Chapter 198: Pursuit of the Culprit

Lin Qiupu gripped the steering wheel tightly, his eyes fixed straight ahead as he placed his phone on speaker in front of him. He dialed one number after another, calling for all members of the second team to follow Jiang Yuqi along Zaifu Road.

“Captain Lin, we’ve spotted his car. Should we stop it?” asked his subordinate over the phone.

Lin Qiupu pondered for a moment and said, “No, don’t stop it, just follow! The target isn’t him, it’s Gan Ping!”

Lin Dongxue called in, and he pressed to answer. Lin Dongxue said, “Brother, I checked, and the direction Jiang Yuqi is heading seems to be where the siblings used to live. It’s the old family building of the electroplating factory, but it’s been demolished. The new building that was supposed to replace it was only half-built and is now an unfinished construction.”

“Send me the coordinates, I’ll go there first! Are you in the car?”

“I’m in Xiaodong’s car.”

After receiving the address, Lin Qiupu instructed those who were close to hurry over, while the others continued to follow Jiang Yuqi. He made a sharp turn of the steering wheel, took a shortcut, and stepped on the gas, speeding along.

When he arrived at the unfinished construction site, a group of police officers had already arrived. Lin Qiupu jumped out of the car and saw them looking up. Following their gaze, he saw a person sitting on the edge of the building. From the slender silhouette, it seemed to be Gan Ping.

“Captain Lin, it looks like this young girl… is going to do something drastic!” said Old Zhang.

“Guard the area below, I’ll go up. Contact the fire department to come and set up an air cushion below.”

Lin Qiupu rushed to the rooftop in one breath and saw Gan Ping sitting on the edge wearing a thin shirt. Her braid had come undone, and her long hair was being blown by the night wind. She was peeling and eating White Rabbit candies, her face streaked with tears under the moonlight, and the ground around her feet was covered in candy wrappers.

“Officer Lin…”

“Gan Ping, don’t be foolish, come down from there.”

Gan Ping shook her head and spoke to herself, “When we were young, our family was very poor. We could only eat half a catty of candy during the New Year, but that was when we were the happiest… Later, my mother married this man. The matchmaker praised him to the skies. He was indeed a good person in public, but no one knew what he was like at home… He drank all day, beat my mother, beat us. My mother couldn’t stand it and ran away several times. He would complain everywhere, and when my mother was brought back, he would beat her severely. My brother and I could only watch in silence, not daring to make a sound… Later, my mother became mentally ill, and we became his targets for venting. He beat my brother, burned him with an iron, whipped him with a belt, and… raped me, over and over again… My brother ran away from home, saying that when he became successful, he would take revenge on this old bastard… One day, my mother suddenly died. I knew I couldn’t stay there any longer, so I ran away the day after her funeral… I’ve been looking forward to growing up and becoming strong, to take revenge on him! Officer Lin, I don’t regret doing this, it’s all my own choice!”

Lin Qiupu said with a heavy heart, “You don’t have to risk your life for such a scum.”

Gan Ping’s eyes were hollow, tears streaming down, “Although you deal with murderers every day, you don’t know the feeling of killing, do you? When I killed him, I felt extremely exhilarated, so much so that I cried. It turned out that this man who had tormented me in reality and in nightmares for over a decade was also so vulnerable, dying like a dog!”

“You could have solved the problem through the law.”

“Law!” Gan Ping’s face showed anger, “My mother was beaten by him to the streets to find the police, but the old bastard said my mother had a mental breakdown, and the police sent her back. At that time, if the police had asked one more question or taken a closer look, they wouldn’t have been deceived by him, but the police did nothing, just left as if they had completed a task… When we were weak and desperate for salvation, no miracles happened, we could only rely on ourselves, using my own hands to kill him!”

Lin Qiupu was speechless and said, “Come down first, let’s talk somewhere else, okay?”

“Officer Lin, I really envy you, you and your sister can grow up healthy, can be together all the time, it can be seen that you are a very good brother.”

“Sister!”

A call attracted the attention of both, Lin Qiupu turned his head and saw Jiang Yuqi coming up, followed by other police officers, and they couldn’t stop him.

Jiang Yuqi was no longer the dazzling image on TV, but with sad eyes and hesitant steps.

“Brother!” Gan Ping stood up unsteadily, showing a smile, and Lin Qiupu was scared to sweat, “I’m satisfied to see you one last time… Knowing my brother is a star admired by everyone, I’m really happy.”

“Why are you so foolish!” Jiang Yuqi said with a heavy heart, “Why didn’t you come to me to discuss such a big thing, why did you do it alone.”

“I don’t want to implicate you, you are so famous, so many people like you…”

“That’s not important!” Jiang Yuqi shook his head desperately, “Come down from there, let brother hug you properly, listen, okay? You’ve done foolish things, don’t be foolish anymore!”

Gan Ping seemed to have made up her mind, with a firm expression, and Old Zhang persuaded, “Girl, your case may not necessarily be sentenced to death, your brother will definitely find the best lawyer for you, you are young, there is a good life waiting for you, don’t do foolish things!”

Gan Ping seemed a bit shaken, and Lin Qiupu took the opportunity to say, “Your mother is no longer there, think about the only relative you have in the world, how painful he will be if you die! Live on, running away cannot solve the problem!”

Gan Ping bit her lip and stared at Jiang Yuqi.

“You all go away!” Jiang Yuqi suddenly shouted, “It’s you, the police, who forced her to this point, don’t pretend to be sad here, get out of here!”

“Mr. Jiang, can you calm down!” Lin Dongxue said, stepping forward to grab his shoulder.

“You have no right to command me!” Jiang Yuqi brushed away Lin Dongxue’s hand, “You don’t understand anything! I had already thought of a perfect murder plan, if my sister hadn’t taken the lead, you wouldn’t have found out at all!”

“A perfect murder plan?” Lin Dongxue raised her eyebrows.

Jiang Yuqi realized he had spoken out of turn, staring at the eyes and not speaking, at this time Gan Ping suddenly screamed, the original Lin Qiupu rushed over unexpectedly, pulling her down.

Jiang Yuqi immediately ran over, but saw Lin Qiupu neatly put a pair of handcuffs on Gan Ping’s wrist, which made Jiang Yuqi furious, he suddenly stood up, grabbing Lin Qiupu’s collar and pushing him out of the building, shouting: “You say it’s good on the mouth, what a good life, you still want to catch her! Our life, for you, is just a case bonus, you don’t understand anything, don’t understand anything! Only interfering in other people’s affairs here!”

Afraid that Jiang Yuqi would do something impulsive, the police surrounded him, but Lin Qiupu raised his hand to stop everyone, he said to Jiang Yuqi: “You can scold us, slander us, this is our job, people we must take away.”

“You go to hell first, I’ll go to prison to accompany my sister!” Jiang Yuqi fiercely grabbed Lin Qiupu’s collar and pushed him out.

Suddenly a hand grabbed Jiang Yuqi’s collar from behind and pulled him hard, and the thin body of Jiang Yuqi staggered back, his hand released from Lin Qiupu’s collar, and the person who pulled him was Lin Dongxue.