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No. 23, Chongning Avenue, Dongcheng District.

At 7:21 on the evening of July 6th.

In the banquet hall on the 21st floor of Chengfeng Hotel, the opening ceremony of the movie directed by Zhou Hongxin will begin soon. The atmosphere is just right. Actors and staff members have arrived at the scene one after another. Looking forward to the shooting of the new movie, they are also checking on their mobile phones about the movie "Restricted Area" to be released tonight. information.

The movie "Forbidden Zone" is the breakthrough masterpiece of director Zhou Hongxin in the past ten years. It tells the story of a sexually assaulted girl who does not give up hope, resolutely becomes a policeman, and sends criminals to prison.

As it was reported on Weibo that the movie was "crazyly tested on the verge of passing the review many times" and the cast was luxurious, everyone present was looking forward to watching it after the opening ceremony.

In front of a certain window facing away from the surveillance camera, the girl in the red skirt lowered her eyes, as if she couldn't bear the noisy atmosphere in the hall, she pulled the hair pinned behind the ear to the front, and stuffed a small thing into the ear— —The long hair completely covered the Bluetooth communicator in her ear.

Her elder brother Ji Liao was standing on the edge of the stage not far from her, talking to the director in a low voice, looking at her from time to time.

She looked around calmly, and locked her eyes on Luo Qingsen who was talking with others diagonally in front of her. Her mood hadn't changed much. On the surface, she still looked like the "stupid" look seen in TV dramas and movies. White sweet' look.

She lightly pressed the button with her hands behind her back, and clearly heard a voice from the communicator——

"Is there any movie going to be released tonight? It's the big-budget criminal investigation movie that is said to have been in preparation for six years."

"The one directed by Zhou Hongxin?"

""restricted area"?"

"Yes, yes, yes! After work, let's have a supper, and then watch the premiere together? The Ma Xiao shop on the corner is the most authentic Ma Xiao shop I've ever eaten in Qinjiang!"

She stretched out her hand to straighten a few broken hairs on her sideburns, and confirmed that the earphones were completely covered. She stood there and listened to the voice in the communication channel of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau for a while, then lightly touched the Bluetooth earphone with her fingertips, and said He said, "They're coming soon."

A voice came from the earphone: "Yeah."

She quickly said, "Cut the channel."

The person on the opposite side replied "Okay", the earphone immediately made a rustling sound, the channel switched, and the voice sounded again - she heard the voice of that person talking to her mother.

Those two voices made her hate and hate.

She walked to Ji Liao's side in small steps, stood still, didn't say much, and listened to the voice on the channel wholeheartedly.

'Restricted area'...

It's just idealism.

Maybe it was because the red dress was too eye-catching on the side of the stage. Luo Qingsen's eyes were dim and he was a little restless, but he still looked at her from time to time.

The person next to Luo Qingsen is probably Fang Sihe's subordinate. The two of them exchanged a few words back and forth. A blue and white porcelain necklace, without saying anything more, walked to the center of the banquet hall, and cast eyes on her many times.

"You..." Ji Liao hesitantly uttered a syllable.

"Brother," Ji Shuwang said inexplicably, "he's going to die."

She was keenly aware of the direction of sight from the opposite floor. She didn't look at Luo Qingsen, nor at Jiang Huai who had just sneaked into the banquet hall and ate a small cake. She straightened the hem of the red dress very naturally.

"..." Ji Liaoming asked knowingly, "Who?"

"It's nothing." Ji Shuwang pretended to laugh easily, the topic jumped quickly, and he said something like a complaint, "Filming is really tiring. When I was in the last film crew, I could shoot until after ten o'clock in the evening every day. .”

Ji Liao was stunned for two seconds, as if he could vaguely understand the subtext in her words, he asked in a low voice, "After ten o'clock in the evening...?"

"Yeah," Ji Shuwang asked a little sadly, "You said if I was kidnapped, would they save me?"

It would be great if someone saved her 'at that time' too.

"..." Ji Liao didn't quite understand who the "they" referred to. He first noticed what his sister said about "hijacking". He thought that his sister had never spoken human words anyway, so he had to answer first, "Yes." .”

He suddenly remembered how innocent and kind his sister used to be, who was really 'silly and sweet', and added solemnly and firmly: "I will save you too."

"Of course." Ji Shuwang smiled brightly, "You will definitely save me... Apart from you and elder brother, I am alone in this world."

