"Name?"

"Liu Hui."

"Age?"

"28 years old."

"Origin?"

"Kaifeng, Henan."

"How long have you been in S City?"

"A year or two."

"A year or two years? To be precise. ”

"I don't remember."

"Think again."

"I don't remember! Officer, why did you pull me out of bed so early in the morning? ”

When Jiang Jian heard this, he motioned to the recorder next to him to stop for a moment, then picked up a stack of photos in his hand, got up and walked to Liu Hui, whose hands were cuffed, leaned over, looked directly at the latter, and took those photos one by one on the small table in front of him. His strength was sonorous and powerful, just right, like a claw hammer hitting the nail head accurately, shaking Liu Hui's body and shaking his eyes.

Those were all photos taken from the scene of Gu Xinyue's murder.

Dirty, miserable, horrible, disgusting.

Liu Hui exhaled heavily, leaned back, and tried not to look at the photos. In Jiang Jian's opinion, the behavior and expression of this young man in his twenties at the moment have said it all. He let the photos continue to spread out bloodily in front of Liu Hui, turned back to his place, sat down, and motioned for the recorder to continue to start.

"Officer, I already said last time, I don't know Gu Xinyue well, it's just an ordinary classmate relationship......"

"According to what we have." Jiang Jian didn't want to listen to this guy continue to talk nonsense at all. He opened the folder in front of him and began to read, "You came to this city on March 17, 2020. You were on a T-shaped train and stayed at a small hotel next to the station for three days. Three days later, you joined a seafood restaurant and started working as a waiter, but after less than two months, you quit and your whereabouts are unknown. Then after five months, your name appears on the list of employees of a real estate middle-class company, a job that you have been doing for a long time, almost a year and three months. It was during this period that you and Gu Xinyue met by chance, and then developed into a romantic relationship...... Don't interrupt me just yet, let me finish. In October 2021, you rented a house in the old city under the name of Gu Xinyue and started living together. Until the beginning of this year, you changed jobs again, that is, the delivery person you are currently working as a fresh food supermarket. From the day you started, you moved into the company's dormitory, and the old city house was also surrendered, while Duan Gu Xinyue rented a two-bedroom apartment near the school. That is, since then, it seems that you have never been in a relationship again. Why did you break up? ”

"I don't know what you're talking about. Gu Xinyue and I ......"

"One day in March this year, someone witnessed you and Gu Xinyue eating at a hot pot restaurant. At that time, you had a fierce quarrel, and in the process, you picked up the hot pot and prepared to splash ...... on Gu Xinyue's face."

"Say no more!" Liu Hui finally lost control of his emotions, and his handcuffed hands slammed the table, making a loud noise. Seeing this, the armed police officer standing in the corner was about to step forward, but Jiang Jian raised his hand to stop him. Experience has taught him that it is best not to interrupt the suspect's expression at this time.

Sure enough, Liu Hui collapsed, looking at the photos of the tragic corpses in front of him and crying silently.

"I, I'm sorry for the new moon, I'm sorry for ......"

Jiang Jian took out a pack of napkins from his pocket—as a master interrogator, he always kept a pack of napkins in his pocket, usually prepared for the moment—and pulled out two, walked over, and handed them to Liu Hui.

The latter took it unceremoniously and wiped away his tears and snot. Jiang Jian put away the photo, sat down again, folded his arms around his chest, leaned back, and posed as a victor.

He was quite pleased with the results of his interrogation technique.

After a while, Liu Hui spoke again.

"I killed the crescent moon."

"Come on, explain the whole process. Remember, any one lie could affect the sentence you face next. ”

"The new moon is the one I love the most." Liu Hui didn't seem to hear Jiang Jian's warning, and said to himself. "When I was an intermediary, because I couldn't complete the task, I was either excluded and ridiculed by the store manager and colleagues, or I was pried by the peers next door, and I was very depressed, and I wanted to give up many times and flee the city. But because of the new moon, I gritted my teeth and persevered. ”

"Because of her? Were you together at that time? ”

"Nope. But I came to this city for her. ”

Liu Hui pondered for a while and began to tell his story.

He fell in love with Gu Xinyue when he was at the same table with her in junior high school.

But at that time, she was the class president and a member of the literary and art committee, and she was just an ordinary scumbag in all aspects, and her deep inferiority complex made him not even dare to say a few words to her.

After junior high school, Gu Xinyue was admitted to a local key high school, while he went to a computer technology secondary school, and the two never met again.

Ten years later, when Liu Hui met a former junior high school classmate in his family's copy shop, he heard Gu Xinyue's name and news again.

After graduating from the art academy of the goddess I once had a crush, I went to S City and worked as a dance teacher at a local private school.

That night, he was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and the scene when he was at the same table with Gu Xinyue in junior high school flashed in front of him like a slideshow.

His nasal cavity seemed to be filled with the scent of Head & Shoulders shampoo emanating from Gu Xinyue's body.

Two days later, he closed the print shop, took some luggage and left for S City.

After arriving, he worked while looking for Gu Xinyue's whereabouts. Luckily, S City is not a very big city.

He followed the official accounts and official Weibo of all private bilingual schools in the city, refreshed them every day, and half a year later, he swiped a photo of Gu Xinyue in an article.

From that day on, every day after school, he would stand across the road at the school gate, waiting for Gu Xinyue to come out of the school gate at some point. He said he didn't know why he did it, but he was governed by an urge to see her, and he hadn't thought about what he was going to do when he saw her.

At that time, he had been working as a real estate agent for a while, but because of his lack of work, his performance was poor, and he had to bear the blow of low income and the disdain of his colleagues.

Every time he returned disappointed from the school gate, he thought about suicide.

He is a mentally fragile person, not too able to withstand heavy pressure, but always makes potentially hopeless decisions because of the excitement of the moment.

Coming to S City was one of the worst decisions he'd ever made in his life.

Before he came, he didn't think about the consequences at all, he just thought about it and did it, and he didn't hesitate.

But when it was really time to face Gu Xinyue, he was so scared to death, worried that the other party's indifferent look would destroy him.

In this state of mind of sincere fear, gain and loss, he waited for Gu Xinyue.

She showed up alone at the school gate when all the students were almost gone.

She was wearing a long dress, sunglasses, and a small bag on her shoulder, and she looked completely different from ten years ago, but he recognized her at a glance.

Just when he was at a loss, she had already gotten on the bus on the side of the road and disappeared from his sight in a blink of an eye.

Next time, he waited by the bus in advance and then followed her on the bus.

He sat behind her, silently watching her, and followed her until she got out of the car.

He found out where she lived, and then used the resources he had as a real estate agent to rent a house in her community.

Soon, on a sunny weekend afternoon, he overcame his fears and called out her name after pretending to pass with her.

"Gu Xinyue!"

She stopped, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"It's really you. What a coincidence! He tried his best to restrain his nervousness, "Don't you remember me?" I'm Liu Hui, and we used to share a table in middle school. ”

"Oh my God...... How are you! She exclaimed. There is no reason not to be happy when you meet a former tablemate in such a foreign city.

"Do you live in this neighborhood too?"

"yes, are you too? That's a coincidence, isn't it? ”

"Haha, yes." After a pause, Liu Hui mustered up the courage of his whole body, "That, since it's such a coincidence, are you free now?" Have a cup of coffee together? ”

Everything was so natural, so perfect.

The two gradually came together because of the deliberately created "fate".

A month later, Liu Hui quit his house, moved into Gu Xinyue's house, and began to live together.