Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 400: Shooting oneself in the foot! (Vote for the monthly ticket!)
"The evidence... of course it's in the photo you thought could provide you with an alibi!"

Bai Ye took a deep look at Shijing Xuanyi, his eyes were extremely deep.

Nobukazu Sai's plan was indeed very good. Under normal circumstances, no one would have thought that he was actually the murderer of Tomo Imatake.

Unfortunately, sometimes the more you do, the more mistakes you make.

Just like today, the photos that Nobukazu Sakai specially prepared not only failed to provide him with a perfect alibi as he planned, but instead exposed his actions to other people, which was like shooting himself in the foot.

As soon as these words came out, Sai Jing Xuanyi was shocked, "What?"

He was sure that the photos he had prepared in advance were perfect and could provide him with sufficient proof of his alibi.

But why would Bai Ye say that?

Could it be that he missed something important?

Or was it that the black-haired boy in front of him actually had no evidence that he had committed murder and was just trying to trick him?

Pointing to the photo of Nobuichi Sai on the table, where he was making a "V" sign to the camera, and then to the first photo that Xiaolan took for Nobuichi Sai on the table, Bai Ye turned his gaze to Officer Yokomizo who was standing beside him, "Officer Yokomizo, you can look at this photo and the other photo and see what the difference is between the two!"

"Um……"

Nodding slightly, Officer Yokomizo walked to the table where the photos were placed and began to observe them carefully.

“Wait… this is!”

After carefully examining the differences between the two photos and recalling what Nobuichi Sai had said before - 'Because I forgot to bring my watch with me today!', Officer Yokomizo's pupils shrank suddenly. He felt that he might know the truth of this murder case, and how Nobuichi Sai had proved his alibi!

Thinking of this, Officer Yokomizo walked towards Nobuichi Sakai step by step with the two photos, and when he got in front of him, he grabbed his left wrist.

"What are you going to do?"

When he was suddenly grabbed by the wrist, Xuanyi Shijing's face suddenly changed and he tried to struggle free.

However, Officer Yokomizo did not give him this opportunity, but held him tightly, not letting him run away, and then maintained this posture and began his interrogation, "What's going on?"

"In the photo you used as your alibi, your sunburned wrists are clearly shown."

At this point, Officer Yokomizo paused, showed the photo of Nobuichi Sakai making a "V" sign to the camera, and then looked at Nobuichi Sakai's wrist, "But, in fact, your wrist is white, not tanned!"

It is obvious that in the photo, Nobukazu Sai's wrists were tanned by the sun. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to turn a tanned wrist white in just a few minutes!
Unless, these photos weren’t taken in the same time period!
“So, this photo was not taken today, but a year ago!”

As he spoke, Officer Yokomizo took a step forward and approached Saitsu Nobuichi, his expression extremely cold and serious, "Am I right, Mr. Saitsu!"

Looking at Officer Yokomizo who was so close to him, Nobukazu Sakai's eyes couldn't help but twitch. "It's really hard to predict what will happen in this world. I thought the photos I carefully prepared could serve as my alibi and help me get rid of the suspicion of murder, but I didn't expect that they would become evidence to prove my crime. As expected, the law is long and sharp..."

Upon hearing this, Officer Yokomizo's eyes suddenly became sharp and his voice suddenly raised: "You mean you admit your crime?"

Saii Xuanyi smiled bitterly and responded somewhat helplessly: "Yes, I... I give up, Officer Yokomizo!"

At this point, even if he wanted to deny it, there was nothing he could do.

After all, the difference between the color of his wrist now and the tanned wrist in the photo was so huge, so huge that he simply couldn't explain it.

After taking a deep breath, Shi Jingxuan nodded grimly and admitted his crime. "A year ago, I had already decided to kill that guy Imatake Tomo, because I want to replace him and stand at the top of the literary world!"

When he said this, Saii Xuanyi lowered his head with a complicated expression, "Yes, a year ago, the main serialization of Weng Yi Jidai decided to publish my work!"

