The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 166 - 163: Covering the Sky with One Hand; The Truth about the Past

Chapter 166: Chapter 163: Covering the Sky with One Hand; The Truth about the Past

"Mr. Lu, I’m sorry! It was all me!"

The man burst into tears as he knelt down, beginning to recount how he committed the crime. "Gong Leyi was the young master’s high school classmate, and one time when she came to visit the house, I developed inappropriate thoughts for her.

During the process of forcing myself on her, she struggled fiercely, and I ended up killing her by accident!

To prevent discovery, I had no choice but to dismember her and bury her in the garden!"

To have found the murderer so quickly, and for the murderer to confess outright to the killing?

Everyone on the Criminal Police Team felt no sense of relief; on the contrary, they felt as though a huge mountain was pressing down on them, leaving them breathless.

This murderer had obviously delivered himself to their doorstep!

Lu Tingming looked at the man, shocked and heartbroken. "Old Zhao, you’ve been with me for so many years. I always trusted you. How could you do such a thing!"

Xu Biqing also sighed, "Driver Zhao, I never thought you would be capable of this."

The man before them was named Zhao Kang, and he was Lu Tingming’s chauffeur.

"Did you also do what happened to Gong Lexin?"

"Yes, I did it all!"

Zhao Kang admitted resolutely, "At the banquet that day, I realized she looked very much like Gong Leyi, and evil thoughts arose in me again, so I made my move.

I just have a thing for beauties of this type; I can’t control myself!"

"Since you liked her so much, why didn’t you violate her? There were no signs of violation on the corpse."

"I initially just wanted to use insulin to make her weak. Who knew that I would inject too much and she would suddenly die of shock. I was so scared on the spot that I lost the mood and fled."

"Then how do you explain the corpse at the press conference? Why did that victim look exactly like Gong Lexin!"

Huo Xun grabbed Zhao Kang’s collar in growing irritation as he asked the question.

Zhao Kang’s face turned deathly pale, clearly fearing him.

"I don’t know how that happened, but Mr. Lu has many enemies. Maybe one of them knew about this and deliberately created a spectacle to attract attention!

I never thought these events would have such a bad impact on Mr. Lu. I feel terrible guilt inside.

Sir and Madam have been so good to me all these years; I really shouldn’t have done it!"

Zhao Kang burst into tears again and Huo Xun kicked him to the ground.

Glancing at the syringe inside the backpack, no investigation was needed to know it certainly contained insulin.

But Huo Xun and Qin Zhao had still underestimated the Lu family’s maneuvers.

Not only was there insulin in the syringe, but there was also skin tissue from the victim who died at the Lu family’s house!

The forensic examination revealed this result by the time they returned to the police station.

Moreover, the leader who previously supported his investigation of Lu Tingming now gave him an ultimatum to close the case with Zhao Kang as soon as possible, reveal the truth, and clear Lu Tingming’s name.

If he couldn’t do it, the case could be transferred to someone else.

Huo Xun nearly flipped the table, "It’s a cover-up! It’s absolutely a cover-up!"

"Heh, is this the level of the Imperial City’s Criminal Police Team?"

A cold sneer came from the doorway of the conference room, and Huo Xun turned to see Gong Lexin.

She stood at the entrance, swaying, looking scornfully sarcastic.

Her face was pale with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, adding a sense of age since their first meeting, and her slender figure needed the support of the door frame to stay upright.

Upon closer inspection, Qin Zhao noticed her eyes were very red.

After planning for so many years and causing such a stir, this was the outcome.

She still hadn’t secured justice for her deceased sister.

Qin Zhao and Huo Xun, along with the others, could feel just how desperate she was at this moment.

Huo Xun opened his mouth, tried to speak several times but found himself unable to rebut.

It seemed like he truly couldn’t provide a resolution for Gong Leyi’s case.

"At this point, there’s no harm in telling you all."

Gong Lexin laughed at herself with a hint of self-mockery and sat down in the conference room.

"Those two people were indeed killed by me.

This all started with my sister’s disappearance. After Little Yi went missing, I searched for her for a long time but never received any news. I didn’t even know where she had been before she disappeared.

I searched for two years and almost lost hope.

Without any news of Little Yi, my life became engulfed in darkness. My parents died when we were very young, and with their dying breaths, they entrusted me to take care of my sister.

What use are my achievements if I failed to protect her!"

Gong Lexin’s eyes brimmed with tears, and she continued to speak, almost choking up, "After Little Yi disappeared, I gradually withdrew from public view, and my mental state also deteriorated.

A friend recommended that I go to a temple in Country T for a retreat. The environment there was nice, and importantly, the abbot was skilled in the Spirit Communication Technique, allowing me to meet the deceased.

I wanted to know whether Little Yi was still alive, so I went to that temple.

The abbot was very powerful, and I indeed saw Little Yi.

But Little Yi was covered in blood. She told me she died miserably, violated by someone who then cut her into very small pieces and buried her in the pitch-dark ground!

The one who violated her is called Lu Zhiheng!"

Gong Lexin fiercely raised her head to look at the others, her eyes filled with red blood vessels, her dark pupils profoundly deep, and her face conveyed a pain so intense it was laced with vengeful hatred, rendering her akin to a ghost bent on claiming lives.

When they heard this name, everyone’s expression changed.

Lu Zhiheng, the young master of the Lu Family, Lu Tingming’s eldest son!

Gong Lexin took a deep breath, slowly calming her emotions, "With the Lu Family’s powerful influence, if I can’t do anything about them now, how could I have back then?"

"So you found two women with a similar figure to yourself, had them undergo plastic surgery to look like you, and then planned these two cases?

All to create a sensation, so that someone would punish the Lu Family?"

Hearing Qin Zhao’s question, Gong Lexin readily admitted it.

"Yes, it was all my planning. I thought the banquet incident would draw enough attention, but you started investigating the wrong way and arrested Shen Xihhe.

Thankfully, I had a backup plan and prepared another person who resembled me.

Two identical people, dead in different places, that should be sensational enough, right?

But what’s the use of sensation? They’ll still find a way to deal with it."

As she spoke, Gong Lexin appeared to have resigned herself to hopelessness, her tone sarcastic.

Yes, there was no way to deal with it.

The case was long past, and there was definitely no evidence to be found now, so all of Gong Lexin’s words were her own account.

Even if she took it to court and claimed Lu Zhiheng was the murderer, with Zhao Kang merely taking the blame, it wouldn’t matter.

The Criminal Police Team, being privy to some inside information, believed her. But judges and juries look for evidence, not one-sided stories.

"Captain, what do we do now? Are we really going to let this go?"

Gong Lexin turned and went back to the resting room prepared for her, while everyone else looked towards Huo Xun.

Huo Xun remained silent – not because he didn’t want to intervene, but because he had no idea how to.

How could he intervene when his superiors instructed him to close the case with Zhao Kang, otherwise, they’d pass the case to someone else?

Seeing everyone’s concerned expressions, Qin Zhao pondered before speaking up, "If Lu Zhiheng were to confess on his own, wouldn’t we be able to convict him without evidence?"

"Right, do you have a way to get him to confess?"

Qin Zhao nodded, "Yes, and it is quite simple for me."