It was almost 7 o'clock in the evening. Without waiting for Ji Liao to reply, she pointed to a certain seat under the stage: "Will you sit there? I'll be on stage later, so I can see it better from here."

Ji Liao squinted his eyes, almost predicting what would happen next, and said "OK" thoughtfully.

"Around seven o'clock, after the speech began, Luo Qingsen received a call from Fang Sihe, and in a desperate situation, he chose to hold Ji...I...um...her."

Ji Liao deliberately omitted a certain name, with complicated emotions, but he understood how it felt when their detachment leader didn't know what to call Fang Yushan.

"Luo Qingsen worked under Fang Sihe and Liang Wanyi. He knew the connection between my sister and Fang Yushan. He was in charge of this matter from the beginning to the end. He was in charge of monitoring Fang Yushan and Ji Shuwang. He knew that the two of them Knowing how dangerous Fang Yushan's methods are, and knowing his current situation, he still didn't dare to attack Ji Shuwang in the end, and chose to jump off the building after leaving her behind."

In mid-December, in an interrogation room of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau——

The head of the criminal investigation detachment and the forensic doctor of the detachment were tit-for-tat in the early stage of their acquaintance, and they were inseparable in the middle stage. Now in the later stage, they did not expect that they would have the opportunity to sit face to face in the interrogation room and take notes.

It's just too dramatic.

It wasn't too dramatic, and everything was actually within Ji Xiao's expectations. The only people who didn't expect the result were the criminal investigation team.

Now the detachment leader himself is in charge of the interrogation work, and the forensic doctor of the detachment is in charge of being interrogated, and began to narrate the recent homicide cases and the cases of the last trial.

"When Luo Qingsen was calling Fang Sihe at the alley behind the hotel, Zhou Hongxin bumped into him," Ji Liao said, "Actually, Zhou Hongxin didn't hear much about the 'thing' they did, but he saw Luo Qingsen Feeling nervous, I tried to threaten him with this."

"Luo Qingsen always thought that he, Liang Wanyi, Fang Sihe, and Gao Kuiliang were in a cooperative relationship, but when Luo Qingsen encountered a crisis, Fang Sihe and Liang Wanyi were very determined to abandon Luo Qingsen, and used the information about Luo Qingsen in their hands to threaten his family. On the surface, asking Luo Qingsen to find a complete way to hide this matter is actually forcing Luo Qingsen to jump off this building by various means."

When Luo Qingsen fell from the building, in fact, the two surnamed Ji and Luo Qingsen himself expected this ending. Only the members of the Criminal Investigation Detachment stupidly investigated for several months, and seized the blue and white porcelain necklace to investigate. After a long time, no results were found yet.

"So you actually know everything, don't you?" Yan Cun thought for a while, recorded the content of the question, and nodded, "Go on."

After Fang Yushan and Fang Sihe came out of the trial, no one expected that a murder would happen in front of the Qinjiang City People's Court, and no one expected that someone would kill someone with so many witnesses.

Because of this, there was no great need to solve the case. The official quickly issued a notice, and the public opinion on the Internet almost exploded.

After the popular actor + criminal suspect Ji Shuwang pulled the knife out of his mother's back, he resolutely stabbed the knife into his chest again. It wasn't that he wanted to escape legal justice after killing someone, so he chose to commit suicide on the spot.

However, due to the large number of witnesses and the fact that the People's Hospital was only one street away from them, after a few days of rescue, Liang Wanyi died after the two were sent to the hospital, but Ji Shuwang, who was a criminal suspect, was rescued and survived. down.

After the successful rescue and waking up, she stopped talking and was unwilling to tell the public the motive of committing the crime, so the Criminal Investigation Detachment had no choice but to focus on the suspect's brother Ji Liao.

"She...Actually, she knew about Liang Wanyi and Fang Sihe's plan from the beginning to the end. Back then, Liang Wanyi..." Ji Liao still had his usual calm and steady appearance on the surface. Mouth, "Back then Liang Wanyi knew about Fang Sihe's unique personal hobbies, so Fang Sihe told... um... At the time when she was young, she hoped that her mother would come to save her, until later her mother appeared at Fang Sihe's house, but she just watched the incident with cold eyes. Farce, just sit there and watch the obscenity."

