Chapter 474: The Wicked Path

Chapter 474: The Deviant Path (2nd update)

“Such people deserve to die!”

Gong Hongyun gritted his teeth, “Playing with other men’s women seems to bring him pleasure?”

It’s not that you’re not perverted enough—there are plenty who’d love to be traitors… Xiao Yu offered no comment.

“Doesn’t he just enjoy it?”

Gong Hongyun sneered, “Then I’ll just let him die!”

“Originally, I wanted to confront him directly, but my woman caught me and stopped me.”

“She told me to endure it for our future…”

“But how can a man just endure this? I pretended to agree, then secretly began investigating that bastard.”

“And what I found out shocked me… he was involved in human organ trafficking!”

“Discovering that secret also uncovered his accomplices… which made me even more cautious.”

“For a full six months, I trained relentlessly—bodybuilding, martial arts… everything in preparation for that final moment.”

“Meanwhile, my woman deceived that bastard for money, spending every day with him and even swindling a house from him.”

“If you’re going to cheat, cheat completely. He arranged a series of coincidences to get close to that bastard’s woman… so I decided to play with her too!”

“After a year, I knew that bastard inside out. It was time for them all to die.”

“Once they’re dead, my woman and I can… change our lives!”

Change our lives… Xiao Yu frowned, his expression filled with disgust.

He had never believed that underhanded tricks or crimes could ever change a life.

It was like someone claiming that if you want to know what hope is, just buy a lottery ticket.

Xiao Yu believed that if you want to know despair, you buy a ton of lottery tickets.

The deviant path might bring quick riches,

but how many dare tread that road when building something great?

If the state wants to break you, it can show you true cruelty in mere moments!

“I’ve been planning to kill him for a year.”

Gong Hongyun continued, “Not only must Hu Xinran die, but his wife, her other lover, and Hu Xinran’s three henchmen as well!”

“Only when they’re all dead will nobody know that it was me.”

“That day was their wedding anniversary. See? I picked the perfect day!”

“I went to their house… and in front of that bitch Qian Yue’e, I smashed her husband’s head in…”

“But damn it, just when things were going my way, Qian Yue’e’s lover showed up too… no, maybe I was just that lucky.”

“I threatened the lover, ordering him to stab that bastard twice so he’d back off… making it look like he had also killed someone and dared not call the police.”

“You really think I’d let him off? No, I moved on to my second plan.”

“I threatened Qian Yue’e, demanding she take me to that underground hospital—the secret basement where they perform organ transplants.”

“I even forced Qian Yue’e to round up her husband’s three henchmen, and I called the lover, threatening him to show up too.”

“You know what my plan was? I wanted them to turn on each other, saving me the effort of dealing with the rest.”

“I had Qian Yue’e lie to those three henchmen, telling them that their leader had been murdered and a large sum of money stolen… and that it was all the doing of that lover.”

“Over the phone, I told the lover that Hu Xinran’s men had uncovered our murder secret, urging him to come over so we could finish them off together. Otherwise, we were all doomed.”

Once both sides arrived, the killing began… isn’t that something?

But the lover never expected that after killing two people, Qian Yue’e and I would team up to kill him too. Hilarious, isn’t it?

“You might ask why I left one of Hu Xinran’s henchmen alive?”

“Of course I couldn’t kill him—it’s all part of my plan. I needed the police to believe that Qian Yue’e was responsible, so I could exonerate myself by pretending I was being blackmailed.”

“We left the city, and on a highway outside, I stabbed one of Hu Xinran’s henchmen.”

“I purposely didn’t finish him off with one stab, but then the car flipped… I threatened Qian Yue’e to kill him, knocked her out, tossed her into the car, and then set it off…”

“I even removed my own eyes—only then could I avoid raising police suspicion.”

“After years of feigning blindness, I knew all sorts of ways to blind oneself… and finally, I returned to the city to report the crime!”

Gong Hongyun’s face grew complex as he said, “I never expected you’d see through my plan, but what does it matter? Once you’ve done something, you must accept the consequences. In the end, a death is all that matters!”

After hearing his story… Xiao Yu remained silent, his expression inscrutable.

So, is the entire case really as it seems?

Was Gong Hongyun’s third testimony genuine?

Xiao Yu smiled, “Ninety percent truth, ten percent lies—or maybe it’s all just lies!”

“Eh?!”

Gong Hongyun looked up in disbelief.

He struggled to keep his shock hidden.

“I told you I checked the crime scene, didn’t I?”

Xiao Yu replied coldly, “Perhaps when you were lying, you forgot that I warned you. Let me say it again: near that burned sedan at the final crime scene, I found two unusual sets of footprints—one male, one female—indicating two people left the scene!”

“This…”

Gong Hongyun’s expression shifted dramatically, “And what does that prove?”

There’s also the autopsy.

Xiao Yu sneered, “The victim, Hu Xinran, was beaten to death with a blunt object, correct?”

“That’s right,” Gong Hongyun nodded.

But you said the lover stabbed Hu Xinran twice, didn’t you? Xiao Yu asked.

“Yes,” Gong Hongyun nodded again.

Here’s the funny part.

Xiao Yu laughed disdainfully, “You just told me that Hu Xinran’s two stab wounds were inflicted by the lover, while the highway victim was stabbed by Qian Yue’e. They clearly couldn’t have been done by the same person, considering differences in strength and technique. Yet the autopsy shows that the wounds match—both in force and pattern. It can only be deduced that the same person committed both murders. So if it wasn’t you… then who was it?”

Gong Hongyun was stunned.

His face gradually turned pale.

Then from pale to a deathly gray.

Finally, in agony, he closed his eyes.

“It’s over!”