Chen Guohui, male, forty-two years old, a well-known supporting actor who has appeared in many popular TV shows. He is righteous and works for low pay but is well-liked by many directors. He won the Best Supporting Actor award last year and has appeared in many TV shows directed by Yu Qing.
Zhu Yanqing, male, thirty-one years old, an ordinary extra actor in the film and TV industry. He looks plain and has been here for five years without playing any major roles.
Upon seeing the two transcripts picked out by Su He, Zhou Bing immediately asked someone to collect information on the two men, then walked up to Su He and asked, "Are you sure it's them?"
Su He nodded, pointed at Chen Guohui's name and said, "The murderer."
Then he pointed at Zhu Yanqing's name and said, "The accomplice."
"The key to how the murderer in this locked room murder escaped is how he got out. The only exit was the door, which was locked from the inside, so the murderer must still be in the room. But I was distracted by the props room and didn't check carefully."
"I called the police and didn't open the door. So the murderer was trapped, forced into a dead end. But he had anticipated this possibility and made arrangements. Someone smashed the glass door from outside and a group of people rushed in. The murderer took the opportunity to escape with the crowd."
"Whoever smashed that door is the prime suspect!"
"There are no surveillance cameras on the set. We can only rely on forensic investigation and witness statements. Everyone is a suspect, but they can also provide alibis for themselves. In their statements, Zhu Yanqing and Chen Guohui confirmed each other's alibi that they were together."
"But Zhu Yanqing's name appeared in other people's statements while Chen Guohui's did not!"
"After all, this locked room murder was a deliberately arranged plot by the murderer. The seemingly perfect layout had a simple logical flaw that ultimately led back to him..."
"If he had cleaned up the evidence and left directly instead of waiting, he might not have slipped up."
Zhou Bing gave Su He a meaningful glance and asked, "Can you give me a reasonable explanation for why you always happen to appear at the crime scene?"
Su He smiled and said, "Would you believe me if I said it was just a coincidence?"
Zhou Bing did not answer. As if he would believe that crap. If Su He claimed he had planned all these cases himself, Zhou might actually believe that.
But Zhou was a cop. Without any evidence linking Su He to this case, even the famous detective Wen Jie of Jinan City said Su He was creepy and defied all logic.
Soon Chen Guohui and Zhu Yanqing were arrested. Under interrogation, Zhu Yanqing confessed everything.
As a veteran extra who always played dead bodies, passerby A and other minor roles, he finally got an opportunity after five years. He met Chen Guohui.
Two days ago, Chen Guohui approached him for help. In exchange, he would ask the director to give Zhu a line.
Zhu agreed without hesitation. All he had to do was smash open the glass door of the props room and lead people inside, under Chen's direction.
When he discovered the dead body inside, Chen pulled him aside and warned him that he would be an accomplice facing ten years in jail if he called the police. Chen assured him the police would not find them. Only then did Zhu not tell the truth to the police.
Chen also gave him 50,000 yuan hush money. Zhu confessed so quickly because he was afraid Chen would silence him.
Chen denied everything under interrogation and refused to cooperate. But a major breakthrough came during the investigation of him.
The address on Chen's ID card already belonged to another man named Chen Guohui!
After visiting that Chen, police learned that over ten years ago, a man had paid him 500 yuan to apply for an ID card with his own information but the other man's photo.
After extensive verification and investigation, police discovered this actor Chen Guohui was actually a murderer named Gu Shijie who had been on the run for twenty years.
Cornered, the man now known as both Chen Guohui and Gu Shijie finally confessed everything.
In 2002, Gu Shijie had just reached adulthood. Short on money, he and two friends committed robbery. Unfortunately, their target was a policeman. To avoid pursuit, they killed him and fled.
The other two were shot dead by police later for resisting arrest and taking hostages. But Gu disappeared without a trace, evading the law.
With no ID, Gu drifted to Shengzhou where he became a locally famous singer and TV host under his stage name.
He altered his looks with cosmetic surgery and makeup. Feeling unrecognizable, he illegally obtained an ID card under the name Chen Guohui before coming to the capital to start his acting career.
Over twenty years on the run, he had completely taken on the identity of actor Chen Guohui.
But the nightmare began when two men showed up demanding money and threatening to report him to the police otherwise.
They came from the same village as Gu in Changjin Province. Staying in town and occasionally working as extras, they kept pressuring Gu for more money.
Within just one month, Gu gave them 150,000 yuan, but they remained unsatisfied and kept blackmailing him.
Gu decided to kill them!
The only way to keep his secret would be to kill them. Fed up with the threats and extortion, he hatched a plan while changing clothes in the dressing room.
He found Zhu Yanqing to help ambush from outside.
He then told his fellow villagers he would give them another 200,000 yuan if they helped knock out the manager of the props room.
Once inside, Gu injected them with a prepared syringe when the manager wasn't looking and stabbed them in the heart with a dagger, killing them.
After the murders, Gu quickly locked the inner door when he noticed someone entering the dressing room. He then hid in the women's dressing room.
He contacted Zhu to break down the outer door. In the ensuing chaos as people rushed inside, Gu escaped with the crowd.
To cast suspicion on Su He, he had purposefully placed the props room key in Su He's clothes.
...
Su He did not know the outcome of the subsequent investigation. After receiving his reward from the System, he knew the case must be solved. Sitting on his electric scooter, his mind was filled with knowledge about flying planes.
Gazing up at the blue skies and white clouds, where could he find a plane to try flying?
Would delivering takeout by plane lead to bad reviews?
And he wondered how much fuel is needed to fly a plane. He heard gas prices were up again recently, how annoying!
"Ding! You have a new food delivery order, please handle it promptly."
Putting on his helmet, Su He shook off the impractical ideas and started another busy day.