The music changed from soothing to high-pitched. Su Yi shaved her leg hair in an orderly manner in front of the mirror. After doing all this, she raised her head.
The camera now captured her face in the mirror. Under the light, tiny water molecules evaporated into a light mist in the air, softening the contours of her face in the mirror.
She looked really beautiful when she smiled, but under the dim light, her eyes showed a coldness that didn't match the warm scene at the moment.
Huo Zhiming showed her this shot for nearly a few seconds, as if he wanted to freeze her beauty in this moment. The next moment, Su Yi picked up a pair of scissors and cut off her long hair that was still dripping with water!
Shu Payne's eyes widened. This scene had a huge impact on him. The 'click, click' sound of hair cutting mixed with the music created a strange sense of harmony that made his hair stand on end.
As the strands of hair fell, Jiang Se in front of the camera said nothing, but it was worth a thousand words!
The director presents beautiful things to the audience, but then destroys them mercilessly, bringing people an indescribable shock.
At this moment Shu Pain forgot about the movie, forgot about Tao Cen, and forgot about the case that he had been organizing in his mind according to Shen Xunran's analysis. It was as if he was hit on the head with a hammer. All he could see in his eyes and in his heart were the strands of long hair falling to the ground.
That kind of desperate determination, that kind of decisiveness to burn the boats, were displayed to the extreme in the deep and powerful music.
Shu Payne didn't realize that his body was trembling slightly. An uncontrollable feeling extended from the bottom of his heart and climbed up his back, making his hair stand on end. Layers of goose bumps spread unrestrainedly on his arms, making him hold his breath in his chest.
The power of hearing was amplified to the extreme at this moment, and the "ssssssss" sound of hair cutting was particularly prominent in the music.
It was as if a seed had sprouted in Shu Pain's heart, breaking through the soil and trying to get out of his throat. He felt a slight itch, but he couldn't scratch it. He shrank his neck and swallowed his saliva.
The ground was covered with layers of smooth long hair. Su Yi in the mirror pursed his lips and smiled at himself. That smile no longer made people feel warm, but instead made people shudder.
She took a wig out of the drawer and put it on carefully.
On the tree-lined path, the moonlight covered the bluestone road. A slim girl in a windbreaker walked on this quiet path. Her long reflection covered the light of the street lamp, making it feel as if there was no escape from the brightness.
Amid the crisp sounds, her tall and slender figure walked farther and farther away until she reached the end of the path, turned a corner, and disappeared.
Seven days had passed since he met Su Yi, and there were only twenty-two days left until the date of Wu Chun's death as stated in the 'death notice'.
On the day he met Su Yi, after receiving the "death notice" again, Shen Xunran went to his leader to ask for an order to track Su Yi, but was rejected.
She thought about it for a few days and decided to act first and ask someone to keep an eye on Su Yi later.
After two days of watching, nothing was found.
This woman led a very simple life and stayed at home most of the time. According to Shen Xunran's secret monitoring of her phone, he discovered that she often spoke on the phone with people from the company, handling official business from two different places.
When he goes out occasionally, it's just to go to the supermarket or the library to read a book, or to sit in a cafe from time to time. He doesn't seem to have any doubts.
Shen Xunran listened to the report for two days, his brows furrowed more and more. At this time, a major case that shocked Wangjin happened!
In Wangjin, in a ventilated hotel, a man was killed in the bathtub with his throat slit!
When Shen Xunran arrived at the crime scene, the scene had already been destroyed.
The police set up a cordon and no one was allowed to enter, but before that, you could still see that the place had been trampled on.
The person in charge of the hotel turned pale and looked both afraid and hateful:
"This guest checked in three days ago," the registration list has been brought over. This hotel is not big, it is privately run, many of the facilities are not perfect, and there are only about thirty rooms in the entire hotel.
Apart from the surveillance cameras outside the main door and at the front desk, most of the surveillance cameras installed by the boss in the corridors and elevator entrances are either fake or broken.
This had a great impact on solving the case. Shen Xunran's face was as gloomy as he took the registration book and flipped through it, listening to the boss talk about how the body was discovered.
"After checking in, he paid for five days' accommodation and told people not to disturb him easily."
