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  Li Jun started asking questions: "Zhang Ting, on the night of the incident, Xie Wen had called you and asked to meet at her home, is that right?"

  Zhang Ting nodded in agreement.

  "Are you going or not?"

  Zhang Ting said nervously: "I didn't agree at first, but..."

  "You just need to answer whether you went or didn't go."

  Zhang Ting gritted his teeth and glanced at Lu Yiheng, who nodded at him, "I'm going."

  "What have you done?"

  "I didn't do anything, just said a few words, and then I took my things and left."

  "What did you say?"

  "Wishing each other well, we parted ways peacefully."

  "You and your ex-girlfriend Xie Wen broke up because she fell in love with someone else. That night, she called you to go to her house to make a clean break and take away the things you had left there. You went, but you got into an argument. Your heart was filled with indignation because she had fallen in love with someone else, so you used a thin rope to strangle her to death."

  "I didn't," Zhang Ting retorted, his face twisted in anguish. "I didn't have a fight with her, let alone be so ruthless as to kill her. Although she fell in love with someone else, she was still the one I loved. How could I possibly kill her?"

  At this moment, Nie Zhiyan suddenly felt very pitiful. The person he loved had fallen in love with someone else and then died suddenly, a tragedy. His mood also became gloomy all of a sudden.

  Li Jun said expressionlessly: "Hate is born from love."

  "Objection, your honor," Lu Yiheng's assistant stood up. "We object to the malicious conjecture of the prosecutor against my client."

  "The objection is overruled."

  Li Jun continued: "Zhang Ting, Xie Wen's current boyfriend had a dispute with you before, and since you really love Xie Wen, the person you love loves your enemy, we have reason to suspect that you lost control of your rationality because of this and killed Xie Wen."

  Zhang Ting looked even more anguished, clutching his hair, and spoke in a defeated tone, "I said I didn't, I didn't."

  A soft murmur of discussion rose around his ears, Nie Zhiyan listened quietly, his eyes falling in the direction of the defense seat.

  After a while, Lu Yiheng on the defense seat first bowed his head to hand over something to the assistant lawyer beside him, then slowly stood up, nodded to the judge, picked up the infrared remote control in his hand and pressed it. The projector in the courtroom immediately displayed a dimly lit photo. Although it was dim, the figures could still be discerned.

  Lu Yiheng looked towards the prosecutor's seat, his voice as calm as a straight line.

  "As everyone can see, the person in this photo is my client Zhang Ting. This is a surveillance video from that night. He got out of the car with nothing in his hands at 9:52 pm."

  Then a video appeared on the projector, showing Zhang Ting getting out of the elevator and sitting in the car before driving away. He was holding a bag in his hand, which should be the thing he left at Xie Wen's place.

  "This is the video footage when the person in question left," Lu Yiheng said calmly and slowly: "His footsteps were very steady, and there was no sign of tension in his movements. Everyone can see that the place where he parked his car was later occupied by several cars that were not parked properly, making it difficult for him to drive away. However, after getting into the car, he drove away very steadily. The time when his car left the residential area was 10:25 on the night of the incident."

  "May I ask the prosecutor, can a person who has just killed their loved one remain so calm and composed?"