I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 54

Chen Mo led the three of them quickly up to the fifth floor.

“Thump, thump, thump.”

Yan Guangxu knocked on the security door.

A few seconds later, a series of light footsteps came from inside the door, and the door was pulled open a crack.

A middle-aged woman peeked out and looked at them warily.

“You are…”

Chen Mo stepped forward and showed his police ID.

“Hello, we are police officers from the Municipal Criminal Investigation Department. We would like to ask you some questions about your daughter, Chang Lili.”

The woman’s body trembled violently when the words “police” and “Chang Lili” were combined.

Her knuckles turned white as she gripped the door frame, her eyes filled with hope.

“My daughter… Lily, has there been any news about her?”

Chen Mo looked at her and softened his tone.

“Ma’am, can we go inside and talk? There are some things we need to verify.”

“…Okay, okay, please come in.”

Ai Xiaohui then realized what was happening and quickly opened the door.

The four people entered the living room.

Chen Mo looked around, his gaze finally settling on Ai Xiaohui.

Is Mr. Chang Yankuan home? There are some matters that require both of you to be present.

“He…he’s gone to work. I’ll call him right away!”

Ai Xiaohui hurriedly picked up her phone, but because her hands were shaking, she had to dial several times before she could get through.

“Hey, Lao Chang… come back quickly! The police are here… it’s about Lily…”

Before she could finish speaking, tears streamed down her face.

Chen Mo did not urge him, but waited quietly.

Less than half an hour later, a series of hurried and heavy footsteps could be heard in the hallway.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and a man with mostly gray hair and bloodshot eyes rushed in.

Chang Yankuan.

He rushed to Chen Mo, his lips trembling, but he couldn’t utter a single word. He just stared at him with his bloodshot eyes.

Chen Mo put his hand on his shoulder and helped him sit on the sofa, his voice steady.

“Mr. Chang, Ms. Ai, we are here today to review all the details of the night Chang Lili disappeared.”

“We need you to recall every single detail, even the ones you consider insignificant.”

Chang Yankuan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his surging emotions, and nodded.

“Okay, officer, go ahead and ask.”

Su Chun turned on the voice recorder at the right time and placed the laptop on the coffee table, ready to record at any time.

Chen Mo’s gaze sharpened.

“Chang Lili didn’t go home on the night of June 11th, right?”

“Yes.” Chang Yankuan’s voice was hoarse. “That day was a Friday.”

“What did she tell you when she left?”

“She said her colleagues invited her to go karaoke to celebrate the completion of the project.”

Chang Yankuan’s memory seemed to be pulled back to that night.

“Around 10 p.m., she called my wife and said she was having a great time and told us not to wait for her.”

“The background noise on the phone was very loud, it really sounded like I was in a karaoke bar.”

“Then what?”

“Then… at 2:03 a.m., she sent a WeChat message to my wife.”

Ai Xiaohui took out her phone, found the message, and handed it to Chen Mo.

“Mom, it’s too late tonight, so I’ll stay at my colleague Xiao Zhao’s place. It’s nearby. I’ll go back tomorrow.”

Chen Mo frowned almost imperceptibly as he looked at the message.

“The next day, June 12th, you discovered she was missing?”

“Yes.” This time it was Ai Xiaohui who spoke, and tears streamed down her face again.

“I called her to ask if she was coming home for dinner, but… her phone was off.”

“I knew something was wrong right away. Lily would never turn off her phone for no reason.”

“I immediately contacted her best friend, Xiao Zhao, who is also her colleague.”

Chang Yankuan took over the conversation, his voice filled with regret.

“But her best friend said the party ended at 10 p.m.!”

She said that a male colleague offered to drive Lily home, but Lily refused.

She said it wasn’t far from home and she could just take a taxi.

“We later went to the police station to report the incident, and the police retrieved the surveillance footage from the entrance of the KTV…”

Chang Yankuan’s voice choked with emotion.

“According to the surveillance footage, Lily got into a taxi at 10:15.”

“The officers at the police station found the driver.”

“The driver said… that after my daughter got on the bus, she only rode for a few hundred meters before getting off at an intersection.”

“After that intersection, she… she never appeared again.”

This is a broken thread.

A young girl vanished into thin air on a street late at night.

Chen Mo remained silent for a few seconds, processing this information.

Does Chang Lili have a boyfriend? Or a male friend with whom she has a close relationship?

Ai Xiaohui and Chang Yankuan exchanged a glance and shook their heads.

“No,” Ai Xiaohui answered firmly.

“My daughter tells me everything. If she starts dating, I’ll be the first to know.”

She doesn’t have a boyfriend and refused a male colleague’s offer of a ride, but got off the bus early at a strange intersection.

This behavior itself is full of contradictions.

Chen Mo stood up.

“Mr. Chang, Ms. Ai, in order to find more clues, I need to check Chang Lili’s room, is that alright?”

“Yes, of course.”

Chang Yankuan nodded immediately and led them to the door of a room at the end of the corridor.

Chen Mo and Su Chun put on white gloves and went inside.

Guan Yuexing and Yan Guangxiu stayed in the living room to continue comforting and questioning the couple.

Chen Mo’s gaze swept quickly across the room.

Desk, wardrobe, bedside table…

His gaze eventually fell on a pink notebook on the desk.

He opened his notebook.

The first part consists of everyday life anecdotes and work complaints, written in neat handwriting.

Until I turned to a page from April.

[April 16th. His voice is so beautiful; just listening to it makes me feel at ease.]

Chen Mo paused.

He continued flipping through the pages.

[May 10th. He said he wanted to see me. My heart was pounding. We made plans, this Saturday, May 12th.]

May 12th!

Chen Mo’s pupils contracted.

Chang Lili disappeared on June 11th.

The date she arranged to meet this mysterious “him” was May 12th.

He immediately turned to the page for May 12th, which contained only a few words, conveying a sense of loss.

Unfortunately, the company suddenly announced a dinner party on the evening of the 12th, so we had to postpone our meeting. What a pity.

Online dating!

This thought exploded in Chen Mo’s mind in an instant.

A secret lover in the online world that Ai Xiaohui and Chang Yankuan are completely unaware of!

This could very well be the key to solving the mystery of Chang Lili’s disappearance!

Chen Mo closed his diary and turned his gaze to the laptop on his desk.

He turned his head to look at Su Chun beside him, his voice low but full of undeniable power.

“Su Chun”.

“Find a way to crack the password for this computer.”

“Dig up all her chat history, social media activity, and browsing history!”

Su Chun’s eyes lit up.

He immediately took out a USB flash drive and several special data cables from his backpack.

“clear!”

He skillfully connected the data cable to the laptop’s port.