As the case became clearer, Saii Nobuichi confessed his motive for the murder, which he had planned for a long time and carried out. "But the editorial department suddenly changed their minds and insisted on using the work of Imatake that was inserted halfway!"

"It's just because Imatake is more famous!"

"For me, that serial was my last chance to gamble my life on! But that guy snatched my chance away as if he was mocking me. How despicable!"

It turned out that as early as when he left, Nobuichi Sakai had developed an irreconcilable hatred for his friend Satoshi Imatake.

As for the reason for this hatred, it is also very simple!
It all stems from an unfair treatment!
——At that time, Nobuichi Sakai created a work with great potential, but his former partner Satoshi Imatake replaced him in the opportunity to serialize it in the magazine.

This was undoubtedly a devastating blow to Shinichi Sakai, who had placed all his hopes on that work.

Out of indignation at the injustice he suffered, as well as anger and hatred towards Tomoyuki Imatake, Nobuichi Saii decided to take extreme measures to retaliate against Tomoyuki Imatake.

So, he carefully planned a seemingly flawless murder, killed Imautake Satoshi, and tried to use specially prepared photos as an alibi to clear himself of suspicion of murder!
Unfortunately, although his plan was well designed, with the joint efforts of Byakuya, Conan, and Maori Kogoro, the truth finally surfaced.

Officer Yokomizo narrowed his eyes slightly, "So, you killed him?"

Saiki Nobukazu frankly admitted his crime, "Yes, I killed Imatake!"

...When everything was settled, Xuan Shijing's hands were also handcuffed.

However, just as the two police officers were leading the arrested Saii Nobukazu to the door, Saii Nobukazu paused for a moment and said to Mao Lilan, "Miss, the work that Imatake won the Naoki Prize for is actually..."

The Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize are both sponsored by the Japan Literature Promotion Society. They are prestigious Japanese literary awards, established in memory of the writers Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Naoki Sanjugo, respectively. They are awarded twice a year, with a prize of 100 million yen each. Like Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the Akutagawa Prize is more inclined towards pure literature and pays more attention to pure literary works, with the purpose of encouraging new writers. The Naoki Prize focuses mainly on published popular novels and genre literature. Good-looking and easy-to-read works are its first choice for judging. It can be said that as long as you win the Naoki Prize, it means that everyone recognizes that the story you write is really good.

The Naoki Prize is a literary award established in 1935 (Showa 10) by Kikuchi Kan, the founder of Bungeishunju, at the same time as the Akutagawa Prize.

The Naoki Prize, known as the "Chinese Mao Dun Literature Award", can be regarded as a very influential award in Japan.

The purpose is to encourage new writers in the field of popular literature, and also to commemorate the popular literature writer Naoki Sanjugo who died on February 1934, 2.

When it comes to Naoki Sanjuro, many people may feel a little unfamiliar, but when it comes to his good friend Akutagawa Ryunosuke, I believe everyone must be familiar with him.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a man with a story, and his friends are naturally interesting. Naoki Sanjugo's original name was Uemura Soichi. At the age of 31, he gave himself a pen name, splitting the character "植" into "直木" as his surname, and used his age as his name, so he was called "直木三一". Every year after that, he changed his name to "直木三二" and "直木三三" as his age changed, until he was 35 years old, when "直木三五" became a name he would never change.

But even if the name is changed all the time, the writer can only be called "Naoki 1934" in the end - because he died in 43 at the age of 1927. Akutagawa died in 1935, and when Naoki also died, their friends established two awards in to commemorate them: the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize.

