In the monitoring room, Tong Rui's mobile phone vibrate, he took out his mobile phone, and it was a colleague from the hospital calling.

Tong Rui answered, only said "I know", and hung up the phone.

Tong Beibei on the side couldn't help but take a step back, she knew her brother Tong Rui, and she could hear Tong Rui's tone of voice saying what these three words meant. She knew that the news from the hospital was: Jenny Qiu, oh no, she should have called her Ou Xiaoxue, in short, Snow White - dead.

Ma Jin opened the door of the interrogation room and motioned for his men to take Zhong Qi down to detention. Zhong Qi was weak, and was driven up by two police officers. As soon as he stood up, he asked the question again, "How is Xiaoxue?" ”

No one answered him, Zhong Qi's gaze swept over the faces of the people in front of him one by one, until he saw Tong Beibei. Tong Beibei didn't dare to look at Zhong Qi, and immediately turned her head, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Zhong Qi seemed to have gotten the answer, he suddenly broke free from the police officers on both sides like crazy, and rushed towards the door, "I'm going to see Xiaoxue, I want to see Xiaoxue!" Let me give her a ride, please! ”

Peng Bo looked at the crazy Zhong Qi coldly, and then at Ma Jin with a sad face, he didn't expect that Ma Jin would agree.

Ma Jin, the captain, was unexpectedly unexpected, and it was this surprise that made Peng Bo inexplicably feel a little more good about him.

The group went to the hospital. Peng Bo and Tong Beibei followed behind the police car in Lu Xiaohu's car.

Ou Xiaoxue, that is, Qiu Zhenni's body, lay flat on the hospital bed, covered with a white cloth.

Under the gaze of everyone, Zhong Qi slowly approached step by step, and walked from the door to the front of the hospital bed, which was like a mountain of knives and a sea of fire that was difficult for him to cross.

Finally, Zhong Qi walked to the bed and lifted the white cloth tremblingly with his handcuffed hands.

"Xiaoxue," Zhong Qi called softly in his throat, "I've come to see you." I'm sorry, I can't get what you wanted, I can't believe you didn't love me. I know, we love each other, I always knew that. ”

Ma Jin stepped forward and grabbed Zhong Qi's arm, "Okay, you've seen it, let's go." ”

"Wait a minute," Zhong Qi broke free of Ma Jin's hand, "give me another half minute." ”

After speaking, Zhong Qi slowly leaned over, put his face in front of Ou Xiaoxue, held Ou Xiaoxue's pale face with his handcuffed hands, and kissed her lips deeply. Tears slipped down Zhong Qi's face and fell on Ou Xiaoxue's cheeks and lips.

After nearly half a minute of long kisses, Zhong Qi was completely immersed in it, as if there were only him and his lover in this world.

Tong Beibei stood at the door, covering her mouth to prevent herself from crying. She thought that this kiss was the kiss of the prince, the kiss that the prince had given after Snow White died.

At the entrance of the hospital, after watching the police car drive away, Peng Bo said goodbye to Lu Xiaohu and Tong Beibei. He first said to Lu Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, the case is over, my work is complete, and your task is also completed, goodbye." ”

Lu Xiaohu was a little overwhelmed and a little reluctant, "I'd better send the two of you home first." ”

Peng Bo looked at Tong Beibei, "Then you can send her home, and I will be exempted." ”

Tong Beibei saw that Peng Bo was leaving, and she was even more reluctant than Lu Xiaohu, "Peng Bo, do you want to go home?" Where do you live? ”

Peng Bo didn't look back, raised one hand, as if saying goodbye to the two of them, the other hand was already stretched out to his pocket, he took out his mobile phone again, and began to be his bowed head.

Tong Beibei returned to a person's home, first called Tong Rui, and asked what kind of punishment Zhong Qi might receive, and how his accomplice would be sentenced, Tong Rui did not give any answer, after all, he couldn't say it well. He just told Tong Beibei to take care of his body at home, and he would still work overtime in the past few days to finish the case.

