Chapter 185 - Killing For No Reason

Chapter 185 Killing For No Reason

“She saw it?” Tang Xia immediately grabbed Song Sisi’s arm and spoke excitedly.

“What did he look like? Do you know him?”

Song Sisi looked up at Tang Xia and screamed abruptly just as Tang Xia had thought she was about to say something.

“Ah! I don’t know! I don’t know!”

Startled by her reaction, Tang Xia shuddered and jumped up instantly. Song Sisi opened her eyes wide in terror, tightly holding her head with her hands and muttering the same words again and again.

“I don’t know… I don’t really know… I know nothing about this…”

As she looked at Song Sisi, who was delirious, Tang Xia felt a little puzzled. Was she putting on an act, or had she been frightened so much because she had witnessed Fang Yan get stabbed?

This assumption had nothing to do with the hostility between them. However, she truly wondered whether Fang Yan had been stabbed by Song Sisi, which was quite possible. After all, until now, there had only been Song Sisi herself in this villa, squatting there and trembling while covered in blood.

If things had really happened as Song Sisi had told her, why hadn’t the man who had argued with Fang Yan killed both Fang Yan and Song Sisi, who had witnessed him kill a man, to protect himself from being discovered?

She did not believe that the murderer could have tender feelings for a pretty girl. A man who had killed another man would certainly lose his mind and try to conceal his crime at any cost. Why had he let go of Song Sisi?”

She kneaded her inner brows, unwilling to look at Song Sisi, who was crouching in a corner and trembling. Thus, she turned back at Ye Yifan, who also looked up at her and gestured. Tang Xia walked over to him in confusion.

After a short silence, Ye Yifan said, “Fang Yan’s dead.”

Tang Xia raised her eyebrows but remained rather calm. Ye Yifan looked at Tang Xia in bewilderment. “You don’t seem surprised at all.”

Tang Xia remained quiet for a while. Then, she squatted to examine Fang Yan’s body and spoke.

“I saw him lying still on the floor when I came in. He had bled severely, and his blood on the floor had already darkened. That was why I assumed that he was dead.”

Ye Yifan was amazed by Tang Xia’s careful observation. Moreover, he had failed to expect that a girl would act so unperturbed when exposed to such a case.

Upon seeing him gazing at her with ardent eyes that were hard for her to ignore, Tang Xia touched the corner of her lips blankly. “Is there anything on my face?”

Ye Yifan stared at her in silence for a long time. He did not remove his eyes from her until Tang Xia appeared embarrassed. “No.”

Tang Xia let out a sigh of relief. She gazed at the dagger on Fang Yan’s back and then suddenly turned to look at Ye Yifan. “Do you think it’s possible that the murderer is Song Sisi?”

Ye Yifan and Tang Xia looked back at Song Sisi in unison, only to find her still shivering in terror, looking around as if someone would approach her at any time.

“That’s impossible.”

Tang Xia, who was stunned for a moment, turned to Ye Yifan instantly. “Why are you so sure? At present, she is the only one who has been on the spot. Plus, she is covered in blood. She looks like someone who has nearly gone mad after killing a man by accident.”

Ye Yifan sighed and pointed at the knife on Fang Yan’s back. “Watch carefully.”

Tang Xia cast her eyes over his back in confusion but saw nothing but a back that had been stabbed.

Ye Yifan pointed at the knife. “Look at the angle at which the knife was stabbed into his back. Apparently, it was stabbed aslant from above.”

Tang Xia, who had not noticed that until now, clapped herself on the forehead. “Damn it! Why didn’t I notice this? If it was stabbed aslant from above, the culprit must have been a man taller than Fang Yan!”

After all, Fang Yan had fallen down by the door, and there was no such thing as a chair that Song Sisi could have stood on to kill him.

Surely, it was possible that Song Sisi might have removed that chair afterward, but who would commit murder in such a strange way and stay undiscovered?

It was less likely that Song Sisi had killed Fang Yan from a higher place and then dragged him to the door, since there was no trace of dragging. For a girl like her, it was quite impossible to walk there while holding a man in her arms.

By carefully examining his wound, she saw the blade entirely stabbed into his body, which indicated the murderer’s great strength. It couldn’t have been Song Sisi.

Tang Xia cleared her mind after close observation, entirely convinced that the murderer was a man taller than Fang Yan.

However, another question came to her. She wondered if Song Sisi really had nothing to do with this case.

She stood up abruptly and turned to look at Song Sisi, who was squatting in the corner. Ye Yifan, who was stunned by her, looked up at Tang Xia.

“What’s wrong?”

Tang Xia moved fast toward Song Sisi and pulled her off the ground instantly, leaving no time for Song Sisi to figure out what was going on.

The fact that Tang Xia had the strength to pull Song Sisi and take her to Fang Yan’s side was marvelous. Song Sisi looked down and saw Fang Yan’s body, which was covered in blood. She screamed at once.

