It was already past one o'clock in the morning when he returned home from work, and Gu Song was afraid of waking up his sleeping wife, so he simply washed up and fell asleep on the sofa in the living room.

Since leaving the criminal police team and changing to a relatively easy job, his life has rarely been so fulfilling and meaningful. Although the choice he made was completely voluntary, deep down, he still longed for the busy days of the past.

In the dimness, he heard footsteps in the living room, and he slowly opened his eyes to see a girl in a white suspender nightdress walking towards him with a thin blanket.

By the light outside the window, he saw the girl's face full of concern, and he couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart. "Little Rui......" he smiled softly at the girl, then sat up, stretched and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"It's not even four o'clock, why are you awake?" The girl walked around the coffee table, sat beside Gu Song lightly, and covered the two people with blankets. The weather at the beginning of October was already a little cool, and he didn't close the window when he slept just now, Gu Song sneezed several loud times in a row.

"Look at you, you don't pay attention to your body at all." The girl said in disgust, wrapping the blanket around her body a little tighter. Gu Song stretched out an arm and put his arm around the girl's thin shoulder, asking her to rest her head on her shoulder. The two of them sat silently in the dark for a while, and the girl suddenly asked curiously: "You don't sleep well when you have something on your mind, it seems that this case gives you a headache?" ”

"Hehe, I'm quite a headache." Gu Song said with a wry smile, "I have been dreaming some messy dreams when I was sleeping just now, it seems to have something to do with the case, and it seems to be completely unrelated." Maybe I haven't been involved in solving the case for too long, and I'm a little unaccustomed to it for a while. ”

"Is that so?" The girl glanced up at Gu Song and teased him, "I think you're too excited, right?" After all, solving the case and catching the murderer is the most important thing you should do, Detective Gu. ”

"But I ......"

"Don't say it." The girl hurriedly reached out to cover Gu Song's mouth, otherwise she would hear the words that were about to make her ears calloused in the next second: My duty now is to take care of you and protect you, and I don't care about anything else.

How could it not be cared? That's just a façade. How could the girl not understand the sacrifices and changes Gu Song made for her. If it weren't for the fact that her body was not angry and her condition suddenly deteriorated, she would not have made that willful request to Gu Song anyway: Let's get married!

In fact, when she held Gu Song's hand in the intensive care unit and said that uncontrollable sentence with tears in her eyes, she herself felt extremely shocked and regretful. She knew that at that moment, no matter how excessive her request was, Gu Song would not be able to refuse her, but she was still tortured by illness and under the fear of dying, she was ruthlessly willful, and the result was in exchange for Gu Song's resignation, and it was even more unpleasant for her and her family.

Her name is Tian Rui, and she used to be a nurse in a foreign-funded hospital, and she met and fell in love with Gu Song because of a confusing disappearance. Nineteen months ago, Gu Song was provoked by the murderer when he was solving a large serial murder case, as Gu Song's girlfriend at the time, Tian Rui was kidnapped by the murderer, suffered a serious knife wound to the abdomen, and had a kidney transplant.

Although the operation saved her life in time, and everything seemed to be going in a good direction, the good times lasted just over a year before the newly transplanted kidney lost its function. Today, her health is deteriorating day by day, and she has to rely on dialysis to stay alive. In order to spend more time with her, Gu Song resolutely quit his reluctant day and night job in the criminal police team and became a sanda coach in a fitness center not far from home.

Half a year has passed, and they live a simple and ordinary life, which on the surface looks no different from thousands of families. But Tian Rui knew that this kind of life was not what Gu Song really wanted.

He used to be a free-flying bird, wild and uninhibited, with his own ideas and ideas for everything; He dared to take risks, always rushed to carry out those difficult and dangerous tasks, and often put his life and death on the line; He was torn apart by many formidable opponents, but he never had the idea of not being a police officer.

And now......

Tian Rui persuaded Gu Song more than once to let him return to the criminal police team to reinstate and continue to do what he liked, but unfortunately it ended in failure every time. There is no way, Gu Song's character is too stubborn, and few people can change the decision he made.

"Gu Song, can I tell you a few words from my heart? Can you listen to me once in a while? I'm begging you. After a moment of silence, Tian Rui said to Gu Song in a pleading tone.

In fact, she has long been tired of being cared for as a seriously ill patient, and she doesn't want to continue to delay Gu Song's life. For her, death is bound to come, it's just a matter of sooner or later. Now that you have accepted the arrangement of fate, it is better to face it bravely alone, why bother to take the happiness of another person.

Gu Song knew what Tian Rui wanted to say to him, so he smiled helplessly. Perhaps, the two of them should really have an open and honest chat and listen carefully to each other's thoughts.

