In another interrogation room, Pan Xiuying confessed, "The tools were stolen by me, but all the ideas came from him."

“And then?” the interrogator asked.

Pan Xiuying continued. Although they had preserved her husband’s life, his condition continued to get worse by the day. Wu Hao said that outsiders must not learn of this situation, so he pretended to be her husband and continued to sell things online. He also texted her husband’s friends as if he was doing well. 

Every day, they ground and broke food down so that they could pour it into her husband's stomach. They also set up infusions in order to preserve his life.

One day, Wu Hao watched a foreign crime movie and suddenly came up with an idea. He said that the old turtle would die sooner or later and that it was better for them to prepare in advance. That way, when the police came, they wouldn’t be caught off guard.

When she heard that she had to lie to the...