Chapter 68: Still Trying to Quibble? Refuting Them One by One!

"Officer, you heard it too. The truth of the matter is actually this: there was no drugging whatsoever, it's all just a misunderstanding!" Tong Wenjie said hurriedly. Seeing that they remained silent and kept staring at He Chen, she realized that whoever tied the bell must untie it, so she glared at He Chen.

"What else do you have to say now? Let me tell you, if you falsely accuse others at will, we can turn around and call the police to have you arrested!"

"Of course I have something to say!" He Chen laughed. "Do you dare to believe a habitual liar like Fang Yifan?

He is not as straightforward as me; he doesn't just say whatever is on his mind!"

"..." Everyone was speechless, especially the two police officers, who exchanged glances and thought to themselves: as expected.

Fortunately, they hadn't rushed to speak or express their stance.

This kid was a bit peculiar.

And He Chen was right; Fang Yifan had indeed lied quite a bit about this matter. Although he seemed quite sincere this time, with Lin Leier echoing his sentiments, they still couldn't guarantee that he was telling the truth this time.

Better to just wait and see.

"Leier agreed with his explanation, what right do you have to question him?" Tong Wenjie shouted.

"That's right!" Seeing his aunt getting so anxious that his sleepiness was temporarily driven away, Lin Leier took the initiative to echo: "At the time, when my cousin saw me drink it, he even looked worried and said that was the one he had drank, meaning I shouldn't drink it. I even told him I didn't mind."

"Listen to that! Just listen!" Tong Wenjie was overjoyed. "How detailed is what Leier said? This surely wasn't just made up on the spot, right? Now you should believe that Fang Yifan didn't do it on purpose? He wanted to drink it himself, and Leier just happened to be there at the right time!"

The two police uncles nodded slightly, accepting the explanation.

Lin Leier looked like a very well-behaved child, and moreover, he was currently drowsy; it was impossible for him to concoct such a detailed and credible lie on the spot. With their investigative experience, they basically believed Lin Leier's account.

So one of them looked at He Chen again and took the initiative to speak, "What do you have to say?"

"I believe Lin Leier is not lying!" He Chen nodded in agreement.

"Very well!" Tong Wenjie shouted loudly, "So now you admit you were slandering blindly?"

"Stupid!" He Chen looked at her as if she were an idiot. "Just like cutting off the phrase 'one must not take things out of context' from the sentence 'you must not take things out of context,' Lin Leier not lying does not mean what he said is the truth!

He was dazed after being drugged, so muddled he didn't even know he had been drugged, and almost fainted just doing morning exercises. Can someone in that state really clarify whether it was 'taking things out of context' or 'not taking things out of context'?

Is what he saw really the truth?"

"If he couldn't see it, can you, who aren't even a party involved, see it?" Li Tiegun questioned. "Aren't you just blindly feeling the elephant like the blind men in the fable? And you're making malicious speculations!"

"Teacher Li, just because you can't, doesn't mean I can't!" He Chen retorted. "Who told you that someone who isn't a party involved can't state the truth?

Doesn't the truth come out simply by applying basic logical thinking?

I really don't know how you managed to become the head teacher of the elite sprint class, leading straight-A students who are all prime candidates for Tsinghua and Peking University!"

"What did you say?!" Li Tiegun's face turned beet red as she glared at He Chen.

Noticing that things were getting out of hand, a police officer gave a light cough to interrupt and smiled at He Chen, "Why don't you tell us how basic logical thinking can deduce the truth?"

"Then I'll make a fool of myself!" He Chen smiled. "Fang Yifan said he originally prepared it for himself to drink, so it was a misunderstanding and he didn't actually intend to drug Lin Leier. That is an outright, thorough lie!

Qiao Yingzi, what did Fang Yifan say to you when he asked you for the medicine?"

Seeing Qiao Yingzi open her mouth without being able to utter a word, he didn't make things difficult for her and spoke on her behalf: "He told Qiao Yingzi that Lin Leier was suffering from severe homesickness and terrible insomnia, so he needed to take the medicine immediately!

