Xue Donglai and Fu Ning were working on a missing - person case together.
What was originally a simple case took a complete turn after the reporter saw the video screenshots captured by the surveillance camera.
It suddenly changed from an ordinary civil case to a strange incident!
The reporter recognized the long - haired woman in the video. She was the ex - girlfriend of the reporter's husband, but... she had been dead for several years!
Fu Ning's first reaction was that the reporter was crazy!
Was it possible that the ex - girlfriend who had been dead for years came back to have a ghost - human romance with the man?!
However, Xue Donglai frowned. After confirming that the woman had no relatives or friends who looked similar to her, he took the woman's name back to the police station.
From the retrieved file, it was indeed true that the woman had been dead for four years, and the cause of her death... was execution!
The woman was a criminal, a smuggler of prohibited items!
According to the police records, the woman's surname was Ji, and her name was Ji Linlin. She was once a small internet celebrity. She was very beautiful and had saved a small fortune through border - line live - streaming. She met the missing man in the live - streaming room.
The missing man was named Tang Liang. He was Ji Linlin's top donor. Every time he made a generous donation, which always made Ji Linlin's heart flutter.
Finally, Ji Linlin proposed to meet Tang Liang offline. Tang Liang showed up as promised. He was actually a rather good - looking young man.
For a man like Tang Liang who was rich and generous, Ji Linlin of course would not let him go.
So, the two became a couple.
Tang Liang neither ran a company nor went to work, but he seemed to have endless money. Ji Linlin asked him several times what kind of business he was in to make so much money, but Tang Liang always just smiled without answering.
After asking too many times, Ji Linlin simply stopped bothering. Anyway, as long as she had money to spend, that was enough.
After being with Tang Liang, the two started traveling around.
Tang Liang told Ji Linlin that they should enjoy life while they were young.
Ji Linlin of course agreed. She was a typical lazy and idle person. Now she was even too lazy to do live - streaming and had completely become a parasite relying on Tang Liang.
Their first stop for the trip was in Yunnan. They played there for three or five days. Suddenly, Tang Liang had something to do and had to go back to Beijing. But Ji Linlin hadn't had enough fun yet. So Tang Liang left some money for her and told her to go back to Beijing two days later.
Ji Linlin was more than happy about it.
She stayed in that beautiful tourist destination until Tang Liang called, saying that he missed her and had already bought the plane ticket for her.
Although Ji Linlin was very playful, she knew who her financial backer was. She dragged her luggage and arrived at the airport in advance according to the boarding time.
In the airport waiting hall, she met an elegantly dressed old woman. They hit it off and chatted very happily.
When the old woman learned that Ji Linlin was going to Beijing, she asked her to take a box of beautifully packaged flower cakes to her friend in Beijing.
Ji Linlin didn't want to get involved in such a troublesome thing at first. But when she heard that the woman's friend lived in a high - end residential community in Beijing, her heart skipped a beat... The people living there were either rich or noble. If she could get in touch with the residents there through this box of flower cakes, it would surely be very beneficial to her!
Moreover, in order to thank her, the old woman gave her a small platinum ring as a token of gratitude.
Although the ring was small, it was worth two or three thousand yuan. Ji Linlin pretended to decline a few times and then accepted it.
She thought the old woman was very rich, and this thing might be as cheap as a hair tie or a headband in her eyes.
After taking the plane back to Beijing, Tang Liang didn't come to pick her up. Ji Linlin didn't really care. She was thinking about getting to know rich people in that high - end community...
But unfortunately, the old woman's friend in Beijing was not at home. She was asked to leave the flower cakes at the express delivery station in the community.
Although Ji Linlin was a bit disappointed, she still did as she was told.
This was Ji Linlin's first time being used. She got on the wrong track. Nearly a hundred grams of prohibited items were hidden in that box of flower cakes.
After that, whenever Ji Linlin took a plane to travel, she always met some people who asked her to carry things for them. At first, she thought it was because she looked cute that people came to talk to her. But as time went by, she also felt that something was not quite right.
However, the people who asked her for help always gave her some valuable small gifts, and the things she carried were never found to be problematic. Out of luck and greed for those delicate small gifts, Ji Linlin continued to be a so - called "good person" who was willing to help others...
As the saying goes, those who walk in the dark too often will surely meet ghosts.
During a routine inspection before boarding a plane, two police dogs stopped beside her luggage. She realized that she was in big trouble!!
On the way to the police station in handcuffs, Ji Linlin was still desperately arguing that she was just helping others carry some local specialties and that she was a good person who was just being helpful... She didn't deserve to be treated like this.
But the truth gave her a fatal blow.
The police extracted nearly two hundred grams of prohibited items from the pastries she carried. This was a dose that was enough for two death sentences.
No matter how much Ji Linlin appealed and pleaded, the final verdict remained unchanged.
Finally, she was executed in June of the following year...
After reading the case file, Xue Donglai had a hunch that there was something wrong with Ji Linlin's rich boyfriend, Tang Liang.
In this case, although he seemed to have no suspicion at all, every step of Ji Linlin seemed to be deliberately arranged by him.
His early departure was just to get himself out of these events. Even if something happened to Ji Linlin, he would not be implicated at all!
... So, was Ji Linlin still unwilling even after becoming a ghost? Was she coming back to settle the score with Tang Liang?!
Xue Donglai was a bit confused.
The Ji Linlin in the video didn't seem like a ghost that came and went without a trace. She had a physical body and a shadow. She even looked at the surveillance camera in the video!
If it wasn't the state machinery that carried out the execution, Xue Donglai would almost think that Ji Linlin was not dead. She had hidden her identity for these years, and now that the storm had passed, she came out to reunite with her old flame!
However, the death certificate was signed by the forensic doctor, and it was Ji Linlin's family who claimed the body.
Xue Donglai decided to start the investigation from Ji Linlin's hometown...
Just as he and Fu Ning arrived in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, something happened to Xue Donglai!
Ji Linlin's family address was registered in a village in the city in Zhengzhou. Now that Zhengzhou was undergoing the transformation of villages in the city, those once prosperous and bustling self - built housing villages known as the "little Hong Kong" had long since become ruins.
Due to the sluggish real estate market, the buildings that had been half - demolished had no follow - up funds for further demolition. The dilapidated buildings without doors and windows were like half - rotten corpses with gaping black holes, facing every passerby...