Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

In the interrogation room on the other side, Zhao Chongyun's preaching also awakened some of Huang Xuyao's guilt.
She probably really regretted her poor grades, and the light in her eyes dimmed.

"I actually... just want to relax. I'm so tired." She frowned, and a look of worry appeared on her pretty face, making me look even more pitiful. "I won't stay like this forever."
Zhao Chongyun said gently: "I know, I understand, because you were sick before, and you didn't have much freedom. It feels good to recover your health. It's not wrong to enjoy the world while you are young."

Huang Xuyao ​​nodded in agreement.
"Could you please stop mentioning my illness?" she said in a muffled voice.

"Okay, there are still ten minutes left, so let's talk about something else." Zhao Chongyun glanced at the clock and said in a relaxed tone, "Let's talk about Qin Jiashu."
Huang Xuyao's face was full of resistance.
"Our conversation is completely confidential, and these things will not be mentioned again in the future. Just treat it as a casual chat."
"There's nothing to say. The fact that I like him but he doesn't like me happens every day in every corner of the world. I'm not special." Huang Xuyao ​​said dryly.
Zhao Chongyun seemed surprised: "The person you like is your best friend's boyfriend, isn't that special? If you put yourself in his shoes, I would be very depressed anyway."
Huang Xuyao ​​said impatiently: "I've already said there's nothing to say, it's all in the past."

"You don't really like Qin Jiashu that much, do you?" Zhao Chongyun didn't get angry at her attitude. He adjusted his sitting position and leaned towards the table. This was an aggressive posture that would put pressure on the person he was talking to. "If you like someone, you will work hard to make yourself better, hoping that one day she will see your strengths, and you may even try to make yourself closer to the type she likes. It's normal for Qin Jiashu to choose Gan Tian, ​​but you are not inferior to Gan Tian in any way. If you really want to compare, it's just that your grades are not as good as hers. I don't think you are less talented than others. You just said that you just didn't focus on studying. This shows that you don't care about Qin Jiashu's preferences at all. You are just unhappy that you lost to Gan Tian when compared to her."

"Do you think you know me well? I don't like him, so I put down my pride and humiliate myself again and again? It's just that I thought it through later and felt that this person is not worth it. Even if he is not with Gan Tian, ​​he will be with other girls in the future. I will be exhausted if I care about every one of them." Huang Xuyao ​​showed an absurd expression, "Talking to me about love, you have a lot of experience?"

If Huang Xuyao's eagerness to refute hadn't been so obvious, Zhao Chongyun would have almost lost his gentlemanly demeanor. After all, he stabbed him in the heart. It was simply a work-related injury.

He quickly adjusted his mood and continued, "Humans are sensual animals and are naturally attracted to beautiful things. It's not that you don't care, you just think other girls are not competitive compared to you. In fact, aesthetics is a very subjective thing. You and Gan Tian are not of the same type, so it's unfair to compare them together."

Huang Xuyao ​​looked at the clock frequently, pursed her lips and said nothing.
Zhao Chongyun also followed her in silence for a while, looking at her face frankly, and only when he saw her glaring at him in dissatisfaction did he say, "Has anyone ever said that Gan Tian is prettier than you?"

Huang Xuyao's face almost turned gloomy at this moment.

"If we put aside talent, grades, popularity, and other things, and only use appearance as the criterion, wouldn't most people think you are not as good as her?"
"What they say doesn't count! They are just a bunch of rabble who can only imagine behind the screen. Why do they have the right to——"
"who are they?"
Huang Xuyao ​​was stunned.
"Who are they?" Zhao Chongyun asked again, "Are they the ones who rated your looks?"
Huang Xuyao ​​scratched her fingers and said coldly: "I don't know what you are talking about."
Zhao Chongyun directly placed the printed website homepage information in front of her: "I know it even if you don't tell me. It's the visitors of this website."

Huang Xuyao's pupils contracted sharply, and in panic she forgot to deny.

Originally, the police were not sure that Huang Xuyao ​​would confess if they showed her this evidence, because even if she was one of the visitors, her identity information could not be confirmed. However, unexpectedly, she gave up struggling the moment she saw the evidence, and confessed everything she knew.

During her sophomore year, she was harassed by a male classmate.

The boy looked clumsy, wearing a sports suit that had nothing to do with fashion, and his mesh sneakers were stained in every corner, and he was mumbling nonsense. When he came close to her, her nose was instantly hit by the smell of hair oil, and when the dark hands stretched out, she was so scared that she forgot to dodge.

