughter will all give him all our love."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Yonghui seemed to see the shadow of her father in him. Would her daughter also be a "sister" like her? Wang Shuang... was he so eager to have a son? The huge humiliation strangled Qin Yonghui, along with the child in her belly whose gender was still unknown but whose fate had been determined.

She looked at the man she had loved for so many years, abandoning her self-esteem and morality to be with him, and suddenly felt that it was just a dream. Now the dream collapsed, exposing the real situation behind it. In fact, she did not leave the mountains, and the glory and wealth in front of her were gone. She was just a little girl who was so excited that her hands were shaking as she held the new textbooks because she received financial assistance to continue her schooling.
Why did she come to Shengzhou? What was the ultimate motivation that supported her to escape from her family?
These intricate images rolled before her eyes, and finally froze on Zhang Yan's smiling face that she saw from afar when she was 15 years old.

(End of this chapter)