Chapter 111

In the brightly lit interrogation room, Xiang Siling sat alone, with her eyes lowered, her expression calm and she seemed very patient.

Chen Pu and Li Qingyao stood next door, looking through the dark one-way glass at this woman who had stirred up the world over seven years.

Chen Pu put his hands in his trouser pockets, his eyes were cold, and he said: "The doctor judged that she was probably pretending to faint before."

Li Qingyao crossed one hand over his chest, propped up his other arm, and propped up his chin with his hand, saying, "I guessed it. She created a psychologist and a stress disorder in order to reveal the fact that Li Meiling killed Xiang Wei and help Luo Huaizheng clear the name. But she didn't plan to reveal the fact that Luo Hongmin had died, but we threw out the abortion report."

"If it is confirmed that Luo Hongmin was the one who persecuted her when she was young, then she would have a motive to kill Luo Hongmin, which she did not want to see. So she pretended to faint in a hurry to buy time and think of countermeasures."

"Then what countermeasures do you think she has come up with now?" Li Qingyao turned his head and looked at Chen Pu who was one step away.

The light in this room was slightly dim, making Chen Pu's hair look even darker, and his profile was clear and distinct. Especially the neck that was exposed from the collar of his black T-shirt, which was slightly tense, straight and strong. He answered: "Xiang Wei."

Li Qingyao agreed silently. If she were Xiang Siling, she would naturally follow the trend and put all the blame on Xiang Wei.

Chen Pu had been running all night and hadn't had time to drink water. He felt a little thirsty. He saw a few bottles of water on the table, picked up one, and was about to open it to drink, but then he suddenly thought and handed it to Li Qingyao.

Li Qingyao reached out to take it, but Chen Pu's hand suddenly moved away. He unscrewed the bottle cap before handing the water to her.

Li Qingyao said "tsk", and praised: "Excellent service awareness." He took the water and drank it.

Chen Pu smiled, and used his index and middle fingers to flexibly turn the bottle cap twice and hold it in his palm. After she finished drinking, he took it and closed it again. He finally felt that he had regained a little ground. Then he picked up another bottle of water and drank it all in one gulp.

So Li Qingyao silently looked at his strong arms and rolling Adam's apple, thinking that this man's stomach was probably a 3L pocket.

According to the plan, they had to wait for a while until Xiang Siling's psychologist came and asked questions before talking to Xiang Siling. Knowing yourself and your enemy, you can win every battle.

Chen Pu asked: "Is Luo Huaizheng okay? Is there any new development?"

Li Qingyao found a chair and sat down, and answered: "Nothing happened. He should be very happy, but he acted very calmly. It's strange to say, we have been waiting for this result for seven years. But when this day finally came, he and I were surprisingly calm, not particularly excited or thrilled. It just felt like it was supposed to be this way."

She spoke gently and melancholy, and Chen Pu, who was standing beside her, felt distressed and upset. No matter how sensible and considerate a man is, the words "we have waited for seven years" can still make him feel sour.

However, Chen Pu today is no longer the Chen Pu of the past. He is now a man who can face all obstacles with dignity. In addition, he really felt soft-hearted when he heard it, and he said, "The light boat has passed through thousands of mountains."

These words made Li Qingyao feel warm and bitter in his heart.

"Yes." She sighed, "The boat has passed through thousands of mountains."

After a while, she said, "I once had two big stones pressing on my heart, and now, one of them has finally been removed." She said this with a smile, her long eyelashes gently blinking. Chen Pu tasted a trace of open-minded sadness from this smile. He was speechless, but just reached out and rubbed her hair. She lowered her head slightly, her eyes slightly drooped, and did not move.

Chen Pu wanted to kiss her face again, but it was just a thought.

He withdrew his hand, put it in his trouser pocket, and glanced at Xiang Siling who was calm and composed next to him, realizing that there would be a tough battle to fight later.

"Everyone in our team has started making bets," he said, "When will you and Luo Huaizheng rekindle your old relationship?"

Li Qingyao looked up at him.

Chen Pu was still calm and stern, staring at Xiang Siling with sharp eyes. He looked as if he was discussing a simple case detail with her, without any disturbance.

She asked, “Have you placed your bets?”

Chen Pu still didn't look at her, maintaining his calm and indifferent look, and replied: "I bet you won't."

Li Qingyao didn't say anything.

He was still looking outside, picked up another bottle of water, unscrewed it, took a big sip, and asked, "Did I bet right?"

"Dong dong." Someone knocked on the door.

Li Qingyao stood up and said with a half-smile, "I didn't expect you men to be more gossipy than women. Your minds are full of love and romance. I'm not thinking about those things at all right now."

Chen Pu suddenly felt a little pain in his face.

Zhou Yangxin pushed the door open and came in: "The psychologist is here."

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Because Xiang Siling personally expressed that she did not mind and could authorize it, her psychologist Zhou Lingling tried her best to answer the police's questions.

It turned out that Xiang Siling had been seeing a psychologist since she graduated from college in 2021. However, she never mentioned the experience of being sexually assaulted as a teenager or the existence of that man to the doctor. It only made the doctor realize that she was in great pain and moderate depression.

A few months ago, Xiang Siling asked a doctor to perform hypnosis on her. During the process, she said that she kept thinking about the night Xiang Wei died. The broken pieces of her memory gradually reappeared. Until today, she claims to remember everything.

Li Qingyao asked, "Xiang Siling said that she had a severe emotional shock seven years ago and forgot what happened that night. Is this true?" Zhou Lingling smiled and said, "I can't tell you whether it's true or not. I can only say that psychologically, this is possible. During the three years of consultation, she never mentioned that night and acted as if she had completely forgotten it."

