Chapter 8 Unexpected Ending

  After listening to Liu Li's analysis, Tan Shuai looked at him with a face full of admiration: "I didn't expect you to be so amazing, although your analysis wasn't entirely correct, but you still guessed eight or nine out of ten."

  "It's fine, I did all this to seek justice for Xiao Jie. Why should she pay with her life for someone else's mistake? It's not fair to her."

  He roared a sentence, and Tan Shuai told his motive for the case and the process. It turned out that Liu Li's analysis was correct. Because of drunkenness and having an affair with Lin Na, Tan Shuai had no face to meet Wang Jie, so he chose to escape and bid farewell to her without saying goodbye.

  When Tan Shuai was about to leave, he told Du Yan the whole story and asked her to put in a good word for him at an appropriate time. However, when he returned, his family told him that Wang Jie had found out about his relationship with Lin Na and, unable to cope, had hanged herself.

  This news struck him like a thunderbolt on a clear day, and Tang Shuai, who was stubborn as a bull, did not reflect on his own responsibility, but instead blamed everything on Lin Na and Du Yan. He believed that Wang Jie's suicide by hanging was entirely the responsibility of Lin Na and Du Yan.

  After having this idea, Tan Shuai began to plan the murder. He secretly stalked Lin Na twice, memorized her shoe size and style, then found a white outfit left behind by Wang Jie before her death, and disguised himself as Wang Jie.

  Because the two were together day and night, Tan Shuai was very familiar with Wang Jie's appearance. Moreover, Tan Shuai had a slender figure, so after making up, others couldn't tell them apart at first glance if they didn't look carefully.

  Later, the course of the crime was exactly the same as Liu Li's analysis. Calculating the time well, Tan Shuai sprinkled thin iron wire and broken glass shards on the side of the road when Du Yan and three others were about to pass by the tomb area. Taking advantage of the fact that their car tires had been punctured, Du Yan and three others stopped the car, he quietly appeared in front of them.

  When Du Yan and the three others were frightened and ran away separately, he chased Lin Na tightly because of the same style shoes on his feet. Under his deliberate siege, Lin Na, who was flustered and didn't choose a path, ran to the front of Wang Jie's tomb.

  Just as Tan Shuai was about to kill Lin Na, he didn't expect that Lin Na would be scared to death by the tombstone in front of her. At that time, he still wanted to continue killing Du Yan, but at that moment, he seemed to have an illusion? Tan Shuai vaguely saw Wang Jie persuading him to leave.

  The illusion flashed by in an instant, and Tan Shuai didn't have time to think much about it. He was worried that Lin Na's previous shouting would attract the villagers, and he also had some doubts about the illusion at the time, so he left the tomb.

  Afterwards, when everything was found to be normal, Tan Shuai, who had extreme thoughts, regretted not taking action to kill Du Yan at the time.

  Tan Shuai originally wanted to continue killing Du Yan in the guise of a ghost, but at that time, the police had set up a cordon around the tomb, which made him somewhat anxious, because he wanted to take advantage of the July 15th Ghost Gate opening to kill Du Yan, only then could he shift all this onto the ghost.

  Tan Shuai quietly went to Du Yan's place to observe once, and later saw Peng Fei coming to find Du Yan, so he left. It was also that time when Dou Zhihao, who was in charge of surveillance, felt that the atmosphere was a bit unusual.

  Just as Tan Shuai arrived at the police cordon set up by the police, he didn't expect that today the police would actually remove the cordon. Overjoyed, he hurriedly put on makeup, because he understood local customs and knew that tonight Du Yan must go to burn paper money for Wang Jie's grave.

  So he quietly came to the tomb area of Guo Jia Village, taking advantage of the chaos when the villagers were burning paper, and hid beside several deserted tombs on the east side of the tomb area, waiting for Du Yan's appearance. However, he never thought that Liu Li would also be lurking here, on the other side of the tomb area, until the last moment when everything was ruined.

  Tan Shuai seemed to have shed a heavy burden after finishing his account of the crime. Although he still hadn't answered Du Yan's question, his previous confession had indirectly given her an answer.