It was already three o'clock in the morning, but Tong Beibei couldn't sleep, and her heart couldn't calm down for a long time. In this series of cases, even though the revenge story made her feel uneasy, she was more concerned about Ou Xiaoxue's dying words, whether it was true that she had never loved Zhong Qi.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Tong Beibei, who had not closed her eyes for almost a night, finally decided to ask Peng Bo about this question. With a glimmer of hope, she dialed Peng Bo's phone.

Peng Bo quickly answered the phone, "What's the matter?" ”

Tong Beibei got straight to the point, "Peng Bo, you say, did Ou Xiaoxue ever love Zhong Qi?" Was she really just taking advantage of him? ”

Peng Bo didn't show surprise at Tong Beibei's question, hesitated, and said lightly: "The probability of falling in love is relatively high, after all, the deaths of Tian Zheng and Qiu Qingfeng were both done by Ou Xiaoxue himself, and when these two people died, Zhong Qi had an alibi." This is likely to be deliberately arranged by Ou Xiaoxue. But the charge of Zhong Qi's accomplice cannot be washed away. Their love is deformed and perverted, but reluctantly, it can also be called love. ”

Tong Beibei retorted disappreciatively, "Do you think that all the love in this world is pure and beautiful? In the fairy tale, the prince's love for Snow White is also deformed and perverted, he just looked at Snow White's corpse and fell in love with her, the prince fell in love with a corpse and kissed the corpse. Doesn't this stay amorphous? It's not a fairy tale that has become a household name. ”

Peng Bo paused, compromised and said, "Okay, I admit it, love this thing, it's like a fairy tale to me, I'm a layman." If nothing else, I'm going to hang up. ”

"Don't don't, there's something," Tong Beibei hurriedly stopped, "Since Qiu Qingfeng is dead, and Ou Xiaoxue is also dead, can I write the truth into an article and publish it?" ”

Peng Bo sighed, "Qiu Qingfeng is dead, but Wang Chenxin is not dead. Don't forget, Wang Chenxin, a profitable fisherman, is now the sole heir of the Qiu family's inheritance. If you break out the scandal of the Qiu family and cause any losses to Qiu Qingfeng's company, Wang Chenxin will not let you go. And you once promised me not to write about the Qiu family's case, have you forgotten? ”

Tong Beibei immediately said loudly, "Of course I haven't forgotten." But I just promised you not to publish it, I'll write it out and see it for myself, and it's always okay for you, an insider, to see it, right? ”

"I'm not interested," Peng Bo refused mercilessly, "I'll hang up on nothing else." ”

"Don't don't, there's something, there's something! You said you wanted me to do an interview assignment last time, didn't you? I've been out of news lately, so I'm always available. Tong Beibei had already planned the content of the conversation with Peng Bo before the phone call, and the last part was this stubble.

"Since you can at any time, I'll let you know when the time comes. Good bye. After speaking, Peng Bo hung up the phone.

Tong Beibei was stunned, and she and Peng Bo parted ways? Are they two straight lines in different directions with only one point of intersection? Tong Beibei was unwilling, unwilling to let Peng Bo approach him so easily, and pass by so easily.

But what could she do? Put down your hair and call Peng Bo every day and have nothing to say? She couldn't.

A day passed, Tong Beibei returned to her previous life and returned to work in the magazine.

Before that, she hadn't been to work for a whole week, and like her, her colleague Bai Zhongwen, a kind old man in his fifties, hadn't come to work for a week.

Tong Beibei and Bai Zhongwen are the heads of the "Deep Crime" column of "City Vientiane" magazine, and the section of this column has shrunk again and again in the past year, and now it has only one page left.

What the editor-in-chief means is that if this issue can't bring the column back to life, the column will be canceled. Bai Zhongwen and Tong Beibei, the two chicken rib employees whose contracts are about to expire, cannot renew their contracts, so they can only roll up and leave.

Tong Beibei doesn't care, there is no place to keep people here, she is still young, she has time and momentum, but Lao Bai Zhongwen is not good, he is a lonely old man, he has never been married in his life, he has no children, he only has such a job.

Tong Beibei didn't want Bai Zhongwen to be fired when he was a lot older, so the two of them had to make a desperate bet and fight for this last chance. It is precisely because of this that she will venture into the villa area to take pictures secretly, and the news she wants to dig up is the secret of the local tyrants, and this kind of subject has a good chance of success.

