Yue Xingwen’s speculation opened up a new idea for everyone—— If this case was split, the murderer of the Roland couple and the murderer of Leah had completely different motives, which could explain the current doubts.
Ke Shaobin said, “Xingwen means that the murderer of the Roland couple needs to choose between their two daughters, Daisy and Alice; and for Leah’s murderer, we need to choose between Rhodes and Jack?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “This is just my guess, to confirm the final answer and pass this course, we definitely can’t just rely on guesses, we still have to find more and stronger evidence.”
Zhuo Feng said, “At present, we have opened all the mechanisms in the abstract paintings and oil paintings on the 1st and 2nd floors. We also almost collected all the clues in the bedroom of both sisters on the 3rd floor. We haven’t searched the rooms on the 4th floor.”
Xu Yishen said with a smile, “The 1st floor of this villa is the living room and nanny’s room, the 2nd floor is the drawing room and study, the bedroom of the 2 daughters on the 3rd floor. It must be the master bedroom of the Roland couple on the 4th floor, and the study belonging to the couple. I estimate that the most important clues should be on the 4th floor.”
Ke Shaobin immediately said, “Then let’s hurry up and go to the 4th floor. I’m starving after coming to this shitty villa for so long and running around upstairs and downstairs.”
Yue Xingwen heard his stomach grumbling, so he said, “I’m going to buy some oranges. You stay right here and don’t move around.” Ke Shaobin stood there stunned, unable to move. Yue Xingwen conjured a large orange and handed it to him. Ke Shaobin then could move, he immediately took the orange and said without restraint, “Thank you dad!”
The students around looked at him speechlessly. Ke Shaobin smiled as he ate the orange. “If you want to eat, find Xingwen.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Young Ke’s digestive function is a little bit more powerful than everyone, so let’s pad his stomach first. The others can go back to the library and eat after looking for clues and clearing the course later.”
Everyone had no opinion, it had only been a few hours since they came to this villa, and they were not very hungry.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked up side by side, and everyone came to the 4th floor. Sure enough, they saw a very large master bedroom, designed as a suite—— master bedroom, wardrobe room, study and attached sky garden.
The villa was pitch black, and could only be illuminated by Xin Yan’s spirit lamp. Xin Yan simply summoned a large number of spirit lamps to let the warm fire illuminate the entire room for everyone to investigate.
Yue Xingwen said, “Search the study first. Everyone follows me, don’t fall behind.”
One wall of the study was filled with books, and on the other side was a desk with many drawers.
There was a locked drawer, but at this time the lock of the drawer was missing. Jiang Pingce opened the drawer and found that there were only some bills inside. He frowned and looked at Yue Xingwen. “This drawer should have been touched by someone.”
Yue Xingwen squatted down to examine it carefully and came to the same conclusion. “The lock was violently pried open, leaving some scratches on the drawer. There must be important documents stolen.”
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Jiang Pingce said, “Judging from the date marked in the album, Daisy was born on December 12th, 1990. Alice was born on November 15th, 1992. The sisters were two years apart.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up. “As long as we know Leah’s date of birth, we can backtrack on who swapped identities with her and replaced her as the daughter. This person is most likely to be the murderer!”
Leah strayed and was adopted because her identity was swapped with someone at birth, so the one whose birth date would match hers would be the one who swapped identities with her, and was most likely to kill her parents because of property inheritance!
Thinking about this, everyone got excited.
Zhuo Feng asked, “Are there any clues related to Leah’s birth date before?”
Lin Manluo said, “I just remember that Leah and Rhodes were classmates and participated in the summer camp with Alice and Jack. The summer camp is inaccurate because students of all ages can sign up, but if they’re in the same class, they usually have the same age, right? She should be the same age as Rhodes.”
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and reminded him. “Just now, Daisy asked a private investigator to investigate her husband’s evidence of cheating. In the contract signed, there was information about her husband Rod.”
Jiang Pingce took out the document and glanced at it, saying, “Born in 1992.”
Yue Xingwen leaned over and looked at the document. “That means Leah was also born in 1992, the same age as Alice?”
Jiang Pingce said, “These two girls must have been born in the same hospital’s maternity department in the first place. Both children were mistaken, the Roland couple didn’t know that their own daughters were swapped, and they have always loved Alice as their own daughter.”
Ke Shaobin said curiously, “Then, how did they know about it later?”
At this moment, Liu Zhaoqing turned out a case information from the bookcase next to him and handed it to Yue Xingwen. “Mr. Roland was diagnosed with leukemia in the hospital and needed bone marrow transplantation. When the hospital encountered this situation, he would generally find a family member to do the matching first, and it must be that when the matching was done, they found that Alice was not their biological daughter.”
Xu Yishen patted his head and said, “The day Leah met the couple, she went home to send a message to her mother and wrote a diary. What month and date was in the diary? Does anyone remember?”
Jiang Pingce, who was the most sensitive to data, immediately said, “June 7th, 2009.”
Liu Zhaoqing analyzed. “The old man was diagnosed with a blood disease on May 1st, after doing the matching, he found that his daughter was not his biological child, and then went to find his own daughter, spending a month to find Leah’s whereabouts. This logic seems right.”
