Chapter 55: The devil is in the detail
Mingshen tilted his head, mused with her confidence. "I don’t understand, Spicy. How will I know anything? I am not a fortune teller."
Jia smiled. "Of course not. You are not a fortune teller. But you are a master manipulator for sure. The first day of the investigation when Xiyang left Yun to your care...Yun had spilled out everything to you of what he saw, didn’t he? He caught Ma Zhilan killing Dai Yaling.
He might have not understood what was really happening, but he clearly saw her struggling. Ma Zhilan urged him to keep quiet. But he still called out Yin Xiaoling and then Dai Fengge to bring their attention. As someone who wanted her dead themselves, they didn’t pay him any heed."
Mingshen arched his brow. "Is that so? That doesn’t have anything to do with me though."
"You do. You looked after Yun for sometime and when you returned, Yun exposed Dai Fengge and Yin Xiaoling for ignoring his calls."
Her sharp hawk-like gaze never left him for a moment. "But strangely, he didn’t call out Ma Zhilan as the culprit. And this is BEFORE he talked to Ma Zhilan and Dai Meihui about it. Why would he lie then? I always felt odd that he saw Dai Yaling suffering but not the one attacking her at such a close distance. He is the first-hand witness, but he didn’t come forward with the truth. You told him not to, didn’t you?"
"I did no such thing~"
Jia continued despite his denial. "You, Yun and Ma Zhilan were together outside the theater when Huojin and I were questioning Dai Fengge and Yin Xiaoling for the second time. Ma Zhilan must have told you the whole story then. How they met, how they planned it and their reasons behind it too. Ma Zhilan most probably didn’t want to take the risk of calling Dai Meihui when the police were around. So you called her and gave your phone to Yun. The very call you charged Dai Fengge 375 Yuan for."
He simply chuckled.