The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 98 You are also haggard

Wu Shanqiu also saw it and enlarged one of the photos created by fans. Hong Mei was wearing a red dress, with her skin pierced by rose flowers, and lying in a pool of blood.

This is undoubtedly exactly the same as the crime scene where Hong Mei died.

The appearance of this photo gave these fans' frivolous behavior a new meaning. In the middle of the night, Liu Tong and Wu Shanqiu revisited those maliciously photoshopped photos and made a further discovery. In one photo, Hong Mei, dressed as Xian Yao, was dangling in mid-air with a bamboo pole piercing her chest. The scene was exactly the same as Lan Die's death, except that the face was Lan Die instead of Hong Mei.

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Early in the morning, several people arrived at the police station looking very sleepy.

Only Zhong Kui was still in high spirits. He bought three cups of coffee and shared them with Liu Tong, Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu.

"Hey, Xiaokui, how did you know we worked overtime until late yesterday?" Whenever Wu Shanqiu was happy, she would hold Zhong Kui's hand and stay close to her like a kitten.

"When Qi Fei and I left, I saw you and Liu Tong were there, which means you left later than us. Calculating the time, I know you two only slept a few hours in total."

Wu Shanqiu caught the point and immediately asked, "Did you and Brother Fei leave together last night?" Then she looked at Qi Fei's dark circles, her gossipy spirit aroused. "So you went home together yesterday?"

Qi Fei immediately defended himself after hearing this: "Don't talk nonsense, we just had a midnight snack together."

"Then, why do you look so haggard?" Liu Tong asked leisurely from the side. It turned out that the captain's question was more lethal.

Qi Fei's dark circles deepened. "What do you mean by haggard? I had a nightmare last night and didn't sleep well. What are you thinking?"

Liu Tong shrugged: "I just care about my subordinates, what are you thinking?"

"Liu Tong, you look quite haggard too." Zhong Kui said suddenly, taking Liu Tong by surprise.

Liu Tong saw that things were not going well and immediately changed the subject: "How about we exchange our findings from last night?" He patted Wu Shanqiu's shoulder and said, "Xiaoqiu, hurry up and tell your Brother Fei!"

Wu Shanqiu immediately got into the mood. Talking about the investigation of this case, although her face was tired, she was full of energy. She vividly described the whole process, and of course, the two strange photos.

"Did you say that you asked the screenwriter named Liu Yi to come over for questioning?" Qi Fei said immediately.

"Everyone is here, let's get to work." Wu Shanqiu said.

In the interrogation room, Liu Yi kept grabbing her curly hair with her hands, and her small eyes looked around from time to time, looking very uneasy.

The door opened and Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu appeared in front of him.

"Screenwriter Liu, we meet again." Qi Fei said.

"If you have something to say, just talk over the phone. Why did you call me here and make me feel like I've done something wrong?" Liu Yi complained.

"We asked the crew, on the night Hong Mei died, since you were the screenwriter and didn't go to the set after submitting your manuscript, where were you from midnight to the early morning of the next day?" Qi Fei didn't respond to Liu Yi's complaint and asked directly. Liu Yi was even more panicked after hearing this: "What, what do you mean, are you suspecting me of killing Hong Mei?"

"You answer the question first."

"Where can I go? I can sleep at home. I don't need to be with them on the set all the time while they are filming. I was there last time when you guys came over because they called me over to put out the emergency due to Hong Mei's incident!" Liu Yi seemed a little excited.

"Can anyone prove that you were sleeping at home?"

"How can I prove this? I'm single." When Liu Yi said the last three words, he turned his head away, obviously unwilling to mention this matter.

"We found that you publicly expressed your dissatisfaction with the character Xian Yao online, and even hoped that she would disappear in the sequel. Now that two actresses who played Xian Yao have died in a row, the plot can finally go according to your wishes." Qi Fei looked at Liu Yi coldly and said.

When Liu Yi heard this, he immediately exploded: "No way, police officer, you called me here so early in the morning for this reason? I was just discussing the plot! I can still clearly distinguish between the plot and reality!"

Facing Liu Yi's strong dissatisfaction, Qi Fei began to recite some remarks: "If I had known that the character of Xian Yao would make some people dislike Zhongli Yingqian, I should have let her die during the Dragon Transformation, so that there wouldn't be so many emotional lines between her and Sanlang.

The character of Xian Yao is simply not strong enough to support an independent story in the sequel. I advise those hot-headed fans to stop being unreasonable. If you make me angry, I will let her die at the beginning. "

As Qi Fei read aloud, Liu Yi's expression became obviously wrong.

"Do you need me to read more?" Qi Fei asked.

Liu Yi's eyes dodged: "I said that we were discussing the plot..."

"What about these?" Qi Fei threw some fan comments and photoshopped photos in front of Liu Yi. "These people were instigated by you and cursed Hong Mei to death. Some even wrote a complete assassination plan, and this."

Qi Fei threw the photo that "predicted" the scene of Hong Mei's death in front of Liu Yi: "We now suspect that some of these people want to do more than just keep these malicious harms at the verbal stage."

Liu Yi was speechless and hung his head in frustration. "I put my heart and soul into creating 'The Divine Conspiracy Against the Tang Dynasty'. I love every character in it, but just like my parents, I always have my favorites. However, when the show became popular, I realized that what the audience liked was so different from what I had imagined."

"You don't agree with everyone's love for the character Xian Yao, and thus you also become hostile to the actress who plays her, and you planned and instigated the murder of Hong Mei and Lan Die, right!" Qi Fei said.

"No! I didn't! You're talking nonsense!" Liu Yi denied it three times in a row, "It's because of Hong Mei that I disagree that the character of Xian Yao is the most popular! All the actors related to this drama should be popular, except Hong Mei!" He even ignored the fact that it would increase his suspicion, opened his eyes wide and almost roared, and the way he spoke was the embodiment of a Hong Mei anti-fan on the Internet.

"why?"

"Because... because..." Liu Yi's lips trembled, and he clenched his fists. "When I was writing this script, I already had the ideal candidate for this role. Hong Mei used all means to snatch the role away from me, hurting the person I love the most..."

As soon as these words were spoken, Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu looked at each other in surprise, and couldn't help but think of the past event that the paparazzi Wang Defa had told them, how Hong Mei colluded with the director's ex-wife, slandering Lan Die as a mistress and causing her to lose the opportunity to play the leading role.

"The ideal candidate you are talking about is Lan Die?" Wu Shanqiu asked immediately.

(End of this chapter)