"I only committed manslaughter, nothing else!"
On the interrogation chair, the man shouted excitedly, desperate to prove his innocence.
Xu Mo merely nodded faintly and put away the strands of hair, cigarette butts, palm prints, rags, and other evidence he had just collected from the scene.
These items were no longer needed. Realizing that his accomplice had indeed confessed, the man no longer put up a tough front.
Xu Mo wasn't surprised by the man's words.
In fact, after reading Ren Qin's confession, Xu Mo had already sensed that there was something wrong with it. Her claim of being threatened was just her one-sided story, aimed at reducing her sentence.
This wasn't hard to figure out.
If Ren Qin had truly been threatened into silence, she wouldn't have initially appeared so calm. The first time she met the police, she would have been extremely conflicted and nervous, showing signs of wanting to reveal the truth but not daring to.
The problem was that her demeanor was far too calm, especially since the incident was directly related to her. She wasn't being coerced.
As for the mention of being threatened in the confession, that was undoubtedly an excuse. She had just turned around and blamed the man to reduce her own guilt.
This was why Xu Mo had given the man a chance after reading Ren Qin's confession.
It was Xu Mo's duty to bring the murderer to justice, but he judged that the man was only guilty of manslaughter, not coercion. There was no need to add another charge to him... even though he had killed someone.
Although this was what Xu Mo thought in his heart, he didn't agree with the man verbally.
"Was it Ren Qin who suggested disguising the victim's death as suicide?" Xu Mo expressed a hint of doubt. "That doesn't make sense. The victim was her son. Why would she go out of her way to exonerate you?"
A mother helping an outsider kill her own son and then fabricating a suicide scene... that really didn't add up.
"It makes sense!" The man nodded heavily.
He said excitedly, "That child wasn't her biological son. She couldn't have children, so she adopted him. He had no blood relationship with her... and ever since he found out he wasn't her biological son, they've been constantly arguing. They fought almost every other day. The conflicts between them were deep, and Ren Qin was beaten by her adopted son countless times, and he was brutal about it."
After saying this, fearing that Xu Mo wouldn't believe him, the man added, "You can check this! DNA test, or ask the neighbors. Everyone in the neighborhood knows about this!"
If that was the case, then it made sense... Xu Mo couldn't help but touch his chin.
The victim wasn't Ren Qin's biological son; they had no blood relationship.
Moreover, because the victim had discovered he wasn't Ren Qin's biological son, he harbored considerable resentment toward her. This explained why Ren Qin would choose to exonerate her lover rather than seek justice for her son.
Xu Mo put himself in Ren Qin's shoes.
The adopted son she had raised found out he wasn't her biological child, and resentment brewed inside him. He even repeatedly attacked her, causing a commotion that made the neighbors gossip.
Anyone in such a situation would harbor resentment.
Raising someone for decades only to end up with a ungrateful wretch? Who could bear that?
So, choosing not to seek justice for her son but to exonerate an outsider also had its reasons...
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Xu Mo's mind.
Long-simmering resentment, using someone else's hand to kill!
He recalled a detail.
"Was it Ren Qin who told you the victim was going on a business trip?"
"Yes." The man nodded, then recalled, "At the time, she told me her son was going on a business trip for a week, and she asked me to stay at her place for a few days. I didn't think much of it and went over. Who knew her son would come back early the next morning? We bumped into each other, and since Ren Qin and I were in a secret affair... well, I ended up fighting with her son."
So... Xu Mo felt he needed to re-examine the case.
He had to figure out who the mastermind was and who was the accomplice.
Xu Mo left the interrogation room and stepped out.
"Dachuan, Xiao Zhang, come here."
In the office, Xu Mo assigned tasks to Wang Dachuan and Xiao Zhang.
"Dachuan, go to the victim's company and ask where they were supposed to send him on the business trip and for how long."
"Xiao Zhang, go to the victim's neighborhood and ask the neighbors if they ever heard any commotion from the victim's home."
"Yes!" Both responded in unison.
After receiving their tasks, they left the police station one after the other.
Next, Xu Mo went to the interrogation room where Ren Qin was being held and collected a few strands of her hair. Then, he went to the morgue where the victim's body was kept and did the same.
The body could also be used to test DNA. Skin tissue, hair, blood, and other tissues from the body could extract DNA samples... as long as the body hadn't been tampered with, like being dissolved in acid.
This victim's body hadn't been tampered with and had died recently, so DNA samples could still be extracted.
Xu Mo took the hair samples from both Ren Qin and the victim primarily to conduct a paternity test, to verify the man's claims.
The paternity test could be expedited and results obtained in as little as three hours.
Xu Mo looked up a place that could conduct the paternity test and then left the police station with the two hair samples.
At the identification center (DNA identification center).
Xu Mo showed his credentials, provided the two hair samples, and explained that he was investigating a case and needed the results as soon as possible.
The staff at the identification center didn't waste any time. They immediately began the testing upon receiving the samples.
About three hours later.
A staff member from the identification center brought the results to Xu Mo.
"Officer, the results are ready. The DNA probes from the two hair samples do not match in multiple areas. We can confirm with 100% certainty that the owners of the two hair samples are not biologically related."
Xu Mo took the results.
"100% not biologically related... so they're definitely not mother and son?"
"Correct."
"Thanks."
Xu Mo returned to the police station with the results.
At the station, Wang Dachuan and Xiao Zhang had already completed their tasks and returned. They were waiting to report to Xu Mo. Seeing him back, they immediately approached.
"Xu Mo, I asked around. The victim's boss said they only needed him to entertain clients that night. Entertaining clients would take at most half the night. There was no business trip involved. If he wanted to go back, he could have returned that night."
"I also talked to the neighbors. They said they had heard commotion from the victim's home multiple times, with the victim beating Ren Qin."
"That all fits together..." Xu Mo murmured.
Indeed, it was a case of using someone else's hand to kill!
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ave】 Shen Qingling was a man with peerless looks, a cunning mind, and the ability to play both the aloof noble and the innocent sweetheart—a master of seduction who could outplay any player. But after an untimely death, he found himself bound to a system and transmigrated into the tragic "true young master" of a melodramatic novel. In the original story, his childhood sweetheart treated him as a backup plan, his fiancée swore to break off their engagement for the sake of the "fake young master," and his own sister saw him as the family's disgrace. He was nothing more than a rat everyone wanted to stomp on. System 077: "Your mission is to change the original fate and conquer the goddesses." Shen Qingling: "Thanks for the invite. If seduction had tiers, I’d be max level." His childhood sweetheart knelt, begging for forgiveness: "Qingling, I was wrong. Please give me another chance." His ex-fiancée refused to marry anyone else: "Shen Qingling, I was blind before. In this life, I’ll marry no one but you." A yandere CEO went mad for love: "Shen Qingling, you can only like me. I’ll stop at nothing to make you mine!" His green-tea sister clung to him daily: "Brother, look at me, won’t you? I’m more obedient than them—I love you the most~" At first, they scorned and trampled on him. Later, they burned themselves like moths to a flame, all for his sake. His looks were his weapon, his sweet words the bait—heroines obsessed over him, villains turned to madness for him. Shen Qingling became a true male siren, igniting battlefield after battlefield of women fighting for his affection. Years later, when System 077—now one of the elites—was asked how to become as outstanding as it, it lazily exhaled a smoke ring and replied: "Just know how to cheer ‘666’ at the right time."
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
