Good and Evil Chapter 88: Disguise, Substitution, Chaos L, Killing

This year, Cai Hongzhe is forty-two years old, and his acquaintance with the deceased Zhou Boming was an accident.

Three years ago, during Cai Hongzhe's outing to the Milan Bar for drinks, he met Zhou Boming. That evening, the bar was not crowded. Cai Hongzhe sat at the bar sipping a cocktail, while Zhou Boming arrived a bit later. Both initially drank alone, paying little attention to each other.

Zhou Boming was a heavy smoker who loved to smoke. This detail had been discovered by Ye Xuefei during the autopsy of Zhou Boming's body.

When Zhou Boming was drinking, he took out a cigarette to smoke but realized he had forgotten his lighter. Cai Hongzhe, who was also smoking, had a lighter on the bar. Thus, Zhou Boming asked Cai Hongzhe for a light. Cai Hongzhe naturally had no objection.

While Zhou Boming lit his cigarette with the lighter, Cai Hongzhe noticed the Cartier watch on Zhou Boming's wrist. Cai Hongzhe was a connoisseur, especially regarding luxury items. With a single glance, he recognized the watch's value in tens of millions. Taking the opportunity to ask for a light, the two began to converse.

Cai Hongzhe's eloquence was excellent. After a conversation filled with compliments, Cai Hongzhe gained a general understanding of Zhou Boming.

Zhou Boming was a local of S City and the owner of a company, having built it from scratch. This time, he came to the bar to drink because he had quarreled with his girlfriend Du Keli, so he was drowning his sorrows alone. Unexpectedly, he encountered Cai Hongzhe here.

Under the flickering colorful neon lights, amid the flickering of cigarettes and the clinking of glasses as they were passed around, the two quickly became friends. As they parted, they exchanged contact information and agreed to drink together at the bar again next time.

Although Zhou Boming was a businessman, he was quite a nice person. Not only was he generous to his employees but also to his friends. Their first meeting, the bill at the bar was paid by Zhou Boming. Making a new rich friend was something that brought face, and Cai Hongzhe was no exception.

At first, Cai Hongzhe and Zhou Boming met as friends, feeling they clicked and were kindred spirits. However, as they spent more time together and met more frequently, Cai Hongzhe's greedy thoughts grew. Each time he saw Zhou Boming pulling out thick stacks of brand-new bills from his wallet while dining, and Zhou Boming's haughty demeanor while conversing, Cai Hongzhe felt envious.

Cai Hongzhe was a self-important man. After graduating from high school, he had held various jobs but never for long: factory work, construction labor, waitering, even driving a taxi. But he couldn't endure the hardships, so he quit each time, feeling it was too tiring, too slow to earn, too little pay. After years of drifting, now in his late thirties, nearly forty, he had achieved nothing. After each meeting with Zhou Boming, Cai Hongzhe wondered why this seemingly unrefined nouveau riche could have money and his own company, while he couldn't succeed in anything. Thinking this, he felt uneasy, and his inner balance began to tilt.

Two years after meeting, they had dinner. At the table, Zhou Boming brought his girlfriend Du Keli and happily told Cai Hongzhe that he planned to take his girlfriend to travel in the M Country. He loved the M Country and had always wanted to see it, but lacked the time. Now, with some leisure, he decided to go and if possible, settle there and immigrate, so he wouldn't return often. This time, seeing Cai Hongzhe, he wanted to share the good news of his impending marriage, say goodbye in advance, and ask Cai Hongzhe to help manage his business while he was abroad.

Upon hearing this, Cai Hongzhe's eyes lit up. He offered blessings like "congratulations to a good brother on finding a good match" and expressed reluctance to part with Zhou Boming. In reality, Cai Hongzhe was thinking of something else.

After this separation, Cai Hongzhe returned to his rented apartment, looking at the small room with its pale walls, and a bold, crazy idea emerged: after Zhou Boming left S City for the M Country, he would impersonate Zhou Boming and secretly transfer Zhou Boming's assets during the time Zhou was away.

When this idea first surfaced, Cai Hongzhe was startled himself, as it was too shocking and risky; a mistake could ruin him completely and land him in prison. But once the seed of evil sprouted, suppressing its growth became easy.

