"How is your relationship with your wife?"

"It's pretty good."

"That doesn't align with the information we have. According to our investigation, your marriage is not good, and you've been separated for a while. You often don't go home and instead sleep in your office at the factory."

"Well... that's true."

"What's the reason for the marital discord?"

"Just some trivial life issues."

"Isn't it because your wife is having an affair?"

"You already know, so why ask me?"

With a "bang," the interrogating officer threw the pen onto the table and said to me sternly, "What we know is what we know! Your confession is your confession! Our policy has always been leniency for those who confess, and severity for those who resist!"

I rubbed my tired eyes, "But I'm really innocent. I have nothing to do with Liu Li's disappearance."

In fact, this was the third time I had been questioned by the police in the past half month.

The core of the questioning was whether I had anything to do with the disappearance of a factory girl named Liu Li.

Where did she go?

Yes, I also want to know where she went!

Why did she inexplicably disappear, yet put me in the center of public opinion!

Rape and murder?

Torture and murder?

Dismemberment?

Organ trafficking?

The suspect always pointed towards me.

Just because I was the last man to have contact with her before she disappeared!

We work in an electronics factory with hundreds of employees, and I'm the head of the equipment workshop.

Liu Li was one of the factory girls in our workshop.

I had a relatively deep impression of Liu Li.

Because she was indeed prettier than other factory girls and loved to dress up.

For example, our workshop required everyone to wear their work uniforms while on duty and not any other clothes.

But Liu Li always found ways to stand out.

When receiving her uniform, she deliberately chose one two sizes smaller.

So while other factory girls wore loose and shapeless clothes,

Liu Li's clothes were tight and form-fitting, showing off her figure.

Her work pants looked more like capris on her.

Many other factory girls began to imitate her under her influence.

But what made the deepest impression on me wasn't her beauty, it was her work attitude.

Sloppy!

Assembly line work doesn't require high education or intelligence, but it needs a careful, attentive, and persistent approach to boring tasks.

However, Liu Li, who appeared very smart, was always careless at work.

Her defect rate was the highest, and I had deducted her bonuses several times.

I even planned to let her go after this quarter ended.

Unexpectedly, she disappeared at this time!

It was a Wednesday night, half a month ago.

It was already past nine o'clock.

Because of the poor relationship with my wife, I routinely spent the night in my office.

I endured sleeping on the sofa overnight.

It was more comfortable than going home and seeing my wife's unpleasant face.

Liu Li knocked on my door, saying she had something to report.

I let her in.

She came in to apologize and admit her mistakes.

She said she knew her work performance was terrible and feared she might lose her job, begging for leniency.

As the workshop supervisor, I had handled such situations many times. So I consoled her a bit and then criticized her for her sloppy work, telling her to take it as a lesson and not let it happen again.

Frankly, as long as I could manage, I didn't want to fire employees.

In recent years, it had become increasingly difficult to recruit for the factory.

Younger people prefer to be influencers, streamers, or drive ride-sharing cars and deliver food rather than work on assembly lines.

Liu Li left my office with many thanks.

But once she left my door, she vanished into thin air.

No one knew where she went!

She disappeared without a trace, dead or alive!