My Dearest General: It Has Always Been You

Cui Qiqiang was frightened by Wu Ruoqing's bold decision. "Is-Is this really okay?"

Wu Ruoqing nodded firmly. "I have asked my friend about it. He's a real big figure with hundreds of subordinates under him. Don't worry, he will take care of everything just fine. First, he will have his people disguise as you, kidnap Wu Wengen and threaten him to destroy the video. If he doesn't want to listen, then he will be taught a lesson."

"But why…do they have to pretend to be me?" he asked carefully.

A cold light flashed through Wu Ruoqing's eyes. "Of course, it's because he loves you. If it's you, he will not be able to think clearly and everything will become easier. If the time comes when he tries to confront you about it, we can create a perfect alibi. Then, he won't be able to find any proof that it's us who plan it. Moreover, we can also scare him a bit so that he will not come up with any tricks again in the future. Do you think that it's just like hitting two birds with one stone?"

Cui Qiqiang pondered on her words for a long time. Hesitation reflected on his eyes. Was it really okay to do this? What if Wu Wengen wasn't fooled?

This was a crucial matter which concerned his life in the future. No matter what, he had to make sure that the video thoroughly disappeared from the face of Earth!

Cui Qiqiang comforted himself multiple times. However, he was used to being independent and he never trusted anyone but himself. Giving such an important task to others, he couldn't rest assured. Thus, he came out with an idea.

"I will personally do the task. You go and have your friend's people go with you."

With this, he would end everything once and for all.

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Cui Qiqiang collapsed on the table, tears streamed down his face. "I really didn't mean to kill him. Who knows…when I threatened him, he would be so crazy to push the knife into his own chest…It's really not me who killed him! It's him who wanted to kill himself!"

Luo Ning's expression when he listened to the interrogation was complicated. For a person like Wu Wengen, to suddenly have the person he loved hold a knife in front of him, threaten him just for a video, how desperate and sad he was back then?

Maybe death was better than this.

He swiveled his chair and sighed. "Senior Ru, Mr. Cui might not be lying. Maybe it's really Wu Wengen who dealt the last blow."

"It might be him, it might not be him, so what?" Ru Meiqi answered. "The person who held the knife was Cui Qiqiang and the person who 'killed' him was Cui Qiqiang. In this case, he was the true murderer."

After Wu Wengen held Cui Qiqiang's hands and pushed the knife into his own chest, he finally got the liberation he wanted. It wasn't enough once, he even stabbed a few more times. The act showed how hurt he was.

Then, the panicked Cui Qiqiang intended to disguise the murder as the serial killer's deed. He chopped off the body and threw it in the public garbage can while he himself still wandered in the area where Wu Wengen lived.

The video! The video was still in Wu Wengen's hands!

He couldn't leave until he completely deleted it! However, the police had sealed Wu Wengen's apartment room. Cui Qiqiang planned to wait for a few days until the police's guard laxed a bit to sneak into the apartment, then destroyed Wu Wengen's laptop and computer completely.

Who knew that the police would act so fast?

It was over, everything was thoroughly over...

Wu Wengen had died while Cui Qiqiang's life had also ended.

Now that he was a convict, how could he continue to live on?

Qin Weizhe didn't interject during Cui Qiqiang's long confession. He had his eyes lowered as he looked at his open notebook blankly, seemingly listening while also daydreaming. Only when Cui Qiqiang said the last sentence did he lift his head, his lips pursed tight.

"Do you know?" He said slowly. "We have searched all of Mr. Wu's belongings but never found the video. From the start, he had never intended to keep it."

"W—What…? What did you say?" Cui Qiqiang looked at him in daze, his whole body swayed like a thin leaf.

Qin Weizhe closed his notebook and shook his head with a sigh. "It's only because we have our own manpower that we managed to retrieve the video. Mr. Cui, you said that Wu Wengen loved you. If that's the case, do you think that he would have the heart to do something bad to you?"

Cui Qiqiang's hands shook violently and tears streamed down his face without him realizing.

In his mind were Wu Wengen's disbelieving eyes, bleak and desolate. The last light in them was completely extinguished by Cui Qiqiang's own hands. "Qiqiang…is that really how you think of me?" His lips curled up in sadness, blood trickled down his mouth, mixing with unending tears.

However, at that time, Cui Qiqiang's sight was only focused on the knife inside Wu Wengen's chest. He looked at his bloodied hands, frenzied. "No, no…I didn't mean to..."

"Qiqiang…" Wu Wengen's body fell to the ground and convulsed violently, yet his eyes stared unblinkingly at Cui Qiqiang. "I…" He coughed out blood, so much blood that the floor was dyed crimson. Then, he closed his eyes and breathed his last.

I…what?

What did you want to say in the end, Wengen?

Cui Qiqiang buried his face inside his palm, a pained howl escaped from his mouth.

The door closed behind Qin Weizhe's back and he sighed.

"Detective Qin." Luo Ning approached and offered him a cup of steaming warm water. "Nice work. Drink some water to moisten your throat."

Qin Weizhe accepted it with a faint smile. "How is it? Have the people extracted Miss Wu's testimony?"

"Yes, she has confessed all of her deeds. It matched with Cui Qiqiang's testimony."

"That's good."

Luo Ning looked at the downcast Qin Weizhe and couldn't get accustomed to it. "Detective Qin…are you okay?"

The man gave him a smiling glance. "What? Worried about me?"

Luo Ning blushed but he didn't deny it.

Qin Weizhe chuckled and rubbed his head. Then in the next second, his smile receded and heaviness painted his eyes. "Sometimes, it's really…tiring to do this. Don't you think that everything is very ridiculous? If Wu Wengen didn't act on impulse and threaten Cui Qiqiang, if Wu Ruoqing had just chosen a more peaceful way, if Cui Qiqiang cared about Wu Wengen more…do you think they would end up like today?"

"Detective Qin…" Luo Ning pursed his lips tight and braced himself. "I—I don't know... But if it was me, I wouldn't do anything to hurt my lover."

Qin Weizhe was stunned for a moment before bursting into laughter. He ruffled Luo Ning's head until it turned into a messy bird nest. "En, our Little Luo is the most sensible. Whoever marries you in the future will be the luckiest girl in the world!"

Steam billowed up from Luo Ning's head, even his neck reddened with a speed visible to naked eyes. "P—Please don't tease me!"

Qin Weizhe laughed heartily, the gloominess earlier had dispersed in the face of Luo Ning's cuteness.

Seeing Qin Weizhe's smile, Luo Ning finally sighed in relief and a smile emerged on his face. "Then, what should we do with the fake Cui Qiqiang?" He asked carefully.

"Ah right. I almost forgot about him." Qin Weizhe rubbed his face and took a deep breath. "Come on. Time for the last interrogation. I have a feeling that this man isn't so simple."

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A/N: Wu Wengen is so sad QAQ but once again lemme ask, who's at fault?

Wu Wengen who has his love denied and got desperate, Cui Qiqiang who placed more importance on his future, or Wu Ruoqing who got betrayed by both his brother and husband? Or....is it author's fault for creating them? (nuu this one doesn't count haha)