Tan Jiao's Perspective

  I had a dream.

  In a dream, I saw Yan Yuan again, also known as Zhu Shu Yun. He was leaning on my bedhead, desperately pulling my legs and saying: "I want to kill you! Kill you..."

  I raised my head and took a look, but found that he had turned into a ghost, with a green face and sharp teeth, and five fingers with sharp claws.

  "Ah——" I let out a sharp cry, startled into opening my eyes, drenched in sweat and staring at the empty ceiling.

  Damn it.

  I sat up, dazed for a while. I've always been bold, but the crazy words Zhu Shu-yun said before he died kept echoing in my mind like a dead mosquito, making me feel inexplicably uneasy.

  The case of Zhu's family is finally over, and we've been to the police station several times to "assist in the investigation". Now the police won't bother us anymore. But if I were Shen Shiyan, I would still feel strange, because at several critical moments in this case, Wu Yu and I both rushed ahead of the police and restrained the criminal.

  Shen Shiyan should give me a brocade banner with the inscription: "Female Hero of Divine Strategy and Ingenious Calculation".

  As I brushed my teeth, I thought that Shen Shiyan and his team of detectives were quite impressive. The day before, I had just escaped from the Zhu's house and was dialing 110 when I saw their police car speeding towards me from a distance. It turned out that after carefully analyzing the evidence from the previous night's interrogation, they deduced that there was a mole in the Zhu family and that Xu Zifeng had an accomplice. Although it was difficult to accept that they had crossed ethical boundaries, they still investigated Yan's past experiences before he became a monk, which were highly suspicious. Finally, after verifying his DNA, they discovered that he was actually Zhu Shiyun. They immediately went to the Zhu's house to make an arrest, but unfortunately, they were one step too late.

  Dressed neatly, I lie on the balcony, looking into the distance and thinking. Once the case is over, it's all over. The memories of that year or more that I lost, as well as that headless and tailless note, still have no clue. That person also never had any news again.

  Actually, I couldn't recall the memory, and it didn't have much impact on me either.

  But what about Ou Yu and me now?

  Is he being kind to me on purpose or unintentionally? Does he still have the good impression of me from the first day we met on the boat, or is it just because our fates are tied together, so he's taking care of me? After all, he would go all out to rescue a child who was robbed on the road and even help the selfish Zhu family in their time of need.

  At first I thought he was a selfish and self-centered Fenghuang man, but now he has been tempered by fate into a strong and unyielding hero.

  I buried my face in my arm, and do I have to like a car mechanic? Although he's handsome with a wrench in his hand, wearing a vest with the smell of engine oil on him. But now that he's chosen this path in life, if we get together in the future, I don't know if our lifestyles will be compatible or not.

  What am I thinking about anyway?

  From the gap of my arm, I see outside the community, among the layers of buildings, is the street where their repair shop is located. Even the blue roof of their house can be seen. I lay there, looking for a while, until the phone rang.

  "Zhuang Yu's voice was as calm as ever: 'The god of deduction, congratulations on cracking the case.'"

  I said: "Just kidding, no big deal."

  Zhuang Yu said: "I really didn't expect that you guys could play so big, straight into the wolf's den, and capture the perverted brother. Damn, human nature is more cruel than what you wrote in your book."

  "Yes." I said, "Twenty-five years ago, Zhu's father deliberately gave up looking for his kidnapped son. Actually, the son was not stupid, just that his language and communication skills developed a bit slower. You should know that if he had autism, his intelligence might even be higher than ordinary people. This fruit of love and hate was planted."