Chapter 139 (1/2)
When the police knocked on Luo Yu Sen’s door, he was packing up, planning to wait in Sweden until things settled down.
After Zayev abandoned him, Luo Yu Sen didn’t want to cause a commotion by fighting with him. But Zayev’s words rang true. When the story came to light, though Zayev incited the action against Lu Ziwen, it would be him who was suspected for murder!
Without Zayev’s backing, Luo Yu Sen could already see what would happen to him.
He refused to give up. Going to Sweden was only a temporary plan. Luo Yu Sen would never give up his desire to return to the orchestra. The deputy concertmaster of Wei Jiao’s seat must be his, that was what Zayev’s promised him!
Even when he was escorted to a police car, he didn’t realize what had happened until he arrived at the police station.
Zayev shared the same fate.
In the recording, although Zayev said he never told Luo Yu Sen to murder Lu Zi Wen, the resulting death was an indirect effect of his instructions. The police couldn’t just let him go. They needed to interrogate him.
….One might wonder, why were the police so motivated?
Because they were driven by Dorenza and Evra!
“Please discover the truth and bring the criminals to justice!” Dorenza said.
“Give them the punishment they deserve. Isn’t this a homicide case? We hope it can be settled quickly.” Evra was more direct.
Zayev had been in the European classical music circle for decades, accumulating dozens of connections, so he anticipated some kind of warning from them. But such connections were not worth mentioning when compared to Dorenza, who was a Viscount!
Qi Mu wasn’t surprised at all when he discovered that Luo Yu Sen and Zayev were taken in by the police. Instead, he thought Evra moved quite slowly.
According to what Qi Mu knew of Evra’s personality, the hot tempered maestro would have contacted the police the night he received the recording. But, it wasn’t too slow either. At least he would have the chance to see the case unfold while he was still in Vienna.
While Qi Mu was calm and almost indifferent, the entire music circle in Vienna exploded!
With solid evidence, Evra didn’t suppress the media this time around. Within an hour after Zayev’s and Luo Yu Sen’s arrest, the first one to respond was the Vienna music circle’s evening news——
《Wei Ai’s concertmaster is a murderer?! The mystery surrounding the death of Wei Jiao’s former deputy concertmaster!》
The next morning, all the major newspapers and magazines published reports on the incident. Many of them even said, “The tragic death of Wei Jiao’s former deputy concertmaster in the Golden Hall’s preparation room a year ago wasn’t an accident. It was a murder under the deliberate instruction of Leon Zayev, Wei Ai’s concertmaster! Last night, the reporter travelled to the Vienna police station to get an interview relating to the incident…”
《The cancer of the classical music world, the dark secrets behind Leon Zayev!》
《Leon Zayev: A shame! Murder for benefit in the classical music world!》
《Amidst the hatred between two deputies of Wei Jiao, Luo Yu Sen is suspected to be a murderer!》
……
Out of ten reports, six used the name Leon Zayev while only a couple used Luo Yu Sen. The former was much more known than the latter, after all. In order to create hype, Luo Yu Sen could only step aside.
When Qi Mu rose to do some morning exercises, he flipped through the newspapers without actually reading them. When he walked through the streets, he could hear people arguing, expressing their shock——
“God, really?! Mr. Leon Zayev is really a murderer?!”
“How could this be? Did you get the wrong person, Adrian? It was only a few months ago when we last heard Wei Ai’s performance!”
“It really is Wei Ai’s concertmaster. The reports said he’s suspected of instructing a deputy chief of Wei Jiao to drug someone. It caused that person’s death!”
“How could this be…”
……
All kinds of exclamations could be heard along the streets of Vienna. Even when Qi Mu arrived at the Palisade Theatre with his violin case, none of the orchestra members remembered to practice. Instead, they discussed the shocking event.
“Is this really how 2016 is going to end? I can’t believe it’s Mr. Zayev… No, Zayev would actually do such a thing!”
“Where did you get the news? I just read the report from 《The Voice of Music》, they said because Mr. Dorenza appreciated Lu Zi Wen and might even promote him to be Wei Ai’s deputy concertmaster that Zayev acted out.”
“Really? What kind of a threat does a newcomer possess to Zayev?”
“You’ve never listened to Lu Zi Wen’s violin, have you? Although the accident happened last year, I got the rehearsal’s ticket the day before. I heard his Blue Danube, he was a really brilliant violinist!”
“Oh… That really happened?!”