Yue Xingwen glanced at the time, it was 5:30 am in the morning.
At 5:30 am on Saturday, most people were sleeping at this time. Qi Xinyu’s screams woke up many people. Some people were woken up and turned over to continue sleeping, two boys who were close came out to see the situation, and asked while walking, “Xinyu, what are you screaming for? What happened?”
Both of them walked to the beach, and after finding the corpse floating on the sea, their eyes widened in surprise, “Dead, dead person?”
“Isn’t that Liu Jiajia? I remember her dress!”
The dress was indeed very distinctive, with a big red undertone, embellished with some silver sequin patterns, which would look good when taking photos on the beach.
Yue Xingwen searched for the memory in his mind. Last night at dusk, the girl wore this dress to take photos at the beach, when there were many people taking photos at the beach, Yue Xingwen vaguely remembered that the girl in the red dress smiled brightly, and there were several girls next to her who took photos with her and posed in various poses.
Unexpectedly, she would drown.
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at Qi Xinyu. “Senior sister, how did you find the body?”
Qi Xinyu trembled and replied, “I set an alarm clock with Zhao Lin as we wanted to get up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, but when the two of us walked to the beach, we saw a corpse floating on the sea…” Zhao Lin next to her said with a pale face, “Liu Jiajia was still eating barbecue with us last night, why did she suddenly drown?”
Qi Xinyu bit her lip and whispered, “I remember that she can swim. Could it be that she wanted to swim in the sea, but accidentally convulsed and drowned?”
Those who could swim were not afraid of the sea, and they went to the sea to swim in excitement. As a result, their bodies suddenly convulsed when swimming, resulting in drowning, and there were many such cases in reality. Their first reaction was an accident, not murder. It seemed that Liu Jiajia usually had no obvious enemy?
Yue Xingwen asked, “Senior sister, has Liu Jiajia offended anyone?”
Qi Xinyu froze for a moment, and her face changed slightly. “You shouldn’t suspect that she was deliberately pushed down, right?! She is very popular in our major, I have never heard of who she has a feud with. She is also the Recreation Minister of our Student Council, pretty and kind, there is no way someone would kill her!”
Zhao Lin next to her suddenly looked around and asked, “What about Zhu Xiaoting? She lived in the same tent as Liu Jiajia, she should know what happened to Liu Jiajia last night, right?”
The boy walked over and shouted, “Is Zhu Xiaoting here?”
After a long time of no response, Qi Xinyu quickly flipped through his mobile phone and said, “They live in tent no 037 in Area A.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
The two boys went over with Zhao Lin to call someone, and they returned after a moment. Zhao Lin said, “Zhu Xiaoting is not there ah!”
Tef Wlcukfc: “…”
Yo mbegrf rtf kjr cba lc atf afca, rtf kjr cbk lc atf ulgir’ vbgwlabgs bo Dflrtjc Fclnfgrlas, tbivlcu j wegvfg kfjqbc!
Bf Vtjbylc ktlrqfgfv lc Tef Wlcukfc’r fjg, “Pa rffwr atja Ite Wljbalcu abbx j ajzl yjmx ab rmtbbi lc atf wlvvif bo atf cluta joafg fjalcu yjgyfmef, yea ktfc rtf gfaegcfv ab rmtbbi, rtf rjk j qfgrbc vfjv lc atf vbgwlabgs.”
The sound of the police car’s horn was heard in the distance, and Yue Xingwen quickly asked the group: “How is the situation at the school?”
Qin Miao said: “The police just came, blocked the scene, and were questioning several witnesses. The forensic doctor examined Xie Xiangqin’s body in the dormitory. Zhu Xiaoting’s emotions collapse, there’s blood on her hands and face, and the police handcuffed her.”
Jiang Pingce and Xin Yan couldn’t enter the girls’ dormitory, and the information on the other side of the dormitory could only be collected by Qin Miao.
Qin Miao calmly put forward the speculation that ‘the crime scene is not necessarily on the beach’ yesterday, and took the initiative to stay in school, otherwise, they would lose a lot of key information.
Lan Yarong asked: “Did the witnesses see her holding the murder weapon in her hand?”
Qin Miao: “Yes. Not to mention the witnesses, when I heard the screams and rushed over, I saw her with a knife in her hand. There were at least 5 girls who saw this scene, as well as the dormitory next door.”
Lan Yarong’s temples jumped suddenly in anger: “Isn’t she from the Law Department? The criminal law has been learned in vain! Seeing a dead person, you should be careful to exit the scene of the crime immediately and report to the police! What did she walk in for? Covered in blood, and still picking up the murder weapon!!”
A row of exclamation marks from senior sister Lan made the teammates’ scalps tingled. It could be seen that senior sister’s anger was burning.
Liu Zhaoqing sent a sweaty emoticon: “Senior sister Lan, calm down. I still have to rely on you to defend this girl.”
Lan Yarong took a deep breath: “What’s going on? She’s not from the Law Department?”
Xin Yan sent a string of text messages: “Zhu Xiaoting really is not from the Law Department. She is not on the Law Department’s list, but was on the 703 dormitory list, and I put her on the information sheet when I was putting it together yesterday. This 703 dormitory is rather complicated, among which Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue are the Law Department’s students, Zhu Xiaoting is a student of the Translation Department, and Li Huijian is a student of the Biological Science Department. There are 54 female students in the Law Department, and only 52 people can be arranged in 13 rooms. The remaining 2 have made up with girls from other departments.”
The school would arrange students of the same department to live together as much as possible, but in the case of this situation where the room of 4 people could not be accommodated, students from other departments would be assigned to live together and make up a dormitory. In University, such a way of allocating dormitories was common.
