I'm just a trainee police officer. I don't really want to solve the case.

Su Xiaoxiao rode her little broken bike, pedaling very fast.

Liyuan Community is quite far from where she lives. At her speed, it would take at least twenty minutes to get there.

It's 1:30 in the morning and she can't get a taxi.

The call for help was from Qiu Yan.

Qiu Yan is Gu Dacheng’s ex-wife. That day at the police station, Su Xiaoxiao saw that Qiu Yan would be subjected to domestic violence when she returned home, so she left her phone number.

I didn't expect her to call me in the middle of the night for help.

On the phone, Qiu Yan's voice sounded extremely terrified. She could only say "help" incoherently, and it seemed that she was hiding in a room.

Su Xiaoxiao could hear the sound of banging on the door outside the room and a man cursing viciously.

Qiu Yan gave the address tremblingly.

When she came out, she had already called the police, so the police should have arrived before her.

When she arrived at Liyuan Community, the police had indeed arrived.

There were several police cars parked downstairs of Building 3, and their red and blue police lights were very eye-catching in the night.

Oh no, something must have happened, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many police officers.

She ran upstairs as fast as she could. A cordon had been set up at the door of Room 302 and a policeman stopped her.

"There's been a murder here, the police are investigating, you can't go in."

What? Murder?! Is Qiu Yan dead?!

Su Xiaoxiao was stunned. Was she still late?

At this time, footsteps were heard behind her. Su Xiaoxiao turned her head and saw that it was Captain Qi from the Criminal Investigation Team, her future superior.

Qi Lei has been working non-stop these past few days. He finally finished work early today, but in the middle of the night he received a police report from the Lixiang Police Station that a murder had occurred in Room 3, Building 302, Liyuan Community, so he rushed over immediately.

When he saw Su Xiaoxiao, he was also stunned for a moment.

"Why are you here?"

"Captain Qi, I was the one who called the police."

"Oh, let's go in and take a look."

The person who stopped Su Xiaoxiao just now was Xiao Qiu, a police officer from Lixiang Police Station. When he saw that she was with Qi Lei, he knew that they were one of their own and stopped her.

The door of Room 302 was open. The forensic and technical investigators were already busy inside. A strong smell of blood could be smelled at the door.

There was a dead body lying in the living room near the bathroom. To Su Xiaoxiao's surprise, the deceased was not Qiu Yan, but a man.

The man was shirtless, tall, and his upper body was soaked in a pool of blood. In addition to the smell of blood, there was also a strong smell of alcohol on his body.

Qiu Yan curled up in a corner, holding a knife in her hand. Whenever someone approached, she would wave it wildly, shouting, "Go away, don't come over here."

She seemed to have lost her mind, and a female police officer was trying to communicate with her.

"I'll try."

Su Xiaoxiao walked up to Qiu Yan and said, "Qiu Yan, it's me, Officer Su. You called me just now. The police are here. You don't have to be afraid now."

"Officer Su." Qiu Yan's eyes moved, and she stared at Su Xiaoxiao, her lips moving, "I, I, I killed someone."

She seemed to have just come to her senses at this moment, and was so scared that she quickly threw the knife away. She held her head with both hands, her face full of fear, as if she could not accept the fact that she had killed someone.

Her skirt was splattered with blood, and her face and hair were all covered in blood. She looked horrible.

When Su Xiaoxiao pushed her hair aside, she saw that her face and body were covered with bruises from being beaten.

A female police officer came over and handcuffed her, then took her back for treatment and questioned her later.

The deceased was confirmed to be Qiu Yan's husband Xue Pingyang. He had multiple knife wounds on his body, with the fatal wound being in the chest, where one of the wounds had pierced his heart.

The scene was very chaotic, with broken bottles, tissue boxes, table lamps, and ashtrays scattered all over the floor, and a window glass was also broken.

The house with two bedrooms and a living room was not big, but the decoration was fairly new. Su Xiaoxiao walked to the bathroom door, which had been kicked in and was tilted to one side.

Qiu Yan must have called her from the bathroom just now.

That’s when she heard the banging on the door on the phone.

It was probably not long after Qiu Yan hung up the phone that Xue Pingyang broke down the door.

Su Xiaoxiao felt a little strange. She had already arrived at the crime scene, so why hadn't the system task been triggered yet?