  He glanced at the handcuffs on his hands and then looked around, surprisingly they were standing next to Wang Jie's tomb. He gently stroked the tombstone in front of Wang Jie's grave, smiled softly, and took advantage of Liu Li's unpreparedness to violently bang his head against the tombstone.

  "I'm going to wipe... what's going on? Tan Shuai, how could you be so reckless?" Liu Li reacted and hastily hugged Tan Shuai's body, but by then, a gash had already split open on Tan Shuai's head, with blood gushing out profusely.

  Seeing this, Liu Li hastily took off his Taoist robe to help Tan Shuai stop the bleeding: "Brother, you're at most guilty of attempted murder, and at worst, it's just a crime of negligent homicide. Is it worth being so desperate?"

  Looking at Liu Li's anxious expression, Tan Shuai smiled: "Thank you, officer. After losing Xiao Jie, I myself have no meaning in living in this world. If I had known it would end up like this, I shouldn't have left in the first place."

  That night when I scared Linna to death, I originally wanted to kill Du Yan too, but at that time I had an illusion, I saw Xiao Jie persuading me to leave. Now I understand, it turned out that Xiao Jie was advising me to stop, unfortunately, I didn't understand her kindness.

  "After what happened with Nina, if I hadn't chosen to escape but instead chose to bravely face everything, maybe the outcome wouldn't have been like this. Unfortunately, there's no 'what ifs' in this world... Hehe... Xiao Jie, you were here all along, why didn't you say anything? I...I came looking for you..."

  After Tan Shuai's voice fell, he didn't have any breath left. Looking at the satisfied expression on Tan Shuai's face before his death, Liu Li sighed: "Now that you're not even afraid of death, why were you too afraid to face Wang Jie back then?

  Actually, there is "if" in this world. No matter how bad things you've encountered, if you calm down a bit, if you choose to face it instead of escaping, the result now would definitely be different.

  After sighing, Liu Li let Dou Zhihao dial 120, while he carried Tan Shuai's body and walked out with Du Yan. Perhaps it was Liu Li's illusion, but when he left Wang Jie's grave, a woman's sigh seemed to echo in his ears.

  He turned around and looked, behind him there was nothing but Wang Jie's tomb, he thought back to Tan Shuai's last words before his death, Liu Li guessed that perhaps, behind him, in the position where he had stood before, in a world he couldn't see, a man and woman were silently watching him - as well as the corpse in his arms.

  Because Liu Li and Dou Zhihao were both wearing law enforcement recorders, Tan Shuai's case of disguising himself as a ghost to murder was successfully cracked.

  According to Liu Li's idea, he cracked the case this time. Although he couldn't immediately resume his original position, at least he could let his job rise a bit. However, unexpectedly, on the third day after the case was closed, Liu Li was called to the provincial hall by Director Xu Jian again.

  As soon as he heard that it was the director himself who called him, Liu Li judged that he must have made a great achievement this time and his superiors were going to cancel their previous disciplinary decision against him.

  But Liu Liwan never thought that after meeting, there was no expected praise or reward, but instead received a criticism from Director Xu Jian: "Liu Li, what can I say is good about you? The case has been solved, which should be a celebratory matter, but you actually let the suspect commit suicide in your hands, you're really capable."

  "Director, this can't be blamed on me, I didn't think that guy would commit suicide either." Liu Li explained in a low voice.

  "Aren't you to blame? Are you going to shift the blame onto me instead? You've caught a suspect, it's your responsibility to ensure their safety. The person died in your custody and you're saying you didn't expect it? It's infuriating!"

  After calming down a bit, Xu Jian waved his hand and took out a document from the desktop: "Just now you said 'I didn't expect', this sentence is well used, there's something I didn't expect either.

  Given your recent "excellent" performance, which has even caught the attention of some leaders in the department, considering your previous position and influence in Fujian Province, in order to help you grow healthily, the superior leadership has decided to give you an opportunity for experience, transferring you out of Fujian Province to a place where no one knows you.

  "In three days, you will report to the police station in Deyi Township, Gucheng County, Zhenzhou City, HB Province. Your position is community police officer. This is the grassroots front line of our police force. I hope you work hard and strive for excellence every day, don't disappoint the leaders who have trained you."

  "Pffft......" Hearing this, Liu Li almost fainted.