Chapter 56 Self-Harm_2

If it made no sense, she would stop trying to understand it. Ran Yan didn't utter a superfluous word and went straight to the corpse placed at her feet.

The body was now on a wooden platform high enough that she only needed to bend over slightly to reach it. Tables and stands in the Tang Dynasty were rarely this high, and one could tell at a glance that it was specially made. Ran Yan silently cursed Inspector Liu: That damned old fox!

When she lifted the plain cloth, a terrifying female corpse was revealed. The body was still somewhat fresh, and as Inspector Liu had said, the face was a bloody mess with skin and flesh cut open. Judging by sight, there were at least eleven or twelve cuts, primarily on the cheeks and jaw, with only bloodstains on the forehead, but no wounds.

The face was swollen and purplish, and when Ran Yan lifted the corpse's eyelids, she found as expected the subconjunctival hemorrhage in the eyes.