Chapter 387 - Let Her Confirm (1/2)
Cheng Zheng did not look away from her and Bai Muchuan’s foul mood did not seem to affect him.
He continued to look at Xiang Wan. “Teacher Xiang, come here and have a look!”
Maybe in an attempt to stop making the situation ambiguous, he addressed her formally before everyone.
Xiang Wan gave a dubious glance at him before looking at Bai Muchuan inquiringly.
Then, she got up from her seat unhurriedly.
“Look at what?”
“To identify the corpse!”
Cheng Zheng spoke calmly, as though it was an obvious thing for her to do.
As though… he was letting her choose a dish.
Xiang Wan felt a pang of fear in her heart; there was a slight hesitation in her steps.
She was unlike Mei Xin.
She was not someone who was always dealing with corpses. Every time she saw dead bodies, it would make her skin crawl…
Moreover, looking at the pictures and the real thing itself were two different things altogether.
Cough! “Where’s… the corpse?” Xiang Wan asked.
“Here.” Cheng Zheng turned aside.
Only then did Xiang Wan knew what was in that glass cabinet in front…
“Let her look at the photos instead.” Bai Muchuan contemplated for a moment before making a remark.
Indeed, my man really dotes on me! she thought.
Xiang Wan felt relieved when he said that, but Cheng Zheng replied in a serious tone.
“Can the photos depict the actual feeling of seeing the real thing before you?”
This was a rhetorical question.
A polite yet ironic smile formed on his face.
Xiang Wan felt a sting in her heart.
If she did not dare to look at a corpse, how could she become a woman worthy to stand beside Bai Muchuan?
“All right, I believe the photo can’t achieve that!”
Xiang Wan smiled and walked over.
Her calm demeanor suggested that her earlier nervousness had subsided.
In just about 10 seconds, she could adjust her emotions.
Cheng Zheng felt his sight blurred for a moment. He seemed to be mesmerized by that beautiful smile of hers alongside with her delicate face…
For quite a while, he could not pull his sight away from her.
“Captain Cheng!” Bai Muchuan had a grim expression. “You need to move away to the side.”
Although he was standing beside the corpse cabinet, he did not block Xiang Wan’s line of sight.
Hence, the meaning of Bai Muchuan’s words was more than what it meant literally.
The few people present in the Forensics Department were not stupid. Seeing how both of them picked at each other, they detected something amiss between them and thus they decided to keep their mouth shut.
“It’s all right, he’s not blocking…” Xiang Wan quickly smiled then turned to Bai Muchuan and spoke in a low tone. “Don’t worry about me. It’s not that I’ve never seen dead bodies before!”
Bai Muchuan frowned but said nothing more.
Cheng Zheng also moved back a step quietly.
As to what kind of expression he had on his face, he had turned away subtly so she couldn’t see it.
Bai Muchuan walked over to Xiang Wan and patted her shoulder—he was encouraging her!
“Take a look, have you seen this man before?”
At Wen Xin Nunnery, the only one who had spoken to the murderer and was still alive was only—Xiang Wan.
Hence, besides being the victim of this case, she was also a witness.
It was a pity that the murderer was wearing a mask that day.
Because of that fact, it severely weakened the weight of her words.
So much so, that they could only use it as a reference…
“Ahem!” Xiang Wan felt her throat becoming a little ticklish. It was difficult for her to look at the corpse with no clothing on it…
It was a face she was unfamiliar with.
An unfamiliar man.
Xiang Wan was very certain that she had not met this man before.
He had a lot of wounds on his body.
It seemed like he had suffered a lot of pain before he died.
However, his eyes were not fully closed, revealing a pair of eyes akin to that of a dead fish.
Xiang Wan was standing before the corpse, looking at his expression.
She felt like the corpse was gazing at her soul…
A strange feeling of terror rose from the bottom of her heart.
Xiang Wan was, in fact, horrified to look at the dead man like this, yet she told herself she had to calm down—
And look at it seriously.
She wanted to find that feeling she had!
The feeling she had when she was at Wen Xin Nunnery!
She felt that if this dead man was that “Meng Chi” at Wen Xin Nunnery, she should at least have a sense of familiarity with him?
Quietly, her gaze shifted from the man’s head down to his toes and back again…
In this dead man’s eyes, there was anger, panic, and fear.
A fear similar to what Xiang Wan was feeling now.
No! Maybe his fear had exceeded that of hers!
They had already done an autopsy on the corpse.
However, Cheng Zheng was very professional, for he had kept the expression on the corpse intact right when they retrieved it at Wen Xin Mountain!
Xiang Wan kept looking at him. A strange scene appeared in her head…
On the snowy mountain, this man looked at the person in front of him in trepidation. He revealed his unwillingness to part with this world, before falling down to the cliff and breathed his last breath in the forest.
“Is it him?” Bai Muchuan’s line of sight was on her face.
The sight before her drained her face of color, but her eyes were bright and glistening…
When Xiang Wan looked composed as she concentrated on what she was doing, she could actually send hearts racing.
“He did not look like him!”