Sometimes, you try your best to be good to someone, want to give everything for her, and you want to give her your heart and give her your life, but that may not be what the other person wants. If you love too deeply, too hard, too selfishly, it will become a burden and overwhelm the other person.

In the early hours of that morning, the two of them wrapped in a blanket, snuggled up on the sofa, and unconsciously talked a lot until they hugged each other and fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already bright outside the window. Gu Song hurriedly got up to wash, change clothes, and make breakfast for Tian Rui. As soon as I put the washed rice in the pot, there was a crisp doorbell outside. He turned off the gas, walked to the living room and opened the door, and saw that the person standing outside turned out to be summer time.

"What are you doing at my house so early?" Gu Song asked suspiciously, and then saw Xia Shi carrying a large bag of condolences in his hand, feeling like he had come to visit the sick.

That's right, he does have a sick number at home, Gu Song smiled bitterly and let Xia Shi into the house, and said half-jokingly: "Why, are you afraid that I will escape from the battle, and you won't help you solve the case, so you came to the house to find me?" ”

"yes." Xia Shi replied bluntly, "I'm afraid that you will regret it when you go home and sleep, doesn't that push me into the fire pit." ”

"Don't worry, I won't. Since I have joined the task force as a consultant, I will definitely be responsible until the murderer is caught. ”

"So what if the case can't be solved? What are your plans? ”

"Damn, don't say such frustrating words, okay?" Gu Song was a little annoyed, and punched Xia Shi in the chest. "When did you see buddy, I closed the case as an unsolved case? Can you have some confidence in me, Team Summer? Besides, isn't there Teacher Huo besides me? ”

Gu Song paused for a moment, and suddenly remembered something, "Speaking of Huo Yan, was your arrangement last night a little inappropriate?" People are your blind dates, people are smart and beautiful, you don't take advantage of the opportunity, let her work with me as soon as we meet, aren't you afraid that she will empathize and fall in love with me? ”

"It doesn't matter." Xia Shi shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively, as if he was not interested in these children's affection at all. "I'm so caught up in the case now, how can I have time to fall in love on a blind date. By the way, the personal caregiver I hired for you will be here in a moment. They graduated from regular medical school, they are very nice, and they have rich experience in taking care of patients, so you can rest assured that you can go with me, right? ”

After having breakfast and explaining Tian Rui's situation to the nurses one by one, Gu Song went out of the house with Xia Shi with complicated feelings. He hadn't thought about it for too long, and he hadn't expected that these two cases would be just a small prologue. He stood in the sun, facing the light, but he did not know that in the darkness, the enemy was already gearing up and ready to start a war like never before.

On the way to the city bureau by car, Gu Song and Xia Shi exchanged their respective information. Gu Song described the preliminary portrayal of the suspect by him and Huo Yan, and suggested that Xia Shi should take Xishan Middle School as the center of the circle and a radius of three kilometers to find a suspect who meets the above characteristics, and this person should have a certain social connection with He Yao, the victim of the first case.

Xia Shi agreed with this proposal, and he thought that it was the right choice to shift the focus of the current investigation from Xu Zilin back to He Yao's side, after all, a young girl who lived alone, especially a girl like He Yao who was more careful, was unlikely to invite a completely strange man into the house at nine o'clock in the evening.

Subsequently, Xia Shi recounted to Gu Song what the technical team found in the surveillance video, as well as the interrogation of Deng Jun by Meng Yu and Jiang Wei.

Up to now, Deng Jun's suspicion of committing the crime can be said to have been completely ruled out. Between 10:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on September 29, when Xu Zilin was killed, Deng Jun's alibi had been confirmed. He told his wife that he was drinking outside, but he actually went to the shampoo room on the street to call Miss. He was afraid that coming home too late would arouse his wife's suspicions, so he poured himself two bottles of beer before entering the house, and his wife naturally believed his words when she smelled the alcohol.

"What about September 16th? What was He Yao doing when he was killed? Gu Song asked.

According to his confession, he did stay at home alone that night, because his wife took her daughter back to her parents' house to visit her parents. Anyway, Deng Jun can't be the murderer, and it doesn't make sense for us to pursue what happened that night. ”

"That's right, even if he goes out to prostitute every day, it's not our business. That's right. Gu Song remembered one more thing and asked with interest, "What did you do with that fake surrendered Ma Zhichen?" ”

"He's it." Xia Shi remembered Ma Zhichen's playful face, pursed his lips disdainfully and said, "After criticizing and educating him, he will be sent to the detention center." He obstructed the police in handling the case, wasting our precious time, and deserved to be detained for a few days. ”

"Didn't that play into his hands? He wished he could go in and stay longer. ”