Fortunately, the boy didn't do anything to her immediately. He lowered his head, his eyes hidden under thick lenses, and asked her in a stammering voice with expectation if she could be his girlfriend.

Huang Xuyao ​​also has her own pride. Although she is used to being pursued, she really wondered why such a boy would ask her this. Her first feeling was that she was greatly insulted, so she naturally refused immediately.
Then the boy did not feel sorry at all. Instead, he took a compromise attitude and asked her if she would really sleep with him if she paid him. If she wanted to maintain a long-term relationship, how much would she charge?

Huang Xuyao ​​was so angry that her voice was shaking. She cursed at him and told him to get out, but then she realized something was wrong.
So she asked him where he got the news and how he found out about it.

She could tell that the boy was an introvert and a weakling, so she threatened to call the police before he finally told her the truth. It turned out that there was a mysterious website circulating among the boys in the school. It had just been established and contained the private information of all the girls in the school. The website had recently developed a beauty rating function, and she was pushed to the top because of her outstanding appearance, so the message area of ​​her personal homepage was also filled with comments from visitors.

The boy remembered those comments that were just for fun, and he actually believed them and went to her to tell her.

Huang Xuyao ​​was extremely angry, and soon she saw the comments of that group of people about her good friend Gan Tian. Gan Tian was very famous when she entered the school. She was outgoing and cheerful, and actively participated in club activities, such as campus singing competitions, welcome parties, and music festivals. She did not miss any of them and had a wide range of connections. The website visitors were all from their school, and naturally many of them knew Gan Tian, ​​so her message area was much cleaner than hers.

When Huang Xuyao ​​saw that Gan Tian’s appearance score was higher than hers, a strange emotion flashed through her heart.

She looked at the other girls, some were called tanks, some were called airports, these people were very vicious, they never knew how to write the word respect, they scored people one by one as if they were picking goods. Huang Xuyao ​​watched and immersed herself in it, occasionally responding to these comments in her mind. She didn't know many people at school, so she found the homepages of the other two roommates, and laughed out loud when she saw a comment "This woman looks like my third aunt". This roommate had a mature and stereotyped appearance and a boring personality.

She watched the website late at night without realizing it, and registered as an official user of the website, joining in the scoring game.

The feeling of superiority over others diluted her unhappiness, and she fell asleep late at night. She was woken up at noon the next day when she was groggy. It was Gan Tian who called her.

Huang Xuyao ​​rubbed her eyes and sat up, asking her what made her so happy.
Gan Tian said with a smile that she and Qin Jiashu were together.
Huang Xuyao ​​naturally knew who Qin Jiashu was. Even if there was no communication between the two of them, it did not prevent her from having a good impression of him at first sight. But now that this boy has become Gan Tian's boyfriend, it is very boring.

"Oh, congratulations." Huang Xuyao ​​couldn't tell what she felt in her heart. She forced a smile and said in a joking tone, "There are so many girls chasing after him, why does he just like you?"

Gan Tian could tell she was teasing her, so she replied playfully, "Maybe it's because I'm pretty."

She excitedly shared her thoughts with her good friend, telling him how they chatted, how they took walks, and what the scene was like when she confessed her love. Huang Xuyao ​​listened with a forced smile, the only thing on his mind was her words "Because I'm beautiful".

Because she is beautiful, and these vulgar boys love beautiful women.

Huang Xuyao ​​wondered again, could Qin Jiashu also be a user of that website? A boy with good conditions in all aspects would definitely want the best in his girlfriend, and Gan Tian scored higher than her.

Gan Tian looked at the time and said "Oops", and then hurried to the closet to find clothes, saying that she and Qin Jiashu were going to have lunch together. It was their first time eating together, so she couldn't be late. Huang Xuyao ​​teased her a few times, and then watched her go out, and the expression on her face completely faded.

She sat quietly for a while, her sleepiness had long gone. She took out her phone from the bedside, opened the website and found Gan Tian's homepage. She replied to the message that said she was more interesting than her sickly self: [It's a pity that she has a boyfriend.] [So what if she has a boyfriend?]
Replies gradually emerged from below.
【ntr Check it out. 】
[Experienced ones are better, and they are more relaxed in bed. 】
[You guys, you prefer married women to virgins again? ]
【3p is also OK hahahaha. 】

The bed curtains blocked the sunlight outside, and Huang Xuyao's face was illuminated by the mobile phone screen. She read the comments one by one, and the unhappiness in her heart was strangely soothed.

