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“Don’t joke!” After a brief moment of shock, Liam regained his rationality and said to Yang Hong, “You can’t lie to a police officer! The largest piano competition for high school students in Aetheron City, the tenth year? Are you kidding me?”“Why?” Amelia was puzzled, “This is the only thing that I’m proud of in my entire life. How could I get it wrong? It was indeed the tenth year!”“Let me ask you, where was the competition held?” Liam still did not believe her.“Hmmm…” Yang Hong gave it a thought and quickly got the right answer, “Second Middle School! Yes! It was Second Middle School!”“Oh?” Liam was surprised but he still did not believe her. Immediately, he blurted out, “The Tenth Grand Piano Competition was eighteen years ago. The participants were all eighteen and nineteen-year-old high school students, how old are you now? Thirty-six? Thirty-seven?”“Well…” Amelia frowned, “I really can’t tell if you are complimenting me or insulting me.” Amelia pushed Liam away and took ou
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“What is it?” Hearing Amelia mention strange things, Liam was obviously very curious, and chased the topic.“Um…” Amelia started to recall, “I remember, during that year’s preliminary competition, our Denning County had an amazing student. I can’t remember the name well, but she was a girl for sure, and even before the competition, she was famous in our county. Apparently, she passed the tenth level when she was only twelve, and learned from the best instructor in the capital. Basically, she was super amazing.” She continued, “If I recall, during the rematch, I actually saw her once. Her clothing was very old, and even had patches on it. I imagine her household wasn’t very well-off, but her piano skills were crazy. Even though we were all at the tenth level, we were clearly a level below her.”“Right…” As if remembering something, Amelia said in a hurry, “The weird thing happened here in Aetheron City! She crushed the competition with her insane scores, but for some reason, her name w
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Bribery!” on the car ride to Xavier Village, Sharon blurted out to Liam, followed by her own reasoning, “someone might have bribed the girl prodigy, gave her a huge sum of money, and got her to withdraw from the competition! Without her as a strong competitor, the whoever paid her would be able to place!”“Interesting!” Liam said while driving, “Or it could be that someone did not get into the finals and only got eleventh place, so he bribed Emily, got her to withdraw so that he himself could get into the finals by filling in the position! So, the pregnant woman was tenth place, could she be…”“No!” Sharon said, “The sequence of getting into the finals does not determine one’s final placement. The tenth competitor who got into the finals could theoretically be the champion too!”“Oh, that means we have to check who was the lucky one who got into the finals from eleventh place by exception?” Liam wondered.“No, Senior, we could be wrong!” Sharon quickly negated her own speculation, “It
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The Key Case Investigation Unit had a certain rule: every investigator was required to have a tracking system on their phone so the leaders could know their position at any time. This way, if there was any danger while investigating cases, the leaders could respond in a timely manner.Jasper was obviously not an exception. Sharon quickly found his location, but unexpectedly, Jasper was not at home, but at a local pool bar. That sneaky, dishonest rat, who, despite agreeing to help with the investigation, was casually playing pool!“It’s fine, leave this to me!” Liam told Sharon. “You can go first. Investigate Ruth’s new evidence, and let me know if something comes up!”“Senior, what are you going to do to Jasper?” Sharon was a little worried, “He is an official investigator, you can’t touch him! Please reconsider whatever you’re thinking of doing!”“Your senior isn’t that stupid, don’t worry!” Liam laughed. “Don’t worry, he’ll definitely help me investigate! Whether he can find the inf
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Liam!” Jasper got up and patted the dust off his body. He scolded Liam, “You…you’re a madman!”“Damn you…” Liam held the broken cue and took a big step toward Jasper. He looked like he was going to stab Jasper to death with the cue.“I’ll check! I’ll check alright?” Jasper waved his hands frantically, “It’s just checking on a person, do you have to do this?”“I should be the one asking you this! It’s just checking on a person, do you have to do this?” Liam rebutted.“Okay, okay…I’m scared of you…let’s go!” Jasper admitted defeat. As shameless as he could be, he was also afraid of Liam’s dramatic attitude.“Wait!” Although Liam had achieved his goal, he had no intention of letting the matter rest. He pointed to the broken cues and said, “I’ve hit so many cues but you have not paid me!”What!?” Jasper was speechless.“Let me calculate!” Liam took his time to count, “Fifty for a cue, I hit four so that would be two hundred exactly. Oh…for the balls, twenty for one ball, I hit seven, so o
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Fearing Elyon would solve the case before him, as Liam worked on finding the girl, he never stopped listening in on Elyon’s conversations. The invisible eavesdropper had an effective period of forty-seven hours. There were still a lot of time before it wore off.According to the information from the eavesdropper, Elyon had already realized her investigation direction could be wrong, and was currently looking for a new direction. Team B had also already guessed the possibility of revenge for the motive. There were even some who mentioned the word “piano.” If the continued like that, they would surely catch up to Liam.“Holy sh*t!” Hearing the information from Team B and seeing the address on the map, Liam could not help but be a little nervous. He was not sure if his new evidence would actually help him find the culprit.Apparently, the address Jasper helped Liam find was Aetheron City HY District, Golden Temple Number 53. This address did not seem like much, but to Liam who was famili
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Seeing the old lady so agitated, Liam was extremely curious. Something must have happened to the girl that year. Liam told her it was a very important matter, one that he urgently needed to understand, and hoped that the old lady would cooperate in the investigation. He even threatened her indirectly, saying that if she did not cooperate, he would have to personally ask her daughter when she came back.The old lady was very worried about her daughter hearing the word “piano.” After weighing the pros and cons, she could only tell Zhao Yu the truth.Liam had had many guesses regarding the girl prodigy’s sudden withdrawal from the competition; however, after hearing the story from the old lady, he realized that the matter was far more complicated than he had imagined!“Yes, my daughter Emily played the piano, and was even a piano prodigy well known in Denning County!” the old lady said with a heavy expression. “We only have one daughter. Her father and I spent our entire fortune on her.
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Without the small piece of finger, Emily’s hand couldn’t make a full recovery!” The woman paused for a long time before she could continue. Wiping away her tears she spoke, “When the doctors were doing the surgery to repair Emily’s finger, Emily’s father knelt in front of them, begging them that no matter what, they couldn’t let Emily’s hand be harmed, that she was the family’s only hope!“But…even then, the doctor told us after the surgery, that the joints in Emily’s finger had been severely injured, that she wouldn’t make a full recovery. Her middle finger’s ability to bend was severely affected! Do you know what that meant for a child whose entire life was piano? Being unable to bend her finger was equivalent to a death sentence! Upon hearing this, my husband had a heart attack and fainted right there! If it wasn’t for the emergency treatment, my husband would’ve left us then and there!”“Then what happened?” Liam asked for more details. On top of feeling pity for the child prodigy