97: [Bonus chapter] Helping to solve a case

[Bonus chapter] Helping to solve a case

"Since you will be staying here regularly, you can take the master bedroom. I come to S city less often, so whenever I am here, I will take the guest room," Yun Jian told Qin Yan.1

"How can this be? Jian Jian, I am already grateful that you have arranged your own condo for me to stay. I will stay in the guest room and you stay in master bedroom," Qin Yan said gratefully.

"Come on Yan Yan. Don't be so formal with me. Also, I have already moved my things to the guest room. Do you want me to do more work moving them back to master bedroom?" Yun Jian asked her best friend with pitiful eyes.

"But..." 

"No buts, come I will show you your room," Yun Jian cut Qin Yan's thoughts in the middle and pushed her towards the master bedroom.

Qin Yan walked into the bedroom. The room was decorated with pastel colours all over. A king sized bed was placed in the middle, alongside which were two side tables on both the sides of the bed.

A lamp was placed on one of the side table. Along the wall of the bedroom was a walk-in wardrobe. It was big enough to keep several items along with clothes and footwear.

The bedroom also consisted of an attached washroom which was sufficiently lit with a round bathtub in the middle. A shower section was also present which was separated by a glass door from the rest of the washroom.

'The rich truly know how to enjoy life,' Qin Yan thought.

As Qin Yan was checking out the room, a cell phone rang. It was Yun Jian's phone which brought a frown on the latter's face.

Yun Jian picked up the call, "Yes Sir, I will return tomorrow."

After hanging up the call, Qin Yan could see Yun Jian's good mood plummeting.

"What happened, Jian?" she asked.

Yun Jian walked towards the living room and sat down on the sofa. Qin Yan followed Yun Jian and took a seat opposite to Yun Jian.

She saw her best friend deep in thought. Qin Yan asked again while waving her hand in front of Yun Jian's eyes to gain her attention. She asked again, "What wrong Jian?"

Yun Jian came back to her senses and shaked her head in denial, "Nothing."

"Obviously something is wrong. Can I help you with anything that might take your worries away?" Qin Yan asked.

Yun Jian looked at Qin Yan and remembered how she would take Mo Ran's help to deal with complicated cases. 

Although delving the case details to anybody outside the police station was against the rules, but since Mo Ran always had a way to help Yun Jian, she followed all the rules except this one.

"There is this case I am worried about and for this case only I had come to S city in secret," Yun Jian replied.

Qin Yan: "In secret?"

Yun Jian: "Yes, I felt that something is wrong with the case but my superior doesn't find anything wrong and insists that I do not waste my time. So without telling him, I am investigating this case myself, relying on the help of some of my friends who are also in the force."

Qin Yan: "Okay, I understand. Can you tell me what it is so that I can see if there is anything I could help you with?"

Yun Jian: "Okay. It's like this. Last month, an accident case was reported in S city police station. The guy had died in a road accident as he was not wearing a helmet. It was a clear case of accident until his fiance came to me."

"She told me that it was impossible that her boyfriend was not wearing a helmet as he was obsessed with safety. She even showed me their chats in which their major disagreements were all because of safety where the girl didn't take care of her safety and the guy kept scolding her for that."

"I told my superior about this case but he said that it was possible that the guy had once forgotten his helmet which cost him his life. It was nothing to investigate about. But I still keep feeling that something is not right."

"This case occurred in S city but the girl's family is quite influential so she somehow came to me to intervene in the case. As this case does not come under our police station, my superior didn't want to waste my time on it."

Qin Yan nodded and asked, "If the guy was so obsessed with safety, where was his helmet if not on his head?"

Yun Jian sighed, "When the police found him, his helmet was tied to the back of his bike. This is why the guy's fiance is insisting that it is not possible that he had a helmet but did not put it on."

Qin Yan: "Then did you find anything regarding this case?"

Yun Jian: "I have found out the surveillance footage of the road on which he was driving. But it is not clear as it was raining heavily on the day of the accident. I couldn't even spot the guy on the road."

Qin Yan: "Do you know where he was going when he encountered the accident?"

Yun Jian: "Yes, he was on the way to his home from his office."

Qin Yan: "Then let's go to his office. Maybe we can find something."

Yun Jian: "But you moved here just a while ago. Don't you want to unpack?"

Qin Yan looked at her friend who was still worrying about her, "Don't worry, I will unpack later. Now this is more important. We only have this evening. You have to return to the capital tomorrow, right?"

Yun Jian nodded affirmatively.

"Then let's hurry up! Give me five minutes. I will change my clothes and tidy myself up," Qin Yan said.

"Okay!"

After exactly five minutes, Qin Yan stepped out of the room. Yun Jian's mouth fell open seeing her best friend. 

Qin Yan had changed into a mature and elegant dress. Moreover, she had done some makeup on her face which instantly transformed her from a 18 year old girl to a 30 year old woman.

"Oh my god! Yan Yan what have you done? How did you do this?" Yun Jian asked in surprise.

"It's nothing, just some makeover to conceal my real age. Otherwise, when I go with you, people won't take me seriously considering that I am a young girl with no knowledge of society," Qin Yan replied while tidying up her sleeves, "Let's go."

*

When Qin Yan and Yun Jian reached the victim's office, it was almost the closing time. Only few people were remaining in the office winding up their work.

Yun Jian went forward and introduced herself to the security guard before asking, "Sir, is this the place where Mo Yuchen used to work?"

The guard answered affirmatively, "Yes madam, Mr. Mo used to work here. Is something the matter?"

Qin Yan went forward this time and asked, "Sir, the day when Mr.Mo got into accident, did you meet him?"

The security guard looked at Qin Yan and thought that she was some higher officer in casual clothes. He answered carefully, "Yes, before Mr. Mo left the office, I met him."

Yun Jian: "Did he talk to you about anything? Or did you find anything weird about him that day?" 

The guard thought seriously and replied, "No there was nothing unusual about him that day. It's just that he was very anxious as he couldn't find his helmet on his bike. He asked me if I had seen it but as I had no idea about it, I replied in denial."

"Then he went into the office again," the guard added.

Qin Yan and Yun Jian heard the guards words and were bewildered. They looked at each other and went into the office.

In the office, they asked if anyone had met Mr. Mo on the day of his accident while leaving the office. One of his colleagues replied positively.

Yun Jian went forward and asked him, "Did you meet Mr. Mo when he was leaving the office?"

"Yes," the other party replied.

"Was there anything unusual about him or did he speak to you about anything?" Qin Yan asked.

"No there wasn't anything unusual. Yuchen had come back after winding up his work as he though that he had left his helmet on his desk. But when he did not find it, he just asked me for a spare helmet if any. But unfortunately there was no spare helmet that day," remembering the last day with his friend, the colleague's eyes turned misty, "I wish there was a helmet, then Yuchen would not have died like this."

Qin Yan and Yun Jian thanked the colleague and returned to their condominium. Both of them were immersed in their thoughts.

After stepping into the living room, Qin Yan broke the silence, "Jian, you said that when police found the victim, his helmet was tied on the back of his bike. But according to the guard and the colleague, Mr. Mo didn't have any helmet when he left."

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