After arriving at the police station, Officer Zhou asked, "Are you frequently subjected to domestic violence by your husband?"

"Yes."

"Does your husband's actions have anything to do with your son's previous disappearance?"

"Yes."

"Do you think your son has been found now?"

"Isn't that so?" This time I retorted.

......

After the questioning ended, I ran into my high school classmate Guo Li. I didn't expect to meet him here.

He seemed to already know what had happened to me, as if he was specifically waiting for me.

His gaze was filled with inquiry, not as earnest as when he advised me in the supermarket.

Unfortunately, he was destined to see nothing.

Instead, this scrutinizing and distrustful gaze confirmed some things for me.

I thought, maybe it was fate helping me.

......

Perhaps I behaved too calmly, so Guo Li didn't interrogate me further.

Instead, standing from the perspective of an old classmate, he revealed the undeniable truth admitted by Xiao Zhao:

Xiao Zhao and my husband had been having an affair for a long time.

However, due to the fact that the cheating party would gain nothing from a divorce, they conspired to get rid of me together.

For a while, they had been drugging my milk.

Given that I already had some mental issues due to my son's previous disappearance, they wanted to exacerbate my condition with drugs, then take the opportunity to kill me.

This plan was proposed by my husband, and Xiao Zhao was the accomplice.

But during a casual chat between Xiao Zhao and me, Xiao Zhao realized that my husband was different from what he appeared.

Recently, my husband had begun to abuse Xiao Zhao, especially engaging in sexual abuse, beatings, and insults...

When Xiao Zhao couldn't bear the humiliation any longer and tried to commit suicide, my husband tied her up.

In a pitch-black room, Xiao Zhao overheard my husband collaborating with Ah Hui to dismember and eat her.

Distressed, Xiao Zhao's fear turned to evil intentions.

That night, Xiao Zhao found an opportunity to escape, but was discovered by my husband just after she got out.

During the chase, my husband accidentally fell into a well whose cover had been stolen near the flower bed.

To be sure, Xiao Zhao moved several large rocks and threw them down, watching as the man below turned into a bloody pulp.

Xiao Zhao fled, and just as she was about to board a train out of the city, for some reason, she came back and surrendered herself.

......

According to Xiao Zhao's testimony, my son's previous disappearance was not accidental, but premeditated.

It was a play performed by Xiao Zhao and my husband.

The one sent back was not my son, but merely a dog.

After losing my son, I couldn't bear the blow and fainted. When I woke up, I was somewhat deranged.

At night, I saw Xiao Zhao's profile picture of a dog on my husband's phone and pointed at it, saying it was my son.

So, the next day, Xiao Zhao brought the dog back.

But in reality, no one knew where my son had gone.

...... How absurd.

Officer Guo looked at my uncontrollably trembling hands but ultimately didn't voice his suspicions about me.

Maybe he just wanted to give me some time to calm down before asking.