2 in 1 chapter again 
Hearing that Li Huijuan was going to be here to testify, Zhu Xiaoting’s eyes lit up—— Among the four people in dormitory 703, her favorite roommate was Li Huijuan. Li Huijuan was a top student in the Biological Science Department, who won scholarships every year, had an independent and assertive personality, and was a very cultured girl.
Zhu Xiaoting turned her head to look at the door, and saw a beautiful girl wearing a white shirt and a short black skirt being taken to the courtroom by the staff. Her face was very calm, and she walked to the witness stand and stood up. Although she was the same age as Zhu Xiaoting, she looked much more mature in this dress of a working woman.
She nodded politely towards the judges seat and looked calmly at Yue Xingwen.
Yue Xingwen stepped forward and asked, “You are Li Huijuan from bed 703-4 of Beishan University’s girls’ dormitory, a senior student in the Biological Science Department, and currently interning at Jinxin Bio Pharmaceutical Group in Beishan City, right?”
Li Huijuan replied, “That’s right.”
“Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue from the Law Department and Zhu Xiaoting from the Translation Department are your roommates?”
“Yes.”
“On October 26th, the day Xie Xiangqin died, you weren’t in dormitory 703?”
“En, I haven been interning at the company since October 7th, and our company provides accommodation for interns, so I have not lived in the school dormitory recently. On the day of the incident, I was not present, and I didn’t know what happened.”
Yue Xingwen nodded at her and continued to ask, “You have lived in the dormitory for 4 years, how is your relationship? Who of the four people has a better relationship with whom and who has a conflict with whom, can you elaborate?”
Li Huijuan said, “Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue are both from the Law Department, and have a relatively close relationship. Zhu Xiaoting and I are in different departments, and we were stuffed into dormitory 703 by the logistics office. The usual class time is different from theirs, and I’m not close to the other three. Zhu Xiaoting and Xie Xiangqin have quarreled several times.”
Yue Xingwen concluded, “In other words, among the four people in dormitory 703, Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue have the best relationship; You are a neutral party and are not close to anyone; Xie Xiangqin and Zhu Xiaoting have the worst relationship, and have had many arguments, right?”
Li Huijuan: “Yes.”
Yue Xingwen said, “When Zhu Xiaoting and Xie Xiangqin quarreled, would Mao Yue subconsciously stand on Xie Xiangqin’s side and argue Zhu Xiaoting with her because she had a better relationship with Xie Xiangqin?”
Li Huijuan fell silent.
This question from Xingwen was very critical.
Once Li Huijuan could confirm that Mao Yue and Xie Xiangqin had a closer relationship and argued Zhu Xiaoting together with Xie Xiangqin, the credibility of Mao Yue’s testimony as an eyewitness would be greatly reduced—— She was likely to deliberately pour dirty water on Zhu Xiaoting because she disliked her!
In the audience, teammates pricked up their ears and waited for answers.
Li Huijuan looked at Yue XIngwen and met the boy’s calm, frank eyes.
She thought for a few seconds, and then said, “Mao Yue does often help Xie Xiangqin speak, the time when Zhu Xiaoting accidentally broke Xie Xiangqin’s mug. Xie Xiangqin scolded Zhu Xiaoting in person, Mao Yue helped next to her, the two people scolded Zhu Xiaoting and made her cry. I went back to the dormitory to persuade them, and finally they asked Zhu Xiaoting to write a guarantee to pay for it in front of me.”
The audience: “…”
Yue Xingwen asked in a low voice, “Xie Xiangqin and Zhu Xiaoting had quarreled many times, and Mao Yue often helped Xie Xiangqin speak, resulting in a poor relationship between Mao Yue and Zhu Xiaoting?”
Li Huijuan didn’t hesitate this time, and nodded directly, “Yes.”
Yue Xingwen looked at the presiding judge and said, “Mao Yue, as a witness, and the first witness in this case, because the deceased Xie Xiangqin is her friend, and the defendant Zhu Xiaoting has a very bad relationship with her, when she saw Zhu Xiaoting holding a knife in her hand, she subconsciously shouted ‘Zhu Xiaoting killed someone’ out of disgust for Zhu Xiaoting!”
Yue Xingwen paused and said calmly, “People’s judgment of what they see and hear often carries subjective emotions, especially when the person who makes a mistake is a person they hate. They will subconsciously amplify this mistake, which is the so-called ‘to throw stones at someone who has fallen down a well’ mentality. Mao Yue had helped Xie Xiangqin to rebuke Zhu Xiaoting many times, and had been uncomfortable with Zhu Xiaoting, so in the case of Xie Xiangqin’s death, she insisted that she witnessed Zhu Xiaoting’s murder—— Her testimony is not credible!”
