Cao Xuanxuan's Love Journey Episode 16 Recap
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Long Hu Jushi suddenly committed suicide in prison, which left everyone shocked. When He Chun went to examine the body, Long He told her that the deceased had bitten his tongue to end his life, most likely due to guilt. However, He Chun didn’t believe this. Upon closer inspection, she found a jade pendant on Long Hu Jushi’s body. When Zhou Shaoliang saw the pendant, he concluded that the killer was Zhai Keqin.
He explained that Master Zhai had once taken in a child who was the son of a Taoist priest, and that child must be Zhai Keqin, while the Taoist priest was Long Hu Jushi. Zhai Keqin killed Master Zhai, and Long Hu Jushi, in order to protect his daughter, took the blame for the murders, even going so far as to commit suicide in prison to create the illusion of a guilt-ridden death.
Zhou Shaoliang felt confident in his deduction, finally claiming victory over Guo Zijie. He also managed to capture the fleeing Zhai Keqin and bring him back to the county prison. Sun Weiyan and He Chun hurriedly found Guo Zijie and Cao Xuanxuan and explained the entire case to them. After Zhai Keqin was brought back to the county prison, Zhou Shaoliang immediately began his interrogation. At this time, Sun Weiyan and He Chun arrived to observe the hearing.
Zhai Keqin admitted that he had planned to avenge his mother, but he hadn’t gone through with it and denied being the murderer. Zhou Shaoliang, convinced by the evidence, ordered that Zhai Keqin be thrown into the prison. As he was being dragged away, Zhai Keqin, upon hearing that Long Hu Jushi was his father, requested to see him. However, since Long Hu Jushi had already committed suicide in prison, this request couldn’t be granted, which left everyone feeling guilty.
He Chun then carefully examined the poetry left by Long Hu Jushi and noticed that the degree of decomposition in the limbs and head was different. Guo Zijie and Cao Xuanxuan deduced that the killer must have been trying to create an alibi for himself. Guo Zijie also remembered that Zhai Keqin had fainted at the sight of blood. All the evidence pointed to the fact that Zhai Keqin was not the murderer.
The next day, Zhou Shaoliang was planning to take the case file to the capital, and once the charges were finalized, Zhai Keqin would be officially declared the murderer. The group quickly sprang into action, and He Chun also found something strange in Long Hu Jushi's mouth. Zhou Shaoliang continued interrogating Zhai Keqin, but he still refused to admit his guilt. Zhou Shaoliang, believing the evidence was irrefutable, wanted to execute Zhai Keqin immediately.
At that moment, Guo Zijie arrived and stopped him. Guo Zijie explained the case in detail to Zhou Shaoliang. He revealed that the murderer didn’t kill Master Zhai directly but first dismembered his body and scattered the parts in different locations, giving Master Zhai’s family time to escape, which explained why the head and limbs had decomposed at different rates. The various dark arts previously discovered were also part of the killer’s effort to cover up his tracks.
Guo Zijie suggested bringing all the members of the Zhai family in for another round of questioning, and Zhou Shaoliang agreed. After the second round of questioning, Ouyang Mingyue confessed to the murders. She had pretended to be Zhai Keqin in order to meet Long Hu Jushi, and the Taoist mistakenly believed that Ouyang Mingyue was his daughter.
When he found out that his “daughter” had committed murder, he willingly took the blame for her, directing all the evidence toward himself. However, Cao Xuanxuan still found some doubts in Ouyang Mingyue’s story. Ouyang Mingyue had claimed to have seen Master Zhai murder her parents, but Cao Xuanxuan didn’t believe this to be true. Everyone thought that now the truth had been revealed, there was no need to pursue it any further, and they decided to celebrate with drinks.
But Cao Xuanxuan couldn’t stop thinking about the case. The next day, Guo Zijie called everyone together again. Ouyang Mingyue recounted how she had seen Master Zhai kill her father and claimed that she had been hiding outside the window at the time. She said that neither Master Zhai nor Long Hu Jushi had noticed her, allowing her to narrowly escape. However, all the evidence indicated that Ouyang Mingyue had not been at the scene.
It turned out that she had only partial memories, which had been manipulated by others using memory techniques to implant false memories in her mind.
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