The cheap carpet on the floor had been soaked by water, and from the forced expressions on the faces of the surrounding police officers, one could tell that the entire room was filled with a disgusting smell of blood.
The camera flashed through the bathroom, where a white hand that had been soaked in water was resting on the edge of the bathtub. A man tilted his head back, his neck cut open. The blood from the huge wound had been washed away by the water, like the corner of a devil's grinning mouth.
"We have a lot of guests like this here. If they don't request room service, we won't knock on their door to disturb them."
The boss's eyes were evasive when he spoke. It was precisely because of the hotel's negligence in service that it was unclear when the guest was killed in the room.
The people who stay in this hotel are all travelers who are looking for a bargain. They have traveled a lot and are not familiar with each other. They don't care whether the person living next door is a man or a woman, or what they look like.
It was not until this morning that the water in the bathtub seeped out, filled the room, and flowed out of the door, where it was discovered by passers-by. They called the hotel staff, and when they opened the door, they found a dead person inside.
As the news of the death in the hotel spread, the people staying there crowded in and trampled the rooms into a mess. The incident became so serious that even all major newspapers and magazines were alarmed and it could not be covered up.
The scene had originally been damaged by water, and with the added trauma of human activity, much of the evidence had been destroyed. Shen Xunran suppressed his anger and had the carpet rolled up, the room searched thoroughly, and the body moved away first.
The boss still regrets:
"I should have known not to do this business. What should I do now that someone has died in the hotel?"
"Close the door and wait for the results of the investigation!"
Shen Xunran said this and took the hotel registration book away.
Such a murder had a very bad impact, so Wu Chunhe's case had to be put on hold. After all, although the police had received threatening letters, the investigation had yielded no results. Compared with this highly-publicized case, Shen Xunran was asked to put Wu Chunhe's case aside for the time being.
The victim this time had his throat slit while taking a bath. The victim did not resist much before dying, which made the police suspect that the perpetrator was mostly male.
After the murderer killed him, he kept the water in the hotel's exhaust system running at a very small flow rate. The hotel delivers a fixed amount of hot water to each room every day. The hot water becomes cold after it runs out. The alternation of hot and cold has an impact on the speculation of the specific time of death of the deceased.
However, judging from the soaked carpet and the time when the deceased entered the ventilated hotel, his time of death should be between the evening of three days ago and yesterday.
This situation gave Shen Xunran a headache, as her opponent this time was a brutal and meticulous person.
The incident was too serious and the police were under some pressure. Their superiors asked Shen Xunran to solve the case as soon as possible. She took the registration book of the Exhaust Hotel and looked through the list of people who had entered and left the Exhaust Hotel in the past week. She soon found the signature of the deceased on it.
What shocked Shen Xunran the most was not that the identity of the deceased was finally revealed, but that the handwriting of the man who signed his name as "Li Nanfeng" was very similar to the handwriting on the "death notice" about Wu Chunhe that the police had received!
She acted decisively and sent the handwriting of 'Li Nanfeng' for identification. She soon confirmed that 'Li Nanfeng' was indeed the person who wrote the 'death notice'. The case reached this point and a breakthrough was found in this way.
The person who wanted to kill Wu Chunhe died in Paifeng Hotel in this way. Was it an accident or a coincidence
This case within a case made Shen Xunran on the screen vaguely feel that it was a difficult case. Not only her, but even the audience outside the screen felt as if there was a hand in the dark, controlling everything and leading the police to be busy.
The movie reached a climax at this point, and Shupein was so nervous that he was afraid of missing anything.
Huo Zhiming did not film the scene of the murderer killing people, but Shu Payen and every audience member in the theater remembered the previous shot of Su Yi cutting his hair and going out. Once such subtle clips overlapped, it was easy for people to imagine something.
Su Yi killed the person!
The film splices together events that happened in two different spaces and uses montage techniques to give people room for imagination. Coupled with Shen Xunran's confirmation of "Li Nanfeng's" handwriting at this time, the two cases are combined, making Su Yi, who was supposed to be "out of the matter" in this case, also a suspect, which is pointed out by the title of the film.
"Suspect, Suspect!"
Shu Payen muttered to himself quietly, and finally understood what Huo Zhiming meant by this.
