Demon in Disguise

Evidence

Qiang sits on her bed that night, staring at the pictures on her phone. She had managed to take the box of love letters and the little music box home without Mr. Wang noticing. They now sit on her bed next to her.

"Who let their self into Mr. Wang's house. Why did they go up to BiYu's room right away?" She bites her nail and paces back and forth in her room. "Must have been that Zhang Yixing, or one of his cohorts."

She thanked God that they didn't kill her, or go through the window. If they had seen her after climbing in, they probably would've killed her. Someone that good at hiding their own evidence of an assassination must be good at assassinating also.

Now that it's November, the sun has been setting earlier and for longer periods of time.

"With the sun going down and Mr. Wang out, the person must have broken into the house. But why go to BiYu's room? What's in there that they need?"

Goosebumps form on her arms and a shiver runs down her spine. "All this is too intense, so many secrets. Too many secrets. It's all a kingdom of lies."

Qiang reaches for the drawer with the notebook in it. "I sure have found a lot of evidence today. Good job Zhou Qiang." She pats herself on the back and scrawls:

Wang BiYu + Zhang Yixing

"Okay... The two met in Ming Town, in Melanin on July 16th."

Ming -> Melanin (7/16) -> Kai

"And the owner is Kai. Hm.... For Yixing to mention this Kai person, they must know each other."

Under Kai she writes Associated w/ ZYX

"Now... In the course of their relationship, Yixing has written BiYu, one, two, three, four, five, six -- eight love letters."

Love Letter #1: 7/18
Love Letter #2: 8/10
Love Letter #3: 8/22
Love Letter #4: 9/8
Love Letter #5: 9/21
Love Letter #6: 10/7
Love Letter #7: 10/24
Love Letter #8: 11/15

Reading each letter thoroughly she nods in amusement, "He sure is one romantic man."

Music Box: (Z.Y.X & W.B.Y) Unknown Song
Clothes: BiYu's perfume and another scent that smells familiar

"They've been together for 5 months... If Mr. Wang didn't see a swollen belly underneath her clothes then she must've been 2 or 3 months pregnant." She shivers in anticipating. She feels like she's one step closer to knowing about BiYu's life outside of this lonely town.

"Why didn't he just send texts? Why go old fashion... Though it is more romantic..." Qiang scratches the back of her head. "Letters have to be sent with an envelope, a sticker and an address if it's being sent through the post office."

She didn't remember seeing envelopes... "Maybe BiYu threw them away. If something is meaningful surely they would keep the envelope and everything too... Though maybe she doesn't do that."

Qiang once knew someone who kept everything. The sticker, the envelope and of course the letter. "What if there wasn't an envelope... He couldn't have given it to her through the hand, what's in the letter could be said out loud. So someone would have to have been the messenger." She laughs out loud. "I'm so smart, I knew all those mystery books and criminal movies would come to use one day."

Letters: Sent via Post Office or A Secret Messenger

"Where could the messenger have put the letters though? In the mail box? BiYu was rarely home in the daytime, Mr. Wang would've seen them. Maybe they hid it in a secret place around the house."