When the teammates in the audience heard this, they couldn’t applaud Xingwen.
Mao Yue, an eyewitness, was one of the key factors in whether Zhu Xiaoting would be convicted. Once her testimony became unreliable, then Zhu Xiaoting was more likely to be wronged.
The court debate was like a scale, they had no clear evidence, and they could only use little by little chips to tilt the balance in Zhu Xiaoting’s direction. The more chips were in Zhu Xiaoting’s favor, the higher the probability that Zhu Xiaoting would be acquitted in the end!
Lan Yarong and Yue Xingwen both knew this, so they racked their brains to start from various details and prepared a large number of questions to reveal the doubts of this case.
Sure enough, after Yue Xingwen finished saying this, the prosecutor frowned. He seemed to want to interrupt, but then held back.
Yue Xingwen continued to ask, “With your understanding of Xie Xiangqin, what kind of person is she?”
Li Huijuan said, “In my opinion, she is a beautiful and delicate girl, her family conditions are very good, and she usually pays attention to dressing. There is a bit of vanity, love to show off with us that her things are very expensive, but she has not done anything particularly bad except for the love of showing off, so I usually don’t pay much attention to her.”
Yue Xingwen changed the topic and asked, “Are there many boys chasing her?”
Li Huijuan thought for a while and said, “She told us a lot, after all, she is very beautiful, and she can be regarded as a department flower in Law Department, but she was with Zou Yijia in the second semester of sophomore year.”
Yue Xingwen said, “After she was with Zou Yijia, did she mention that other boys were pursuing her?”
Li Huijuan said, “Yes. This year, her birthday, and the boy gave her a snack gift package. She carried it back to the dormitory and distributed it to us, showing off that it was sent by the boy who chased her.”
Yue Xingwen said to the presiding judge, “Presiding judge, please allow the defense assistant to submit some photographic evidence.”
The presiding judge nodded, Lin Manluo immediately stepped forward and opened the photos prepared in advance of the U flash drive, and some lipsticks, perfumes and other photos appeared on the large screen on the side of the courtroom, and the screenshots came from Xie Xiangqin’s Moments.
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Yue Xingwen pointed to the photo and asked, “Did Xie Xiangqin say who gave her these things?”
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Several anime characters appeared in the photo.
Don’t look at these simple dolls, in fact, they were very expensive, especially this delicate shape, more than 30 cm tall figures, which sold for thousands of prices at every turn.
Li Juijuan was stunned for a moment. “I don’t know about these, she didn’t mention who sent them.”
Yue Xingwen changed the topic and asked, “How is the relationship between Xie Xiangqin and Zou Yijia?”
Li Huijuan said, “On the surface, they have a good relationship. Xie Xiangqin often shows affection in the Moments. However, on September 30th this year, because I was preparing to go to the company for an internship, I went back to the dormitory to pack my luggage, and when I entered the door, I heard Xie Xiangqin and Zou Yijia arguing fiercely. Xie Xiangqin yelled at Zou Yijia, and said things like ‘how can you doubt me’ talk.”
“Are you sure that the person she quarreled with was her boyfriend Zou Yijia?”
“Yes, I saw the caller ID on her mobile phone, which is Zou Yijia’s avatar.”
“What about the outcome of the quarrel?”
“She saw me coming in, threw a sentence to the other party ‘too lazy to explain to you’, and hung up the phone and then cried on the table. I thought it was a misunderstanding between the young couple, and I went to console her a few words.”
“The two things she said to Zou Yijia were—— how can you doubt me, too lazy to explain to you.” Yue Xingwen aggravated his tone and looked straight at Li Huijuan, “Are you sure you heard correctly?”
“My memory is very good, not to mention, this is what happened half a month ago, I won’t be mistaken.”
Yue Xingwen gave Lin Manluo a look, and senior sister Lin switched to the next photo.
“Do you know this person?” Yue Xingwen asked with a smile.
In the photo, a girl in anime costume stood next to the poster of the comic exhibition, smiling brightly at the camera. Her skin was very white, her appearance was beautiful, and her lips were red and moist, like a delicate porcelain doll coming out of a cartoon.
“Cosplay? I don’t quite know.” Li Huijuan said.
Lin Manluo followed closely by releasing the next photo, and Yue Xingwen asked, “What about her?”
“This is Xie Xiangqin.” Li Huijuan said affirmatively.
The next one was a group photo of Xie Xiangqin and the ‘anime girl’ just now.
