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Chapter 434 - 254: Was It All Worth It? · Oct 09, 2026

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401 Chapter 401 - 239: On the Front Lines, Anticipating Jiang An’s Brilliance 2026-10-09
402 Chapter 402 - 240: Jiang An Is the Blade of the Criminal Police 2026-10-09
403 Chapter 403 - 240: Jiang An Is the Blade of the Criminal Police (Part 2) 2026-10-09
404 Chapter 404 - 241: Mr. Jiang Assigns the Task 2026-10-09
405 Chapter 405 - 241: Mr. Jiang Assigns the Task 2026-10-09
406 Chapter 406 - 242: An Important Discovery in the Car 2026-10-09
407 Chapter 407 - 242: An Important Discovery in the Car 2026-10-09
408 Chapter 408 - 243: Was It Suicide? 2026-10-09
409 Chapter 409 - 243: Was It Suicide? 2026-10-09
410 Chapter 410 - 243: Was It Suicide? 2026-10-09
411 Chapter 411 - 244: This Piece of Evidence Is Very Strange! 2026-10-09
412 Chapter 412 - 244: This Piece of Evidence Is Very Strange! 2026-10-09
413 Chapter 413 - 245: What Is the Nature of Death? 2026-10-09
414 Chapter 414 - 245: What Is the Nature of Death? 2026-10-09
415 Chapter 415 - 246: Drowning Site? 2026-10-09
416 Chapter 416 - 246: Drowning Site? 2026-10-09
417 Chapter 417 - 246: Drowning Site? 2026-10-09
418 Chapter 418 - 247: The Mysterious Phone Number! 2026-10-09
419 Chapter 419 - 247: The Mysterious Phone Number! (Part 2) 2026-10-09
420 Chapter 420 - 248: Scratches on the Dead Person’s Hand 2026-10-09
421 Chapter 421 - 248: Scratches on the Deceased’s Hand (Part 2) 2026-10-09
422 Chapter 422 - 249: Keep Making Things Up! 2026-10-09
423 Chapter 423 - 249: Make It Up! Keep Making It Up! (Part 2) 2026-10-09
424 Chapter 424 - 250: An Assist from Jiang An 2026-10-09
425 Chapter 425 - 250: Assist from Jiang An (Part 2) 2026-10-09
426 Chapter 426 - 250: Assist from Jiang An (Part 3) 2026-10-09
427 Chapter 427 - 251: Scratches on the Arm 2026-10-09
428 Chapter 428 - 251: Scratches on the Arm (2) 2026-10-09
429 Chapter 429 - 252: These Are the Shoes He Wore That Night! 2026-10-09
430 Chapter 430 - 252: These Are the Shoes He Wore That Night! 2026-10-09
431 Chapter 431 - 253: I Only Kill One Person! 2026-10-09
432 Chapter 432 - 253: I Only Killed One Person! (Part 2) 2026-10-09
433 Chapter 433 - 254: Was It All Worth It? 2026-10-09
434 Chapter 434 - 254: Was It All Worth It? 2026-10-09
435 Chapter 435 - 255: Press Conference 2026-10-09
436 Chapter 436 - 255: Press Conference_2 2026-10-09
437 Chapter 437 - 256: Promoted to Deputy Captain of Criminal Investigation 2026-10-09
438 Chapter 438 - 256: Promoted to Deputy Captain of Criminal Investigation (Part 2) 2026-10-09
439 Chapter 439 - 257: The First Exceptional Promotion 2026-10-09
440 Chapter 440 - 257: The First Exceptional Promotion 2026-10-09
441 Chapter 441 - 258: Reopening a Decade-Old Cold Case 2026-10-09
442 Chapter 442 - 258: Reopening a Decade-Old Cold Case 2026-10-09
443 Chapter 443 - 259: This Case Is Extraordinary 2026-10-09
444 Chapter 444 - 259: This Case Is Far from Ordinary (Part 2) 2026-10-09
445 Chapter 445 - 260: As Police, We Must Leave No Regrets 2026-10-09
446 Chapter 446 - 260: As Police, We Must Leave No Regrets 2026-10-09
447 Chapter 447 - 261: Breaking Through the Clouds to See the Sun! 2026-10-09
448 Chapter 448 - 261: Breaking Through the Clouds to See the Sun! 2026-10-09
449 Chapter 449 - 262: Returning to the Bloody Crime Scene 2026-10-09
450 Chapter 450 - 262: Return to the Crime Scene 2 2026-10-09

Chapter 434: Chapter 254: Was It All Worth It?