"Even so, I hope she still believes that her mother is not such a person. Even if Liang Wanyi has an attitude of disgust towards her, she still thinks that her mother actually has feelings for her, and that her mother doesn't want her to die wholeheartedly."

"At that time, my elder brother was on a business trip and couldn't be contacted. At that time, I was the only one who noticed her strangeness. I asked her what happened, and she told me, so I tried my best to get someone to investigate it. But I only accidentally found out about the cooperative relationship between Liang Wanyi and Fang Sihe, knowing that they had partnered to kill my father, but they bribed the relationship, making everyone think that my father died of a cerebral infarction."

"I tried my best to cover up this fact, and I didn't want to break the little hope in her heart, but... But she just looks silly and sweet, but in fact, she knows everything in her heart, and she has already known about Liang Wanyi and Fang Sihe."

"..." Yan Cun couldn't help but want to say "fuck", and suddenly realized who the "child" Fang Yushan was talking about back then, but because of the cameras in the interrogation room, he swallowed the swear words.

He was distracted for a few seconds, remembering what Ji Liao had said to him earlier, it was really hard to imagine what the three brothers and sisters of the Ji family had experienced over the years.

"Since she was a child, Liang Wanyi has abused her in various ways, beat her, occasionally gave her a little sweetness, occasionally treated her well, and abused her again after she was done, because Liang Wanyi wanted to crush her hope with her own hands," Ji Liao gritted his teeth. Said, "Fang Sihe made her hate men, and Liang Wanyi made her hate women. She... told me before that she is alone in this world except me and my elder brother."

After killing Liang Wanyi, she stabbed the knife into her chest not because she was afraid of being judged by the law, but because she really wanted to end it.

"So she wanted to be strong, and she used her own method to reach a cooperation with Fang Yushan, without my elder brother and I knowing."

"Later, my elder brother actually knew her character through her small activities, and he didn't dare to mention it, nor did he stop her. He just reached a cooperation with Fang Yushan in his own way, and chose to stand by my sister. Over there...Because Liang Wanyi doesn't want to make it easy for us, Liang Wanyi wants to kill them all."

"So you chose to stand on the side of the third party and not participate in the dispute between the two parties. As the 'justice' party, you broke the check and balance between them, and all the bad things were settled in one shot," Yan Cun said deeply. In his tone, he saw that Ji Liao still wanted to say something, so he interrupted him in time, "Okay, I can basically sort out the case, it's almost done."

In fact, when it comes to this, the context of the case can basically be sorted out clearly.

Ji Liao knew everything that happened in the past few months, even the inside story of the case that happened in the past ten years.But he couldn't think of a perfect solution, couldn't stop it, couldn't change the outcome, if one party fell first and the other captured the victory flag, this matter would never end.

He can only plan a strategy for a long time, by going back and forth between Gao Kuiliang and Fang Yushan, to reach a cooperative relationship, and without touching the law, find key points to break the balance between them, and burn this deep hidden Years of secrets and tragedies burned away.

And just as they said, if they continue to dig, they will find out how unbearable the truth is.

After submitting the case records and the closing report to the higher-level department, the two didn't say anything during the whole process of going home, they just thought about the things in their hearts.

ended.

everything is over.

Ji Liao suddenly felt a strange sense of unreality in his heart, he drove the car forward, and remembered what he said earlier - if possible, he hoped that he could be a person without secrets.

He thought so at the time, and he still thinks so now.

Now he has no secrets.

Perhaps everything is predestined, if Liang Wanyi can be successfully convicted and imprisoned, then everything will end as he expected in advance, and there will be no "Ji Shuwang murder" link.

"What's for dinner?" The car was about to drive in front of his house, and Yan Cun realized it, and asked aloud, "Don't keep driving, there is no food at home, you should order it when you go back." Takeaway."

"Well," Ji Liao came back to his senses, almost slammed on the brakes, and quickly asked, "What do you want to eat?"

He thought about it for a long time, and maybe this ending is what he wants and the best ending, so that he has no chance to struggle with the matter of "whether or not to give up his family and kill them righteously".

Somewhere, he upheld his 'justice' choice.

"I also... didn't think about it," Yan Cun said in a low voice, "Buy some ingredients and go home? Cook together?"

Ji Liao nodded and said "OK".

After parking the car in front of the supermarket, he turned his head and stared blankly at Yan Cun who was about to get off the car for a while, his eyes felt a little sore for some reason.

Somehow, I still have the right to stand by your side like this.