Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang whispered to each other nearby. Zhou Zheng noticed their serious expressions and became increasingly uneasy. He couldn't help but ask, "Who killed my brother? Do you have any clues?"
Yu Hanjiang turned around and said, "Currently, we can only confirm that the murderer is a woman who had a romantic entanglement with your brother. Do you know how many girlfriends your brother has had over the years?"
Zhou Zheng paused for a moment, then said, "I only know three official girlfriends."
Yu Hanjiang said, "Tell me in detail how you started dating and how you broke up."
Zhou Zheng thought for a moment and said, "His first girlfriend was his first love, Yu Lin, who was the school beauty in our high school. He met Yu Lin at a debate competition in the second semester of his junior year. My brother is very eloquent, and Yu Lin is also very outstanding. It was like they met under unusual circumstances. My brother took the initiative to pursue her, and they got together after half a year. The year they graduated, they went to different schools, and they broke up because of the long-distance relationship."
Yu Hanjiang asked very directly, "How far have things progressed between your brother and his first love? Have they slept together?"
Xiao Lou: "..."
Captain Yu's direct question still caught everyone off guard. Zhou Zheng was clearly taken aback by the question.
He looked quite innocent, his ears turning slightly red, and said, "One weekend, my brother went out with Yu Lin. In the middle of the night, he suddenly messaged me saying that he had finally become a man from a boy, so he and Yu Lin, I guess... did it?"
Xiao Lou quickly took out paper and pen and wrote down the key points in his words.
Yu Hanjiang asked, " What kind of personality does Yu Lin have? Which school did she go to and what major did she apply to? Did they have any conflicts before they broke up?"
Zhou Zheng said, " Yu Lin was our high school goddess. She was beautiful, had good grades, and a graceful personality. She was the kind of elegant lady from a well-to-do family. She ended up going to the mathematics department at Huada University, which was too far away from my brother, so they broke up. I remember they never had any conflicts and broke up peacefully. My brother was very sad at the time and even got drunk."
Yu Hanjiang followed up with, "What's the situation with your second girlfriend?"
Zhou Zheng said, "His second girlfriend was someone he dated during the summer after his senior year of high school. She was a girl who worked at the front desk of an internet cafe. The college entrance exam was over, and we had a lot of free time. My brother and I went to the internet cafe to play games every day, and that's how we got to know each other. She was a very outgoing and sexy girl. We went to a hotel together less than three days after we met. I don't know her name, but everyone called her... Yanzi."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "The third one, that is, Yue Xiaoquan?"
Zhou Zheng said, "That's right. I met Yue Xiaoquan when we were sophomores. Our school held a social dance party, and my brother and I met Yue Xiaoquan and Mo Jiaran at the same time. I fell in love with Ranran at first sight, and my brother fell in love with Yue Xiaoquan at first sight. Then we often asked them out to eat."
Yu Hanjiang continued directly, asking, " How far have things progressed between him and Yue Xiaoquan?"
Zhou Zheng touched his nose and said, "They've known each other for two years, and they even went on a solo trip together last year during the holidays. My brother is so experienced, I reckon they've probably... done *that* too."
Xiao Lou frowned slightly—this Zhou Quan seemed to regard sleeping with girls as an honor. Given the number of harem novels Zhou Quan had read, he couldn't possibly be satisfied with just conquering three girls.
Yu Hanjiang thought so too. He said casually, "It seems your brother's taste has been changing all along? His first love was a refined and elegant lady from a wealthy family, but not long after the breakup, he got together with a hot girl from an internet cafe? And his third girlfriend is the aloof and icy Yue Xiaoquan?"
Zhou Zheng said with a grim expression, "I don't really understand his taste either."
Xiao Lou laughed and said, "I think he sees himself as the male protagonist in a harem novel, collecting all sorts of girls."
Zhou Zheng was taken aback: "W-What do you mean?"
Xiao Lou said, "You know he has three girlfriends, but he's definitely dated more than just those three. Besides the elegant lady type, the sexy and hot type, and the aloof ice queen type, there must also be lively and cute, kind and shy, intellectual and gentle... He needs to have one of each type of girl to be psychologically satisfied. Am I right?"
Zhou Zheng's expression changed slightly, and he was unable to refute it for a moment.
Yu Hanjiang asked coldly, "How long has your brother been reading these novels?"
Zhou Zheng said awkwardly, "He's been watching it since middle school, for about seven or eight years now."
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang exchanged a glance—it seemed that the idea of taking on a harem had taken deep root in Zhou Quan's heart.
When he was dating his first love, he was still in high school, strictly controlled by his teachers and parents. In addition, his first love was indeed very outstanding, so it was inconvenient for him to have multiple relationships at the same time. The first time, he even sent a message to his younger brother, saying that he had grown from a boy into a man. It can be seen that at that time, he still had the sense of sacredness of "growing up" that a naive teenager should have had.
