booktalesy Chapter 618: Accidental Manslaughter
Chapter 618: Accidental Manslaughter
Chapter 618: Accidental Manslaughter
Lim Sang-woo and Han Hyo-joo also saw some of the comments online.
However, as public figures, such remarks actually have no impact on the two of them.
They are not the kind of artists who have just debuted.
This kind of thing hardly affects them.
Anyway, both of them are "single" now.
What's wrong with going shopping together?
In the next few days, the two of them stayed at home to take care of their two children in the mornings.
Go out on a date in the afternoon.
Lin Xiangyu accompanied Han Hyo Joo to go shopping, buy clothes, taste delicious food, and visit art exhibitions.
Han Hyo Joo would also accompany Lim Sang Woo to play baseball and go to the amusement park.
Lin Xiangyu doesn’t have many special hobbies now.
Maybe just play games or play ball.
Lin Xiangyu knows quite a lot of sports.
He plays basketball, football, badminton, table tennis and even golf.
Before in Peninsula, Lin Xiangyu also played football with Kim Jong Kook's football team.
However, due to the change in his status, Lin Xiangyu never went there again.
It’s not that he dislikes people like Kim Jong Kook.
But after he left, everyone felt a little uncomfortable.
So Lin Xiangyu simply stopped participating in the football team.
That's just how it is sometimes.
The change in identity made it difficult for Lin Xiangyu to socialize with others normally.
This is why Lin Xiangyu cherishes friends he has known before, such as Lee Kwang-soo and Gong Yoo.
Because Lee Kwang-soo and the others knew Lim Sang-woo for a long time and knew Lim Sang-woo's personality, they were able to behave the same as before when facing Lim Sang-woo.
Not so much for others.
Because there are not many people.
At home, Lin Xiangyu usually plays badminton with Zheng Xiujing, Han Hyozhou and others.
Basketball and the like are too difficult for Krystal and the others.
This time when I came to San Francisco, not many people here knew Lin Xiangyu. Lin Xiangyu would occasionally go to the baseball field to play basketball with him in the evening.
The basketball atmosphere here in San Francisco is pretty good.
In the past two years, the Golden State Warriors, led by Kemba Walker, have repeatedly made it to the playoffs.
Although most of them were eliminated in the first round, it was already pretty good.
The Warriors must regret trading Curry for Kemba Walker.
But there is nothing we can do.
The Bobcats dared to bet on Curry after his injury, and the bet was successful.
They didn't dare to take the gamble, so they chose Kemba Walker for safety, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
Some Warriors fans who recognized Lin Xiangyu also smiled and asked Lin Xiangyu to return Curry to them.
Lin Xiangyu spread his hands to indicate that the transaction had nothing to do with him and that he had not been involved in the operations of the Bobcats until now.
He just goes there to watch a game and show his face when he has nothing to do every year.
Lin Xiangyu's basketball skills are only average on this kind of baseball field.
But the important thing is participation.
It's nice to run along.
When Lim Sang-woo was playing basketball, Han Hyo-joo sat beside him and watched Lim Sang-woo running around on the court with a smile on her face.
On the peninsula, such a scene would hardly occur.
If Lin Xiangyu played like this in any stadium on the peninsula, he would soon be surrounded by fans who had received the news.
After playing ball, Lin Xiangyu and Han Hyo Joo went home to take a shower. They had dinner at home and then went out for a walk together.
"Let's go see a movie. We haven't watched a movie in a cinema for a long time." Han Hyo Joo took the initiative to suggest.
"Watching movies in America? Are you sure? All the movies here are in English." Lin Xiangyu replied.
Han Hyo Joo understands English, but watching English movies is not just about knowing English. You need to have very good English, otherwise you won’t understand what the characters are saying in the movie.
"What you said is true. My English is not bad, right? I also stayed in America for a long time when I was pregnant." Han Hyo Joo rolled her eyes at Lin Xiangyu.
Lin Xiangyu actually doubted her English level.
Han Hyo Joo was very dissatisfied with this.
The two of them hardly ever communicated in English, and Lin Xiangyu thought that Han Hyo Joo's English level was about the same as before.
