The three of them spent the whole afternoon poring over the class beauty's interrogation transcript.
Su Yao couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of her heart that the class beauty really lived up to her reputation. She had had suitors since kindergarten. It was also thanks to her being the class beauty that she could remember things from kindergarten so clearly.
In contrast, Su Yao had been a tomboy since childhood. Apart from Pei Yan, she really didn't have any suitors to speak of. And Pei Yan had been won over by that white lotus, Miao Yue.
However, there had been some discerning men in college. Su Yao consoled herself silently.
"Su Yao, what are you thinking about?" Su Yao came back to her senses and found Bai Linglong and Pei Yan both looking at her.
"What's up?" Su Yao didn't realize she had been daydreaming for a long time.
"Next, we're going to listen to Ding Rui's interrogation. Concentrate."
Bai Linglong still knew nothing about the various scandals about Su Yao flying all over the Internet. However, her attitude towards Su Yao had changed recently because this mystery - loving Su Yao could really play a certain role.
So she hoped that Su Yao could play a greater role in this case. Bai Linglong was counting on this serial case to make her return to City B.
Ding Rui's interrogation didn't differ much from those of Sun Yang and Wang Luo before. There were no additional details. Generally, it was just praise for Sun Shan, saying he was the best and that others had misunderstood him.
But when it came to the dinner in their freshman year's second semester, Ding Rui's statement began to deviate from that of the class beauty.
Ding Rui repeatedly stated that it was indeed the hooligans at the next table who had molested the class beauty at that time, and the boys at their table couldn't stand it, so they got into a fight.
The class beauty's description of this part was much more detailed than Ding Rui's. She covered everyone who attended the dinner that day, who got beaten, and who did the beating.
The class beauty insisted that the cause of this fight was definitely not her, which was very consistent with what was said in the case file of that year.
"I didn't expect the class beauty to have such a good memory. It's been more than four years since the incident, and she can still remember such details. Moreover, what she said is almost exactly the same as her statement back then, even the order of the narrative is the same." Su Yao sighed about the class beauty's good memory again.
"Yaoyao, you're right. There are two problems with the class beauty's interrogation. One is that it's exactly the same as the one four years ago, and the other is that she insists that she wasn't the cause of the fight." Pei Yan extended Su Yao's view. "But Ding Rui, as another party involved, her interrogation has changed a lot."
"Either the class beauty or Ding Rui must be lying." Su Yao continued.
"Not necessarily. Instead of assuming that one of them is lying, we might as well assume that they are both telling the truth, but they described the same incident from different perspectives." Pei Yan began to correct Su Yao's view.
"If my assumption holds, then what we need to find is the reason that made them have different views on the same incident. That's the final answer we're looking for."
Pei Yan's words puzzled Su Yao and Bai Linglong because in the girls' eyes, it was obvious that the class beauty was lying.
Seeing that Su Yao and Bai Linglong didn't agree with him, Pei Yan decided to explain in more detail.
"Our assumption is that both of them are telling the truth from their own perspectives. Ding Rui's starting point is Sun Shan, and she has always been focused on him. As for the class beauty, let's assume that she is focused on another person, A." Pei Yan said.
"Hey, Lawyer Pei, you're not completely a straight - laced guy after all." Su Yao gave Pei Yan a thumbs - up, interrupting his reasoning.
"So, they're just stating their subjective feelings. What does this have to do with the answer we're looking for?" Bai Linglong was even more confused about Pei Yan's theory.
"Yes, you're quite right. But one thing is that during the whole fight, Ding Rui was always focused on Sun Shan, while the class beauty was focused on A.
So Ding Rui would think that Sun Shan was standing up for the class beauty, while the class beauty thought this had nothing to do with Sun Shan because she didn't even notice Sun Shan but was focused on A." Pei Yan continued to explain.
"I see. As long as we find this A, we can find out why the class beauty thought she wasn't molested, and then find out the truth of that year's incident." Bai Linglong suddenly had an epiphany. "Lawyer Pei, you're really amazing. You hit the nail on the head."
So the task of the three of them became to sort through the case files of that year and find the information of all the people who participated in this fight.
It was already evening on June 6th. If they couldn't find evidence before nine o'clock tonight, Hu Zong, who was being detained, would be released.
According to the case files, there were a total of 12 students on the student side that year, including 5 boys and 7 girls. The boys were Sun Shan, Zhou Zheng, Feng Ti, Yang Yu, and Zhu Kun. There were only 8 hooligans on the other side, but they were all men. So the students were at a disadvantage in this fight.
"What about these people now? Apart from Sun Shan and Zhou Zheng who are already dead, what about the others?" Pei Yan asked Bai Linglong.
"Feng Ti and Yang Yu have been missing for a week, and their families are looking for them. As for Zhu Kun," Bai Linglong pointed to the name on the document, "he died two years ago, but it was an accident. There are no suspicious points."
"Missing? Are they the four who went into business together? Have all of them had accidents?" Su Yao summarized Bai Linglong's words.
"Yes, we're now looking for evidence to combine these cases. We suspect that they were all done by the same person." Bai Linglong said. "But we have no evidence. Now we only have this Hu Zong, but we can't get anything out of him."
"Hey, there's a person named Yu Hui here. Is it the Yu Hui in Hu Zong's confession?" The careful Su Yao found a problem from the list of hooligans.
"Linglong, please check Yu Hui's criminal record." Pei Yan thought this was a good breakthrough point and could be traced.
"Okay." Bai Linglong knew the matter was urgent and immediately walked out of the room quickly.
Only Su Yao and Pei Yan were left in the room.
"Why did you leave last night? We were going to have barbecue together." Su Yao complained to Pei Yan about his breaking the promise.
"It was A Yue. She threatened my mother and jumped from the fourth floor last night." Pei Yan replied briefly.
"Ah, I didn't expect Miao Yue to be not only a white lotus but also a black - hearted one. How is she now?" Su Yao didn't avoid expressing her opinion about Miao Yue in front of Pei Yan at all.
"It's nothing serious. She just broke her leg." Pei Yan still looked cold.
"Oh, she really went all out to avoid getting divorced." Su Yao wrinkled her nose.
"How about those things of yours? Those on the Internet. Can you handle them? I've already asked Sun Yang and Wang Luo to write lawyer's letters." Pei Yan was more concerned about Su Yao's situation.
"Well, it's almost settled today. There will be a result tomorrow." Su Yao touched her nose.