Translator: Eyljee
After a few gulps, Jiang Chengyan’s gaze never left Ling Huaan. “Huaan, what did you say just now?”
Ling Huaan repeated. “What would Jiang dui like to eat tomorrow?”
The corners of Jiang Chengyan’s mouth rose up. He gaped at Ling Huaan with delight, but when his eyes grazed his injured hand, his heart trawled. He reached for Ling Huaan’s hand and frowned. “Huaan, were you burnt?”
“It’s okay, It’ll heal in two days.” Ling Huaan wants to pull his hand back, but Jiang Chengyan clutched his wrist.
Jiang Chengyan examined Ling Huaan’s injured hand. On the back of his slender fair hand, the vermillion tint bruise the size of his thumb was so eye-catching. He grimaced painfully, “It was scalded when you were cooking, wasn’t it?”
“It’s fine, I’m used to it. It’ll be fine in a few days.” Ling Huaan tugged his hand again and said, “Eat it quickly. It’ll cool down later.”
“Don’t cook in the future.” Jiang Chengyan suddenly lost his appetite.
Ling Huaan jokingly asked, “What do I eat if I don’t cook?”
“I’ll cook for you.” When he realized what he said, Jiang Chengyan quickly explained, “I mean I can give you some takeout.”
“Things outside are not clean. Eating too much takeout is bad for your health.”
“Then I’ll make it for you.” Jiang Chengyan nervously glanced at Ling Huaan.
Ling Huaan raised his eyebrows and teased. “Can you do it?”
“I can learn.” Jiang Chengyan voice was very small, seemingly muttered with a lack of confidence.
“You work overtime everyday and you can’t even take care of your meals. How can you take care of me?”
Jiang Chengyan was silent, but his brow wrinkled tightly.
Ling Huaan laughed and said, “Eat it quickly. Don’t leave any, otherwise I’ll be deeply hurt.”
Jiang Chengyan glanced Ling Huaan then he picked up chopsticks to eat. After a quiet meal, Jiang Chengyan got up and said, “I’ll wash it.”
Ling Huaan was acutely aware that his tone was off. Thinking about how the conversation between them went before, his eyes flashed a smile and said, “Ok.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Yes. He did me a favor a few days ago, and I did this to thank him.”
“So it’s like that.”
Jiang Chengyan stood beside the shelf, glancing at Ling Huaan with a faint expression. He pulled out a wry smile, his heart unspeakably sour and unbearable. After waiting for a while, he went out, put the tumbler on the table and said calmly, “Huaan, I’ll go back to the team since I have to do something. I’m very busy recently, so I won’t come tomorrow.”
Ling Huaan smile faltered slightly, but he didn’t say much and just answered softly.
Standing at the threshold and looking at Ling Huaan in the glass window, Jiang Chengyan grew more upset. He didn’t understand why his heart felt so sad when he heard him say “It’s fine”. In the past, Ling Huaan had even acted colder to him, yet he had never felt so miserable. It was only a few days. Why did he have such a change?
Jiang Chengyan took a deep breath and pacified his emotions. He turns around and walked towards the police station. Whenever he wants to come, as long as he is busy enough, he has no heart to think about other things.
In the middle of the night, the bell hanging at the door of the grocery store automatically made a clear sound even without wind. Ling Huaan looked at the door, and saw Wang floating towards him.
“You’re here.”
“Boss, why are you alone today? Where’s the part-timer?”
“He’s a student. He has a class tomorrow so he could only work until 10 o’clock. What’s up? Did you discover anything?”
“Today, that fool took someone with him to Jiang Changping’s house and asked some questions…” Wang Lei divulged in detail the Q&A between Jiang Chengyan and Li Qiuran.
“Cheating?” Ling Huaan rang the bell in his pocket and asked, “Do you have a lover?”
Instead of answering immediately, Jiang Changping kept silent for a while and said, “I don’t know.”
