Chapter 2 Two

Detective Cheng walked into the office. He has conducted an investigation on campus and is now ready to report what he finds. He still felt annoyed at detective Huang's treatment of him. Just because he was a rookie, he was treated like an ignorant person.

'I'll prove that I'm a great detective too,' he said to himself.

Yifei who was standing in the doorway saw her junior coming and rushed over.

"Are you still upset?" asked her. Detective Cheng shook his head. Yifei had always been friendly to him. Unlike the others, especially detective Huang who sometimes treats him like an errand boy.

"I just don't like him looking down on me."

Yifei smiled as he patted the young man's shoulder.

"Be patient. Just so you know he used to be like that to me too, but because of you, he took out his annoyance at you now."

"Is that true?"

"Of course, that's in his nature."

The two then chuckled softly. However, they immediately stopped when they saw Detective Huang striding towards them.

"What the hell you are doing? You guys can still laugh and joke when we're in the middle of a murder case? Or are you guys really busy talking behind my back? Come on, said in front of me!"

Yifei shook her head while smoothing her bangs.

"Just a little," she said, putting some distance between her thumb and forefinger.

"You are really...." Detective Huang exclaimed annoyed, but Yifei stuck her tongue out and winked at Detective Cheng.

"I told you, didn't I? He's a easy to annoyed," she whispered.

"What? What else are you guys talking about?" reprimanded detective Huang who did not accept that. He felt that two agreed to vilify him.

"Nothing, Mr. Detective. Don't be so suspicious. We're your subordinates, not a criminal. We'd better get in right away. Isn't there a real criminal to be caught?"

***

"So what was the result of your investigation?" Yifei asked detective Cheng when they were now in the office. Irregular chairs were around the square table which was also littered with papers strewn on it. All were search results from previous assassinations.

Detective Cheng, who was standing in front of his two seniors, cleared his throat for a moment.

"I've looked into his campus and where she does part-time work. Nobody really knows her," he said.

"I also investigated where she lived and asked the people there. No one is really close to her. She seems to be a quiet and reserved girl," Detective Huang replied.

"Poor girl. She has no family anymore. No one will care about her fate."

They were all silent for a moment.

"But I think it's for the best," Detective Huang said suddenly.

"Maybe even though it's painful, at least now she can meet her family."

Yifei was silent. Is it because of the victim of an orphan, her death is considered a fortune?

"Is that all you found? Nothing else of use?" asked detective Huang, looking at detective Cheng.

"Of course I found something else. I was just about to tell you. That girl have boyfriends and they're not on good terms."

"So you're saying maybe her lover was the killer?" Yifei asked. Detective Cheng just nodded. Yifei was silent as she stared at the 'Red Ribbon' case file in front of her. If true, perhaps these two cases are not related.

***

Leo was busy putting cliches on camera. He quickly grabbed the camera and walked out of the house. The black jacket he wore made him even more handsome.

It was a busy afternoon in the park. Leo was busy snapping his camera at the people who were there. His movement then stopped at a long-haired girl who was laughing cheerfully with her friends.

'There she is. I think she is fits. Hopefully this time it won't be like before,' she mumbled to herself before snapping the camera back at the girl who didn't realize someone was taking a photo of her.

***

Yifei and detective Huang rushed over. They headed to the residence of Jason Lee who was none other than Feiyang's lover. From the information obtained by Detective Cheng, Jason and Feiyang got into a big fight in the campus yard in the afternoon before the girl was found dead late at night on the same day. The quarrel eventually caught the attention of other students.

Jason, who is also a student at the campus, left Feiyang just like that, even though the girl was crying and begging the young man not to leave her.

Detective Cheng didn't come with them because he is go to get the forensic results.

The house looks ordinary, but a little unkempt. Weeds can be seen bushing in the yard. The wall paint is also starting to fade. The courtyard of the house was also filled with dust.

'How can that girl be in a relationship with someone like this?' Yifei muttered inwardly. From the results of the investigations carried out by other detective colleagues, Feiyang's house was so clean and orderly.

Yifei and detective Huang were no longer wasting time. They immediately knocked on the door. After being knocked repeatedly, a voice came from inside. The door opened and a thin young man with a dragon tattoo on his right arm appeared, looking at Yifei and Detective Huang in turn.

"Who are you guys?" he asked. Before they could answer, a woman's voice came from inside the house.

"Who are they, honey?" asked the girl with long curly hair who walked out of one of the rooms, straightening her clothes and disheveled hair.

***

"So nothing is found?" Detective Cheng asked the middle-aged man beside him. The man was the forensic expert who autopsied Feiyang's body.

"Who said there wasn't? There were a few punches, but it was days or weeks before she died," said the gray-haired man.

Detective Cheng nodded.

"Then anything else?"

"The other thing is that the girl doesn't seem to give any resistance to the killer. Everything is so clean it's as if she resigned herself to her fate without fighting back."

The young detective just silently heard the explanation. The forensic doctor immediately continued,

"Unless she was suddenly attacked by someone she knew or was given medication, there's no way someone would just stand still when her life was threatened, but no traces of medicine were found. Neither were the marks of a blow that might have rendered her unconscious."

The man of medium stature was then silent as if he was contemplating something. He then took a deep breath.

"It's going to be a complicated case because neither fingerprints nor DNA of the culprit have been found. This killer is really smart."

"Haven't we talked about this before?" asked detective Cheng. The man beside him nodded.

"Right, the 'Red Ribbon' murder, maybe this was done by the same person. This might be a serial murder case. If the killer isn't caught, then...."

The man stopped talking. Detective Cheng has got his point, if it's not stopped, the killings might happen again soon.