Episode 14 recap: Ye A Lan broke ties with Huang Zong Wei, and A Long encountered A Sheng at the bathing center.
Zhao You Nan interrogated A Mei and learned that she knew Huang Zong Wei. Later, she went to Guangqin as a worker but didn't know Huang Zong Wei's specific occupation. A Mei told the police that a few hours ago, Huang Zong Wei took her to his laboratory and promised to teach her technical formulas. On the way, gunshots were heard. Huang Zong Wei hid A Mei in a cabinet, and A Mei saw Tan Tian pointing a gun at Huang Zong Wei in the room. The two had a dispute over work, and ultimately Tan Tian shot and killed Huang Zong Wei. Later, A Mei heard someone dragging something and chopping with an axe in the cabinet. After a while, a pungent smell filled the room.
It seems that Tan Tian melted Huang Zong Wei's body. Duan Ming Hong questioned A Mei about her relationship with Huang Zong Wei, and A Mei admitted to being in a romantic relationship with him. She also said that Huang Zong Wei promised to marry her.
After analyzing the fingerprints and experimental liquids in the laboratory, the police speculated that someone had been dissolved in a strong alkaline solution in the lab. The forensic experts couldn't determine if the dissolved person was Huang Zong Wei, but the bloodstains found at the scene matched Huang Zong Wei's DNA. The police said that one of the persons dissolved in the strong acid solution should be Huang Zong Wei, and the other person was likely Chen Jian Chang. It is highly likely that both of them were killed by Tan Tian to silence them.
However, Zhao You Nan couldn't accept this result. Zhao You Nan believed that based on Huang Zong Wei's consistent fraudulent methods, he wouldn't easily die. She couldn't accept the police's inference and emotionally confronted A Mei. Duan Ming Hong brought Zhao You Nan to apologize to Qi Ting and asked him to understand Zhao You Nan's actions.
After considering various opinions, Director Qi Ting announced a temporary closure of the case, and the special task force was disbanded. He instructed Zhao You Nan and Duan Ming Hong to return to their respective positions. Zhao You Nan and Duan Ming Hong returned to Sanping Public Security Bureau in Haining City. Zhao You Nan applied for a transfer within the bureau, and Captain Liu Yuan agreed to her request, assigning Zhao You Nan to the household registration police work.
After hearing the news that Zhao You Nan had been transferred from the drug control team, Duan Ming Hong was unhappy and questioned why Zhao You Nan did it without informing him. Zhao You Nan calmly explained that she treated him as an ordinary colleague, and besides, he had no say in the transfer.
Duan Ming Hong was at a loss for words but didn't know how to handle their relationship, so he angrily vented his frustration on other colleagues.
Although Zhao You Nan officially applied for a transfer to the household registration department, she did not give up on investigating Huang Zong Wei. Duan Ming Hong and Lu Hao ate noodles across from Ye A Lan's convenience store, and to their surprise, Duan Ming Hong saw A Long riding a motorcycle on the street. After confirming it was him, Lu Hao continued to wait for him in the store. As expected, they soon saw someone pretending to buy cigarettes and relaying a message to Ye A Lan, instructing her to buy fish at the fish stall.
The police followed Ye A Lan to the fish stall, where she became extremely panicked and fled. Along the way, A Long took her away on his motorcycle. At the riverside, Ye A Lan encountered her husband, Huang Zong Wei. Huang Zong Wei had originally planned to take his wife and children abroad, but Ye A Lan learned from the police that Huang Zong Wei's production of methamphetamine would ruin countless families. She couldn't accept having a criminal as the father of her three children.
Seeing that his wife didn't want to leave the country with him, Huang Zong Wei told Ye A Lan that it wasn't safe to stay in China. He mentioned that the noodle shop across the street was owned by the police. Upon hearing this, Ye A Lan became even more reluctant to leave with Huang Zong Wei. She believed that once they left, she and her children would be implicated by Huang Zong Wei.
Ye A Lan urged Huang Zong Wei to consider their children and completely disappear from their lives. If he couldn't do that, she threatened to report him to the police immediately. Huang Zong Wei eventually compromised and gave Ye A Lan his money, instructing her to take good care of their three children and ensure they receive a good education. In the future, if they asked about their father's occupation, Ye A Lan should tell them he was a chemistry teacher.
After Ye A Lan left, Huang Zong Wei decided to take A Long to Guangqin. After saying goodbye to Huang Zong Wei, Ye A Lan returned home alone. She went to the store across the street to thank the police for their care and informed them that Huang Zong Wei had recently kidnapped her. However, she assured them that she had cut off all contact with him and had no further relationship with him.
She also planned to go to the police station to change her children's last name to Ye. Two years later, in Guangqin, Huang Zong Wei instructed A Long to obtain two identity cards, two phone cards, and a driver's license in the Central Plains region to facilitate their trip abroad. After A Long completed these tasks, he went to a bathing center to relax, unaware that it was a trap.
The next day, A Long woke up to find that he had spent 9,000 yuan at the bathing center and was forced to get a new card. Unable to resolve the situation, he called Huang Zong Wei, who happened to encounter A Sheng at the entrance of the bathing center. It turned out that A Sheng was the owner of the bathing center.
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