Is it because the case is too simple? Qiu Yan has already admitted that she is the murderer, so there is no need for her to find the murderer.

She walked to the window and looked down. There were scattered glass fragments on the grass on the first floor.

The forensic doctor has completed the preliminary autopsy and the on-site investigation has also been completed. Samples have been taken where necessary, and evidence has been retained where necessary.

"Let's go back and interrogate Qiu Yan." Qi Lei called for the team to gather.

This case is not complicated. It is obvious that the deceased was a victim of domestic violence and was killed by Qiu Yan. It depends on the specific circumstances to see whether it constitutes legitimate defense.

In the interrogation room, Qiu Yan sat on a chair.

The injuries on her body had been treated, but she still looked a little dazed.

After the routine inquiries, Guo Zhongliang got straight to the point.

"Did you kill Xue Pingyang?"

"Yes."

"Why kill him?"

"If I don't kill him, he will kill me."

"Tell me about the situation at that time."

"Today, no, it should be last night, he drank outside and was very drunk. He came back and grabbed me and beat me, calling me a jinx, saying that he became like this because he married me.

He grabbed my hair and slammed my head against the glass, breaking it. Still not satisfied, he hit me on the head with a wine bottle.

I was so scared at the time. If he continued like this, he would beat me to death. He was tired and thirsty, so he ran to the kitchen to get some water. I took this opportunity to hide in the bathroom and locked the door.

When he came out of the kitchen and didn't see me, he became even angrier. He found the bathroom door was locked, so he kicked it from outside, cursing and saying he wanted to kill me.

I really had no other choice, so I called Officer Su for help.

But as soon as I put down the phone, he kicked the door open, pushed me against the sink, and strangled me with his hands.

I just picked up the knife on the sink and stabbed him several times before he let go of my hand, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground.

I closed my eyes when I was pierced, so I didn’t know where I was pierced.”

"Why is there a knife in the bathroom?" Guo Zhongliang asked.

"The knife was originally prepared for myself." Qiu Yan smiled sadly, tears sliding down her face, "He often beat me, and I thought it would be better to kill myself than to be beaten to death by him, so I bought a knife."

"Is this the one?" Guo Zhongliang held up the knife in the evidence bag and showed it to her.

"Yes, this is it. I have been afraid of pain since I was a child, so I chose a sharp knife, hoping that I would not suffer so much when I die. But later, I hesitated."

"why?"

"Because I'm pregnant."

"Does Xue Pingyang know?"

"do not know."

"Why don't you tell him?"

"I haven't decided whether to have this child or not. Life is already so difficult. Would the child be willing to be born into such a family?"

"Does he beat you often?"

"Often, he beats me whenever he's drunk or in a bad mood. He always finds a reason to beat me." Qiu Yan rolled up her sleeves, which were covered with deep and shallow scars. "I never dare to wear short-sleeved clothes, no matter how hot the weather is."

"Have you called the police?"

"I have called the police, more than once, but what's the use? When the police came, they said it was a family dispute and always advised us to reconcile. At most, they criticized and educated us. After you left, he would beat me even more fiercely. So, I didn't call the police again."

“Are you guys in free love?”

"Yes, he was very nice to me at the beginning, and everything seemed to be going well at that time. We got married not long after we met.

Who would have known that not long after getting married, he made some mistakes at work. I heard that he accepted bribes from others, and the company found out and fired him. The company was ruthless and made his affairs public in the industry. Later, he was never able to find a suitable job again.

At this time, he knew my background and blamed me for everything, beating and scolding me. I couldn't stand it and wanted to divorce him, but he refused.

He said I was a jinx, that it was all my fault that he was like this, that I would have to work like a slave for him for the rest of my life to atone for my sins, and that if I dared to run away, he would kill my son.

"What happened to your origins?"

What happened? She also wanted to know what happened.

When she was young, she was the apple of her father's eye and the apple of her mother's eye.

Her father was a soldier and her mother was an elementary school teacher. Such a family was an enviable combination in that era.

Her father was in the army. Although he didn't come back often, he loved her very much. Every time he came back to visit, he would buy her delicious and fun things. Her father not only loved her but also her mother. At that time, she thought they would always be happy like this.

However, all this ended when she was six years old.

Overnight, she became the daughter of a murderer.