Chapter 2067: Chapter 2067: The Truth

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Date forgery?”

“Do you remember when we watched the surveillance footage, and Li Zhiyong mentioned that Sui Xin had found Li Wenguang to get a signature on a checkup form?”

“Yes, I remember.”

“In hospitals, the dates on such supplementary signatures are often inaccurate,” Lin Yi explained.

“In other words, if Li Wenguang signed the document on the 10th, the date might have been filled in as a different time. Do you understand what I mean?”

“I get it. So you’re saying that the date on the inheritance transfer document can’t be taken as solid evidence—it might have been signed at a different time,” Zhang Zixin said.

“But even if the date is off, that doesn’t explain why Li Wenguang would sign it in the first place. That’s the real mystery here.”

“Exactly, why would he sign it…,”

Lin Yi muttered for a while, then was struck by a realization. He picked up Zhang Zixin’s phone and looked again at the inheritance transfer document.

“I think I might understand what happened.”

His statement drew the attention of everyone in the office. Zhang Peng asked curiously,

“Brother Lin, what did you figure out?”

“I think I know why Li Wenguang signed that document.”

“Why?”

All three of them turned their gaze to Lin Yi, eager to know what he had discovered.

“Hold on, I need to confirm something first.”

As he spoke, Lin Yi pulled out his phone and called Li Zhiyong.

“Director Li, are you at the hospital?”

“I’d like to see the checkup form that Sui Xin had Li Wenguang sign on the day of the incident. Can we add each other on WeChat? Just send me a photo of the signature page.”

“Thanks, sorry for the trouble.”

After hanging up, Lin Yi added Li Zhiyong on WeChat and then sat silently at his desk, carefully examining the signature on the inheritance transfer document on Zhang Zixin’s phone.

The others waited quietly, sensing that Lin Yi was onto something important.

Ding ding ding!

A few minutes later, Lin Yi’s phone rang. It was a WeChat message from Li Zhiyong.

There were three photos in total, all of which were Li Wenguang’s signature pages. Lin Yi then took Zhang Zixin’s phone, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

“That should be about it.”

“Brother Lin, what are you talking about? Stop keeping us in suspense!” Zhang Zixin urged.

“This inheritance transfer document wasn’t signed by Li Wenguang when he was fully aware of what he was doing.”

“What do you mean?” Gu Yiran asked.

“The signature looks normal to me—if he had been coerced or unconscious, he wouldn’t have signed so neatly.”

“I might have misspoken,” Lin Yi admitted.

“What I meant was that Li Wenguang signed the document without realizing what it was.”

The three exchanged confused looks, still trying to grasp Lin Yi’s point.

“Zixin, do you remember when we were watching the footage, and Sui Xin had Li Wenguang sign a checkup form?”

“Yes, I remember.”

“It’s very likely that something went wrong during that process!” Lin Yi suggested.

“Among those checkup forms, something else might have been slipped in.”

“The inheritance transfer document!” Gu Yiran exclaimed.

“Exactly!” Lin Yi confirmed.

“If you look at Li Wenguang’s signature, it’s not perfectly neat but not so disordered that it would indicate coercion. So it’s possible that Sui Xin slipped the inheritance transfer document in with the other papers, and Li Wenguang signed it without realizing what he was signing.”

“That makes sense,” Gu Yiran agreed.

“When I go to the hospital, I rarely read through the forms; I just sign them.”

“That’s precisely what Sui Xin exploited! Moreover, although Li Wenguang was conscious, he wasn’t in great shape, making it easier for her to pull this off.”

Lin Yi then brought the two phones over to the others.

“Look at these two signatures—they’re nearly identical. This supports my theory.”

Following Lin Yi’s instructions, the three compared the signatures on the different documents and found that they were indeed almost identical.

It was most likely signed at the same time and in the same state of mind!

“But why would Sui Xin do this? She had no motive,” Zhang Zixin asked.

“Actually, she did!” Lin Yi asserted.

“Don’t forget about her boyfriend!”

The three thought for a few seconds before Gu Yiran said,

“You mean her boyfriend might have pushed her to do this, to transfer the inheritance to Pang Lanyuan?”

“Exactly.”

“But that doesn’t add up,” Zhang Zixin interjected. “Yesterday, when we talked to Xu Pingping, she said that Sui Xin’s boyfriend was on Zhang Guoping’s side. How could he have helped Pang Lanyuan?”

“That might have been a smokescreen. In reality, they were likely connected in some other way,” Lin Yi explained.

“I think you know what I mean.”

“That should be easy to verify,” Gu Yiran said.

“If your theory is correct, then Pang Lanyuan and Sui Xin’s boyfriend, Wang Mingyang, must have had some kind of secret relationship. We just need to check their hotel records.”

“That’s simple. We can find that out right now.”

Zhang Peng opened his computer and accessed the precinct’s internal system. It didn’t take long for him to find the hotel records for the two of them.

“Got it!” Zhang Peng announced.

“They’ve been booking rooms together frequently over the past few months.”

Huff…

Everyone in the office breathed a sigh of relief.

They had uncovered enough to piece together the story.

Now, all that remained was to interrogate Pang Lanyuan and Sui Xin’s boyfriend, Wang Mingyang.

“Brother Lin, I’ll go bring them in for questioning,” Zhang Peng said.

“It looks like they conspired to have Sui Xin kill Li Wenguang and then killed Sui Xin to cover their tracks.”

“That seems likely. Interrogate them thoroughly, and you should be able to get them to confess.”

“Alright, we’re on it.”

Lin Yi nodded and leaned back comfortably in his chair.

The case should be mostly resolved, and the system would likely soon confirm it.

He just didn’t know what the reward would be.

At that moment, Li Xianghui appeared at the office door and asked,

“How’s the case going?”

“Pretty much wrapped up. The culprits are likely Pang Lanyuan and their lawyer, Wang Mingyang.”

“Wang Mingyang, the boyfriend of the deceased, Sui Xin?” Li Xianghui asked casually.

Lin Yi nodded. “Yes, which means he had the means and motive to kill Sui Xin to silence her.”

“Since this case is nearly settled, if you two aren’t too busy, come with me to a meeting at the city office.”