”Bang,” the metal chair rattled noisily.

Li Jian walked out of the interrogation room, heading straight to Interrogation Room 1.

Though the two rooms were only separated by a wall, the special soundproofing made it seem like they were worlds apart.

He pushed open the door, and opposite him, Wang Shantao looked exhausted, slumped on the table like a withered eggplant.

She glanced at the clock on the wall and weakly asked, ”Is it time for me to leave?”

Li Jian sat down slowly, his voice as cold and hard as ice.

”Want to leave? No way!”

”A long prison sentence awaits you.”

Each word was like a sharp blade stabbing into Wang Shantao.

Wang Shantao looked puzzled, her eyes widened as if she had heard something unbelievable.

”What do you mean?”

”A prison sentence?”

”You think you can get away with murder?”

”I didn’t kill anyone, you can’t frame me.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Wan gently placed the evidence bag aside, ready to take notes.

This time, their goal was clear.

Even if the Wang Shantao before them was as eloquent as she was deceitful, she couldn’t escape the law’s punishment with Li Xiang’s testimony.

Li Jian settled down, took out a cigarette, and took a few puffs.

Then, in a deep voice, he said, ”Have you thought it over?”

”It’s not too late to speak now!”

”I’ll give you the time it takes to finish this cigarette.”

”If you keep being stubborn after this cigarette, we’ll send you straight to the detention center.”

His tone seemed to offer Wang Shantao one last chance of redemption.

Seeing the undeniable resolve on Li Jian’s face, a flash of terror crossed Wang Shantao’s face.

She asked trembling, ”What do you mean? Can you just accuse someone because you haven’t found the killer?”

Li Jian sneered, ”Ha, false accusations!”

”Your accomplice is in the next room, Interrogation Room 2.”

”If you haven’t guessed it, I’ll tell you, the person next door is Li Xiang!”

”That night, it was he who took care of He Biao.”

With just a few hints, the terror on Wang Shantao’s face grew, as if she were falling into an endless abyss.

By this time, the cigarette in Li Jian’s hand was half-burned, the thin smoke rising like a devil’s dance.

He watched Wang Shantao bow her head in thought, her face clouded like the calm before a storm.

Soon, the cigarette burned to its end.

As Li Jian stubbed out the cigarette, he asked, ”Well?”

”Are you going to talk?”

It was like the final warning bell sounding.

Opposite, Wang Shantao stared blankly at him, her gaze vacant, as if her soul had left her body.

Without hesitation, Li Jian stubbed out the cigarette forcefully and tossed it into the trash can.

Then he said in a deep voice, ”You’re a smart woman.”

”From the beginning, you played the role of a victim, desperately searching for your husband’s killer.”

”I never expected you to be so cold-hearted.”

”You used He Biao to kill your husband, then got Li Xiang to eliminate He Biao.”

”Your method of chain murders really ’impresses’ us.”

Wang Shantao’s face turned ashen, as if all her blood had been drained.

”What do you mean?”

”I didn’t kill my husband, I didn’t kill He Biao.”

Li Jian retorted, ”You didn’t kill your husband?”

”You didn’t kill He Biao?”

Finally, he said, word by word, ”You are the murderer.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Shantao still had no significant reaction, only her vacant stare fixated on Li Jian, as if she had lost the will to live.

Li Jian maintained a serious expression and continued, ”It’s already very clear now.”

”Actually, whether you confess or not doesn’t affect our case much.”

”However, if you confess, you might be able to get leniency.”

”This is your last chance, make good use of it.”

Li Jian paused, then added, ”Actually, we were puzzled at first too.”

”Your husband had cancer, only a few months left. Who would harm him?”

”Until we found his insurance policy, seeing you as the beneficiary, it didn’t feel right.”

”However, considering the bond of your marriage, we didn’t suspect you much.”

”After all, from the insurance payout perspective, no matter when he died, the money would be yours.”

”But I just don’t understand why you were so eager for his death? What drove you to kill?”

