"Grandma!"
"Juan!"
An elderly woman called out to her granddaughter as she walked towards her with her limped leg. The gray locks of her hair had turned whiter before, but now she was finally regaining her lost color. She hugged the little girl with misty eyes.
"Where were you Juan! You got us all so worried...Yanyu looked like a ghost when she didn't see you anywhere."
She pouted. "Mom was super busy on the phone. She ignored !"
"Still, you shouldn't leave like this...! You are just a child. What if sobody had hurt you?"
Behind the little girl followed a young woman who was closely running behind Juan. She was breathless as she reached them. "She was at the jewelry shop on the other side..."
Ma Zhilan wiped her eyes and sniffled. "Thank you so much for helping find my granddaughter, dear. I don't know how to express my gratitude. If sothing would have happened to Juan..."
The woman nad Dai ihui shook her head. "You don't have to thank . I have a son too. I understand how devastating it must feel to lose sight of your child."
"Juan, thank the Aunt," she looked down at her.
Juan chirped even though she wasn't really sure what was happening. "Thank you, Aunt ii!"
Ma Zhilan softly gasped. "I-I am sorry for her addressing you so familiarly-"
"Oh no no! I asked her to call Aunt ii. Oh I apologize. I forgot to introduce myself. I am Dai ihui," she bowed.
"I am Ma Zhilan. She is my granddaughter, Ma Juan. Thank you once again. Even though we are strangers, you helped out."
"Like I said, you don't have to thank . I am just happy to see Juan safe," she ruffled Juan's head, making her giggle. She looked at the ti and gasped. "I am really sorry, but I will have to leave. I have to catch the next train to Gucheng."
"Of course, dear," Ma Zhilan bead. She patted her head and wished her from the bottom of her heart. "You are really kind. I hope you live a good life."
Dai ihui slightly shook and didn't know why but tears welled in her eyes with her warm words. "Thank you. Thank you so much."
—
Days later.
Jia stretched her arms as she finished her report. She walked towards Huojin's desk and asked, "Is there any progress on Hao Rongjun?"
He released a tired sigh and shook his head. "He is just refusing to budge. Secondly, he is too much in shock seeing that his plan failed."
While arresting Hao Rongjun, Jia had heard him whispering about a certain soone advising the whole sche to him of kidnapping Danya so that he could make Wenqian his. It ant that there was another culprit on the loose. To find that na out, Huojin had carried out a series of interrogations with Hao Rongjun, but none succeeded.
"His phone records?"
"There have been so call records from an unknown number, but they are untraceable. Burner numbers."
"Any specific place where he visited frequently to et that person?"
"None that is highlighted in the report."
Jia took a seat opposite him and continued. "What about his office colleagues? Did they notice him behaving differently? Or saw him eting a stranger at any ti?"
Huojin read through his report again and said, "No. He was quite a boastful and arrogant person to work with. He was very shaless in always repeating to his colleagues that he t a very beautiful woman and would marry her soon. They were very annoyed at him and mostly kept their distance from him. His troubleso behavior had also led to so employees in his team getting scolded and punished for no reason. So, nobody bothered with him."
"Boastful and arrogant..." Jia snorted. "Reminds of a certain devil I don't want to rember at all."
Huojin chuckled. "You will be okay, Jia."
"After him telling that he is aiming for my life and wants to make his organ donor again?" Her dry expression made it a point to show her resentnt.
"I am sure you will kick him in his balls before he even gets to touch a strand of your hair," he broke into a hearty laughter.
Jia grimaced. "You seem to be enjoying my plight."
"Please don't be mad at , but it's really fun to see you two argue."
"It's a torture for ," her mouth twitched. "So mind what you are saying or I will strangle you first before I kill Mingshen," she said with a not-so-threatening smile.
But it was enough of a warning for Huojin, and he coughed.
"Anyway, we will keep working on Hao Rongjun's records too. We will definitely figure sothing out to find that person. Until then, let's keep so officers in plain clothes to guard Danya and Miss. Wenqian around school hours. I guess Huayuan will take its own asures as well, but we shouldn't slack on our duties either."
"Roger that."
Officer Xiyang just then entered and said, "Superintendent Song, Superintendent Mo! We just received a distress call. There has been a death at Dahua Film City in Dongdan."
They didn't waste a second and imdiately headed outside, putting on their caps.
Officer Xiyang continued. "It's a woman. Her na is Dai Yaling. Sixty-two. She was with her family to watch a movie. There is not much information as of now, but the theater authority said that her family noticed her not moving from her seat after the movie was over. It was then they realized that she wasn't breathing at all."
Jia furrowed her brows. "So it's possible that sothing happened to her while the movie was ongoing, but nobody noticed her condition until the movie was over?"
"That's what happened."
Huojin said, "Was the theater booked full?"
"Not booked to its maximum capacity, but there was a decent amount of audience."
"Then how co the surrounding people didn't see her struggle? She couldn't have died without making at least a little bit of a commotion."
Jia thought for a mont and squinted her eyes. "Not if they would have booked the last row seats. In that case, there would be nobody from the back to notice her state. Only the people to the left and right side of hers. That is if she was seated sowhere in the middle."
As they ca out to head to the location of the accident, Jia saw a big hand waving at her who gleefully smiled at her, his handso face shining more ethereal in the sunlight and his back leaned against a luxurious Porsche.
"Spicy, it's our very first case together! Are you excited? Are you excited? I can totally see you hopping with joy~" Mingshen grinned.
He furiously patted his palm on his car roof's top and said, "So, what are we waiting for? Let's go, partner!"
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