Chapter 335: Even Psychopaths Have Intelligence

Xiao Yu had once heard a story.

Zhang San’s female classmate fell into the water and cried for help. Without hesitation, Zhang San jumped in and saved her. To express her gratitude, the classmate pledged herself to him. The two lived happily ever after.

What a dramatic and touching love story, right?

One day, while tidying up the house, Zhang San accidentally discovered his wife’s secret.

She had a gold medal in swimming.

***

The police car sped down the road.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Xiao Yu felt utterly frustrated. His plan hadn’t even begun, and reality had already crushed it.

No—there was still a chance to salvage the situation.

But sometimes, he had to admit some women were born with extraordinary acting skills.

Xiao Yu never would have imagined the woman in red he had been searching for had been right under his nose all along.

Yu Anan.

Why hadn’t he recognized her immediately?

Because he had never actually seen the woman in red’s face.

What about her body shape?

The first time he met Yu Anan, she was attempting suicide.

At that time, Xiao Yu had no time to familiarize himself with her—his only thought was saving her.

And afterward?

Afterward, Yu Anan had been in the hospital, wearing a loose patient gown—a stark contrast to the slim, fitted figure of the woman in red from the surveillance footage.

Besides, if he could identify the culprit in one glance just from a faceless video clip, he’d be a literal god.

Snapping back to reality, Xiao Yu took a deep breath, pulled out his phone, and called the team.

“Check something for me. Was Yu Anan’s sister imprisoned in the same facility as Feng Xiuyun?”

A dozen minutes later, a detective from the team spoke in an odd tone, “Boss, Yu Anan is an only child, she doesn’t have a sister.”

“Heh.”

Xiao Yu let out two cold chuckles, his mind filled with exasperation.

Why hadn’t he checked this earlier?

So that so-called sister had been someone Yu Anan bribed?

And the target… was Feng Xiuyun?

Why did Yu Anan appear back then, when Feng Xiuyun went to find Li Shuangcheng?

What was the reason behind killing Li Shuangcheng and saving Feng Xiuyun?

Wait… the red shoes?

“Pull up the case file on Feng Xiuyun’s sister, Feng Yue’e,” Xiao Yu ordered over the phone.

Soon, a case file was sent to his phone. After reading it, Xiao Yu let out a sigh.

Inside the file was a transcript of Feng Xiuyun’s statement. One sentence stood out: Those red shoes were mine. I just didn’t like wearing them anymore, thought they were too old and wanted to throw them away. My sister said that was wasteful. We had the same foot size, so she started wearing them. The day it happened, my sister was wearing those red shoes.

“So that’s how it is,” Xiao Yu murmured, “The original target wasn’t Feng Yue’e, it was Feng Xiuyun. But the one who was supposed to make the kidnapping back then was Li Shuangcheng. Did he mistake the sisters?”

He recalled Feng Xiuyun’s account.

She had worn red shoes for six months while searching for the culprit, until she met Li Shuangcheng.

She had even said that Li Shuangcheng had yelled at her and said something inexplicable.

Among his words was a particular phrase: “You almost got me killed?”

Was it because he had arrested the wrong person?

So—on that day, the woman in red had originally gone to kill Li Shuangcheng?

And that was why she had written those chilling words in the video: Don’t thank me. He deserved to die. Just like you, I wanted to kill him yourself.

‘That’s right, you originally planned to kill Li Shuangcheng. Feng Xiuyun was your real target. There was no way you would just stand by and watch her die. You didn’t make a move on Feng Xiuyun because… 

‘A sweet fruit should be savored slowly, saved for the final taste? 

‘Then why didn’t you ever enjoy your fruit?

‘Because you lost it You never expected that Feng Xiuyun would go on to kill her own sister once she thought she avenged her sister and then try to end herself as well. And so, Feng Xiuyun was sent to prison.

‘But you have your own set of principles, don’t you? You never touched Feng Xiuyun, and you weren’t interested in harming anyone else?

‘So, you staged an elaborate play.’

Three years later, she had turned herself into a victim and delivered a message into the prison. She let Feng Xiuyun find out that the culprit had resurfaced.

She knew the moment Feng Xiuyun was released from prison, she would come looking for her.

She was waiting for her like a hunter at his trap.

And she walked right into it.

“Brilliant scheme.” Xiao Yu was genuinely impressed. “You just didn’t expect you’d lure me out as well, did you? That’s why you said those things to me in the hospital, deliberately misdirecting my thoughts, leading me to the residential area to search for clues.

“You must have known that household had surveillance cameras, right? You knew the police would find the footage and shift their focus to Qi Xubin?

“That way, you could finally make your move and bring Feng Xiuyun right to your side. What a true psychopath.”

Xiao Yu recalled a saying—

If the way most people behave is considered normal then what does that make you?

If not a psychopath, how else could you have done all this?

The terrifying thing was that even psychopaths can be intelligent.

***

Boom!

The door was kicked open.

An elderly couple trembled in fear as they watched a group of police officers storm into their home. The detectives began searching the bedrooms.

Yu Anan was not there!

“Where is Yu Anan?”

Xiao Yu stepped in front of the elderly couple and asked coldly.

“We… we don’t know,” the old woman stammered, her voice shaking.

“Take them away.”

Xiao Yu didn’t spare them another glance. He refused to believe that these parents knew nothing about what their daughter had done.

Would any parent truly be unaware of what kind of person their child was?

Do you believe that?

As soon as he stepped out of the suspects’ house, Xiao Yu’s phone rang. It was his superior.

“We found the suspect’s car,” Zhao Changshan reported, “After Feng Xiuyun fled the residential complex, she got into a red Audi. We tracked it through traffic cameras and located it.”

“Got it. I’m on my way.”

Xiao Yu hung up and got into the police car.

He could understand Feng Xiuyun’s desperation to avenge her sister. But she was acting too impulsively, he could only hope she was still safe.

Xiao Yu exhaled, finally allowing his brain to shut down for a brief moment of rest.

At least his team wasn’t just a bunch of mindless tools.

They had professionalism.

If he were surrounded by a team of incompetent fools, he’d probably collapse from exhaustion.

Speaking of which—Xiao Yu had always been puzzled by one thing.

“How did a dolphin end up being best friends with a bunch of big-headed fish?”¹