For a moment, I forgot that Han Hyo Joo was in America to take care of her pregnancy.
"Let's go, what movie do you want to watch?"
"Let's go to the cinema and see it first."
"Row."
I used to watch movies at home.
It has been a long time since the two of them went to the cinema to watch a movie hand in hand like this.
It wasn't particularly late, and when the two arrived at the cinema, there were still quite a few people there.
Han Hyo Joo looked around for a long time but still couldn't decide which movie to watch.
"how about this?"
Lin Xiangyu was attracted by the name of a movie and pointed to the movie called "A True Story".
Han Hyo Joo carefully read the introduction of the movie.
"Indian movies? You are still interested in Indian movies."
"I'm not interested in Indian movies. I'm interested in the plot of this movie. It shouldn't be bad if it has such a name and is released in America," Lin Xiangyu replied.
Han Hyo Joo: “Okay, let’s watch this.”
Han Hyo Joo doesn't care what kind of movie she watches.
The main reason is that she wanted to watch a movie with Lin Xiangyu.
When Lin Xiangyu went to buy tickets, he found out that there were only two shows of this movie today, one in the daytime and one in the evening.
The two were lucky enough to catch the evening show.
After buying the tickets, they waited for twenty minutes before entering.
When the two of them went in, there was no one inside.
It wasn't until the movie was almost starting that four or five more people came in.
Several of them have Indian faces.
I guess they came to support the filming of their own country.
Not many people watched this movie, and Han Hyo Joo couldn't help but wonder if it was a terrible movie.
However, after the movie started, Han Hyo Joo was completely immersed in this movie called "A True Detective".
(The movie "The Accidental Murder" starring Xiao Yang in 2019 is a remake of this movie. Later I watched the explanation of the original version on Bilibili. The remake is really good. Some details in the middle are even better than the original, but I personally prefer the ending of the original.)
Lin Xiangyu is the same.
This movie tells the story of an honest man named Vijay, who only went to school until the fourth grade. He is a very ordinary man. His biggest hobby is watching movies in the video store he runs, and his favorite is suspense movies.
One day, when his eldest daughter was attending a summer camp, a boy secretly filmed her changing clothes. Afterwards, the boy used the video to threaten Vijay's eldest daughter to have sex with him. Vijay's eldest daughter told her mother about this. After hearing about this, Vijay's wife tried to ask the boy to delete the video with her daughter, but the boy was not willing to delete the video and even wanted to go further. In excitement, Vijay's eldest daughter picked up a shovel and hit the boy on the head while he was not paying attention.
Vijay's wife reached out and felt the boy's breath. After confirming that he was no longer breathing, she decisively took her eldest daughter to bury the boy in a cemetery near her home.
Vijay came back and learned about this. After hearing his daughter say that the boy's mother was a prosecutor and his father was a senior executive, Vijay made a decisive decision to handle the matter in secret.
And he planned to use the montage technique he saw in the movie to conceal the matter.
He first disposed of the boy's body.
Then he threw the boy's mobile phone card into the mud truck, avoided the surveillance and crashed the boy's car into the water.
But he didn't realize that while he was driving the boy's car, a corrupt cop from his rival police station noticed him driving.
After dealing with all this, the male protagonist took his family to the town for a tour, and during the tour he kept doing things that would make people remember him.
In the following period of time, the male protagonist trained his wife and two daughters every day on how to answer the police's questions.
Because he knew that this matter could not be kept secret forever.
The boy's parents are both very powerful, and their family will be found sooner or later.
So he must be fully prepared.
During this time, he kept "encountering" people he had met before, deepening their impression of him so that they would misremember the time when the male protagonist's family went to the town.
This is the technique of montage: when different shots are spliced together, they often produce specific meanings that do not exist when each shot exists alone.
The boy's parents were naturally a little panicked when they saw that he had not returned home for so many days and they could not contact him.
After locating his son’s phone, he discovered that his phone had traveled almost all the way around India.
By checking the surveillance footage, I could only confirm that my son's car had left the town. There were not many surveillance cameras in the countryside, so I couldn't completely determine where my son had gone.
