Hong Kong Film: Night Cop

Chapter 631 Suspicious Aspects of the Butterfly Murder Case
She can't marry into a wealthy family if she can't get rid of Deng Feng, but a normal breakup is very difficult.

Xie Wanting devised a plan and decided to get rid of him.

Xie Wanting pretended to reconcile with Deng Feng, and the two agreed to go to Ryūhisaki, Japan to see butterflies.

Xie Wanting and Deng Feng arrived in the valley. At the edge of a cliff, Xie Wanting told Deng Feng that she had seen a rare dorsal wave butterfly.

Deng Feng, who loves butterflies, immediately disregarded his own safety and climbed up the cliff to catch one, but accidentally fell off the cliff.

After Deng Feng's death, Xie Wanting appeared heartbroken in front of Wang Weian.

To comfort her, Wang Wei'an took her on a trip abroad to relax.

After returning, the two got married, and Xie Wanting became Mrs. Wang, a member of high society.

Hsieh Wanting is shrewd, capable, and career-oriented.

After she married Wang Weian, she has been managing the family business ever since.

With her strong business acumen, Hsieh Wan-ting has become a well-known businesswoman.

The couple, one a successful businessman and the other a submissive husband at home, found themselves with less and less in common and their relationship grew increasingly distant.

Men are naturally fickle, and someone like Wang Wei'an is even less inclined to be a strong, independent woman; he prefers a petite woman who can be cared for and protected by him.

And so, he met the young Lan Enmei.

Lan Enmei is pure, lively, and gentle, and the two begin a peaceful and happy love life.

But after a while, Xie Wanting discovered that her husband was having an affair.

How could Xie Wanting, a strong woman, tolerate her husband's infidelity?
She threatened Wang Wei'an, saying he had better break up with Lan Enmei, or else it would be bad for her.

Wang Wei'an seemed to have realized Xie Wanting's methods. He was worried that Lan Enmei would get hurt, so he had no choice but to break up with her.

Lan Enmei is very persistent. Her personality is actually similar to Xie Wanting's. She will do her best to get what she wants and will not give up easily.

Xie Wanting orchestrated Deng Feng's accidental death. Xie Wanting was supposed to keep this a secret, but Lan Enmei found out that Xie Wanting had pushed him off the cliff from behind.

Lan Enmei is too naive; she wants to use this to blackmail Xie Wanting into divorcing her.

In fact, as long as Lan Enmei handed the evidence over to the police, Xie Wanting would naturally go to jail, so it was completely unnecessary.

It was precisely this behavior that led to her death.

Hsieh Wanting was originally a scheming person, and after so many years of experience in the business world, she became even more ruthless.

How could Lan Enmei, this greenhorn, be a match for her?
The foreigner who committed suicide with Lan Enmei was actually a complete stranger to her. He was actually Xie Wanting's assistant, John. She only got together with the foreigner who seduced her in order to arouse Wang Weian's jealousy.

Unexpectedly, Wang Wei'an had lost all feelings for her and was completely unconcerned about her infidelity.

I don't love you anymore!
Hsieh Wanting broke down on the spot.

But she didn't want to divorce Wang Weian, nor did she like John. Now, instead of achieving her goal, she was entangled with John and couldn't get rid of him.

At this moment, Lan Enmei threatened her again.

So she came up with a wicked plan that would kill two birds with one stone, helping her to eliminate both Lan Enmei and John in one fell swoop.

On her wedding anniversary with Wang Wei'an, she invited him to celebrate together.

She got Wang Weian drunk, so that he could act as her alibi without hindering her plans.

Then, she went to the holiday home to meet John.

They drugged the foreigner John with laced milk.

Xie Wanting had already arranged to meet Lan Enmei here. She tricked Lan Enmei into drinking a beverage laced with sleeping pills, and while she was unconscious, she strangled her with John's tie.

Then she went outside, put a rope around John's neck, tied the other end to a tree branch, and cut the hammock.

John's body lost its support and slumped down. His neck was tightened, and he suffocated to death, just like someone who had hanged themselves.

Xie Wanting's plan succeeded. The police inspected the scene and concluded that a couple had committed suicide together.

Li Fei flipped the envelope over and found an address written on the back.

A Taoist temple near the address.

It seems that Gao Jie wants to visit the Taoist temple herself.

Because of the plot twists, Li Fei didn't know what Gao Jie wanted him to do.

However, Gao Jie ultimately probably wanted to investigate Lan Enmei's case herself.

Since that's the case, then he should cooperate fully.

How Li Fei could cooperate with Gao Jie was actually a question in his mind.

I watched the Butterfly Murder Case in the TV series "Detective Investigation Files" in my past life.

The murderer in the story is Xie Wanting, that's correct.

However, there is still some mystery surrounding the murder of Lan Enmei, which was not explained in the original series. In any case, the murderer died in the end without any explanation.

Li Fei wanted to use this opportunity to investigate Lan Enmei's case, but he also wanted to see if his guess was correct.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have played hide-and-seek with Gao Jie; he would have exposed her long ago.

We drove to the nearby Yuanquan Temple, a Taoist temple that specializes in interpreting divination slips.

Li Fei parked his car in front of the Taoist temple, then took the envelope and went inside.

After Li Fei went inside, Gao Jie secretly followed him in.

Li Fei walked around the Taoist temple but found nothing. He was very suspicious of what Gao Jie meant by leading him here.
Deng Feng is dead. Does Gao Jie want me to find a Taoist priest to perform a divination so that Deng Feng can come up and tell me the truth?
I've been in this world for over a year now, but I haven't encountered any supernatural events, so I definitely can't believe in such superstitious things.

Boom!
Just as Li Fei was wondering what Gao Jie had asked him to do, a bell suddenly rang, startling him awake.

He couldn't help but turn his head and look, only to see a Taoist priest standing in front of the memorial tablet, ringing a small bell and chanting scriptures.

Generally speaking, when a person dies, they are buried in the ground and their ancestral tablet is placed in the family ancestral hall and at home for worship.

However, there are also people who place the ancestral tablets in Taoist temples and Buddhist temples.

This is mainly related to the Buddhist and Taoist traditions of performing rituals for the deceased and praying for blessings.

Temples commemorate the deceased by setting up memorial tablets, and at the same time express their wish to help the departed souls find peace. This practice is not only a sign of respect for the deceased, but also reflects a belief in reincarnation and karma.

Offering sacrifices to spirit tablets is believed to bring the protection of the deceased's soul, help the living avert disasters, prolong life, and even bring peace and good fortune to the family.

This belief led people to seek spiritual sustenance by setting up memorial tablets.

Through this custom, family members can maintain emotional bonds, pass on traditional culture from generation to generation, and strengthen their sense of identity.

Of course, this is also due to the promotion by Taoist temples and Buddhist temples, which use this to make money by selling memorial tablets.

These types of temples typically have designated 'blessed seats' or 'lotus seats' for placing ancestral tablets and remains, and the living maintain this tradition by regularly visiting the temple to make offerings.

This practice conforms to religious ritual norms while also taking into account practical needs.

(End of this chapter)