Mr. Zhao nearly fell over when he heard this, his face a picture of shock as he turned towards Zhou Ning.
"Zhou Xiaozhou, she's shameless!"
Zhou Ning patted Mr. Zhao on the shoulder. A person who had managed to escape responsibility for ten years had been constantly psyching herself up; even now, she was thinking about how to best benefit herself.
At this moment, Xu Dayuan walked up to Xu Dan, shaking his head at her.
"In the span of ten years, any day you had come forward to confess would have been considered voluntary surrender. Even if it was your mother who discovered the skeleton, if you had admitted to it, it would have counted as a surrender. Now that our chain of evidence is complete, you can only be considered as giving a confession. However, the silver lining for you is that admitting it now, as opposed to during a court trial, won't exacerbate your culpability."
Xu Dan pursed her lips tightly and after a long silence finally spoke: