The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship-Chapter 627 - 543: Are You Guys Dating?

Nan Yu said, "Mr. Lin, please focus your attention now and try to describe the suspect’s appearance you saw that day once again."

Mr. Lin nodded, his eyes lowered as though he was recalling the memory.

"It was quite dark at that time, I happened to be jogging past that patch of woods, when I heard rustling inside, thinking it was a wild cat or dog, I peered in and saw a man squatting under a tree apparently looking at something."

"Out of curiosity, I hid and watched, only to see him take a folding shovel out of his bag and start digging a hole in the ground. It seemed like there was another person lying next to him, I realized something was wrong and immediately turned and ran. Maybe I hit a garbage can on the way out and made a noise, the rustling in the woods stopped then. I was scared and just kept running, unsure if he saw my face. Those days, I couldn’t sleep at night, plagued by nightmare after nightmare, I took leave from work, dared not to go to the office, nor to go out, my home’s doors and windows were always locked. Having spent a month in constant fear, what I worried about never happened; it seems he didn’t see my face, but I saw his." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Mr. Lin took a sip of water handed to him by Nan Yu: "However, it was very dim in the woods, I could only see two-thirds of his face. He looked to be in his fifties, was squatting so I couldn’t tell his height, but he should not be tall, he was wearing a black wide-brimmed hat, his eyes were not very big, but they had a fierce look, from the side, his nose seemed quite high."

"What about the shape of his face, was it like this elongated manner, or more of a round manner?" Jian Si casually sketched a few outlines on the drawing paper.

Mr. Lin took a look and shook his head: "I don’t remember it very clearly."

"Don’t worry, I’ll draw a few more, you take your time to recall," said Jian Si.

Nan Zhan, who had been examining case files, raised his head, his gaze falling on Jian Si, who was busy sketching a portrait with her head down. When she was drawing, her expression would become particularly concentrated, each stroke deliberated upon deeply.

After Mr. Lin left, Jian Si shook her head at the two brothers: "It’s been too long, his memory is too vague, and the perpetrator seems to have no particularly distinctive features, we can probably only come up with a portrait like this, but I feel it’s still far from the actual appearance of the criminal."

Nan Zhan took a look and said, "The perpetrator is 1.65 meters tall, left-handed, with a high nose bridge, small eyes, he does not wear glasses, and was wearing a black hat at the time of the crime. As for his gaze appearing fierce, that’s Mr. Lin’s subjective judgment and not to be considered. In the eyes of each witness, the criminal is always extremely vicious, we need descriptions of more distinct features."

At this moment, a police officer hurried in: "Nan Lv, we found another witness, the owner of a tailor shop."

The owner appeared to be in his sixties, with salt-and-pepper hair. He ran a tailor shop on an old street in the old city district, specializing in custom-making and repairing clothes for the elderly, selling fabric and clothing accessories, including buttons, on the side.

As the tailor shop owner was elderly, his memory was not very good, so the images he recalled were also fragmented.

"The buttons you mentioned, I don’t sell many of them in a year, because this type of button is outdated, even the elderly don’t really use them anymore, so I remember the person who bought the buttons. He had a very gentle voice, like someone who was well-educated, exceedingly polite and courteous. Five buttons for a total of two yuan and fifty cents, he gave me five yuan, and wished me good health when he was leaving."

"Then can you describe his appearance?" they asked.

The owner shook his head: "It’s been so long, I really can’t remember clearly, but, he should live in the old city district, because when he left, he happened to meet a local resident, and they even greeted each other."

"Can you deduce anything from this?" Jian Si looked towards Nan Zhan, who had been silent.

He extinguished the cigarette in his hand and said slowly: "He probably didn’t flee and still lives in the old city district, or somewhere not far from the area of the incident. He is honest and dependable, educated, with some degree of culture. He is good at social interactions, has a good relationship with people around him, and is even considered a very kind person in others’ eyes."

In Jian Si’s mind, some outlines began to sharpen. Although Nan Zhan didn’t describe any of his physical features, "the face comes from the heart," and intuitively Jian Si enriched the previous sketch further.

She presented the sketch to the tailor shop owner who said, "The face shape is not like this, it should be sharper, yes, just like that, similar to your face shape."