Chapter 174: Humanity and duty
"So he was the one to suffocate that trash oldie with the pillow," Mingshen’s eyes gleamed with thrill.
Jia somberly nodded. "Yes. That’s why he put in the sleeping pills because he didn’t want Wan Guanting to resist. Coupled with the cold medicine, he was already weak so when he suffocated him that the medicine along with asphyxiation caused a cardiac arrest and he died.
But a problem arose when Chow Mey also arrived at the same time as he was in the room. So he quickly hid in the bathroom. She fainted and he took the chance to quickly escape, but he forgot to close the curtains in haste which were previously closed when the party had ended."
"So she really fainted?"
Jia didn’t answer.
"I don’t know. I cannot say if it was real or...if she knew that he was hiding in the room all along and so she pretended to faint for him to escape. I asked her two more questions - if she felt anybody’s presence and if she happened to notice the balcony. For the first one, her answer was instantaneous that she didn’t see anybody, almost as if trying to stop that line of interrogation there. As for the balcony, I am unsure if she actually saw the cable outside or she didn’t."
"I can imagine why the lover boy would want to kill him but I don’t understand why he didn’t confess immediately when his woman was arrested?" Mingshen asked.
"I think he had expected Chow Mey to get arrested because she was caught on camera. The first suspicion would naturally fall upon her. But perhaps, he was being patient. He thought that she would fight for herself and since she really didn’t kill him, it would be hard to prove the murder against her only with circumstantial evidence. She didn’t have the cold or sleeping medicine with her either to prove anything."
Her eyes flickered. "And also...he wanted to protect himself too not because he was selfish but because he killed Wan Guanting solely to free Chow Mey from him forever. He probably dreamed that after this, they would happily live forever. He wanted to spend her life with her but how will he do that if he is in jail himself? So even when she was arrested, he patiently saw first how things were going.