Chapter 1 In the Detention Center

In the detention center, Jia Wenjun was brought in for questioning again.

It was the same two police officers who had questioned her before.

Zhang Lin looked at Jia Wenjun's face, knowing she probably hadn't slept well last night, a common state for most people after being brought in.

"Jia Wenjun, during your first night's gathering on the boat, were you the one who opened the wine in the boat's kitchen?"

Jia Wenjun recalled the situation at the time. Anna had left the kitchen matters to the property staff. She had indeed helped Sun Jiaojiao in the kitchen, and she had opened several bottles of red wine with a tool. Lili was also there, cutting fruit for the fruit platter.

She didn't think there was anything to hide, so she said, "I opened them." After a pause, she added, "I only opened the ones with corks, not the beer, and everyone opened their own beers."

Jia Wenjun knew that the police's questions were always for a purpose, so it was best to be clear.

Sure enough, the police officer said in the next sentence, "You opened the wine, so we have reason to suspect you had the time and opportunity to drug it."

Jia Wenjun's expression stiffened. "I opened the wine, but I didn't drug it."

Zhang Lin ignored her and continued, "After everyone got drunk, where did you throw away the wine bottles from the boat?"

Jia Wenjun frowned deeper and deeper. "I said, I didn't drug it. I don't know."

Zhang Lin stared at her intently. Jia Wenjun's temples throbbed, but she didn't avoid his scrutinizing gaze, instead meeting it head-on, without dodging or evading.

Zhang Lin looked at her face, thinking this woman was quite troublesome.

His gaze was intimidating, making people feel frightened, but Jia Wenjun had a clear conscience.

He suddenly slowed his speech and said, "What is your relationship with Lü Maowang?"

Jia Wenjun's mind raced. Why were they asking this? Could it be that Lü Maowang had been blabbing about their relationship to the police? No, no, at this time, no one would want to be associated with her. The police were probably asking because of that video. Lü Maowang, with his eyes open, had appeared at the end of the video.

In their eyes, Lü Maowang was either her accomplice or the one who secretly filmed the entire "crime."

Lü Maowang had definitely been interrogated too. What would he say?

She had seen Lü Maowang twist the truth before. If Lü Maowang insisted on distorting the facts, it would be like adding frost to snow for her.

"I have no relationship with him. I was driven to the lower hold of the boat by the others. He once tried to force himself on me, but in the end, because Bai Ma Shan stopped him, he didn't succeed." Thinking of the humiliation that night, Jia Wenjun's body trembled slightly.

The policewoman glanced at her and vigorously recorded this.

Zhang Lin had interrogated many people, and he could tell whether someone was lying or not.

Although he sympathized with Jia Wenjun's experience, he still had to ask about the case.

"Did he say anything to you at the time?"

The male police officer's words stimulated Jia Wenjun's memory. She remembered the words Lü Maowang had said in her ear when he was molesting her—"Did you think I was really asleep?"

Jia Wenjun's whole body shuddered. She couldn't tell if Lü Maowang's words were true or just meant to deceive her, but she couldn't care about so much at this time. She immediately said, "He said he saw me fall on the deck. He was at the scene. I fell on the deck, but Zhao Di was pushed into the sea. He can prove I'm not the murderer."

Zhang Lin stared at her face. "In other words, you were very close to the murderer at the time?"

"I was unconscious at the time. I don't know how close I was. And the person in the video is not me at all. The video is fake." Jia Wenjun forced herself to calm down and tried to express herself as clearly as possible.

Zhang Lin glanced at her clenched fist. "We've verified that the video is the original and hasn't been faked."

"I mean, the person who pushed Zhao Di in the video is not me, but someone wearing the same clothes as me. She impersonated me." Jia Wenjun's eyes were filled with resentment.

She didn't know who it was, who would go to such lengths to frame her.

"Besides the property staff and the owners, were there any other people on your boat?"

"...I don't know." She didn't see anyone else at the time, but how could that person be explained? If there was no one else, then who was it if not her?

In another interrogation room in the police station, Lü Maowang listened to the police's questions and directly denied, "Jia Wenjun is slandering me. I never said anything like, 'Did you think I was really asleep?' to her."

Zhang Lin looked at him coldly. "Did you attempt to force her into a relationship?"

Lü Maowang stiffened his neck. "I didn't do anything to her. I was dating her at the time. It's normal to have some physical contact, right?"

"You wanted to date her, but did she want to date you?"

"She... women always say the opposite, don't they? Saying they don't want to is what they really mean, right?"

Seeing him say it so matter-of-factly, the policewoman recording was so angry that she couldn't hold her pen steady.

Zhang Lin took a deep breath,忍住想要锤他的想法, and said sternly, "When a woman says no, it means no. Do you know how many years you get for attempted rape? Three to ten years in prison."

Hearing this, Lü Maowang finally panicked a little. "Jia Wenjun wouldn't have sued me, would she?"

He felt extremely懊恼 in his heart. If he had known, he wouldn't have run away from the hospital last night. Originally, if he hadn't run, nothing would have happened. This run directly got him pulled in for questioning.

After going ashore, Lü Maowang had been staying in the hospital due to his knife wound. But thinking about how he had appeared in that video, and Sun Jiaojiao had spread the news of him stealing Zhao Di's underwear, making everyone know about it, he now felt somewhat afraid whenever he saw the police and just wanted to go home quickly.

Knowing that the Hu Sixiang couple had returned, he also had thoughts and wanted the doctor to let him go back quickly, but the doctor told him to continue staying for a while longer.

How could he stay there? Especially when he saw the news of Anna's瞎传 on TV, he became even more panicked for no reason.

Every night, lying in the hospital bed, he couldn't sleep at all. The sound of police officers and reporters walking back and forth outside the room made him feel like he was already in a prison cell.

He felt like he couldn't stay in that place for another minute. If he stayed any longer, he would have a nervous breakdown.

It wasn't until last night, feeling that his injury was fine, that he took advantage of the chaos when the hospital family members gathered for dinner, changed into plain clothes, and sneaked out of the hospital. Along the way, he was careful,躲东藏西, and finally sneaked back to the residential complex.

Afraid of being discovered by the police, he didn't turn on the lights when he got home. He摸黑 stuffed clothes and some cash into his suitcase, thinking about running away to avoid the limelight.

He didn't expect that as soon as he left the house, a large pair of handcuffs was directly locked onto Lü Maowang's wrist.