Li Huijuan looked at the photo with a puzzled face, Yue Xingwen said, “Judging from the photo, Xie Xiangqin has a very close relationship with this person, holding hands. Has she ever mentioned in the dormitory that she has a friend who likes anime cosplay?”
Li Huijuan shook her head. “She never mentioned it.”
Yue Xingwen pointed to the photo behind him, “Is this figure the same as the one Xie Xiangqin put in the dormitory?”
Li Huijuan looked at the figure in the photo and nodded. “It’s the same one.”
Yue Xingwen: “Did she bring this figure back to the dormitory during May Day?”
Li Huijuan said, “Yes, when I went back to the dormitory. I found a very cute figure doll on her desk. I took an extra look at it, and she said she bought it during May Day.”
The prosecutor suddenly stood up and interrupted. “The defense lawyer’s question is not directly related to this case, deliberately disturbing the audio visual. Please stop the meaningless question!”
The presiding judge said, “Defense lawyer, please pay attention and don’t ask questions that are not related to the case.”
“Presiding judge, these issues are closely related to this case.” Yue Xingwen insisted, “Please allow us to invite the next witness, the president of the anime club of Beishan University, Qi Xinyu, and the answer will be revealed soon.”
The presiding judge thought about it for a moment and nodded. “Please invite the witness.”
Yue Xingwen thanked Li Huijuan as she left the stage, followed closely by another girl being invited up.
Qi Xinyu stood on the witness stand and saw Yue Xingwen in a suit in front of her. She was full of surprise—— Wasn’t this student Jiang Pingce from the Mathematics Department? Why was he standing in court?
Yue Xingwen added her friend at that time just to inquire about the news, casually making up that he was Jiang Pingce of the Mathematics Department. He didn’t expect this girl to actually become an important witness in the case. In order to avoid the other party’s doubts and unable to concentrate on answering the question, Yue Xingwen took the initiative to retreat and whispered in Lan Yarong’s ear, “Senior sister, you should ask this witness.”
Lan Yarong nodded, stepped on high heels and walked quickly to the witness, and asked with a smile, “Hello student Qi Xinyu, I’m Lan Yarong, Zhu Xiaoting’s defense lawyer. You are the president of Beishan University’s anime club, right?”
Qi Xinyu quickly came back to her senses, withdrew her doubtful gaze from Yue Xingwen’s face, looked at the female lawyer with a kind smile in front of her, nodded and said, “Yes.”
Lan Yarong pointed at the photo on the screen and asked, “Do you know this person?”
Qi Xinyu followed her finger to look at the screen, quickly nodded and said, “Yes, he is Ji Xiaohui, a junior in the Translation Department, a member of our anime club, who likes cosplay and often plays anime characters.”
Lan Yarong released another daily photo of Ji Xiaohui wearing men’s clothing. “That is to say, the person who looks like a girl just now actually lives in building 5, dormitory 105 on the boys’ dormitory. He is Zou Yijia’s roommate, Ji Xiaohui?”
Qi Xinyu nodded decisively. “Yes.”
The audience was in an uproar!
Just now, Yue Xingwen paved the way for a long time, and the presiding judge and the audience were confused.
Xie Xiangqin once participated in a comic exhibition, took an intimate photo with a ‘beautiful girl’, and held a delicate figure sent by the other party. What did this have to do with Xie Xiangqin’s murder? The prosecutor’s objection to these issues had nothing to do with the case, and everyone felt that way.
Until the next witness came out and confirmed—— this was a boy.
It was actually a boy?!
On the big screen, on the left was a beautiful girl dressed like a porcelain doll, and on the right was a clean-cut boy in a white shirt. If they carefully distinguished them, they could indeed see between the eyebrows was the same person. The contract between the images was so start that there was a discussion in the audience. The onlookers were stunned, and the presiding judge had to pick up the hammer again and knock it down, “Silence!”
The scene quieted down.
Lan Yarong then smiled and asked, “Ji Xiaohui likes men to pretend to be women, and usually also often wear female clothes when cosplaying, and there is no sense of discord. Except for the people in your anime club, it is difficult for ordinary people to recognize him as a boy, right?”
Qi Xinyu said, “Yeah. He is the most powerful women’s clothing boss in our anime club. We girls are ashamed of ourselves. When he wears female’s clothing, unless it’s a person who is particularly familiar with him, ordinary people can’t see it.”
The audience: “……”
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Women’s clothing boss, this word was like a thunderbolt thrown into the lake, making the already suspicious case more complicated. Even the prosecutor frowned at this time, no longer raised objections, and seemed to want to listen.
