Hearing Seraphina’s words, Herman’s gaze went blank for a moment.

Actually, while going through these surveillance videos again and again, he had already thought about this possibility.

Yet, even though this idea had crossed his mind, hearing it from someone else made it feel completely different.

Especially when it was as firmly stated as Seraphina did.

No matter how long he had thought about it or how many conjectures he had made, he found it hard to accept at this moment.

“All we have are theories,” Herman said in a low voice. “We don’t have any proof”

Seraphina looked at him and said, “They’re theories, but they’re reasonable theories. You thought of it yourself, why can’t you accept it?”

“It’s not that I can’t accept it,” Herman said. “But investigations need evidence, we can’t just accuse someone based on a guess!”

“You need evidence, I don’t.” After saying this, Seraphina turned to leave

Leandro, who had been silent all this while, reached out to stop her. Seraphina looked back at him. Leandro gave her a look and said softly, “Calm down.”

Seraphina wanted to shake him off.

Now that the crime syndicate responsible for harming Sandra Smith was fully exposed to her, how could she stay calm?

But this thought only lasted a moment. Looking into Leandro’s eyes, Seraphina paused a bit and then slowly calmed down.

“Alright,” she said, “I’ll calm down.”

go of her hand, holding it all the while,

it and her mind gradually

he’s a suspect and you don’t have any evidence,

Herman lit up a cigarette

left. Suddenly, she thought of something and nudged Leandro.

back at her. Seraphina made a gesture at him and then looked back at Herman, signaling him to go over.

want to listen to her, but he should

Seraphina’s hint, Leandro let go of her

up. From the balcony, the city lights were

knew how much evil was

move from the balcony. After a while, he said, “I know

to face the truth,” Leandro said. “You just don’t want to

for a moment, then said, “He’s a great cop… When I first joined the force, he took us rookies under his wing, handling cases all day and drinking with us at night. He never showed any arrogance as a leader and generously shared all his detective skills with us… Everything I can do today… including my drinking abilities,

emotions, but the most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart. Maybe when you’ve experienced enough, you’ll gradually understand that besides yourself, no one can be fully

slowly repeated, “Besides myself, no one can be fully trusted? Isn’t such a life too

it, Leandro said lightly. Just get used to

Herman got his meaning, “Can’t you find anyone in this world who you fully trust? What about me? Can’t you trust me?”

looked him in the eye, then slowly started to smile, “It’s not that you can’t be trusted, it’s

looked back at the

was sitting on the couch, talking on the phone with someone.

and he couldn’t help

Seraphina, he paused for

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