Three months later.

Monday, December 22nd.

At seven o'clock in the morning, it was still dark. The building opposite the window has long since disappeared, and Ye Xiao rarely put on a police uniform with a fur collar, and specially asked someone to iron it yesterday. He looked at himself in the mirror and spotted a stalk of gray hair on his sideburns.

The corners of his mouth rose slightly—the white hair made the man even more tasteful.

Pack up and go out and come to the Intermediate People's Court of this city. Today, two major criminal cases were tried in the first instance, both of which were prosecuted for intentional homicide.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the case of Lu Zhongyue being killed by his own son opened. Ye Xiao, as the police officer investigating the case, sat in the first row of the auditorium. The suspect, Lu Jizong, is over 18 years old, and his defense lawyer believes that he did not constitute intentional homicide, but caused death by negligence. The reason is that this teenager has been addicted to the virtual world of the Internet since he was a child, and he met his biological father for the first time, and under the strong emotional fluctuations, it led to this tragedy of killing his father.

In the afternoon, it was the turn of He Qingying's intentional homicide case to be heard. In the indictment of the procuratorate, she killed Lu Jingnan on Anxilu in 1983 and Shen Ming on Nanming Road in 1995. The police determined that she had voluntarily surrendered, which all came from Ye Xiao's investigation report.

Ye Xiao sat in the corner of the last row, carefully observing the people who came to the scene, and sure enough, he saw Si Mingyuan, and today's defense lawyer was hired by him. There was also Shen Yuanchao in the auditorium, and the sixty-four-year-old man sat in the front row, looking at He Qingying in the dock with a silent face.

The woman's expression was quite calm, her hair was cut short, and she calmly faced the judge and prosecutor.

However, it seems that he did not see Si Wang's face.

Where did he go?

During the lengthy trial, the defense lawyer produced a letter of understanding signed by retired prosecutor Shen Yuanchao, who had previously been recognized by both the police and the court as the only immediate family member of the victim's claim.

The lawyer read the letter of understanding in court, and Shen Yuanchao completely forgave He Qingying for killing his son, and begged the court to give her a lenient sentence, and finally said a few words like this-

I am a selfish prosecutor, a man who does not deserve to be called a father.

The real murderer is not He Qingying, but me.

If you have to sentence someone to death, please sentence me.

For my children, and for her children.