Lan Yarong continued to ask, “In the photo, the comic exhibition where Xie Xiangqin and Ji Xiaohui took a photo is the Beishan City Firefly Comic Exhibition held at the Anime Convention and Exhibition Center on May 1st this year?”
Qi Xinyu, as the president of the anime club, could see the environment of this photo at a glance, and immediately said, “That’s right, Beishan City will hold a Firefly Comic Exhibition every May Day, and Ji Xiaohui often goes to comic exhibition to display a variety of character Cos.”
“Xie Xiangqin is a classmate of your Law Department, how is her private relationship with Ji Xiaohui?”
“I don’t know about this, I only know that Xie Xiangqin and Zou Yijia are a couple, and they seem to have a good relationship. She never mentioned Ji Xiaohui to us, and Ji Xiaohui never mentioned that he knew Xie Xiangqin.”
“On the weekend of October 25~27th, the Law Department’s beach barbecue, you are the initiator, right?”
“Yes, it was a party initiated by our Student Council.”
“Why didn’t Xie Xiangqin participate?”
“She said she wasn’t feeling well, so she didn’t sign up.”
Lan Yarong smiled and nodded. “Thank you for your answer. Asking the presiding judge to allow us to call the next witness.”
Onlookers: “…”
There were too many witnesses for the defense, one after another came out?
The presiding judge signaled to the staff to open the door. Next up was the dormitory aunt in Building 6 of the girls’ dormitory. Lan Yarong returned to the defense table, and Yue Xingwen immediately replaced her, and continued to ask along the topic just now, “Hello, may I ask, are you the dormitory aunt of Building 6 of the girls’ dormitory of Beishan University?”
The aunt said, “Yes.”
Yue Xingwen: “How long have you been a dormitory manager in Building 6?”
The aunt said, “Less than a year.”
“Can you recognize all the girls in Building 6?”
“This…” The aunt hesitated for a moment before replying, “Building 6 has a total of 10 floors, 30 dormitories on each floor, and thousands of people live in the entire building. I can’t name every girl, but most of them can still be recognized.”
Yue Xingwen nodded towards Lin Manluo, and senior sister Lin immediately released a photo of Ji Xiaohui wearing daily women’s clothing. “Have you seen this ‘girl’?” He deliberately added emphasis to the word ‘girl’.
The dormitory aunt said without hesitation, “I’ve seen her.”
Gasping sounds rang out from the audience, and the onlookers’ eyes widened in surprise. Even the prosecutor frowned and looked at the photo in disbelief.
Yue Xingwen continued to ask, “Does she often go in and out of the girls’ dormitory?”
The aunt thought for a while and said, “Usually there are too many people, I don’t pay attention, but she has a habit of always coming back late and going out very early on weekends. Once I stopped her and asked her what she was doing, she said she was working outside, so she came back late.”
“On October 26th, between 4:00 am to 5:30 am, did anyone enter or leave the dormitory in Building 6. Do you remember?”
The aunt shook her head in embarrassment. “I was sleeping, I don’t know what happened. I was woken up by screams.”
“In other words, during the time when Xie Xiangqin was killed, you didn’t know who had been in and out of the dormitory building? At that time, the access control system of the dormitory building was broken, and the door could be pushed open with a gentle push, right?”
The aunt lowered her head and was very ashamed. “Yes, my work is indeed somewhat negligent, I have written a review…”
Yue Xingwen: “Thanks for your answer.”
He followed closely to look at the presiding judge and said, “I have the next witness.”
The next person to appear was Zhang Bin, a male student from dormitory 105.
The emotional question began to be asked, and as a result, Yue Xingwen asked as soon as he spoke, “Is Ji Xiaohui your roommate?”
Zhang Bin was stunned for a moment, “That’s right.”
Yue Xingwen: “Do you know that he joined the anime club and likes Cos women’s clothing, and is a women’s clothing boss?”
Zhang Bin looked shocked. “Women’s clothing? I don’t know! I only heard that he joined the anime club, and I haven’t seen him wear women’s clothes.”
“Is he good at gaming?”
“That’s true, he’s the best in our dorm.”
“Xie Xiangqin is Zou Yijia’s girlfriend. At Zou Yijia’s request, you guys often take Xie Xiangqin to play games, and Xie Xiangqin has thus gotten to know the three of you and added each of you as friends privately, right?”
“That’s right, she’s relatively new to the game, and it’s usually the four of us who take her.”
“On May 1st, you played games with your roommates Zhong Jian and Zou Yijia at school and played all day?”
“It seems to be…” He scratched his head and thought for a moment, and confirmed. “Yes, it happened to be early in the season, and we played ranked together for a whole day in order to rush the segment.”
