System Only Gives Me Useless Gifts

Li Yun took the following day off and drove to the Yide Police Department. As he was driving, his phone lit up and alerted him of an incoming call from Xuxu. He reached his hand over from the steering wheel and pressed the green phone icon.

"Hey, what's up?" asked Li Yun.

"I heard you're looking for Chu Rouxi," Xuxu answered.

Li Yun glanced at the cellphone as though looking at Xuxu. Bu Tao had already told them what happened, but it never occurred to him that someone within his circle knew her. "You know her?"

"My business partner."

"Seriously?" Li Yun knew Xuxu started a real estate business in Magic City, but he had never met her business partner. "So she's really in real estate?"

"It's an enterprise we started recently, and real estate is the main focus."

"Did you talk to her?"

"I talked to her after I found out that you were looking for her."

"What did she say?"

"I'll give you her number and you can ask her."

Xuxu hung up, and a moment later, a message appeared with a number.

His hands gripped the wheel with a bit of hesitation. He wanted to look for her, but he wasn't sure what he would do if he saw her again. She had played him for a fool, but was that enough reason for him to be obsessed with her? If that was the only reason, did he even need to see her again? Or maybe he wanted to see her again to resolve an unanswered question, why? He could figure a lot of things out, but not Chu Rouxi.

Arriving at the police station, Li Yun parked the car and quickly messaged Chu Rouxi. Afterward, he got out of the car and met up with Bu Tao. Inside the conference room, Bu Tao displayed a video feed of the serial killer, Wen Fubin, as he sat alone in the interrogation room.

"He still hasn't provided any information about his wife," Bu Tao gave Li Yun the files involving Wen Fubin and his missing wife. "The prosecutor has agreed to take out the death sentence, but he still doesn't admit any involvement. They are beginning to believe he has no involvement."

"What do you think?" Li Yun asked.

"My gut tells me that bastard did it," Bu Tao believed Wen Fubin killed his wife and hid her somewhere.

After updating Li Yun and formulating a plan, Bu Tao and Detective Dan walked inside the interrogation room while Li Yun remained in the conference room. On the monitor screen, Bu Tao and Detective Dan appeared inside and took turns asking questions.

"Detectives, I have already answered everything already, you can ask my lawyer if you have anything else," Wen Fubin was impatient to leave.

"Well, it's already a closed case," Bu Tao calmly stated. "If the fingers stored in your apartment isn't enough to put you behind bars, I'll throw you in myself. Or better yet, I'll give Mr. Ning Ju De your location."

Wen Fubin gritted his teeth as he looked at his bandaged hand right. "What do you want? I already told you I don't know where my wife is. She disappeared. If I knew where that ***** is, I'd show you the corpse myself."

"So you're telling me you have nothing to do with her disappearance? It's kind of hard to believe. You think she ran away when she figured out you were a lunatic?"

"Could be? How would I know?" Wen Fubin shrugged his shoulders and tapped his feet impatiently.

"Want to explain to us again what happened between the two of you? We heard from her parents that when you two met in college, it was a love match. They were against it at first, but since you had a stable job, they agreed on the marriage. What happened afterward?"

"Our personality didn't match. She was outgoing, and I prefer my own quiet places."

"Were you attracted to her because she was outgoing?"

"Probably. She was different from me." Wen Fubin shrugged his left shoulders slightly.

"What made her attracted to you?"

"She liked that I was dark and different from her usual group of friends. Now that I think about it, she probably liked our contrast. It made her jump out more. She was constantly craving attention."

"So when your attention wasn't enough, she sought out another man?"

"Not another man, other men. She was careful at first."

"When did you find out?"

"She was going out to her friends a lot. I didn't like her friends, so I didn't realize she was going to her boyfriends until I decided to visit her friend to pick her up. Her friend told me she was probably staying at another friend's place. I knew they were all lying at that point, so I started following her."

"Did you follow them to a hotel?"

"I did."

"Did you confront them?"

"No." Wen Fubin clenched his fist in anger. "But I should have."

"Why didn't you?"

"I didn't want to lose her. Although she was cheating on me, she was still my wife."

"But she continued cheating on you with more men?"

Wen Fubin nodded.

"When did she disappear? What happened that day?"

"I guess she started to notice someone following her. Once she figured out it was me, she decided there was no point in staying."

"Why run off without a trace and not to her parents or friends?"

"How would I know!?" Wen Fubin's mood turned sour. "I filed the missing person report the day after."

"You like to write horror stories, is that an outlet for your violent obsession?"

"It could be. I liked to collect chicken feet when I was growing up. After we moved to the urban area, it was difficult to find them. I had to write stories to fulfill my needs."

"Is that the reason for staying so late in the library?"

"There are a lot of resources there."

Wen Fubin didn't look like he was lying during the interrogation, but that didn't mean much when someone rehearsed something over and over.

"His anger that he expressed when they mentioned she ran off is very real," Li Yun said into the microphone that transmitted his voice to Bu Tao's earpiece. "His wife had probably decided to go back to her parents, but he stopped her. They got into an argument, and it's likely he accidentally killed her. Ask him where he hid the body."

"Where did you hide the body?" asked Bu Tao.

Wen Fubin snorted in disgust. "I already told you, I don't know what happened to her."

Li Yun looked through a list of places Wen Fubin often visited, the library, his home, and a cafe. He didn't go to many places. Bu Tao already had his men scout out all the locations, even the library where Wen Fubin had worked previously when his wife was still with him.

Li Yun didn't believe Wen Fubin was the type to dump his wife anywhere random. The man was obsessed with her. Even after everything she did, he didn't confront her. It was her who wanted to leave.

"Ask him if it's still in the library," Li Yun said.

"Is the body still in the library?" Bu Tao asked.

"Why would it be in the library?" Wen Fubin asked.

Every time Wen Fubin was asked a question he didn't want to answer, he would respond with a question. It was a typical tactic to avoid answering questions.

"So he could watch her at all times," Li Yun replied. "Old Bu, let's go to the library."

Bu Tao excused himself, and a small team headed to the library.

"We had the canine unit looked through, but we didn't find anything," said Bu Tao. "He only started working here a year ago, so you really think he bought the corpse here?"

"I analyzed the case a bit with Ju De, and we both think that if time wasn't pressing, Wen Fubin would try to preserve the body as much as possible," Li Yun explained as they walked around the library.