I Asked You To Simulate A Crime, And You Pulled Off The Perfect Crime? - Chapter 77

“Tell me, whose is it?” Wang Zheng stood up, glaring at the panting officer in front of him.

“It’s…” The officer picked up the document. “The technical team worked all night, using technology and various tools, verifying multiple times. The final result is…”

“The diary was written by Zeng Zhiwei!”

Boom! It was like a bomb exploding. The words echoed in everyone’s ears. Even Su Xiaoxiao, who was sitting in the interrogation room, was completely shocked when she heard this. Because she was certain that the diary was written by her brother!

But now, after technical verification, how did it turn out to be her father?

At the same time, netizens went wild.

“Whoa, no way! How could Zeng Zhiwei have written it?”

“We saw Chen Shu write it with our own eyes!”

“I get it now. There’s only one possibility, Chen Shu imitated Zeng Zhiwei’s handwriting.”

“Are you kidding? Do you know how hard it is to mimic handwriting? I admit Chen Shu is smart, but he’s not that good. There’s no way he could copy someone else’s writing so perfectly that it fools experts.”

“But that’s the only explanation! Plus, don’t forget, Chen Shu took an entire day to write those diary entries. Be honest, does it really take that long to write that little?”

“True… an entire day, carefully crafting it…”

“Maybe we overestimated the show’s production team. Looks like Chen Shu wasn’t under any pressure after all.”

On one hand, netizens realized that from the very beginning, Chen Shu had written the diary by mimicking Zeng Zhiwei’s handwriting. But on the other hand, some sharp-eyed viewers raised doubts.

“Wait, wait. Even if Chen Shu is pinning the diary on Zeng Zhiwei, what’s Zeng Zhiwei’s motive? Why would he do this?”

“Yeah, is he just setting himself up for failure?”

“Chen Shu can’t explain this away!”

“Liang Wei was killed by Zeng Zhiwei. If he really wanted to kill Liang Wei, why bother writing a fake diary? That would be such an obvious flaw, Chen Shu wouldn’t be able to talk his way out of it.”

“He’s trying too hard to clear his sister’s name by falsely blaming Zeng Zhiwei. This plan is way too far-fetched.”

In the interrogation room, Wang Zheng frowned and took the file from the officer’s hand. He read it carefully. Clearly written on the page, “Analysis result: 99% match between Zeng Zhiwei’s handwriting and the diary.”

“It’s Zeng Zhiwei’s… How is this possible?”

Wang Zheng was confused. He looked at Su Haoran and Qin Min, both of them were just as puzzled.

“If Zeng Zhiwei wrote it, why would he expose the diary’s existence? We had no idea about it until he brought it up,” Qin Min said.

“And why would Su Xiaoxiao confess?” Su Haoran couldn’t figure it out either.

It was a mess, a complete tangled knot. At that moment, in the office, Chen Shu lightly tapped the table with his fingers and said, “Maybe I know why my dad did this. Of course, if you’re willing to believe me.”

The trio turned their attention to Chen Shu. All the cameras zoomed in on him, everyone wanted to hear how he was going to explain this. After all, Zeng Zhiwei writing the diary made absolutely no sense. He had no reason to do so. No motive.

“Then let’s hear it,” Wang Zheng said seriously.

“Actually,” Chen Shu began, lowering his gaze, “this was all a self-directed performance by my dad. The person he wanted to harm wasn’t Liang Wei, nor was it my sister. The person he wanted to harm, from the very beginning, was only one person…”

“Me.”

Qin Min rubbed his forehead. “Why do you think that?”

Chen Shu continued, “Think back. When you first found Liang Wei’s body and started investigating, who did you initially suspect?”

“You,” Su Haoran answered immediately.

“Exactly,” Chen Shu nodded. “My dad wanted to frame me, and you should already have an idea why. Ever since he came back, I noticed something was off about him. He had inappropriate feelings for my sister. Several times, he almost succeeded, but I stepped in and stopped him.”

“He had an extreme obsession with my sister, to the point of being completely twisted. But then he saw my sister sleeping in my room, and saw how close we were.”

“So, he wanted to get rid of me and have my sister all to himself.”

Hearing this, Su Haoran and Wang Zheng looked at Qin Min.

Qin Min nodded. “A father with a distorted attachment to his daughter, combined with an intense need for control, could indeed develop such thoughts. He wouldn’t tolerate any other men around her… But if he wanted to get rid of you, why didn’t he just kill you outright? Why go through all this trouble and kill Liang Wei instead?”

Chen Shu responded, “Because that would be too risky. If I died at home or under suspicious circumstances, you would investigate my dad. But Liang Wei was different, he was already a wanted criminal. Killing him would be much easier.”

“So, my dad staged this whole act. That night, he used my phone to contact Liang Wei. Naturally, during the investigation, you found the call logs and assumed I was the killer.”

“And everything was going according to his plan. I got arrested, and you all believed I was the murderer. But his plan failed because I proved my innocence. That was something he didn’t expect.”

“And then, because of the suitcase, you all realized he was the real killer. He panicked. So, he handed over the fake diary, pretending my sister had written it, and lied that she was assaulted by Liang Wei.”

“But when you investigated further, you found out my sister had never been assaulted. So from that moment, you thought the diary was my sister’s way of manipulating my dad into killing Liang Wei, meaning she was the mastermind, which is why you arrested her.”

“No!” Wang Zheng interrupted. “That doesn’t make sense. Your sister knew she didn’t write the diary, so why would she confess?”

Chen Shu chuckled bitterly. “That’s where my dad’s manipulative skills come into play. I saw that diary, at the end, there was a phone number for Liang Wei, added in later. When my sister saw that number, she assumed I wrote the diary. Because my dad had just returned and wouldn’t have had Liang Wei’s number, only I did.”

“Why did you have Liang Wei’s number?” Wang Zheng asked.

“Pfft, he thought my sister killed his son and kept calling to threaten her. Of course, I had his number. My dad only got Liang Wei’s number by going through my phone. After killing him, he added it to the diary.”

From the trio’s perspective, this made sense. Liang Wei, thinking his son was killed by Su Xiaoxiao, had definitely threatened her before. So, it made sense that she, and by extension, Chen Shu, had his number.

“So my sister thought I wrote the diary and, trying to protect me, took the blame herself. My dad planned this from the start. If he got caught, he would still make sure I was taken down with him. At worst, he’d get a life sentence with a chance of parole. But if the diary was believed to be mine, I would be sentenced to death for inciting murder.”

“He thought he would eventually reunite with my sister one day.”

“But he underestimated the bond between me and my sister. She didn’t pull me down with her. She thought I was guilty, so she took the fall herself. My dad’s plan completely failed, and he nearly made my sister carry this burden for the rest of her life.”

“He’s a total psycho!”