A week had passed. When Fang Siyan left at that time, he didn't notice anything strange. After dispersing the on - looking employees in the company, he returned to his office alone.
The man looked haggard. First, he leaned back in his chair for a while. Then, he used his legs to move the chair and himself closer to the desk and rested his forehead on it.
His mind was in a complete mess. All the pictures were non - continuous, like slides in a PPT, popping up one by one in his mind.
Fang Siyan suddenly lifted his head. He pounded the table with both hands, and the table made a thumping sound.
"What on earth is going on? Why am I... "
He stared blankly ahead and let out a long sigh.
When Fang Siyan got home in the evening, he found Ding Ruola was working at her desk. He entered the room and stood behind the girl, but she didn't notice at all.
He watched for a while. The plan in Ding Ruola's hand seemed to be for Kaida.
Clatter!
When Fang Siyan took out his phone from his pocket, his work ID card dropped to the ground.
The girl turned around because of the sound.
"Brother Fang! What's wrong with you? Did you run into any trouble at work?"
Ding Ruola left her desk. She hugged Fang Siyan's arm and pulled him to sit on her bed. Her eyes never left Fang Siyan's face.
She could sense Fang Siyan's sadness.
"No! I'm just too tired. I had too much fun a few days ago!"
Fang Siyan made up an excuse. Ding Ruola was stunned for a moment, but finally she chose to believe him.
The two didn't sleep together that night. Ding Ruola knew that she was quite restless in her sleep. She would stretch her legs and arms, and even grab the quilt when she was sound asleep.
Fang Siyan couldn't fall asleep that night. He stared at the ceiling of the room for a long time.
On the gray - white ceiling, due to the light from outside, there were circles of white halos.
The man stared at these lights.
That day, Lin Ke came to him about school matters. Fang Siyan always thought that it was not easy for Lin Ke as a woman. He heard that this girl had not been valued by her family since she was a child, but after she started to earn money, her family began to exploit her.
When she made a move against Ding Ruola last time, Fang Siyan didn't target her too much.
After that, Lin Ke had been quiet for a long time, so Fang Siyan didn't pay much attention.
When he went there, Lin Ke only talked to Fang Siyan about school affairs. Later, they quarreled because of a graduate student in the school.
They had a common graduate student. Fang Siyan didn't want to pass that student, but Lin Ke was soft - hearted. She thought that the graduate student had already been in school for three years. If the student was delayed for another year, it would be too cruel.
Fang Siyan realized that it was not the time to reason with Lin Ke.
Men were always too rational.
Thinking of this, Fang Siyan concentrated on recalling what had happened after he left Lin Ke's room.
He mentally went through all the people he had seen one by one.
There was indeed a rather suspicious man among them. He was going out to buy groceries, wearing a hoodie and a cap inside.
Although it was really cold in winter, it was still quite suspicious to be dressed like that even after getting into the elevator.
However, Fang Siyan didn't see the man's face. He only vaguely remembered the man's height.
He couldn't remember anything else.
The next morning when they got up, both the husband and wife had dark circles under their eyes.
They looked at each other.
"Baby! You don't have to work so hard."
"Brother Fang, take care of your health!"
They could both say words of concern, but neither of them ever followed their own advice.
After Fang Siyan returned to the company, after the morning meeting, two policemen came.
He didn't want the other employees in the company to watch, so he asked Zhang Jun to take the two policemen to sit in his office first.
"May I ask how I can help you?"
"Oh! Actually, we don't need your help. We're here just to tell you that we've found new clues."
New clues. Before Fang Siyan could say that he remembered seeing a suspicious man in a sweater that day, the police had already pushed a photo in front of him.
"Did you see this man at that time?"
Fang Siyan quickly nodded.
The two policemen noticed Fang Siyan's action. Then they looked at each other, and the one who was taking notes put down his pen.
"Did you see his face?"
By now, they had checked all the surveillance cameras around Lin Ke's community, but they basically couldn't find a clear shot of the man's face. Most of the footage was of his back, and the few cameras on the curb didn't capture this hat - wearing man at all.
This mysterious man seemed to have emerged from a crack in the ground.
Seeing that they couldn't get any more clues from Fang Siyan, they left immediately.
The police couldn't disclose the progress of the case to Fang Siyan.
Actually, the police had combined this case with another one. Some time ago, another woman had died.
That woman also died in her own home, and there was no evidence at all. A mysterious man had appeared in the surveillance footage.
A ring on the first dead woman's hand was missing.
At first, they thought that the ring had fallen off during the fight between the woman and the murderer, and the forensic team just couldn't find it.
It wasn't until they found that something was also missing from Lin Ke's body.
From the metal debris left on the body, the police could initially conclude that this metal was platinum.
Ding Ruola stayed in the studio for a while in the morning. Suddenly, she remembered that Zhang Wei hadn't sent her the quarterly plan this quarter.
Thinking that she had nothing to do, she went directly to Fangyuan Group.
When she got to Fangyuan Group, she saw two men in plain clothes but wearing badges.
She wondered if Fang Siyan had offended someone.
She didn't directly ask Fang Siyan. She was sure that Fang Siyan wouldn't tell her.
"Manager Zhang, what are those two policemen here for?"
Hearing Ding Ruola's question, Zhang Wei immediately stood up from his chair.
"Policemen! Policemen! Where are there any policemen?"
The man looked as if he had been taking drugs and suddenly the police rushed in. His act was a bit over - the - top.
"I have a question for you. You have to answer me truthfully. If it's true, you don't say a word. Just tell me which ones are false."
"Are they here to see Fang Siyan?"
Zhang Wei didn't say a word. Ding Ruola stared into Zhang Wei's eyes, and the man didn't move at all.
This was the only question she had. As for what the policemen wanted from Fang Siyan, Ding Ruola couldn't guess for the time being.
Later that day, Ding Ruola and Fang Siyan went home together.
She noticed that Fang Siyan glanced at the newspaper twice and then threw it into the trash can.
This was not Fang Siyan's style!
Ding Ruola saw through it but didn't say anything. While urging Fang Siyan to take a bath, she picked up the newspaper from the trash can.
She saw a criminal case in a corner of the newspaper.
A woman with the surname Lin, who was a professor at University B.
The only person Ding Ruola could think of was Lin Ke.
She linked what she had seen in the morning with what she saw now.
Was Fang Siyan related to Lin Ke's death? Had Fang Siyan met Lin Ke last week?