Chapter Five: The Dead Leave Honest Accounts

Viewers quickly discovered that Xu Qinghe had supposedly signed while unconscious in intensive care. The form also used a version of her name she had not signed in a decade. Gu Jingheng disabled comments. Xu Zhi held up the original. "Explain how an unconscious woman signed a form and collected electrodes at two hospitals forty kilometers apart." The press conference erupted. The flower-shop bell rang. Shen Weining entered in sunglasses, accompanied by a Shen family neurologist. The internet assumed she had come to deliver the final blow. Instead, she placed a forensic report before the camera. "The ink on Xu Qinghe's signature was manufactured two years after her death. Our laboratory accepts legal responsibility for that conclusion."