Chapter 122 Over Before It Even Began

At 2 AM, a group of criminal police officers arrived at the Ye residence. After presenting their arrest and search warrants, they handcuffed the half-drunk, half-awake Yongsheng Ye. The team was led by the beautiful deputy captain of the criminal police team, Chu Muhan. "Yongsheng Ye, based on our investigation, we preliminarily suspect that you are involved in the shooting case last night. Please cooperate!"

Yongsheng Ye looked surprised, kneeling on the ground with two police officers holding him down. He tilted his head and asked, "Are you mistaken?! What shooting case?"

Chu Muhan instructed her team to "search" and then looked at Yongsheng Ye, speaking sternly, "Ye, you're a smart man. Since I have both warrants, you should be able to guess that we already have enough evidence. Be honest. Tell me, did you kill Liu Sisi?"

"Sisi? She's dead?!" Yongsheng Ye's pupils constricted suddenly, his expression one of astonishment, as if he couldn't believe his ears. Chu Muhan snorted coldly, "Where were you between 10 and 11 PM last night?"

"I..." Yongsheng Ye hesitated. He couldn't mention going to the Red House, otherwise, the police would investigate, and according to the Red House's rules, not only would his membership card be canceled, but the enigmatic owner of the Red House might also directly eliminate him.

"Answer me! Are you mute?!" Chu Muhan said impatiently, "Yongsheng Ye, I'm giving you a chance to be honest. You better come clean!"

Yongsheng Ye's mind raced. How did Liu Sisi die? And why was it connected to him?

Chu Zhijing! It must be that old fox!

"Officer, you should have seen the news today, right? My wife Liu Sisi was with her old lover, haha... I had already separated from her in name only a long time ago. She can do whatever she wants; after all, it was a secret marriage, so it doesn't tarnish my reputation! As for why she died..."

At this point, Yongsheng Ye's gaze took on a hint of mockery. Knowing that this iron lady from the criminal police team was the eldest daughter of the Chu family's third branch, he said, "You should ask your father."

Chu Muhan replied coolly, "No need. It was Chu Zhijing who reported the case! I also checked him; he has an alibi."

Yongsheng Ye frowned. Although he didn't know exactly what was happening, he had a vague sense of a deliberate scheme.

At that moment, an officer came out of the study room, holding a gun. "Captain, we found a gun! A 9mm caliber, matching the bullet found at the crime scene. It is suspected to be the weapon used in the murder!"

Yongsheng Ye was immediately dumbfounded! The Ye Group secretly engaged in many illegal activities, so he never kept firearms at home, fearing that an accidental discovery could lead to trouble. Where did this gun come from?

Suddenly, he noticed that the gun seemed familiar. Although he wasn't familiar with firearms and didn't recognize this Italian-made "Beretta Storm," he remembered it well because of its distinctive design. This gun was the one Chu Zhijing had given him at the Red House!

How did it end up in his house?!

After a moment of shock, the dreamer who had been fantasizing about roasting Chu Yuxuan and braising Chu Zhijing came to his senses—he had been set up by Chu Zhijing!

Chu Muhan waved her hand decisively, "Take him away!"

After arriving at the police station, the beautiful police captain selected the most trusted officer from her team and instructed him to take the gun to the technical department, ensuring he stayed by its side until the identification report was completed. Meanwhile, she personally interrogated Yongsheng Ye.

The reason for this was that Yongsheng Ye had extensive connections. She did not want any evidence to be tampered with, leading to an inability to convict him. Such incidents had happened before in the police force.

In the interrogation room, Chu Muhan no longer wasted time and directly presented all the evidence and witness testimonies she had gathered.

"This is Chu Zhijing's statement. At 12:05 AM, he went to the villa where he had a meeting with your wife and found her shot dead. He reported it to the police immediately... The forensic examination initially determined that your wife's time of death was between 10 and 11 PM... We found several surveillance cameras near the crime scene, and upon review, your car was seen in the area at 10:20 PM."

"This is your chauffeur's testimony. He was arrested at the police station half an hour ago. According to him, you had him pick you up at 9 PM last night and then took you to the crime scene. After arriving, you angrily got out of the car with a gun and came back ten minutes later."

"Yongsheng Ye, be honest. The gun's identification will be done soon, so don't harbor any illusions!"

Upon hearing this, Yongsheng Ye couldn't help but smile wryly. In fact, he knew without waiting for the identification results that the bullet that killed Liu Sisi must have come from that gun, and his fingerprints were on it.

When Chu Zhijing drew the gun at the Red House, Yongsheng Ye thought it was strange. He initially thought it was just a moment of panic, but it turned out to be a cunning plot!

What surprised him even more was that his chauffeur had betrayed him!

He had spent money and connections, preparing to engage in a fierce battle with this rival, only to be simply lured into a trap by using just a chauffeur and a woman, with the charge of gun-related murder pinned on him!

Moreover, with his wife's infidelity, his motive for murder was quite evident!

From a certain perspective, Chu Zhijing was truly unscrupulous...

What made Yongsheng Ye the angriest was that he was at the Red House, a place he absolutely could not mention to the police! Therefore, he couldn't provide any alibi.

Even if he confessed to the police that he was at the Red House, there were no surveillance cameras there, and who could vouch for him? The two old bosses, Cao and Tan? Is that even possible?

If he implicated those two, even in the criminal police team, there would be a hundred ways for him to die.

This was a dead end, and there was no way out...

In fact, Chu Muhan also found the case somewhat strange—it went too smoothly, as if someone had meticulously laid out the evidence, just waiting for them to find it.

The police knew Yongsheng Ye very well; he often engaged in illegal activities, but they had always been unable to find evidence to catch him. Now, this shooting case was full of holes, and it didn't look like something he would do. She asked again, "Where exactly were you between 10 and 11 PM last night?"

Yongsheng Ye looked grim, slowly closed his eyes, and asked to see his lawyer.

Given the circumstances, prison was a certainty. Setting aside other matters, just the gun charge alone was enough to put him away.

The grand blueprint of his dreams had ended abruptly before it even began...

Soon, the technical department's identification report came out—ironclad evidence.

After the interrogation, Chu Muhan returned to her office, sitting in her chair and rubbing her temples.

She then set the case aside for the moment and casually took out a notebook from her drawer, flipping through it carefully.

The notebook was densely packed with detailed records of two recent major criminal cases in Jiangcheng—the MJ Bar gang shootout and the old mine's black market dealings.

There was also a note that read, "Man with Russian tattoos on his arm, Su Dong," with an arrow pointing to a name—Chu Yuxuan.

Recently, she had been investigating these matters.