Volume 1: Everything in the Name of Love (Typing with Hands) Chapter 4: Beautiful and Sorrowful Memories

  Xu Nu's interrogation made good progress, but in Interrogation Room 2, Liu He was still stumped. No matter how he asked, Wang Ming remained expressionless and unresponsive.

  Xu Nuo stood behind Lü Cong, staring at the monitor, and suddenly had an epiphany. "Where is the forensic department?" he asked, and after getting a reply, he hastily left.

  Before long, she hurried back and pushed open the door of Interrogation Room 2: "I'll ask the questions instead."

  Liu He came to the monitoring room with a look of dissatisfaction, slamming the door shut: "Damn it! What's going on? Even in the police force, you're still acting like a spoiled princess. I've been a detective for 6 years, from the former major crimes unit to the current criminal investigation team 4, and no one has ever asked me to leave halfway through an interrogation!"

  Chen Chen had just returned from the hospital and happened to catch this scene. Although he was also dissatisfied with Xu Nuo's behavior, seeing Liu He being bullied, he still couldn't resist adding insult to injury: "Others are deputy captains, you should listen to them! Who let you ask not a single question for half a day?! Besides, they have the backing of the fishing village, while you're just a small shrimp, if you crash into them, you won't even be left with your skin intact!"

  Li Kexin was somewhat annoyed: "Look at you guys, just because she's a rich family's deputy captain, one by one like they've eaten sour grapes. I think she's got an attitude that's a bit arrogant, but still has some skills. Just now during the interrogation, her questions were all well-designed, and the rhythm was controlled so well, even getting the little girl to reveal her secret crush on her sister's husband."

  Lü Cong slammed his hand on the table: "You're all too idle, can't just sit quietly and watch, go get to work!"

  Xu Nu took out an evidence bag from his pocket and placed it on the table, gently pushing it in front of Wang Ming. Wang Ming's scattered gaze suddenly focused when he saw the object, his face involuntarily twitching, and tears fell heavily onto the tabletop. He stretched out his hand, slowly approaching, as if handling fragile goods with great care.

  After a while, he finally touched the object, and with his fingers tracing the pattern on the evidence bag again and again, as if it had been etched in his heart for a long time. Xu Nu simply sat there quietly, without urging him to speak.

  After more than a dozen minutes, Wang Ming finally stopped that mechanical action, and the sorrow at the bottom of his eyes was clear and heart-wrenching. He opened his mouth with a hoarse voice: "Weiwei and I were high school classmates, but she was the kind of girl who kept a low profile, and I was a mischievous bad boy, so we didn't have any intersection at all. Until after college, during a high school classmate gathering, she wore a sleeveless white dress, walking in from outside the door, my heart felt like it had been hit hard by something, that pure smile seemed to be what I had been chasing for a long time in my dreams." Wang Ming was immersed in his memories at this moment, with a gentle smile on his face.

  Throughout the dinner, I was distracted and didn't know how many cups of wine I had been poured. She pretended to be casual and walked up to me, whispering: "Don't drink too much, it's bad for your health." Without thinking, I replied: "Give me your contact information." She quickly glanced around, making sure no one was paying attention, before pulling out a pen and mischievously asking: "Where should I write it?" Instinctively, I stretched out my hand, indicating for her to write on my palm. She adorably wrinkled her nose at me, then lifted up my hand and wrote her name and phone number in elegant strokes. The ticklish sensation seemed to transmit directly to my heart, and that name was forever etched in my memory.

  He blushed slightly, a sweet smile playing on his lips, his right-hand fingers gently caressing the palm of his left hand, as if the phone number was still there.

  "After that day, I started pursuing Weiwei. She didn't live in the dorms, so every morning I would get up early and ride my bike to her house, waiting for her downstairs, sending her off to school, then returning to school myself. In the evenings, I'd go pick her up again and send her back home. At that time, I always felt like I wasn't good enough for her, couldn't even dare hold hands with her, just kept talking about my own silly stories and funny things happening at school. Being able to hear her happy laughter on our walks made me feel incredibly satisfied, hoping the distance between her house and school could be a bit longer, so I could spend more time with her, even if it was just one second." The sweetness of those memories suddenly lifted his earlier dullness, and an unusual radiance lit up his entire face.

  "I remember that time, McDonald's kids' meal came with a Snoopy toy, and one day she saw the poster and casually said how cute it was. I remembered it in my heart. So I ate at McDonald's for three whole months, eating until I got sick just looking at the sign, even the cashier knew me. Finally, on her birthday, I gave her 72 Snoopy toys that I had collected. She hugged them and laughed with a face as red as a peach, saying something that was the most touching thing I'd ever heard: 'Fool, actually I've liked you since high school!' Those words made me feel like I was the happiest person in the world, also the biggest fool, for having missed her for so long." Wang Ming's mouth couldn't help but curve upwards, his eyes gazing warmly into the distance, as if the woman who had smiled at him was standing right there.

  After a long time, he stretched out his hand again to gently touch the evidence bag on the table, and his face gradually became painful: "That day was June 20th, I remember it clearly, even the shape of the clouds in the sky is etched in my mind. It was my first time celebrating her birthday, and it was also the day I started chasing her for a whole hundred days. I rode my broken bicycle with her to visit all the jade shops in W City, swiped all the money on my card, and bought this jade lotus flower for her. She complained that I was wasting money, and I held her hands holding the jade lotus flower against my chest, saying she was my jade lotus flower, and would bloom forever in my heart. She blushed and lowered her head, letting me put it on her, saying she would never take it off for a lifetime..." At this point, Wang Ming grasped the jade lotus flower tightly on the table and sobbed uncontrollably.

  The scene was so touching that everyone felt a pang of sadness. Xu Nu waited for Wang Ming to finish venting his emotions, then poured him a glass of water.

  Wang Ming seemed much calmer and said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you!"

  Everyone in the monitoring room saw Wang Ming finally calm down and couldn't help but focus their energy, waiting to see what new clues Xu Nuo could ask.

  Xu Nuo said: "May I go to your home and take a look? Your wife's belongings may provide us with clues to crack the case. There are some questions, let's discuss them at your home."

  Wang Ming nodded: "Okay, let's go together, anyway I'm on leave today."

  As they were about to leave, Wang Ming asked in a low voice: "Officer comrade, when can I get back my wife's body?"

  "After the forensic examination is completed, we will notify the family members to come and collect the body."

  "Alright then." Wang Ming lowered his head and walked out of the interrogation room.

  Lü Cōng was helpless and looked at Chen Chen and Liu He, who both had a "I'm not going with her" expression, so he could only ask Li Kexin and Xu Nu to go to the deceased's home.