"Hello, Captain Luo. What are your orders?"
While Wang Yan was visiting residents, he received a call from Captain Luo.
Captain Luo said from the other end, "Oh, cut it out. How would I dare give you orders? There's been a lead on that dismemberment case from before, so I thought I'd fill you in."
"My earlier guess was right?"
"That's right. After our investigation..."
As Captain Luo explained, Wang Yan finally understood what had happened.
Just as he had guessed, the case stemmed from Yan Fulin beating someone up, causing that person to bear a grudge. In the end, it brought about his own death, and he had not even been left with an intact corpse.
Ma Junlan had said that a man from the same residential complex once looked at her in a way that made her uncomfortable. Liu Hu had also said that when he drank with Yan Fulin, Yan Fulin had mentioned the incident. Following extensive interviews and investigation by the Criminal Investigation Division's special task force, they had ultimately determined that the man from back then was Li Shengyong, Zhou Yaqin's current boyfriend.
The course of events was not difficult to guess. Yan Fulin had beaten Li Shengyong, and Li Shengyong held onto that grudge. He endured it, quietly investigating Yan Fulin's circumstances, until he discovered Zhou Yaqin. Back then, Zhou Yaqin had been no less attractive than Ma Junlan, while Ma Junlan herself clearly disliked him. So he chose to approach Zhou Yaqin instead.
As for why he killed only Yan Fulin and not Ma Junlan, that depended on Li Shengyong's own considerations. Perhaps he had feared exposure. After all, Ma Junlan attracted all sorts of men, knew a huge number of people, and had extremely complicated social connections. If she disappeared, someone would