The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 191 Wrongly Taken
Turn on the ring light, turn on the camera, and Lu Ying opens the huge makeup bag. Various bottles and jars are placed on the table in order, preparing for the new video shooting.

She had just adjusted the angle and was holding the makeup brush towards the camera when there was a knock on the door.

Lu Ying frowned irritably, stopped filming, and got up to open the door.

When she opened the door, Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu appeared in front of her.

"You again?" Lu Ying, who was not wearing any makeup, had almost no eyebrows, and her bangs were pinned up by a hairpin.

If it weren't for the voice, Qi Fei wouldn't have recognized it was Lu Ying herself.

"Door-to-door service, right?" Qi Fei showed his ID, which left Lu Ying speechless.

She sighed dejectedly and spread her hands: "What's the reason this time?!"

Qi Fei showed the evidence bag containing the powder box. "We found this among Chen Hao's belongings. We also found fingerprints of someone other than Chen Hao on it. We need to collect your fingerprints for comparison."

Lu Ying suddenly smiled bitterly, looking up at the sky. "Officer, please let me go. I've never seen this person before. How could there be any fingerprints?"

Wu Shanqiu came up and asked, "Is this flowing loose powder yours?"

Lu Ying immediately denied it: "My powder is not lost, if you don't believe me, just look!"

He turned and ran to the newly set-up shooting table, and pulled out a box of loose powder that looked exactly like the one in the evidence bag. "I only have this one box. Anyone could buy this loose powder. It's not like I'm the only one who has it. Maybe it belongs to his girlfriend?!"

"We found that you were walking in this direction on March 3. Do you remember where you went?" Qi Fei showed a screenshot of the airport surveillance, which showed that Lu Ying was walking towards a blind spot of the surveillance.

Lu Ying looked again and again, muttering, "Where is this? How could I possibly remember it so clearly?"

Wu Shanqiu was more understanding and reminded: "Touch up your makeup?"

When Lu Ying heard this, she clapped her hands and said, "Oh! I went to the restroom up front to touch up my makeup."

"Are you sure it's a toilet?" Qi Fei asked.

Lu Ying pouted and said, "There's a queue in the women's restroom. I just went to the nearby maternity and baby care room to touch up my makeup."

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu looked at each other in surprise after hearing her answer. Wu Shanqiu blinked and asked Lu Ying, "Are you sure this powder box is yours?"

Lu Ying's eyes wandered for a moment: "Ah, this..."

"Have you thought of something unusual?" Qi Fei observed Lu Ying's expression and asked.

"If you insist, it's true that when I first used this loose powder after returning to China, I noticed the five-colored petals were still there. You're definitely aware of that," Lü Ying said to Wu Shanqiu. "Only the new Flowing Light loose powder has complete petals. But I didn't think much of it at the time. As a beauty blogger, I always stock up on boxes of this loose powder whenever it's in stock. I just thought I was getting a new one."

"Let me help you sort this out. After you returned to China, before leaving the airport, you used this loose powder in the maternity and baby care room in Area F of the airport. After you got home, you used it again, and it seems like the loose powder has become brand new, right?" Qi Fei said. "During this process, do you remember anything special about this loose powder box?"

Lu Ying frowned, recalling what Qi Fei had said. "I remember... I was putting on some makeup in the nursery and accidentally dropped my powder box on the floor. The car I'd booked had already arrived, and they kept calling me to hurry up. While I was on the phone, I found my powder box under the cabinet in the corner, quickly grabbed it, and left. Could it be that... what you're saying now is..." Her eyes moved back and forth between Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu, "Did I get this powder box I'm using from this person?"

Qi Fei pointed to the powder box in her hand and said, "We have to take this thing back for inspection as well."
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Two exquisite powder boxes were placed side by side on the evidence table, and Qi Fei looked at them back and forth.

"The test results are out. The loose powder box found in Chen Hao's suitcase is called loose powder box No. 1 for now, and the one in Lu Ying's house is called loose powder box No. 2. Now, the unknown fingerprint collected from the inside of loose powder box No. 1 has been compared and is completely consistent with Lu Ying's fingerprint. As for loose powder box No. 2, because it has been used many times by Lu Ying, only her own fingerprint has been extracted so far, and it is impossible to confirm whether it belongs to Chen Hao. However, didn't we ask Lu Ying to count the Liuguang loose powder in her inventory? After she counted it, she found one extra loose powder box including the No. 1 loose powder box with her fingerprint. In other words, there is a high possibility that loose powder box No. 2 was not purchased by her personally." Wu Shanqiu said on the side.

"Well, it makes sense for Lu Ying to buy a loose powder box, but Chen Hao doesn't look like someone who would buy this kind of cosmetics. He is a single man and is extremely frugal in his daily life." Qi Fei said.

"That's right, and there's no record of this expenditure in Chen Hao's spending history. However, there's something very strange. Starting two months ago, a large amount of cash suddenly appeared in his account. The source of this money is currently unknown."

Qi Fei picked up the No. 2 loose powder box, turned it over, and saw the laser anti-counterfeiting label on the bottom: "This kind of expensive cosmetics should be traceable, right?"

Wu Shanqiu shrugged and said disappointedly, "Don't mention it. Theoretically, it's possible. But luxury cosmetics brands like these refuse to verify the authenticity of products unless they purchase them from their stores, let alone trace their origin. And Chen Hao's product doesn't even have an order number, making it almost impossible to check.

However, according to Lü Ying, this loose powder was definitely authentic, and that's why she didn't realize she had picked up the wrong one.

Qi Fei looked at the chipped corner of powder box No. 1 and said, "It seems that the powder box that Lu Ying dropped on March 3th has been left in the nursery room, but the one that Chen Hao hid under the cabinet was taken away by her."

"Well, we've found out how Chen Hao found Lu Ying. Brother Fei, come and take a look at the surveillance video of these two people on that day." Wu Shanqiu seemed quite interested and seemed very satisfied with the results of her analysis.

Wu Shanqiu opened two videos on the computer next to her, one of which was edited and related to Chen Hao, and the other was related to Lu Ying.

"Since their movements were captured by different surveillance cameras, the two people never appeared in the same frame. But when we compare them in a certain time period, we can see the clues," Wu Shanqiu said as she played two sets of videos at the same time.

"Look at this time. When Lu Ying entered the frame, according to her testimony, she had just come out of the maternity and baby care room, which was in a blind spot on the surveillance camera. At the same time, Chen Hao appeared on the east side of Rest Area F. Comparing this with the actual space at the airport..."