"Lawyer Zhao, don't move. Be careful, my knife doesn't have eyes."

I was a bit flustered. Jiang Xiaoyu still hadn't arrived. I wondered if something had delayed him on the way. Wang Yu's face, lying on the ground, seemed even paler.

This was all Yang Jian's fault. He shouldn't have shown up when he did.

"Are you called Xiao Fu?"

To buy some time, I started chatting with him, "You figured it out? Looks like you've met my other two brothers?"

"Useless guys. It seems they said things they shouldn't have. For someone like Lawyer Zhao, I'm really a bit worried."

The slightly raised tone, the inflection in his voice, and the cool sensation on my neck all told me that—

Something's wrong!

Bam!

Every time Jiang Xiaoyu showed up, it would be unusual. This door seemed quite expensive.

Before Xiao Fu could react, a kick landed on his shoulder, and the blood-stained knife lay quietly on the ground.

"Sister, are you okay?"

I shook my head. I saw Xiao Fu overreacting to the word "sister". Before I could ask anything, he was already taken away by the police who came with Jiang Xiaoyu.

I always felt like I'd seen this Xiao Fu somewhere before. His expression when he called me "sister" resembled someone else, and the scene overlapped with the current one.

"Sister, sister, is your neck okay?"

Just like Jiang Xiaoyu.

The casual tone seemed to be etched in my heart.

"Sister, sister..." Jiang Xiaoyu's somewhat anxious voice reached my ears. My consciousness gradually returned, and I finally found my voice, "Just a small cut. How is Wang Yu?"

"It's also just a superficial wound. He fainted out of fear."

"Why did you come so late? Did something happen on the way?"

Jiang Xiaoyu shook his head, showing a rare contemplative look, lost in thought.

I stood up, looking carefully at Wang Yu's room. She lived on the seventh floor, with no risk of intruders entering through the window.

At that time, she was chatting with me on WeChat. There were still wet stains near the bathroom door, indicating she had taken a shower after coming home, ruling out the possibility of someone following her.

The security door was sturdy. If I hadn't intentionally left an opening for Jiang Xiaoyu, his kick might not have opened the door, and his foot would have swollen up first, ruling out forced entry.

She fell not far from the sofa but far from the door.

She didn't know Xiao Fu.

All this indicated that Xiao Fu had been hiding in Wang Yu's room long before.

But we had only met Wang Yu shortly before, and Xiao Fu already knew that Wang Yu had told me about Hao Mei, and specifically hid in her room to scare her. The speed seemed too fast.

Was it Hao Mei? Or...

Jiang Xiaoyu.

I leaned more toward the latter.

He was assisting the other police officers with collecting evidence. Although he wasn't very old, everyone in the bureau seemed to listen to him, and he was doing most of the directing.

Had I trusted Jiang Xiaoyu wrongly from the beginning...

"Lawyer Zhao, we need you to come to the station to assist with some questions."

I nodded, walked to the door, and turned back to look at the room once more.

Jiang Xiaoyu was walking towards the bedroom alone, twisting as he went, his posture quite strange.

From the moment I saw Jiang Xiaoyu today, I felt he was a bit odd. Sometimes his gaze wandered. I didn't know if it was because I was too sensitive as a lawyer or if he really had issues.

"Sister Zhao, are you okay?"

It was Du Ruoyi, who seemed to have run over in a hurry, gasping for breath and her face flushed red.

I

gently tugged at the corner of my mouth and said softly, "I'm fine."

"Your neck is bleeding. Why haven't you bandaged it first?"

"It's nothing. Let's go to the police station first."