Tong Beibei failed, although she dug up the scandal of the wealthy family, but she couldn't publish it, firstly, she didn't want to be the target of the wealthy family, and more importantly, she didn't want to break her promise with Peng Bo.

So she decided to finish the article titled "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins" by herself, and then only show it to Peng Bo alone, and never publish it.

"Lao Bai," Tong Beibei saw Bai Zhongwen again, patted him on the shoulder, and asked expectantly, "How is it?" Did you dig up the big news? ”

Bai Zhongwen turned the swivel chair and faced Tong Beibei with a bitter expression, "Beibei, you also know that there are any big cases in Haibin City recently?" I originally wanted to dig up the old case in Seaside City and reheat it, but unfortunately, it failed. ”

"What old case?" Although Tong Beibei asked so, he thought of a case, if there was any old case in Haibin City that had caused a sensation in the whole city, then there was only the "Dungeon Prisoner" case fifteen years ago.

Lao Bai gave the answer, what he wanted to re-excavate was the "Dungeon Prisoner" case fifteen years ago.

Of course, Tong Beibei knew about that case, and the aborigines of Haibin City, including outsiders, had not heard of this bad case back then.

Fifteen years ago, the rich second person in Seaside City, known as the "Prince of Moonlight", was once the idol of the girls in the city, he was handsome, talented, and born with a golden spoon in his background, he undoubtedly became a dream lover-like figure, and his influence was no less than an idol superstar for the women of Seaside City.

And the reason why Xie Zhen is called the "Prince of Moonlight" is of course not because he is a moonlight clan and a loser, but because of his moonlight-like and gentle temperament, as well as the villa he designed and built on Xiucui Mountain.

Xie Zhen has a villa on Xiucui Mountain in the suburbs, called "Moonlight Villa", which was designed by Xie Zhen, a future architect who was still studying overseas at the age of eighteen, and Xie Zhen's father funded the construction of this villa as a birthday gift for Xie Zhen when he was eighteen years old.

The construction of the villa began when Xie Zhen was eighteen years old and was completed when Xie Zhen was twenty years old. The appearance of the Moonlight Villa resembles a European castle, romantic and luxurious, and it is the most gorgeous in the moonlight night, like a fairyland, so it was named Moonlight Villa by Xie Zhen himself.

For the majority of women in the seaside city, the Moonlight Villa has the same attraction as Xie Zhen, the prince. Even Tong Beibei, who was only nine years old at the time, after reading so many fairy tales of the princess and prince, fantasized that she could perform a romantic Cinderella story in reality, marry the moonlight prince Xie Zhen, become the hostess of the moonlight villa, and live a happy life with the prince in that dreamy castle.

However, Tong Beibei's dream was shattered. The dungeon prisoner case broke out, and the basement of the Moonlight Villa was found to contain the mutilated bodies of eight young girls, and the death of the eight girls spanned a month.

The police deduced that in the past month, eight girls were taken to the villa in turn, imprisoned in the basement, and tortured to death by the murderous murderer.

What's more, according to various indications at the time, the moonlight prince Xie Zhen was the only suspect, and he escaped after being released on bail. Xie Zhen's escape became a fear of crime and absconding, which showed that the police's suspicion was correct, and Xie Zhen, the moonlight prince who was ruined by the gold and jade, also changed his title, and people called him "Butcher Prince".

This is a special case, a pain in the pain of the whole city back then. For Tong Beibei, it was also a disaster that shattered her dreams.

Tong Beibei thought that Lao Bai's direction was right, and if this case was heated up again, it would definitely not be cold, after all, strictly speaking, this case is not over, because the whereabouts of the butcher prince are still unknown, and the tragic deaths of the eight girls have not yet been explained.

But how does Lao Bai want to reheat this case? After fifteen years, is there any breakthrough now? If there are no new clues and breakthroughs, just old things are brought up again, I am afraid that there will be nothing good except to tear open the old wounds of the city and cause the families of the eight girls to be angry and sad.