Seeing Crime Scenes in My Sleep

Jiang Li raised an eyebrow, her gaze falling on Yin Chuman. Her phone chimed—a message from Lu Xingye, along with a video account.

"That’s wonderful! We finally have news about Weiyang." Yin Chuman burst into tears of joy.

Jiang Li watched her unconsciously clutch the hem of her clothes.

’Yin Chuman hadn’t expected the salvage team to find anything so quickly. Now she had to go see if Geng Weiyang was actually dead.’

’It would be trouble if she was still alive.’

She started walking hurriedly toward the door, but as she passed Jiang Li, she was suddenly grabbed.

"Miss Yin, don’t be in such a hurry to leave."

"There’s news about my best friend. I’m anxious to go see." A flash of irritation crossed Yin Chuman’s eyes, and she started trying to shake her hand off. But the woman’s grip was like a branding iron; she couldn’t break free no matter how hard she tried.

Jiang Li looked at her. "Are you going to see if Geng Weiyang is dead or not?"

Qiu Jitong froze instantly, then turned to look at them with suspicion.

"Jiang Li, did you find something?" Deng Jin also looked over at her.

"Not yet. But these three haven’t been cleared of suspicion. It’s not appropriate for them to just leave, is it?"

"We all have alibis! Isn’t that enough? I’m Weiyang’s best friend. How could I possibly hurt her?" Yin Chuman’s tone was clearly agitated.

Qiu Jitong looked at Yin Chuman. "Miss Jiang, right? Chuman is right, her relationship with Weiyang is very good." He had suspected his own friends before he ever suspected Yin Chuman.

’The two of them were like family. How could it be as Jiang Li suggested?’

"Mm, you’re right. But what happens when a class divide emerges between friends, and the gap between them grows wider and wider?"

Jiang Li looked at the information sheets on the people in front of her. "Geng Weiyang: popular, doted on by her parents, had her own house right after graduating college, her boyfriend is faithful and dotes on her..."

"Enough! Stop insulting people like this!" Yin Chuman cut Jiang Li off, her eyes turning red.

Jiang Li gave her a cool glance. "Yin Chuman, your family owned a publicly traded company. You were a pampered little princess. But your family was investigated last year, and they went bankrupt. Because of your family’s situation, you’ve hit a wall everywhere you turn.

To this day, not a single company will hire you."

Deng Jin frowned as he listened to Jiang Li’s analysis. ’None of this was on the information sheets.’

Jiang Li took out her phone. "This is you and Geng Weiyang’s video account. In the early days, you were confident in the videos, while Geng Weiyang was awkward and very uncomfortable in front of the camera.

It looks like she wasn’t doing it willingly. If you’re best friends, why would you force her to do something she doesn’t like?

Your fans really ate up your ’bestie’ chemistry."

Jiang Li scrolled through the comment section. "But you only ever replied to comments that praised you. Geng Weiyang didn’t seem like your friend, more like a foil you used to make yourself stand out.

Starting the year before last, your video posts went from once a day to once a week, and then later to only once a month. Why is that?

Because more and more people in the comments started praising Geng Weiyang. More and more people started liking her. You discovered that *you* had become the foil."

Jiang Li scrolled through her profile, stopping on one particular video. She looked up at Yin Chuman. "Do I need to go into detail?"

The thumbnail for this video was of Yin Chuman swimming freely in the ocean. ’I’ve seen this video. The wetsuit in it is identical to the one in my dream.’

Yin Chuman opened her mouth, but not a single word came out.

Jiang Li handed the phone to Deng Jin, letting him see for himself.

She looked at Qiu Jitong. "You said you often used Yin Chuman as a go-between. I imagine you must have given her quite a few thank-you gifts, right?"

Qiu Jitong was completely stunned. Hearing Jiang Li’s question, he nodded. "Yes."

Yin Chuman’s face was a mask of utter humiliation.

Jiang Li looked at Yin Chuman and delivered another heavy blow. "You have feelings for Qiu Jitong, don’t you? Otherwise, why wouldn’t you be concerned about Xiao Linfeng studying for his civil service exams, and instead follow Geng Weiyang to the hospital to visit Qiu Jitong?