——直木三十五曾在日本大众文学的创作、**上作出很大贡献。主要作品有长篇小说《南国太平记》（1930）、《楠木正成》（1931）等。直木奖的设立者是菊池宽创办的文艺春秋杂志社。1938年设立的财团法人日本文学振兴会承接了这项事业，但实际法人仍是文艺春秋社。获第1届直木奖的作家是川口松太郎，获奖作品为《鹤八鹤次郎》。此后诸多重要作家的作品获奖，如井伏鳟二的《约翰万次郎漂流记》（第6届）、新田次郎的《强力传》（第34届）、今东光的《阿吟》（第36届）等，还有战后派作家梅崎春生的《波罗家的春秋》（第32届），以及其他诸多风格不同的名家名作，例如山崎丰子的《花暖帘》（第39届）、司马辽太郎的《枭城》（第42届）、水上勉的《雁寺》（第45届）、伊藤桂一的《萤河》（第46届）、陈舜臣的《青玉狮子香炉》（第60届）、渡边淳一的《光与影》（第63届）、向田邦子的《花的名字》和《水獭》及《狗的小屋》（第83届）等。直木奖每年颁发两次，奖品与芥川奖相同。

In fact, the prize money of the Naoki Prize itself is less than RMB 2, but it is one of the best opportunities to lead young literary people to a bright future! As long as you win this award, there will be a steady stream of people coming to you with high royalties to ask you to write for them, which can be regarded as "wearing the yellow robe".

Because of the special characteristics of this award, it has become a necessary path for many well-known writers to upgrade. Writers who have won this award include Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, Ryotaro Shiba, Junichi Watanabe, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, etc.

However, it is not so easy to win this award.

Because even the best-selling book king Keigo Higashino failed to win the Naoki Prize five times.

The five works that were not selected were: "Secret", "Unrequited Love", "The Letter", "Phantom Night", and "White Night Walk", which is hailed as Keigo Higashino's representative work.

Even "White Night Walk" was not selected, so you can imagine how tough this election was!
"Actually, it was a story that I came up with together with Satoshi Imatake when we were working together on a writing project."

Although he was eventually arrested because he asked Mao Li Ran to take a photo, and the photo exposed the color of his wrist, he did not hate Mao Li Ran.

After all, from the beginning to the end of this matter, Mao Lilan was an innocent passerby.

And, after all, the reason why things turned out like this was his own choice!

If anyone wants to blame him, he can only blame himself for having poor vision. He actually chose Bai Ye, Maori Ran, Maori Kogoro and Ke, a group of three great detectives among a group of tourists.

If he had chosen someone else to provide his alibi, perhaps what happened today would not have happened at all.

Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything now!

Mao Lilan was slightly stunned, "Huh?"

Saiki Nobukazu smiled bitterly, "But now that I'm like this, no one will believe me, right?"

Bai Ye raised his eyebrows slightly and stood up, "No, Mr. Shijing, you are wrong! There will still be people who believe in you!"

For example, his daughter Xiaolan.

"Because character and ability are not equal."

Moreover, although they collaborated on the book, Nobuichi Saii and Satoshi Imatake are not the same person after all, so there will always be differences in writing style and wording.

Perhaps other people cannot see this.

But as a loyal fan of Imatake Satoshi, Mao Lilan believes that the other party will definitely see it!

It's just a pity for the literary era, which lost two writers at once, and the kind that have completely stopped updating.

In this murder case, although Tomoki Imatake and Shinichi Saii suffered heavy losses, I am afraid that Bungi Shidai is the final and only loser!
However, this kind of thing has nothing to do with him.

After all, he is not from the literary and artistic era!
After taking a deep look at Bai Ye, Shi Jingxuan's eyes flashed with complexity, "Thank you..."

Unexpectedly, the person who comforted him in the end would be Bai Ye, the person who sent him to prison.

Sure enough, anyone who can be friends with that kind lady can’t be a bad person!

It’s a pity that he has lost the opportunity and qualifications to make friends with these two people.

Because a murderer is not worthy of being friends with such a kind person!
He also cannot tarnish this kindness and justice with his own despicable and shameful behavior!
Thinking of this, Sai Jing Xuanyi shook his head and quickened his pace...

(End of this chapter)