Lin Manluo took out a document from the corner of the bookcase at this time, and said, “Mr. and Mrs. Roland have always had a cooperative relationship with Leah’s adoptive parents’ company, and obviously know Leah’s adoptive parents. Both of them found their daughter and learned that her daughter had not had a good life over the years, and the couple simply conspired with their daughter to kill the family while traveling, making her sole heir to the property and then adopting Leah by their side in an honest manner?”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “The illusion in the painting at that time only played a clip of Leah and her biological parents meeting without sound, so I don’t know what they discussed. It’s certainly no coincidence that Leah’s adoptive parents and younger brother were killed in a car accident right after that. Senior sister Manluo’s analysis makes sense, and in this way, Leah has become the biggest beneficiary.”
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “Their original plan should be to kill the family who was not good for Leah first, let Leah inherit the property, and then take Leah to the family. When Daisy and Alice get married, they will give all their love to their long-lost daughter Leah, and make a will to inherit the property to Leah as well.”
Yue Xingwen sighed lightly. “It was not good to publicize this matter, so Leah also temporarily stayed in the nanny’s room on the 1st floor after she came to the house. Unexpectedly, this secret was discovered and the couple were tragically murdered.”
Everyone looked at each other, and Ke Shaobin concluded, “The person who killed Leah is none other than her sister Alice! The older sister Daisy is their biological daughter, right? When the couple left their will, they should give Daisy a share of the property as well. But Alice is not their biological daughter, and there was no share of the property for her. She stole the will as soon as she found out about it and killed the couple who had raised her for almost thirty years.”
Liu Zhaoqing added, “Since the old man had a blood disease and was very weak, and the old lady was hunchbacked without nimble legs, it was easy for Alice, a young woman, to strangle the couple. After they died, she buried the couple in the garden in front of her door to avoid being discovered.”
The death case of the Roland couple was currently sorted out.
Judging from the group photos of the whole family for so many years and the plot clips in the painting, the couple was fair to their two daughters, and they must have thought that Daisy and Alice were both their biological daughters. The older sister Daisy was born in 1990, and the younger sister Alice was 1992, Leah was also in 1992, so the most likely thing was that the younger sister and Leah’s identities were swapped. The person who had a property inheritance conflict with Leah was also the younger sister, and she had a motive to kill her non-biological parents.
Who killed Leah?
Yue Xingwen sorted out the clues in his mind and said, “We can’t judge the time of death of the three corpses, but judging from the garden full of black roses, I personally tend to lean towards Leah dying much later. When Alice killed the Roland couple and buried them in the garden, perhaps sunflowers were still blooming in the garden?”
Jiang Pingce also agreed with this analysis. “If the murderer had buried Leah at that time and planted a large area of black roses, it would definitely arouse the suspicion and vigilance of the family. Unless, of course, something has happened to the villa and it has been emptied and abandoned. He won’t be noticed even if he switches the plant with black roses.”
Both of them looked at each other, and Yue Xingwen said, “The first scene of Leah’s death is probably not in this villa. Did the murderer transport her body to the villa and bury it after killing her elsewhere?”
Ke Shaobin complained, “As a result, the murderer dug and found that there were two more buried underground?”
Everyone: “…”
The murderer’s expression at that time must have been wonderful.
Liu Zhaoqing didn’t know whether to cry or laugh and said, “Rhodes and Jack, one out of two, who do you think is the murderer?”
Just when everyone was discussing in a low voice, Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “It’s Rhodes.”
Yue Xingwen looked at him in doubt and said, “That footage of the child’s birthday at that time, when Rhodes and Leah saw each other at the kitchen door, it was like they didn’t know each other. We also discussed that they didn’t look like they had an affair.”
Ke Shaobin also chimed in, “Right! Didn’t Rhodes raise a mistress outside? And he also admitted frankly after he was exposed face to face, how could he suddenly kill Leah?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Look at these photos.”
He took out the photos taken through a private investigator, in which Rhodes and his mistress behaved intimately. The woman had a pair of clear, beautiful blue eyes, she was not Leah, but her facial features and temperament were seven points similar to Leah.
Xu Feixue immediately said, “By the way, we originally identified Leah as the character alluded to in the painting of <Lady with an Ermine>, and the original protagonist of that painting was the mistress of the Duke of Milan! The woman in the painting is holding the white ermine and Leah is holding the white cat, is this a hint that—— Leah is like a mistress, but not a mistress?”
Yue Xingwen’s eyes lit up. “Right! Did Rhodes find a stand-in to be his mistress?”
Jiang Pingce said, “This is a typical paranoid personality. He has been secretly in love with Leah since he was a child, and he couldn’t get her, so he found a woman similar to Leah to be his mistress. His brother Jack is different, he has easily chased Leah, a playboy like him, who doesn’t cherish the woman who is easy and to come by and get, doesn’t have any particularly strong love.”
Yue Xingwen opened up a solution and continued his analysis. “I still remember that in the wedding dinner corresponding to the painting <The Last Supper> before. Rhodes sat in the position of Jesus in the original painting, and Leah sat in the position of the traitor Judas in the original painting. At that time, we wondered if this could be a coincidence or not? Now it seems that it’s Rhodes who thinks Leah has betrayed his feelings!”
Substitution, mistress, betrayal…
The keywords in the painting all matched.
Rhodes had been secretly in love with Leah for many years and regarded Leah as his possession, but Leah ‘betrays’ him? As a result, he couldn’t bear it, killed Leah, buried the other underground, and planted the garden with black roses that symbolized ‘you are mine’.
The black roses bloomed in the moonlight, but Leah’s soul had nowhere to rest.
A large number of paintings in this villa were actually night illusions, just to restore the truth of everything.
Creepy 😵
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What a pair of absolutely horrible brothers 😒