After Xiao Yin lost his roommate, Lin Aiguo agreed to live with him. And then on the third of June, Xiao Yin and Lin Aiguo were on their way to the police station, travelling the roads by Xiao Yin’s car, since they were needed on a new and mysterious case. When there was only one kilometre more, to reach the station, Lin Aiguo got a call ordering them to take a detour towards an old and abandoned building. It seemed as though some people had spotted the victim there.

When Lin Aiguo and Xiao Yin arrived at the scene, they found Zhang Wei, already instructing the people to move away from the scene, and behind the yellow tape. Many people had their cameras out and were videoing what was going on. It was a horrifying scene. “It seems that her name is Lian Mingmei. An eighteen- year- old student from Tianjin International School,” Zhang Wei told his two friends. The person who Zhang Wei was referring to, was the victim, a young girl, whose body was now dangling down by the neck on a rope that was tied onto the building’s window frame. Although the building was old and abandoned, its structure was strong. “It seems to me as though it was a suicide case,” Xiao Yin remarked. “You can say that,” Lin Aiguo mentioned, walking into the building as it was safer to get the body back through the window instead of throwing it down, which would then cause further damage to the evidence, “But according to her frightened facial expression, there could be something else.”

Once the body had been lifted in, Lin Aiguo put on his gloves and examined it, “The time of death is somewhere between five to six last evening. It is a suicide. No one else’s marks or traces are on her body. However, this suicide feels strange. Why kill herself here? Send the body to the lab. I’ll check it over there… Where’s the victim’s family? Do they know about this?” A young and new policeman named Li Xiu Ying answered, “Yes. Her father died two years ago. Only the mother is thought to be alive. I think she is on her way here now. “The body was...