Coming to a full circle

Wang Lei's eyes slowly widened upon recognition. "You…you are that doctor who was with the cops that day…!"

"Happy realization~"

"Wh-What do you want with me?!"

"First, some answers to my questions and then your body as my research subject. That's all."

Any color left on his face also drained away.

Suddenly, Mingshen was pushed away with a vicious kick to his legs. "I warned you to keep your psycho threats to yourself, didn't I?"

Mingshen smiled. "How did you come to know so soon? I was just about to start having my fun with him."

Jia sneered. "At least your able assistant is way more responsible than you."

He narrowed his eyes at the trembling silhouette hiding near the entrance. The familiar sniffling sound made his eyes gleam with an urge to bully. "Nice work, Assistant Lu. For a moment, I wasn't sure if you were MY assistant or Spicy's."

"S-Sis asked me about you, s-so I just told her what was going on…" Bojing peeked until only his tearful eyes could be seen.

"Superintendent Song, help me! Take me away from this maniac!" Wang Lei urged from the bottom of his heart. "He is crazy!"

Mingshen threw a lazy glance at him. "How rude when we were just getting comfortable."

"He-He wants to kill me with a fentanyl overdose!"

Jia's eyes glimmered with hostility. "What you are doing isn't any less than killing innocent people by supplying them drugs. Making people addicted to drugs and ruining their lives and peace is a crime you must be heavily punished for. Not just for drugs but for attacking Wu Yue too. Right, Mr. Boyfriend or should I say her drug supplier?"

Wang Lei stiffened. "When did I attack Wu Yue? Y-you are also falsely accusing me!"

Mingshen sighed, twirling his scalpel around his finger. The shiny blade made Wang Lei almost piss his pants. "That is why the 2 milligrams of fentanyl is necessary. It's a magic potion to start talking. Spicy, it's still not so late~"

She ignored his threatening suggestion and pulled the collar of Wang Lei's shirt. "You have been on the run since yesterday. You didn't get the chance to change your clothes, right?"

"I wasn't running away."

"There are a few small drops of blood splattered on the inside of your collar."

He froze and instinctively looked down at his collar.

"It must have happened during the time you hit Wu Yue, right? Some of it flew towards the collar. If I give this shirt for DNA analysis, guess whose blood it will match with? Maybe the girl who is lying in the ICU right now. Your reaction just now proved it anyway. By the way, we have also retrieved the weapon with which you hit her and hastily discarded it on the tracks while escaping. It's only time before we match your fingerprints. So start talking while I am still being very nice to you."

He sharply trembled and bit his lip hard. "...It is true that I hit Wu Yue. She wanted to stop with all this a-and it was ridiculous!"

"Her trying to start life afresh devoid of that dangerous addiction isn't ridiculous," she coldly said.

"But it was dangerous for us! She knew me. She knew the system and how it worked. What if she ran her mouth? I tried to talk her out of it. But she remained stubborn! I lost my patience with her and…" he looked away, "ended up hitting her. I-I suddenly panicked when she collapsed and threw the rod and ran away."

"If your method of drug deal is through the subway lines, then why were you two together at Dahua movie theater during the day of the incident?"

"Because of that old hag who died! Ever since Wu Yue met her around a month ago with her grandmother, she kept fearing that the old woman had probably discovered her consumption of drugs."

"Probably?" She blinked. "She wasn't sure?"

"No. The only thing the old woman commented on during their conversation was that Wu Yue smelled oddly. And she had taken some methamphetamine before leaving for shopping with her grandmother."

Mingshen raised his brow. "Which would have given off an ammonia-like smell from her."

"Yeah…That's why, Wu Yue panicked. Even felt paranoid. At first, she tried to shrug it off. But the fear of her drug addiction discovery ate her peace away and as days passed, she felt she was sure that the old woman definitely figured out about the drugs. I told her it was stupid because she would have exposed her if she knew. But she wanted to confirm it for herself. I dug around and learned that the old woman was going for a movie with her family, which was a perfect chance to meet her."

"So you booked the seats opposite her?"

"Not intentionally. I didn't know where she was going to sit. Just the time and day she was going for the movie."

Jia squinted her eyes. "Don't lie. You chose those seats on purpose so that Mrs. Dai would inhale the tiny cat fur dispersed in the air through Wu Yue's body."

His eyes widened. "H-Huh? No! What cat fur?"

"The reason why she got the allergic reaction and died."

"Hey, I don't know anything about it and neither does Wu Yue. She just wanted to meet her, not kill her!"

"Kill her when Mrs. Dai had conveniently lost her inhaler too. Did Wu Yue know Yin Xiaoling? Or you?"

"No! I don't know any Yin Xiaoling. I don't know if Wu Yue did. But trust me, we were just as shocked to find her dead. We had nothing to do with it!"

—

Jia felt a headache as she drove back to return to the headquarters.

"I give good head massages dear," Mingshen casually commented from the passenger seat.

"A good massage for me will be when this case will be solved."

"Isn't it though? That brat looked genuinely shocked with your murder allegation. That reaction wasn't a lie. Doesn't it mean it all circles back to being an accident?"

Jia stopped at the red signal and stared ahead at the people crossing the street. "I feel that something is in front of my eyes, but I am not able to see it…"

"I think you are talking about me, Spicy," he grinned.

But surprisingly, he got no retort. "Spicy? Spicyyyy? Where are youuuu~?"

He waved his hand before her, but her gaze was focused dead straight ahead at a bunch of people ahead as if she was in a trance. For a second, her eyes blinked.

"Spicyyyyyyyy~" He called out to break her trance when the signal turned green. But it was at this moment that he felt something had changed within Jia too.

She broke out of her stupor, feeling breathless for a moment. She then pressed the accelerator and took a turn that didn't lead to the bureau.

"Where are we going?"

"Where this case started because that is where this case would end too."