Chapter 286: Yi Xi Is Dead (2/2)

Despite the sunglasses Yi Xi was wearing, I could still read the surprise on his face. His agent praised, ”That’s amazing. Young and talented!”

”All right,” I waved him off. “Let's get straight to the point!”

In fact, the biggest mystery of the entire case was Yi Xi and Mike Zhou’s relationship–they were identical twins. The person sitting before me was Mike Zhou and the one lying on the morgue slab was the real Yi Xi!

However, judging from Mike Zhou's behavior, he had received professional training privately and even deliberately imitated Yi Xi. Additionally, the two belonged to the same company which suggested that a part of Yi Xi's tour and film work had been completed by Mike Zhou. The two brothers existed as one.

On the day of the crime, an obsessed fan dissatisfied with Yi Xi's public love affair went to look for him, stabbing him sixteen times in the chest and even left teeth marks after biting off his penis. After successfully murdering the victim, the fan left.

It was the agent company that covered up the truth. They destroyed the video and burned the body, and they also prevented us from obtaining the dental records. Their purpose wasn’t to protect the murderer but to protect the identity of the deceased.

From their standpoint, the outside world couldn’t be allowed to discover Yi Xi’s death, no matter the price.

This incident hit Mike Zhou the hardest which could explain his reckless actions on the second day of the crime. Upset by his loss, he had an argument with the reporters. Then, he went missing and planned on burying Yi Xi secretly with his agent, Wu Xiucai. However, he never expected to bump into reporters on the road that eventually led to the accident where they plunged into the river.

If my guess was correct, what Wu Xiucai swallowed before he died was a contract that officially made Mike Zhou, the substitute, into Yi Xi!

When I finally finished articulating my conclusion, the room fell into dead silence. Mike Zhou's lips trembled, two streams of tears trickling down from under his dark glasses like hot wax on a candle. His agent was the first to break the silence, ”The descendant of the great Magistrate Song Ci, the number coroner back in the ancient times, is really worthy of your reputation! We did everything we could to prevent the case from falling into your hands, just because we were afraid of exposing the truth to the public. But it looks like it was all for nothing.”

”You could have come clean from the start...”

The agent interrupted, ”No, this is the top secret in the company. We weren’t allowed to speak a word of it!”

”Even if Yi Xi bears accusations of a murder?”

”Yes,” he nodded. “Even those accusations can be refuted, but if Yi Xi no longer exists, our entire company will be ruined!

”So after all that’s said and done, it’s all for profit!” Xiaotao laughed sarcastically.

The agent stood up and suddenly fell to his knees, banging his head harshly against the ground. I immediately urged him to get up but he sobbed, ”Please, I’m begging you. This matter mustn’t be known to anyone else. I know that your word matters.”

I exchanged a meaningful glance with Xiaotao who conceded, ”Since Yi Xi didn't kill anyone, we can't wrong a good man. We’ll come up with an appropriate explanation to exonerate him.”

”Thank you so much! Your kindness won’t be forgotten!” the agent kowtowed gratefully.

Up until the two left, Mike Zhou hadn’t uttered a single word from the beginning. He was probably still grieving, having lost his own brother but powerless to do or say anything, forced to pretend as if nothing had happened. I thought further questioning would only be cruel.

After they left, I sighed, ”It’s like they say, too much cunning in plotting and scheming is the cause of our own undoing.”

”Why are you talking like Director-General Cheng?” laughed Xiaotao.

I chuckled and wondered out loud, ”What exactly should we tell them?”

Xiaotao opened the cake box and took a bite out of the cream cake. ”It's up to you! By the way, this victory cake tastes really sweet.”

There was a bit of cream on Xiaotao’s upper lip which I wiped away with my finger and tasted, ”It's sweet indeed!”