A month later, some children who were swimming in the lake found the car sunk in the lake.
There was no boy in the car.
Although they knew the boy might be gone, the boy's parents still ordered the police to investigate the matter and find out what happened.
When the corrupt policeman who was at odds with Vijay noticed the photo of the car, he immediately remembered what he saw that day.
He explained the situation to the director, but the director and his colleagues knew that the black police had a bad relationship with Vijay and did not believe him.
Compared to the black police, Vijay has a better reputation in the countryside.
Even when the black policeman pulled the old man who was present with him to question him, the old man denied that he had seen Vijay. He only admitted that he saw a car of similar color.
The corrupt police believed that he was not mistaken and decisively applied to join the investigation of this case.
Later, the black police found the name of Vijay's eldest daughter on the list of the summer camp that the boy attended before his death.
Now, we have a reason to investigate Vijay's family.
The corrupt police first took people to the school of Vijay's eldest daughter and questioned her.
Although a little nervous, Vijay had already trained his family members at home during this period. Vijay's eldest daughter answered the questions flawlessly according to what Vijay taught her.
Not finding any useful clues from Vijay's eldest daughter, the corrupt police took people to Vijay's home and interrogated Vijay's wife.
Vijay's wife is a dutiful housewife. Even when Vijay received the news about his daughter and rushed home to accompany her, she almost let the cat out of the bag.
Fortunately, Vijay managed to resolve the matter in the end.
Even so, Vijay's family was not cleared of suspicion.
The black policeman insisted that he saw the boy's car near Vijay's house.
The boy and Vijay's daughter attended the same summer camp.
This is the only clue.
After searching for a long time without any other clues, the boy's prosecutor mother finally asked the police to take Vijay's family back to the police station for interrogation.
After the police arrived, Vijay knew that they would be arrested sooner or later.
After all, the boy's mother is a prosecutor and his father is an executive.
For this reason, when he was arrested, Vijay deliberately made some noise to draw the attention of the villagers to the fact that his family had been arrested.
Vijay is an honest and decent man and is very popular in the village.
Seeing Vijay's family being arrested, many villagers went to the town to make trouble.
Because of the training Vijay had given to his family in advance, Vijay's wife and two daughters did not show anything wrong.
Vijay even had a bunch of witnesses who could prove they were in the town on the two days the boy went missing.
In desperation, the police had to release Vijay and his family.
After all, they really have no evidence.
And Vijay does have various witnesses.
Just when the boy's parents thought they had found the wrong direction, the boy's good friend who was traveling abroad returned to India. After learning that the boy was missing, the boy's friend showed the boy's parents the bragging video that the boy had sent him.
That video was the one of Vijay’s elder daughter changing clothes.
After watching this video, the boy’s parents are completely certain that their son’s death is related to Vijay’s family.
But they had no evidence.
The boy's mother was furious and ordered the police to arrest Vijay's family again, and this time she wanted to lynch Vijay.
Vijay also predicted this happening.
So even though he was beaten badly, Vijay's wife and elder daughter held back and didn't say anything.
But Vijay's little daughter was too young and finally admitted that she saw the burial process out of concern for her father.
Because Vijay's family had no money, they bought a house near a cemetery, where houses near a cemetery are cheaper.
The police thought that Vijay's youngest daughter had admitted to it, so they publicized the matter widely and called a bunch of media to take them to the cemetery near Vijay's home. They dug up the grave according to the instructions of Vijay's youngest daughter.
But the body inside had already been moved by Vijay.
Vijay considered the possibilities.
In this situation, in front of so many media and residents, the police brought Vijay, who was beaten horribly, to look for the body, but they didn't find it.
Vijay also took the opportunity to complain in front of the media.
This caused public opinion to explode.
The power of the media is enormous.
Not to mention this is all being broadcast live.
The boy's parents were suspended for abusing their power. (The incident was a big deal.)
Vijay's family was also acquitted.
The police including the boy's parents knew that Vijay was the murderer.
But they had no evidence.
The video of the boy secretly filming Vijay's eldest daughter only proves that the boy made a mistake, but does not prove that Vijay is guilty.
(End of this chapter)