If it were really as he claimed, that the medicine was for himself, why would he lie to Qiao Yingzi?"

The expressions of Fang Yifan and Tong Wenjie turned flustered.

This indeed was a major flaw.

And He Chen did not give them time to figure out how to quibble, continuing onward: "Because Fang Yifan knew that Qiao Yingzi and his mother understand him too well.

If he said it was for himself, Qiao Yingzi simply wouldn't believe that someone who didn't care about ranking last in the whole school, and who ate and slept well every single day, would suffer from severe insomnia!

She wouldn't have given him the medicine in the first place!

And even if he got the medicine, according to his claim, the juice he spiked was left there for him to drink himself—what good would that do?

Even if he felt sleepy from taking the medicine temporarily, his mother wouldn't believe for a second that he did it for his studies; she would only think he had stayed up all night playing video games and then beat him to a pulp!

It would never happen the way he wanted—that out of fear of it affecting his studies, she would abandon a comfortable large house, spend over ten thousand yuan more every month to rent a small apartment in Shuxiang Yayuan, and endure a much longer commute back and forth to work.

That is simply impossible!

Therefore, the reason he put the medicine into the juice was never for himself to drink at all; it was explicitly prepared for Lin Leier to drink!

Only naive Lin Leier could make his mother believe that living far from the school really affected his studies!

Only Lin Leier, the Tsinghua and Peking University seed student, would make his mother willing to go to such great lengths to ensure her nephew gets into Tsinghua or Peking University.

That is the logical truth!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Fang Yifan quibbled. "I did have that thought at first, but when the moment came, I regretted it, so I really intended to drink it myself. It was just an accident that Leier drank it ahead of time."

"Right, that's how it was!" Tong Wenjie also shouted. "Fang Yifan and Leier are brothers with such a close bond; he could never harm Leier. At the critical moment, he would definitely rather get hurt himself than let Leier come to harm. It must have been an accident that Leier drank it by mistake."

"Mhm, I believe my cousin!" Lin Leier also nodded in agreement.

"Hehe! I don't believe it!" He Chen flashed a classic smile: "For habitual liars—no, for anyone—we judge by actions, not intentions!

We only look at what he actually did, not what he supposedly thought in his heart!

And judging from Fang Yifan's words and deeds, I don't believe for a second that it was an accident. It was clearly deliberate!

What deep brotherly love?

Total nonsense!

Don't believe me?

Just look at the things he did to see!

After he supposedly 'accidentally' let Lin Leier drink the medicine, clearly seeing that Lin Leier was so sleepy he couldn't even keep his eyes open, what did he do?

He completely ignored whether such a dazed Lin Leier was in any danger, abandoned the muddled Lin Leier to go to school first, and left Lin Leier to take the public bus all by himself. Lin Leier ended up falling asleep right there on the bus, rode all the way to the final stop, and missed morning self-study.

It was fortunate that he was sitting on a bus; what if he had been crossing the street and gotten hit directly by a car?

What if he had been walking down the stairs, missed a step, and tumbled all the way down?

Don't say it's impossible!

An ordinary person who has been drugged might still encounter such hazards, and Lin Leier is notoriously absent-minded. I heard that right when he was picked up and got off the plane in Beijing, he managed to get lost twice in the blink of an eye.

Though puffed up by Fang Yifan as a super genius who instantly memorized all flight information at the airport, he went up and down the escalators walking backwards to study 'Tao Terzaghi's uniqueness problem.'

This proves that Lin Leier is naturally much more prone to absent-mindedness than ordinary people, let alone when he was drugged—and with a double dose at that!

Fang Yifan witnessed the whole scene of Lin Leier getting lost and his parents anxiously searching for him. After drugging Lin Leier, he could just walk away without a care in the world. And you're telling me he cares about Lin Leier and genuinely looks out for him?

You can fool others, but don't fool yourselves!"

Everyone: "..."