After that, she began to frequently create opportunities to meet with Qin Jiashu, but he pretended to be sincere and seemed to really love Gan Tian. Not only was he not moved by her, but he also rejected her harshly. Since Gan Tian wanted to fall in love, she had to make phone calls in the dormitory, and she would unconsciously bring her boyfriend when chatting with them, which made Huang Xuyao ​​furious.

For a long time, she felt that everything was going wrong for her. Gan Tian was already in a relationship, but she still had a slight advantage over her on the list. The gap of just a few tenths of a point was like an insurmountable chasm.

Huang Xuyao ​​found that she could no longer face Gan Tian with a normal attitude. She felt that whatever Gan Tian did was showing off. Her dissatisfaction grew, so she left a "green tea" comment in the other party's message area.
This time, I actually received a private message.

In the early stage of the website construction, all registered users can use the private message function on the site. She saw this person with a blank avatar and a nickname with a string of garbled characters and said to her: "I can't stand Gan Tian either. I feel she is too pretentious."
Huang Xuyao ​​immediately replied: [Really? And she is not a beauty. These people are exaggerating. Are you a man or a woman? ]
The other person: [Male. Actually, I personally prefer Huang Xuyao’s type, but she has never been able to surpass Gan Tian.]
His words comforted Huang Xuyao ​​greatly, and she asked cautiously: [Do you really think so? ]
The other person: [Yeah. Why don’t you like sweetness? ]

Huang Xuyao ​​vented all her dissatisfaction with Gan Tian in one breath. They were all strangers after all, and there was no need to pretend. She urgently needed an outlet.

There was silence for a long time.
Ask her: [Do you want to teach Gan Tian a lesson? ]

Huang Xuyao ​​did not respond immediately.
Gan Tian... Gan Tian was her good friend, the only person who could be considered a friend in her life. Even though she hated her deeply, she never seemed to want to do anything to her.

Huang Xuyao: [What do you want to do? ]
The other person: [It seems that you really hate her. ]
Huang Xuyao: [I didn’t…]
The other person: [Actually, I know who you are. I’m not surprised that you think this way.]
Huang Xuyao ​​was stunned suddenly, blood rushed to his head, and his cheeks became hot almost immediately.
She replied tremblingly: [How is that possible? Stop bragging.]
The other party responded by directly sending her personal information page.

Huang Xuyao ​​was already dizzy at this time, and frantically poked at the records of himself saying bad things about Gan Tian, ​​which of course could not be deleted: [What do you want! ]
The other party: [Find a chance to bring her back to your rental house, and leave the rest to me. ]
Huang Xuyao: [Who are you? How do you know where I live?]
The other party: [I run this website, and I have the information of every registered user. ]
The other party: [If you want to go back on your word, you should consider the consequences. If you betray me, I don’t mind letting others know your true face.]

Lu Shaohui, who was in front of the surveillance camera, immediately called Xie Qingfei: "Check the residents of the building where Huang Xuyao ​​lives!"
Upon hearing this, Xie Qingfei immediately asked Xi Ming to turn around and drive towards Donghua Community.
Lu Zhiheng was already drowsy, and he yawned several times while stretching. He suddenly woke up, took out his mobile phone and opened the website link shared by Jiang Ke, but found that the website had crashed. He looked up at the screen again.

"I thought he just wanted to teach Gan Tian a lesson. I didn't expect he would kill someone!" Huang Xuyao ​​burst into tears after saying all this.
No wonder she confessed without being forced to question. It turned out that she thought the police had already shut down the website and had the user list. In that case, her failure to confess would be considered as resisting the investigation. Of course, it would be better for her to confess voluntarily.

Zhao Chongyun pinched his brows, unable to suppress the contempt in his eyes: "You didn't expect it? Then tell me what will happen if you leave an unconscious woman and a man with obvious ill intentions in the same room? As long as she is alive, any other torture is no big deal? Is that what you think?"
Huang Xuyao ​​hissed, "I don't know, I don't know! She's not some chaste heroine, even if... so what!"
"Shouldn't she be taught a lesson? Do I deserve all the pain and grievances I've endured for so long? I wasn't the one who killed her. I didn't hit her or touch her. I just—"
"Gan Tian is the person who donated bone marrow to you." Zhao Chongyun said suddenly when she was excitedly defending herself.

