Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 74 No Such Person 5
It can only be said that human emotions are indeed unpredictable and sometimes even override reason.

Having worked as a criminal investigator for so long, this wasn't the first time Zheng Yan had witnessed such a situation. The parents were protecting the murderer who killed their son for the sake of their grandson, probably hoping to settle the score after the grandson was born.

But the other party won't wait until the day they get their comeuppance!
"She spent a year plotting to murder your son, and even got pregnant along the way. Maybe she knew exactly what you were thinking and wanted to use the child in her belly to get you to help her buy time and escape punishment! Do you really think someone like that will stay put? She might be on a flight to an overseas country right now, and she's run away!"

"Your grandson is unlikely to be born, and the murderer who killed your son will never be caught, all because of your cover-up! Now you've lost everything!"

The roar was mixed with the thud of slamming on the table, shattering the confident expressions of Mr. and Mrs. Chen, and turning them into panickers.

"No, no! That woman couldn't be the murderer. She's just a college student and has no grudge against An'an! Wasn't it said that the murderer must be someone who had a grudge against An'an?"

Mr. Chen also said, "An'an only met her a few months ago, and the pregnancy happened a little over a month ago. The timing of her and An'an's problems doesn't match up. They've known each other for less than a year in total!"

"You've known her for less than a year?" Zheng Yan's brows furrowed suddenly. "Then why did you hide her existence, as if you were afraid we'd catch her? If you're not the murderer, why are you afraid of alerting her?"

"Because..." They seemed unable to summarize the key points in their chaotic thoughts.

But the unease and evasive expressions revealed something.

Zheng Yan snorted coldly: "Because you still find it suspicious, don't you? Why did the murderer close in this month and kill Chen Anxun, instead of at some other time? Why did he happen to have a child before he died? Families like yours have seen too many cases of posthumous children fighting over inheritance, so you know it's too much of a coincidence, right? Even if she's not the murderer, she must be closely related to this matter."

Chen's mother could no longer argue and could only emphasize, "That's An'an's only child. We can't let anything happen to the child! But that woman hasn't graduated yet, and she's implying that she doesn't want to have the baby unless we pay for a pregnancy preservation."

Isn't this just using a grandson to control a family's vast fortune?

"To be able to amass millions from a grandson whose authenticity is unknown—such a lucrative business is enough to make her risk murdering Chen Anxun!"

Money is most likely the killer's true intention and motive for murder!

The police immediately demanded that Mr. and Mrs. Chen submit the identity of the pregnant woman and the transfer information.

The police in Haicheng had dealt with the Chen family and warned them: "Don't think you can make your own choices anymore. This is a murder case, a murder case with a very serious impact! The police will definitely pursue the murderer to the end!"

Left with no other option, the Chen family revealed all the clues they knew.

According to them, the pregnant girl's name is Qianqian. She is a junior art student in Haicheng. She and Chen Anxun had been dating for several months. They had even met her once at his birthday party. She is quite pretty and well-behaved.

Later, Qianqian became pregnant unexpectedly. Around the same time, Chen Anxun cheated on her. Qianqian made a scene in Chen Anxun's circle of friends, and many people knew about it, which fueled the fire and reached their ears.

But they didn't know Qianqian's full name or where she was from. They only found her contact information temporarily in Chen Anxun's phone, and when they dialed it, the number was disconnected.

Because they didn't care about those women at all while their son was alive.

As for the transfer information, the two million they gave was transferred to a bank card that Chen Anxun had given to Qianqian before his death. No one knows when Chen Anxun gave that card to her.

...This statement is as good as not asking at all; I don't know what they were hiding before.

Tan Ming and Xiao Chen wrote down a lot of useless information, thinking they might as well ask Chen Anxun's cronies.

Fortunately, the technical team worked through the night to fix Chen Anxun's phone and found out more information.

"Qianqian's social media account is only visible for the past three months and contains only a few landscape photos. One of them was matched and confirmed to be a building inside Haicheng Art Academy."

"However, there are some photos in her chat history with Chen Anxun. Look, you can tell from this event photo that she should be studying broadcasting and hosting, and she has worked as a nail technician."

The search area was slowly narrowing down, but it wasn't enough. The technicians extracted photos from Chen Anxun's chat logs with everyone, their eyes nearly straining from looking, but they only found one photo of a person that he sent to a friend.

"On February 16th, Chen Anxun had dinner with his friends and brought Qianqian along."

The photo was taken by Qianqian, capturing Chen Anxun and his friends enjoying drinks together. Chen Anxun thought the photo was quite nice and sent it to his friends, jokingly saying he would pay fifty yuan for the photography.

Zheng Yan stared at the people in the photo and said, "It's not bad. These people have seen Qianqian. Once we find all the female students majoring in broadcasting and hosting at Haicheng Art College, we can have them identify her."

Having obtained a directional clue, they rested for only three or four hours before splitting into three groups at daybreak.

A team went to investigate the places where Chen Anxun used to live, hoping to find evidence related to the toxic yogurt.

A team of people went to visit Chen Anxun's friends, trying to figure out what special thing happened a year ago that would make the murderer target him.

The last group headed to Haicheng Art Academy.

This is a very wealthy school; that was Tan Jia's first thought upon stepping inside.

Students taking graduation photos each received a bouquet of flowers provided by the school. Along the way, they saw three brand-new, large indoor sports fields, as well as intelligent delivery robots that could be seen everywhere along the tree-lined paths...

"The tuition here must be quite high, right?" Tan Jia rested her elbow on the car window, squinting as the wind blew in, causing the slightly longer ends of her green hair to curl.

Tan Ming: "It's a Sino-foreign joint venture with such good infrastructure, so it must be quite expensive."

"Qianqian studies here, so her family must be relatively well-off. Judging from her photos, she seems intelligent and poised. Would she really poison someone for money? I initially thought the murderer would be a chemistry major."

Zheng Yan turned the steering wheel and glanced at her: "The thought process of murderers is different from that of ordinary people. To understand it, even a hundred books on criminal psychology wouldn't be enough."

The school bus that was leading the way stopped; we had arrived at our destination.

Students majoring in broadcasting and hosting were having a professional class in Mingyuan Building. Zheng Yan found the counselor to ask about the situation. Tan Jia and Tan Ming temporarily pretended to be students from other departments to blend into the class because of their appearance.

Her style perfectly matches the fashion needs of art students. Her aggressive demeanor, which makes her seem unapproachable, is not a problem. She only needs to smile after "accidentally" bumping into someone to show her approachability, and the students around her will start to quietly ask her where she got her hair done.

She selflessly shared the name of a hair salon located overseas, and then pretended to turn on her phone screen to reveal the photo of the event with manicures that Qianqian had taken.

After confirming that the girl next to her had seen it, she got down to business: "I saw this photo on the school bulletin board. Is it for an event in your major? I wanted to ask the girl who took the photo where she got her nails done, but she keeps ignoring me..."

The girls around her looked at it and one of them recognized it: "Isn't that Hu Qian? I saw the same photo on Weibo."

Great, we successfully obtained useful information.

She winked at the shocked Tan Ming, and stopped Hu Qian just before get out of class ended, taking her to the office.

Hu Qian is a very beautiful and intelligent girl, which fits the Chen family's description of Chen Anxun's taste.

However, she refused to admit to being in a relationship with Chen Anxun and even seemed shocked.

"I've never been in a relationship, I'm not pregnant, I don't even know him! I've never been to any friends' gatherings!"

(End of this chapter)