"Please accept my condolences, Mr. Lei."
"...I don't know how something like this could have happened. Her mother had a benign tumor. The surgery went well. It did affect her health, but not too badly. At our age, we were already more or less done striving for things. We didn't need to chase after anything anymore. Yinyin was doing so well. Next, next we should have... When she came back here, her mother and I tried to talk her out of it a few times. But deep down, we were still happy. Our daughter was back, living with us. We got to see her every day. Of course we were happy. If we'd known... If we'd known this would happen... I... At the time, it was like the sky had fallen on me. She went out during the day to read at a little library near our home. There's often a lot of noise in this neighborhood. There's a kindergarten right next door. After she came back, that was more or less her routine every day. She'd eat breakfast, go to the library, then come home for lunch. Her mother and I worked nearby, so we'd come home too. In the afternoon, she'd go back to the library. It was almost like she was a little girl again. Once she started high school, she got busy, and we didn't have much time to talk. She got into Mingqing for college and only came home during winter and summer break. Now, we could eat together every day, and she'd even watch TV with her mother in the evenings. I..."
"Miss Lei went missing that afternoon, didn't she? She didn't come home that night, so you reported it to the police?"
"Yes. That afternoon... late afternoon, around five or six. She should've