For a moment, the interrogation room fell into a dead silence.

As if time itself had stopped flowing.

Wang Shantao’s eyes flickered back and forth, as if weighing the pros and cons, struggling with a life-and-death decision.

Ten minutes later, she let out a long sigh, as if she had laid down all her burdens.

”I’ll speak! If I speak, will there be leniency?”

”Leniency has principles. It depends on the extent of your confession and whether it’s what we want to hear.”

Wang Shantao gritted her teeth, seeming to make up her mind to face death.

”That’s right, I indeed used He Biao to kill my husband, and then used Li Xiang’s hand to eliminate He Biao.”

Li Jian lit another cigarette, listening as if to a story, waiting quietly for more.

Through the wisps of smoke, he watched Wang Shantao’s expression.

Then, Wang Shantao said, ”My husband and I have been married for many years but never had children.”

”Though our feelings were okay, this always weighed on my mind.”

”He had another woman outside behind my back, but I pretended not to know.”

”Especially the mother-in-law in the countryside, her heart was more venomous than a snake, insinuating daily, calling me a hen that can’t lay eggs.”

After a slight pause, Wang Shantao continued, ”Originally, my husband only had a few months to live.”

”But somehow, he found out he could undergo liver transplant surgery and wanted to use all the family money for the operation.”

”You know too, such surgery is extremely risky, likely to end up with nothing.”

”We had no children, if he died, how could I live alone as a woman?”

”After thinking it over and over, I executed this plan.”

As she spoke the last words, her eyes reddened slightly, as if recalling those painful pasts.

Li Jian exhaled a puff of smoke and asked, ”Why choose He Biao and Li Xiang?”

Wang Shantao smirked bitterly and said, ”He Biao is just a brute.”

”I knew he’d been interested in me for a long time, even confessed to me, but I didn’t think much of him.”

”An ordinary worker, what future does he have?”

”But in this matter, I felt he would risk his life for me.”

”That night, while my husband was asleep, I called He Biao over, opened the door for him, and together we killed my husband.”

Li Jian pressed on, ”Was your husband awake when He Biao came in?”

Wang Shantao nodded and replied, ”He was asleep when we came in.”

”However, for some reason, he woke up later!”

”Still, we managed to bring him down, and He Biao drove the body to the mountain to dump it.”

”The next day, I reported him missing.”

Wang Shantao shook her head, ”I didn’t expect you to find out.”

Li Jian furrowed his brows deeply, as if caught in a tangled mess, and continued to ask, ”Then why did you kill He Biao?”

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Wang Shantao’s eyes, momentarily reverting back to the cold-blooded killer she was.

”He went too far.”

”After killing my husband, he wasn’t satisfied with the occasional liaison, he wanted me to marry him.”

”What a joke?”

”How could I marry a worker earning only 3,000 a month?”

”His money wasn’t even enough for my cosmetics.”

”I decided to cut my losses, lured him to the riverside under the pretense of a date.”

”He was delighted, thinking we were going for a tryst.”

”Actually, I had been in touch with Li Xiang privately.”

”In my heart, Li Xiang was my ideal man.”

”He had money. Before his divorce, I wanted to be with him, but he hesitated.”

”Later, after his divorce, still having feelings for me, he agreed to my request.”

”I told him if he helped me get rid of He Biao, I would be with him.”

”He agreed.”

”That night, when you were looking for me, I contacted Li Xiang and had him deal with He Biao.”

”I initially planned to go with him, but I was taken away by the police, so he acted alone.”

”But it went smoothly, He Biao died.”

She showed a trace of pride on her face, as if proud of her ’cleverness.’

Li Jian puffed on his cigarette, looking expressionlessly at the woman before him.

After a long while, he asked gravely, ”Was all of this truly worth it?”

Wang Shantao’s lips curled into a mocking smile, as if mocking the absurd world.

”Worth it!”

”When a woman loses her husband and has no children, living a lonely life until old age, then you understand that kind of pain and hardship.”

Her eyes were devoid of tears, as if they had long dried up.

The interrogation room fell silent again, as if shrouded by a veil of sadness.

After a long while, Li Jian extinguished his cigarette with a low, firm voice, ”What awaits you is the severe punishment of the law.”

”I hope you reform well inside and come out a new person.”

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