"We discovered that not only are Zheng Kai and Ye Lin WeChat friends, but Ye Lin and Zheng Yue are also friends, and they became friends much earlier than Zheng Kai!"

"Also, by checking the chat records, around last month, Ye Lin came to Red River Town to visit Zheng Yue!"

After Zhou Fan finished speaking, the people in the office were instantly excited.

This discovery could be considered a breakthrough.

"Captain Zhou, immediately send someone to the bus station to check if Ye Lin really came last month and do a survey in the town to figure out Ye Lin's purpose for coming and if she met Zheng Yue and her father!"

"Okay, I'll go right away."

After Zhou Dabao ran out, Zhao Donglai added, "It seems now that this Ye Lin is very suspicious."

"Check her whereabouts right away and also check if she has any records of purchasing sleeping pills over there."

Previously, they checked hospitals across the city and county but found no suspicious records of sleeping pill purchases.

But what if Ye Lin bought the medication in Luoping City?

Luo Fei and Zhou Fan responded and quickly went to carry out the orders.

Very soon, good news began to arrive one after the other.

First, Zhang Wei and his team found Zheng Kai's parents, and after the elderly couple identified, they confirmed the woman in the ID photo was Zheng Kai's first love, Zhou Wei.

Then they also recounted the breakup process between Zheng Kai and Zhou Wei.

It turns out that more than twenty years ago, Zheng Kai went north to work, and in the factory, he met a fellow worker, Zhou Wei, who is Ye Lin's mother.

At that time, both were only seventeen or eighteen years old. Spending a lot of time together, inevitably they developed affection for each other and tasted the forbidden fruit. Soon after, Zhou Wei discovered she was pregnant.

After discussion, Zheng Kai brought her back home, intending to have his parents host a wedding for them.

But what they didn't expect was that during that era, people's thoughts were very conservative, especially in the countryside.

Zheng Kai's parents very much disliked Zhou Wei for being pregnant before marriage, considering her indiscreet, so not only did they refuse their marriage, but also forced the couple to break up.

Even to force Zheng Kai to comply, his mother resorted to crying, screaming, and threatening suicide.

Zheng Kai, afraid his mother might harm herself, had no choice but to let Zhou Wei go home first, promising to pick her up after convincing his parents.

But afterwards, his parents not only remained firm but forcibly kept him home, not allowing him to see Zhou Wei.

During that era, communication wasn't as convenient as it is now. Being confined at home, Zheng Kai completely lost touch with Zhou Wei.

Six months later, he finally gave up resisting his parents, agreeing to their arrangement, and married Wang Yu through introduction. They stayed in town to make a living, never going out to work again.

With their words, it further proved that Ye Lin is indeed Zheng Kai's child.

Subsequently, Zhou Dabao's side also reported good news.

"On the 1st of last month, Ye Lin indeed took the bus to the town. Zheng Yue personally picked her up, and many people saw it. They even asked Zheng Yue who the person was."

"Zheng Yue replied that it was a sister she knew online, here to play in the town."

"Wang Yu also confirmed that Zheng Yue indeed knew such an online friend and brought her home for a meal. She stayed overnight at their place."

"Afterwards, Zheng Yue left by bus in the morning, returning to Luoping City. The two continued chatting as usual, except Ye Lin occasionally invited Zheng Yue to her house to play, with no other anomalies."

"However, through our investigation of Ye Lin's activities, we found that she bought another bus ticket to Red River Town on the 29th of June. This time she didn't visit Zheng Yue."

"Instead, she stayed overnight at a town hotel, left early the next day, and was missing until 9 PM, when she took a taxi to the city and bought the night's fastest train ticket back to Luoping City."

After Zhou Dabao revealed their findings, Luo Fei also spoke.

"Captain Zhao, we also found that Ye Lin's mother suffered great harm under Ye Daqiang's constant domestic abuse, developing severe mental illness, needing sleeping pills nightly to sleep."

"Under such circumstances, although Ye Lin's personal ID has no record of purchasing sleeping pills, acquiring them would be easy for her."

Considering their findings, Zhao Donglai had already made up his mind.

With a solemn expression, he said, "Immediately contact the local police and send a team over there, prepare to arrest Ye Lin."

At this moment, a policeman under Zhou Dabao hurriedly ran in.

"Captain Zhao, Captain Zhou, Zheng Kai has come to self-surrender."

Upon hearing this, everyone was momentarily caught off guard.

Zheng Kai came to self-surrender?

Everyone exchanged glances, finding it somewhat puzzling.

Ultimately, Zhao Donglai calmed down and said, "Let's go and see what's happening."

Just a minute ago, Zheng Kai suddenly walked into the reception hall of the county criminal investigation team.

Facing the investigating officers' inquiries, he explained nothing and directly held out his hands to them.

"I came to surrender, Zheng Yue was killed by me, you can arrest me."

The county criminal investigation team's officers were caught off guard and after a moment of surprise, someone quickly ran inside to notify Zhao Donglai and the others.

When they came out, Zheng Kai had already been handcuffed and taken to the interrogation room.

As soon as they entered, Zheng Kai repeated again, "I killed her, I'm confessing, it has nothing to do with others."

Previously, they were puzzled, but on the way there, everyone had enough time to think it through.

It was evident that Zheng Kai was trying to protect Ye Lin.

It seems their suspicion was correct, Zheng Yue's death was very likely Ye Lin's doing.

As for the murder motive, it was even easier to guess.

Without Zheng Kai's abandonment, she and Zhou Wei wouldn't have suffered what happened later, so to take revenge on Zheng Kai, she killed Zheng Yue.

Although they understood clearly, Zhao Donglai didn't rush to reveal the truth, instead he asked, "Why did you want to kill Zheng Yue? Isn't she your daughter?"

"I... I had high hopes for her since she was young, but she did so poorly on the exams. In a fit of anger, I killed her."

Zheng Kai clearly lacked experience in lying, randomly picking a somewhat plausible reason, he said impatiently, "I've confessed, why ask so much? Just arrest me, isn't it straightforward?"

"Zheng Kai, do you think police investigations are whatever you say?"

"You claim to have killed someone. What's the motive, time, and details? You have to explain all of them. It's not resolved just by saying you killed someone."

Zheng Kai didn't expect it to be so troublesome and after a while, replied impatiently, "I've already clearly explained the reason for killing her."

"As for the details, I added sleeping pills to her water, waited for her to fall asleep, then placed her in the bathtub to stage a suicide. That should suffice, right?"

"What time did you give her the sleeping pills?"

"...Around 4 PM."

"But based on my understanding, you were delivering goods at that time, weren't you?"

"I secretly returned, isn't that possible?"

"Zheng Kai, you think we're fools? We already know clearly where you were at 4 PM that day, what you were doing, and who saw you."

"Including why you suddenly want to cover up for Ye Lin, we also know. So, I advise you to honestly tell us what you know, or risk being charged with obstructing justice."

Zhou Dabao slapped the table, angrily shouted.

If they had been meticulous earlier, this case might have been solved already.

Now they have the colleagues from the city stepping in, if word got out, it would be embarrassing for the Baiyang County criminal investigation team.

Feeling stifled inside, he didn't show any friendly attitude towards Zheng Kai.

Hearing this, Zheng Kai panicked.

These days, due to the blow of losing his daughter, he lay at home without going out.

At noon, Wang Yu called him up for a meal, casually mentioning Zhou Dabao came again to ask about that online friend of Zheng Yue's.

She didn't know the details, only discussing it like gossip, but Zheng Kai was instantly alarmed.

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