In the following month, Zhou Boming was busy with departure preparations and didn't meet Cai Hongzhe again. Cai Hongzhe was in torment, weighing his thoughts. After internal struggle, he decided to impersonate Zhou Boming and transfer the assets while Zhou was abroad.

With the idea, Cai Hongzhe began planning. Impersonating someone in this era wasn't easy. First, he needed to know all about Zhou Boming, his daily habits, and working style. So, before Zhou left with Du Keli, Cai Hongzhe used the pretext of delivering something to Zhou, inviting him for dinner. He got Zhou drunk during the meal. Taking advantage, Cai Hongzhe asked many questions about Zhou's personal info and company details. As they parted, he secretly took a photo of Zhou's ID.

After this dinner, Zhou Boming, being drunk and having blacked out, forgot what he said to Cai Hongzhe. And since Zhou was leaving for the country, many things to handle, he wouldn't suspect his so-called best friend.

After Zhou Boming left with Du Keli for the M Country, Cai Hongzhe started his actions. He first got a fake ID for Zhou Boming made, then boldly moved into Zhou Boming's villa in the Modern City villa district with his daughter Cai Manli.

After Cai Hongzhe lived in the villa as Zhou Boming, he had his daughter Cai Manli live in as Du Keli, Zhou Boming's girlfriend. In front of outsiders, they were lovers or husband and wife, but they were actually father and daughter. After moving in, using info from Zhou, Cai Hongzhe began transferring Zhou's assets in his name, all very smoothly without suspicion.

From then on, Cai Hongzhe rose from a drifting, ambitious social layabout to a wealthy man, living in a luxurious villa, feasting on delicacies, spending Zhou Boming's money.

If things had continued like this, it would be fine. But what Cai Hongzhe didn't expect was that less than half a year after Zhou and Du Keli went to the M Country, they broke up. Du Keli met a M Country man while traveling and fell in love at first sight. She quickly broke up with Zhou and started dating him, and soon married him. This left Zhou Boming, who had planned to travel with Du Keli in the M Country to get married, stunned.

Although Zhou Boming was very successful in career, setting an example for many, in love he was a white paper (beginner). In school, he was a top student, focused only on studies, never paying attention to other things. While others studied, he studied; while others played, he studied; while others dated, he studied. Even after graduating, he never dated. He had a crush on a girl in school, but she was a transfer student; by the time he was ready to confess, she transferred away, ending that youthful crush.

After graduation, Zhou Boming interned at a company. After two years, tired of the nine-to-five life, he quit, using his savings and parental funds to start a business, later becoming the Boming Company.

Zhou Boming was indeed a man with strong economic sense, related to his studies in economics and finance in school.

After ten years of hard work, Zhou Boming accumulated a fortune of millions through his own efforts. Around the mid-point of his business, he met Du Keli. They dated for eight years. A year ago, Zhou decided to marry Du Keli and immigrate to the M Country to start a new life. But what he never expected was that this trip to the M Country not only lost him love and a future partner but also the career he had painstakingly built.

After breaking up with Du Keli, Zhou couldn't accept it at first. At first, he thought Du Keli was joking. So he bought her many things she liked. If it were usual, Du Keli would have been happy, but this time she wasn't, rejected the gifts, and married the M Country man quickly. This dealt a heavy blow to Zhou.

Zhou started drinking heavily and developed a gambling habit. After the breakup, before returning to the country, in the casinos, he lost tens of millions. The Boming Company, which Zhou managed even after self-abandonment, no one to run it, fell into chaos. Coupled with gambling losses, it led to bankruptcy. Finally, Zhou was kicked out by the casino in the M Country. With no love and bankrupt company, he had to return to S City.

After Zhou returned, the first person he thought of was Cai Hongzhe. So he contacted him.

Zhou Boming's sudden appearance scared the impersonator Cai Hongzhe half to death. He didn't expect Zhou to return so soon, something Cai never thought of. After the phone call, they met at the Milan Bar. The two men sat at the bar drinking high-proof cocktails. Zhou told Cai everything that happened in the M Country. Finally, Zhou said he planned to sell some properties and start over, which made the squatter Cai very helpless.