High school students' relationships are relatively simple, and breaking up because they apply to different universities is the most common outcome.
After the breakup, during the summer after the college entrance exam, Zhou Quan finally began to let loose.
He met a hot girl at an internet cafe, and they went to a hotel together in less than three days. It's clear that by then, Zhou Quan no longer felt that intimate contact was "sacred," but rather that sleeping with girls was perfectly normal. The hot girl at the internet cafe was so easy to get, which gave him the illusion that "women are easy to please," and the idea of building a harem, which had been buried deep in his heart, gradually began to ferment.
The university environment is relatively free, and there are many beautiful women in each college. He set his sights on the cold and indifferent Yue Xiaoquan.
Zhou Quan on the surface indeed
He was a handsome and talented man, very eloquent, tactful, and responsible. He was also experienced in pursuing women and had his own methods for charming girls. Yue Xiaoquan was probably moved by him and had a relationship with him while traveling during the holidays.
However, given his personality, how could he possibly be content with just being with Yue Xiaoquan?
It's highly unlikely that Zhou Quan could spend two years with only one girlfriend. Therefore, he might have been seeing two, three, or even four other women at the same time while dating Yue Xiaoquan.
Xiao Lou admired him more and more as he thought about it—wasn't this guy afraid of developing a split personality?
Yu Hanjiang paused for a moment, then asked, "You know, there are only these three, no others?"
"Well, I only know the names of these three." Zhou Zheng paused, then suddenly added, "By the way, I saw some ambiguous WeChat messages on my brother's phone. One girl called him 'darling,' and another called him 'husband'… I didn't see Yue Xiaoquan's profile picture. My brother often plays games and sometimes finds 'wife' in games. I thought they were his in-game partners, so I didn't pay any attention."
Sure enough, Zhou Quan was juggling multiple relationships, and ended up getting himself into trouble.
Xiao Lou sighed and rubbed his forehead: "Do you still remember the photos and names of the people he calls close to?"
Zhou Zheng thought for a moment and said, "One is a cute little cat, a white cat with some spots on its head, whose WeChat name is Little Feather; the other is a selfie, a young lady with exquisite makeup, who looks gentle and beautiful, and whose name is a string of letters."
Yu Hanjiang asked Zhou Zheng about everything he knew.
He and Xiao Lou then searched through Zhou Quan's travel backpack.
In the corner of the travel bag, in a zippered pocket, lay a USB drive the size of a fingernail, easily missed if one didn't search carefully. Yu Hanjiang picked up the USB drive and looked at Zhou Zheng, asking, "Did you bring a laptop?"
Zhou Zheng said, "I didn't bring it... Oh right, Ranran brought it, I'll go borrow it from her."
He turned and left quickly, returning a moment later with a pink laptop. It was unexpected that Mo Jiaran, despite her spoiled temperament, had a very girlish heart. The laptop case was pink, the keyboard was also decorated in pink, and there was a cute little teddy bear on the desktop. The hard drive had only two partitions: one was the C drive where the operating system was installed, and the other was filled with various shoujo manga, anime, and idol dramas.
There's a strange, endearing contrast between them. Xiao Lou strongly suspects that Zhou Quan might have had inappropriate feelings for his younger brother's girlfriend.
Yu Hanjiang plugged the USB drive into the port and was prompted to enter a password.
Zhou Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Try 147852. That's the password my brother often uses."
Yu Hanjiang entered this string of numbers, and the USB drive was successfully opened.
Then...
Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, and even Zhou Zheng were all stunned.
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Inside the USB drive were seven folders named "Consort Lin," "Consort Quan," "Consort Yan," "Beauty Song," "Consort Yun," "Consort Ru," and "Beauty Mu"—it was simply an eyesore!
Xiao Lou: "...…"
The feudal empire is long gone, and this guy is still choosing concubines?!
Yu Hanjiang pressed his temples, looking at Zhou Zheng with a headache, and said, "Your brother's private life is quite eventful."
Therefore, he was ultimately punished with castration by his concubines.
Zhou Zheng seemed to understand the other party's subtext, his face filled with horror: "I...I don't know! Don't look at me like that, I...I'm very devoted to Ranran! I've never dated any other girl, please don't tell Ranran..."
The older brother is such a womanizer, while the younger brother is henpecked; what a difference!
Xiao Lou was both amused and exasperated: "I wasn't talking about you. Let's talk about your brother's concubines first. It seems he has a habit of collecting girls and keeping photos of them. Take a look, how many do you recognize?"
Zhou Zheng opened the folder with a grim expression.
Xiao Lou was prepared for a visual shock, but fortunately, Zhou Quan still had some integrity. The photos he took of the girls were all casual snapshots, none of which involved privacy or contained any nude photos or anything that would be offensive.
