Chapter 1 The Feeling of Lu Xiaoyao—Sand Sculpture Perfected

Even Julian didn't expect Lu Xiaoyao to be so arrogant.

So much so that when she started arguing with jC, Julian couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat for her.

He was worried that she would start crying the next second.

"Without any evidence, you took me out of school just because I was in the same room as the deceased. Didn't you ever think about what would happen if my reputation was damaged because of this?"

"Or do you already have some strong evidence to prove that I did it?"

"Not yet? No, there wasn't any to begin with, right? I'm also very innocent, okay?"

"Do you know what the situation is like at my school? Those people don't study all day and just spread rumors. I was already slandered and bullied by them, but I didn't see you being so active then. What, now that someone's dead, you're anxious and want to find a scapegoat?"

"Please correct your attitude! We will not slander anyone!" The jC, who had been speechless for a long time after being blocked by Lu Xiaoyao's words, finally couldn't bear it any longer, and slapped the table to tell her to be quiet.

"Oh, then what have you investigated?"

When no one was arguing with her, Lu Xiaoyao was full of momentum. But after the person opposite raised their voice slightly, she became well-behaved again. Then she pouted and said, "Anyway, it wasn't me, you have to clear my name."

Julian wasn't allowed into the interrogation room, but was instead making a statement in another room with other personnel.

About Lu Xiaoyao having grudges with people at school.

"She told me, but she also said that it would be beneath her to argue with those people."

Regardless of how Lu Xiaoyao got involved in the murder case, Julian was very careful with his words.

He didn't want his words to bring unwarranted speculation to Lu Xiaoyao.

"Children of their age are full of love and hate, and some things are indeed a bit excessive. I have also been trying to guide my child, worried that her soft nature would cause her to endure it. So I also reported it to their teacher."

As Julian spoke, he also took out his chat logs and call recordings with Lu Xiaoyao's homeroom teacher. In fact, this later homeroom teacher was just Mona's puppet. Julian's actions were just to see the extent of Mona's control over the school.

As long as she didn't want to, these teacher NPCs wouldn't actively deal with anything, no matter what happened.

Julian's speaking skills were also sufficient. On the one hand, he said that Lu Xiaoyao's personality wasn't one that could do such a thing. On the other hand, this recording also indirectly proved the inaction of the school's upper management. Regardless of who the real murderer of this murder case was, at least the school couldn't escape the relationship between this conflict escalating to this extent.

"But even a rabbit will bite when cornered." Changing the subject, Julian added, "Don't think that my daughter is gentle, but sometimes when she's angry, she's very impolite, but only verbally."

Julian remembered hearing Lu Xiaoyao's strange tone when he came in earlier. Although the voice became quieter later, Lu Xiaoyao's voice could still be heard through the wall, which showed that the voice was quite loud.

It would be funny if he set up Lu Xiaoyao as a well-behaved child with a good personality, but the version the jC saw when taking notes over there was completely different.

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"Oh my god, so you were at the police station so late..."

When Lu Xiaoyao and Julian came out, it was already midnight. Mingmei and Mu Chen pretended to be on a date, bought late-night snacks, passed by the police station, and handed the two bowls of spicy hot pot they were carrying to the two of them. The four of them found a late-night barbecue stall nearby and sat down, chatting about what happened today while eating skewers and spicy hot pot.

Although Mingmei and Mu Chen knew almost everything, they still found it scary to hear it from Lu Xiaoyao.

"If I had known this would really happen, I wouldn't have said those things to Mona."

Lu Xiaoyao ate a large mouthful of spicy hot pot, and almost choked when she spoke.

"Although I didn't do it, I still feel very scared..."

Lu Xiaoyao had long lost the momentum she had at the police station, and her voice trembled slightly as she spoke.

Julian took Lu Xiaoyao's hand from the side, held it tightly, looked at her, and coaxed her softly. As soon as he opened his mouth, Lu Xiaoyao simply burst into tears.

So much so that the passersby NPCs at the next few tables all looked over.

Seeing their melon-eating faces, Mingmei suddenly felt that the atmosphere in front of her didn't seem so sad, even though the four of them were talking about a very serious matter.

"Wuwuwu, I really want to go back to school and kill Mona right now!"

After crying, Lu Xiaoyao angrily picked up a meat skewer and stuffed it into her mouth, feeling extremely sad. She even said things like fighting the boss with her life.

"I've already asked your homeroom teacher for leave. You don't have to go to school for the remaining two days this week." Julian simply took leave after receiving the call from the police station.

"That won't work. If I don't go back, what if Mona does something that you don't know about?" Lu Xiaoyao thought that she could send messages to Julian every day when she was at school. What was she supposed to do staying at home?

Mingmei didn't say anything about this.

Although she wanted to keep an eye on Mona through Lu Xiaoyao's perspective, judging from what happened today, it wasn't a good choice for Lu Xiaoyao to go back.

"We can close the net this weekend. It's also good for Lu Xiaoyao to come out of school and join the plan earlier. We just don't have enough manpower."

"Why don't you have enough manpower?" Julian was slightly stunned when he heard what Mu Chen said.

When he met Mu Chen's deep eyes, he realized that Mu Chen wasn't comforting Lu Xiaoyao, nor was he lying to them. They really didn't have enough manpower.

"What exactly happened?"

Lu Xiaoyao also sensed Julian's daze when he met Mu Chen's eyes. She immediately put down the skewer in her hand, sat up straight, and said, "Boss, what happened? Tell us about it."

"Meimei discovered this matter first. She investigated more information than I did." Mu Chen gently patted Mingmei's arm and passed the words to Mingmei. Mingmei turned to look at Mu Chen, then turned to meet the two pairs of eyes full of curiosity, and then told them what had happened in the past two days.

About Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang's character identities and what they had done before, and that they might be the serial killers that had been reported in the newspapers.

"Wo..." Lu Xiaoyao subconsciously wanted to say an exclamation, but fortunately, Julian's presence made her pay attention to her image and she didn't finish the word.

She turned to look at Julian, who was also shocked just now, and then turned back to look at herself in confusion.

"Why are you looking at me?" Lu Xiaoyao didn't understand why Julian looked at her after being shocked.

"Didn't you have a 'Wo Cao' that you didn't finish saying?"

Lu Xiaoyao: ? ? ? ?

Funny, she probably has a magical image in Julian's heart ヽ(：3」∠)_