Chapter 703: Chapter 690: Capturing the Murderer
Su Xuan found the thugs who had beaten Li Chengcheng to death and sent their data to the policewoman, Feng Shanshan. Su Xuan also wanted to take advantage of the situation to collect a reward for providing the clues.
“I can only give you five hundred at most,” Feng Shanshan said. Su Xuan, in a fit of anger, flicked Feng Shanshan’s whatever-it-is. Enraged, Feng Shanshan yelled at Su Xuan, saying that if Su Xuan could walk out of the police station, she would admit defeat.
With a forced smile, Su Xuan said, “You’ve already lost.” When Su Xuan left, Feng Shanshan stood up from her chair to chase after him, only to find that, at some point, a pair of handcuffs had been fastened around her wrist. There were many spare handcuffs in the room, and somehow Su Xuan had pilfered one and cuffed her with it.
“Su Xuan, you’re nothing but a despicable, shameless rogue!”
Feng Shanshan screamed, growing more and more disgusted with Su Xuan’s rogue behavior, holding the clue in her hand, thinking what’s so great about it. Even without his help, she would be able to find it herself!
Feng Shanshan, fuming, was released from the chair where she sat, deciding from then on to treat Su Xuan as a stranger; if she saw him, she would look the other way.
“Hey, Sister Shan, what’s this?”
The newcomer, Wang, said to Feng Shanshan, holding a piece of data in his hand—it was the data Su Xuan was supposed to provide.
“Where did you get this?”
Feng Shanshan asked with her bright, clear eyes. She didn’t believe for a second that Su Xuan had left it on purpose.
“It was on the table by the door.”
“Oh, okay, I got it. You can go out.”
After Wang left, Policewoman Feng Shanshan immediately ran to her computer because it had surveillance footage of the room. She rewound the footage again and again until she got back to the moment when Su Xuan left.
“This must have been dropped by Su Xuan accidentally.”
Feng Shanshan reassured herself internally, but what she saw Su Xuan doing in the footage left her stunned.
“Su Xuan… he actually left it here on purpose.” Feng Shanshan watched as, in the surveillance footage, Su Xuan left, not forgetting to give a slight smile towards the camera at the end!
All tact and cunning, so you dare play tricks on me, Su Xuan.
Feng Shanshan held the data Su Xuan had brought, and although obtaining it had been a somewhat arduous process, she had gotten it in the end.
“Wang, come in. Get these people arrested immediately; I want to interrogate them myself!”
Feng Shanshan handed the data over to her capable subordinates. It seemed promising for solving the case—currently on her probationary period, if she could elegantly crack the case at this time, she would definitely gain respect.
Su Xuan, having looked at the data on the thugs, discovered that among them was a person from Wang Fangqian’s casino. From this, he inferred that Wang Fangqian was implicated in the matter. Theoretically, the casino’s people ought to know the relationship between Li Chengcheng and Su Xuan because the first time he went there was with him. Knowing this, those from the casino should have thought twice before acting and not resorted to such excessive violence.
Now that Li Chengcheng was dead, there could only be one result: someone wanted him dead; it wasn’t as simple as Li Chengcheng not repaying his debts.
Indeed, at that moment, Wang Fangqian was having a meeting with several managers from his casino in his villa, sipping red wine and saying, “Our casino’s performance has declined in the past few months. You must not slack off.”
One of them responded, “It’s not entirely our fault. Dasanyuan casino is opening more and more branches, and they’re offering lower profit margins. Many of our regulars have gone to their establishment.”
“What are you trying to say, that you’re incapable? Do I need to teach you this? They dare to push us , and you don’t know how to send people to stir up trouble in their place? Are all the people we pay useless?” Wang Fangqian angrily declared, hating to hear the blame being passed around like a hot potato.
“By the way, President Wang, there’s something else: Li Chengcheng, who was beaten to death last night, seemed to have a connection with Su Xuan.”
Wang Fangqian leaned back on the sofa with force and said, “I knew about the connection long ago, otherwise I wouldn’t have had him killed. I want to let Su Xuan know that no one close to him is going to end up well.”
Wang Fangqian was informed that Li Chengcheng had entered his casino and run up a debt of three million. So, Wang Fangqian set a trap for Li Chengcheng to dig himself deeper, eventually taking him to a deserted place for a beating. The plan was to put him in intensive care, but his body couldn’t take the beating, and he died shortly after—a death deemed as destined.
Wang Fangqian could not be bothered about the life or death of such a minor figure. If people came asking questions, he would just say it was a dispute between his men and Li Chengcheng; it would be easy to find someone to take the fall, give a few million to the person’s family, and there would still be plenty of people vying for the opportunity.
“Forget about last night’s incident; it’s a minor thing, let’s not talk about it anymore,” Wang Fangqian said with a wave of his hand, signaling for them to focus more on the business of the casino.
Policewoman Feng Shanshan, holding the data provided by Su Xuan, began arresting people one by one. However, after working all night, they only caught two. There were six people listed on the data, and all of them knew it was going to be turbulent and had gone into hiding.
There’s no wall in the world that doesn’t have cracks; Su Xuan was much more efficient than Feng Shanshan. At midnight, Su Xuan drove up and dropped the remaining four people at the police station entrance, all bound tight. When Su Xuan did a good deed, he naturally left a name.
He left Feng Shanshan’s name, with a note saying “With compliments, from Feng Shanshan.”
Looking at the elegant and free handwriting, Feng Shanshan knew it was a favor sent her way.