Hong Kong Film: Night Cop

Chapter 634 Mysteries in the Original Drama
“At the time, I didn’t think that what Amei said was true. When I returned from abroad, Amei was dead. If I hadn’t rushed to America, Amei wouldn’t have been killed by her.”

After hearing Gao Jie's account, Li Fei learned even more than he had in the original drama.

After all, the plot in TV dramas won't be explained in too much detail; it's enough for the audience to get a general idea.

Lan Enmei's death was indeed caused by Xie Wanting.

But Lan Enmei wasn't stupid; she must have been prepared when she went to find Xie Wanting.

Therefore, there must be things that Xie Wanting didn't know about in her scheming against Lan Enmei.

In the original drama, Xie Wanting tricked Lan Enmei into drinking a beverage laced with sleeping pills, and while she was unconscious, she strangled her with John's tie.

If Lan Enmei could investigate Xie Wanting's killing of Deng Feng, then this woman couldn't be stupid.

She went to confront Xie Wanting, so she must have been wary. After all, Lan Enmei knew Xie Wanting was a vicious person, so she wouldn't easily drink any beverage Xie Wanting gave her.

From this perspective, this is the flaw. Perhaps there were things that others didn't know about during Lan Enmei's death, perhaps even Xie Wanting didn't know.

Li Fei secretly began to speculate about the truth behind Lan Enmei's death.
“After I came back, I told the police that Ah Mei had contacted Xie Wanting before she died, but the police didn’t believe me, so I set up this scheme to get your help in the investigation. I didn’t expect you to see through it.”

Seeing that Gao Jie seemed to be blaming the police, Li Fei didn't argue, since the police had indeed made a mistake.

The fact that they rushed to close the case without listening to anyone's opinions or conducting any investigation shows that some members of the police force are not rigorous in their work.

"I don't think it was you who first called me?" Li Fei said.

“Yes, I had my sister make the first phone call, and I also wrote the letter,” Gao Jie said.

"What do you want from me after all this trouble?"

“Inspector Li, believe me. Although there’s no evidence, Ah Mei really was killed by Xie Wanting,” Gao Jie said hurriedly.

“Miss Gao, you’ve already said you have no evidence, so how am I supposed to arrest them?” Li Fei said.

"Now that the person is dead, that's proof! I've gone to so much trouble just to get you to clear Amei's name."

Seeing Li Fei remain silent, Gao Jie grew anxious, put down her chopsticks, and said, "Tell me, are you going to arrest Xie Wanting, the murderer, or not?"

"No!"

Li Fei said coldly.

"Not arrest them?"

Gao Jie stood up angrily.

"Yes! They won't arrest them."

When Gao Jie heard Li Fei say again that he wouldn't arrest him, she almost lost her temper.

"Why?" Gao Jie asked coldly, barely suppressing the urge to throw her bag at Li Fei.

“Miss Gao, your father is a policeman. Didn’t he tell you that you can’t arrest someone without evidence?” Li Fei raised an eyebrow and looked at Gao Jie.

"What other evidence do you need! Amei, Deng Feng, and the foreigner—three lives! How can you, as a police officer, just sit idly by and do nothing about three lives?"

"Well, Li Fei, I thought you were just a scumbag and that you would be a good cop. I never expected you to be this kind of person. I guess I misjudged you."

"All police officers are the same; not one of them is a good person."

Hearing Gao Jie hurl insults at him, Li Fei wasn't angry. He took a sip of his drink and said, "Miss Gao, we police officers have to follow procedures when handling cases. You have no witnesses, no physical evidence, and Xie Wanting is a prominent figure in high society. The higher-ups won't agree to overturn the case."

Of course, Li Fei added in his mind that he was not included in this category.

Other police officers need to follow procedures when handling cases and dare not investigate without evidence, but he doesn't, because he never thinks about what procedures to follow; he always has the answer first, and then provides the process for answering the question. Only those who rigidly adhere to police regulations are incompetent at handling cases.

Moreover, he never needs evidence to solve cases. As long as he knows that the other party is guilty of heinous crimes, he will simply kill the other party as a night detective.

Xie Wanting deserved to die, but Li Fei always felt that there was something suspicious about Xie Wanting's killing of Lan Enmei.

To figure out what's going on, one cannot easily take action against Xie Wanting.

Xie Wanting is a very shrewd woman. She is intelligent and ruthless. She might take drastic measures at the slightest provocation.

For example, in the original drama, when Gao Jie saw that Zhang Dayong could no longer investigate Xie Wanting, she was unwilling to give up and decided to approach Wang Wei'an to find clues from him.

Gao Jie deliberately dressed up to look very similar to Lan Enmei and pretended to bump into Wang Weian near the holiday home where he lived.

Although Wang Weian also suspected that Lan Enmei's death was related to Xie Wanting, he had no evidence to prove it.

On the day Lan Enmei died, he was drunk and knew nothing.

Gao Jie failed to obtain evidence from Wang Weian and made a terrible mistake, almost getting herself killed by Xie Wanting.

She wrote another letter to Xie Wanting in Lan Enmei's name, saying that she, John, and Deng Feng were all waiting for her.

They also sent her the hammock where John had slept before he died, hoping to provoke her into finding a flaw in their plan.

Xie Wanting was indeed terrified after receiving the letter, thinking that Lan Enmei's ghost had come to take revenge on her. But she quickly realized that there was no such thing as a ghost in this world.
Someone is definitely up to no good, and it's someone who knows about Lan Enmei and her past.

Xie Wanting quietly hired a private investigator to investigate, only to discover that Gao Jie was behind everything.

Xie Wanting devised a plan to turn the tables and eliminate Gao Jie, an unstable factor.

Gao Jie kept using the excuse of wanting to interview Xie Wanting to get close to her, and Xie Wanting took the initiative to invite Gao Jie to Butterfly Valley to interview her.

Butterfly Valley was deserted. Xie Wanting went straight to the point and confessed to killing Deng Feng, Lan Enmei, and John.

She wasn't afraid of Gao Jie finding out the truth, because she was already prepared to kill Gao Jie to silence her.

Fortunately, Zhang Dayong arrived in time and injured Xie Wanting, thus preventing Gao Jie from being silenced.

Finally, Xie Wanting drove away, with Zhang Dayong in hot pursuit. Despite the police's guns, Xie Wanting refused to get out of the car and surrender until her death. After being shot, she and her car plunged off a cliff.

It has to be said that Xie Wanting is a ruthless person.

However, this also left many mysteries in the original series.

Normally, Xie Wanting wouldn't have needed to run away; given her status and position, the police couldn't do anything to her.

After all, she had only mentioned killing Lan Enmei, Deng Feng, and John to Gao Jie.

Without direct evidence, even if Gao Jie were to speak out, the court would not accept her testimony.

At most, the police charged Xie Wanting with possessing a firearm.

But in the eyes of the wealthy, possessing firearms is not a crime at all.

She didn't actually need to run away.

But because she escaped and then died, many mysteries remain in the original series.

Lan Enmei's death was too suspicious. Xie Wanting did kill her, but the process was too smooth. Xie Wanting didn't even have a shred of suspicion.

(End of this chapter)