Chen Pu: "Is there a possibility of disguise?"

Zhou Lingling nodded.

Chen Pu asked again: "If she really relied on hypnosis to remember what happened that night, can her memory and confession be considered true and reliable?"

Zhou Lingling replied: "I can only tell you that it's about 60 to 70 percent. Hypnosis is not a 100 percent accurate method of psychological treatment. There have been many cases in history where people recalled new memories after hypnosis and firmly identified the murderer, but later it was proved that their accusation was completely inconsistent with the facts. Many factors, such as the movies the hypnotized person has watched, the scenes he has seen, and even a few words he has heard in other occasions, may cause them to have new "false memories" during the hypnosis process, but they mistakenly believe them to be real.

Scientists have also conducted experiments in which a group of volunteers repeatedly watched some film clips and flyers, and gave some hints of object details. Then, during the hypnosis process, they all followed the scientists' arrangements and produced new "memories" and firmly believed them to be true. This is the memory illusion. Therefore, from a professional perspective, I believe that Xiang Siling's "new memory" and confession can only be used as a reference for your case solving, and cannot be used as evidence. If you request a retrial in the future, I believe that the court will not fully accept her confession. "

Chen Pu and Li Qingyao looked at each other. This meant that they might not be able to overturn Luo Huaizheng's case just by relying on the confession video of Li Meiling secretly filmed by Lu Xing and Xiang Siling's confession.

It would be best to find more direct evidence of Li Meiling’s murder.

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The interrogation of Xiang Siling was still conducted by Chen Pu and Fang Kai, continuing the conversation that had been interrupted before.

Xiang Siling was obviously evasive about the abortion report, but Chen Pu would not follow her lead. He still pushed the report in front of her and said, "This abortion operation form is the original. We have compared everyone's signatures and it is true. We have also extracted the fingerprints of the clinic doctor Sun Yuanan, assistant Ye Songming, and your mother and you. Tell us what happened. You were still a minor at that time. If someone ignored your will and forced you to have sex, as long as you are willing to identify them, we will make the other party receive the legal punishment they deserve."

Xiang Siling took the operation sheet, lowered his head and looked at it for a while, then smiled and said, "No need, he died a long time ago. It's my father, Xiang Wei."

"You mean, as early as 2016, Xiang Wei had sex with you?"

"Correct."

"Is it voluntary?"

"No."

"frequency?"

"I can't remember, probably many, many times."

"Does Li Meiling know about this?"

Xiang Siling sneered and replied, "I know. I... am not Xiang Wei's biological child. Xiang Wei knew this at the time and he was very angry. He felt that he had raised me in vain. I don't know why, but he had evil thoughts towards me."

"Li Meiling is your mother. Did she allow Xiang Wei to bully you?"

Xiang Siling sighed, still with a slightly erratic smile, and said, "As long as she can keep that man, she is willing to give everything, including her own daughter. She thinks it's nothing, just a few sleeps. They feed me, clothe me, and raise me, so I should listen to them and repay them."

Fang Kai's face turned pale at these words. Although Chen Pu had informed him in advance, he also knew that Xiang Siling's words were not entirely true, but the sexual assault was true, and the parents' submission was also true. Such a twisted and disgusting family actually existed.

"Didn't you think of calling the police at the time? Or telling the school teacher and seeking protection?"

Xiang Siling shook her head, then lowered her head and said, "They said no one would believe it. The neighbors all knew that my dad was good to me. They would say that I was in a relationship with the street thugs and took nude photos and videos to threaten me. If I reported it, it would be posted all over the world. I was so scared at the time. They were my parents and I didn't know what to do."

Chen Pu's expression remained calm, showing no sign of emotion. He said, "So, Xiang Wei wanted to rape you the night he died? Luo Huaizheng didn't lie?"

Xiang Siling bit her lip and answered, "Yes."

"So you made a false certificate back then?"

Xiang Siling showed a sad look and said, "I didn't mean it. You have also talked to my psychiatrist. After that night, I was traumatized and became seriously ill with a high fever. After waking up, I forgot everything. I also completely forgot that Xiang Wei had ever violated me. In my memory, the only thing left is the father who has always been very good to me." She smiled bitterly, "I'm sorry, I really didn't expect this to happen. I would have psychological problems. Maybe it's because I subconsciously don't want to face the past because it's too dark. It wasn't until you took out the abortion report yesterday and I fainted that I remembered these things."

Through the glass, Li Qingyao looked at this old classmate with great emotion.

Very good, she thought, just as Xiang Siling wished, all the logical events were connected, and Luo Hongmin was hidden by Xiang Siling throughout the whole incident.

However, the more she hid, the more it proved that she was involved in Luo Hongmin's death.

Chen Pu and Fang Kai, two veteran criminal policemen, did not react much to Xiang Siling's statement. Whether her statement can be recognized by the law and whether she can clear herself of the charge of perjury will be a matter for the court in the future.

"Did Luo Hongmin have any contact with your mother at that time?" Chen Pu asked.

Xiang Siling thought for a moment and shook her head: "At that time, I only knew that Uncle Luo was the landlord, but I had never met him. My mother probably wasn't familiar with him either. They got together some time after my father died."

"Did Luo Hongmin have sex with you at that time?"

Xiang Siling raised her eyes and looked directly at Chen Pu, and answered without blinking: "Of course not."

Chen Pu did not ask any more questions about this issue, but instead asked: "On the night Xiang Wei died, he intended to rape you. Luo Huaizheng came in and found out, and tried to stop him. The two of them fought. What happened afterwards? When did Li Meiling come?"