Chapter 506: Chapter 506

Yuan Dong’er was shocked for a moment. "Anything is fine? But when I came up, I didn’t see anyone upstairs."

"Why did you want to come to Wen Yi’s room at that time?"

"I saw that the door was open, so I wanted to come and check."

"So when you came up, had the chandelier already fallen?"

"Then what were you going upstairs for?"

"To go back to my room to rest."

Chu Yan, standing nearby, suddenly let out a soft laugh.

"Ms. Yuan, your room is in the opposite direction from your husband’s, so you wouldn’t have passed by Wen Yi’s room at all."

Yuan Dong’er finally changed her expression.

She was silent for a moment before speaking. "When I was on the stairs, I heard some strange noises and saw her room was open, so I decided to check."

"You just said that when you came up, the chandelier had already fallen."

"What I mean is, when I got to the doorway of her room, the chandelier had already fallen."

The back-and-forth between Chu Yan and Yuan Dong’er had everyone on the police team perk up.

The chief didn’t speak, but he looked deeply at Yuan Dong’er.

He walked around the scene, then went downstairs to the storeroom where Yuan Dong’er and her husband had been.

The storeroom was located behind the staircase.

After dinner, the other guests and staff were all in the living room.

That is to say, no one saw when Yuan Dong’er had come out of the storeroom and gone upstairs.

The only person who could vouch for her was her husband.

If her husband was lying, then Yuan Dong’er could have possibly come upstairs earlier, killed Wen Yi with this method, and then pretended to discover the body and run downstairs.

The chief had the police team ask others if they saw when Yuan Dong’er went upstairs.

Everyone said they didn’t see.

"Ms. Yuan, you have a sister named Yuan Xiaoxia, don’t you?"

As everyone was tensely watching the police, a cold voice suddenly resounded.

Chu Yan walked down from upstairs, looking at Yuan Dong’er with a smirk that wasn’t quite a smile.

"Who is Yuan Xiaoxia?"

"I’ve heard the name before. There was an intern on a variety show; Yuan Xiaoxia was good-looking and danced well, so she ranked quite high.

But after the group formed, she suddenly quit and disappeared afterward."

"I remember now. Wasn’t there talk of her leaving the industry? Her parents didn’t want her in the industry."

"Yuan Xiaoxia is Yuan Dong’er’s sister? I never knew that."

"I thought she won her ranking on her own merit; the others were fixed by investors. Her success was impressive, but now it seems she had her sister’s help."

After Chu Yan brought up this name, many of the crew members started to remember and began to chatter.

Yuan Dong’er said coldly, "I don’t know this person. I’ve been in the industry for so many years, everyone knows I am an orphan. Where would I get a sister from?"

She was an award-winning actress with a lot of talent.

She used to wash dishes in a restaurant before being discovered by a talent scout and entering the entertainment industry.

"You indeed are an orphan, but you have parents. It’s just that in your childhood, due to negligent care, someone took you away. After many changes, you ended up in an orphanage."

To solve the case as quickly as possible, Chu Yan accessed the underworld’s information system.

The underworld system was extremely extensive, even capable of tracing back eighteen generations of Yuan Dong’er’s ancestors.

"Yuan Xiaoxia is your sister, and you had already acknowledged each other. Unfortunately, not long after, she had an accident that disfigured her and she eventually committed suicide.

And this accident was related to Wen Yi."

Not long after Yuan Xiaoxia had died, rumors surfaced about her boyfriend and Wen Yi."

"So you’re saying I killed Wen Yi to avenge Yuan Xiaoxia?"

Yuan Dong’er sneered, "Your imagination is quite rich!"

"Whether Yuan Xiaoxia really is your sister or not, you can find out with a paternity test with her parents, though it’s true Yuan Xiaoxia is no longer with us, her parents are still alive."

After that, Yuan Dong’er remained silent.

Quite some time passed before she spoke, "Yuan Xiaoxia indeed was my little sister, but her accident had nothing to do with Wen Yi, it was just an explosion of the home gas cylinder, merely bad luck for Xiaoxia.

As for her boyfriend, he was never any good. After Xiaoxia passed, it’s only natural for him to find someone new; how could he hang himself on a dead tree?

All of what you are saying is absurd!"

Yuan Dong’er glanced at the police officers, "Finding the killer is about evidence; him fabricating conflicts and framing me , I can sue him for defamation, right?"

The team leader Youyou said softly, "Merely guessing indeed proves nothing; we still need physical evidence."

The upstairs was a resting sleeping area for guests and thus had no surveillance installed.

Based on the downstairs surveillance, it was impossible to determine when Yuan Dong’er had gone upstairs.

"The most crucial physical evidence is the bungee cord, start by searching for that. And since the killer left no fingerprints, they likely wore gloves during the crime. The murderer hasn’t left, so these items must still be somewhere in the guesthouse."

Upon hearing the team leader’s order, the officers hurriedly began their search.

"There’s no need to search, the items are here."

Yuan Dong’er had just relaxed when Chu Yan’s words made her tense up again instantly.

The guesthouse had a fire pit burning brightly, where everyone gathered for warmth.

While the others went upstairs, Yuan Dong’er had thrown the tools used for the crime into the fire pit.

She saw Chu Yan take out a plastic bag containing items, her complexion shifting immediately. Inside were the partly burned bungee cord and gloves, but they were not completely destroyed.

"Fingerprint evidence should still be recoverable."

Chu Yan handed over the physical evidence to the police.

Yuan Dong’er went limp, almost collapsing to the ground.

Her husband sighed and quickly steadied her.

"I told you not to do such things."

"But she harmed my sister , how could I just accept it!"

Yuan Dong’er’s expression twisted abruptly, as she fiercely grabbed her husband’s sleeve.

"I don’t regret it at all! Why should Wen Yi escape the law? If money and power shield her from the law, then it’s up to me to avenge my sister!"

"Have you ever thought of what will happen to me?"

Her husband’s eyes reddened as he held her tightly.

Only then did she calm down a bit, her lips quivering slightly, until she could only say, "I’m sorry for dragging you into this."

"I’ve never been afraid of your burdens."

The police put handcuffs on both of them, Yuan Dong’er for being the murderer and her husband for committing perjury, both facing legal penalties.

"Captain, Yan Yi has arrived."

Yan Yi was Ji Shaohai’s lover.

When she entered the guesthouse and saw how many people were inside, her expression became evidently nervous.

Now that the killer was found, there was no longer a need to question her.

The team leader did not attend to her immediately, while Qin Zhao frowned upon seeing Yan Yi.

He felt that something was off about this woman,

but he couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was.

"This woman smells fishy."

As Yan Yi passed by Qin Zhao, Tengshe’s whispering voice rang in Qin Zhao’s ear.