You Asked Me to Be a Backup, So Why Did I Pull Off the Perfect Crime?

“A substitute? Who?” “A novelist, the kind whose books flop.” “...Fine. Let her on.”

On the third livestream of Who Is the Killer?, the scheduled contestant was taken to the police station for drunk driving. Shen Ye was the last person on the substitute list they could get on the phone.

Twenty-four hours later, the livestream went silent for three seconds.

She had set a trap at a wedding attended by three hundred people. She never touched the murder weapon or went near the scene. There was surveillance footage the whole time and twenty witnesses. The criminal investigation team searched the hotel three times, but couldn’t find a single rule she’d broken.

The criminal psychology professor set down his teacup and said nothing for a long while. The head of the investigation team stared at the woman in gray on the screen and frowned.

Something was wrong.

But he couldn’t say what.