Chapter 7 — 50 Years of Wrongfulness

He took out his phone, and the police voice rang out in the receiver: "Mr. Co, there is new evidence that has been submitted to the Bay Nguyet Ho fire. Please come to the department quickly, there are a few details that need you to verify." Co Lam pushed the office door, the police turned the documents on the table towards him and pushed them in front of him. He lowered his head to look, there were a few photos and an electronic evidence extraction record. The photos are surveillance camera screenshots, the resolution is not high, but the silhouette of the person in the center is very clear. The police used a pen cap to point at the figure in the photo: "She is the suspect who caused this fire." Co Lam's eyes stayed on the photo for a long time. This figure is To Nhu. "No way." He heard himself say: "To Nhu once showed me the camera at the scene. It showed Thanh Tu's face very clearly. She was in the hallway, had a lighter in her hand, she..." "That's fake." The police interrupted him: "That video was post-processed. The facial features were cut from another living video and inserted, even the number of frames did not match, the technical methods were very primitive. The 'evidence' part everything in your hand was fake from the start.” Co Lam was stunned. The police turned the computer screen over and opened a new camera clip. The camera angle is more skewed, like it was filmed from a camera at an intersection halfway across the street. After zooming in, the image is very grainy. But it can still be seen that after four o'clock in the morning, at the entrance to the empty hallway, a woman holding a pot of coal walked out of the side door, bent down and put it down, squatted next to it for a while, then stood up and left. Behind her there was smoke rising, at first it was just a thin line, then it got thicker and thicker. The police said: "This is the only camera that was not destroyed. All other filming locations were destroyed. Our people just recovered it from the old hard drive yesterday." Co Lam's face lost all color. When I left the police station, it was overcast. He drove straight to find To Nhu. To Nhu lives on the second floor of the old dormitory of the steel factory. He walked to the door and was about to knock on the door when he heard her voice coming from inside. "Tham Thanh Tu has been gone for a long time, even the phone number has been cancelled. Tell me how much she must hate me this time?" The other side was silent for a moment, as if listening to the person on the end of the line, then she laughed even louder: "Co Lam? He can't believe it any more now. Whatever I say, he believes it. I said the fire was caused by Tham Thanh Tu caused it, he didn't suspect..." Co Lam's hand stopped in mid-air. "The fire was intentionally caused by me. After all, Tham Thanh Tu took the blame. When I successfully marry Co Lam, won't his factory decide? I will fire all the workers who side with Tham Thanh Tu!" He kicked open the door. The sound of the iron door hitting the wall was so loud that the entire floor seemed to vibrate. To Nhu screamed, the phone slipped from her hand. "You... Mr. Co?" Co Lam walked in in two steps, one hand squeezing her wrist. "What did you say just now?" His voice was very low, his eyes filled with blood. "Say that again." To Nhu was grabbed by his wrist, her other hand panicked and patted his arm: "Brother Co, you heard me say it, it's not like what you heard. I was just joking with you just now, just talking nonsense..." "Are you kidding?" Co Lam burst out laughing, that smile was even scarier than when he wasn't smiling. He pulled To Nhu's wrist higher, leaned closer and looked straight into her eyes: "You intentionally set the fire, slandering Thanh Tu, you said it was a joke?" To Nhu's lips began to tremble. She used her other hand to pull his sleeve, her fingertips trembling: "Brother Co, let go, you squeeze me and it hurts... I admit at that moment I was momentary.

confused, but because I love you! I really love you so much, I can't watch you get engaged to Thanh Tu..." Having said that, she burst into tears. It looked like she had suffered a great injustice. Co Lam coldly looked at her. "The police have investigated clearly, I just finished reviewing the evidence. Arson, false witness, none of the crimes I can escape." "It's impossible... I hired someone to remove the camera at that intersection, even the motherboard was smashed, how can there still be surveillance images? You tricked me! You're definitely lying to me!" To Nhu said palely. Co Lam lowered her eyes to look at her. She knelt on the ground, raised her face, tears and snot smeared all over her face, a strand of tangled hair stuck to the corner of her mouth. He didn't reach out to brush it away, just pulled his arm from her palm. "I've removed those cameras, but there's still one left." "On the west side of the intersection, installed in front of the door of a roadside hardware store. It's too far away, maybe you don't even notice, but Thanh Tu is more careful than you." To Nhu's hand stopped in mid-air, her tear-stained fingers were empty. Two uniformed police officers held her shoulders and pulled her up. She suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something, suddenly turned her head, and struggled towards Co Lam, her eyes were so red that they were about to bleed: "Co Lam, what are you pretending to be in love with now?"