“‘I don’t know’ instead of no? Jiang Changping, if you want to quickly find out the truth, I hope you don’t conceal anything to me.” Ling Huaan’s tone was light, but let people clearly hear his dissatisfaction.
After another silence, Jiang Changping opened his mouth.
“These days, I often think of a person that was merely a shadow. I can’t remember his appearance. Every time I think of him, I always have a very sad feeling….”
“After Jiang dui left, what did Li Qiuran do?”
“She didn’t do anything. She just cleaned up the room, watched TV and then went to pick up the child at the appointed time. But… “Wang Lei paused for a while, frowned slightly, and then said, “Jiang Xiaohan seems to be a little afraid of Li Qiuran.”
“Afraid? Isn’t Li Qiuran good to Jiang Xiaohan?”
“That’s not the case. I don’t know what it was like before, but in these two days of observation, Li Qiuran seems to cherish Jiang Xiaohan very much and takes good care of him. It’s just that the way Jiang Xiaohan looks at Li Qiuran… I always have an inkling that he was a little scared. Of course, it might just be my misconception.”
Seeing Ling Huaan fall into silence, Wang Lei fell quiet as well. After a long time, Ling Hua’an airily said, “Wang Lei, keep working hard. Continue to monitor her.”
Wang Lei uncertainly asked, “Boss, do you still doubt Li Qiuran? But I don’t think she can kill people. Besides, it’s almost impossible for a small woman like her to chop the corpse. ”
“Not necessarily killed him personally. After listening to Jiang’s questions, we can judge that the police station has the evidence of Jiang Changping’s infidelity, so Li Qiuran was included in the list of suspects. After all, she has a motive to kill.”
“But observing Li Qiuran’s reaction, I don’t think she knows about Jiang Changping’s infidelity. ”
“Precisely because her reaction at that time was too emotional that it shows that she wasn’t ignorant.”
Wang Lei nodded thoughtfully and said, “Boss, I’ll go back.”
“Go. Besides Li Qiuran, you should pay more attention to Jiang Xiaohan. ”
“Jiang Xiaohan?” Although he was puzzled, Wang Lei nevertheless heeded.
Looking at Wang Lei dissapear through the door, Ling Huaan then asked leisurely, “Jiang Changping, do you love your wife?”
Jiang Changping was unresponsive, but Ling Huaan got the answer. He puts on his headphones to listen to the soothing music in his phone, and watched the wandering souls outside the window. This is his only pastime in his silent myriad nights.
October 29, 3020. In the conference room of the criminal investigation team, all the people came together respectively to sort out their own materials until Jiang Chengyan came in.
Jiang Chengyan started bluntly. “Let’s talk about it when everyone’s here. What did you gather yesterday?”
When the crowd looked at each other, Liu Ran took the lead. “let me talk first. Yesterday, we went to Aiduoduo supermarket and found the items Jiang Changping bought that day. Here is the list. Have a look, captain. ”
Jiang Chengyan took a look at the list and said, “Food and toiletries. Have you found out if Jiang Changping has a residence in Guangmei district? ”
Liu Ran shook his head and said, “No. The only real estate under Jiang Changping’s name is the one in Heping district, and the gallery he is running now. ”
“What about renting?”
“We checked the property fee registration form of Guangmei district, but we didn’t find anything under Jiang Changping’s name. I think if he really wants to hide, he will never use his identity to rent a house. ”
Jiang Chengyan nodded and then asked, “What about Li Qiuran? Have you checked her information? ”
“Yes. Li Qiuran, 28, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Longcheng University and was an alumna of Jiang Changping. After graduation, Li Qiuran married Jiang Changping and became a housewife. Her mother’s family is in Huacheng, but her parents are divorced and each have a new family. Since she got married, she has hardly been back to her mother’s family. ”
“Where’s her address book? Who does she associate more closely with?”
“She seldom gets in touch with people. But every night at eight o’clock, she calls Jiang Changping, usually no more than a minute, except for a few days a month.”
