Chapter 210: Twenty Days to Unmask the Deception

Chapter 210 – Twenty Days… Time Limit

What exactly are the traits of a ‘green tea bitch’?

Is it her pitiful charm? A serene and pristine aura?

None of that – it’s all about disguise!

Only when they perfect their act can they manipulate emotions with calculated cunning.

If you can’t even fake it, then you’re nothing – what a load of green tea nonsense!

So what do people adept at deception usually have in common?

They never easily tarnish their outward image.

So, a person who cares deeply about appearances

would never resort to harassing someone like a shrew, clinging obsessively and sullying their own image.

What? You’re talking about a four-year relationship?

Hmph… A woman who, even with a boyfriend, flirts with other men, engaging in ambiguous trysts and hotel rendezvous.

Would you call that about emotion?

Do you really believe that?

Moreover, although Yu Shaoyang has a touch of handsomeness, he doesn’t have money.

As always, a ‘green tea’ woman wouldn’t bully a poor or utterly useless man.

Is Wang Mei’s behavior even normal?

“Continue.”

Xiao Yu shot a cold look at Yu Shaoyang and asked, “So what happened next?”

“Then…”

Yu Shaoyang’s expression turned maniacal and feral. “I couldn’t stand her incessant clinging, and memories of how she treated me in the past flooded back. One day, after a few drinks, I took her to a place we used to frequent… a villa. I strangled her… then I dismembered her, packed her body into a suitcase, took it up the mountain…and buried her!”

“Clinging, drunken assault, murder, dismemberment, leaving the body on the mountain… and finally burial?”

Muttering to himself, Xiao Yu said, “It should be airtight, but…”

A villa?

A question mark formed in his mind… Xiao Yu fixed his glare on Yu Shaoyang. “What villa?”

“Wang Mei claimed that the villa was hers.”

The ferocity on Yu Shaoyang’s face was replaced by a look of shame. “She used to take me there all the time!”

Got it!

A sneer of contempt played across Xiao Yu’s face.

“Aunt, I don’t want to work for it.”

At that time, did you also covet that villa, thinking Wang Mei was rich?

Even when you were together, you tolerated her improper relationships with other men.

For the sake of the villa, you put up with it?

Xiao Yu shook his head.

If that’s the case, it all makes sense.

Initially, Wang Mei crafted an image of wealth in Yu Shaoyang’s mind.

Just one villa could make a man delay his struggles for decades.

The answer to why such a woman should be anyone’s girlfriend is obvious.

But still…

Xiao Yu picked up a tablet and browsed through Wang Mei’s profile.

His expression grew increasingly odd.

Something laughable had emerged.

Wang Mei’s family was extremely ordinary, far from what one might call well-off.

Moreover, there was no villa registered in her name.

Yet she boasted about owning one and frequently took her boyfriend there.

Xiao Yu continued, “When you were with Wang Mei, did you often stay at that villa?”

“Yeah. Ever since our junior year, she’d take me there often.”

Yu Shaoyang added, “After graduation, we lived there for two whole years!”

Xiao Yu no longer questioned but turned to Guo Qiang, who had remained silent, “Did the first scene investigation confirm anything?”

Guo Qiang nodded, then shook his head. “Even after three years, the investigation found no traces of murder.”

“Hmm?”

Xiao Yu was taken aback. “Who was the owner?”

Guo Qiang replied, “The owner went abroad seven years ago. Since then, Wang Mei has been living there.”

“Seven years ago?”

As he processed this, Xiao Yu murmured to himself, “Wasn’t that the very year Yu Shaoyang and Wang Mei got together?”

Is there a connection?

Or am I reading too much into it?

Turning his head, Xiao Yu pressed Yu Shaoyang, “Are you absolutely sure you killed Wang Mei in the villa?”

“There’s no mistake about it.”

Without hesitation, Yu Shaoyang fumed, his eyes glaring, “I strangled her in the bedroom of the villa, then dragged her body to the kitchen and cut her up with a knife…”

“Stop!”

Xiao Yu stared directly into Yu Shaoyang’s eyes, “What did you use to dismember the body?”

“A kitchen knife!”

Yu Shaoyang confirmed without a word.

“Ha!”

Xiao Yu laughed coldly.

Guo Qiang was momentarily stunned before joining in the laughter.

A kitchen knife?

Dismembering a body?

Honestly, even slicing pork ribs would be a struggle with a kitchen knife.

You expect it to cut up a human body?

Do you even know how hard human arm and thigh bones are?

0… beg for flowers 0…

When it comes to dismemberment, you’d need a sharp axe, a cleaver, or even specialized tools.

An ordinary kitchen knife might manage to sever an arm bone, but

human thigh bones? That knife wouldn’t stand a chance!

Something was off… Xiao Yu coldly studied Yu Shaoyang’s facial expression.

He wasn’t lying.

And in his distraught state, pulling off a disguise was impossible.

Besides, he had never studied any form of psychology.

There shouldn’t be any micro-expressions to hide!

“What about the murder weapon?”

Xiao Yu asked in a cold tone, “After dismembering the body, where did you leave the weapon?”

Yu Shaoyang, with his head hanging low, answered, “I dumped it along with some of the body parts on the mountain and buried it.”

Xiao Yu then looked to Guo Qiang.

Guo Qiang shook his head, “At the body dumping site, I saw nothing but a suitcase and a dog corpse. The forensic tests on the suitcase revealed no human tissue remnants whatsoever!”

“Hah!”

Xiao Yu snorted, “Are you out of your mind?”

A confession of murder, dismemberment, and abandoning the body in the mountains,

yet the kitchen knife used for dismemberment is questionable, the body has never been found, and there wasn’t even a trace of human remains in the suitcase.

Come on, tell me this isn’t madness – then what is it?

【Ding – Case Triggered Successfully.】

【The God of Police Case Check-in Initiated.】

【Host, would you like to check in?】

System check-in… Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned.

His expression turned bizarre.

Check in!

【Ding – Congratulations, host! Case check-in successful!】

【System Reward: Ability – Disguise Expert!】

【System Task Assigned: Solve the Murder and Body Abandonment Case!】

【Time Limit for the Case: Twenty Days!】

【If you complete the task within the time limit, you’ll receive an additional system skill: Flea Bullet!】

【If you fail the task within the given time, the system ability granted to you will be revoked!】

【Task countdown begins…】

Regardless of the ability or the skill, Xiao Yu ignored them.

His face looked increasingly grim.

Because… a twenty-day limit?!