“Ah! Blood, blood, blood!”

Tang Xia moved away Song Sisi’s hand, which covered her eyes, spinning her around all at once.

“Stop faking with me here! Look carefully! Fang Yan has been killed!”

Tang Xia felt grief instantly for Fang Yan’s death, as she knew very well how deep Fang Yan’s love for Song Sisi had been. He had always handled both daily trivial things and important matters for her meticulously.

However, Song Sisi now did not appear sorrowful for Fang Yan’s death, nor did she shed any tears. All she did was put her hands on her head and tremble.

Song Sisi was intimidated by Tang Xia’s mighty act, which was so abrupt that it also puzzled Ye Yifan. However, Tang Xia knew in her heart that she was showing her pity for Fang Yan, who had been a scumbag.

“Tell me, did you ever hook up with Fang Yan?”

She had always found their actions queer. Since things had gone like this and Song Sisi had been proved not to be the murderer, there was no need for her to keep it a secret.

Upon hearing Tang Xia’s words, Song Sisi turned her eyes around, which was obviously a sign of a guilty conscience. As she was about to keep on acting scared to muddle through, Tang Xia grabbed her arm instantly.

Song Sisi, who was stunned, tried to break away immediately. However, she failed to expect Tang Xia’s great strength and remained captured, no matter how hard she struggled.

“Fang Yan has been killed. Evading this will not benefit you.”

Song Sisi’s brow furrowed instantly. After all, she had never thought that Fang Yan would die. She had human feelings too and knew that Fang Yan had been really nice to her, although she had always been a scheming girl.

“He and I joined forces only once, when we tried to frighten you that night.”

Tang Xia sneered inwardly. Sure enough, they had been equally evil. Every time she recalled that night when she had been fooled by them and almost been framed as the one who had killed Zhang Yaoyao, Tang Xia would feel prickly.

“Then why did you try to frame me for Zhang Yaoyao’s murder?”

Tang Xia held back her anger.

Song Sisi dare not look Tang Xia into her eyes, so she looked down at her feet as she murmured.

“We just wanted to teach you a lesson. You were so arrogant because you had seized Ye Yifan from me. I asked Fang Yan for help to give you a lesson. You know, Fang Yan always listened to me. That’s why it took place that night.”

Tang Xia took a deep breath, holding back the impulse to beat her. “Then what about Zhang Yaoyao? Did you have anything to do with her death?”

Song Sisi waved her hands hastily and said, “No! No!”

Tang Xia raised her eyebrows. “Why is she so strained? Does she really bear some relation to Zhang Yaoyao’s death? Did she deny it so hastily to shirk legal responsibility because she’s become the only suspect after Fang Yan’s death?”

“Absolutely not! I bear no relation to Zhang Yaoyao’s death!”

Suddenly, Song Sisi seemed to remember something. “Oh! Yes, yes! Fang Yan gave me a box of chocolates and I shared them with everyone!”

Tang Xia was confused. Chocolates? What chocolates? She didn’t remember anyone sharing chocolates with her.

“I hated you at the time, so I didn’t share them with you.”

As she said this, she glanced at Tang Xia with disgust. Undoubtedly, Song Sisi was still very sick of her.

However, it wouldn’t make sense for the murderer to poison one of those chocolate bars.

In that case, Fang Yan wouldn’t have known which bar of chocolate had been poisoned, let alone been able to ensure that the poisoned bar of chocolate would be given to Zhang Yaoyao.

Tang Xia cast her eyes over Fang Yan’s body in confusion for a moment. What was more, Fang Yan and Zhang Yaoyao hadn’t known each other at all, nor had they even met each other before. Why would he be so eager to kill Zhang Yaoyao?

Besides, it was Dabing who had brought Zhang Yaoyao here, which made it even more impossible for him to kill her.

Could Song Sisi have poisoned the chocolate?

After all, she had come here with Zhang Yaoyao. It was quite possible for two girls to have some kind of conflict along the way. Compared to Fang Yan, Song Sisi was more likely to have killed Zhang Yaoyao. Tang Xia abruptly looked up at Song Sisi.

“Tell me. Was it you who poisoned the chocolate before giving it to Zhang Yaoyao?”

Song Sisi glared at Tang Xia like a dog when someone stepped on its tail.

“Tang Xia! I know there’s a lot of bad blood between you and me, but I suggest that you calm down when dealing with such a matter. Clear your mind and stop trying to blame me for everything!”

Tang Xia, who was startled by Song Sisi’s growl, looked up at her blankly. Was her mind really misguided by her prejudice?

She thought for a while with her head down. That seemed to be true. Song Sisi had mentioned that she hadn’t given a bar of chocolate to her due to her discontent with Tang Xia.

If she were really to poison someone, she would have killed her first instead of Zhang Yaoyao.

At this point, Ye Yifan stood up suddenly and said, “What if he’s killing people for no reason?”