My Wife Wants a Divorce by Red Little Fruit

"I see." Sydney nodded her head and then frowned tightly. "You just said that Mr. Dodson had stepped on a banana peel in front of his office door, fallen, and died on the spot. Was it a little too coincidental?"

At these words, Julien was stunned.

Quickly, he reacted and narrowed his eyes. "Go on."

Sydney nodded and continued, "Look, you thought Mr. Dodson or Mr. McDaniel was most likely to be your teacher, but in fact, the one you preferred was Mr. Dodson, not Mr. McDaniel. Moreover, you and Mr. Dodson had already chosen each other and even arranged the date for a party. Why was it so coincidental that he stepped on a banana peel the day before the party? Most importantly, how did the banana peel appear in front of his office? Although things like bananas are very common, banana peels cannot be found everywhere. Normal people would not throw these things around, let alone at the door of a university professor's office. There is obviously something fishy about it."

She looked at Julien's increasingly tense face, paused for a few seconds, and then said, "Now even the main roads are cleaned frequently. It is impossible that there is no one cleaning a teachers' office building."

"Are you trying to say that the banana peel that Mr. Dodson stepped on was thrown there by someone on purpose?" Julien's hands were slowly clenched on the table.

Sydney looked at Julien's gradually icy expression and slowly said, "Yeah, I do have this suspicion. After all, Mr. Dodson's accident happened too coincidentally. It was right the day before the party, and that banana peel was very suspicious. I don't think it was an accident... It was highly likely a conspiracy. Of course, this is just my guess. Maybe it was really an accident."

As soon as Sydney's words came out, Julien shook his head. "No. Maybe your guess is right, and that was a conspiracy."

Sydney's eyes widened.

Julien narrowed his eyes and said, "Back then when Mr. Dodson's accident happened, I wasn't at school but at the Flint Corporation, and I didn't know about it until the next day. We arranged to have a party that day. However, when I went to Mr. Dodson's house, I learned that Mr. Dodson had passed away and that his body had been cremated. Also, the police had closed the case, saying that it was an accident. Because of this, I never thought that Mr. Dodson's death might have other reasons, and I always treated it as an accident. I never thought much about it until you just said that there was something fishy about Mr. Dodson's accident. Only then did I realize that there was indeed something wrong."

As Sydney said, why did Mr. Dodson's accident happen right on the day before that party?

And it didn't make sense why banana peels would appear at the door of an university professor's office.

He went to the top university in the country. The students there were all well-educated. They would not litter.

Neither would the professors in the office building.

And Sydney was right about the cleaning work. Even ordinary main roads would be swept frequently, and it was usually clean.

Naturally, there were many cleaners in the teachers' office building. They would patrol the floors with their cleaning tools every half an hour.

That was because there would be famous people visiting his university from all over the world at any time, so keeping the environment clean was one of the most important things for the university. So normally speaking, it was absolutely impossible for something like a banana peel to appear at an office door in Julien's university.

This was very weird.

Looking at Julien's fluttering eyelashes, Sydney thought for a moment and then asked, "Did you think of something?"

Julien lifted his head. "I did think of something fishy. Although I didn't witness the accident, I did inquire about it from the vice principal, who told me that there was a foreign university's economic inspection team in our school on a visit. Mr. Dodson was responsible for showing them around the school. During that period, Mr. Dodson and the team leader got along especially well. The two were bigwigs in economics, so they naturally had a lot of common topics. Mr. Dodson had been doing a research project about the future development of economics. Although the team leader did not study this field, he had unique insights, so the vice principal said that Mr. Dodson was thrilled when talking about this topic with that person."

Sydney covered her lips and laughed softly, "That must be true. It's exciting for one to meet people who have common topics with him. My dad liked to play chess, but he was bad at it, so his friends were not willing to play chess with him. One day, my dad met a person who was also bad at chess but loved it. My dad was so happy at that time because he would have someone to play chess with him in the future."

Julien raised his chin. "That's it. After talking about the research project with that team leader, Mr. Dodson wanted to show the results of his research to him."

"So he went back to the office to get the documents?" Sydney guessed, rubbing her chin.

Julien nodded. "Yes, but there's one thing I didn't make clear to you just now, and I just remembered it."

"What is it?" Sydney looked at Julien.

Julien's fists were clenched tighter. "After Mr. Dodson got the documents and just walked out of the office, he stepped on the banana peel and fell."

At these words, Sydney slapped the table. "You mean that he was fine when he went to his office to get the document. It's clear that there was no banana peel at the door before Mr. Dodson went into the office. Otherwise, he would have seen it. So the banana peel appeared at the door after Mr. Dodson entered the office."

"You're right." Julien nodded. "It couldn't have taken Mr. Dodson a long time to get the documents because he knew where they were."

"Definitely." Sydney shrugged her shoulders. "He was surely familiar with his own things, especially the research documents that he had been working on. They must have been put somewhere he often stayed and could easily reach. This place was very likely to be his desk. Then I guess Mr. Dodson spent at most three minutes in the office. The banana skin was thrown there during this short period. That is to say, someone had been keeping an eye on Mr. Dodson or even tailing him. If not, they couldn't have thrown the banana peel right at this period and escaped easily."