Jiang Chengyan nodded and said, “yesterday, we went to her house to investigate and inquire. She also said that Jiang Changping would go out to collect wind every month, usually for about three days. The days you mentioned should be the days when Jiang Changping went out to collect wind.”
“Collecting materials? Well said, it’s just an excuse to meet your lover. “Yao Min did not even bother to slightly cover up of her dissatisfaction with Jiang Changping.
“Liu Ran, what else did you find?”
“Jiang Changping’s last call was to Jiang Cheng on the 22nd. We visited him according to the information. Jiang Cheng, 33, is a cousin of Jiang Changping, who has opened a shop in the wholesale market of small commodities and specializes in mounting calligraphy and paintings. Jiang Changping called him to ask if the calligraphy and painting he had entrusted before had been mounted.”
“If it’s such a simple thing, why would the call last for five minutes?”
“It’s because Jiang Cheng borrows money from Jiang Changping, but Jiang Changping doesn’t. They had a quarrel, so they talked for five minutes.”
“A quarrel?”
“It’s not the only time that Jiang Cheng borrowed money. Before, he owed Jiang Changping more than 200,000 yuan, but he never paid it back. Now he has another 100,000 yuan. No one will hesitate. Jiang Cheng is also a complete rogue. It’s hard for them not to quarrel. However, we have ruled out the suspicion of Jiang Cheng’s crime. On the 22nd, he played mahjong with several friends all night and didn’t go home until more than 6 o’clock in the morning. ”
“Anything else?”
“We also checked Jiang Changping’s social media account. He only has few friends and few contacts. There was nothing unusual. For the time being, we only found these.”
“Good.” Jiang Chengyan looked at Li Tong and asked, “What did you do find out there?”
Li Tong replied, “we went to the traffic police brigade and found the tracks of the three cars. We found that the black DZ car was a □□, and the real car with the license plate number was a white MZD. I suspected that the car was used to throw the corpse, Unfortunately, it let him run away. Finally, he drove into the old urban area in the eastern suburbs, where the roads were narrow and many places didn’t have monitoring cameras. So apart from the car brand, we didn’t get any other information.”
I kinda have a feeling the wife’s the murderer and she has an accomplice (°ー°〃)
Indeed, she better not be threatening the child.
Thanks for the chapters 💖!!
Is this a case of child abuse? She better not touch the child
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
Hmmm she could be working together with the guy her husband cheated with… 🤔 But the kid, hopefully he’ll be okay 😔
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
+1 my first thought also was wife and lover
oh, new insight… but what kind of reason that made hidden lover and legal wife cooperate? 🤔
She could be blackmailing the lover or the lover could do it voluntarily bcs of some reason.
Or she could be collabing with the cousin and hired someone to kill the husband bcs the way they tried to hide the evidence/identity seems like professional work and not something fuelled by revenge. But we’ll see 😁
that “bcs of some reason” seems loguc enough for me. and I also thinking the same like you said in the last part. then this case may lead to a bigger case with that 👀
Thanks for the chapter!
Poor child, he still small but already met with dark side of human’s heart
thanks for the chapter~
thanks for the chapter! <3
Why such a drama just bc someone hurt themself while cooking? :’D Happens even often enough to people who can see lol The knife doesn’t care which fingers it cuts off :3
Thx for so many chs (again) (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Yeah, the whole “don’t cook anymore” part was was honestly pretty patronizing? Especially since Jiang Chengyan doesn’t even know how to cook.
That mysterious club owner seems suspicious to me. Could he be the lover who is also an accomplice?
I think the murderer is the lover and the wife probably found the corpse of jiangchangping and decided to distribute the pieces the child probably saw it but not too clearly thats why his reaction was not too hysteric but with the suspicion he is unconsciosuly afraid
its getting interesting…
What im getting is the guy was gay married the wife had a secret lover the wife placed and that the wife and the secret lover are actually a thing and they wanted the guy for his money- anyone else of is it just me??.
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