Zhou Zheng pointed to the photos and said, "This is his first love, Yu Lin; this is Yue Xiaoquan, whom you've all met; this is the internet cafe hottie Yanzi I was talking about... I don't recognize the others."
Xiao Lou roughly counted that Zhou Quan currently has a total of seven concubines and beauties in his collection.
In ancient times, having multiple wives and concubines and enjoying the blessings of multiple wives, living harmoniously together, would be considered a beautiful story. However, this was on the premise that the wives knew of each other's existence and could accept the premise of "sharing one husband." Modern society has long been based on monogamy, and women cannot tolerate their boyfriends cheating. Therefore, Zhou Quan certainly did not tell these girls that he was juggling multiple relationships.
He's quite intelligent; he can discern each girl's preferences and remember each girl's birthday...
What good could someone with such low intelligence do? Why choose to take the crooked and unethical path!
Xiao Lou looked at the seven neatly arranged folders, remained silent for a moment, and then suddenly said, " The photos and chat history on Zhou Quan's phone have all been deleted. The murderer probably didn't expect that he would also back up the photos on a USB drive."
Yu Hanjiang nodded and asked, "Don't you think this hot girl at the internet cafe looks familiar?"
Xiao Lou looked at the photo carefully, touched his chin, and after a moment said, "She has a red mole on the corner of her left eye, I remember..."
"One of the girls in my group of girlfriends seems to have the same red mole near her eye." He quickly confirmed, "It's Liu Xiaoyan! Although her appearance and demeanor have changed a lot, you can still vaguely recognize her from back then."
Yu Hanjiang's expression was extremely serious: "As expected, this group of girlfriends is also related to Zhou Quan. Let's check the photos again carefully."
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang opened all the clearest front-facing photos in the seven folders.
The first one is Yu Lin, a dignified and elegant young lady from a well-to-do family, with long, straight black hair. Strangely, Zhou Quan dated her during high school, but the photo doesn't show her as a high school student; it's a solo photo taken at the school gate after she entered university. Logically, since they've broken up, he shouldn't have been able to get a photo of his ex-girlfriend… Could it be that Zhou Quan got back together with her?
Yu Hanjiang looked at the face more and more familiar it seemed. After a moment, he suddenly said, "Last night, a new passenger boarded in carriage 6. He's currently staying in room 4. His name is Yu Lin."
Xiao Lou was startled and immediately flipped through the pages.
The second photo features Liu Xiaoyan, the eldest of the group of girlfriends. She used to be a hot girl working at the front desk of an internet cafe. Now she seems to have a successful career and a completely different image, but the mole at the corner of her eye is still very noticeable.
The third picture shows Yue Xiaoquan, a female student at the Medical School. She has a beautiful appearance, a cold and aloof personality, and long, straight, black hair.
Fourth, upon closer inspection, you can see that it is actually Song Xiaoyu from the group of best friends, with the same long, straight black hair!
The girl wore a pure white dress and faced the camera. She seemed a little shy, with a slight blush on her face. Her clear eyes showed a hint of innocence. She looked to be only about eighteen years old. Her innocent and naive appearance would indeed arouse a man's protective instincts.
The fifth woman, dressed in a professional suit skirt, appeared to be already working. She wore silver-rimmed glasses and had a gentle, intellectual smile; she was likely a young professional woman around 24 years old. Coincidentally, Xiao Lou had seen her last night when the train arrived at 9:30 PM and asked if she was going to a concert; she replied that she was going on a business trip. Zhou Quan had placed a photo of this woman, named Si Yun, in his "Yunfei" folder.
Xiao Lou had also met the sixth and seventh girls before—both girls who boarded the bus at 9:30 PM last night. The two girls were together, carrying bags and wearing sportswear, and looked like college students. One of them was named Yan Ruru, and the other was named Cheng Mu. Their photos were placed in the folders "Rufei" and "Mumeiren" respectively.
Xiao Lou became increasingly alarmed as she looked at it!
Yu Lin, Liu Xiaoyan, Yue Xiaoquan, Song Xiaoyu, Si Yun, Yan Ruru, Cheng Mu...
Xiao Lou's voice trembled slightly as he said in disbelief, " Zhou Quan's USB drive contained photos of seven girls, and these seven girls are all on this train now!"
Zhou Zheng was also shocked: "What do you mean? All the women my brother has dated are here?!"
Yu Hanjiang took a closer look at the photo on Zhou Quan's phone wallpaper.
That creepy train photo had clearly been edited by a Photoshop expert. Everyone in the carriage was expressionless, like corpses.
The train heading to hell... So that's what it means.
Yu Hanjiang looked at the folder on the computer and said calmly, "All seven girls were present. Your brother's concubines came together to—attend his funeral."
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Zhou Quan turned around and, holy crap, all seven of his girlfriends were there!
P.S.: The cases in this article are all fictional. In reality, there are many scumbags who date multiple girls at the same time. I hope you never encounter one. Mwah!