Otherwise, why would you insist on sticking to them like glue, even if it meant being a third wheel?"

"This..." Qiu Jitong stood up in shock. He had always thought Yin Chuman and Weiyang were inseparable because they were such good friends.

Xiao Linfeng sneered, a trace of irony flashing in his eyes. ’He’d actually suspected as much for a while, but he never expected an outsider to be the one to expose it.’

"Captain, we found this phone on the shore. We think it belongs to Geng Weiyang." A colleague came in and handed over a phone. The case had a photo of Qiu Jitong and Geng Weiyang on it, their eyes overflowing with happiness.

Deng Jin took it. Fortunately, the phone wasn’t water-damaged, just turned off.

He plugged it in to charge, then started looking through it. A few minutes later, he looked up and stared sternly at Yin Chuman.

"The reason Geng Weiyang came here on this trip was because you suggested it. You also said you had arranged a diving instructor for her."

Yin Chuman took a deep breath and opened her eyes, which were as dead as ashes. "Yes, I was the one who suggested it. But she still came, didn’t she? She came on her own. Besides, I have an alibi—"

"Forget the alibi. Who said Geng Weiyang’s accident happened that night?" Jiang Li cut off Yin Chuman’s defense.

’To lock someone in a cage, and even use chains to prevent their escape... she truly hated Geng Weiyang.’

"Find this instructor," Deng Jin ordered someone. He then checked with his colleague at the hospital for an update on Geng Weiyang’s condition.

"Geng Weiyang’s life is not in immediate danger."

Hearing this, Qiu Jitong finally snapped back to reality. He raised his hand and slapped Yin Chuman directly across the face. "Weiyang was so good to you! Why did you try to harm her?!"

Yin Chuman laughed twice. "Geng Weiyang was good to me? Bullshit! She just wanted to show off. When we were first assigned to our dorm, everyone was talking about their exam scores, and she just had to mention she got in through a recommendation.

After my family’s accident, I couldn’t find an internship. She said she’d get me one. And the result? She was just a team leader. She only asked me to come so everyone would see how much worse off I was than her.

Right when my family was in trouble, she told me her parents were pooling their money to buy her a house. How was that not on purpose?

My family background was clearly better than hers. On what grounds did she get to have a better life than me?!"

After speaking, Yin Chuman looked at Qiu Jitong. "Where exactly do I fall short of Geng Weiyang? Why do you only have eyes for her!

That day, you saw Geng Weiyang, but I saw *you*! You asked me to dinner, and I thought you were interested in me. But it turned out you only asked because you thought I was close with Geng Weiyang!"

Qiu Jitong clenched his fists and looked at Yin Chuman. "I made myself very clear. The person I like is Weiyang. I even asked you if it would be too much trouble, and you were the one who said you’d be happy to see Weiyang happy.

As for the job you mentioned, Weiyang had to give gifts and take the manager out to dinner just to get you in. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have hired you—they had already filled the position.

And the house thing? Her parents loving their own daughter is none of your damn business! Weiyang felt bad for her parents, so she only let them pay for the down payment.

It’s you. Your heart is filthy, so everything you see looks filthy too."

Qiu Jitong was so angry his eyes turned red. Weiyang had racked her brains every day trying to help Yin Chuman and keep her from having to delay her graduation. And what was the result? She took it all as showing off, and she nearly got Weiyang killed for it.

Jiang Li finished replying to Lu Xingye’s message. "Her kindness wasn’t a reason for you to aim a sharp sword at her. Your intentions were never pure from the very beginning.

Geng Weiyang genuinely treated you as a friend. What did you treat her as?"

People’s hearts aren’t made of stone. Geng Weiyang was popular because she treated people with sincerity, and that’s why everyone liked her.

"At first, you wanted to shift the police’s and Qiu Jitong’s suspicion onto Xiao Linfeng, didn’t you? After all, the relationship between them is quite complicated.

A pity you don’t actually care about Xiao Linfeng."