Chapter 165

This time, Lu Xiaoyao didn't need to say anything about lacking evidence.

Although she was once again a witness at the first crime scene, the fact that two people had died in a row and both had grudges against Lu Xiaoyao, and that Lu Xiaoyao was the first to discover them both times, was a bit incomprehensible.

So, before the police could even take the first step, they took Lu Xiaoyao back to the police station.

That evening, while bumming a meal at Zhen Hu's house, Julian received a message from the police station and hurriedly left Zhen Hu with a "You guys eat first!" before running off.

Zhen Hu didn't even have time to ask what was going on before the man shot out the door and disappeared.

"What's the matter?"

Lilian, carrying a pot of sparerib soup from the kitchen, saw Julian's hurried figure and looked puzzled, turning to Zhen Hu for answers.

"I don't know, it seemed like a call from the police station."

Although Julian didn't put it on speaker, Zhen Hu did hear the person on the other end of the line announce their department.

"Does the character he plays have any male relatives?"

Lilian suddenly asked, confusing Zhen Hu. "Huh? I don't think so."

Then, Zhen Hu cautiously asked, "Would female relatives not work?"

Lilian: "..."

It seemed the other person didn't understand her meaning.

"How do you communicate with those people when you're so slow?"

Ever since she revealed her identity, Lilian's interactions with Zhen Hu had become much more natural.

Zhen Hu no longer had to worry about losing his honor late at night, and of course, Lilian didn't have any of those intentions towards him after realizing he might be a player.

She felt like she was an old cow eating young grass.

"I'm not slow," Zhen Hu said seriously, shaking his head to deny her claim. "I just sometimes don't quite understand what they're thinking. Why can't they be more straightforward?"

Hearing this, Lilian laughed again, almost spitting out the food in her mouth.

This explanation was worse than no explanation at all.

"But, I think you're pretty smart, so why did you end up like this in this game?" Lilian was trying to clean up the food she had sprayed out, and Zhen Hu seized the opportunity to change the topic, directly asking her why she had ended up this way.

"Mona can't completely control you, so you must be very powerful too. Is it that you're just a little bit short?"

As Zhen Hu spoke, he gestured with his hand, saying, "Just a little bit short of defeating the other party..."

"No, Mona is very powerful." Lilian immediately denied his statement, her gaze fixed on Zhen Hu as she said, "It mainly depends on you."

"Me?" Zhen Hu pointed at himself, then shook his head like a rattle drum, quickly denying, "No, no, I don't have that ability! Besides! Her kind of emotional instinct is wrong to begin with, you as a parent can't guide her like that!"

With that, Zhen Hu gave her a reproachful look, indicating that parents should establish correct emotional values for their children.

"Don't try to save trouble and have me deceive her, even if the plan succeeds, you and Mona's life will continue after we leave the game, right? How will you face her then?"

Zhen Hu didn't know that after the game ended, it would be completely shut down, and all the data inside would be cleared.

But it was precisely because of this that her words of concern were even more touching.

"Pfft, I didn't expect..." Lilian smiled, then, as if thinking of something, said, "You must have been very popular at school, right? At least there should have been many female students who liked you, right?"

"Uh? Not really..." Zhen Hu smiled awkwardly, thinking that she probably hadn't seen him with his twin brother, which was why she said that.

Generally, acquaintances could distinguish between him and Zhen Hu, but more often than not, people who weren't familiar couldn't tell him and his brother Zhen Po apart at all.

As a result, some of the funny, silly, and embarrassing things his brother often did were inexplicably thrown onto him.

A large part of the reason he didn't have a girlfriend until now was his brother!

Whenever the Zhen brothers were mentioned, people would say, "I know, the one who usually does xx, right?"

Zhen Hu, who had never done such a thing, said: Thank you!

Of course, another part of it was that he had someone he liked.

With that thought, Zhen Hu quietly looked up at Lilian, then, a little shy, lowered his head and asked, "D-do I look mature and reliable?"

"Of course~ Although I can't say for sure that you're the type that girls like, at least in my opinion, you do appeal to girls who lack a sense of security, including children."

Although she had never seen Zhen Hu with children, Lilian's intuition told her that Zhen Hu was someone children liked very much.

"Ah, lacking a sense of security..." Lilian could tell that he didn't seem to want to hear her answer.

"Besides lacking a sense of security... w-what kind of women would I attract?"

Subconsciously avoiding the word "girls," Lilian pondered, looking at his somewhat shy appearance now, could it be that he liked her?

But that ridiculous thought quickly vanished.

Lilian recalled how he had avoided her like the plague before, so now, he must be—

"You like someone older than you?"

...

Meanwhile, an hour before Zhen Hu and the others had dinner,

Mingmei had finished her work in the afternoon and returned to her room, lying on the sofa waiting for Mu Chen to cook.

Looking at Mu Chen's busy figure, Mingmei's heart was filled with satisfaction and peace while she waited for her meal.

So, she confidently started watching Lu Xiaoyao's livestream, but because she entered too quickly, the mosaic processing couldn't keep up, so when she entered, she saw the terrifying scene next to Lu Xiaoyao's bed that was comparable to a horror story, almost scaring her to death.

Good heavens, there was another corpse next to Lu Xiaoyao's bed?!

And this time there were even more witnesses. Before Lu Xiaoyao could make any remedial measures, Mona directly opened the door.

Suddenly, a large group of people poured in behind her, and seeing the scene in the room, it was as if they had really caught the murderer!

Lu Xiaoyao, who had been "caught red-handed" by everyone, was directly taken to the police station this time as well.

For the next two hours, she was in the interrogation room, putting on a performance of "I don't know anything."

This situation continued until Julian rushed into the interrogation room.

"I told you, I was sleeping all afternoon, okay? Who could stay awake after being scared like that in the morning, it's too much, right?"

Before Julian even arrived, he heard Lu Xiaoyao's various grunts and sarcastic remarks.

"Yeah, I was sleeping so soundly that I couldn't hear the noise in the room, that's just the truth, okay? Who knows if this person was thrown in here to frame me?"