Chapter 43 - 2.22: A High School Nostalgia
The death of Li Yunyu, Zhou Junze’s fiancée was a huge sensation in the city. Everybody talked about it in social media and in real life. Because it was so sudden, and it was even more controversial, because Li Yunyu was killed by the popular young actor who disappeared for three years, Yang Ronghui.
After the death of Li Yunyu, Yang Ronghui turned himself in to the police and confessed everything. He confessed that he had shot Li Yunyu on the stomach twice, he did it because he was in love with Li Yunyu for so long, but Yunyu never batted an eye on him, and went with Zhou Junze instead.
He was burning in jealousy and couldn’t control his rage, that was why he killed Li Yunyu.
The confession made it to the headline, the love triangle between young actor Yang Ronghui, the honor student Li Yunyu, and the heir of Duan family Zhou Junze. It was very sensational that the showbiz decided to make a movie about it.
Yang Ronghui was originally sentenced to fifteen years in prison. But the autopsy of Li Yunyu’s body showed an unbelievable discovery, based on the autopsy, Li Yunyu was shot after fierce struggle, and the autopsy report proved that Li Yunyu’s death was purely accidental after the struggle between him and Ronghui.
It was also clearer because there were various scratches and bite marks on Ronghui’s body, Yunyu was not powerless when he was struggling.
But Ronghui insisted that he had intentionally killed Yunyu. In the end, the judge sentenced him for ten years in prison.
Ronghui accepted it, but he didn’t want to go to the jail alone. He confessed about all the underworld crimes involving his father, Zhou Jiayu.
Zhou Jiayu was already in shaky ground after Duan Biya divorced him. He was deemed to fall from his position, alongside the Zhou family.