He Was Shining With The Stars Chapter 42: The Suspec

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Translator: Léon
Li Haina lay there motionlessly in an appalling state.

The scene staggered him, making his blood pressure rise instantly. He nearly fainted.

He approached one of his trembling hands to the tip of Li's nose, kept it there for a long time, but he still could not feel a breath.

He felt hard to breathe and almost pa.s.sed away following her daughter under immense anguish.

He was widowed for many years, and had only this precious daughter left, so he tried the best he could to pamper her and satisfy her every need. She meant everything to him.

But now …

Li Dakai clenched his fists, with his face even paler than a dead man.

He looked up and glared at Ye s.h.i.+wei, who was covered with blood all over, with infinite flames of anger in his eyes. He'd rather hack her to death right now.

“Ye s.h.i.+wei! You killed my daughter!”

Dumbfounded, Ye stood up and retorted desperately.

“No, I didn't! She was already dead when I woke up! It has nothing to do with me!”

Li Dakai approached Ye threateningly step by step. With bloodshot eyes, he was wholly engulfed by endless hatred at the moment.

“There's only you in the whole room. How could it not be you? Ye s.h.i.+wei, I've never expected you are so cruel! Even if my daughter did something wrong to you, you can't kill her! I only have this one daughter. You need to pay for this!”

As saying, Li Dakai went crazy and grabbed Ye by her neck and pressed her against the sofa. Gradually, Ye's face turned pale.

Soon, there was only outward breath and no more inward breath.

The weaker she was, the more pleasant he felt. Now that he had lost his daughter, he feared nothing more. As long as he could get revenge for his daughter, he would resort to any means!

Ye struggled desperately until she could no longer lift her arms and lay helplessly onto the sofa.

She remembered vaguely figures of policemen bursting into the room before she totally pa.s.sed out.

Who … called the police?

Was it the murderer, or …

With full of doubts and confusion in mind, Ye finally lost her consciousness and fell into a coma.

When she woke up, she was already lying on a sickbed and was put on a drip. The slightest movement could give her the pain all over her body.

The first thing she did when she woke up was to look around for the person she terribly hoped to see at the moment. But she was let down.

There was only policemen around, who were dressed in cold uniforms and were guarding her as if she were a prisoner.

Ye managed to sit up with difficulty, and the policeman waiting by the door came in swiftly with a pen and paper after hearing the noise.

“Miss Ye, you are awake.”

He said evenly.

Ye looked behind him with desperate hope.

“My ... unc …” After a second thought, she said instead, “Where is Mu Tingchen? He is my guardian. I want to talk to Mu Tingchen!”

“Miss Ye, you are now suspected of being involved in an attempted murder case and do not have the right to communicate with the outside world. By the way, you have reached the age of 18 and do not need the consent of your guardian.”

“I don't …”

In the face of queries from the police, Ye couldn't help getting nervous, “It really wasn't me! Please believe in me!”

“But according to the evidence acc.u.mulated at the scene, there are only fingerprints of Li Dakai, their servant and you in the villa of Family Li, and the other two both have alibis. The most important thing is that your fingerprints are on the murder weapon. In other words, you are under highest suspicion at present.”

Hearing what the police had said, Ye fell into great panic and fear.

“I … How could …” She looked blankly at her own hands and couldn't believe it. “I clearly haven't touched the knife. I've definitely not …”

After mumbling for a while, she suddenly looked up with full of confidence in her eyes.

“It must be a set-up! Someone must have set me up on purpose! It's got to be like this!”

But she didn't understand why anybody would frame her so maliciously while she had already been reduced to such a miserable state that even Li Haina didn't bother to continue to harm her!?

“Miss Ye, please don't get too emotional. According to the current investigation, there's no evidence of a third person at the scene. But if you are really innocent, please cooperate with our investigation and tell us what happened exactly that night to help us find out the real murderer. We'll do justice to you.”

“Ok.”

“Why were you at the home of the dead person Li Haina on the day of the murder?”

“She said she had a clue about my father's disappearance and asked me to go to her house.”

“Has she told you what it is?”

Ye shook her head.

“Well, what have you done after you went to her house?”

“We drank, she said …” Ye hesitated for a moment and decided to retell Li Haina's words in a euphemistic way, “She told me to drink with her, and she would tell me what it was when she was happy.”

“So did you know it later?”

Ye shook her head again.

“Before she could say it, we were all drunk and unconscious.”

“Ok, that's all I have to ask so far.” The policeman stood up and said, “If you recall up anything special, you can come to me at any time.”

“I think her death must have something to do with the clue she was about to tell me!”

“What makes you think so?”

“Because she said she didn't know the secret until recently, and now that she was killed just when she was about to tell me the secret. It won't be a coincidence! It must have something to do with it!”

The policeman suddenly asked after thinking for a while, “Is it possible that you killed her after knowing the secret because you don't want others to know it?”