The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 181 - 178 Chu Yan Runs Away from Home

Chapter 181: Chapter 178 Chu Yan Runs Away from Home

"You all see for yourselves, she did all of this! Every time she didn’t win an award, she thought about torturing me, venting her emotions! I’ve wanted to kill her for a long time, she deserved to die!"

Huo Xun asked with a complex expression, "Then why did you still want to be her assistant?"

"Because I signed a contract, and she trapped me with it! If I left, I would have to pay twenty million! I’m just an ordinary person, where would I get twenty million?

Killing her meant going to jail, and not being able to pay also meant going to jail, there was no difference!"

Huo Xun sighed, "Take her away."

The Criminal Police Team took the assistant to the police station to inquire about the details.

The assistant came looking for Shu Shuiyue and found her collapsed on the ground, covered in blood; it was probably after eleven o’clock at night, and someone had already skinned her.

But Shu Shuiyue was still alive, her voice weakly calling for help. With a heart full of resentment towards Shu Shuiyue, how could the assistant save her? Instead, the assistant took the opportunity to strangle her.

After strangling Shu Shuiyue, the assistant locked the door of the lounge from the inside and disposed of the murder weapon, then bought a plane ticket to leave Imperial City that night, planning to flee the country.

But she hadn’t expected that the Criminal Police Team would catch her so quickly.

Huo Xun came out of the interrogation room and said to an officer, "Bring Shen Xihe over."

Having said that, he looked towards Qin Zhao in the distance.

"What do you think about the other murderer?"

Huo Xun felt in his heart that Shen Xihe wasn’t the murderer. He believed the brooch had been purposely left by the murderer to mislead them.

According to the murderer’s method of skinning without leaving traces, how could he carelessly leave behind a brooch?

Moreover, Shen Xihe wasn’t a dermatologist, he couldn’t possibly be that skilled, right?

Upon hearing Huo Xun’s question, Qin Zhao shook her head.

"I don’t know who the murderer is, but Shen Xihe should be innocent."

"How can we lure him out? If we let it go, I’m afraid someone else will be victimized."

Qin Zhao’s brow furrowed, somewhat distracted.

Suddenly, she looked at the time, "I need to go home to feed my cat, I’m heading back first."

"Just going like this? I was hoping you could help come up with a way to draw out the murderer!"

"I’m not really interested in this case," Qin Zhao said indifferently, then turned and left.

The corners of Huo Xun’s mouth twitched involuntarily.

Really capricious!

-

When she took a taxi home, the orange cat was still sleeping.

Qin Zhao knocked on Chu Yan’s door, and he opened it quickly, having been sleeping off whatever he had been up to last night during the day.

"What’s wrong?"

Chu Yan appeared in his pajamas, his hair disheveled, exuding an air of languidness.

"What were you up to last night?"

"I was working overtime at the hospital."

Qin Zhao scoffed, "Performing skinning surgeries for others?"

He remained silent, his phoenix eyes deep and cold, staring at her, "What are you trying to say?"

"Did you have anything to do with Shu Shuiyue’s case? The police say the murderer’s technique was very skilled, only possible for a doctor, and the murder weapon was a scalpel.

I wouldn’t have suspected you, but there was the brooch Shen Xihe was going to give me at the scene."

Chu Yan let out a faint laugh, the smile not reaching his eyes, looking down at her from above.

His dark, deep eyes shimmered with a crimson ferocity, and his handsome face had an added sense of bewitchment.

"Then you should go find Shen Xihe."

Qin Zhao stepped forward, grabbing his collar forcefully, her cold eyes mixed with disappointment, anger, and other complex emotions.

"Who would be so foolish as to leave their own things at the crime scene?"

Moreover, the murderer’s technique was so superb, it simply couldn’t be attributed to such a trivial mistake!

"I’ll ask one last time, did you do it or not?"

Chu Yan slowly moved her hand away.

In an indifferent tone, he said, "What if I did it? What if I didn’t? If you have evidence, go ahead and call the police to arrest me."

"Why would you do such a thing!" Qin Zhao almost hysterically slapped him, fear evident in her eyes, yet she didn’t know what she was afraid of.

"I told you before, if you did something outrageous, I would definitely kill you!"

Chu Yan took the slap, his eyes reddening, the tear mole under his eyes as red as blood.

"Then kill me! The evil acts I’ve committed far exceed your imagination! Why should only others bully me? Am I born to be humiliated by others?!"

For the first time, he lost control and screamed at Qin Zhao, with a glint of tears in his Phoenix Eyes, then suddenly pushed Qin Zhao away.

It was also the first time he took the initiative to leave her home. Moreover, he took his beloved orange cat with him.

Qin Zhao watched his retreating figure, her heart sinking like a stone.

Was he admitting it?

Could it really be Chu Yan who did it? Why would he do such a cruel thing, why!

Qin Zhao crouched on the ground in agony, memories of her past life flooding back. She clearly knew she had developed feelings; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been with Chu Yan in her previous life.

Being with her own apprentice wasn’t something unacceptable to her, what she couldn’t accept was,

He was that Evil Cultivator, who massacred an entire city, murdered her whole family!

She thought, Chu Yan of this lifetime was a good person. Even if not wholly good, he was redeemable.

But Qin Zhao never expected that he would still do such a heinous act!

Qin Zhao took out her phone, the screen displaying Huo Xun’s contact.

Just by calling Huo Xun and sharing her suspicions, Huo Xun would start to investigate Chu Yan.

Whether he did it or not would eventually come out.

Even those evil acts he did before might be uncovered.

But she couldn’t bring herself to make the call.

Qin Zhao hesitated and didn’t call, but Huo Xun ended up calling her.

After a long hesitation, she answered the phone.

"We’ve found out why Shu Shuiyue was skinned."

"Why?"

"In her home, we found several dead cats’ bodies, all crudely skinned. After asking the neighbors, they often heard the cats’ miserable screams from her house.

We suspect she was severely into cat abuse, even going so far as to skin them alive.

Then we asked her assistant, who confirmed it. The murderer’s action towards Shu Shuiyue was likely a form of vigilante justice."

Qin Zhao stayed silent, her expression stunned.

"Last night, Shu Shuiyue brought a cat to the auditorium; many people saw it. But, when she died, the cat wasn’t with her but was picked up by a young man.

This young man, named Xia Yan, claimed that he saw a cat that was skinned yesterday and took it to the hospital, but it was too late to save it.

It must have been Shu Shuiyue abusing the cat in the auditorium, which was witnessed by the murderer, leading to what happened to her."

After Huo Xun finished speaking, there was no response from Qin Zhao’s end. He asked, "Qin Zhao, are you listening?"

"Yeah, what did you want with me?"

"Of course, I need your help to catch the murderer. Although it was vigilante justice, such actions aren’t allowed by law; we still need to catch him."

"But, I’m not free recently."

"What’s up?"

"Chu Yan has run away from home."

"......"

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