The identity of "Li Nanfeng" was soon investigated. His original name was "Li Nanfeng". He was from Wangjin City, married with two children. His household registration was moved more than ten years ago, and his original registered address was on Qingshui Road, Changheng Street, Wangjin City.
That was once Su Yi's former residence as recorded in the information, and it was also Wu Chunhe's hometown.
From the information found about Li Nanfeng, it was found that he and Wu Chunhe should be an old acquaintance in their early years. After Wu Chunhe resigned and went into business, the two did business together. Most importantly, he also got involved when Wu Chunhe set up a shell company.
The death of Su's father was also related to his debt collection.
"After the demolition of Changheng Street, the old house of the Su family was transferred to the name of Li Nanfeng." Li Nanfeng also made a fortune from the demolition and lived a comfortable life.
In other words, the Su family was the only one that suffered a loss from the "debt" back then, while Wu Chun and Li Nanfeng, who were "doing business together", made money.
In fact, in the eyes of any discerning person, it is obvious that someone has set a trap for the Su family.
At this point in the case, after many twists and turns, we have finally gotten some useful information out.
The two cases were combined into one, and all aspects involved were once again related to the Su family.
Su Yi happened to return to Wangjin at such a sensitive time. Shen Xunran remembered what she said when she last met Su Yi: "Someone threw a bone out, and a hungry beggar stretched out his hand to pick up something good, but he didn't pick up the bone, and the arm he stretched out was chopped off!"
She said it with a smile at the time, but now when you think about it carefully, you can see that her expression was cold when she spoke, and there was a haze in her eyes, with a chilling hostility hidden in them.
It was clear from her words that she believed her father was set up!
When Shen Xunran thought of this, he became more and more certain of what Su Yi had done.
She called the police officer who had been keeping an eye on Su Yi these days and asked him what Su Yi was doing on the day Li Nanfeng died.
The police were confused. The police did not keep an eye on Su Yi on the day Li Nanfeng checked into the hotel. They only started keeping an eye on her the next day. But after the second day, there was nothing strange about her whereabouts.
"Have you been near the Paifeng Hotel?"
"Yes!" the police officer said confidently, "I sat in a nearby cafe, but I didn't go near the exhaust hotel."
Shen Xunran was shocked. In this case, Li Nanfeng's date of death could not be determined. It could only be inferred that he died between the day he checked in and the next day. In other words, he might have died on the night of his check-in, or he might have died on the next day.
The police did not keep an eye on Su Yi the night he checked into the hotel, and they did not find any unusual behavior from her the next day, but that could only mean that she had half an alibi for Li Nanfeng's death.
It is impossible to make an accurate inference, which proves that he might have died on the night he checked in. Su Yi was not under police surveillance at the time. Combined with the previous circumstances, she is also a suspect!
Shen Xunran decided to let the forensic doctor examine Li Nanfeng's body again. Su Yi was tall and slender. If she wanted to kill a strong man and make him unable to fight back, she must do something to make this man lose resistance.
At the same time, she asked someone to retrieve Li Nanfeng's call records for the past six months, confirming that he had indeed contacted Su Yi in the middle. Judging from the time, it should have been before the "death notice" about Wu Chunhe was sent.
This further confirmed Shen Xunran's guess.
Su Yi and Li Nanfeng had contacted each other privately. The "death notice" about Wu Chunhe was written by Li Nanfeng. Li Nanfeng died in a ventilated hotel. Assuming that all this is related to Su Yi, as she said, her family is close and she wants to avenge her parents. If Li Nanfeng was also killed by her, then if she wants to kill Wu Chunhe, she shouldn't use Li Nanfeng's hand. Wouldn't it be better to kill Li Nanfeng after Wu Chunhe's death
Why did she go to the trouble of first using Li Nanfeng to write a 'death notice' to inform the police of Wu Chunhe's death, and then killing Li Nanfeng to make the matter bigger
What good would it do for her to do this? The police would only pay more attention to Wu Chunhe and put him under their tight protection. Wouldn't that go against her intention to "kill" him
Shen Xunran frowned, remembering the words she whispered to him: "The police can't do anything about this. They are so incompetent!" Her hair stood on end, and the breath blowing against Shen Xunran's ears when she spoke seemed extremely cold, causing her to subconsciously touch the back of her neck and ears. (To be continued)