Can We Say No to Divorce?-Chapter 804 - 555: Romance of Love (1)

Song Ziyu never expected to feel so vulnerable one day!

Perhaps a series of setbacks caught her off guard.

All her confidence, since meeting this man, has been eroded bit by bit.

All her pride has also been worn away gradually.

She herself fears nothing, but how could she face all the residents of the small town regarding its construction?

"Song Ziyu, do you know that you’re the most captivating woman I’ve ever met?" Su Tianqing stared at her. "No woman has such audacity to abandon a career as a manager in a big city to build a town that never existed. But you dared! What do these current setbacks matter? Moreover, with someone like Xu Ruowei whose cause of death is still unclear, how can we lose our composure?"

"Even though you’re often strong enough to refuse anything, I still want to tell you that my shoulders are yours, solely yours, to lean on." Su Tianqing said, "Of course, I still admire your confident demeanor that seems to conquer the world!"

Song Ziyu felt comforted by him as she looked up at him, noticing the seriousness in his eyes.

"So pretentious!" she murmured angrily.

Su Tianqing’s face turned dark—was he really being pretentious?

...

Hotel room.

Bai Ye, along with Qiao Xiaoyan and others, entered the deceased’s room. The scene before them wasn’t gruesome, but everything appeared so bizarre.

Upon entering the room, Bai Ye said, "Xiaoyan, start working."

Having gained experience working together for the first time earlier, Bai Ye and Qiao Xiaoyan didn’t seem awkward this time.

Qiao Xiaoyan nodded, set down the equipment, and began her meticulous examination.

"The deceased is female, nude, time of death approximately 1618 hours ago, which is around 8 PM to 10 PM last night." Qiao Xiaoyan said while examining meticulously and recording. "The bloodstains on the sheets are initially judged to be caused by an injury on the deceased’s inner right thigh. The wound is heart-shaped, with excised skin tissue..."

"Heart-shaped wound!" Bai Ye interrupted Qiao Xiaoyan’s initial assessment.

"Yes, Officer Bai." Qiao Xiaoyan continued, "The wound is small, with only 7cm by 7cm area. Judging by the wound, it is heart-shaped. The surface skin tissue has been entirely excised."

Qiao Xiaoyan leaned closer to examine the wound again, "The cut edges are very smooth, probably caused by something like a scalpel—extremely sharp."

A scalpel again? Bai Ye felt a hitch inside, as he stood in the middle of the room, scanning every corner, saying calmly, "Continue, I’m listening."

"Alright." Qiao Xiaoyan continued examining carefully and recording, "Preliminary judgment indicates that the heart-shaped wound didn’t sever the major artery inside the thigh and wasn’t the fatal injury."

After a while, Qiao Xiaoyan repeatedly examined the corpse from front to back.

"This is strange!" Qiao Xiaoyan stopped her recorder, exclaiming, "Bai, it’s really strange. I’ve investigated quite a few murder cases, not to brag, but definitely more than once or twice. But this time, on examining the deceased, no injuries other than the heart-shaped wound were found. What caused her death shouldn’t be external trauma. The color of her lips and features don’t display abnormalities either—doesn’t appear to be poisoning. A detailed autopsy is necessary."

Bai Ye walked over, standing beside the corpse, carefully observing Xu Ruowei’s face, saying to Qiao Xiaoyan, "Xiaoyan, have you noticed?"

"I see it!" Qiao Xiaoyan responded intuitively to Bai Ye, "That might be what’s fatal."

"I think so too, look closely at the deceased’s facial expression again." Bai Ye said pensively, "Generally, when one is nearing death, either their face is expressionless or shows extreme fear."

Bai Ye paused before saying: "Check the deceased again, despite her unclosed eyes, her eyes are merely half-open, not wide-eyed. Her lips are slightly upturned as if she’s smiling. This doesn’t seem like an expression of fear. Conversely, she might have been enjoying something delightful when she died suddenly."

Qiao Xiaoyan gazed at the nude corpse, contemplating before speaking: "Could it be... she was with a man at that time?"

"It’s possible, though not ruling out the chance she was pleasuring herself, see how she barely occupies half the bed while the other half remains neat. If it was with a man, would one use only half the bed?" Bai Ye said, glancing at Qiao Xiaoyan, feeling somewhat awkward.

Despite being a couple, they hadn’t reached that stage yet, encountering such a crime scene inevitably left them slightly embarrassed.

Qiao Xiaoyan’s cheeks reddened, but as a professional forensic pathologist, external factors are disregarded. She turned to the toolbox, retrieving cotton swabs and specimen tubes.

As Qiao Xiaoyan meticulously examined Xu Ruowei’s private area again, Bai Ye had already directed his gaze elsewhere, promptly regaining his usual composure.

"Xiaoyan, you check first, I’ll look at the condition inside the room." Bai Ye instructed, "If there’s anything..."

"I know, I’ll go examine her other areas now." Before Bai Ye could finish speaking, Qiao Xiaoyan breathed quickly, voicing her thoughts.

Qiao Xiaoyan used tweezers and cotton swabs to gingerly part the deceased’s intimate area.

"Bai, hurry over!" Qiao Xiaoyan shouted, her expression shifting instantly.

Bai Ye rapidly approached Qiao Xiaoyan’s side; for a moment, they exchanged glances; Qiao Xiaoyan’s cheeks blushing like apples.

"Ever felt being a police officer sometimes offers privileged sights, viewing all sorts of mysterious places!" Qiao Xiaoyan playfully stuck out her tongue, teasingly remarked.

"Focus on work!" Bai Ye smiled, akin to chastising a little girl.

Qiao Xiaoyan carefully extracted a small purple flower from Xu Ruowei’s intimate area, about the size of a thumb.

"Judging from the congestion in the deceased’s area, she engaged in multiple acts during life," Qiao Xiaoyan examined Xu Ruowei’s corpse, "The walls here show severe congestion."

Bai Ye eyed Qiao Xiaoyan incredulously, "Flowers again! Last time it was a fiery red rose, this time a mysterious purple flower. Could it really be the same perpetrator?"

This was Qiao Xiaoyan’s concern—now becoming reality, step by step.

It seemed they were facing unprecedented challenges!

Qiao Xiaoyan continued extracting secretions from the deceased’s area and retrieved residues from the deceased’s hands and under the nails.

"Bai, the deceased should have worn a ring before death." Qiao Xiaoyan carefully brought up the deceased’s left hand, "Check her ring finger, isn’t there a circular bruise? The ring was removed some time after demise, because once a person dies, circulation stops, leaving marks where pressure was."

"What does that mean?" Bai Ye asked confusedly, "Make it simple."

"It means someone removed the deceased’s ring at least an hour after death," Qiao Xiaoyan explained.

"Anyone find a ring fallen?" Bai Ye inquired of the forensic team present.

"No, nothing found." The forensic team replied in unison.

"Hmm... meaning possibly someone watched as she died and stayed for at least an hour before removing the ring and leaving." Bai Ye said to Qiao Xiaoyan.

"There’s another possibility—the door was unlocked; someone could have entered to steal the ring." Qiao Xiaoyan analyzed, "Regardless, many similarities connect Xu Ruowei and Chen Hui’s cases. Firstly, both lost significant belongings, and both had a flower placed in their intimate area."