Midsummer Night's Ashes

midsummer

07

Cao Chuan stood by the window and watched Li Zhao walk across the road. The scorching summer sun elongated his shadow, which changed shape on the ground, like a monster with green face and fangs closely following Li Zhao.

He always felt that there was something wrong with this Li Zhao, nervous.

When he was out of cigarettes, he touched his pocket again.

The most urgent task is to buy cigarettes, and find out Li Zhao's relationship with Li Hantang and Lou Wei.

Li Hantang said that Li Zhao was his boyfriend.

Li Zhao said that Lou Wei was his boyfriend.

What happened to these three people?

If Cao Chuan only thought Li Zhao was interesting at the beginning, now he thinks the whole thing is fun.

In the next few days, Cao Chuan thoroughly investigated Li Zhao. The more he investigated, the more interesting he found it. Li Zhao was like an unfathomable cave, and the deeper he went, the more amazing he felt.

Li Zhao is 27 years old this year and works as an HR in a wealth management company—Cao Chuan's investigation results are exactly the same as those provided to him by Li Hantang.

He joined this company after graduating from graduate school. He has done a good job in the past few years, but he rarely interacts with people in the company and never participates in group activities.

Li Zhao bought an apartment last year, one bedroom and one living room, and has been living by himself all this time.

He doesn't make friends with others, nor does he make enemies with others, and he never invites others to his house as guests.

Li Zhao's undergraduate and graduate studies were both in local schools. He had two relationships when he was in college, and both times they only lasted about a week. His two ex-boyfriends broke up because they couldn't bear his random suspicion.

Cao Chuan wanted to meet and chat with those two ex-boyfriends in the past, but they were not in this city now, so it was inconvenient.

However, when Li Zhao was in college, he was a little better than now. At least he could get along with people normally, and he was not as withdrawn as he is now.

The transformation of his personality began when he graduated from graduate school.

Cao Chuan looked at the results of his investigation, and wrote a name on the paper in front of him——Li Hantang.

He stared at the name for a long time, so long that his gaze could even set the paper on fire.

After that, he turned on his laptop and searched for Li Hantang's name, and sure enough, he found the information he wanted.

However, everything became even more incredible.

According to the information he found, Li Hantang died a long time ago, in the summer of the year Li Zhao graduated from graduate school, and died in front of Li Zhao.

As I said before, there are countless stories behind Li Zhao, which made Cao Chuan extremely excited.

He looked at the news on the webpage, and even got a little crazy with excitement.

It was too much fun.

A man who was supposed to be dead suddenly knocked on the door of his office and asked him to help investigate his boyfriend.

And that so-called boyfriend had witnessed that person's death a few years ago.

Cao Chuan lit a cigarette and smoked vigorously.

Who is lying?

Li Zhao?

Li Hantang?

or news?

Of course, it is also possible that Li Hantang did not die at the beginning.

But if this is the case, why is it written in the news that "falling from the building and dying on the spot"?

Cao Chuan looked at the mosaic photos on the Internet, squinted his eyes with a cigarette in his mouth.

He picked up his phone and called Li Zhao.

When the phone rang, Li Zhao was picking up coffee in the tea break room of the company. He has been very busy recently and must stay awake. This is already the fourth cup of coffee he drank today.

When the phone rang, he was startled, his hands shook, and coffee spilled on his pants.

Li Zhao frowned, took out a paper towel and wiped vigorously, all the paper scraps were rubbed on his pants.

He didn't want to answer when he saw an unfamiliar number, but he pressed the answer button after a few seconds.

"Li Zhao?"

Li Zhao recognized Cao Chuan's voice.

"I can take your case." Cao Chuan smiled softly, "It's free."