After parting from Zhou, Cai returned to the villa in Modern City, looking at the luxurious villa, unwilling to go back to his poor life. As the saying goes, it's easy to enter luxury from frugality, hard to exit. Now Zhou just returned and was still immersed in emotional pain, not yet out, and didn't know yet what Cai had done. If Zhou emerged from the emotional whirlpool and planned to start anew, he would discover what Cai had done. So, Cai had another bold idea: to kill Zhou Boming. Only then could Zhou not know what had been done, and since no one knew Zhou returned this time, if Zhou died, Cai could fully become Zhou and enjoy everything naturally.

Ideas are ideas, and killing is different from fraud. Fraud might get 10-20 years, but killing means death. This made Cai hesitate. That night, lying in bed, thinking of his young daughter who hasn't even reached one year old, imagining she might lose her father and best education, Cai made a firm decision to kill Zhou Boming.

The next day, Cai invited Zhou to the yacht that was once Zhou's and now secretly taken by Cai. After meeting, Cai chatted about irrelevant topics, then when Zhou's back was turned, picked up the anchor from the boat and smashed it on Zhou's back of the head. The anchor was heavy, and Cai's body was depleted from alcohol and lust in the past year, so he didn't kill him instantly, just knocked him unconscious.

After Zhou fainted, Cai sat down on the ground, staring at Zhou lying on the plank in a daze for a long time. Suddenly, Zhou coughed, seeming about to wake up, scaring Cai half to death. He immediately tied the anchor to Zhou's body and pushed him into the sea.

Thus, in his coma, Zhou drowned in the sea. If not for the fisherman Sun Hongda and his son accidentally catching his body, Cai might have completely become Zhou over time. This looked like an accident, but actually, heaven's net is cast wide, no one escapes. A criminal, no matter how long, will be punished.

After listening to Cai's story, Xu Lang was speechless for a long time. Xu Lang admired Zhou Boming greatly. Zhou's family background was good, he was a top student in school, graduated and started from scratch in business, achieving success in the sea of commerce. But while admiring Zhou, Xu Lang also felt sympathy and pity for him. A man approaching 40, thinking about marriage, almost completing life's大事, just one step away, but his girlfriend of eight years ran off with a foreigner. Truly, fate is fickle; in love, he failed, in career, huge blow: Boming Company bankrupt, most properties in country taken by the so-called friend Cai Hongzhe. Then returning, to rebuild, he was cruelly killed by the obsessed Cai who feared exposure. Buried in the sea. If Zhou's IQ is 200, his EQ is definitely negative, otherwise he wouldn't encounter two scum.

While sighing for Zhou, what Xu Lang admired most was still Cai Hongzhe. Using Zhou's time abroad for immigration, he became Zhou, not only living in others' houses but also spending others' money, almost sleeping with others' wife. Cai's bold and crazy idea in the 21st century with advanced technology and civilization is unprecedented. While admiring Cai, Xu Lang also hated this scum deeply.

To achieve the purpose of occupying Zhou's property, Cai not only impersonated Zhou himself but had his daughter impersonate Du Keli, Zhou's girlfriend, and finally, inhumanely, incestuously raped his own daughter. Not satisfied, he even made his daughter Cai Manli pregnant and gave birth to a child. Truly, for the sake of the goal, no means. This is no different from a beast. People say tiger doesn't eat its cubs, but this is not seen in Cai; on him, Xu Lang saw only naked desire, no humanity, no moral bottom line.

When Cai described the killing process, he spoke lightly, as if killing a person was nothing special to him, no different from killing a dog or cat. When talking about his daughter Cai Manli and the child born from their incest, he showed no regret at all. In the end, he was still obsessed with Zhou's property and the three properties under Zhou's name, which made Xu Lang, who doesn't easily get angry, clench his fists tightly, wanting to punch this beast several times. If possible, Xu Lang really wanted to open Cai's head to see what was in his mind. But finally, Xu Lang calmed down and carefully recalled Cai's story and the investigation results, checking if there was any oversight.

Remember the ultimate sin, permanent address