Be in low spirits

She suddenly thought of something, snatched the keys from Li Li, drove to catch up with the car that took the man away, stopped their car on the main road, knocked on the door, pulled the man out, and asked, "Where were you on the day Guan Yanan committed suicide?"

The two men hadn't figured out what was going on yet, and were still standing there thinking about how to answer. Kong Zhixi grabbed the man's collar and yelled again: "I asked you where you were that day?"

"I... I'm at work." The two were obviously panicking, their legs were shaking, and the other woman was also looking around in panic. Li Li stood in front of the gate, watching the show with a smile.

"You're lying! It takes 10 minutes to drive from your workplace to school even if there's no traffic. It only took us three minutes to respond. You were already at school, right?"

"I...I..." The father was obviously panicking, his legs could not stand, he knelt directly on the road, crying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really...I didn't want to do that." The woman driving the car also hugged the man and cried, crying and shouting, "Lao Guan, Lao Guan..."

The two were once again taken to the interrogation room. Old Guan was silent for a long time. Kong Zhixi was so anxious that she slapped her thigh. She walked out of the interrogation room and stood in front of the glass window. She looked at the man and then at Li Li who was sitting there questioning her. She slapped her wrist anxiously, hoping that he could understand and hurry up, as they still had to find Cheng Xi.

Li Li came out and saw her red wrists, and asked, "What are you doing?" She knew that the people in the window couldn't see, but she was really anxious. "How about asking Guan Yanan's mother to come?" she suggested.

"There's no point in being anxious, just wait." Li Li was not anxious at all, and even seemed a bit procrastinating.

Kong Zhixi sighed and went back to the interrogation room. She turned the pen on the table and looked at Lao Guan who was silent opposite her, waiting for him to speak.

"I didn't know things would turn out like this. I just... I just hope he won't come to me again in the future." Lao Guan finally spoke at around two o'clock in the afternoon.

"What did you say to him?" Kong Zhixi just felt that his appearance was disgusting.

"His mother and I have been divorced for more than a year, but his mother still calls me from time to time. Sometimes she says that the child wants to see me, and sometimes she says that something at home is broken. If I don't reply, she will make a fuss. Yanan is a very sensitive child, and his mother is so strong-willed that she insists on sending him to that school. I... I'm about to remarry, and I don't want his mother and him to call me all the time, so... so I took some time to talk to him." As he spoke, he began to cover his face and sigh.

"Then what?" Kong Zhixi's questions began to become procedural.

"And then...then we started arguing. Later I felt that I couldn't communicate anymore, so I wanted to leave. And then...I saw him jump..." Before she could finish her words she started crying again.

Kong Zhixi knew that the case should be closed at this point, but she couldn't help but sigh when she thought of the mother sitting in the room with numb eyes and having to walk out of such pain alone in the future. She threw the transcript to Li Li, went to the forensic room, sat in front of Lao Sui's computer, and said to Lao Sui: "People say that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but this person's heart is quite scary when it comes to being vicious."

"It's not the first time you've seen something like this. Why are you sighing now? You should think about you and Lao Li first." Lao Sui said as he tidied up the things on the table.

"Not the first time? What do you mean?"

"You have sent so few old men and women to this hospital?" Old Sui continued to talk to her casually.

"Okay, let's stop talking for now. It's time to go talk to Guan Yanan's mother." Li Li suddenly appeared in front of the window and said to Kong Zhixi. Kong Zhixi walked out of the forensic room reluctantly.

The two arrived at Guan Yanan's house and knocked on the door for a long time but no one opened it. Old Li called his aunt, but his aunt didn't know where his sister would go. Li Li felt something was wrong and knocked on the door. Sure enough, the person had fainted in the room. Kong Zhixi quickly opened the window of the room. Li Li carried the person downstairs, and Kong Zhixi followed closely behind and took the person to the hospital.

After sending the person to the emergency room, the two of them were so tired that they slumped down on the chairs in the hospital lobby. Kong Zhixi gave Li Li two thumbs up and said, "Great!" Li Li smiled, and Kong Zhixi also smiled.

When Zhou Yunqin arrived, the two of them told him what his brother-in-law had confessed in the interrogation room. Doctors, nurses, and patients came and went in the hospital, and Zhou Yunqin just stood there for a long time, unable to calm down, and asked over and over again: "Why? Why? Yanan is his child, he... doesn't he feel sorry for her at all? Why, why?"

Although the person was rescued, the mother who lost her child may have died at this moment. After what happened, Kong Zhixi was in no mood to look for Cheng Xi. The two returned to the bureau and sat there until the end of the get off work day.

After returning home and finishing their meal, the two sat together in front of the French window and looked at the night view. Kong Zhixi said, "Lao Li, you haven't thought about leaving, have you?"

The night was graceful under the lights, and the spring breeze was like a glass of fine wine, creating an ambiguous atmosphere. "I...thought about it before." He did have selfish thoughts, whether it was Cheng Xi he met a few days ago or Zhi Xi he was facing now, it satisfied his vanity a little.

"I knew it." Kong Zhixi looked up and sighed. Human hearts are indeed not always the same.

Li Li looked at her neck and asked, "Does the wound still hurt?" He pointed to his own neck and drew a circle under his ear.

If he hadn't said it, Kong Zhixi would have almost forgotten that she was injured. She covered the gauze and tore it off with a "hiss". Li Li was so scared that he shouted, "You... Hey, let me see, don't leave a scar." Then he stood up, pressed her head to observe the wound, and after looking for a long time, he didn't see any scar. Thinking that the light was too dim, he pulled her under the light to look again, but still didn't see any. Kong Zhixi's neck was sore from tilting her head back, and she pushed his hand away and said, "Oh, it's okay, I'm fine." The moment she lowered her head, she found a scar on Li Li's neck. She lowered her head, shook it, and stood on tiptoe to take a look. After confirming that there was a scar, she pinched his arm and said, "Don't move, you seem to have a scar there, let me see." She tiptoed closer and closer, her breathing began to become anxious, and she frowned, looking very concerned.

Li Li didn't lower his head, just let her stretch like this. This was the first time she took the initiative to get so close to him, and the first time he heard his heartbeat. The scar didn't look deep, and there were traces of sutures. It didn't look like it was caused by a bump or a collision, but a knife cut, which was very similar to her previous cuts. She looked at his scar and touched her neck again, wondering why her scar was transferred to his body?

As she looked at it, her hand unconsciously moved upwards. Li Li pushed her away, touched his neck and said, "What are you doing!" Kong Zhixi seemed to realize that she had crossed the line. Her fingertips seemed to touch his Adam's apple. She pursed her lips, her face suddenly turned red, and she let out a breath and said, "I...just took a look." Her voice was so soft that only she could hear it.

Li Li touched his heartbeat in his chest and calmed his breathing. He hadn't felt this heartbeat for a long time. Suddenly, his eyes were red, as if he had seen a long-lost relative. He looked at Kong Zhixi and wanted to say something but couldn't. Kong Zhixi also looked at him and thought his reaction was a little strange. She asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I think my heart is beating, I have a heartbeat!" His eyes were red and tears were about to fall. Kong Zhixi didn't understand what he said, "What do you mean by a heartbeat? You...you don't have a heartbeat?"

"Do you remember I told you that we might be dead?" He was a little excited, grabbed Kong Zhixi's arm with both hands, shook her and asked.

Kong Zhixi nodded woodenly, still not understanding what he was saying. "It was because I had no heartbeat that I came to this conclusion. Now I have a heartbeat!" Li Li was still very excited, like a child who found light in the dark.