The atmosphere froze at this moment. Huang Xuyao's bloodshot eyes moved stiffly, and her voice was so hoarse that it was almost inaudible: "What?"

"Gan Tian must be a very nice person. You, who don't like to interact with people, got along well with her at first. This was due to her tolerance of you." Zhao Chongyun said in a flat tone, "This friendship is very precious. She is willing to treat you well because she truly regards you as a friend."
"I know," Huang Xuyao ​​said in a trance. She didn't need anyone to emphasize how good Gan Tian was to her. She licked her dry lips and asked, "What did you mean by what you said just now?"

"I want to say that you two are really destined to be together. Such a small probability event can happen to you. A healthy body is precious. If it weren't for her kindness, you wouldn't have a new life. She saved your life and wanted to give you friendship. If nothing unexpected happens, you will always be friends and witness each other's every stage of life. Maybe one day this fate will suddenly be discovered, and she and you will be very happy. You will not only be lifelong friends, but also eternal relatives in a sense. You have encountered a plot that only appears in family movies. You are really lucky."

Huang Xuyao ​​seemed to have lost the ability to understand Chinese all of a sudden. She tried to speak several times, but her neck seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand. She could not sit still no matter how hard she tried. She could only hear the slight crackling sound of her neck turning. She tilted her head slightly and her eyes met the bright incandescent light on the ceiling. Her vision suddenly became blurred.

"When Gan Tian knew that she could save another young life like her, she went into the operating room with blessings for that life. At the same time, you were also lying in the operating room. Did you feel a little grateful to this kind-hearted person whose name you don't know? When you later squandered your hard-earned health and released malice towards innocent people, did you ever think about why you can have the peace and security you have now?" Zhao Chongyun did not give her time to digest the information. He spoke word by word in an almost cruel tone, "I really feel sorry for her."

Huang Xuyao's tears seemed to have dried up in just a few minutes. She struggled to understand what Zhao Chongyun said. She couldn't believe it and felt regretful. But regret was worthless and could not bring back the life of the girl who gave her life.

Zhao Chongyun paused, and this time he did not hand her a tissue. Instead, he continued to ask, "Why do you think that her being violated is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning?"
He couldn't understand why she could have such hatred towards Gan Tian, ​​who was also a girl.
Huang Xuyao ​​laughed crazily a few times, her voice hoarse and unpleasant: "Because, because, one night she didn't come back to the dormitory, and she called me at that time. She was out of breath on the phone..."
Zhao Chongyun frowned strangely.
"Where else could she go if she doesn't come back? She must be dating Qin Jiashu. Why is she calling me at this time? What do she want me to hear?" Huang Xuyao ​​giggled, "Does she think this is exciting? Is it fun to show off how loving they are in front of me? Then she definitely doesn't mind having more fun."

Zhao Chongyun turned his back and pressed his trembling eyelids, then threw the small gift bag that he had placed on the table when he came in early in the morning to her: "Open it and take a look."
Huang Xuyao ​​stopped struggling and obediently opened the package. She paused when she saw what was inside.
There was a bracelet in the small box.

"This is a package sent by Gan Tian that our people found. It should have been sent to school on your birthday and you should have picked it up in person, but you went back to Jinchuan at that time, so you probably didn't care about the package anymore."

Huang Xuyao's cold fingers touched the beads lightly.

Before Gan Tian got into trouble, she was asked if there was anything she wanted.

Huang Xuyao ​​heard that the health-preserving bracelets in the temple on the top of Zhenxia Mountain were particularly effective, but she couldn't climb the mountain, and she felt that asking someone to buy them for her was insincere.
Zhenxia Mountain is very remote and difficult to climb, especially in winter when the road is most dangerous.
"It would be great if there was a cable car installed on Zhenxia Mountain, so I could go up there and pray for myself," she said. "My wish is for good health."
Gan Tian smiled and said, "Your wish will definitely come true."

So she climbed to the top of the mountain overnight in the middle of winter, entered the temple and lit the first stick of incense, praying with the most sincere heart for her good friend's health.

She went to the foot of the mountain to find a courier station and asked them to deliver the gift to her good friend on the 22nd. For this reason, she pretended to know nothing, just to see Huang Xuyao's surprised expression when she opened the package in person.

Now Huang Xuyao ​​has finally received this gift, and she has long been healthy again, but the person who gave her all this is buried in the damp soil, the cold river water, the depths of the empty forest... in many gloomy and dark corners, and her body has not yet been fully pieced together.

(End of this chapter)