Of the 54 female students in the Law Department, 52 lived in four-person rooms with the same department, and dormitory 703 had mixed female students from other departments. The internal relationship of this dormitory obviously needed to be investigated.
Lan Yarong’s mood finally calmed down. Law students had to study the <Criminal Law>, and it was too unprofessional to do such a thing as ‘touching a murder weapon’. If it was a girl from another department, it was possible that she ran into the murder weapon in a panic, or maybe, she was trying to save someone, not kill the person?
Lan Yarong took a deep breath and quickly typed: “What did the police say over there?”
Qin Miao: “The police are going to take Zhu Xiaoting back for questioning.”
Judging from the photos at the scene, the ground was covered with blood, and Zhu Xiaoting might have run in panic after entering the room, and many of her footprints on the ground.
Yue Xingwen helplessly supported his temples: “Zhu Xiaoting originally ate barbecue on the beach, and the person who lived with her was called Liu Jiajia, but now Liu Jiajia drowned, and Zhu Xiaoting inexplicably appeared at school.”
Liu Zhaoqing was on duty at night last night, and couldn’t help but be surprised when he saw this: “Xingwen, are you saying that Zhu Xiaoting’s roommate on the other side of the beach drowned, she went back to school in the middle of the night, and her roommate at school was stabbed to death with a knife?”
Yue Xingwen: “That’s right.”
Liu Zhaoqing said: “This is too unlucky.”
Jiang Pingce: “I suspect that Zhu Xiaoting encountered something last night. She suddenly returned to school, and her roommate Liu Jiajia on the beach should be able to testify to her, and now Liu Jiajia dies, that is, there’s no testimony from the dead. It’s also possible that Liu Jiajia’s death is also related to her, then she will become the murderer of the serial murder case.”
Everyone: “…”
Qin Miao said to make matters worse: “Her emotions collapsed. After being taken back by the police, if she says some unfavorable confessions during the police questioning, it will be even more difficult to clear the charges.”
Ke Shaobin put forward a question: “Can she keep silent? Like on TV, when the police ask her, can she say that I won’t answer any questions until my lawyer arrives?”
Lan Yarong sent a facepalm emoticon, and quickly typed: “Xiao Ke, you have watched too many Hong Kong dramas, right? Hong Kong adopts the British Law of the maritime system, and adheres to the Miranda Rights ‘You have the right to remain silent, but every word you say will be used against you in court’, so the suspect has the right the remain silent and may not answer any questions from the police, leaving full authority to the lawyer to handle it.” Lan Yarong continued: “But this Law system does not apply to the mainland. On the mainland, when the police ask questions and you don’t answer, it’s obstructing the police from handling the case.”
Ke Shaobin: “…”
In the TV series, it looked cool that the suspect remained silent before the lawyer arrived, but in reality there was no such thing as ‘I won’t answer any questions if the lawyer doesn’t come’, especially in criminal cases, where the lawyer might not even see the client until the police make a statement.
What would Zhu Xiaoting say to the police? In case she said something unfavorable to herself, things would only get worse.
Yue Xingwen immediately made a decision: “It seems that it will be hard for senior brother Xu, only he can reach Zhu Xiaoting in advance.”
Xu Yishen was deeply concerned and asked the group: “I will turn into a cell and hide in the police pocket later, and go back to the police force with them. I’ll find a way to find Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible. What does senior sister Lan need me to relay?”
Lan Yarong said; “Let her absolutely never confess! Also, don’t lie, don’t talk nonsense to deceive the police. The experience of criminal police is very rich, her lying will be immediately debunked, resulting in the credibility of her court testimony to be greatly reduced. When you encounter an uncertain question, just say ‘I don’t know’, don’t use the ambiguous answer of maybe, perhaps, as if it was possible.”
Xu Yishen: “I understand, I will tell her as soon as possible.”
Ke Shaobin: “… Senior brother becomes a cell to talk to her, won’t she be scared?”
Xu Yishen was also helpless: “Otherwise, we can’t see her as soon as possible. The police will definitely interrogate her immediately when they go back, and we must tell her these words before the interrogation.”
Yue Xingwen said: “That’s right, senior brother, go ahead.”
After the police car arrived at the beach, the scene was immediately blocked. The forensic doctor went to the autopsy. Yue Xingwen gave senior brother Xu Yishen a look. Xu Yishen turned into a cell stuck in the police officer’s pocket, and heard the complete conversation between the forensic doctor and the police.
“The deceased, Liu Jiajia, 22 years old, a Law Department’s student at Beishan University, the cause of death was drowning. No obvious injuries or traces of fighting with people were found on the body, and the specific cause of death should be brought back for further autopsy.”
The police asked Qi Xinyu, Yue Xingwen and other witnesses briefly about some information, and then left with the body.
Qi Xinyu, trembling in fear, woke up her classmates, and asked everyone to go back to school early.
Originally, they planned to play at the beach for another day today and go back on Sunday night, but one of their classmates died, and everyone was not in the mood to have fun after hearing the news. So, they packed up their things and took the bus back to school.
Yue Xingwen and his teammates quickly took a taxi back to the Law Firm.
They should prepare to defend Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible, the current evidence was very unfavorable to Zhu Xiaoting, and they wanted to clear her grievances. Firstly, to find loopholes in the motives, methods, and evidence; Secondly, was to find the real murderer as soon as possible!
Oh, right now I feel it will be less active arch
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
What “Milan Notice?!” 🤨 Those are Miranda Rights!
-Me, a former law student
really?? I don’t understand law, searching in google but can’t find it lol. Thank you for telling me, I’ll change it 😘