“Ji Xiaohui wasn’t in the dormitory that day?”
“He said something was up, like he was going to some comic exhibition.”
“Did Zou Yijia mention what his girlfriend was doing that day?”
“Oh, he said, his girlfriend went to watch a movie with her girlfriend, and no need for us to take her, the three of us just play the ranking together.”
Yue Xingwen released an intimate photo of Xie Xiangqin and Ji Xiaohui holding hands on May 1st.
“Can you recognize this is your roommate Ji Xiaohui?”
“… This gir– girl?” Zhang Bin was stunned, his mouth opened wide that could almost swallow an egg, and then he said in shock, “Wait, didn’t Xie Xiangqin go to see a movie? Why was she with Ji Xiaohui? Zou Yijia was wearing a green hat?”
His subconscious reaction allowed the audience to finally sort out the implausibility of this!
Xie Xiangqin told her boyfriend that she went to see a movie, and as a result, she appeared at the comic exhibition, on the same day, Ji Xiaohui also appeared at the comic exhibition in female costume. The two behaved intimately, and looked like good girlfriends holding hands to take photos. However, this ‘girlfriend’ was actually a boy, was it too much for a boy and a girl to take photos holding hands?!
What was even more frightening was that the dormitory aunt confirmed, this ‘man pretending to be a woman’ Ji Xiaohui returned late on weekends many times!
Entering the girls’ dormitory many times!
A man wearing women’s clothes entered the girls’ dormitory, because no one knew that he was a boy, they wouldn’t be wary of him, if he went to secretly take photos of girls taking baths… it was hard to imagine.
Yue Xingwen signaled him to adjust his mood, and then asked, “On September 30th, when playing the game, because Xie Xiangqin made a mistake and caused you to lose. Did Zou Yijia have a fierce quarrel with Xie Xiangqin?”
Zhang Bin recovered from the shock of ‘a roommate was a women’s clothing boss’ and ‘another roommate was wearing a green hat’. He nodded and said stiffly, “Yes, his face was very bad that day. He took his mobile phone to the corridor outside to call Xie Xiangqin for a long time, and the voice sounded fierce. It should be a quarrel. After returning to the dormitory, he also told us that we didn’t need to bring Xie Xiangqin in the future.”
Yue Xingwen nodded at him and continued, “Please invite the last witness.”
One by one, witnesses appeared in court, and from their statement, the doubts in Xie Xiangqin’s case grew.
Until the last one appeared.
The bearded uncle smiled heartily, and Yue Xingwen asked directly, “You are the owner of the hardware store at the entrance of the school. Have you seen this person come to make a key?”
A group photo of Xie Xiangqin and Zou Yijia appeared on the screen.
The owner nodded. “Yes, this young couple came to my store to make a key. The girl complained that her boyfriend had lost her dormitory key and asked me to make a new one.”
“What was her boyfriend’s reaction at that time?”
“He apologized, said he was wrong, he would go back to look for it again, or maybe left it in the dormitory when changing clothes; The girl said impatiently, no need to look for it, just make a new one.”
“You gave them a new key and gave it to this girl?”
“Yes, for 10 yuan.”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “Presiding judge, my questioning is over.”
The witnesses left the audience, and the room fell silent.
Zhu Xiaoting’s tears kept rolling in her eyes, forcing them not to flow down.
The prosecutor frowned, seemingly sorting out the logic of this.
Yue Xingwen looked at the judge, and said seriously, “In Xie Xiangqin case of dormitory 703, my client, Zhu Xiaoting, is not the only suspect. The key to dormitory 703 has been lost. Zou Yijia and Ji Xiaohui may have held this key in their hands; Zou Yijia and Xie Xiangqin had a fierce quarrel, mentioning words such as doubt and not wanting to explain, indicating that there was a deep misunderstanding between the two. Ji Xiaohui and Xie Xiangqin had a close relationship, and Ji Xiaohui had entered the girls’ dormitory several times dressed as a woman and presented Xie Xiangqin with expensive figures; Ji Xiaohui’s mother is a Medical student, and he probably understands the structure of the human body and can pierce the heart artery with a knife. After a detailed investigation, we believe that Zhu Xiatong was framed, and the murderer in this case is someone else.”
“The law is vast, we believe that the law will return justice to the innocent!”
Everything is so epic, maybe I’m a secret fan of this kind of dramas?
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I’VE BEEN WATCHING A CRIME SERIES RN AND THIS COURTROOM SCENE MADE MY BLOOD BOIL SO EXCITING AHH~